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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 145; 



mixt with delight, or sentences which no man can 

 challenge of prophane affectation sounding more melo- 

 dious to the eare, or piercing more deep to the heart." 

 JPiers Penilesse : his Supplication to the Diuell, from 

 whence this extract is taken, was entered in the Sta- 

 tioners' registers for Richard Jones, on the 8 th of 

 Aug. 1592, being licensed by the archbishop. For a 

 list of Smith's Sermons and Treatises, see Watt's Bib- 

 liotheca Brilannica.'] 



Thomas Stanley, Bishop of Man, 1510. — There 

 seems to be great uncertainty respecting those who 

 filled this insular diocese during the first half of 

 the sixteenth century. Bishop Stanley is said to 

 have been " deprived by Queen Mary," but after- 

 wards restored on accession of Queen Elizabeth, 

 and died in 1570. "While R. Farrer is made Bi- 

 shop of Man, 1548, and translated the same year 

 to St. David's, and H. Man is called Bishop of 

 Man, 1546, till death in 1556, how can these dates 

 be reconciled ? And also Bishop Stanley's death 

 as taking place at the unusually long period of 

 sixty years from his first appointment to the epis- 

 copacy, which would make him upwards of ninety 

 years of age, at the lowest estimation of the ca- 

 nonical age of thirty years for a bishop on conse- 

 cration? I ofier these Queries to you for elu- 

 cidation, if such is possible at this day. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad, in the Punjaub. 



[We suspect our correspondent has been misled by 

 Le Neve, who, though generally correct, in this instance 

 contradicts himself. From a MS. of Bishop Hildesley's 

 in the British Museum, Sloane Collection, No. 4828, 

 we learn that " Thomas Stanley, 1542, in his time, by 

 statute Henry VIII., the new erected See of Chester 

 and Bishopric of Man were dissevered from Canter- 

 bury's jurisdiction, and annexed to York. But Bishop 

 Stanley, not complying with Henry VIII. 's measures, 

 was deprived anno 1545, and was succeeded by R. 

 Farrer, translated to St. David's. Henry Man ap- 

 pointed 1546: upon his death Stanley, who had been 

 deprived by Henry VIII., was restored by Queen 

 Mary, 1556; he died 1568." Or, to give a tabular 

 view of these statements, it appears that 



In the reign of Henry VIIL, — a. d. 



Stanley was Bishop of Man - - - 1 542 



was deprived by Henry - - 1545 



Bishop Farrer translated the same year to St. 



David's, 

 Bishop Man appointed - . - 1546 



Henry VI 1 1, died - - - 1547 



Edward VI. died - - - 1553 



Mary did not deprive. 

 Bishop Man, who died in possession, when 

 Stanley was restored ... 1556 



Mary died - - - - 1 558 



Elizabeth did not deprive. 

 Bishop Stanley died in possession - - 1568] 



Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, 1687 — 

 1699. — Why was he deprived, and by whom was 



the sentence pronounced ; also date and place of his 

 death, with age, family, or any other particulars ? 

 It is believed that he is the only instance of de- 

 privation amongst the English episcopacy for a 

 century and a half, as Bishop Joceylin of Clogher 

 was, in the Irish church, for a similar period, or 

 since the year 1700. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



[Dr. Thomas Watson was born at Kingston-upon 

 Hull, entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1655, 

 elected Fellow in 1660, took his degree of D.D. in 

 1675, and was consecrated Bishop of St. David's on 

 June 26, 1687. He had an estate at Burrow Green 

 in Cambridgeshire, where he resided at the time of the 

 Revolution. Dr. Watson was deprived in 1699 by 

 Archbishop Tenison for simony, whose sentence was 

 afterwards confirmed by the Court of Delegates, and 

 eventually by the House of Lords. See Birch's Life 

 of TiUotson, p. 230. edit. 1753; and Wood's Athena 

 Oxon., vol. iv. p. 870., Bliss.] 



J.M. Turner, Fourth Bishop of Calcutta, 1829 

 — 1831. — Place and date of birth, parentage, and 

 university ? A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



[Dr. Turner was a native of Oxford, where his 

 father died while he was young, leaving a family but 

 ill provided for. He was entered by his friends as a 

 scholar of Christ Church, and at the examinations in 

 1804 was placed in the first class. He took his degree 

 of M. A. Dec. 3, 1807 ; and D.D. by diploma, March 

 26, 1829, soon after he was appointed Bishop of Cal- 

 cutta. Immediately after taking his degree of B.A., 

 Dr. Turner became private tutor in the Marquis of 

 Donegal's family, and was afterwards at Eton for many 

 years with Lord Belfast, Lord Chichester, and Lord 

 Castlereagh. In 1823, he was presented to the vicar- 

 age of Abingdon, whence he removed in 1824 to the 

 rectory of Wilmslow in Cheshire. On settling there, 

 he married Miss Robertson, sister-in-law to the present 

 Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1829 he was conse- 

 crated Bishop of Calcutta, and died at his episcopal 

 residence, Chowringhee, July 7, 1831. An interesting 

 account of this amiable prelate will be found in The 

 Christiari Observer for 1831 and 1832, and in Arch- 

 deacon Corrie's Funeral Sermon.] 



S. Gohat, Bishop in Jerusalem, 1846. — Any 

 notices of him and his antecedents ? A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



[Bishop Gobat is a native of Switzerland, and re- 

 ceived his missionary education, first at Basle, and 

 subsequently at the Church Missionary Institution at 

 Islington. He was appointed Vice-principal of the 

 Protestant College at Malta, and laboured for some 

 time as missionary in Abyssinia, Syria, and Egypt, 

 under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society. 

 On the death of Bishop Alexander, the King of Prussia 

 nominated M. Gobat as his successor, and he was conse- 

 crated at Lambeth on July 5, 1846, as « Bishop of the 

 United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem," 

 by his Grace the Primate, assisted by the Bishops of 



