By the late Rev. Edward Wilton, M.A. 69 
Pepys’s Diary vol. 4. p. 301 has the following letter from Dr. Charlett 
to S. Pepys. 
‘‘ University Coll. Oxon, Feb, 18, 1700—1. 
‘¢ Hon. Sir,—I have been long in debt to you for a most obliging letter, which 
T now only acknowledge without pretending to payment, by the hands of my good 
friend, Mr. Tanner, who is now leaving us, being nominated by my Lord 
Bishop of Norwich, Chancellor of his Diocese. Before this Preferment was 
known he had the satisfaction to see the respects of the University by an offer 
made to him from the best and most considerable part of the University, of the 
office of Public Registrar, a place of great trust and credit, as Mr. Hudson has 
the custody of the Bodleian Library, upon the resignation of Dr. Hyde.” 
Mrs. Tanner died 15 March, 1706, leaving no living Issue; and 
was buried on the south side of the Bishop’s Chapel! in Norwich 
Cathedral. The same year Tanner was made Rector of Thorpe, “by” 
or “next” Norwich; a living in private patronage; and therefore, in all 
probability, obtained for him by some exchange, through the Bishop’s 
intervention. June 30, 1710, he proceeded to the Degrees of B.D. 
and D.D.; Sept. 1713, he was collated to the third Prebendal Stall 
in Ely Cathedral, which he held till 1723, resigning it upon being 
then made Canon of Christ Church. This appointment is thus no- 
ticed by Hearne in his Diary, II. 526. “Feb. 16 1723—4, Yesterday 
Dr. Thomas Tanner was installed Canon of Christ Church, in room 
of Dr. Egerton, Bishop of Hereford, who hath resigned.” In 1721 
the then Bishop of Norwich had conferred upon him the Arehdeaconry 
of Norfolk; and in 1727 he was elected Prolocutor of the Lower 
House of Convocation; an office which he accepted with much 
reluctance, but it was forced upon him by the urgent entreaties of 
friends, well persuaded of his special qualifications. In January 
1733, Archdeacon Tanner was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph ; 
being allowed to hold his Canonry at Christ Church, “in commendam.” 
The British Chronologist, under date Jan 25, 1732, tells us that 
on that Day, Dr. Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph, and Dr. Claggett, 
Bishop of St. David’s, were introduced into the House of Lords. 
Bishop Tanner’s father-in-law, Bishop Moore, was translated to 
Ely, July 31, 1707, and dying there 31 July, 1714, was buried 
door at the entrance of this chapel was given by Dr. Tanner, whose arms are 
impaled upon it, first with Moore, and second with Preston. (Do. iii. 636.) 
