70 Bishop Tanner, his Family and Writings. 
in the Cathedral, zt. 68. There is extant a letter from Tanner to 
his uncle, Mr. Thomas Moore, of Yarmouth, dated at “ Norwich 
Aug. 7,1714. Had returned from Ely, whither I went to pay my 
last respects and duty to the remains of my most kind friend, patron, 
and father, your dear brother who was buried in the Presbytery, not 
far from Bp. Patrick.” 
Some years before this, probably soon after the death of his first 
wife, Tanner married his second wife Frances, daughter of John 
Preston, Citizen of London, of a Norfolk Gentleman’s family. In 
the Preston Pedigree, this match with Tanner is duly registered : 
and, as a friend in the College of Arms assures me, this is the only 
reference there found to Tanner or hisconnexions. This second wife 
died 11th June, 1718, aged 40 years; she left a son, the only sur- 
viving child, Thomas Tanner, who has sometimes been called (as in 
the Arehaologia) the Editor of his father’s works ; thus confounding 
him with his uncle, John Tanner, Rector of Lowestoft. Thomas 
Tanner, the Bishop’s son, married a daughter of Arehbishop Potter ; 
and became Rector of Monks Hadleigh ; Prebendary of Canterbury ; 
and Dean of Bocking. He was of Christ Church, M.A., June 14, 
1740; and D.D., by Archbishop’s Faculty. He died 1786, aged 
68, and was buried at Hadleigh; leaving only daughters. This 
corrects Britton’s aceount, of the Bishop’s son being by his first 
wife. It is also an error to suppose that he had only two wives, for 
after his elevation to the bishoprick, he married a third wife, as thus 
announced in the Gentleman’s Magazine: “ May 1733, Dr. Tanner, 
Bishop of St. Asaph, married to Miss Scottowe, of Thorpe, by Nor- 
wich; with a Fortune of £15,000.” This lady survived the Bishop, 
and married secondly, Robert Britiffe, Esq., Recorder of Norwich. 
Bishop Tanner seems to have closed his connexion with Norfolk, 
and to have taken up lis abode in Oxford, upon being raised to the 
See of St. Asaph. His removal was attended by a misfortune to 
which reference is made in some of the notices of the Bishop’s life, 
and is called by himself, his “shipwreck,” thus reported in the 
Gentleman's Magazine, Jan. 1732 :—“< About the latter end of last 
month, the Books and MSS. of Dr. Tanner, Bp. of St. Asaph, 
being on their removal from Norwich, to Christ Church College, in 
