280 Edingdon Monastery. 



his chaplain and advanced him to the newly-erected see of Bristol, 

 to which he was consecrated June 25thj 1542, at Hampton. Ou 

 this promotion he vacated the Vicarage of North Bradley.' "Pits 

 very erroneously says/ he was made Bishop of Bristol by Edw. VI., 

 partly with a design to draw him from the ancient religion, and 

 partly because they could not find among the reformers any other 

 person of sufficient erudition. This author, however, allows that he 

 denied the true faith by taking a wife, whom, as an excuse. Pits 

 turns into a concubine. In consequence of this connection he was, 

 on the accession of Queen Mary, deprived of his dignity, and spent 

 the remainder o£ his life in a private station at Bristol, where he 

 died in 1558. Pits, and after him a congenial lover of popery, the 

 late Mr. Cole, says that he dismissed her of his own accord ; but 

 that is improbable, as there could be no necessity for such dismission 

 till Queen Mary's accession, which happened in July, 1553, and the 

 Bishop's wife died in October following." 



Dr. Paul Bush wrote 1, "An Exhortation to Margaret Burges, 

 wife of John Burges, clothier of Kingswood, Co. Wilts,'' London, 

 printed in the reign of Edw. VI. ; 2, " Notes on the Psalms," Lon- 

 don, 1525; 3, "Treatise in praise of the Crosse"; 4, " Answer to 

 certain queries concerning the abuses of the Mass," in Burnet's 

 History of the Reformation, Records, No. 25; 5, " Dialogues be- 

 tween Christ and the Virgin Mary " ; 6, " Treatise of salves and 

 curing Remedies ", 8vo, printed by Redman, no date ; 7, " A little 

 Treatise in English, of which the title, is The Extirpation of Igno- 

 X'aucy, compyled by Sir Paul Bushe, Preeste and Bonhomme of 

 Edyndon ", printed by Pynson without a date. Astle ^ says that 

 the first instance in which he had seen round Roman letters (type) 

 was in a marginal quotation in pica, at the latter end of the second 

 part of Bush's book : but that Pynson had printed a book wholly 

 in Roman type in 1518. From this it would seem probable that 

 the "Extirpation of Ignorancy" had been printed before 1518, 



* Wiltshu-e Institutions, A". 1543. 



- Chalmers's Biog. Diet. 

 ^ Origin of Printing, fol., p. 223. 



