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and York, and Bishop of Chester and Lichfield. 

 He was very generous and judicious in dispensing 

 his princely revenues as befitted the noble pur- 

 poses for which the See of Darham was founded 

 and endowed, was an active administrator, and 

 partly drew up King James's Declaration, 

 commonly called The Book of Shorts. He was a 

 strong Broad Churchman and a great Protestant, 

 writing much against Popery. He died a bachelor 

 at Easton-Mauduit, near Northampton, and was 

 buried in the Yelverton Chapel of the Parish 

 Church, his funeral sermon being preached by 

 Dr John Barwick, afterwards Dean of St Paul's 

 Cathedral. His portrait is in the Hall of St 

 John's College, Cambridge, at Christ Church, 

 Oxford, and at the Castle at Bishop Auckland, 

 Durham. By his will he bequeathed his chalice 

 to All Saints' Church in York, and ten pounds to 

 the poor of the parish where he died. 



JOHN PEARSON, BISHOP OF CHESTER 



(1613-1686). 



"Believing where we cannot prove." 



Tennyson's In Memoriam. 

 " mount a stalwart guard 

 Of answers, to oppose invading doubt, 

 All aids are needful, for the strife is hard." 



Coleridge. 



He was the son of Robert Pearson, who was 



