A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



Water, Bristol, 1 Campden, Chipping Sodbury, Cirencester, Cleeve, Clonwell, 

 Deerhurst, Dursley, Dymock, Elington, Farmcote, Glastry, Hope, Horsley, 

 Horton, Huntley, King's Stanley, Little Dean, Longford, Longhope, 

 Marshfield, Nailsworth, Oddington, Painswick, Ruardean, Shipton, Stinch- 

 combe, Stretton, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Uley, Westerley, Wickham, 

 Wickwar, Winchcombe, Woodland, and Wotton-under-Edge. s 



Bishops Ironside, Carleton, and Gulston were zealous in restoring order 

 in the Church and its services. 3 In 1670 1,300 was spent on the cathedral 

 and prebendal houses, and over 300 between 1681 and 1685 in repairing 

 the pavement, painting the east end of the choir, and otherwise ornamenting 

 the interior of the cathedral. 4 In 1684 John Lake, who held the see only 

 for a year, established a weekly communion service in the cathedral in spite 

 of the dean's opposition. 8 In 1687 a colony of Huguenot refugees was estab- 

 lished in Bristol and, with the consent of the mayor and corporation, Bishop 

 Trelawney granted them the use of the former chapel of Gaunt's Hospital." 



Robert Frampton, who had been dean of Gloucester since 1673, became 

 bishop in 1681. Like Bull, he had received holy orders during the Com- 

 monwealth from the deprived bishop of Oxford, and was a zealous Church- 

 man. 7 He made regular visitations of his diocese, preached frequently in 

 all parts of it, and often catechized the children. 8 Although the most 

 honourable and steadfast of the Puritans had quietly given up their livings 

 in 1662, a number of their weaker brethren became conformists though not 

 Churchmen.' Twenty years afterwards there were still some of them in 

 the diocese of Gloucester, 10 and Frampton exerted himself to remedy their 

 disaffection. He visited their churches, preaching the sermon himself and 

 constraining them to read the whole of the prayers, ' which some congre- 

 gations would not fail to exact of them afterwards.' One clergyman urged 

 in defence of his neglect that the length of the service hindered him from 

 praying so long in the pulpit as he would. The bishop remonstrated with 

 him, and said in conclusion, ' I am apt to believe that if some of your 

 prayer were repeated to you, you would not be so fond of it.' However, 

 ' he was obliged to confine him to the Canon for the pulpit and the Act of 

 Uniformity for the desk,' and he charged the churchwardens to see that he 

 did his duty. In another parish in which he had read the litany, the 

 churchwardens begged him on his next visit to use the same prayer ' with 

 which they were mightily edified,' not knowing it to be part of the liturgy 

 on account of the neglect of the incumbent. On his death Frampton 

 appointed a worthy successor. In another parish in which the church was 

 neglected for meeting-houses in neighbouring villages, the bishop went to 

 preach himself, and procured other able men to do the same. The parish- 

 ioners excused themselves for their neglect by pleading that the income was 

 only 8 a year, which discouraged any minister from coming to reside there, 

 and drove to a near conventicle many of those who did not care to walk 



' There were six dissenting chapels in Bristol in 1674. Fuller, Dissent in Bristol. 

 * Cat. S. P. Dom. May-Sept. 1672, p. 743 ; 1672-3, p. 687. 



3 Articles at first episcopal visitation of Gilbert, bishop of Bristol, 1662 ; Articles of William, bishop of 

 Bristol, 1 68 1. Britton, Bristol Cathedral, 52. 



4 Overton, Life in the Engl. Ch. 1660-1714, p. 10. * Brist. and Glouc. Arch. Sue. Trans, xv, 183. 

 7 Simpson Evans, Life of Robert Frampton, n. 8 Ibid. 132, 138, 140, 144. 



9 Overton, op. cit. 1660-1714, p. 10. 10 Simpson Evans, op. cit. 133-40. 



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