A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



Bishop Lloyd had been associated with Bishop Ken in 1685 in an effort 

 to bring about greater vigilance in the admission of candidates to holy orders.^ 

 He was an excellent preacher, and during the short time of his occupancy of 

 Norwich he won the confidence and affection of his diocese in a remarkable 

 degree.' There were more non-jurors in his diocese than in any other except 

 London, and the reason seems simply to have been the influence of the 

 bishop and the respect he inspired. After declining to take the oaths, 

 although he was suspended from the performance of his ecclesiastical 

 functions, he was not formally deprived until i February, 1690-1, when 

 the king at last decided to fill up the sees which had been kept vacant for 

 some time in the hope that the late non-juring holders might be won 

 over. Dr. Sharp, then dean of St. Paul's and previously dean of Norwich, 

 had the choice of two or three bishoprics offered him, and among 

 them Norwich, which he refused, declaring that he could not think of 

 taking the place of the bishop, with whom he had lived on terms of great 

 friendship,' and it was accepted by Bishop Moore, who was consecrated 

 5 July, 1691. 



It was not till i January, 1709, that Bishop Lloyd died, and in 

 February, 169 1-2, Archbishop Sancroft had delegated to him all his 

 archiepiscopal powers in a formal document, dated at Fressingfield. This 

 commission was never approved by Ken, and for a time brought the two 

 bishops into opposition. But even those who did not entirely approve of 

 Bishop Lloyd declare that he filled his difficult and delicate position judi- 

 ciously. Dr. White Kennett speaks of ' the prudence and piety with which he 

 managed matters, so as not thereby to give any umbrage to the government,' * 

 and Dr. Doyley also testifies to his prudence and caution. ° One action of his 

 at this time has been the subject of much discussion and criticism ; that of 

 consecrating two new bishops, with Bishops Turner and White, 24 February, 

 1694, in spite of the strong objections of Bishops Ken and Frampton. These 

 were Hickes, dean of Worcester, and Wagstaffe, chancellor of Lichfield, who 

 took for titles two of those allowed by the Act of Henry VIII for suffragan 

 bishops, Hickes being appointed bishop of Thetford, and Wagstaffe of 

 Ipswich. They never seem to have claimed any territorial jurisdiction, but 

 Hickes, a man of true piety and great learning, was a born fighter, and 

 wrote continually with vigour and bitterness to widen the breach and 

 aggravate the separation. Among the non-juring clergy of Norfolk who 

 were deprived* were two chaplains of the bishop, Richard Tisdale, rector of 

 Felthorpe and Trostrey, and Richard Kipping, rector of Fakenham. A canon 

 of Norwich, Francis Roper, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, pre- 

 bendary of Ely, and rector of Northwold ; two petty canons, Gawen Nash, 

 vicar of Melton, and John Shaw, vicar of Carleton ; Henry Day, rector of 

 Hunstanton ; John Gibbes, rector of Gissing ; Thomas Wright, vicar of 

 Wymondham and fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; John Owen, 

 rector of Tuddenham ; John Pitts, rector of St. Lawrence, and Thomas 

 Verdon, rector of Great Snoring and fellow of St. John's, Cambridge ; and 

 Francis Wace, rector of Blakeney, were also among those who thus gave up 



' Abbey, Eng/. Church and Bishops, i, 169. ' Life of Dr. Humphrey Pridcaux, Dean of Norwich, 73, 



' Overton, The Non-Jurors, 27. * Brydge, Restitua, \, :,-]■]. 



* Life of Bancroft, ii, 32. ' Overton, The Non-jurors, 471-96. 



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