him, but being denied to have the nomination of a founder, his mind was changed. Not long after being advertised that Bishop Fox, of W'inchester, was minded to erect and found a new colledge, joyned with him, and contributed unto him a greate masse of money, and soe a colledge was builded, and then the house was named Corpus Xti. Colledge. Whereof the one of them bore the name of a founder, and the other Primarius Benefactor; howbeit some diversitie was between these two bishops, at the first to what use this colledge should be employed; for the founder was of the mind that he would have made it for a house of monks, but the benefactor was of the contrary mind and would have it for scholars, alleging that monks were but a sort of bussing bees, and whose state would not long endure; whereas scholars brought up in learning, would be profitable members of the commonwealth, and good ornaments to the church of God, and continue for ever. The founder (Fox] being a wise man, and of deep judgement, when he had paused and considered thereof, yielded thereunto; and so it was concluded between them to make and build a colledge for scholars." The Bishop seems to have been of a pious and munificent disposition: living in the closest friendship with William Smyth, the good Bishop of Lincoln, Sir Reginald Bray, "a man of exalted wisdom and resplendent piety," and Thomas, second Earl of Derby, he could not but imbibe the charitable and liberal feelings which had pervaded their great minds. Yet, although by habits of amity and a gentle disposition, he was much inclined to peace and quietness, he possessed sufficient courage and determination to assert and defend his rights; and his quarrel with Richard Barham, the first mitred Abbot of Tavistock, and his junction in common cause with Fox, Bishop of Winchester, against the prerogative of VVarham, Archbishop of Canterbury, amply attests this fact. There is no truth in the statement made use of by Leland, in his "Itinerary," Fuller, and other writers, that the Bishop was excommunicated by the Pope, on account of his dis-

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