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 first English order of communion and the first English prayer-book (, iii. 134). But he voted in the House of Lords against the first act for uniformity, by which the first prayer-book was enforced in 1549, along with seven other bishops. He is said also to have gone beyond the rest of the dissentients, not only in voting against the bill to enforce the book, but in refusing to put his name to the book itself. In 1549 he was on the great heresy commission which examined Joan Bocher ( xv. 181), and in the same year also he joined the leaders of the old learning in opposing the renewal of the nugatory statute of the last reign for revising the ecclesiastical laws (, iii. 159). He also opposed the calamitous measure of the same session for calling in all the old Latin service books, the antiphoners, missals, grayles, and the rest (ib.); and also an act for having a new ordinal in English. In consequence of this his name was struck off the list of divines employed to draw up the new ordinal itself, who were probably the same body that are known as the Windsor Commission. At the same time his troubles in this reign began by the resistance which he offered in his diocese to the illegal destruction of altars by the council. He preached against this, whereupon he was summoned before the council, and committed to the Fleet, 9 Dec. 1550. He was taken from prison in the following year to give evidence on the trial of Gardiner (, 1st ed.;, iii. 258, 268). Soon afterwards a commission sat on his case, and he was deprived for contempt, October 1551. He remained in prison till June 1552, when he was sent to Goodrich of Ely, ‘to be used of him as in christian charity shall be most seemly.’ (The case of Day is given fully out of the Council Book by, Specimen p. 113 seq., and , Cranmer, book ii. chap. xx.; see also , iii. 203, 323). He was in the Tower at Mary's accession, and was released when she entered London in August 1553. In the reign of Mary he was treated with distinction, not only on account of his dignity, but for his eloquence, being esteemed ‘the floridest preacher’ that was found among the prelates of the old learning. It has been questioned whether he preached the sermon at the obsequies of King Edward, but there seems no doubt of the fact (Grey Friars Chron. p. 88). He was the preacher also at the coronation of the queen. Day was restored to his see, like the other bishops deprived under Edward, before the end of Mary's first year. It is related of him that in 1555 he, along with Archbishop Heath, paid a voluntary visit to the martyr Bradford in the Compter, and had a long conversation with him, in the course of which he confessed that though as a young man, fresh from the university, he had complied with the first steps of the Reformation, it had always been against his conscience (ib.) He is said not to have persecuted, but several persons were burnt in his diocese. Day died in August 1556 (, 111).

[Besides the authorities cited, see Dallaway's Chichester, p. 72; Archæologia, xviii. 149, 174; and Cooper's Athenæ Cantab.] 

DAY, GEORGE EDWARD (1815–1872), physician, was born on 4 Aug. 1815 at Tenby, Pembrokeshire. He was the son of George Day of Manorabon House, Swansea, who had inherited the fortunes of his father, George Day, physician to the nabob of Arcot, and his uncle, Sir John Day, solicitor-general in Bengal. The mother of George Edward Day was Mary Hale, a descendant of Sir Matthew Hale, and after his father's ruin by the failure of a bank in 1826 he was brought up by his grandmother, Mrs. Hale. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1833, and after one term obtained a scholarship at Pembroke College, where he graduated as twenty-ninth wrangler in 1837. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, where he obtained several medals. He took his M.A. degree at Cambridge in 1840. In 1843 he began practice in London, becoming a member of the College of Physicians in 1844, and a fellow in 1847. He was physician to the Western General Dispensary, and lecturer on materia medica at Middlesex Hospital. In 1849 he became Chandos professor of anatomy and medicine at St. Andrews, and obtained the M.D. degree from Giessen. He was a popular professor, and carried out reforms in the M.D. examination. He broke his arm in an accident upon Helvellyn in 1857, and never recovered the nervous shock. In 1863 changes were made in St. Andrews by an act of parliament, in consequence of which Day retired upon an ample pension. He settled at Torquay for the benefit of his health, but became a permanent invalid. He bore his sufferings with heroic patience and worked with persistent energy. He died on 31 Jan. 1872.

In 1841 he married Ellen Anna, daughter of James Buckton, solicitor, of Doctors' Commons and of Wrexham. By her he had two sons and four daughters.

Day was an industrious contributor to periodical literature and the publications of learned societies. His works included: 1. Reports on medical subjects to Ranking's ‘Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences,’ vols. i. ii. iii. iv. and vi. 2. A translation