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 having a retrospective force, but care was taken that neither Bonner nor any other person should be similarly molested (, Reformation, ii. 424–6;, Annals, ii. 2–4; , Parker, i. 120). In 1573 John Leslie [q. v.], bishop of Ross, the wily ambassador of Mary Queen of Scots at the English court, was placed in Horne's custody, and on 14 Nov. Horne begged Burghley to relieve him of his prisoner, whom he described as a ‘devilish spirit’ and ‘this devill’ (Lansd. MSS. xvii. art. 57;, Orig. Letters, 3rd ser. iii. 367). In 1565 he presented his old fellow-exile, Laurence Humphrey [q. v.], to a living, which called forth a remonstrance from Jewel on account of Humphrey's nonconformity (, Annals, ii. 133;, Parker, i. 369). Horne was incorporated D.D. of Oxford 9 July 1568. As visitor he forced Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to admit his companion at Zurich, William Cole, D.D. [q. v.], to the headship, to which Cole had recently been nominated by the queen against the fellows' wishes. A strict visitation followed, and the college was purged of all taint of Romanism (, Grindal, p. 196;, Parker, i. 528; , Annals, ii. 165). He exercised visitatorial authority with equal vigour at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1571, and at New College, Oxford. At New College he removed in 1576 John Underhill [q. v.], afterwards bishop of Oxford, from his fellowship for questioning his powers; but Underhill, by Leslie's advice, having threatened Horne with a lawsuit, the bishop reinstated him (, Athenæ, ii. 831). Horne's puritanical fanaticism led him in his visitations of his cathedral, as well as of the colleges subject to him, to order the destruction of every picture, painted window, image, vestment, ornament, or architectural structure, which he regarded as superstitious. Organs were silenced, and missals and old service books were put to the vilest uses. Copes and vestments were prohibited, and persons were forbidden to turn to the east at the ‘Gloria Patri’ more papistico. At New College the whole of the rich tabernacle work covering the east end of the chapel was shattered to pieces, the wall made flat, whitened, and inscribed with scripture texts. The cloisters and chapter-house of his cathedral were pulled down to save the cost of repair, and ‘to turn their leaden roofs into gold’ (, Life of Sir Thomas Pope, Appendix xix.;, Fasti, i. 180, n. 7; , Winchester, p. 180).

Horne laboured hard to get the ‘papistical habits’ abolished, but he ultimately accepted them. In 1564 he signed the episcopal manifesto allowing the ‘habits’ and explaining their use, and, with Jewel, preached at Paul's Cross to reconcile the people to them, saying ‘he wished those cut off from the church who troubled it about white or black garments, square or round caps’ (, Puritans, i. 156). Writing to his friend Gualter he expressed his dislike to the vestments, and his hope that the law might be altered; but ‘he obeyed for obedience sake’ (, Annals, i. 264;, Parker, i. 344).

In the administration of his diocese he was equally harsh to papists and sectaries. In January 1579 he desired that the papists should be more rigorously dealt with (Lansd. MSS. xii. art. 31), and in 1580 he advised the council to prevent the landing of jesuits and priests in Hampshire, and to transport obstinate recusants (, Annals, ii. 344). His enemies played upon his name as indicative of his character, ‘hard in nature and crooked in conditions,’ and of his ‘dwarfish and deformed person’ (, Worthies, i. 330). In January 1567 he recommended to Cecil for the deanery of Canterbury ‘one Mr. Whitgift,’ as ‘a man honest and very well learned’ (Cal. State Papers). His wife Margery died in 1576. He was in very infirm health in February 1579–80 (Zurich Letters, 2nd ser. p. 307), and died at Winchester House, Southwark, on 1 June 1580. He desired to be buried in his cathedral ‘before the pulpit, in seemly sort, without any pomp or blazing ceremony.’ He left four daughters surviving him: Anne Dayrel, Mary Hales, Margery Hales, and Rebecca Hayman. A fifth daughter, Elizabeth Dering, appears to have predeceased him. Dr. William Barlow, probably the bishop successively of Rochester and of Lincoln, was his brother-in-law. Immediately after his death his goods were seized for debts to the crown.

Apart from letters, injunctions, &c., Horne published: 1. A translation of two sermons of Calvin's, with a prefatory apology, 1553; reprinted by Antony Munday, and dedicated to Robert, earl of Leicester, 1584. 2. ‘Whether Christian Faith may be kept secret, and The hurt of being present at the Mass;’ entitled by Bale ‘De Missæ Abominationibus,’ 1553. 3. ‘Answer to Feckenham's “Scruples and Staies of Conscience touching the Oath of Supremacie,”’ 1566. 4. ‘Life and Death,’ four sermons published under his name in 1613. Horne was one of those who drew up the ‘Book of Advertisements’ in 1564 (, Parker, i. 315), and helped to frame the canons of 1571 (ib. ii. 60). In Parker's revision of the authorised version, known as the ‘Bishops' Bible’ (1568), the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Lamentations were assigned to Horne (ib. ii. 222).