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 five bishops who entered into a solemn compact to resist any laxity on that point. While bishop of St. Asaph he held a number of livings in commendam (, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714, iii. 931). He continued to the end of his life to believe that the Prince of Wales (James II's son) was a supposititious child, and his reasons for this erroneous belief are preserved among the Addit. MSS. in the British Museum (Nos. 32096, 33286). There is no record of any of his speeches in the House of Lords, and only four protests appear to have been signed by him (, Protests of the House of Lords, 1875, Nos. lxxix. lxxx. cxvi. cxlii.). He is ridiculed under the name of ‘Mysterio’ in William Shippen's ‘Faction Display'd,’ 1704, pp. 5–6, a poem which is sometimes erroneously attributed to Defoe. A half-length portrait of Lloyd was lent by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Exhibition of National Portraits at South Kensington in 1866 (Catalogue, No. 1006). There are engravings of Lloyd by Logan, Sturt, and Vertue. His portrait also appears on the eight different medals which were struck, and in the numerous prints which were engraved in commemoration of the acquittal of the seven bishops (see, Life of Thomas Ken, i. 9–10, 292).

Lloyd married at Westminster Abbey, on 3 Dec. 1668, Anne, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Walter Jones, D.D., prebendary of Westminster, by his wife Philippa, daughter of Dr. Samuel Fell, dean of Christ Church, Oxford. His widow survived him only two years, and died on 18 Sept. 1719, aged 72. Their son William became rector of Fladbury on 15 Aug. 1713, and was appointed chancellor of the diocese of Worcester. The proceedings against him in accordance with the resolution of the House of Commons of 18 Nov. 1702 appear to have dropped. His ‘Series Chronologica Olympiadum, Pythiadum, Isthmiadum, Nemeadum,’ &c. (Oxford, 1700, fol.), is supposed to have been principally written by his father. Whiston says that he married a daughter of ‘the Lady Caverly’ (Memoirs, pt. i. p. 182). He died in September 1719, aged 45.

Lloyd engaged Burnet to undertake ‘The History of the Reformation of the Church of England,’ furnishing him ‘with a curious collection of his own observations,’ and correcting it ‘with a most critical exactness; so that the first materials and the last finishing of it are from him’ (, Hist. of the Reformation, &c., 1829, i. ix.). He assisted John Wilkins [q. v.], bishop of Chester, in writing ‘An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language,’ &c. (London, 1688, fol.), and compiled ‘The Alphabetical Dictionary’ appended thereto. He is said to have suggested to Matthew Poole the execution of his ‘Synopsis Criticorum aliorumque S. Scripturæ Interpretum’ (London, 1669–76, fol. 4 vols.), and under his advice Moses Pitt published ‘The English Atlas’ (Oxford, 1680–2, fol. 5 vols.). He translated into English ‘The Life, Martyrdom, and Miracles of St. George, written in Greek at Ashmole's request by Jeremy Priest and Dr. of the Eastern Church’ (Ashmolean MS. No. 1134), and left an unfinished manuscript, entitled ‘A Discourse of the three Orders in the Ministry of the Christian Church, now called Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, shewing out of the Holy Scriptures that they are of Divine Institution.’ Many of his manuscripts have been destroyed (, Miscell. of Literature, 1840, p. 88), but several of his letters are preserved among the Sloane and Addit. MSS. in the British Museum. Among the Cole MSS. in the museum is a curious letter, dated 21 Nov. 1702, from a clergyman of the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry to Bishop Watson of St. Davids, in which the character of ‘the late prophet Malachi,’ i.e. Lloyd, is sketched in the most uncomplimentary terms (xxxv. 103 a, 104 a). His large folio Bible, ‘interleaved and interlaced’ with ‘an immense treasure of remarks,’ but ‘all in shorthand known only to himself and to his chaplain,’ cannot now be traced (, Lit. Anecdotes, 1812, iv. 731; see also, Memoirs, pt. i. pp. 34–5). A Welsh edition of the Bible, sometimes known as Bishop Lloyd's Bible, was published in 1690 (Rhydychain, fol.). The chronology is Lloyd's. He also superintended an edition of the ‘English Bible’ (Oxford, 1701, fol.), to which he added the chronological dates and an index.

Besides a number of single sermons preached on various public occasions Lloyd published: 1. ‘The Late Apology [by Roger Palmer, earl of Castlemaine, and Robert Pugh] in behalf of the Papists, reprinted and answered in behalf of the Royallists,’ London, 1667, 4to (anon.); another edition, London, 1667, 4to; fourth edition corrected, London, 1675, 4to. This pamphlet has been also attributed to Charles, earl of Derby. 2. ‘A Seasonable Discourse, shewing the Necessity of Maintaining the Established Religion in opposition to Popery,’ London, 1673, 4to (anon.); the second, third, and fourth editions, London, 1673, 4to; the fifth edition, corrected according to the mind of the author, London, 1673, 4to. This pamphlet has also been ascribed to Dr. Fell. 3. ‘A Reasonable Defence of the Seasonable Discourse, shewing the Necessity of Maintaining the Established Religion in opposition to Popery. Or, a Reply to a Treatise [by