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BISHOPS. and he was elected 13th Nov. 1589, confirmed 12th Dec., and consecrated on the 14th of the same month. He was enthroned 3rd Jan. following. He was translated to Worcester in 1593.

The see having been void, after the translation of bishop Fletcher, about ten years, a congé d'élire issued 23rd May 1603, in pursuance of which 603, bishop of Limerick and dean of York^^, Jac. I. was elected to Bristol 30th May 1603. He obtained the royal assent to his election 4th July, and was confirmed on the 12th of the same month ^^. The temporalities were 'restored to him 12th Aug. '9, and he was enthroned on the 23rd of the same month ; on 25th Jan. 1616-17 he was translated to Worcester. A conge d'elire on the promotion of bishop Thorn- borough issued 27th Feb. 1616-172*^, in pursuance of which 617 Nicholas Felton, S.I.T)., president of Pembroke Hall, Jac. I. Cambridge, was elected 4th March 161 6-17, and had the royal assent 9th June'-i. He was confirmed 13th Dec. following and consecrated the next day"-'^, but the temporalities were not restored to him till 9th Jan. 161 7-18 '^3. He was translated to Ely in 161 9-**. The license to elect a successor to bishop Felton issued 12th March 1618-19-^, in pursuance of w^hich 619 Rowland Searchfield, S.T.B., was elected 18th Jac. I. March 1618-19, ^"^ received the royal assent 20th April26. He was confirmed 7th May 161 9; consecrated on the 9th -7, and obtained the temporalities on the 28th of the same month-**. He died nth Oct. 1622, and was buried in Bristol cathedral-^.

21 ibid. No. 2.

15 Pat. I Jac. I. p. 8. 22 Reg. Abbot, fol. 96.

16 He held the deanery in com- 23 p^t. 15 Jac. I. p. 25. N^. i. mendam after his translation. 24 Reg. Abbot, fol. 138.

'" Pat. I Jac. I. p. 8 ; ib. p. -^ Pat. 16 Jac. I. p. 14. No. 6.

18. m. 3; ib. p. 12. in dorso. 26 p^t. i^ Jac. I. p. 14. No. 5.

'8 Reg. Whitg. pars iii. fol. 72. 27 Reg. Abbot, pars ii. fol. 22.

19 Pat. I Jac. I. p. 8. 28 Pat. 17 Jac. I. p. 14. No. 4.

20 Pat. 15 Jac. I. p. 25. No. 3. 29 Ex Epitaphio.

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