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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JAN. IG, 1909

Paul Bushe, Prior of the Bonhommea at Edington in Wiltshire, was appointed first Bishop of Bristol (a see then newly created), 16 June, and consecrated 25 June, 1542 ; and it is not likely that he married until he became a bishop, or until after the death of Henry VIII. At the entrance to the north choir aisle from the Lady Chapel in Bristol Cathedral there is a canopied tomb (with an emaciated cadaver under the canopy) which is said to be that of Bishop Paul Bushe ; his wife, Edith Ashley by name, lies buried close by under the altar steps.

The epitaph and Latin verses connected with it are recorded by Browne Willis. Whether they are now existent I do not know. They may have been renovated, but they seem worthy of a place here :

" Hie jacet Dominus Paulus Bush primus hujus Eeclesiae Episcopus, qui obiit 11 die Octobris A.D. 1558. JEtatis suse 68. Cujus animse propitietur Deus. Dignus qui primam circum sua tempora mitram

Indueret, jacet hie Bristoliense decus. A patre Bush dictus, Paulum Baptisma vocavit,

Virtu te impleyib nomen utrumque sua. Paulus Eclintonise bis messes preco secutus instituit populum dogmate, Christe, tuo. Ille animos verbis impensis payit egenos, Hinc fructum arbusto prsebuit illesuo. Ut madidos arbusba juyant, sic foedere rupto Inter discordes pacificator erat.

F. DE H. L.

MB. A. C. JONAS at the penultimate refer- ence is mixing up two bishops called William Barlow : the first (successively occupant of the sees of St. Asaph, St. Davids, Bath and Wells, and Chichester) died in August, 1568 ; the second (successively occupant of the sees of Rochester and Lincoln) died 7 Sept., 1613.

The query appears to be as to who was the first Englishman to marry after becoming a bishop. William Barlow, son of the first above mentioned, was born at St. Davids when his father was bishop, i.e., between 1536 and 1549. Bush became Bishop of Bristol in 1542.

If, however, the query is, What English married man first became bishop ? the answer is surely Cranmer, who had recently married his second wife, the niece of Osiander, when he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1533. As Henry VIII. did not approve of married clergy, Cranmer " shut his wife up in a box." Dr. Nicholas Harpsfield, Archdeacon of Canterbury, thus writes (Camden Soc., Second Series, xxi. 275) :

"' The Archbishop of Canterbury was married in King Henry his days, but kept his woman very

jlose, and sometime carried her about with him in a great chest full of holes, that his pretty nobsey might take breath at. In the meanwhile it so chanced that his place at Canterbury was set on fire [18 Dec., 1543] ; but lord what a stir and care was there for this pretty nobsey and for this chest ; all other care in a manner was set aside. He caused that chest with all speed to be conveyed out of danger, and gave great charge of it, crying out that his evidences and other writings which he esteemed above any worldly treasure was in that chest ; and this I heard out of the mouth of a gentleman that was there present, and knew of this holy mystery.' The word nobsey is not in ' N.E.D.'

Holgate, when Archbishop of York, was married after banns 15 June, 1549 ; but it was said the parties had been privately married at an earlier date. In 1549 he was, on his own admission, sixty-eight, and Harpsfield calls him " about four score years of age," and says that his wife (Barbara, daughter of Roger Wentworth) was " a young girl of fourteen or fifteen years of age " (loc. cit.). JOHN B. WAINEWKIGHT.

Again I ask if there is not an error, this time with respect to the bracketed remark, " [By Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury] London, Rd. Jugge, 1556."

If I am correct, Matthew Parker was conse- crated Archbishop on 17 Dec., 1559 (one of the consecrators being Bishop Barlow). I fail to see how Archbishop Parker could have written a treatise published in 1556. He may have written it prior to his becoming Archbishop. ALFBED CHAS. JONAS.

Thornton Heath.

[The explanation is as suggested. Halkett and Laing and the 'D.N.B.' attribute the authorship of ' A Defence of Priests' Marriages ' to Parker.

MR. A. B. BEAVEN also points out that there were two bishops named William Barlow.]

MILTON: POBTBAIT AS A BOY (10 S. x. 508). If the picture in question was painted by the Frederick Newenham (1807-59) who exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838, it can have no historical significance.

A. R. BAYLEY.

In Dr. G. C. Williamson's privately printed work ' The Portraits, Prints, and Writings of John Milton exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1908,' there is a list (pp. 89, 90) of ' Various Pretended Portraits dis- covered since Marsh's List,' i.e., since Mr. John Fitchett Marsh's publication (cp. 10 S. x. 445) in the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. xii. (1860). The last entry in this list (No. 266 of the engravings) is : " Modern mezzo- tint by Cousins after a so-called original at Eton." L. R. M. STBACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.