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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK the lytell bell in the steple ; ' this last instance being where there are two chalices and the larger weighed i6oz., and three bells in the steeple, each weighing respectively 12, 8, and 6 cwt. Among the 'divers uses and intents ' to which the money realized by the sale of certain of the goods was bestowed, at St. Michael at Plea 20 li was spent ' for the new glassing of xvij wyndows wherein were conteyned the lyves of certeyn prophane histories ; ' at St. George of Colgate, 13// was spent for ' glassyng 28 windows with whyght glasse, wyche war glassyd with faynde storys ; ' and 1 5 windows were glazed at St. Mary Coslanye.' Bishop Thirlby had resigned the bishopric of Westminster, of which he was the first and last bishop, into the king's hands 29 March, 1550, and in the following April was appointed bishop of Norwich. At heart he was a Roman Catholic, and Bishop Burnet says he was appointed to Norwich, because it was thought he could do less mischief there, 'for though he complied as soon as any change was made, yet he secretly opposed everything it was safe to do.' * He had voted against the third reading of the Act of Uniformity, 15 January, 1548-9, but enforced its provisions. He was on the Commission for the Suppression of Heresy of 12 April, 1549 ; in January, 1550— I, he was appointed one of the commissioners to correct and punish all Anabaptists and such as did not duly administer the sacraments according to the Book of Common Prayer ; and when the second Act of Uniformity was passed in January, 1552, he protested against it in the House of Lords. He was soon high in Mary's favour, and in July, 1554, was translated from Norwich to Ely. In the first year of the new reign the whole of the Edwardine legislation concerning the sacraments, uniformity, and priests' marriages was repealed ; the ratio of deprivations in the diocese of Norwich in February and March, 1553—4, is one to five of the beneficed clergy,' which is only exceeded by that of London, where it was probably one to four. Norwich is the only see whose records are complete in this matter. Here there is a list extant for each archdeaconry, discriminating secular from religious and beneficed from unbeneficed clergy. John Salisbury, dean of Norwich, was deprived March, 1554.* Bishop Hopton, who succeeded Thirlby 28 October, 1554, had been private chaplain and confessor to Queen Mary, and in spite of warnings had continued to say mass in her household throughout the reign of Edward VI. He was one of the most active persecutors of Protestants, and was zealously seconded by his chancellor, Michael Downing or Dunning.^ According to Foxe forty-eight persons in all suffered at the stake during his episcopacy. Among the Norfolk martyrs were William Allen, burnt at Walsingham ; William Carman of Hingham, burnt as a contumacious heretic ; Simon JVIiller, a merchant of Lynn ; * Elizabeth Cooper, a pewterer's wife of ' Very interesting inventories h.ive been transcribed in the 'Norf. Arch. , 73, and vi, 361, from which these details have been tal;en. St. Margaret's, King's Lynn, was particularly rich in embroidered .hangings and vestments, and possessed a ' crosse clothe of red silke embrotherd with thymage of Mary Magdalen ; copes of red silk embrothered with glrdells and birds of gold, of the same with swannes of gold, of •green silk with white byrds ; of blue velvet with stars ; of red silk with camells ; of purple silk with oak leaves ; of black velvet with flowers, Sec. At St. Michael at Plea 238J oz. of plate were sold. ' Hist, of the Reformation, ii, 753. ' W. H. Frere, Marlun Reaction in Relation to the Engl. Clergy, 49. ' Gorham, Reformation Gleanings, 438. He was restored 1560. 260
 * Fuller, Clt. Hist, iv, 187. * Fo.xe, Acts anj Monuments, viii, 380.