William Barlow

, a Canon Regular, was first made Bishop of S. Asaph, afterwards of B. and Wells; and at length of Chichester. He died in fifteen hundred sixty and eight, 1568 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Chichester succeeded Rich. Curteis or Coortesse a Lincolnshire man born, and Doctor of Divinity, (sometimes Fellow of S. Johns coll. in, and Proctor of the University of, Cambridge, and afterwards Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury) who was consecrated at Canterbury gratis, or without reward or fees, on the feast of the holy Trinity, an. 1570. he being then 48 years of age. The said Dr. Coortesse hath written, (1) An exposition of certain words of S. Paul to the Rom. intit. by an old writer Hugo, A treatise of the work of three days. Lond. 1577. oct. (2) Two Sermons, one at Pauls Cross, and another at Westminster, an 1576. the first on Apocal. 12. the first nine verses, and the other on Acts 20. 28, 29, 30, 31. Both printed at Lond. 1584. oct. (3) Serm. at Greenwich 1573. on Ecclesiastices 12. the first seven verses, Lond. 1586. oct. (4) Serm. at Richmond 1575. on Judges 1. the first 13 verses. Lond. in oct. and other things, as’tis probable. Quaere. In the See of Chichester succeeded him Tho. Bickley, whom I shall mention at large among these Bishops under the year 1596.