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. POTTER sometimes Provost of Queens College, was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in the latter end of the year 1628, and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred forty and one,1641/2. under which year you may see more of him among the Writers, p. 6. Soon after his Bishoprick was given to the learned Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland, to keep in Commendam with Armagh in consideration of his great losses sustained in that Kingdom by the Rebellion that a little before that time broke out: The revenues of which, tho much abated by the Scotch and English Armies quartering there, as also by the unhappy Wars that soon after followed in England, yet he made shift to subsist upon it, with some other helps, until the Houses of Parl. seized upon all Bishops Lands: And tho in consideration of his great losses in Ireland, as also of his own merits, they allowed him a pension of 400 l. per an. in consideration for what they had taken away, yet he did not receive that sum above once, or twice at most: For the Independent Faction over-topping the Presbyterian, an end was put to the payment thereof. From the time of his death, which hapned in the latter end of 1655, the See of Carlile laid void till 1660, and then Dr. Rich. Sterne of Cambridge succeeded, installed or enthronized therein on the 4 of Jan. the same year. The said Dr. Usher, a most reverend man, famous for Religion and Literature throughout Europe, an eminent Pillar of the Protestant Cause against the Papacy, and of the Commonwealth of Learning, died on Friday 21 of Mar. 1655, and on the 31 of the said month (1656) Oliver L. Protector sign’d a Warrant directed to the Lords of the Treasury for the sum of 200 l. to bear the charges of his funeral; which sum was paid to Nich. Bernard D. D. And this he did out of an honorable respect to the memory of so pious and learned a Champion of the Protestant Cause as he was. On Thursday the 17 of Apr. following, his body was conveyed from Riegate in Surrey, where he died, to S. George’s Church in Southwark, at which place, about 12 of the clock, his friends and many of the Clergy met the corps and accompanied it thence to Somerset house in the Strand: where laying for some time, it was accompanied thence to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster, where, after the said Dr. Bernard had preached before the large Auditory a sermon, it was inter’d.