Guy Carleton

was born of an antient and gentile family at Brampton Foot in Gilsland within the County of Cumberland, educated in the Free-School at Carlile under Mr. Tho. Robson, and admitted a poor serving child of Queens Coll, under the tuition of Charles son of the said Tho. Robson, an. 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts. Afterwards he was made Tabarder, Fellow, and in 1635 one of the Proctors of the University, Vicar of Bucklesbury near to Newbury in Berks, &c. At length upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he took part with his Majesty, and did him good service, being then accounted an excellent Horsman in a double sense, for which he had his share in sufferings as other Loyallists had. After the Kings Restauration, he was made one of his Chaplaines, was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. 1660, made Dean of Carlile in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber somtimes Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, (some years before dead) and on the 2. of Nov. the same year was installed Prebendary of Durham. In 1671, he was nominated Bishop of Bristow on the death of Dr. Gilb. Ironside, to which See being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westm, on the eleventh day of Febr. in the same year, had, much about that time, liberty allowed him to keep his Prebendship in Commendam. In 1678 he was translated to Chichester on the death of Dr. Brideloake, and was confirmed therein on the eighth day of January the same year, but had not the name there for a Scholar, or liberal Benefactor, as his predicessor and kinsman had, named Dr. George Carleton. This Dr. Guy Carleton died in the City of Westminster during his attendance in Parliament, on the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five:1685. whereupon his body was conveyed, as I have been informed, to Chichester, and buried in the Cath. Ch. there. In the Bishoprick of Bristow succeeded. Dr. Will. Goulson a Leicestershire man born, educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards was Chaplaine to the Duchess of Sommerset. He was consecrated at Lambeth on the ninth day of. Febr. 1678; and dying at his Rectory of Symondsbury in Dorsetshire (to which he had been presented by the said Duchess) on the fourth day of Apr. an. 1684, was buried on the 18. day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of that towne. In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Carleton, the Bishop of Bristol, viz. Dr. Joh. Lake, in Aug. or Sept. 1685; who was one of the seven Bishops that were committed Prisoners to the Tower, on the 8. of June 1688, for contriving, making, and publishing a Seditious Libel against his Majesty (K. Jam. 2.) and his Government, that is for subscribing a petition to his Majesty, wherein he and the rest shewed the great aversness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches, his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, &c. After K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he was one of the Bishops that denied the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him, and on his death bed, in the latter end of Aug. 1689. he did publickly declare against them. In the said See succeeded Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough, who was consecrated thereunto on the 13. of Octob, following. This Bishop Lake who had been Rector of S. Botolphs Ch. without Bishopgate, London, hath written (1) A Serm. preached at Whitehall 29. of May 1670 being the day of his Majesties birth and restaurat. Lond. 1671. qu. (2) The Character of a true Christian, preached in the Parish Church of S. Botolph Bishopsgate at the funeral of Will. Cade Deputy of the Ward. Lond. 1690. qu, and other things as I conceive, but such I have not yet seen.