Cuthbert

TONStALL, sometimes of Ball. coll. afterwards of Cambridge, was consecrated Bishop of London 19. of Octob. 1522. translated to Durham 25. of Mar. 1530. 1559 and died in Nov. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine, leaving then behind him the character of a person of great reputation, and of very quiet behaviour. See more of him among the writers under that year. In the See of Durham succeeded James Pilhyngton Bach. of div. born of a Knightly family at Rivyngton in the Parish of Bolton in Lancashire, Son of Rich. Pilkyngton of Rivyngton Esq was educated in S. Johns coll. in Cambridge, where he made proficiency in all kind of learning, was much addicted to reformation, and therefore in the Reign of Q. Mary, became an Exile in Foreign parts; but upon his return thence, being elected to the See of Durham, was consecrated thereunto 2. of March 1560, and thirteen days after had the temporalities thereof delivered (d)(d) Pat. 3. Elizab. p. 7. to him. In the eighth year of Eliz. (he being then D. of D.) he erected a Free School at Rivyngton, sub nomine & auspiciis R. Elizabethae, and endowed it with lands and tenements to the yearly value of seven and twenty pounds, fourteen shillings and ten pence. This worthy Bishop who was esteemed a learned man and a profound Theologist of his time, hath written, (1) An exposition on Nehemiah. (2) Expos. on Aggeus and Abdias. Lond. 1562. oct. (3) Of the causes of the burning of Pauls Church, against a libel cast in the streets at Westchester, an. 1561. Lond. 1563. oct. &c. At length submitting to sate at Bishops Aukland 23. January 1575. aged 55 years, was buried there for a time; afterwards taken up and re-buried in the Choire of the Cath. Church at Durham on the 24. of May following, leaving then several Children behind him, begotten on the body of his Wife Alice, of the Knightly family of the Kingsmylls in Hampshire. Soon after was a tomb erected over his grave, whereon was insculp’d a Mon [•] die made by Dr. Laur. Humphrey, beginning thus, Hic jacet Antistes cradeli morte peremptus, and an Epicede by Joh. Fox the Martyriologist, beginning Tantum te nostrae possint celebrare camenae; besides a large epitaph in prose. Most, or all of which, hath many years since, as I have been informed, been defaced and obliterated. In the See of Durham succeeded Rich. Barnes of Oxon, as I shall tell you hereafter.