Bishops of Carlisle
(From 1200 to 1626)
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Bishops of Carlisle (From 1200 to 1626) |
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It has already been stated that the bishopric of Carlisle was founded by Henry I.
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Office Holder |
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Year
of appointment |
| Bernard | Archbishop of Sclavonia | 1200 |
| Bernard | Archbishop of Ragusa | 1203 |
| Hugh | abbot of Beaulieu | 1216 |
| Walter Malcerk | lord treasurer and sheriff of Cumberland. He resigned the bishopric in 1246. | 1223 |
| Silvester De Everdon | lord high chancellor. | 1223 |
| Thomas Vipont | Died the month after acceded. | 1255 |
| See vacant | the Bishop of Durham obtained all its revenues and privileges | |
| Robert Chauncy | archdeacon of Bath and sheriff of Cumberland | 1258 |
| Ralph Irton | abbot of Gisburne | 1280 |
| John Halton | canon regular of Carlisle | 1291 |
| John De Ros | 1325 | |
| John Kirby | canon of Carlisle | 1332 |
| Gilbert De Welton | 1352 | |
| Thomas Appleby | canon of Carlisle | 1362 |
| Robert Reed | Bishop of Lismore, translated to Chichester | 1396 |
| Thomas Merks | monk of Westminster, he was the only partizan of the house of Plantagenet, who dared to speak in favour of the deposed monarch, Richard II, whose cause he boldly advocated in a speech in parliament. For this manly vindication he was deprived of his bishopric, and committed for high treason, to the tower, where he remained for same time, but was afterwards, by the pope's licence, allowed to hold benefices to the yearly value of three hundred marks. He died rector of Toddenham, in Gloucestershire, in 1409. | 1396 |
| William Strickland | 1400 | |
| Roger Whelpdale | 1420 | |
| William Barrow | translated from Bangor | 1423 |
| Marmaduke Lumley | 1430 | |
| Nicholas Close | translated to Lichfield in 1452 | 1449 |
| William Percy | 1452 | |
| John Kingscott | 1462 | |
| Richard Scrope | 1463 | |
| Edward Story | translated to Chichester, where he died in 1502 | 1468 |
| Richard Bell | prior of Finchale | 1477 |
| William (Sever) Senhouse | engaged in the treaty of marriage proposed between James, king of Scotland, and Margaret, daughter of Henry VII. This prelate was the son of a sieve maker, and was translated to Durham in 1502 | 1496 |
| Roger Leyburn | descendant of an ancient family in Westmorland, who had been master of Pembroke Hall, and archdeacon and chancellor of Durham. Died 1508 | 1502 |
| John Penny | abbot of Leicester, translated from Bangor | 1508 |
| John Kyte |
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1521 |
| 1537 | ||
| Owen Oglethorpe | 1556 | |
| John Best | 1559 | |
| Richard Barnes | 1570 | |
| John Meye | Master of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, who held the see for twenty years 1559-77. Vice-Chancellor. Rector of Ashton Sandford, Bucks., of Long Stanton St Michael, Cambs., of North Creek, Norf., of St Dunstan-in-the-East, London, Prebendary of Ely, Archdeacon of the East Riding. Brother of William May.Fell a victim to a dreadful plague, which raged in Cumberland, in 1597. | 1577 |
| Henry Robinson | 1598 | |
| Robert Snowden | 1616 | |
| Richard Milbourne | translated from St. David's | 1621 |
| Richard Senhouse | died by a fall from his horse, in 1626 | 1624 |
The deans of Carlisle appointed by Queen Elizabeth were Sir Thomas Smith, whom she appointed at her accession, or rather re-appointed, for he had held the deanery during the reign of Edward VI, after the ejection of Lancelot Salkeld, who was re-appointed by Queen Mary on the ejection of Smith. Sir Thomas Smith was a deacon only; to him succeeded in 1577 Sir John Wooley, and in 1596 Sir Christopher Perkins, who held it until 1622; these two were both laymen. There is no evidence that these deans, very distinguished men they were, and holders of high office at the universities, in state and in diplomacy, ever saw the deanery they enjoyed. The deanery of Carlisle was, in fact, secularised throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and for part of that of James I. Accounts of these deans are in Archæologia, vol. xxxviii., where it appears Smith got £80 from his deanery, after paying Salkeld £40 as pension.
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