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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Norwich in September, 1604, and six months afterwards managed to get for him the second stall in the cathedral, having induced its previous occupant to resign. One of the king's first appointments was that of Dr. Montgomery, a Scotchman, to the deanery, 7 June, 1603. Next year the dean was appointed to three bishoprics in Ireland — Derry, Raphoe, and Clogher, and Dr. Edmund Suckling obtained for himself, 27 April, 1604, grant of the reversion of the deanery at the next avoidance. But although Dean Montgomery took tip residence at once in Ireland, he could not be induced to relinquish his deanery until ten years had elapsed, and even then had to be indemnified for his loss of income. Dean Suckling in 161 8, during the vacancy of the see on the death of Bishop Jegon, protested against the visitation of the see by the archbishop on the ground that the see was free from all ordinary or metropolitan visitation.^ He was answered that the dean and chapter were subject to the visitation of the archbishop ; that the see being vacant for the time, the rights of the dean and chapter were therefore obsolete and extinct ; and that they had been subject to the ordinary visitation of the bishop of Norwich in 1586 and to the visitation of the archbishop in 1568. Bishop Jegon died 13 March, 1617-18, and was succeeded '^ 21 May, 1 61 8, by John Overall, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, described by Fuller as a 'discreet presser of conformity ';' the prominent part he had taken in enlarging the Church Catechism and in defence of the Thirty-nine Articles as well as his own visitation articles,* confirm this. His connexion with Norwich was short, as he died 12 May, 1619. He was succeeded by Samuel Harsnet, bishop of Chichester, who was translated to Norwich in June of the same year. He must have been a man of moderation, as he was denounced both for papistical and puritanical leanings. He is said to have expended 2,000 // in the repair of the episcopal palaces at Norwich and Ludham.^ In 1 62 1 thirty-two ministers of the city of Norwich petitioned the Council for a renewal of the orders issued fifteen years before, that they might have a certain maintenance from the English in the town of 20 pence in the pound on the rent of their houses, as already granted from the Dutch and French inhabitants. They described themselves as at present dependent on the pleasure of the people.^ In the same year the bishop and mayor had to intervene in the affairs of the Walloon congregation ; one Denis I'Ermite having complained that, being made a freeman of Norwich and frequenting the English church, he was still required by the French church to resort there as formerly. In a letter to the Council of 25 September, 1 621, the bishop and mayor appear as champions of the French church. They ■declared that the innovation attempted by I'Ermite, and followed by others, of leaving their church and refusing to contribute to their ministers, would ruin the Walloon congregation settled fifty-five years before, and said that they had ordered I'Ermite to conform to the French church, which he promised to do, but afterwards refused on some unjust displeasure against the minister. ' Add. MS. 32092, fol. 306. ' The appointment of a successor to Bishop Jegon was the subject of a scandal very typical of the time {Cal. S. P. Dom. l6ii-i8, p. 532), 'The dean of St. Paul's fails to succeed the bishop of Norwich because he was so open in offering his 2,500 thanks that the court lacqueys tallc of it.' ' Worthies, 61. * Norwich, 1620. ' Cal. S. P. Dom. 1634-5, p. 10. Ludham had been burnt down in 161 1. " Ibid. 1619-23, p. 259. 279