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Richard Holdsworth, late master of Emanuel college, Cambridge ; afterwards Thomas Powell, precentor of Llandaff, was nominated to the bishopric of Bristol by king Charles II ; but he refused it on account of ill health, and died 31st Dec. 1660, and was buried in the church of St. Dunstan in the West, London. After the see had been void upwards of fourteen years, 1661 Gilbert Ironside, S.T.P., was elected 14th Dec. 1660,
2 Car. II. and confirmed on the 24th of the same month; he was consecrated in the chapel of Henry VII, Westminster, 13th Jan. 1660-61-^^-', and enthroned on the 17th of that month. He died 19th Sept. 1671, and was buried in Bristol cathedral. 1672 Guy Carleton, S.T.P., dean of Carlisle^ was elected
4 Car. II. 20th Dec. 1671 ; confirmed 20th Jan. 1671 2, and consecrated in Westminster abbey nth Feb.^o, jjg was translated to Chichester in Jan. 1678-9. 1679 William Gulston, S.T.P., was elected i6th Jan.
I Car. II. 1678-9, and consecrated 9th Feb.-i He died 4th April 1684, and was buried at Symondsbury in Dor- setshire, of which rectory he was the patron^^. His will is in the Prerogative office, London ^3.
1684 John Lake^^, hisJiop of Sodor and Man, was translated 7 Car. II. to Bristol 1 2th Aug. 1684^% and promoted to Chi- chester in the following year.
1685 Sir Jonathan Trelawney, bart., was consecrated 2 Jaa I. bishop of Bristol 8th Nov. 1685 -i^^, and translated to
Exeter in 1689^".
��3S Reg. Juxon. fol. 245. it at first, he lost it, though he
^ Reg. Sheld. fol. 96. was desirous of it afterwards,
'^i Reg. Saner, fol. 51. Note by bishop Kennet in the
^2 No stone or monument Middle Hill copy of Le Neve.
commemorates him, but in the ^^ Lloyd. 160.
parish register is this entry : ^4 After the death of bishop
" William lord bishop of Bristol Gulston, the see was offered to
was buried April i8th 1684." Mr. Thomas Long.
After his death, this see was of- ^ Reg. Saner, fol. 81.
fered to Mr. Thomas Long pre- -ifi ibid. fol. 142.
bendary of Exeter; but scrupling '^~ Church Book, Home Office.
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