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href="/wiki/Robert_Creighton" title="Robert Creighton">Robert Creighton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other post(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Vice-Chancellors_of_the_University_of_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford">Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University</a> <span class="nowrap">(1621–1624)</span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Peterborough" title="Dean of Peterborough">Dean of Peterborough</a> <span class="nowrap">(1622–1630)</span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Peterborough" title="Bishop of Peterborough">Bishop of Peterborough</a> <span class="nowrap">(1630–1632)</span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Orders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecration</th><td class="infobox-data">1630</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1580</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/South_Hinksey" title="South Hinksey">South Hinksey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1670<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend dday deathdate">1671</span>)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Walthamstow" title="Walthamstow">Walthamstow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data">Walthamstow Parish Church</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Piers" title="John Piers">John Piers</a>, Archbishop of York</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Piers_(priest)" title="William Piers (priest)">William Piers</a>, Archdeacon of Bath</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Piers</b> (Pierse, Pierce; <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1580</span>–1670) was <a href="/wiki/List_of_Vice-Chancellors_of_the_University_of_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford">Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University</a> from 1621 to 1624, <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Peterborough" title="Bishop of Peterborough">Bishop of Peterborough</a> from 1630 to 1632 and <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Bishop of Bath and Wells">Bishop of Bath and Wells</a> from 1632 until the abolition of episcopacy in 1646, then again from the Restoration in 1660 to his death in 1670.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Piers_(bishop)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The son of William Piers or Pierse, was born at South Hinksey Oxford, and baptised in the parish church of All Saints 3 September 1580; his father was <a href="/wiki/John_Piers" title="John Piers">John Piers</a>, Archbishop of York. He matriculated at <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a> 17 August 1599, and became student the same year. He graduated B.A. in 1600, M.A. in 1603, B.D. 1610, D.D. 1614. He became chaplain to <a href="/wiki/John_King_(bishop)" class="mw-redirect" title="John King (bishop)">John King</a>, and in 1609 he was presented by James I to the rectory of <a href="/wiki/Grafton_Regis" title="Grafton Regis">Grafton Regis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>, which he resigned in 1611 on his collation by Bishop King as <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Northolt" title="Archdeacon of Northolt">Archdeacon of Northolt</a>, which he held till 1632. </p><p>He was heavily influenced by John King, a bishop of London, who himself had been the chaplain to Archbishop Piers, when appointed as chaplain in 1612. At Oxford he followed <a href="/wiki/Arminianism_in_the_Church_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Arminianism in the Church of England">Arminianism</a> and high church doctrine in <a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a>'s circle. He was licensed to preach, became a prebendary of St Paul's, and a reader in Divinity. </p><p>In 1615 he added to his other preferments the rectory of <a href="/wiki/St._Christopher-le-Stocks" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Christopher-le-Stocks">St. Christopher-le-Stocks</a> in the city of London, which he held till 1620. In January 1616 he was presented to the fifth stall as a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, which he exchanged for the eighth stall 16 December 1618, holding it <i><a href="/wiki/In_commendam" title="In commendam">in commendam</a></i> till 1632. In 1618 he received from his patron, Bishop King, the prebendal stall of Wildland in St. Paul's Cathedral, holding with it the office of divinity reader. As canon of Christ Church he resided chiefly at Oxford, and, though not the head of a house, served the office of vice-chancellor in 1621–4. As vice-chancellor he used his authority to oppose the <a href="/wiki/Calvinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinist">Calvinist</a> party in the university, and he secured a D.D. degree for the royalist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Sibthorpe" title="Robert Sibthorpe">Robert Sibthorpe</a>. He encouraged the Doctrine of Grace, which rejected predestination and moved towards a more universal truth and divine forgiveness. However, in his early career he still held onto Calvinism. </p><p>It was the last of these Calvinist political Bishops John Williams of Lincoln, a former Lord Keeper, who appointed Piers to the deanery of Peterborough 9 June 1622. He was elevated in 1630 to the bishopric of Peterborough, being consecrated on 24 October. He obtained letters of dispensation to hold the rectory of Northolt and the canonry of Christ Church together with his bishopric <i>in commendam</i>; Northolt he soon resigned, taking the chapter living of <a href="/wiki/Caistor" title="Caistor">Caistor</a>, 27 February 1632. In October 1632 he was translated from Peterborough to Bath and Wells, with <a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a>'s backing. He enforced the orthodox ceremonies, and in 1633 issued orders for the positioning and railing of the <a href="/wiki/Communion_table" title="Communion table">communion table</a>, being obeyed in 140 churches of the diocese, but resisted by the majority. </p><p>The churchwardens of <a href="/wiki/Beckington" title="Beckington">Beckington</a> refused to carry out the change, and were <a href="/wiki/Excommunicated" class="mw-redirect" title="Excommunicated">excommunicated</a> for their <a href="/wiki/Contumacy" title="Contumacy">contumacy</a>. Backed up by leading puritan laity in the clothier districts, they appealed to the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_arches" class="mw-redirect" title="Court of arches">court of arches</a>, but in vain. A petition sent by parishioners to Laud was disregarded. The churchwarden then appealed to the king, but could get no answer. They were then imprisoned in the county gaol, where they remained for a year, being released in 1637 only on condition of submission and public acknowledgement of their offence. Later Laud, when in the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a> in 1642, accepted the whole responsibility. </p><p>Piers also offended strict Sunday Sabbatarians; the judges of assize had forbidden unlawful Sunday meetings, and ordered that the prohibition should be read by the ministers in the parish church. These orders were reissued in 1632 by Justice Richardson, which Piers opposed the following year using the only available precedent St Gregory's Case. Laud, finding this interference with episcopal jurisdiction, wrote to Piers to obtain the opinion of some of the clergy of his diocese as to how the <a href="/wiki/Wake_(ceremony)" title="Wake (ceremony)">wakes</a> were conducted. However, by 1636, only 140 of 469 in the Canterbury Province had complied with the ruling. In Somerset Fry and Wheeler, churchwardens refused to move and rail the altar. Laud excommunicated them, which deepened resentment against Arminianism. </p><p>Piers's reply to Laud upheld the old custom of wakes and church ales or <a href="/wiki/Parish_ale" title="Parish ale">parish ales</a>, basing the outcry against them on Sabbatarianism. He collected seventy-two signatures from clerics who supported wakes and church recreation. Opponents were accused of forming illegal puritan conventicles and alehouses. He proceeded to enforce the reading of the Declaration or <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Sports">Book of Sports</a></i> in church, visiting the clergy who refused with censure and suspension, but earning widespread antipathy in many parishes of his see. Evidence however shows Piers also hunted <a href="/wiki/Recusants" class="mw-redirect" title="Recusants">recusants</a>. Many lived in Somerset, but few were prosecuted.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Piers also followed Laud's reforms of Wadham College, Oxford, founded by a Somerset squire, in his efforts of 1633 and 1637. Piers was a dedicated bishop, keeping meticulous accounts. He sued the previous bishop Walter Curll for allowing Wells Cathedral to fall into disrepair; although <a href="/wiki/John_Cosin" title="John Cosin">John Cosin</a> called Piers to account for his time at Peterborough. </p><p>Piers was an equally determined enemy to the 'lectureships'. Secularizing preachers gave a ministry for free; but they lacked uniformity. Piers further ordered that catechising should take the place of lectures, and according to <a href="/wiki/William_Prynne" title="William Prynne">William Prynne</a>, he boasted that, 'thank God, he had not one lecture left in his diocese'. Piers argued that Feast Days, much to puritan anger, were good for the people to enjoy at Thanksgiving and Christmas. According to Raleigh a new type of <i>precisian</i> puritan objected feasts on the Sabbath. Historian Jonathan Barry has demonstrated that ritualism in Somerset linked some clergy and women in outdoor ceremonies to alleged witchcraft; ministers of ejected livings dabbling with Shamanism. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Personal_Rule" title="Personal Rule">Personal Rule</a>'s policies made Piers very unpopular. <a href="/wiki/Ship_Money" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship Money">Ship Money</a> in 1635 collected inland became bitterly resented in puritan villages of North Somerset. In 1636 he decided to appoint his son William Piers as Rector of Buckland St Mary. An argument ensued with puritan noble Sir <a href="/wiki/Francis_Popham_(1573%E2%80%931644)" title="Francis Popham (1573–1644)">Francis Popham</a> who owned the <a href="/wiki/Advowson" title="Advowson">advowson</a>, and did not want a high church cleric in his parish. </p><p>On Laud's fall a petition was presented to the House of Commons against Piers. Within a few days of the committal of Laud to the Tower on 18 December 1640. Piers, together with Bishop <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Wren" title="Matthew Wren">Matthew Wren</a>, was impeached before the House of Lords, and bound to appear at the bar on 30 December.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 'Articles of Association, 8' (printed in 1642), in fifteen heads, closed with a denunciation of Piers. A committee was appointed to investigate the charges; its scope was widened to embrace the clergy generally. Piers was one of the twelve bishops who signed the protest against the legality of parliamentary proceedings in their enforced absence, for which they were accused of <a href="/wiki/High_treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High treason">high treason</a> and committed to the Tower in December 1641. </p><p>At the beginning of their imprisonment he preached to his brother prelates two sermons on 2 Cor. xii. 8–9, which were later published. Having been liberated on bail by the Lords, he and the other were again imprisoned by the Commons. He was deprived of his See by Parliament on 9 October 1646, as episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth</a> and the <a href="/wiki/The_Protectorate" title="The Protectorate">Protectorate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the period to 1660 he was deprived of his status, but recovered his liberty, and lived on an estate of his own in the parish of <a href="/wiki/Cuddesdon" title="Cuddesdon">Cuddesdon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, where he married a second time. In 1660 he was restored to his bishopric. At the end of his life he left Wells and lived mainly at <a href="/wiki/Walthamstow" title="Walthamstow">Walthamstow</a> in <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>. Here he died in April 1670, in his ninetieth year, and was buried in the parish church. He left two sons by his first wife: William <abbr title="Doctor of Divinity">DD</abbr>, later appointed by his father to be <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Bath" title="Archdeacon of Bath">Archdeacon of Bath</a>, and John, a lay prebendary of Wells, who inherited the family estate at Cuddesdon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Piers_(bishop)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFDorman2008" class="citation web cs1">Dorman, M (January 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22237">"Piers, William (bap. 1580, d. 1670)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 August</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.atitle=Piers%2C+William+%28bap.+1580%2C+d.+1670%29&rft.date=2008-01&rft.aulast=Dorman&rft.aufirst=M&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxforddnb.com%2Fview%2Farticle%2F22237&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Piers+%28bishop%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Walter Raleigh, "Works", 5.319</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Works," 3.243</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPlant2002" class="citation web cs1">Plant, David (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/sects-and-factions/episcopalians">"Episcopalians"</a>. <i>BCW Project</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Oxford University Press: 523–537. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fehr%2Flxxxiii.cccxxviii.523">10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/564164">564164</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+English+Historical+Review&rft.atitle=The+Episcopate+during+the+Civil+Wars%2C+1642%E2%80%931649&rft.volume=83&rft.issue=328&rft.pages=523-537&rft.date=1968-07&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fehr%2Flxxxiii.cccxxviii.523&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F564164%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=King&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Piers+%28bishop%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Attribution">Attribution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Piers_(bishop)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Attribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">"<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Piers,_William_(1580-1670)" class="extiw" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Piers, William (1580-1670)">Piers, William (1580-1670)</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. 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title="John Thomas (bishop of Salisbury)">John Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lamb_(bishop)" title="Robert Lamb (bishop)">Robert Lamb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Tarrant" title="Charles Tarrant">Charles Tarrant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Manners-Sutton" title="Charles Manners-Sutton">Charles Manners-Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Peckard" title="Peter Peckard">Peter Peckard</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kipling" title="Thomas Kipling">Thomas Kipling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Henry_Monk" title="James Henry Monk">James Henry Monk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Turton" title="Thomas Turton">Thomas Turton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Butler_(headmaster)" title="George Butler (headmaster)">George Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Saunders" title="Augustus Saunders">Augustus Saunders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Perowne" title="John Perowne">John Perowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marsham_Argles" title="Marsham Argles">Marsham Argles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ingram_(priest)" title="William Ingram (priest)">William Ingram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barlow_(Dean_of_Peterborough)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Barlow (Dean of Peterborough)">William Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Page" title="Arnold Page">Arnold Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Simpson_(priest)" title="James Simpson (priest)">James Simpson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noel_Christopherson" title="Noel Christopherson">Noel Christopherson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Wingfield-Digby" class="mw-redirect" title="Dick Wingfield-Digby">Dick Wingfield-Digby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randolph_Wise" title="Randolph Wise">Randolph Wise</a></li> <li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Athelm" title="Athelm">Athelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfhelm" title="Wulfhelm">Wulfhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alphege_of_Wells" title="Alphege of Wells">Alphege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfhelm_II" title="Wulfhelm II">Wulfhelm II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byrhthelm_(Bishop_of_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Byrhthelm (Bishop of Wells)">Byrhthelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyneweard_of_Glastonbury" title="Cyneweard of Glastonbury">Cyneweard of Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigar_of_Wells" title="Sigar of Wells">Sigar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwine_of_Wells" title="Ælfwine of Wells">Ælfwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyfing_(Archbishop_of_Canterbury)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyfing (Archbishop of Canterbury)">Lyfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merewith" title="Merewith">Merewith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudoc" class="mw-redirect" title="Dudoc">Dudoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisa_(Bishop_of_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gisa (Bishop of Wells)">Gisa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_of_Tours" title="John of Tours">John of Tours</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><i>see removed to Bath</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>John of Tours <i>(previously Bishop of Wells)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bath" title="Godfrey of Bath">Godfrey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Bath" title="Robert of Bath">Robert</a></li> <li><a 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Wells <i>(previously Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Salisbury_(Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger of Salisbury (Bishop of Bath and Wells)">Roger of Salisbury</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath and Wells)</i></li> <li><i>see became <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Bishop of Bath and Wells">Bath and Wells</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>see renamed from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Bishop of Bath and Wells">Bath</a></i></li> <li>Roger of Salisbury <i>(previously Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Bitton" title="William of Bitton">William of Bitton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Giffard" title="Walter Giffard">Walter Giffard</a></li> 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title="Henry Bowet">Henry Bowet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bubwith" title="Nicholas Bubwith">Nicholas Bubwith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_(bishop)" title="John Stafford (bishop)">John Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Beckington" title="Thomas Beckington">Thomas Beckington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stillington" title="Robert Stillington">Robert Stillington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Foxe" title="Richard Foxe">Richard Foxe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_King" title="Oliver King">Oliver King</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adriano_Castellesi" title="Adriano Castellesi">Adriano Castellesi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Clerk_(bishop)" 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