ed here as bishop two years, when he was translated to Bath and
Wells. "A man of excellent parts, both in divinity and knowledge of the
laws: very vigilant and active he was for the good both of the
ecclesiastical and civil state." He was silenced during the civil war,
but restored in 1660. On his tombstone, at Walthamstow, it is said
"_Templum Cathedrale Wellense reparavit, Episcopale Palatium
exaedificavit, coelis maturus terris valedixit an. aet._ 94 _salut_.
1670."

=Augustine Lindsell= (1632-1634) was Dean of Lichfield. He was
translated to Hereford after being bishop here two years, but died
within a few months.

=Francis Dee= (1634-1638) was Dean of Chichester. "He was a man of very
pious life and affable behaviour." He founded scholarships and
fellowships at S. John's College, Cambridge, of which he had been
Fellow, for boys from the King's School, Peterborough, of his name or
kindred. In 1637 Archbishop Laud reported to the King that "My Lord of
Peterborough hath taken a great deal of pains and brought his diocese
into very good order." He left by will L100 to the repairs of the
Cathedral, and the same amount to the repairs of S. Paul's. He was
buried in the choir, near the throne.

=John Towers= (1638-1649) was one of the King's chaplains. He was
promoted from the Deanery. He protested, with eleven other bishops,
against the opposition that was made by the Parliamentary party to their
taking their seats in the House of Lords, in which protest it was
declared that all laws, orders, votes, or resolutions, were in
themselves null and of none effect, which in their absence from Dec.
27th 1641, had been passed, or should afterwards be passed, during the
time of their enforced absence. For this they were committed to the
Tower, and kept there four or five months. Being set free he was allowed
to return to Peterborough, but his revenues were taken away. Living here
in a state of continual alarm, he betook himself to the king's forces at
Oxford, where he remained until the surrender of the place. Coming back
here in 1646 his health failed, and he died about three weeks before the
king was beheaded. He was buried in the choir.

[Illustration: Details of Chasuble on Abbot's Tomb.]

No successor was appointed until the Restoration. =Benjamin Laney=
(1660-1663) was then made Bishop. He was Dean of Rochester, and had been
Master of Pembroke, Cambridge. He was translated to Lincoln in 1663, and
to Ely in 1667. He died