Hiera dakrya, Ecclesiae anglicanae suspiria, The tears, sighs, complaints, and prayers of the Church of England setting forth her former constitution, compared with her present condition : also the visible causes and probable cures of her distempers : in IV books

Gauden, John, 1605-1662.

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A CATALOGUE OF THE NAMES Of all the ARCH-BISHOPS and BISHOPS of England and Wales, ever since the first planting of Christian Religion in this Nation, unto these later Times: With the year of our Lord in which the several Bishops of each Diocese were Consecrated.

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Of the Bishops of the ISLE of MAN.

This Bishoprick of the Isle of Man was first erect∣ed by Pope Gregory 4. The Bishops See is in Russin or Castle-Town, and the Bishops are termed in La∣tine Episcopi Sodorenses. The VVestern Islands (now belonging to Scotland) who have now a Bishop of their own, did anciently belong to this Bishoprick. The new Bishop (upon a vacancy) is nominated by the Lords of the Isle (who have been the Stanleys Earles of Darby) and presented to the King, and then consecrated by the Archbishop of York. And this seemeth to be the cause why the Bishop of Man is no Lord of the Parlament, be∣cause it is not at the Kings disposing, none having Suf∣frage in Parlament but those who hold immediate∣ly from the King.

The Names of the Bishops of this See are not exactly known, having (as yet) no meanes to procure a Cata∣logue thereof: such as are extant are these.

1 Machilla. A. D. 518
2 Michael.
3 Nicholas. A. D. 1203
4 Reginald. A. D. 1217
5 Richard. A. D. 1257
6 Robert Walby. A. D. 1396
7 Henry. A. D. 1556
8 John Merick.
9 George LLoyd. A. D. 1604
10 Forster.
11 Richard Parry. A. D. 1641

In the Catalogue of the Bishops of Bristol, p. 695. adde

12 Tho: Westfield. 1642.
13 Tho: Howel. 1644.

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