John Scory.
OF this twice Bishop Scory I have heard but little, yet it hath been my fortune to read something that will not be amisse to acquaint your Highnesse with, that you may see how Satan doth sift the lives and doings of English Bishops with the Quills sometimes of strangers and Forraigners. For whereas this our English modest writer onely reports how he was first Bi∣shop of Chicester, being but Batchelour; of Divinity, and deprived for no fault but that he continued not a Batchelor where∣upon he fled for Religion (as the phrase was) till comming home in the yeare 1560 he was preferred to Hereford: the French writer stayeth not there, but tel∣leth how that being setled there, though he professed to be a great enemy to I∣dolatry, yet in another sence according to St. Paul, he became a worshipper of Images (not Saints but Angels) belike he feared some future tempest, and therefore ••his h•• to provide better for himselfe