The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire with an account of the British, Phœnician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities in those parts / by Charles Leigh ...

The Bishops of Mercia.

The Two First Bishops were Diama and Ceollah, Two Scotch Men; the Third was Tramkere, an English Man, but ordain'd by the Scots; after him Iarnman, or German, as Bede relates it. To these succeeded Bishops, who had sometimes their Sees at Coventry, sometimes at Chester, but most commonly at Litchfield: Those were all in the Saxon Government, of whom there is a full Account in Ingulphus, Bede, and others. The First after the Conquest was Petrus, who removed his Seat from Litchfield to Chester, but was afterwards alter'd by Robert Pecaam, who had Three Seats, Chester, Litchfield and Coventry, but the Episco∣pal Seat was again restor'd to Chester, in King Henry the Eighth's Time, and that of St. Werburgh, appointed the Cathedral Church, and the Bishop made a Suffragan of York: The Ca∣talogue of the Bishops after that Time may be seen at large in Godwin, and others.