He was consecrated bishop of Carlisle on 18 July 1537. He became in 1534 register of the order of the Garter, in the room of Dr. Richard Sydnor, archdeacon of Totnes. He was praised by Erasmus, while he was a fellow of King's College, as a young man of eloquence; and Leland, the antiquary, who was his friend, has celebrated him in a copy of Latin verses. He was both master and provost of Eton; but in 1529 he retired to Oxford and was incorporated B.D. and afterwards proceeded D.D. in that university.[3] He died in 1555 at Horncastle in Lincolnshire.
Works
His principal works are the following.
Epistola ad Gwielmum Hormannum
Epigrammata varia
Several Resolutions concerning the Sacraments
Answers to certain Queries concerning the Abuses of the Mass
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