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• A letter sent to an honourable gentleman in way of satisfaction concerning some slanderous reports lately raised against the bishops and the rest of the clergie of this kingdome. ([London? : s.n.], 1641), by Joseph Hall and E. I. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings and nobles, the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles. (University press, 1899), by William George Searle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English church and its bishops 1700-1800. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1887), by Charles John Abbey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The primates of the four Georges (J. Murray, 1916), by Aldred William Rowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury. (R. Bentley, 1860), by Walter Farquhar Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The primates of the four Georges (E.P. Dutton and Company, 1916), by Aldred William Rowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cathedrals of England; an account of some of their distinguishing characteristics; together with brief historical and biographical sketches of their most noted bishops (L. C. Page & company, 1905), by Mary J. Taber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historians of the church of York and its archbishops. (Longman & co.; [etc., etc.], 1879), by James Raine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fasti eboracenses. Lives of the archbishops of York. (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1863), by W. H. Dixon and James Raine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historical works of Gervase of Canterbury. (Kraus Reprint, 1965), by of Canterbury Gervase and William Stubbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our bishops and deans. (Hurst and Blackett, 1875), by Frederick Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (Macmillan, 1891), by Randall Thomas Davidson and William Benham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the seven bishops committed to the Tower in 1688. Enriched and illustrated with personal letters, now first published, from the Bodleian Library. (Bell and Daldy, 1866), by Agnes Strickland and Elisabeth Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true story of the Catholic hierarchy deposed by Queen Elizabeth; with fuller memoirs of its last two survivors (Burns & Oates;, 1889), by T. E. Bridgett and Thomas Francis Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historical works of Gervase of Canterbury (Longman & co. ;, 1879), by of Canterbury Gervase and William Stubbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tears, sighs, complaints, and prayers of the Church of England. (Royston, 1659), by John Gauden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historical works of Gervase of Canterbury (Longman & Co., 1879), by of Canterbury Gervase and William Stubbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Henry the Eighth's scheme of bishopricks : with illustrations of his assumption of church property, its amount and appropriation, and some notices of the state of popular education at the period of the Reformation : now first published from the originals in the Augmentation office, Treasury of the Exchequer, British museum, etc. (C. Knight and co., 1838), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII) and Henry Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of King Henry the First. The acts of Stephen, King of England, and Duke of Normandy. Giraldus Cambrensis concerning the instruction of princes. Richard of Devises. The history of the archbishops of Canterbury, by Gervase, monk of Canterbury. Robert of Gloucester's chronicle. The chronicle of the Isle of Man. (Seeleys, 1858), by Joseph Stevenson, King of England Stephen, of Gloucester Robert, of Canterbury Gervase, of Devizes Richard, Giraldus Cambrensis, and Robert de Torigni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Church and its bishops, 1700-1800 (AMS Press, 1971), by Charles J. Abbey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections suggested by the present movement in England against Romanism : a letter to a friend (James Nisbet and Co., 1851), by Benjamin Wills Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historians of the church of York and its archbishops (Longman, 1879), by James Raine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of the archbishops of Canterbury (Mowbray, 1908), by Gladys Mary Bevan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Densell Hollis, Esquire, his worthy and learned speech in Parliament on Thursday the thirtieth of December 1641 : upon the reading of the petition and protestation of the twelve bishoppes, for which they were accused of high treason, and committed to the Tower : wherein is discovered the danger of protestation, that it is both against the King and his royall prerogatives, the priviledges of Parliaments, the liberties of the subject, and the subvertion of the fundamentall lawes of this kingdome. (Printed for Iohn Thomas, and Thomas Bankes, 1641), by Denzil Holles Holles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A speech made to the Hovse of Commons concerning episcopacy (T. Walkely, 1641), by Lucius Cary Falkland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Church of Great Britain, from the birth of Our Saviour, untill the year of Our Lord, 1667 : with an exact succession of the bishops and the memorable acts of many of them : together with an addition of all the English cardinals and the several orders of English monks, friars, and nuns in former ages. (London : Printed for Philip Chetwin, 1674., 1674), by William Geaves, William Gearing, George Geeves, and Puritan Collection of English and American Literature (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury (R. Bentley, 1865), by Walter Farquhar Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Felo de se, or, The bishops condemned out of their own mouthes confessing their politick devices, and unjust practices, to settle and maintain their lordly dignities, and private interests, to the impoverishing and ruine of the nations wherein such idle and unprofitable drones are suffered to domineer : in a familiar discourse between the said bishops and their tenants, begun in 1660, the year of their unhappy resurrection, and continued to this present year 1668 : published for information of the people, who groan to be delivered from that yoke of bondage, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear / by a mourner for the poor nations ... ([S.l. : s.n.], 1668), by Thomas Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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 / by John Gauden ... (London : Printed by J.G. for R. Royston ..., 1659), by John Gauden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Catalogue of the bishops of England (London : Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in Pauls Church-yard, [1625?]), by Francis Godwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight. (London : Printed for Jos. Kirton ..., 1653), by John Harington and John Chetwynd (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Densell Hollis Esquire, his worthy and learned speech in Parliament on Thnrfeday [sic] the thirtieth of December 1641 vpon the reading of the petition and protestation of the twelve bishoppes, for which they were accused of high treason, and committed to the Tower : wherein is discovered the danger of this protestation, that it is both against the King and his royall prerogatives, the priviledges of Parliaments, the liberties of the subject, and the subvertion of the fundamental lawes of this kingdome. (London : Printed for Iohn Thomas and Thomas Bankes, 1641), by Denzil Holles Holles (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anglia sacra, sive, Collectio historiarum partim antiquitus, partim recenter scriptarum, de archiepiscopis & episcopis Angliæ, a prima fidei Christianæ susceptione ad annum MDXL (Londini : Impensis Richardi Chiswel ..., 1691), by Henry Wharton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An account of the proceedings at West Minster-Hall on the 29th and 30th of June, 1688 relating to the tryal and discharge of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of S. Asaph, Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Ely, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop of Peterborough, and the Bishop of Bristol. (Edinburgh : [s.n.], 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The consecration and succession, of Protestant bishops justified, the Bishop of Duresme vindicated, and that infamous fable of the ordination at the Nagges head clearly confuted by John Bramhall ... (Gravenhagh : By John Ramzey, 1658), by John Bramhall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one, equall and the same ... with a briefe answer to the objections out of antiquity, that seeme to the contrary. ([London : s.n.], 1641), by William Prynne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• These spirituall verses of Iames Hunt, concerning the down-fall of the ceremonies.: VVhereby the bishops and their clergie have made, as it were, a trade to blinde and deceive the children of God, whom Christ Jesus hath redeemed from the bondage of Hell and corruption, by his suffering upon the crosse, and the power of his resurrection. (London : Printed for Andrew Coe, 1642), by James Hunt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Observations upon the ordinance of the Lords and Commons at Westminster after advice had with their Assembly of Divines for the ordination of ministers pro tempore, according to their directory for ordination and rule for examination therein expressed. (Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield ..., 1645), by Edward Boughen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A treatise of the vocation of bishops, and other ecclesiasticall ministers proving the ministers of the pretended reformed churches in generall, to have no calling against Monsieur Du Plessis, and Mr. Doctour Feild : and in particular the pretended bishops in England, to be no true bishops against Mr. Mason / by Anth. Champ. ... (At Douay : By Iohn Heigham ..., 1616), by Anthony Champney (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The History of the Church of Great Britain from the birth of our Saviour untill the year of our Lord, 1667 with an exact succession of the bishops and the memorable acts of many of them : together with an addition of all the English cardinals, and the several orders of English monks, friars and nuns in former ages. (London : Printed for Philip Chetwin ..., 1674), by William Geaves, George Geaves, William Gearing, and G. G. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords and Peers assembled in Parliament the humble petition and protestation of all the bishops and prelates now called by His Majesties writs to attend the Parliament, and present about London and Westminster for that service. (London : Reprinted by Philemon Stephens junior, 1661), by Church of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A short and plain way to the faith and church composed many years since by Richard Hudleston ; and now published ... by Jo. Hudleston : to which is annexed His late Majesty King Charles the Second his papers found in his closet after his decease : as also a brief account of what occurred on his death-bed in regard to religion. (Dublin : Re-printed for William Weston, 1688), by Richard Hudleston, John Hudleston, and King Charles II of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)
• The life of Dr. George Bull, Lord Bishop of St. David's : with the history of those controversies in which he was engaged and an abstract of those fundamental doctrines which he maintained and defended in the Latin tongue (Printed by W. Baxter for J. Parker, and Law and Whittaker, and Ogles, Duncan, and Cochran, 1816), by Robert Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of the learned and Right Reverend Pecock, S.T.P. ... : faithfully collected from records and MSS. : being a sequel of The life of Dr. John Wiclif ... (Clarendon Press, 1820), by John Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugh Latimer (Methuen, 1899), by R. M. Carlyle and A. J. Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The correspondence of John Cosin, D.D., lord bishop of Durham. together with other papers illustrative of his life and times. (Pub. for the Society by Andrews & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1869), by John Cosin and George Ornsby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury (Macmillan, 1899), by Arthur Christopher Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Ken, D.D. : deprived bishop of Bath and Wells : viewed in connection with public events, and the spirit of the times, political and religious, in which he lived : including some account of the fortunes of Morley, Bishop of Winchester, his first patron and the friend of Izaak Walton ... / by W.L. Bowles. (J. Murray, 1830), by William Lisle Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of the right reverend father in God, Thomas Wilson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. (John Henry Parker, 1847), by Thomas Wilson and John Keble (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of William Boyd Carpenter; bishop of Ripon, chaplain to Queen Victoria and clerk of the closet to Edward VII and George V. (J. Murray, 1925), by H. D. A. Major (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some pages of my life (Williams & Norgate, 1911), by William Boyd Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury : reprinted with some additions and corrections from the Biographia Britannica : with his character (printed for and sold by J. Russel, 1777), by William Oldys and Arthur Onslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London : Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1784., 1784), by William Gilpin and George Puchinger Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five essays (G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay and R. H. Gretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francis Paget : Bishop of Oxford, chancellor of the Order of the Garter, honorary student and sometime dean of Christ Church (Macmillan, 1981), by Stephen Paget and John Macleod Campbell Crum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strype's lives : the life and acts of John Whitgift, the third and last lord archibishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The whole digested, compiled, and attested from records, registers, original letters and other authentic MSS. taken from the choicest libraries and collections of the kingdom. Together with a large appendix of the said papers. (Clarendon Press, 1822), by John Strype (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of three bishops : James Fraser, Robert Bickersteth, James Hannington ("Home Words" Publishing Office, 1889), by Charles Bullock (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Laud (Methuen, 1896), by William Holden Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further pages of my life (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), by William Boyd Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a saintly bishop's life: Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1555-1626. (Longmans, Green, 1898), by Mary Susan Felice Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life-work of Edward White Benson, D.D., sometime Archbishop of Canterbury (Elliot Stock, 1898), by James Anderson Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of William of Wykeham. (Burns and Oates, 1890), by Augusta Theodosia Drane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Saint Cuthbert : written anonymously about the year A.D. 700 (Printed for private circulation, 1888), by William Forbes-Leith, Monk of Lindisfarne, and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of John Armstrong, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Grahamstown. (Oxford : John Henry and James Parker, 1859., 1859), by Thomas Thellusson Carter and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this island together with a briefe history of their liues and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity. By F.G. subdeane of Exceter. (Londini : [Printed by Eliot's Court Press] Impensis Geor. Bishop, 1601), by Francis Godwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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