The Cathedral Church of York Part 12

#Thomas Lamplugh# (1688-1691). The see of York remained vacant until the landing of William III. Lamplugh, then Bishop of Exeter, posted to London to carry the news of the invasion to the king and to a.s.sure him of his loyalty. James thereupon appointed him Archbishop of York. He quickly, however, gave allegiance to William, and was confirmed in his see. He a.s.sisted at William's coronation. His monument is in the choir.

#John Sharp# (1691-1714) had been Dean of Norwich and Canterbury. He wrote an account of the lives and acts of his predecessors, from Paulinus to Lamplugh. He was Anne's chief ecclesiastical adviser, a position he never abused. He died at Bath.

#Sir William Dawes# (1713-1724). He had been chaplain in ordinary to William III., Prebendary of Worcester, and in 1707 Bishop of Chester. He is said to have lost the bishopric of Lincoln by a bold sermon which offended Anne.

#Lancelot Blackburne# (1724-1743) was the subject of many slanderous stories, among others, that in his youth he had been chaplain on a pirate s.h.i.+p. He was certainly in the West Indies in his youth. He became Sub-dean of Exeter, and was forced to resign that office in 1702. In 1704 he was reinstated. He became Dean of Exeter in 1705, and Bishop in 1717. He is said to have been raised to the see of York for having married George I. to the d.u.c.h.ess of Munster. His manners were certainly free. Horace Walpole speaks of him as "the jolly old Archbishop of York, who had all the manners of a man of quality, though he had been a buccaneer, and was a clergyman. But he retained nothing of his first profession except his seraglio." He died in London, and was buried in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.

#Thomas Herring# (1743-1747) was chaplain to the king. In 1732 he became Dean of Rochester, and in 1737 Bishop of Bangor. He was an ardent Whig, and when the '45 rebellion broke out raised 40,000 in defence of the Government, besides stirring up the people. For these good services he was translated to Canterbury. He died of dropsy in 1757.

#Matthew Hutton# (1747-1757) was also translated from Bangor; and from York to Canterbury. He died in 1758.

#John Gilbert# (1757-1761) became Dean of Exeter 1726, Bishop of Landaff 1740, and of Salisbury 1749.

#Robert Hay Drummond# (1761-1776) was the second son of Viscount Dapplin, afterwards Earl of Kinnoull. He was chaplain to George II., Bishop of St. Asaph in 1748, and of Salisbury in 1761.

#William Markham# (1777-1807) had been headmaster of Westminster School, Beatham. He became Dean of Rochester 1765, Dean of Christ Church 1767, and Bishop of Chester 1771. In the same year he became tutor to the Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

#Edward Vernon Harcourt# (1808-1847) was the youngest son of Lord Vernon. He became Bishop of Carlisle in 1791. He was a member of the Queen's Council during George III.'s incapacity, and one of the first members of the Ecclesiastical Commission (1835). During his primacy there were two fires in the minster, and he gave largely to the restoration fund. In 1838 he declined the renewal of the Harcourt peerage. He died at Bishopthorpe.

#Thomas Musgrave# (1847-1860) was the son of a Cambridge tailor. He was a Whig by politics, and in 1837 was appointed Dean of Bristol. In a few months he was preferred to the bishopric of Hereford. He is buried in Kensal Green cemetery.

#Charles Thomas Longley# (1860-1862), became headmaster of Harrow School in 1829, first Bishop of Ripon in 1836, and Bishop of Durham in 1856. He was translated from York to Canterbury in 1862. He supported the Liberal party in Parliament. He died in 1868 at Aldington.

1863-1891--#William Thomson# (translated from Gloucester).

1891--#William Connor Magee# (translated from Peterboro').

1891--#William Dalrymple Maclagan# (translated from Lichfield).

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plan Of York Minster.

DIMENSIONS.

Feet.

Length (Interior) 486 " Nave (to Choir Screen) 262 " Choir 224 " Transepts (north and south) 223 Breadth, Nave and Aisles 104 " Choir and Aisles 99 " Transept and Aisles 93 Height, Nave (interior) 99 " Choir( " ) 102 " Central Tower 198 " Western Towers 196 Area 63,800 sq. ft.

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