=Thomas Dove= (1600-1630) was Dean of Norwich.  He was[36] “a lover of hospitality, keeping a very free house, and having always a numerous family, yet was so careful of posterity that he left a fair estate to his heirs.”  He was buried in the north transept.  “Over his body was erected a very comely monument of long quadrangular form, having four corner pilasters supporting a fair table of black marble, and, within, the pourtraiture of the bishop lying in his Episcopal habit.”  This was destroyed in 1643.  There was a long Latin inscription in prose and verse, and among the verses these occur:—­

    “Hoc addam:  Hie illa est senio argentata Columba
     Davidis, coelos hinc petit ille suos.”

This monument was erected by the bishop’s eldest son, Sir William Dove, Kt., of Upton.

=William Peirse= (1630-1632) was promoted from the Deanery.  He only remained here as bishop two years, when he was translated to Bath and Wells.  “A man of excellent parts, both in divinity and knowledge of the laws:  very vigilant and active he was for the good both of the ecclesiastical and civil state.”  He was silenced during the civil war, but restored in 1660.  On his tombstone, at Walthamstow, it is said “Templum Cathedrale Wellense reparavit, Episcopale Palatium exaedificavit, coelis maturus terris valedixit an. aet. 94 salut. 1670.”

=Augustine Lindsell= (1632-1634) was Dean of Lichfield.  He was translated to Hereford after being bishop here two years, but died within a few months.

=Francis Dee= (1634-1638) was Dean of Chichester.  “He was a man of very pious life and affable behaviour.”  He founded scholarships and fellowships at S. John’s College, Cambridge, of which he had been Fellow, for boys from the King’s School, Peterborough, of his name or kindred.  In 1637 Archbishop Laud reported to the King that “My Lord of Peterborough hath taken a great deal of pains and brought his diocese into very good order.”  He left by will L100 to the repairs of the Cathedral, and the same amount to the repairs of S. Paul’s.  He was buried in the choir, near the throne.

=John Towers= (1638-1649) was one of the King’s chaplains.  He was promoted from the Deanery.  He protested, with eleven other bishops, against the opposition that was made by the Parliamentary party to their taking their seats in the House of Lords, in which protest it was declared that all laws, orders, votes, or resolutions, were in themselves null and of none effect, which in their absence from Dec. 27th 1641, had been passed, or should afterwards be passed, during the time of their enforced absence.  For this they were committed to the Tower, and kept there four or five months.  Being set free he was allowed to return to Peterborough, but his revenues were taken away.  Living here in a state of continual alarm, he betook himself to the king’s forces at Oxford, where he remained until the surrender of the place.  Coming back here in 1646 his health failed, and he died about three weeks before the king was beheaded.  He was buried in the choir.