[Leland appears to refer to blacksmiths' forges, which decayed for
lack of wood.]
_Bishop Hesketh_ (Vol. vii., p 209.).--There is evidently an error in
your note respecting the death of Bishop Hesketh, but it is one common
to all the lists of Manx bishops to which I have access. You state that
he died in 1510: it is certain that he was living in 1520.
He was a son of Robert Hesketh, of Rufford, co. Lanc., and his brother
Richard Hesketh, "learned in the lawe," and who is stated by Kimber to
have been Attorney-General to King Hen. VIII., {410} by his will, dated
15th August, 1520, appointed his "trusty brethren Hugh, bishopp of
Manne, and Thomas Hesketh, esquier," executors, and proceeded:
"I wyll that the said Bishopp shall haue a goblett of syluer w't a
couir, and my said brothir Thomas to haue a pouncid bool of syluer,
a counterpoynt, and a cordyn gemnete bedde w't the hangings, a
paire of fustyan blanketts, and a paire of shetys, and a fether
bedde that lyeth uppon the same bedde, for their labours."
So that the vacancy, if there really was any, between his death and the
consecration of Bishop Stanley, is much less than is generally supposed.