_John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely._--In the Diary of Dr. Edward Lake,
published in the _Camden Miscellany_, vol. i. p. 16., occur the
following paragraphs:--
"Dec. 23. 1677. I administered the sacrament to the Lord John
Barclay, being not well."
To the word Barclay, the editor, George Percy Elliott, Esq., has
subjoined the following note:--
"Probably Lord John Berkeley; he was afterwards Bishop of
Rochester, and subsequently of Ely, and was deprived for not
taking the oath of allegiance to William and Mary."
Can any reader of "N. & Q." suggest any authority for the statement in
the editor's note? Francis Turner was Bishop of Ely from 1684 to 1691,
when he was deprived for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to
William and Mary. Turner was succeeded by Simon Patrick, translated from
Chichester. As to the Rochester see, that was filled by Thomas Sprat
from 1684 to 1713. His biography reminds one more of the Vicar of Bray
than the sturdy Nonjuror.