Note 131 — NOTES ON PARISHES ROUND HORNCASTLE. (continued 3)

Of Thomas Goodrick, Bishop of Ely, we may observe that he was rather a “timeserver,” though one of the supporters of Lady Jane Grey, and acting on her Council during her nine days’ reign. On the accession of Queen Mary, he did homage to her, and was allowed to retain his bishopric. The historian says of him, that “he was a busy secular-spirited man, given up to factions and intrigues of state, preferring to keep his bishopric before the discharge of his conscience.”