ALDRICH, ROBERT, bishop of Carlisle, was born at Burnham in Buckinghamshire about the year 1493, and educated at Eaton school; from whence, in 1507, he was elected scholar of King's college, Cambridge, where he took his degree in arts, and was afterwards proctor of the university. In 1525, he was appointed master of Eaton school, then became fellow of that college, and finally provost. In 1529, he went to Oxford, where, being first incorporated bachelor of divinity, in the following year he proceeded doctor in that faculty: in 1531, he was made archdeacon of Colchester; in 1534, canon of Windsor; and the same year, registry of the order of the Garter. He was consecrated bishop of Carlisle in the year 1537, and died at Horncastle in Lincolnshire in 1556. He wrote, 1. Epistola ad Gul. Hormanum, in Latin verse; printed in Horman's Antibossican, Lond. 1521, of which book Pitts erroneously makes Aldrich the author. 2. Epigrammata varia. 3. Latin verses, and another epistle to Horman, prefixed to the Vulgaria puerorum of that author, Lond. 1519, 4to. 4. Answers to certain que-
ries concerning the abuses of the mass; also about receiving the sacrament.