(Paul), the first bishop of Bristol, became a student in the university of Oxford about the year 1513, and in 1518 took the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterwards became a brother of the order called bonhommes; of which, after studying some time among the friars of St Austin (now Wadham college), he was elected provincial. In that station he lived many years; till at length king Henry VIII. being informed of his great knowledge in divinity and physic, made him his chaplain, and in 1542 appointed him to the new episco- pal see of Bristol: but having in the reign of Ed- ward VI. taken a wife, he was, on the accession of Mary, deprived of his dignity, and spent the remainder of his life in a private station at Bristol, where he died in the year 1558, aged 68, and was buried on the north side of the choir of the cathedral. Wood says, that while he was a student at Oxford, he was num- bered among the celebrated poets of that university; and Pits gives him the character of a faithful catholic, his want of chastity notwithstanding. He wrote, 1. An exhortation to Margaret Burges, wife to John Burges, clothier, of King's-wood, in the county of Wilts, Lond. printed in the reign of Edward VI. 8vo. 2. Notes on the Psalms. 3. Treatise in praise of the cross. 4. Answer to certain queries concerning the abuses of the mass. Records, No. 25. 5. Dia- logues between Christ and the Virgin Mary. 6. Treat- ise of salves and curing remedies. 7. A little treatise in English, called The extirpation of ignorance, &c., in verle, Lond. by Pinson, 4to. 8. Carmina diversa.

a term used for several shrubs of the same kind growing close together: thus we say, a furze- bush, bramble-bush, &c.

Bush is sometimes used, in a more general sense, for any assemblage of thick branches interwoven and mixed together.