(John), bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, was born in 1592. In 1623, he was made chaplain to James I. and prebendary of Lincoln; and soon after obtained the rectory of St Andrew's Holborn, with that of Cheam in Surry; his patron telling him, he intended Holborn for wealth, and Cheam for health. In 1642 he was presented to a prebendary and residentiary; but was deprived of the enjoyment of them, as well as of St Andrew's, by the ensuing troubles. He then lived retired at Cheam with little disturbance, until he recovered his preferments by the restoration of Charles II. by whom he was preferred to the see of Litchfield and Coventry in 1661. Finding the beautiful cathedral of Litchfield almost battered to the ground, Hackney. ground, he in eight years finished a complete church superior to the former, at his own expense of 20,000l., excepting 1000l. he had from the dean and chapter, with what he could procure from private benefactors. He laid out 1000l. on a prebendal house, his palaces at Litchfield and Eccleston having been demolished during the civil wars; and beside these acts of munificence, left several other benefactions at his death in 1670. He published, before he entered into orders, a comedy intitled Loyola, which was twice acted before king James I. After his death there appeared a "Century of his sermons on several remarkable subjects," in folio; and "The life of archbishop Williams," in folio, which was abridged in 1700 by Ambrose Philips.