JOHN, bishop of London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was born in the year 1521 at Aylmerhall, in the parish of Tinney, in the county of Norfolk. Whilst a boy, he was distinguished for his quick parts by the Marquis of Dorset, afterwards Duke of Suffolk, who sent him to Cambridge, and made him his chaplain, and tutor to his children. One of these children was the accomplished and unfortunate Lady Jane Grey, whose extraordinary proficiency in the Greek and Latin languages reflects no small honour on her preceptor Aylmer. His first preferment was to the archdeaconry of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln; which gave him a seat in the convocation held in the first year of Queen Mary, where he resolutely opposed the return to popery, to which the generality of the clergy were inclined. He was soon after obliged to fly his country and take shelter among the Protestants in Switzerland. While here he wrote a reply to Knox's famous Blast against the monstrous Regiment of Women, under the title of An Harborece for Faithfull and Trewe Subjectes, &c. On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England. In 1562 he obtained the archdeaconry of Lincoln, and was a member of the famous synod of that year, which reformed AYRSHAM, a market-town of England, county of Norfolk, hundred of South Erpingham, 118 miles N.N.E. of London. It stands on the River Bare, which is here navigable for boats of 13 tons. It was formerly celebrated for its linen manufacture, and more recently for its hosiery; but both these have declined, and the inhabitants are now chiefly engaged in agriculture. Pop. in 1851, 2184.