ABSTRACT
Four bishops predeceased Elizabeth I in the last three years of the reign. The deaths of the long-serving trio of Howland of Peterborough (June 1600), Hughes of St Asaph (November 1600) and Westfaling of Hereford (March 1602) were followed by that of the 62-year-old Redman of Norwich (September 1602), a member of the bench for less than eight years. After the continuous whirligig of the mid-1590s it is perhaps not surprising that St Asaph alone was filled by translation rather than consecration.
