ABSTRACT
The earliest appointments to the bench followed hard on the heels of the dissolution of parliament. Even before Bonner’s symbolic removal on 30 May Jewel was able to inform Peter Martyr that Parker had been ‘marked out’ for Canterbury, Cox for Norwich, Barlow for Chichester, Scory for Hereford and Grindal for London, ‘for Bonner is ordered to vacate his see’.1 On 29 May Edmund Allen relayed almost the same information to John Abell in Strasbourg. Although he did not mention Grindal,2 he opined that Bill or Whitehead were to be named for Salisbury: ‘there is none as yet certainly appointed, but I think . . . things shall be speedily set forth’.3
