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Wuzzeerabad.
[These lines are by Dryden, and are frequently prefixed to Paradise Lost. They are little more than a translation of a distich by Salvaggi:—
"Græcia Mæonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem:
Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem.">[
Thomas Stanley, Bishop of Man.—I feel much obliged by your prompt answer to the Query about this prelate (Vol. vi., p. 130.); but some additional information appears necessary. If Bishop Stanley was appointed to this see in 1542, who was the possessor of it subsequently to the death of Bishop Huan Hesketh, or Blackleach, in 1510, a period of thirty-two years? Bishop Stanley's consecration does not appear in Cranmer's Register, which throws some doubt on the year 1542 as having been that of his appointment to the episcopate.
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[Huan Hesketh, or Blackleach, was consecrated in 1487, and died in 1510. The see was vacant twenty years. The next bishop was William Stanley, who was consecrated March 4, 1530.]