Later that year, he was appointed to thebishopric of Lindesmeere.
1605, M. N. [pseudonym;William Camden], “Grave Speeches, and Wittie Apothegms of Woorthie Personages of This Realme in Former Times”, inRemaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine,[…], London:[…]G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson,→OCLC,page220:
Iohn Fiſher Biſhop ofRocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that pooreBiſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying:He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.
2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, inRAIL, number986, page59:
Wiltshire actually comes from Wiltonshire, for Wilton was once a county town, royal residence andbishopric - a place of significance.
