Scory

Scory, JOHN, Bishop of Hereford, was born at Acle in Norfolk, and about 1530 was a friar in a Dominican house at Cambridge. After its dissolution in 1538 he got preferment from his patron, Archbishop Cranmer, to whom he was chaplain until in 1551 he became Bishop of Rochester. He was translated next year to Chichester as successor to the deprived Dr Day, but on Mary's accession he was himself deprived, and, appearing before Bonner, renounced his wife, did penance, and had formal absolution (1554). Still he cannot have felt safe, for he fled abroad, first to Emden, and then to Geneva; and from the Continent addressed an 'Epistle to the faythfull in pryson in England,' exhorting them to continue in patience and hope. Mary dead, he came back to England (1559), and the same year was made Bishop of Hereford, and helped to consecrate Archbishop Parker. We find him in 1579 petitioning Burgheley for removal from Hereford ('my present purgatorie') to Norwich, but death only removed him, on 26th June 1585, at his palace of Whitbourne. See vol. i. of Cooper's Athene Cantabrigienses (1858).