Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
Cuthbert Ttinstall, last Catholic Bishop of Durham, exercised an episcopate of close on thirty years, at a period most momentous in the history of the Church in England. Appointed in 1529 and reckoning his pontifical years from 25 March, 1530, he died, in house confinement at Lambeth Palace, 15 November, 1559, three months after his final deprivation.
* Further investigation may discover how long these Scottish priests had been in the diocese, and how far Bp. Tunstall was responsible for them. Not being beneficed, they do not appear in his Register. Cf. Pilkington to the Privy Council. 1564 (Camden Miscellany. vol. ix).