The architects of the Restoration Church Settlement were, it is alleged, those divines whose loyalty and High Church opinions had driven them into long and bitter exile with their sovereign. Considerable attention has been focused upon these men by recent research. A number of the younger divines, however, did not go into exile, but laboured diligently in the cause of king and Church throughout the period of the Commonwealth. Their influence upon the eventual settlement of ecclesiastical affairs, if settlement it may be called, was considerable and merits further attention from historians. Among those who remained in this country throughout this period was Peter Gunning, whose consistent loyalty to the crown and devotion to the Church of England was rewarded after the king’s restoration by his appointment successively to the sees of Chichester and of Ely.