Wherefore to omit all such things, I saie of this bishop, that he was a man singularlie learned (& as Caius tearmeth him Litera [...]issimus) in the Hebrue, Gréeke, and Latine toongs; and did not onelie erect sumptuous buildings for the mind and inward man (in furnishing when he was bishop of London a li|brarie EEBO page image 1186 in Cambridge, with manie notable both writ|ten and printed bookes: compiling also manie other bookes, aswell of diuinitie as of other sciences, wher|of at this daie his arithm [...]tike is of great estimati|on through Europe) but did also for the flesh & out|ward man build from the ground a most beautifull porch or gatehouse (with a chapell annexed therevn|to) of faire stone in the castell of Durham,Buildings founded by Tunstall, &c. withall adding vnto the said castell certeine gates with iron bars and portcullices supported with strong walles of stone on each part for the more strength against the enimie: not forgetting to make a water-con|duit for the ease of washing (and to serue the other of|fices in the house) on the left side of the entrance in|to the said castell. To which these sumptuous déeds (for they are verie heroicall) may be added the gate|house built at Alnewike, and the tolboth in the mar|ket of Durham all of stone, with the rest of the hou|ses of office next vnto the hinder part of the said tolboth, which afterward (with other great liberali|ties) he gaue to the citizens of Durham.

Lastlie (at his owne charge) he new repared with stoneworke the third part of Tinbridge, which his predecessour Thomas Langleie recouered against the manor of Newcastell: and which, others his pre|decessors (as occasion was offered therefore) did from time to time most statelie repare. In the end about the latter reigne of Edward the sixt (being by Kinian or Ninian, Menuile or Menille, accu|sed,Tunstall de|priued from his bishop|rike. for that he somewhat fauoured the Romane reli|gion, and was not so forward in furthering of the gospell as that time required) he was for that cause depriued from his bishoprike, from all other eccle|siasticall gouernment, and committed to the tower: where he remained all the time of K. Edward. After|ward (by the benefit of quéene Marie) in the first yeare of hir reigne, he was reinuested into his sée of Durham, which he possessed all the time of hir gouernement:Tunstall re|stored. during which he was not so seuere an executor of the Romane canons against the pro|testants, as the other bishops of England were.

But she not continuing long (such are the incon|stancies of our estates & vncerteinties of our trou|bles) he was againe (by the noble quéene Elisabeth) depriued of his bishoprike, after disputation and con|ference had at Westminster: in which he defended the Roman religion, in the first yeare of the said E|lisabeth, about the truth of Christs gospell: and was committed to Matthew Parker bishop of Cantur|burie, who vsed him verie honourablie, both for the grauitie, learning and age of the said Tunstall. But he not long remaining vnder the ward of the said bi|shop, did shortlie after the eightéenth of Nouember in the yeare 1559 depart this life at Lambeth, where he first receiued his consecration,Tunstall death. being a man of such age, as that he atteined to the number of foure|score & fiue years when he died. He was buried in the queere of the church of Lambeth, whose funerall ser|mon was doone by Alexander Nowell, then (& now in the yeare 1586) deane of Poules. Who taking this theame to intreat vpon, Blessed are they which die in the Lord, did there deliuer such liberall & singular commendation of this man for his vertuous life, ler|ning, grauitie, and good seruice doone to manie prin|ces of England, that more could not be said of anie man, being spoken trulie. Such force hath vertue, that we ought to commend it euen in our enimies, ouer whose dead carcase in the said church of Lam|beth is laid a faire marble, [...] Par. in act. [...]. Cant. ca. [...]. Warham. in which is ingrauen this epitaph of his, deuised by doctor Walter Haddon

Anglia Cutbertum Tunstallum [...]oesta requirit,

Cuius summa domi laus erat [...]t foris:

Rhetor, arithmeticus, iuris consultus & aequi,

Legatús, fuit, deni praesul erat.

Annorum satur, & magnorum plenus honorum,

Vertitur in cineres aureus iste senex.