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.

This man was (as it should appeare in stories) full of contumarie and selfe will, vntractable he was and of nature rebellious. Iohn Fox. For saith maister Fox in the reigne of king Edward, being cast into the tower for his disobedience, where he kept his Christmasse thrée yeares togither, more worthie of some other place without the tower, if it had pleased God other|wise not to haue meant a further plague to this realme by that man. Howbeit he was indued with such excellencie of lerning, and that of sundrie sutes, that of the learned he is noted for a mirror of that age wherein he liued: and albeit a papist, yet not de|priuable of the praise which it pleased God to prouide for him (being an enimie vnto the truth, perhaps through feare as manie more) by those rare and ma|nifold good means wherewith he was adorned. Inso|much that Leland, a man of a cleare iudgement and great insight to discerne betwéene substantiallie and superficiallie learned, comparing this bishop Tunstall with profound Budeus, saith as foloweth:

Qua te nostra canet Tunstalle Britannia laude?Collatio Bude [...] & Cutberti Tunstalli.

An qua Budaeum Gallia docta suum?

Candidus ille studet Graecam celebrare Mineruam,

Graecorum celebras tu monumenta patrum.

Ille colit veteres intento pectore leges,

Sunt studij leges cura diserta tui.

Ille rudes assis docuit cognoscere partes,

Tu numeros primus verba Latina loqui.

Gallia causidicum tecum dignare Britannum

Conferri, niueis dignus vtér notis.]