Editing Cuthbert Tunstall (section)

==Bishop of Durham under Mary I and Elizabeth I==
On the accession of the Catholic Queen [[Mary I of England|Mary I]] to the throne in 1553, Tunstall was granted liberty. His bishopric, which had been dissolved by Act of Parliament in March 1553, was re-established by a further Act in April 1554. Tunstall assumed his office as Bishop of Durham once more. He maintained his earlier conciliatory approach, indulging in no systematic persecution of [[Protestants]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Through Mary's reign he ruled his diocese in peace.<!-- any proof of this? -->

When the Protestant [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] ascended to the throne, Tunstall refused to take the [[Oath of Supremacy]] and would not participate in the consecration of the [[Church of England|Anglican]] [[Matthew Parker]] as [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. He was arrested, deprived again of his [[episcopal see|diocese]] in September 1559, and held prisoner at [[Lambeth Palace]],{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} where he died within a few weeks, aged 85. He was one of eleven Roman Catholic bishops to die in custody during Elizabeth's reign.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Phillips |first1=G. E. |title=The Extinction of the Ancient Hierarchy |date=1905 |publisher=Sands |location=London |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olwLAAAAYAAJ |access-date=2 Dec 2022}}</ref>

He was buried in the parish church of [[Garden Museum|St Mary-at-Lambeth]], now a deconsecrated building.<ref>[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref>

The Anglican historian [[Albert Pollard|Albert F. Pollard]] wrote:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pollard |first1=A. E.|title=Dictionary of National Biography |date=1899 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |page=58:314 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xicJAAAAIAAJ&dq=Tunstall%27s+long+career+of+eighty-five+years,+for+thirty-seven+of+which+he+was+a+bishop,+is+one+of+the+most+consistent+and+honourable+in+the+sixteenth+century.&pg=RA1-PA314 |access-date=2 Dec 2022}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|Tunstall's long career of eighty-five years, for thirty-seven of which he was a bishop, is one of the most consistent and honourable in the sixteenth century. The extent of the religious revolution under Edward VI caused him to reverse his views on the royal supremacy and he refused to change them again under Elizabeth.}}