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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 410 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUNSTALL (or TONSTALL), See also:CUTHBERT (1474-1559)  , See also:English See also:prelate, was an illegitimate son of See also:Thomas See also:Tunstall of Thurland See also:Castle, See also:Lancashire, his legitimate See also:half-See also:brother, See also:Brian Tunstall, being killed at See also:Flodden in 1513 . See also:Cuthbert seems to have studied at See also:Oxford, at See also:Cambridge and at See also:Padua, and he became a distinguished See also:scholar, winning favourable comment from See also:Erasmus . Having held several livings in See also:quick See also:succession, he became See also:chancellor to See also:William See also:Warham, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, in 1511, and he was soon employed on See also:diplomatic business by See also:Henry VIII. and See also:Wolsey, being sent to See also:Brussels in 1515 and to See also:Cologne in 1519, while he was at See also:Worms during the famous See also:Diet o( 1521 . In 1516 he had been made See also:master of the rolls; in 1521 he became See also:dean of See also:Salisbury, in 1522 See also:bishop of See also:London, and in 1523 keeper of the privy See also:seal . For Henry VIII. he negotiated with See also:Charles V. after his victory at See also:Pavia in 1525 and he helped to arrange the See also:Peace of See also:Cambrai in 1529 . In 1530 he succeeded Wolsey as bishop of See also:Durham . Tunstall's religious views now gave some anxiety . He adhered firmly to the traditional teaching of the See also:Church, but after some slight hesitation he accepted Henry as its See also:head and publicly defended this position . In 1537 the bishop was appointed See also:president of the new See also:council of the See also:north, but although he was often engaged in treating with the Scots he found See also:time to take See also:part in other public business and to attend See also:parliament, where in 1539 he participated in the discussion on the See also:bill of six articles . Although he disliked the religious policy pursued by the advisers of See also:Edward VI. and voted against the first See also:act of uniformity in 1549, he continued to See also:discharge his public duties without molestation until after the fall of the See also:protector See also:Somerset; then in May 1551, he was placed in custody . A bill charging him with See also:treason was introduced, but the See also:House of See also:Commons refused to pass it; he was, however, deprived of his bishopric in See also:October 1552 . On the See also:accession of See also:Mary in 1553 he was released and was again bishop of Durham, but during this reign he showed no animus against the Protestants .

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Elizabeth came to the See also:throne he refused to take the See also:oath of supremacy, and he would not help to consecrate See also:Matthew See also:Parker as archbishop of Canterbury . He was arrested, and was still a prisoner at See also:Lambeth when he died on the 18th of See also:November 1559 . Among Tunstall's writings are De veritate corporis et sanguinis domini nostri .Iesu Christi in eucharistic (1554); and De erte supputandi libri quattuor (1522) . The bishop's See also:correspondence as president of the council of the north is in the See also:British Museum .

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