Ely Cathedral
Sadly fuzzy photo of the tomb of Peter Gunning (1614 – 1684), a Royalist theologian, Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Ely. According to Samuel Pepys, Gunning continued to read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when Parliament was in the ascendant, for which Cromwell rebuked him. On Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded by soldiers and the congregation taken prisoner, Gunning and his wife being among them. He seems to have been fairly diplomatic, however, and on the Restoration he was made master of St John’s College following the ejection of Dr Tuckney, whom he allowed a handsome annuity during his life. Again, it seems an unusually laid back pose for a bishop…
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