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SAMUEL RUTTER, BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN. HE was probably a native of Lancashire, and was educated at Westminster school, and elected thence, in the year 1623, to Christ Church, Oxford; nominated Archdeacon of Man in 1640 ; appointed Prebendary of Longden, in the cathedral of Lichfield, being M.A., 24th November 1660; and confirmed Bishop of Sodor and Man 5th October 1661; he was consecrated March 24, 1660-1, the last day of the Restoration year. He was domestic chaplain to the seventh Earl of Derby, and had his entire confidence. He was present at the first siege of Lathom House, and was the chosen friend counsellor, and afterwards chaplain, of the noble-minded Countess, during all her troubles, and it was principally through her influence that he succeeded to the bishopric. He was grave and devout, temperate and dignified, and unfortunately was worn out, though not an old man, when he became a bishop, and died in the Isle of Man on the 30th May 1662 (according to Le Reve), while Seacome says he died in 1663. (see Stanley Papers, part iii. vol. i. pp. cxxx.-ii., note; Chetham Society), in which is his portrait from the original painting by W. Dobson, in Lord Derby's collection at Knowsley.

Browne Willis, in his Survey of the Cathedrals, London, 4to, 1727, p. 369, says, "he had, An. 1660, been collated to the Prebend of Longden, in the church of Lichfield, by the title of Bishop of Sodor, which I find became vacant by his death An. 1663."

I have by me a copy of the ratification of the commission, taken from the Ecclesiastical Records, appointing Richard Sherlock and Samuel Hinde commissioners to manage the ecclesiastical affairs of the archdeaconry ; this is dated " Feby. 8, 1661," and signed " SAM. SODOR."

He was interred in the chancel of St. German's Cathedral in Peel Castle, with the following inscribed,on a brass plate, said to have been written by himself -

In hae domo quam a vermiculis Accepi (confratribus meis) spe Resurrectionis ad vitam, Jaceo Sam. permissione divinâ, Episcopus hujus Insulae. Siste lector-vide, ae ride Palatum Episcopi! Objit xxx die mende Maii 1662!'* Thus translated

In this house which I have borrowed from the worms (my brethren), in the hope of a resurrection unto life, lie I Sam. by divine permission, Bishop of this Island. 'Stop, reader-behold, and smile at the Palace of a Bishop! who died the 30th day of May 1662.This brass was for many years missing, and supposed to have been stolen, but in 1844 it was discovered in the well near the fort of the castle, and is now preserved at Bishop's Court There appears to have been another brass on the same stone, of an oval form, probably an armorial bearing; this brass is still missing. Round the edges of the stone which covers his remains is the following in raised letters SAMVEL RVTTER LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN 1661

This stone is four-feet long by three feet broad, and bears on its face the impress where the brasses above mentioned were inserted

Bishop Rutter wrote numerous pieces of poetry for the Earl of Derby's amusement, but not many of them have been published. One collection is entitled, " A Choice Collection of Songs, composed by Archdeacon Ryter (afterwards Bishop of Sodor and Mann), for the amusement and diversion of the Right Hon. James, Earl of Derby, during his retreat into his Island of Man, in the time of the Oliverian usurpation." One song is entitled " Ubonia's Praise," (this is printed at page 75[sic 76] of this volume) ; another, " The Little Quiet Nation, being a prologue to the play acted in Castle Rushen before the Right Hon. James, Earl of Derby, to divert his pensive spirit and deep concern for the calamity of his country, occasioned by the grand rebellion began Anno 1641." Another, styled, " Threnodia, or Elegiac Song on the direful elfects of the grand rebellion, with a prophetic view of the downfall and catastrophe thereof, composed by the reverend author on Scarlet Rocks , near Castletown." In the Stanley .Papers, paxt iii. vol ii. of the Chetham Series 1867, p. ccclxxxvi, will be found a piece taken from the 4to MS. vol. at Knowsley, entitled " To the Glorious Memory of the Blessed Martyr, James, Earle of Derby," signed S. R .

+This date is most probably an error of the engraver for 1663.

[A fuller biography is given by A.W.Moore in Manx Note Book vol ii no.8 p159; more of Rutter's Ballads may be found in Manx Ballads ]