Tuniiell, John, an early Methodist minister, was about tliirteeu years in the work of the ministry; was elected to the office ot" an elder at the Christmas Con- ference in 1784; travelled extensively throughout the United States; was tot years the leader of a pioneer band of preachers among the Holston mountains ; and died in great peace near Sweet Springs, Va., in July, IT'.IO. He was buried by Asbury among the Alleghany heightSy a martyr to his work. lie was a man of solid piety, great simplicity, and godly sincerity ; well known and much esteemed both by ministers and people for his indefatigable labors, and his cammanding talents as a preacher. See Minutes of Annuul Conferences, i, 37; Bangs. Hist, of the M. E. Church, i, 31»; Stevens, Hist, of the M. E. Church, ii, 34, 38, 39, 43, 53, 99, 272, 297, 49G. Tuustall (or Tonstall), Cuthbeit, a learned liomish prelate, was born at llatciilord. near Kichmond, Yorkshire, about 1474. He entered Baliol College, Ox- ford, about 1491, but subsequently went to Cambridge and became a fellow of King's Hall. He afterwards went to Padua and took the degree of LL.D. On his return to England, archbishop Warliam constituted him vicar- general, August, lull, recommended him to Henry YHI, and in Ueoember of the same year collated him to the rectory of Ilarrow-on-thc-hill, ]\IidtUesex, which he held till l.r22. In 1514 he was installed prebendary of Stow- longa, Church of Lijicolu,and in the following year ad- mitted archdeacon of Chester. He was made master of the rolls in lolff. Serving as an ambassador to emperor Charles Y, he was rewarded on his return (j^rob. 1519) by a series of preferments. In 1519 he was made preb- endary of Bontevant,. Ciuirch of York; in jNIay, 1521, prebendary of Combe and Ilornham, Church of Sarum, anil dean of .Salisbury. He was promoted to the bish- opric ot* London in 1522.; was made keeper of the privy seal in 1523; and in 1525 be and Sir Kichard Wingtiekl went as ambassadors to Spain. In July, 1527,Tunstall attended cardinal Wolsey on his embassy to France, and in 1529 was one of the English ambas-sadors employed to negotiate the treaty of Candjray. On his return he exerted himself to suppress Tyndale's edition of the New Test. In 1530 he was translated to the bishopric of Durham, where he laid out large sums in improving his episcopal houses.. At first Tuustall favored the di- vorce of Henry YHI, but afterwards espoused the cause of the queen. When Henri' took the title of supreme head of the Chiirch,,Tiuistall recommended this course in his injunctions and in a sermon preached at Durham.. He also vindicated the king's supremacy in 1533, in a ser- mon preached before the king on Palm-Sunday. In 1535 he was one of the commissioners for taking the valuation of ecclesiastical benefices, and in 1538 was ap- jiointed to confer about the IJeformation with the (Jer- inan ambassadors. A new edition of the English Bible was revised by him and Nicholas Heath, bishop of Ivochester, in 1541. In December, 1551, he was com- mitted to the Tower on a charge of misprision of trea- son, and although the bill was thrown out by the House of Commons, he was brought before a commission (con- sisting of the chief-justice of the king's bench and six others) and deprived of his bishopric. He continued a l)risoner in the Tower during the remainder of Edward's reign. On the accession of ]\Lary, in 1553, Tunstall was restored to his bishopric, but, on account of his mild treatment of the Protestants, was again deprived, July, 1559. He was committed to the custody of Parker, then in possession of Lambeth Palace, w ho treated him
in a very friendly and respectful manner, until he died, Nov. 18, 1559. Tunstall was opposed to making tran- substantiation an article of faitli, and also held the doc- trine of jusiilicatiou by faith only. His princiiial writ- ings are. In Lamliin Matrimonii (^Lond. 1518, 4to): — l.e Arte ISupputandi (Lond. 1522, 4to) : — Sermon on Royi,l Supi-emacy (Lond. 1539, 4to) : — Confuttitio, etc, (Paris, 1522, 4to): — De Veritute Corporis el Sdiiguinis JJoniii.i Jesu Christi in Eucharistiu (Lutet. 1554, 4to) : — Con.- pendium in Decern fjbros Ethicorum Aristotelis (Pari,-, 1554, 8 vo) : — Contra Impios Blasphemutores Dei I'ra- destiuutioiiis (Antwerp. 155,5, 4to) : — (iodli/ and Deroht Prayers in English and Latin, etc. (1558, 8vo). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v. ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
Tunstall, James, D.D., an English divine, was born about 1710, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he afterwards became fellow and tutor. In 1739 he obtained the rectory of Sturmer, Es- sex, and two years later was elected public orator of tlie university, and was appointed chaplain to Potter, arch- bishop of Canterbury. In 1744 he was created D.D. at Cambridge; was afterwards collated to the rectory of Great Chart, Kent, and to the vicarage of Minster, Isle of Thanet; both of which he resigned in 1757 for the valual)le vicarage of IJochdale, Lancashire, wiiere he re- mained until his death, March 28, 1772. His writings are, Epistola ad Virum Eruditum Conyers Middleton, etc. (Camb. 1741, 8vo) : — Observations on the Piesent Collec- tion of Epistles heticeen Cicero and Brutus : — Sermon he- fort the House of Commons (IMay 29, 174fi): — Vindica- tion of the Power of the State to Prohibit Clandestine Marriages, etc. (1 755) : — Marriage in Society Stated, etc. (1755): — Lectures on Natural and Revealed Religion (published after his death, in 4to). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v. ; English Cyclop, s. v.