GOODMAN,  Godfrey  (1583-1656),  Bishop
of  Gloucester,  took  his  degrees  at  Trinity  Col-
lege, Cambridge,  held  the  living  of  Stapleford
Abbots  in  Essex,  1606-20 ;  became  Prebend-
ary of  Westminster,  1607 ;  B.D.  at  Oxford,
1615 ;  and  had  a  number  of  livings  in  Berks,
Gloucester,  and  Wales.  He  became  a  dis-
ciple of  Andrewes,  and  a  good  preacher  in
his  style,  and  rose  to  be  Canon  of  Windsor,
1617;  Dean  of  Rochester,  1621;  Bishop  of
Gloucester,  1625.  A  sermon  at  court,  1626,
was  supposed,  says  Heylin  {q.v.),  'to  trench
too  near  the  borders  of  popery,'  and
many  complaints  were  made  against  him
for  '  excessive  ritual,'  such  as  pictures
and  hangings  decorated  with  the  crucifix
and  the  restoring  of  the  cross  in  Windsor.
He  seems  to  have  been  a  negligent  bishop,
for  Laud  {q.v.)  opposed  his  translation  to
Hereford,  and  ordered  him  to  retire  to  his  own
diocese.  He  neglected  to  report  on  his  see
in  1633,  1636,  1637,  and  resided  at  Windsor
preferably  to  Gloucester.  He  became .  more
and  more  Romanist  in  his  views.  Panzani,
the  Pope's  agent,  1636,  thought  him  a  convert,
because  he  used  the  breviary  and  declared
that  he  wished  to  keep  a  Roman  priest  in  his
house.  But  it  was  not  till  his  refusal  to
sign  or  accept  the  canons  of  1640  that
matters  came  to  a  crisis,  and  the  Convocation
of  May  1640  declared  him  deprived  of  his  see.
