bishops against the king's declaration for liberty of conscience. He also declined the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, and hence incurred suspension on 1 August 1689; his diocese was administered by a commission consisting of Henry Compton, Bishop of London, and William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph; on 1 February 1690 he was deposed. He was in correspondence with James; two unsigned letters to James and his queen, dated 31 December 1690, and seized on the arrest of John Aston, are certainly his. He professes to write "in behalf of my elder brother, and the rest of my nearest relations, as well as for myself" (meaning William Sancroft and the other nonjuring bishops). A proclamation for his arrest was issued on 5 February 1691, but he kept out of the way. On 24 February 1693 he joined the nonjuring bishops, William Lloyd and Thomas White, in consecrating George Hickes and Thomas Wagstaffe as suffragans of Thetford and Ipswich, the object being to continue a succession in the Jacobite interest. Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, was present at the ceremony, which took place at White's lodging. In 1694 it was proposed that Turner, who was in easy circumstances, should be invited to St Germains in attendance on James, a proposal which James approved but did not carry out. In December 1696 Turner was arrested, as the nonjuror Samuel Grascome was sought, but then discharged (15 December) on condition of leaving the country. On 26 December he was rearrested. With John Somers, Baron Somers arguing for him, he survived. Death and posterity No more is heard of Turner till his death, which occurred in London on 2 November 1700. He was buried on 5 November in the chancel at Therfield. His intestacy gave all his effects to his daughter Margaret (died 25 December 1724), wife of Richard Gulston of Wyddial Hall, Hertfordshire, thus disappointing the expectation of bequests to St John's College, of which he had already been a benefactor. Turner is an ancestor of Henrietta Euphemia Tindal (née Harrison), a 19th-century poet, who was the great granddaughter of a later Richard Gulston of Wyddial Hall, and of the Tindal-Carill-Worsley family. Besides single sermons (1681–5) Turner published: Animadversions on a Pamphlet entituled "The Naked Truth" (1676, anonymously; against Herbert Croft, Bishop of Hereford). Letters to the Clergy of the Diocese of Ely (1686). A portrait of Turner, painted probably