sentences:  Indeed, one historian has written of Kitchin that he was a 'timeserver who would doubtless have become a Hindu if required, provided he was allowed to hold on to the See of Llandaff' (Eamon Duffy, 'Fires of Faith', p. 23).However, he showed some backbone in opposing Elizabeth's appointment of Matthew Parker to the See of Canterbury (cf.Nag's Head Fable); apparently, his acquiescence in religious matters had its limits.