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Brief Memoirs of ---, M.a

Brief Memoirs of ---, M.a

Ferrar, Nicholas

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235755789
ISBN13: 9781235755781
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1829 Excerpt: ... William Laud, the son of a clothier at Reading, was born there, October 7, 1573. Educated at the free-school of his native town, he was removed at the usual age to St. John's College, Oxford; there he obtained a fellowship. In his twenty-seventh year he took his degree of bachelor of divinity, and about this time made an open avowal of the Arminian tenets. His first church preferment was Stanford, in Northamptonshire; afterwards he was presented to the living of North Kilworth, in Leicestershire, but exchanged it for West Tilbury, in Essex. He took his doctor's degree and became chaplain to Bishop Neile of Rochester, who gave him the rectory of Cuckstone, which he resigned for that of Norton. In 1611 he was chosen president of his college, and in 1614 was made prebendary of Lincoln, and archdeacon of Huntingdonshire. The year afterwards he was advanced to the deanery of Gloucester, and soon afterwards he accompanied King James I. to Scotland. In 1621 he was installed prebendary of Westminster, and the same year consecrated Bishop of St. David's, on which he resigned his headship. It was in the year 1622 that he had a controversial conference with Fisher the Jesuit. The particulars of this disputation were published by both parties; that of the bishop is considered an unanswerable defence of the Protestant religion. His Arminian tenets and arbitrary notions of state and church government, were too congenial to the royal mind of King Charles, who now reigned, to be passed over without some corresponding mark of royal favour. Additional advancement awaited him; he was successively translated to the Sees of Bath and Wells, and London. In 1630 he was chosen Chancellor of Oxford, and he filled that situation very advantageously to the University, and the general ...

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