A Few Memorials of the Right REV. Robert Skinner [By A.M. Skinner] with Notices of Some of His Descendants and Other Members of His Family, Also a S

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. 1866. Excerpt: ... A FEW MEMORIALS OF THE EIGHT EEVEEEND EOBEET SKINNER, D.D. In visiting the Cathedral at Worcester, the attention of strangers is directed to those monuments, which attract attention by their mutilated appearance, and great antiquity, and enquiry is seldom made, as to the resting place, modestly pointed out by aflat stone at the east end, of-one whose life must have been marked, as much as that of any other, by those vicissitudes, to which the civil wars exposed so many. There rest, after the labours of 80 years in this world, and in those times of anxiety and trouble, the remains of Robert Skinner, Bishop of Worcester. He was the last bishop consecrated before the commencement of the civil war, and the only one, who remained at great peril, during the time of the Commonwealth, steadfastly at his post, in his own diocese at Oxford, comforting the clergy that were left. He secured, by the indulgence of the ruling powers, a license to preach, and never, at any time, desisted from reading prayers, preaching, and discharging those duties, which he had undertaken at his ordination. To no other bishop, except to Dr. Brownrigge, Bishop of Exeter, was a similar privilege of preaching conceded. He, fully confiding in the restoration of the Church, zealously recruited its ministers by ordination, not only in his own diocese, but thoughout England, and thus made preparation, to have, in readiness, men duly qualified to enter upon their duties, whenever the nation should, by the restoration of the Church, require them. It is said that, with the exception of Bishop King, who ordained Archbishop Dolben, in 1656, and of Bishop Duppa, who ordained Archbishop Tenison about 1659, he was the sole Bishop, who conferred Holy orders during the interregnum, and that, at his dea...