 | Edmund Gibson - 1849 - 396 pages
...Salisbury. In 1676 he obtained the vicarage of St. Martin's in the Fields, and in 1 680 was elected to the see of St. Asaph. He was one of the Seven Bishops prosecuted by James II. but in the next reign he was translated to Worcester. He died in 1717. He wrote... | |
 | 1873 - 332 pages
...distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross." He was one of the seven bishops imprisoned in the Tower for resistance to the Declaration of Indulgence issued by King James II. on the Komanist side ; and, having... | |
 | Thompson Cooper - Biography - 1890 - 736 pages
...Salisbury. In 1676 be obtained the vicarage of St. Martin-in-t he-Fields, and in 1680 was elevated the see of St. Asaph. He was one of the seven bishops prosecuted by James II.; but in the next reign he was translated to Worcester. Died 30 Aug., 1717.... | |
 | Wellington College (England) - Hymns, English - 1902 - 556 pages
...Jeffreys' Bloody Assize, interceded for them with James II, and attended Monmouth on the scaffold. He was one of the Seven Bishops imprisoned in the Tower for petitioning against the second Declaration of Indulgence in 1688, and triumphantly acquitted. On the... | |
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Fields, and in 1 680 was elected to the see of St. Asaph. He was one of the Seven Bishops prosecuted by James II. 