...the seventeen years preceding his decease expended £70,000 in charitable uses ; William Sancroft, one of the Seven Bishops committed to the Tower by James II., but who, notwithstanding his opposition to the tyrannical measures of that prince, afterwards refused,...

...illustrious William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, where he was repeatedly visited by Queen Elizabeth. Of THERPIELD were Rectors, John Barwick, Dean of St Paul's, and...Joseph Warton, scholar and poet. So lately as 1751,' at TRINO, Ruth O-sborne, a reputed witch, was submitted by a mob to the water ordeal, and drowned, but...

...which, according to the act of parliament, he was, ipso facto, deprived of his see. William Lloyd was one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower by James II. for refusing to read the declaration for liberty of conscience, as it was called, though the real intention...

...which, according to the act of parliament, he was, ipso facto, deprived of his see. William Lloyd was one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower by James II. for refusing to read the declaration for liberty of conscience, as it was called, though the real intention...

...destroy a tyrant with hazard, blood and confusion, but not without." BISHOP BANCROFT, well-known as one of the seven bishops, committed to the Tower by James II. for his conscientious attachment to the laws of his country, published in 1652, his "Modern Politics,...

...destroy a tyrant with hazard, blood and confusion, but not without." BISHOP BANCROFT, well-known as one of the seven bishops, committed to the Tower by James II. for his conscientious attachment to the laws of his country, published in 1652, his " Modern Politics,...

...destroy a tyrant with hazard, blood and confusion, but not without." BISHOP BANCROFT, well-known as one of the seven bishops, committed to the Tower by James II. for his conscientious attachment to the laws of his country, published in 1652, his " Modern Politics,...

...Westmacott the son. On the outside of the building, adjoining the E. end, is the tomb of Iiishup Ken, one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower by James II., for refusing to read the declaration in favour of the Rom. Catholics, 1688, a year " When oyster-women...

...Dr. Wigan accompanied his friend Mr. afterwards Sir Edward, Trelawny (son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, one of the seven bishops committed to the tower by James II) to Jamaica, in the double capacity of physician and secretary. They there married two sisters, daughters...

...Trelawny, translated from OLD HOUSBS IN THE CATHEDRAL. CLOSE. Bristol, was, when the occupant of that see, one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower by James II., and his memory still lives in the west country refrain — "And shall Trolawny die? And shall Trelawny...