biography
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| (1562–1633)
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| biography:
| Protestant clergyman, born in Guildford, Surrey, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and rose to be Master of University College (1597), Dean of Winchester (1600), and three times Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1600–5). He owed his promotion to the sees of Lichfield (1609), London (1610), and Canterbury (1611) to the Earl of Dunbar. A sincere but narrow-minded Calvinist, he was equally opposed to Catholics and to heretics. |
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