biography
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| lived:
| (1637–1711)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Little Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK. He became a prebendary of Winchester cathedral (1669), and royal chaplain to Charles II (1680). Appointed Bishop of Bath and Wells (1685), he refused to publish in his diocese the Declaration of Indulgence issued by James II (1688). With seven other bishops he was imprisoned, tried for sedition, and acquitted. After the Revolution of 1688 he refused to swear allegiance to William of Orange, and was deprived of his bishopric. |
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