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2. The Jacobean Episcopate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. E. Kennedy
D. E. Kennedy
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University of Melbourne
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The Historical Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1962 , pp. 175 - 181
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2 Trevor-Roper, H. R., ‘King James and his Bishops’, History Today, v, no. 9 (1955)Google Scholar, and reprinted in his Historical Essays (London, 1957)Google Scholar, with the title ‘James I and his Bishops’.

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4 It would be interesting to examine this generalization in regard, say, to the bishops of William III's reign, when the political character of the episcopal bench was transformed, and of Anne's reign. King William had unusual opportunities to exercise ecclesiastical patronage. He ‘came to nominate sixteen of the twenty-six bishops during the first three years of his reign’, and afterwards named five more. Professor F. G. James stated that ‘only two or three can be classified as moderate High Churchmen’; the majority were Whig Latitudinarians. The effect, however, was to change ‘the bishops from a nearly united bloc into a group of men divided between different factions of both political parties’. Of Anne's reign, Professor James wrote, ‘the political affiliation of her episcopal appointees reflect, partly at least, those of the party in power, although her distaste of Latitudinarians kept her from ever naming any of that group’ (James, F. G., ‘The Bishops in Politics, 1688–1714’, Conflict in Stuart England, ed. Aiken, W. A. and Henning, B. D. (London, 1960), 232–4, 239).Google Scholar

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7 Commenting on Williams's sumptuous table and free cellar a modern biographer writes, ‘But the Bishop himself lived temperately, choosing, in advance of his age, a diet drawn mainly from the products of dairy, orchard, and kitchen garden’ (Roberts, B. Dew, Mitre and Musket, London, 1938, p. 121).Google Scholar For an account of life at Buckden see Hacket, J., Scrinia Reserata (London, 1693), II, 29–35.Google Scholar

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9 The context of the quotation is as follows—Montagu wrote about the proceedings against him ‘upon a contempt against the House of Commons’: ‘and as I conceive it my means must be to gett, if it be possible, any, the least, Bishopprique, to take me of from the Commons. Att present I heare the Bishop of Worcester is very sicke. Si quid ei humanitus, if my Lord of S. David's might succede, and I him, I should be half delivered’ (Ornsby, G. (ed.), The Correspondence of John Cosin, part I (Surtees Society, 1869), 77–9).Google Scholar

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17 Bishops Bridges (Oxford) and Jegon (Norwich) were appointed by James to bishoprics left vacant by Elizabeth.

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19 Ibid., I, 561; II, 462.

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22 The enrichment of his family seems, in the latter part of his life, ‘to have been the principal object of his attention’ (Granger, J., A Biographical History of England, 6 vols., London, 1824, II, 53).Google Scholar

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