See also:JOSEPH See also:BINGHAM (1668-1723)
, See also:English See also:scholar and divine, was See also:horn at See also:Wakefield in See also:Yorkshire in See also:September 1668
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He was educated at University See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, of which he was made See also:fellow in 1689 and See also:tutor in 1691
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A See also:sermon preached by him from the university See also:pulpit, St See also:Mary's, on the meaning of the terms " See also:Person " and " Substance " in the Fathers, brought upon him a most unjust See also:accusation of See also:heresy
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He was compelled to give up his fellowship and leave the university; but he was immediately presented by Dr See also:John See also:Radcliffe to the rectory of Headbournworthy, near See also:Winchester (1695)
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In this See also:country retirement he began his laborious and valuable See also:work entitled Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the See also:Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, the first See also:volume of which appeared in 1708 and the tenth and last in 1722
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His See also:design, learnediy, exhaustively and impartially executed, was " to give such a methodical See also:account of the antiquities of the Christian Church as others have done of the See also:Greek and See also:Roman and Jewish antiquities, by reducing the See also:ancient customs, usages and practices of the church under certain proper heads, whereby the reader may take a view at once of any particular usage or See also:custom of Christians for four or five centuries." Notwithstanding his learning and merit, See also:Bingham received nohigher preferment than that of Headbournworthy till 1712, when he was collated to the rectory of See also:Havant, near See also:Portsmouth, by See also:Sir See also:Jonathan Trelawney, See also:bishop of Winchester
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Nearly all his little See also:property was lost in the See also:great See also:South See also:Sea Bubble of 1720
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He died on the 17th of See also:August 1723
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