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HUGH PAULINUS DE CRESSY (c. 1605-1674)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH See also:PAULINUS DE See also:CRESSY (c. 1605-1674)  , See also:English See also:Benedictine See also:monk, whose religious name was See also:Serenus, was See also:born at See also:Wakefield, See also:Yorkshire, about 1605 . He went to See also:Oxford at the See also:age of fourteen, and in 1626 became a See also:fellow of Merton See also:College . Having taken orders, he See also:rose to the dignity of See also:dean of Leighlin, See also:Ireland, and See also:canon of See also:Windsor . He also acted as See also:chaplain to See also:Lord See also:Wentworth, afterwards the celebrated See also:earl of See also:Strafford . For some See also:time he travelled abroad as See also:tutor to Lord See also:Falmouth, and in 1646, during a visit to See also:Rome, joined the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church . In the following See also:year he published his Exomologesis (See also:Paris, 1647), or See also:account of his See also:conversion, which was highly valued by Roman Catholics as an See also:answer to See also:William See also:Chillingworth's attacks . See also:Cressy entered the Benedictine See also:Order in 1649, and for four years resided at See also:Somerset See also:House as chaplain to See also:Catherine of See also:Braganza, wife of See also:Charles II . He died at See also:West Grinstead on the loth of See also:August 1674 . Cressy's See also:chief See also:work, The Church See also:History of Brittanny or See also:England, from the beginning of See also:Christianity to the See also:Norman See also:Conquest (1st vol. only published, See also:Rouen, 1668), gives an exhaustive account of the See also:foundation of monasteries during the Saxon See also:heptarchy, and asserts that they followed the Benedictine See also:rule, differing in this respect from many historians . The work was much criticized by Lord See also:Clarendon, but defended by Antony a See also:Wood in his Athenae Oxoniensis, who supports Cressy's statement that it was compiled from See also:original See also:MSS. and from the Annales Ecclesiae Britannicae of See also:Michael See also:Alford, See also:Dugdale's Monasticon, and the Decem Scriptores Historiae Anglicanae . The second See also:part of the history, which has never been printed, was discovered at See also:Douai in 1856 . To Roman Catholics Cressy's name is See also:familiar as the editor of See also:Walter See also:Hilton's See also:Scale of Perfection (See also:London, 1659); of See also:Father A .

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Baker's Sancta See also:Sophia (2 vols., Douai, 1657); and of Juliana of See also:Norwich's Sixteen Revelations on the Love of See also:God (167o) . These books, which would have been lost but for Cressy's zeal, have been frequently reprinted, and have been favourably regarded by a See also:section of the See also:Anglican Church . For a See also:complete See also:list of Cressy's See also:works see J . See also:Gillow's Bibl . Dict. of Eng . Catholics, vol. i .

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