See also:HUGH See also:PAULINUS DE See also:CRESSY (c. 1605-1674)
, See also:English See also:Benedictine See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
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
- 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 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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
- 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
.
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
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Chillingworth's attacks
.
See also:Cressy entered the Benedictine See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
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
.
See also: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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