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JOHN EARLE (c. 16o1-1665)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:EARLE (c. 16o1-1665)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:York about 16o1 . He matriculated at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, but migrated to Merton, where he obtained a fellowship . In 1631 he was See also:proctor and also See also:chaplain to See also:Philip, See also:earl of See also:Pembroke, then See also:chancellor of the university, who presented him to the rectory of Bishopston in See also:Wiltshire . His fame spread, and in 1641 he was appointed chaplain and See also:tutor to See also:Prince See also:Charles . In 1643 he was elected one of the See also:Assembly of Divines at See also:Westminster, but his sympathies with the See also:king and with the See also:Anglican Church were so strong that he declined to sit . See also:Early in 1643 he was chosen chancellor of the See also:cathedral of See also:Salisbury, but of this preferment he was soon deprived as a " See also:malignant." After See also:Cromwell's See also:great victory at See also:Worcester, See also:Earle went abroad, and was named clerk of the closet and chaplain to Charles II . He spent a See also:year at See also:Antwerp in the See also:house of See also:Isaac See also:Walton's friend, See also:George See also:Morley, who afterwards became See also:bishop of See also:Winchester . He next joined the See also:duke of York (See also:James II.) at See also:Paris, returning to See also:England at the Restoration . He was at once appointed See also:dean of Westminster, and in 1661 was one of the commissioners for revising the See also:liturgy . He was on friendly terms with See also:Richard See also:Baxter . In See also:November 1662 he was consecrated bishop of Worcester, and was translated, ten months later, to the see of Salisbury, where he conciliated the nonconformists . He was strongly opposed to the Conventicle and Five Mile Acts .

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plague Earle attended the king and See also:queen at Oxford, and there he died on the 17th of November 1665 . Earle's See also:chief See also:title to remembrance is his witty and humorous See also:work entitled Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the See also:World discovered, in Essayes and Characters, which throws See also:light on the See also:manners of the See also:time . First published anonymously in 1628, it became very popular, and ran through ten See also:editions in the lifetime of the author . The See also:style is See also:quaint and epigrammatic; and the reader is frequently reminded of See also:Thomas See also:Fuller by such passages as this: " A university dunner is a gentlemen follower cheaply See also:purchased, for his own See also:money has hyr'd him." Several reprints of the See also:book have been issued since the author's See also:death; and in 1671 a See also:French See also:translation by J . Dymock appeared with the title of Le See also:Vice ridicule . Earle was employed by Charles II. to make the Latin translation of the Eikon Basilike, published in 1649 . A similar translation of R . See also:Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity was accidentally destroyed . " Dr Earle," says See also:Lord See also:Clarendon in his See also:Life, " was a See also:man of great piety and devotion, a most eloquent and powerful preacher, and of a conversation so pleasant and delightful, so very See also:innocent, and so very facetious, that no man's See also:company was more desired and loved . No man was more negligent in his See also:dress and See also:habit and mien, no man more wary and cultivated in his behaviour and discourse . He was very dear to the Lord See also:Falkland, with whom he spent as much time as he could make his own." See especially Philip See also:Bliss's edition of the Microcosmographie (See also:London, 1811), and E . See also:Arber's Reprint (London, 1868) .

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