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WILLIAM FLEETWOOD (1656-1723)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:FLEETWOOD (1656-1723)  , See also:English divine, was descended of an See also:ancient See also:Lancashire See also:family, and was See also:born in the See also:Tower of See also:London on New See also:Year's See also:Day 1656 . He received his See also:education at See also:Eton and at See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge . About the See also:time of the Revolution he took orders, and was shortly afterwards made See also:rector of St See also:Austin's, London, and lecturer of St See also:Dunstan's in the See also:West . He became a See also:canon of See also:Windsor in 1702, and in 1708 he was nominated to the see of St See also:Asaph, from which he was translated in 1714 to that of See also:Ely . He died at See also:Tottenham, See also:Middlesex, on the 4th of See also:August 1723 . See also:Fleetwood was regarded as the best preacher of his time . He was accurate in learning, and effective in delivery, and his See also:character stood deservedly high in See also:general estimation . In episcopal See also:administration he far excelled most of his contemporaries . He was a zealous Hanoverian, and a favourite with See also:Queen See also:Anne in spite of his Whiggism . His opposition to the See also:doctrine of non-resistance brought him into conflict with the tory See also:ministry of 1712 and with See also:Swift, but he never entered into See also:personal controversy . His See also:principal writings are—An See also:Essay on Miracles (1701) ; Chronicum preciosum (an See also:account of the English coinage, 1707) ; and See also:Free Sermons (1712), containing discourses on the. See also:death of Queen See also:Mary, ' He had lost his first wife, Frances See also:Smith; and later he had a third wife, Mary, daughter of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Coke and widow of Sir See also:Edward Hartopp . the See also:duke of See also:Gloucester and King See also:William .

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preface to this last was condemned to public burning by See also:parliament, but, as No . 384 of The Spectator, circulated more widely than ever .

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