MONTAGU (or MOUNTAGUE),

See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD (1577-1641)  , English divine, was born at Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and educated at Eton and Cambridge . In 1613 he was elected fellow of Eton and became rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex . He was appointed to the deanery of Hereford in 1616, but exchanged it next year for a canonry of Windsor, which he held with the rectory of Petworth, Sussex . He was also chaplain to James I . Like Laud, he disliked the extremes of Calvinism and Romanism, and this attitude constantly involved him in difficulties . About 1619 he came into collision with some Roman Catholics in his parish, and Matthew Kellison (156o?-1642) attacked him in a pamphlet entitled The Gagg of the Reformed Gospell (Douai, 1623) . Montagu replied with A Gagg for the New Gospell ? No . A New Gagg for an Old Goose (London, 1624) . The publication of the Immediate Addresse unto God alone (London, 1624) incensed the Puritans, who appealed to the House of Commons, but Montagu was protected by the king . After the appearance of his famous A ppello Caesarem (London, 1625), his case frequently came before parliament and conferences of bishops, but his influence at court and with Laud enabled him to hold his ground . He was consecrated bishop of Chichester in 1628, and became bishop of Norwich in 1638 .

He died on the 13th of

April 164r .