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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTAGU (or MOUNTAGUE), See also:RICHARD (1577-1641)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Dorney, See also:Buckinghamshire, and educated at See also:Eton and See also:Cambridge . In 1613 he was elected See also:fellow of Eton and became See also:rector of See also:Stanford See also:Rivers, See also:Essex . He was appointed to the deanery of See also:Hereford in 1616, but exchanged it next See also:year for a canonry of See also:Windsor, which he held with the rectory of Petworth, See also:Sussex . He was also See also:chaplain to See also:James I . Like See also: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 See also:Roman Catholics in his See also:parish, and See also:Matthew Kellison (156o?-1642) attacked him in a pamphlet entitled The Gagg of the Reformed Gospell (See also:Douai, 1623) . See also:Montagu replied with A Gagg for the New Gospell ? No . A New Gagg for an Old See also:Goose (See also:London, 1624) . The publication of the Immediate Addresse unto See also:God alone (London, 1624) incensed the Puritans, who appealed to the See also:House of See also:Commons, but Montagu was protected by the See also:king . After the See also:appearance of his famous A ppello Caesarem (London, 1625), his See also:case frequently came before See also:parliament and conferences of bishops, but his See also:influence at See also:court and with Laud enabled him to hold his ground . He was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Chichester in 1628, and became bishop of See also:Norwich in 1638 .

He died on the 13th of See also:

April 164r .

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