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THOMAS MORTON (1564-1659)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:MORTON (1564-1659)  , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:York, and was educated at York and See also:Halifax See also:grammar-See also:schools and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he became See also:fellow on taking his degree . He was ordained in 1592, and held the See also:office of university lecturer in See also:logic till in 1598 he was presented to the living of See also:Long See also:Marston, See also:Yorkshire . He gained a considerable reputation as a See also:Protestant controversialist, and published numerous See also:works against See also:Roman Catholicism, See also:chief among them being the Apologia catholica (16o5) and A Catholicke Appeale (1609) . He held successively the deaneries of See also:Gloucester (16o6), See also:Winchester (16og), and a canonry at York (r61o) . In 1616 he became bishop of See also:Chester, in 1618 bishop of See also:Lichfield and See also:Coventry, and in 1632 bishop of See also:Durham . On the abolition of the episcopate in 1646 he was assigned a See also:pension, but it was never paid, and the See also:remainder of his See also:life was passed in retirement .

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