RICHARD NEILE (1562—1640)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V19,
Page 350
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
RICHARD NEILE (1562—1640)
, English divine, was educated at Westminster school and at St John's College, Cambridge
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His first important preferment was as dean of Westminster (16o5); afterwards he held successively the bishoprics of Rochester (16o8), Lichfield (161o), Lincoln (1614), Durham (1617) and Winchester (1628), and the archbishopric of York (1631)
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When at Rochester he appointed See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
as his chaplain and gave him several valuable preferments
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His political activity while bishop of Durham was rewarded with a privy councillorship in 1627
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Neile sat regularly in the courts of star-chamber and high commission
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His correspondence with Laud and with Sir Dudley Carleton and Sir Francis Windebank ( Charles I.'s secretaries of state) are valuable sources for the history of the See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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