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RICHARD NEILE (1562—1640)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:NEILE (1562—1640)  , See also:English divine, was educated at See also:Westminster school and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge . His first important preferment was as See also:dean of Westminster (16o5); afterwards he held successively the bishoprics of See also:Rochester (16o8), See also:Lichfield (161o), See also:Lincoln (1614), See also:Durham (1617) and See also:Winchester (1628), and the archbishopric of See also:York (1631) . When at Rochester he appointed See also:William See also:Laud as his See also:chaplain and gave him several valuable preferments . His See also:political activity while See also:bishop of Durham was rewarded with a privy councillorship in 1627 . See also:Neile sat regularly in the courts of See also:star-chamber and high See also:commission . His See also:correspondence with Laud and with See also:Sir See also:Dudley See also:Carleton and Sir See also:Francis See also:Windebank (See also:Charles I.'s secretaries of See also:state) are valuable See also:sources for the See also:history of the See also:time .

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