See also:ALEXANDER See also:NOWELL (c. 1507-1602)
, See also:dean of St See also:Paul's; See also:London, was the eldest son of See also:John See also:Nowell of Read See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Whalley, See also:Lancashire, by his second wife See also:Elizabeth See also:Kay of See also:Rochdale
.
He was educated at See also:Middleton, Lancashire, and at Brasenose See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he is said to have shared rooms with John See also:Foxe the martyrologist
.
He was elected See also:fellow of Brasenose in 1526
.
In 1543 he was appointed See also:master of See also:Westminster school, and in See also:December 1551 See also:prebendary of Westminster
.
He was elected in See also:September 1553 member of See also:parliament for See also:Looe in See also:Cornwall in See also:Queen See also:Mary's first parliament, but in See also:October 1553 a See also:committee of the See also:house reported that, having as prebendary of Westminster a seat in See also:convocation, he could not sit in the House of See also:Commons
.
He was also deprived of his prebend, probably as being a married See also:man, before May 1554, and sought See also:refuge at See also:Strassburg and See also:Frankfort, where he See also:developed puritan and almost presbyterian views
.
He submitted, however, to the Elizabethan See also:settlement of See also:religion, and was rewarded with the archdeaconry of See also:Middlesex, a canonry at See also:Canterbury and in 156o with the deanery of St Paul's
.
His sermons occasionally created some stir, and on one occasion Elizabeth interrupted his See also:sermon, telling him to stick to his See also:text and cease slighting the crucifix
.
He held the deanery of St Paul's for See also:forty-two years, surviving until the 13th of See also:February 1602
.
Nowell is believed to have composed the See also:Catechism inserted before the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of See also:Confirmation in the See also:Prayer See also:Book of 1549, which was supplemented in 1604 and is still in use; but the See also:evidence is not conclusive
.
See also:Early in Elizabeth's reign, however, he wrote a larger catechism, to serve as a statement of See also:Protestant principles; it was printed in 1570, and in the same See also:year appeared his " See also:middle " catechism, designed it would seem for the instruction of " See also:simple curates." Nowell also established a See also:free school at Middleton and made other benefactions for educational purposes
.
He was twice married, but See also:left no See also:children
.
See See also:Ralph Churton, See also:Life of See also:Alexander Nowell (Oxford, 1809); G
.
See also:Burnet, See also:History of the See also:Reformation (new ed., Oxford, 1865) ; and R
.
W
.
See also:Dixon, History of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England
.
Also the See also:Works of John See also:Strype; the Publications of the See also:Parker Society; the See also:Calendar of See also:State Papers, Domestic; and the See also:Diet
.
Nat
.
Biog., vol. lv
.
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