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WILLIAM SANCROFT (1616-1693)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 128 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:SANCROFT (1616-1693)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was 1 orn at Fressingfield in See also:Suffolk 30th See also:January 1616, and entered See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in See also:July 1634 . He became M.A. in 1641 and See also:fellow in 1642, but was ejected in 1649 for refusing to accept the " Engagement . He then remained abroad till the Restoration, after which he was chosen one of the university preachers, and in 1663 was nominated to the deanery of See also:York . In 1664 he was installed See also:dean of St See also:Paul's . In this situation he set himself to repair the See also:cathedral, till the See also:fire of See also:London in 1666 necessitated the rebuilding of it, towards which he gave £1400 . He also rebuilt the deanery, and improved its See also:revenue . In 1668 he was admitted See also:archdeacon of Canterbury upon the See also:king's presentation, but he resigned the See also:post in 1670 . In 1677, being now See also:prolocutor of the See also:Convocation, he was unexpectedly advanced to the archbishopric of Canterbury: He attended See also:Charles II. upon his deathbed, and " made to him a very weighty exhortation, in which he used a See also:good degree of freedom." He wrote with his own See also:hand the See also:petition presented in 1687 against the See also:reading of the See also:Declaration of See also:Indulgence, which was signed by himself and six of his suffragans . For this they were all committed to the See also:Tower, but were acquitted . Upon the withdrawal of See also:James II. he concurred with the Lords in a declaration to the See also:prince of See also:Orange for a See also:free See also:parliament, and due indulgence to the See also:Protestant dissenters . But, when that prince and his See also:consort were declared king and See also:queen, he refused to take the See also:oath to them, and was accordingly suspended and deprived . From 5th See also:August 1691 till his See also:death on the 24th of See also:November 1693, he lived a very retired See also:life in his native See also:place .

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churchyard of Fressingfield, where there is a Latin See also:epitaph to his memory . See also:Sancroft was a•See also:patron of See also:Henry See also:Wharton (1664-1695), the divine and See also:church historian, to whom on his deathbed he entrusted his See also:manuscripts and the remains of Archbishop See also:Laud (published in 1695) . He published See also:Fur praedestinatus (1651), See also:Modern Politics (1652), and Three Sermons (1694) . Nineteen See also:Familiar Letters to Mr See also:North (afterwards See also:Sir Henry North) appeared in 1757 .

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