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See also:RICHARD See also:STERNE (c. 15gb-1683)
, See also:English divine, See also:arch-See also:bishop of See also:York, was See also:born at See also:Mansfield, See also:Nottinghamshire, and was educe ted at the See also:free-school in that See also:town and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge
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He was elected See also:fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1620; in 1633 he became See also:chaplain to See also:Archbishop See also:Laud and in 1634 See also:master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and See also:rector of Yelverton, See also:Somerset
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For his zeal in helping the royalist cause with college See also:plate he suffered imprisonment at the See also:order of See also:parliament and lost his appointments
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He attended Laud at his See also:execution, and during the See also:Commonwealth kept a school at See also:Stevenage, See also:Hertfordshire
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At the Restoration he was See also:rein-stated as master of Jesus College and soon after was made bishop of See also:Carlisle
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With See also:George See also:Griffith, bishop of St See also:Asaph, and See also:Brian See also:Walton, bishop of See also:Chester, he was appointed by See also:Convocation to revise the See also:Prayer See also:Book
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In 1664 he was raised to the arch-bishopric of York
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He had impoverished Carlisle, and in his new see, according to See also:Burnet (who calls him " a sour See also:ill-tempered See also:man "), " minded chiefly the enriching of his See also:family." For his regard to the See also:duke of York's interests he was suspected of leaning towards See also:Roman Catholicism
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He died on the loth of See also:June 1683
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He helped Brian Walton with the Polyglot See also:Bible and wrote a book on See also:logic, Summa logicae (See also:London, 1685)
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He has also been credited with The Whole See also:Duty of Man, which must, however, be assigned to the royalist divine See also:Richard See also:Allestree (1619-1681), See also:provost of See also:Eton College, whose See also:original was consider-ably altered by his See also:literary executor, See also: |
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