The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot.
- Arthur Onslow
- Date:
- 1777
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![profecution was commenced againft one George Sprot, Notary of Aymouth, for having been con¬ cerned in Gowry’s confpiracy eight years before, for which he was tried before Sir William Hart, Lord juftice General of Scotland, condemned and execu¬ ted. A large account of this affair was drawn up by the jucge, and a narrative prefixed thereto, by Dr. Abbot, who had been cye-witnefs of all that paffed, and this was publifhed at London, in order to fettle the minds of the people, with regard to that confpiracy*, which had hitherto been looked upon as a very myfierious affair, and about the reality of which there had been very great doubts/<0 The * citings or propnefyings, which fhould be held within their 4 bounds/ All which were afterwards ratified and confirmed by authority of the parliament of that kingdom. Such were the merits of Dr. Abbot in this refpeft, and fo great jufdce was there done to them by his noble patron, the Treafurer, in the report he made to his majefty, of the Dean’s behaviour in this re/cft, that, in conjunction with the fiervice rendered his majefty, by giving his unqueftioned teftimony in the affair of Lowry’s confpiracy, (of which a full account fnall be given in the fucceeding note) he was raifed fo high, and fo firmly fixed in the efteem of his royal mailer, as that no oppotition could prevent his arriving at the fupreme dignity in his profeilon. As a proof of his advancing his fortune by this means, and not otherwise, it may not be amifs to transcribe the obfervation of a contemporary hiftorian, (Speed) after Dr. Abbot was raifed to the archiepifcopal dignity, 'who tells us, i That the firft* ‘ preacher, and the nrft in that emhaffage, which King James 1 lent into Scotland, to eftabliih thofe neighbouring Churches., c was he, whofe eminency both for place and piety, is now 4 Worthily foremoft in guiding our own ; and whofe bleffed i travels in that ierviee, as they were acceptable to God, his s majefty, and that nation ; fo are they a document to others, ‘ bow powerful and admirably fuccefsful true learning is, where J it is guided with true prudence ; and where piety and the 1 love of God’s glory, is linked with charity and seal of man’s «• good/ ( d) 'There had been very great doubts.] It is a difficult: thing'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30508605_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
