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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![Yet all this could not fatisfy the minds of thofe who had fcrupled the power of laying on hands, and therefore they petitioned the King, that they might not be compelled to wound their confciences by fub- milting to fiich a confecration •, and, in compliance with their defire, the Bifhop of Lincoln was confe- crated in King Henry VIPs chapel, on the eleventh of November, by the Bifhops of London, Wor- cefter, Ely, Oxford, and Llandaff; and the JSifh- ods of Sarum, Exeter, and St David’s, in the chapel of the Biihop of London’s palace, on the eighteenth of November, by the fame reverend Prelates. It does not appear, that his Grace was at all leffened, by the fuggeftions of his enemies, in the King’s favour, or his courage in any degree abated, by the troubles he had met with [0I. On the con- trary, lent on the eighth of Oftober 1621 to Sir Henry Spelman, who, on tl e nineteenth of the fame month, returned an anfwer to it, which difeovers full as much feverity as learning. It is not very clear to whom this apology was addreffed, or for whofe fatisfadion the anfwer to it was written ; but it is very proba¬ ble, that both were intended for the ufe of the Commiflioners, appointed by the King, to enquire into the fuppofed irregula¬ rity of the Archbifhop, of which his Grace had notice on the fifth of October, and the Commiffioners applied themfelves very clofely to their bulinefs, from that time. Both thefe pieces are extant, in the polthumous works’of Sir Henry Spel- rnan, but thefe do not feem to have been the only pieces that were penned on this occafion ; for we are told by a reverend prelate, pBp. Racket] that the fact was much diicourfed of in foreign univerfities, efpecially amongft our neighbours, the Sorbonnifts, who difputed it three fever'al times in their fchook, and concluded the accident to have amounted to a full irregula¬ rity, which is an incapacity to exercife any ecclefiaftical aft of order or jurikllftion. [0] Or bis courage in any degree ablated, bj the troubles he had met](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30508605_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
