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9 unusual facts about John Whitgift


Christian Francken

Later, on Oct.13 1592, Dee would show Franken's book of "blasphemie" (Poland 1585) to John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Canterbury, desiring it be confuted.

Daniel Donne

He was also a member of the commission formed in 1601 with the object of framing measures for the suppression of piracy by English sailors; and as John Whitgift's vicar-general he sat with five bishops on special commissions at the provincial synod and at convocation.

Edmund Howes

According to Howes's own account, Archbishop Whitgift had suggested this task to him, and he received little encouragement while engaged on it.

Eusebius Pagit

He appeared before the commission, presided over by Archbishop John Whitgift, on 11 January 1585.

Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond

The marriage was performed clandestinely by Thomas Montfort without banns or license, for which Monfort was suspended for three years by Archbishop John Whitgift.

John Penry

Archbishop Whitgift, angry at the implied criticism, had him brought before the High Commission and imprisoned for about a month.

John Whitgift

In 1563 he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and his lectures gave such satisfaction to the authorities that on 5 July 1566 they considerably augmented his stipend.

Robert Throckmorton

In 1577, the Bishop of Worcester, John Whitgift, listed Throckmorton as a Catholic and reckoned him to be worth 1,000 marks a year in lands and £1,000 in goods.

William Charke

After holding this post for some years, he was suspended in 1593 by Archbishop John Whitgift for Puritanism.


Croham Hurst

In the late sixteenth century its then owner, Sir Olliphe Leigh of Addington, sold it to John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lambeth Articles

The Lambeth Articles were a series of nine doctrinal statements drawn up by Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift in 1595, in order to define Calvinist doctrine with regard to predestination and justification.


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