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FREWEN, ACCEPTED (1588—1664)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREWEN, ACCEPTED (1588—1664) , See also:archbishop of See also:York, was See also:born at Northiam, in See also:Sussex, and educated at Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford, where in 1612 he became a See also:fellow. In 1617 and 1621 the college allowed him to See also:act as See also:chaplain to See also:Sir See also:John See also:Digby, See also:ambassador in See also:Spain. At See also:Madrid he preached a See also:sermon which pleased'See also:Prince See also:Charles, afterwards Charles I., and the latter on his See also:accession appointed Frewen one of his chaplains. In 1625 he became See also:canon of See also:Canterbury and See also:vice-See also:president of Magdalen College, and in the following See also:year he was elected president. He was vice-See also:chancellor of the university in 1628 and 1629, and again in 1638 and 1639. It was mainly by his instrumentality that the university See also:plate was sent to the See also:king at York in 1642. Two years later he was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Lichfield and See also:Coventry, and resigned his presidentship. See also:Parliament declared his estates forfeited for See also:treason in 1652, and See also:Cromwell afterwards set a See also:price on his See also:head. The proclamations, however, designated him See also:Stephen Frewen, and he was consequently able to See also:escape into See also:France. At the Restoration he reappeared in public, and in 166o he was consecrated archbishop of York. In 1661 he acted as chairman of the See also:Savoy See also:conference.

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