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GOODMAN, GODFREY (1583–1656)

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GOODMAN, See also:GODFREY (1583–1656) , See also:bishop of See also:Gloucester, was See also:born at See also:Ruthin, Denbighshire, and educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Cambridge. He took orders in 1603, and in ,6o6 obtained the living of Stapleford Abbots, See also:Essex, which he held together with several other livings. He was See also:canon of See also:Windsor from 1617 and See also:dean of See also:Rochester 162o–1621, and became bishop of Gloucester in 1625. From this See also:time his tendencies towards See also:Roman Catholicism constantly got him into trouble. He preached an unsatisfactory See also:sermon at See also:court in 1626, and in 1628 incurred charges of introducing popery at Windsor. In 1633 he secured the see of See also:Hereford by See also:bribery, but See also:Archbishop See also:Laud persuaded the See also:king to refuse his consent. In r638 he was said to be converted to See also:Rome, and two years later he was imprisoned for refusing to sign the new canons denouncing popery and affirming the divine right of See also:kings. He afterwards signed and was released on See also:bail, but next See also:year the bishops who had signed were all imprisoned in the See also:Tower, by See also:order of See also:parliament, on the See also:charge of See also:treason. After eighteen See also:weeks' imprisonment Goodman was allowed to return to his See also:diocese. About 165o he settled in See also:London, where he died a confessed Roman See also:Catholic. His best known See also:book is The Fall of See also:Man (London, 1616).

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