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HARSNETT, SAMUEL (1561–1631)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 30 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARSNETT, See also:SAMUEL (1561–1631) , See also:English divine, See also:arch-See also:bishop of See also:York, was See also:born at See also:Colchester in See also:June 1561, and was educated at See also:Pembroke See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, where he was successively See also:scholar, See also:fellow and See also:master (1605-1616). He was also See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university in 1606 and 1614. His ecclesiastical career began somewhat unpromisingly, for he was censured by See also:Archbishop See also:Whitgift for Romanist tendencies in a See also:sermon which he preached against See also:predestination in 1584. After holding the living of See also:Chigwell (1597—1605) he became See also:chaplain to See also:Bancroft (then bishop of See also:London), and afterwards See also:archdeacon of See also:Essex (1603-1609), See also:rector of Stisted and bishop of See also:Chichester (1609–1619) and archbishop of York (1629). He died on the 25th of May 1631. Harsnett was no favourite with the Puritan community, and See also:Charles I. ordered his Considerations for the better Settling of See also:Church See also:Government (1629) to be circulated among the bishops. His See also:Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603) furnished See also:Shakespeare with the names of the See also:spirits mentioned by See also:Edgar in See also:King See also:Lear.

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