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HICKES, GEORGE (1642-1715)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HICKES, See also:GEORGE (1642-1715) , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born at Ness-sham near See also:Thirsk, See also:Yorkshire, on the loth of See also:June 1642. In 1619 he entered St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, whence after the Restoration he removed to Magdalen College and then to Magdalen See also:Hall. In 1664 he was elected See also:fellow of See also:Lincoln College, and in the following See also:year proceeded M.A in 167,3 he graduated in divinity, and in 1675 he was appointed See also:rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford. In 1676, as private See also:chaplain, he accompanied the See also:duke of See also:Lauderdale, the royal See also:commissioner, to See also:Scotland, and shortly afterwards received the degree of D.D. from St See also:Andrews. In 168o he became See also:vicar of All Hallows, See also:Barking, See also:London; and after having been made chaplain to the See also:king in 1681, he was in 1683 promoted to the deanery of See also:Worcester. He opposed both See also:James II.'s See also:declaration of See also:indulgence and See also:Monmouth's rising, and he tried in vain to See also:save from See also:death his See also:nonconformist See also:brother John Hickes (1633-1685), one of the Sedgemoor refugees harboured by Alice See also:Lisle. At the revolution of 1688, having declined to take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance, Hickes was first suspended and afterwards deprived of his deanery. When he heard of the See also:appointment of a successor he affixed to the See also:cathedral doors a " protestation and claim of right." After remaining some See also:time in concealment in London, he was sent by See also:Sancroft and the other See also:nonjurors to James II. in See also:France on matters connected with the continuance of their episcopal See also:succession; upon his return in 1694 he was himself consecrated See also:suffragan See also:bishop of See also:Thetford. His later years were largely occupied in controversies and in See also:writing, while in 1713 he persuaded two Scottish bishops, James Gadderar and See also:Archibald See also:Campbell, to assist him in consecrating See also:Jeremy See also:Collier, See also:Samuel See also:Hawes and Nathaniel Spinckes as bishops among the nonjurors. He died on the 15th of See also:December 1715. The See also:chief writings of Hickes are the Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae (1689), and Linguarum veterum Septentrionalium See also:Thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus (1703-1705), a See also:work of See also:great learning and See also:industry. Apart from these two See also:works Hickes was a voluminous and laborious author.

His earliest writings, which were See also:

anonymous, were suggested by contemporary events in Scotland that gave him great See also:satisfaction—the See also:execution of James See also:Mitchell on a See also:charge of having attempted to See also:murder See also:Archbishop See also:Sharp, and that of John Kid and John King, Presbyterian ministers, " for high See also:treason and See also:rebellion " (Ravillac Redivivus, 1678; The Spirit of Popery speaking out of the Mouths of Phanatical Protestants, 1680). In his See also:Jovian (an See also:answer to S. See also:Johnson's See also:Julian the Apostate, 1683), he endeavoured to show that the See also:Roman See also:empire was not hereditary, and that the Christians under Julian had recognized the See also:duty of passive obedience. His two See also:treatises, one Of the See also:Christian Priesthood and the other Of the Dignity of the Episcopal See also:Order, originally published in 1707, have been more than once reprinted, and See also:form three volumes of the Library of Anglo-See also:Catholic See also:Theology (1847). In 1705 and 1710 were published Collections of Controversial Letters, in 1711 a collection of Sermons, and in 1726 a See also:volume of See also:Posthumous Discourses. Other treatises, such as the Apologetical Vindication of the See also:Church of See also:England, are to be met with in See also:Edmund See also:Gibson's Preservative against Popery. There is a See also:manuscript in the Bodleian Library which sketches his See also:life to the year 1689, and many of his letters are extant in various collections. A posthumous publication of his The Constitution of the See also:Cat/talkie Church and the Nature and Consequences of See also:Schism (1716) gave rise to the celebrated Bangorian controversy. See the See also:article by the Rev. W. D. Macray in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography, vol. See also:xxvi.

(1891); and J. H. Overton, The Nonjurors (1902).

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