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JEWEL, JOHN (1522-1571)

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JEWEL, See also:JOHN (1522-1571) , See also:bishop of See also:Salisbury, son of John Jewel of Buden, See also:Devonshire, was See also:born on the 24th of May 1522, and educated under his See also:uncle John See also:Bellamy, See also:rector of See also:Hampton,and other private tutors until his matriculation at Merton See also:college, See also:Oxford, in See also:July 1535. There he was taught by John Parkhurst, afterwards bishop of See also:Norwich; but on the 19th of See also:August 1539 he was elected See also:scholar of Corpus Christi college. He graduated B.A. in 1540, and M.A. in 1545, having been elected See also:fellow of his college in 1542. He made some See also:mark as a teacher at Oxford, and became after 1547 one of the See also:chief disciples of See also:Peter See also:Martyr. He graduated B.D. in 1552, and was made See also:vicar of Sunningwell, and public orator of the university, in which capacity he had to compose a congratulatory See also:epistle to See also:Mary on her See also:accession. In See also:April 1554 he acted as See also:notary to See also:Cranmer and See also:Ridley at their disputation, but in the autumn he signed a See also:series of See also:Catholic articles. He was, nevertheless, suspected, fled to See also:London, and thence to See also:Frankfort, which he reached in See also:March 1555. There he sided with See also:Coxe against See also:Knox, but soon joined Martyr at See also:Strassburg, accompanied him to See also:Zurich, and then paid a visit to See also:Padua. Under See also:Elizabeth's See also:succession he returned to See also:England, and made See also:earnest efforts to secure what would now be called a See also:low-See also:church See also:settlement of See also:religion. Indeed, his attitude was hardly distinguishable from that of the Elizabethan Puritans, but he gradually modified it under the stress of See also:office and responsibility. He was one of the disputants selected to confute the Romanists at the See also:conference of See also:Westminster after See also:Easter 1559; he was select preacher at St See also:Paul's See also:cross on the 15th of See also:June; and in the autumn was engaged as one of the royal visitors of the western counties. " His See also:cone d'elire as bishop of Salisbury had been made out on the 27th of July, but he was not consecrated until the 21st of See also:January 156o.

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literary apologist of the Elizabethan settlement. He had on the 26th of See also:November 1559, in a See also:sermon at St Paul's Cross, challenged all comers to prove the See also:Roman See also:case out of the Scriptures, or the See also:councils or Fathers for the first six See also:hundred years after See also:Christ. He repeated his See also:challenge in 1560, and Dr See also:Henry See also:Cole took it up. The chief result was Jewel's Apologia ecclesiae Anglicanae, published in 1562, which in Bishop See also:Creighton's words is " the first methodical statement of the position of the Church of England against the Church of See also:Rome, and forms the ground-See also:work of all subsequent controversy." A more formidable antagonist than Cole now entered the lists in the See also:person of See also:Thomas See also:Harding, an Oxford contemporary whom Jewel had deprived of his prebend in Salisbury See also:Cathedral for recusancy. He published an elaborate and See also:bitter See also:Answer in 1564, to which Jewel issued a Reply in 1565. Harding followed with a Confutation, and Jewel with a See also:Defence, of the See also:Apology in 1566 and 1567; the combatants ranged over the whole See also:field of the Anglo-Roman controversy, and Jewel's See also:theology was officially enjoined upon the Church by See also:Archbishop See also:Bancroft in the reign of See also:James I. Latterly Jewel had been confronted with See also:criticism from a different See also:quarter. The arguments that had weaned him from his Zwinglian simplicity did not satisfy his unpromoted brethren, and Jewel had to refuse See also:admission to a See also:benefice to his friend Laurence See also:Humphrey (q.v.), who would not See also:wear a See also:surplice. He was consulted a See also:good See also:deal by the See also:government on such questions as England's attitude towards the See also:council of See also:Trent, and See also:political considerations made him more and more hostile to Puritan demands with which he had previously sympathized. He wrote an attack on See also:Cartwright; which was published after his See also:death by See also:Whitgift. He died on the 23rd of See also:September 1571, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, where he had built a library. See also:Hooker, who speaks of Jewel as " the worthiest divine that Christendom hath bred for some hundreds of years," was one of the boys whom Jewel prepared in his See also:house for the university; and his Ecclesiastical Polity owes much to Jewel's training.

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works were published in a See also:folio in 1609 under the direction of Bancroft, who ordered the Apology to be placed in churches, in some of which it may still be seen chained to the See also:lectern; other See also:editions appeared at Oxford (1848, 8 vols.) and See also:Cambridge (See also:Parker See also:Soc., 4 vols.). See also See also:Gough's See also:Index to Parker Soc. Publ. ; See also:Strype's Works (See also:General Index); Acts of the Privy Council; Calendars of Domestic and See also:Spanish See also:State Papers; See also:Dixon's and See also:Frere's Church Histories; and See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography (See also:art. by Bishop Creighton). (A. F.

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