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MORLEY, GEORGE (1597-1684)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 840 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORLEY, See also:GEORGE (1597-1684) , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born in See also:London and educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Oxford. In 164o he was presented to the See also:sinecure living of Hartfield, See also:Sussex, and in the following See also:year he was made See also:canon of See also:Christ See also:Church and exchanged to the rectory of See also:Mildenhall, See also:Wiltshire. He preached before the See also:Commons in 1642, but his See also:sermon gave offence, and when in 1647 he took a prominent See also:part in resisting the See also:parliamentary visitation of Oxford University he was deprived of his canonry and living. Leaving See also:England he joined the See also:court of See also:Charles II., and became one of the leading See also:clergy at The See also:Hague. Shortly before the Restoration he came to England on a highly successful See also:mission to gain for Charles the support of the Presbyterians. In 166o he regained his canonry, and soon became See also:dean of Christ Church. In the same year he was consecrated bishop of See also:Worcester. At the See also:Savoy See also:conference of 1661 he was See also:chief representative of the bishops. He was translated to the see of See also:Winchester in 1662. His See also:works are few and chiefly polemical, e.g. The Bishop of Worcester's See also:Letter to a friend for Vindication of himself from the Calumnies of Mr See also:Richard See also:Baxter (London, 1662).

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