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SACHEVERELL, HENRY (1674-1724)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 971 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SACHEVERELL, See also:HENRY (1674-1724) , See also:English ecclesiastic and politician, was the son of See also:Joshua Sacheverell, See also:rector of St See also:Peter's, See also:Marlborough. He was adopted by his godfather, See also:Edward Hearst, and his wife, and was sent to Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1689, was demy of his college from 1689 to 1701 and See also:fellow from 1701 to 1713. See also:Addison, another See also:Wiltshire lad, entered at the same college two years earlier, but was also elected a demy in 1689; he inscribed to Sacheverell in 1694 his See also:account of the greatest English poets. Sacheverell took his degree of B.A. in 1693, and became M.A. in 1695 and D.D. in 1708. His first preferment was the small vicarage of See also:Cannock in See also:Stafford-See also:shire; but he leapt into See also:notice when holding a preachership at St Saviour's, See also:Southwark. His famous sermons on the See also:church in danger from the neglect of the Whig See also:ministry to keep guard over its interests were preached, the one at See also:Derby on the 15th of See also:August, the other at St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral on the 5th of See also:November 1709. They were immediately reprinted, the latter being dedicated to the See also:lord See also:mayor and the former to the author's kinsman, See also:George Sacheverell, high See also:sheriff of Derby for the See also:year; and, as the passions of the whole See also:British See also:population were at this See also:period keenly exercised between the See also:rival factions of Whig and Tory, the vehement invectives of this furious divine on behalf of an ecclesiastical institution which supplied the bulk of the adherents of the Tories made him their idol. The Whig ministry, then slowly but surely losing the support of the See also:country, were divided in See also:opinion as to the propriety of prosecuting this zealous See also:parson. See also:Somers was against such a measure; but See also:Godolphin, who was believed to be personally alluded to in one of these harangues under the See also:nickname of " Volpone," urged the See also:necessity of a See also:prosecution, and gained the See also:day. The trial lasted from 27th See also:February to 23rd See also:March 1710, and the See also:verdict was that Sacheverell should be suspended for three years and that the two sermons should be burnt at the Royal See also:Exchange. This was the See also:decree of the See also:state, and it had the effect of making him a See also:martyr in the eyes of the populace and of bringing about the downfall of the ministry.

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