George Abbot (archbishop)

See also: Abbot

George Abbot , wire of a Tisserand, born in 1562, with Guilford, in the County of Surrey, Puritan dedicated, one of the preachers of the church Anglican, was successively Master and vice-chancellor of University College Oxford, senior of Winchester, bishop of Lichfield and London, archbishop of Canterbury.

He had, in several occasions, courage to be opposed to the wills court, in particular in the business of the count and the Comtesse of Essex, whose Divorce was so highly continued by the king. The dissolution of the marriage having been marked in the majority only of 2 votes, the archbishop protested against this judgment.

It witnessed Jacques Ier his bed of death, and was present at the sacring of Charles Ier. This king had just raised, under the name of loan, a subsidy which was not authorized by the law. A sermon, preached with sat Northampton in favor of this loan was addressed to the primacy, with an order of the court which enjoignait to him to authorize the impression ; having refused its signature, it was relegated in its Country house, and the Primatie remained entrusted at a commission. With the re-entry of the Parliament, the Chambre of the pars claimed the re-establishment of the Archevêque, but it lost the good graces of the king.

Its works are numerous; it is necessary to quote its translation of the New Testament and its Histoire of the massacres of the Valletine . He died in 1633.

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