A New And General Biographical Dictionary Containing An Account of the Live
A New And General Biographical Dictionary Containing An Account of the Live
John George Lambton Durham
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He was afterwards admitted into an high degree ot confidence with king William and queen Mary ; and their majefties had the greatest reafon to confide in him, for he was a true iriend to their cftabliih- vnent on the throne of England. The vacancies of fome bilhoprics foon turned the thoughts ot his majefty and his minifters upon the dean ; but a bilhopric was fo far from being agreeable to his hu- mour, that he ufed all pollible folicitations to avoid it. He had bsen appointed clerk of the clo...fet to the king, the 271(1 of March 1089 : in Augult he was appointed, by the chapter of his cathedral, to exercife the archiepifcopal jurifdicliou of the province of Canter- bury, devolved tohiinfelf and that body, on the ill of that month, by the fufpenfion of Sancroft, for reludng the new o:iths ; and the king foon hxed upon him to lucceed him. Tillotfon 's deiires ai^d ambition had never extended further than to the exchange of his deanery ot Canterbury for that ot St. Paul's, \\!iu h were granted him in September, upon the promotion ot Stillingr]eet t, > the biihopric of Worcefter : but.
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