MORTON, THOMAS (1564-1659)

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MORTON, THOMAS (1564-1659) , English bishop, was born at

York

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, and was educated at

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

and

Halifax

grammar-schools and St John's College,

Cambridge

, where he became fellow on taking his degree. He was ordained in 1592, and held the office of university lecturer in logic till in 1598 he was presented to the living of Long Marston, Yorkshire. He gained a considerable reputation as a

Protestant

PROTESTANT

controversialist, and published numerous works against Roman Catholicism,

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

among them being the Apologia catholica (16o5) and A Catholicke Appeale (1609). He held successively the deaneries of Gloucester (16o6), Winchester (16og), and a canonry at York (r61o). In 1616 he became bishop of Chester, in 1618 bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and in 1632 bishop of Durham. On the abolition of the episcopate in 1646 he was assigned a pension, but it was never paid, and the remainder of his life was passed in retirement.

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