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NEILE, RICHARD (15621640)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 350 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NEILE, RICHARD (15621640) , English divine, was educated at Westminster school and at St John's College,
Cambridge
 . His first important preferment was as dean of Westminster (16o5); afterwards he held successively the bishoprics of Rochester (16o8), Lichfield (161o), Lincoln (1614), Durham (1617) and Winchester (1628), and the archbishopric of
York
  (1631). When at Rochester he appointed William Laud as his chaplain and gave him several valuable preferments. His political activity while
bishop
  of Durham was rewarded with a privy councillorship in 1627.
Neile
  sat regularly in the courts of
star
 -chamber and high commission. His correspondence with Laud and with Sir Dudley Carleton and Sir Francis Windebank (Charles I.'s secretaries of state) are valuable sources for the history of the time.


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