Godfrey Goodman, bishop of Gloucester 1583-1656
1953, First Edition. London : S. P. C. K. Provenance: Bookplate of Suzanne Eward. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Shadow staining to prelims. Spine tanned lightly as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #400338
Series; Church Historical Society. New Series ; 58. Physical description; xiii, 511 p., plates : tables (folding). Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Contents; The Cymric background -- Childhood -- Westminster school -- Cambridge -- The path to preferment -- The country parson -- "The fall of man" -- Windsor -- "The greater part of my wealth" -- "A very good preferment" -- "The creatvres praysing God" [i.e., creatures praising God] -- Nolo episcopari? -- A pyrrhic victory -- Living dangerously -- Growing discomfort -- Rustic retirements -- The doldrums -- The case of John Workman -- The loss of Hereford -- Escapist essays -- St. Godfrey of Gloucester -- "Our religion and theirs is the same" -- Salmagundi -- "Sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance -- The loss of Windsor -- A sop to Cerberus? -- "For a short time popular" -- The bubble burst -- Impeachment -- High treason -- The Tower -- Labyrinthine ways -- "A poor mountain cottage -- Vain repetitions -- Loyal skirmishings -- Westminster -- "Semi-pope jargon"? -- "The late Church of England" -- "Scandalled into popery"? Subjects; Goodman, Godfrey 1583-1656. Goodman, Godfrey Bishop of Gloucester. Church of England Bishops ; Biography. Bishops England ; Biography. Authors, English Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Biography. Catholic converts England.
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