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Montagu, Richard, 1577-1641


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    • Mountague, Richard, 1577-1641
    • Mountagu, Richard, 1577-1641
    • Montagu, Richard, Bp. of Norwich, 1577-1641
    • Montacutius, Richardus, 1577-1641
    • Montague, Richard, 1577-1641

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    • Montagu, Richard, Bp. of Norwich, 1577-1641

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    • found: His The acts and monuments of the church ... 1642:t.p. (Richard Montagu)
    • found: DNB(Montagu or Mountague, Richard, 1577-1641; controversialist and bishop)
    • found: Handbook of Brit. chronology, 1986:p.240 (Montague, Richard, Bishop of Chichester from 1628 until he was translated to Norwich in 1638)
    • found: LC data base, 3/18/86(hdg.: Montagu, Richard, Bp. of Norwich, 1577-1641; usage: Richard Montagu, Richard Mountagu)
    • found: Photius. Epistolai, 1651:t.p. (...Richardum Montacutium)
    • found: Its Articles of enquiry and direction for the diocese of Norwich, 1638.
    • found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 31 August 2017(Mountague, Richard (bap. 1575, d. 1641), bishop of Norwich and religious controversialist; baptized on 18 November 1575 at St James-the-Less, Dorney, Buckinghamshire, the son of Lawrence Mountague (d. 1580), vicar there; educated at Eton College (1590-1594); admitted to King's College, Cambridge, 24 August 1594; graduated BA in 1598, proceeded MA early in 1602, proceeded BD in 1609; ordained deacon 6 May 1604 and priest 16 May 1604; appointed chaplain to Bishop James Montagu of Bath and Wells (spring of 1608?); royal patronage of James I; in May 1613, appointed to a royal living, the rectory of Stanford Rivers, Essex; a royal chaplaincy about 1615; the deanery of Hereford in Michaelmas term 1616, archdeaconry September 1617-July 1623; a canonry at Windsor 6 September 1617; secured the living of the rectory of Petworth, Sussex, on 8 April 1623; regular annual residence in Windsor, Stanford Rivers, and Petworth; continued as royal chaplain-in-ordinary to Charles I; early works included editions of Greek patristic texts; early controversial, anti-Catholic works included Diatribae upon the First Part of the "Late History of Tithes" (1621), A Gagg for the New Gospell? No: a New Gagg for an Old Goose (1624), Immediate addresse unto God alone ... revised and inlarged to a just treatise of invocation of saints (1624), Antidiatribae ad priorem pantem diatribarum J. Caesaris Bulenger (1625), Appello Caesarem: a Just Appeale from Two Unjust Informers (1625), which was attacked in the House of Commons (royal pardon 16 January 1629); with the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham and the death of the Bishop George Carleton of Chichester, was appointed to the vacant see; elected Bishop of Chichester on 14 July 1628, consecrated 24 August 1628; residence in the palace at Chichester and Aldingbourne Manor; attacks by puritan opponents; ally of Archbishop Laud; continued to produce patristical and historical tomes; translated to the diocese of Norwich, replacing Matthew Wren, who moved to Ely; elected 4 May 1638, formalities completed 12 May 1638; petition from Norwich to the House of Commons, attacking Mountague, 23 February 1640; died at Norwich on 13 April 1641; buried in Norwich Cathedral 15 April 1641; a scholarly and caustic apologist for the Anglican middle path; defence of the catholicity of the Church of England and a denial that Calvinism could be equated with her doctrine embroiled him in bitter theological controversy; his writings later proved a source for theological ammunition for Oxford Movement luminaries such as Edward Pusey and the lesser known Frederick Oakley)
    • found: ACAD, A Cambridge alumni database, 1 September 2017(Richard Montagu; born 1577; admitted at King's College, 1594; B.A. 1598, M.A. 1602, B.D. 1609, D.D. 1620; rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex , 1613-28; Dean of Hereford (Herefordshire), 1616-17; Archdeacon 1617-29; Canon of Windsor (Berkshire), 1617-28; Chaplain to James I 1617; rector of Petworth, Sussex , 1623-38; Bishop of Chichester (Sussex), 1628-38; Bishop of Norwich (Norfolk), 1638-41; author, controversial; died 1641:04:13; buried in Norwich Cathedral, Norwich (Norfolk); D.N.B. cited as a source)
    • found: Britannica academic, 5 September 2017(Richard Montagu, Montagu also spelled Mountague (born December? 1577, Dorney, Buckinghamshire, Eng.--died April 13, 1641, Norwich, Norfolk), Anglican bishop, scholar, and theological polemicist whose attempt to seek a middle road between Roman Catholic and Calvinist extremes brought a threat of impeachment from his bishopric by Parliament)
    • found: Ancestry Library 5 September 2017:Richard Montague (for Rev. Richard Montague, Richard Montagu, Richard Mountague, cites birth dates of 18 Oct 1575 (from England, select births and christenings, 1538-1975), 18 Nov 1575 (from user family trees), 1577 (from DNB), and1578 (from Chalmers' general biographical dictionary))
    • found: FamilySearch, 5 September 2017:England births and christenings, 1538-1975, 2014 (Richard Mountague; male; christening date: 18 October 1575; christening place: Dorney, Buckingham, England) - https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1473014
    • found: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 5 September 2017:Macauley, John S. (bibliographic record: Macauley, John S. Richard Mountague: Caroline bishop, 1575-1641; Ph. D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1964)
    • found: Coward, Barry. The Stuart age, 2012:index, page 580 (Montague, Richard) page 144-145 (a noted Laudian, favored by Charles I in summer 1628, appointed as bishop of Chichester) page 538 (1625, July: Richard Montague, author of the pro-Arminian A new gag, made Charles's chaplain)

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    • 1986-04-18: new
    • 2017-09-06: revised

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