The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot.

  • Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768
Date:
1777
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Credit: The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deep that if fhe could eat a Jack, or Pike, the child fne went with would prove a fon, and rife to great preferment. Not long after this, in taking a pail of water out of the river Wey, which ran by their houfe5 fhe accidentally caught a Jack, and had thus, an odd opportunity of fulfilling her dream. This itory being much talked of, and coming to the ears of fome perfons of diftindlion, they offered to be¬ come fponfors for the child, which was kindly accept¬ ed, and they had the goodnefs to afford many tefti- mohies of their affedtion to their god fon while at fchool, and after he was fent to the univerfity. Such was the good effects of his mother’s dream. When he was grown up to an age proper for re¬ ceiving the firft tindture ot learning, he was fent with his elder brother Robert to the free fchool, eredted in their native town of Guildford, by K Edward VI * and having paffed thro5 the rudiments of Literature, under the care of Mr. Francis Taylor, who had then the direction of that fchool, he was in 1578 removed to the univerfity of Oxford, and entered a ttudent in Baliol College. On November the 29th, 1583, being; then bachelor of arts, he was eledted probationer fellow of his college y and afterwards proceeding in the faculty of arts, he entered into holy orders, and became a celebrated preacher in the univerfity. He commenced bachelor of divinity in 1593, and pro¬ ceeded doctor in that faculty, in May, 1597 : and in the month of September, of the fame year, he was ■defied mafter of Univerfity College. About this time it was, that the firft differences began between him and Dr. Laud, which fubfifted as long as they lived, and was the caufe of great uneafinefs to both. On March 6, 1599, he was inftalled dean of Win- yh'efter, hi the room of Dr. Martin Heron, who was prefer real