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The Letters of George Davenport, 1651-1677 (Hardcover, New)
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The Letters of George Davenport, 1651-1677 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society
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Letters written by a clergyman during the late seventeenth century
illuminate the religious turmoil of the period. This book provides
an edition of the letters of George Davenport, an Anglican
clergyman in the north of England whose adult career covered the
period of the Interregnum and the Restoration. Many of the letters
are to his former Cambridge tutor, William Sancroft, beginning from
1651 after Sancroft had been expelled from Cambridge, and
continuing after the Restoration when Davenport replaced Sancroft
as chaplain to John Cosin, bishop of Durham, later becoming Rector
of Houghton-le Spring, Durham. They were written to keep Sancroft
supplied with information about Durham, where he was a prebendary
with license to be non-resident, needing to collect revenues from
his living and then torebuild his prebendal house. The earlier
letters reveal something about the life of an illegally (since
episcopally) ordained young Anglican who, unlike many, did not go
into exile but stayed largely in London supported by friends.
Davenport eventually became a most conscientious resident parish
priest and the letters throw considerable light on the Restoration
settlement in the Durham diocese, from the `beautifying' of
Houghton church to the catechisingof the people and the collection
of tithes from a sometimes tardy flock. Davenport also helped Cosin
to Catalogue his famous library and himself gave many manuscripts
to it, of which a list is included here as an appendix. The letters
are presented here with full introduction and elucidatory notes.
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