Lemuel Mathews

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Lemuel Mathews, D.D. was a Welsh Anglican priest in Ireland [1] during the second half of the 17th [2] and early 18th century. [3]

Mathews was born in Swansea and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. [4] He was Chaplain to Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor from 1661 to 1667. [5] Taylor appointed him the incumbent at Glenavy. In 1666 he became Prebendary of Carncastle in Lisburn Cathedral; [6] and the following year Archdeacon of Down. [7] He became Vicar General of the diocese in 1690. [8] In 1693 a Special Visitation deprived him of all his ecclesiastical offices. [9] Mathews then spent many years trying to regain his positions, [10] but was only successful with his prebend at Carncastle. [11]

Notes

  1. ↑ 'Irish Historical Studies Vol. 31, No. 124' Major Accessions to Repositories Relating to Irish History, 1998 pp. 558-561: Cambridge; CUP; 1999
  2. ↑ National Archives
  3. ↑ Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 'Ulster Bibliography. County Down Second Series, Vol. 12, No. 1' John S. Crone pp. 35-39: Belfast; Ulster Archaeological Society; 1906)
  4. ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
  5. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, Reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
  6. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Vol III" Cotton, H. p271 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  7. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Vol III" Cotton, H. p231 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  8. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Vol III" Cotton, H. p232 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  9. ↑ "The Proceedings Against Archdeacon Lemuel Mathews at the Regal Visitation held at Lisburne (sic), 1693" p24: Published for the information of such as desire to know the True State of his CASE; Printed in the year 1703
  10. ↑ "History of the Irish Presbyterian Church" Hamilton, T. p105: Edinburgh; T and T Clark; 1887
  11. ↑ Wikisource-logo.svg "Mathews, Lemuel". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.


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