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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English statesman who served as Lord Chancellor to King Charles II from 1658, two years before the Restoration of the Monarchy, until 1667. He was loyal to the king, built up the royalist cause, and served as the chief minister after 1660. He was one of the most important historians of England, as author of the most influential contemporary history of the Civil War, The History of the Rebellion (1702). He was the maternal grandfather of two monarchs, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne.
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG, FRS was an English landowner and Infantry officer who later became a naval officer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1660. He served Oliver Cromwell loyally in the 1650s, but went on to play a considerable part in the Restoration of Charles II, and was rewarded with several Court offices. He served as the English Ambassador to Portugal 1661-1662, and Ambassador to Spain 1666-1668. He became an Admiral, serving in the two Anglo-Dutch Wars in the reign of Charles II, and was killed at the Battle of Solebay. Our best picture of him is contained in the diary of Samuel Pepys, who was his cousin and protégé.
The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The Dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as primus inter pares. The post of dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480.
John Thornborough (1551–1641) was an English bishop.
Robert Morton was an English priest and Bishop of Worcester.
Holmes's Bonfire was a raid on the Vlie estuary in the Netherlands, executed by the English Fleet during the Second Anglo-Dutch War on 19 and 20 August 1666. The attack, named after the commander of the landing force, Rear-Admiral Robert Holmes, was successful in destroying by fire a large merchant fleet of 140 ships. During the same action the town of West-Terschelling was burnt down, causing outrage in the Dutch Republic.
William Atwater (1440–1521) was an English churchman, who became Bishop of Lincoln in 1514
Francis Mallet was an English churchman and academic, and chaplain to Mary Tudor.
George Hall was an English bishop.
Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton, born Anne Villiers, was an English noblewoman, famed for her beauty, bravery and loyalty to the throne. The first half of the 17th-century closet drama Cicilia and Clorinda was dedicated to her.
Alan Kirketon was the Archdeacon of Totnes from 1433 until 1443.
Thomas Manning was the Archdeacon of Totnes during 1453 and Dean of Windsor from 1455 to 1461.
Ely Theological College was a school in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for training clergy in the Church of England. Founded in 1876 by James Woodford, Anglican Bishop of Ely, the college had a strong Anglo-Catholic tradition. Ely's "ritualistic" tendencies were attacked by Mr Samuel Smith MP in a House of Commons debate in 1899. The college closed in 1964.
Thomas Hutton was a Canon of Windsor from 1485 to 1487 and successively Archdeacon of Bedford, Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Archdeacon of Lincoln.
Henry Beaumont LL.D. was a Canon of Windsor from 1622 to 1628 and Dean of Peterborough from 1617 to 1628.
John Sumner DD was an English Anglican priest and educationalist.
Jonathan Davies, FRS was an English schoolmaster and Anglican priest, a Canon of Windsor from 1782 to 1791.
In England a priest was able in the past, by patronage, to hold several preferments at one time. The actual work was allocated to a curate at a minimal salary. Authors such as Anthony Trollope highlighted the injustice of this practice and it is no longer permissible.
