- Ralph Brownrigg
Ralph Brownrigg or Brownrig (1592–1659) was
bishop of Exeter from 1642 to 1659. He spent that time largely in exile from his see, which he perhaps never visited [ [http://anglicanhistory.org/caroline/brownrigg/index.html Ralph Brownrigg ] ] . He did find a position there for Seth Ward [ [http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/ward.html The Galileo Project ] ] . He was both a Royalist in politics, and aCalvinist in religion"...a conforming Puritan in close theological agreement with the now dominant faction", [http://anglicanhistory.org/england/lacey/thorn/01.html] .] , an unusual combination of the period. Nominated to theWestminster Assembly [ [http://www.reformed.org/books/hetherington/west_assembly/index.html?mainframe=/books/hetherington/west_assembly/chapter_2.html History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines ] ] , he apparently took no part in it.Life
He studied at
Ipswich , andPembroke Hall, Cambridge . He was awarded an M.A. in 1614 and a D.D. in 1626. ["Concise Dictionary of National Biography"] He was Rector of St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, inHertfordshire , in 1621 [ [http://unitedbenefice.wordpress.com/churches/st-margaret-of-antioch-barley/ St Margaret of Antioch, Barley « United Benefice of Barkway, Buckland and Reed with Barley ] ] .He was Master of
St Catherine's College, Cambridge [From 1631. [http://www.ligonier.org/publishing_solideogloria_meetpuritans.php?puritan_id=24] ] , andVice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge , but in 1646 was ejected from both these positions, by the Parliamentary government. [ [http://www.middleton-hall.co.uk/history/puritanray.pdf PDF] , p. 159.] .He took refuge with
Thomas Rich , lord of the manor ofSonning [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43208 Parishes - Sonning with Earley, Woodley and Sandford | British History Online ] ] .Works
He continued to preach, for example at the
Temple Church d] , and a collection of sermons of his was published posthumously. [ [http://www.geocities.com/katacheson/andreweslehmberg.html andreweslehmberg ] ]Notes
External links
* [http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Oliver/40.html Biography]
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/caroline/brownrigg/coronation.html Sermon from 1644]
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