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    Christianity portal The Savoy Conference of 1661 was a significant liturgical discussion that took place, after the Restoration of Charles II, in an attempt...
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    The Savoy Palace, considered the grandest nobleman's townhouse of medieval London, was the residence of prince John of Gaunt until it was destroyed during...
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    lobbied for revision.: 167  This dialogue culminated in the 1661 Savoy Conference at Savoy Hospital in London. From among the Anglican bishops and Puritan...
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    Great Ejection (category Savoy Conference)
    II. It was a consequence (not necessarily an intended one) of the Savoy Conference of 1661. The Act of Uniformity prescribed that any minister who refused...
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    John Wallis (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    In 1661, he was one of twelve Presbyterian representatives at the Savoy Conference.[citation needed] Besides his mathematical works he wrote on theology...
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    John Lightfoot (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    John Lightfoot (29 March 1602 – 6 December 1675) was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master...
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    New England was very different. After the English Restoration, the Savoy Conference and Uniformity Act 1662 and Great Ejection drove most of the Puritan...
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    John Tillotson (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    by Thomas Sydserf, a Scottish bishop. Tillotson was present at the Savoy Conference in 1661, and remained identified with the Presbyterians until the passing...
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    Richard Baxter (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    ill-founded, after this objective was obstructed by those on both sides. The Savoy Conference resulted in Baxter's Reformed Liturgy, though it was cast aside without...
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    William Sancroft (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    William Sancroft (30 January 1617 – 24 November 1693) was the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, and was one of the Seven Bishops imprisoned in 1688 for seditious...
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    Settlement: The Hampton Court Conference' in H. Tomlinson ed., Before the English Civil War (1983) Gunpowder Plot Savoy Conference Portals: Books Christianity...
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    1660. He had disadvantaged the Presbyterian party by convening of the Savoy Conference in 1661 to consider the future of the Church of England's liturgical...
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    Gilbert Sheldon (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    council. He was commissioned to consecrate the new Scottish bishops. The Savoy Conference of 1661 was held at his lodgings. He hardly participated but was understood...
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    printed two years after the restoration of the monarchy, following the Savoy Conference between representative Presbyterians and twelve bishops which was convened...
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    Thomas Manton (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    After Charles returned, Manton was part of the negotiations called the Savoy Conference, in which the scruples of the Presbyterians and Congregationalists...
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    William Bates (minister) (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    royal chaplains. In 1660 he acted as one of the commissioners of the Savoy conference. In 1661 Cambridge conferred on him the degree of D.D. by royal mandate...
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    Measure 1974 Revising groups Hampton Court Conference Caroline Divines Westminster Assembly Savoy Conference General Synod of the Church of England Events...
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    "godly rule". At the time of the English Restoration in 1660, the Savoy Conference was called to determine a new religious settlement for England and...
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    John Cosin (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    non-episcopal ordination had not been of their own seeking, and at the Savoy conference in 1661 he tried hard to effect a reconciliation with the Presbyterians...
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    I 1649–1688 History of the Puritans from 1649 Westminster Assembly Savoy Conference Book of Common Prayer (1662) Great Ejection Nonjuring schism 1700–1950...
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    Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736), better known as Prince Eugene, was a distinguished field marshal in the Army...
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    Presbyterians and, after banning religious petitions, told the Hampton Court Conference of 1604 that he preferred the status quo, with the monarch ruling the...
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    Peter Gunning (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    Peter Gunning (1614 – 6 July 1684) was an English Royalist church leader, Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Ely. He was born at Hoo St Werburgh, in Kent...
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    Conformist Nonconformist Puritan's Pit Religion in the United Kingdom Savoy Conference Thomas Becket The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised...
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    The House of Savoy-Carignano (Italian: Savoia-Carignano; French: Savoie-Carignan) originated as a cadet branch of the House of Savoy. It was founded by...
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    Edmund Calamy the Elder (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    Edmund Calamy (February 1600 – 29 October 1666) was an English Presbyterian church leader and divine. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations...
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    Brian Walton (bishop) (category Participants in the Savoy Conference)
    1660. In the following spring he was one of the commissioners at the Savoy Conference, but took little part in the business. In the autumn of 1661 he paid...
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    I 1649–1688 History of the Puritans from 1649 Westminster Assembly Savoy Conference Book of Common Prayer (1662) Great Ejection Nonjuring schism 1700–1950...
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  • in the parish churches of Guernsey and Jersey and at the Savoy chapel. The Savoy Conference of 1661 had made a revision, Durel produced a translation...
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    omission was one of the cherished grievances of the Puritans and in the Savoy Conference of 1661 the Presbyterians demanded its restoration; but the twelve...
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