单词 | queen's preacher |
释义 | > as lemmasQueen's Preacher Queen's Preacher n. British (now historical) (during the reign of a queen) any one of four clergymen appointed as itinerant preachers to promote Protestant doctrine in areas of Lancashire where Roman Catholicism persisted after the Reformation; cf. King's Preacher n. at king n. Compounds 5b.The office was created by Queen Elizabeth I in 1599 and was abolished in 1845, by which time it had come to be regarded as a sinecure. ΚΠ 1600 Bp. Vaughn Let. 20 Feb. in Hist. MSS Comm.: Cal. MSS Marquis of Salisbury (1904) X. 41 in Parl. Papers Cd. 2052 (modernized text) LXVIII. 44 I have seated the Queen's Preachers in Lancashire.., I have put one in every part of the county where there are most recusants. 1713 E. Calamy Abridgem. Baxter's Hist. Life & Times (ed. 2) II. 404 The 50l. per Annum, bequeath'd by Queen Elizabeth to Four itenerant Preachers in Lancashire. I suppose the Allowance..is still continu'd, to Four such Persons, who are call'd the King's or Queen's Preachers. 1869 R. Halley Lancashire I. iii. 118 Nowell..obtained the restoration of an annual grant of two hundred pounds to support the four queen's preachers who itinerated through the benighted districts of the county. 1987 J. Walton Social Hist. Lancs. iii. 48 Of the four Queen's Preachers appointed to strengthen the preaching ministry in Lancashire in 1599, at least three had marked Puritan leanings. < as lemmas |
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