The Henson Journals

Thomas Morton

Thomas Morton (1564-1659; ODNB), bishop of Chester, 1616-19, Coventry and Lichfield, 1619-32, and Durham, 1632-41; fled Durham after the Scottish invasion in 1640; impeached with other bishops 1641, and thereafter in financial straits; a moderate Calvinist, closely associated with A Catholic appeal to Protestants (1609), a response to catholic attacks on protestant understandings of the Church.

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