. Historical portraits ... e no Puritans, but only Papiststo be brought into conformity. Grindal was then and always anadvocate of gentle measures, and would no doubt have made hismark at York, but, in 1575, Cecil persuaded the Queen againsther will to make him Archbishop of Canterbury on the death ofMatthew Parker. When in the next year he refused to put downthe so-called prophesyings, that is, prayer-meetings of the stricterPuritan clergy, the Queen was very angry, and suspended him forsix months from exercising his functions, either spiritual or even tried to make him resign hi
. Historical portraits ... e no Puritans, but only Papiststo be brought into conformity. Grindal was then and always anadvocate of gentle measures, and would no doubt have made hismark at York, but, in 1575, Cecil persuaded the Queen againsther will to make him Archbishop of Canterbury on the death ofMatthew Parker. When in the next year he refused to put downthe so-called prophesyings, that is, prayer-meetings of the stricterPuritan clergy, the Queen was very angry, and suspended him forsix months from exercising his functions, either spiritual or even tried to make him resign his See, but this he refused todo. He was soon restored to his spiritual, and in the last year ofhis life to his judicial functions also, but blindness was creeping onhim and he died in 1583. Perhaps the gentlest and most personallylovable of the three successive occupants of the See of Canterburyin the reign of Elizabeth, he was certainly the least distinguishedand the least fitted to cope with the difficulties of the EDMUND GRINDALFrom the portrait at Lambeth Palace
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