Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . few years earlier, and over whichhe was at the time presiding. The Apostle of the North took afatherly interest in his young relative, and when his school-days wereover sent him to St. Edmunds Hall, Oxford, where he was admittedin the beginning of the year 1576. Anthony Wood describes the 458 GEORGE CARLETON. youth as a successful student, who passed his examinations withcredit to himself, his Northern tutor, and his college. In the latterend of 1579, he took a degree in arts, and forthwith completed itby determination, his disputes being then noted to excee
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . few years earlier, and over whichhe was at the time presiding. The Apostle of the North took afatherly interest in his young relative, and when his school-days wereover sent him to St. Edmunds Hall, Oxford, where he was admittedin the beginning of the year 1576. Anthony Wood describes the 458 GEORGE CARLETON. youth as a successful student, who passed his examinations withcredit to himself, his Northern tutor, and his college. In the latterend of 1579, he took a degree in arts, and forthwith completed itby determination, his disputes being then noted to exceed any of hisfellows that did their exercise in the same Lent. The following yearhe was elected a probationer fellow of Merton College, where helived for some time, being esteemed a good orator and poet, wellversed in the Fathers and schoolmen, and wanting nothing thTatmight make him a complete theologist. Carleton obtained his first preferment at Mayfield, Sussex, ofwhich place he was appointed vicar in 1589. IMr. Robert Gibbs, in. Bishop CarJghn. The Worthies of Bucks, shows that in 1605 he was presented bySir Francis Goodwin to the rectory of the third portion of Waddes-don, in the church of which village is a tablet to the memory of GuyCarleton, his father, who died in 1608, aged 94. It is supposed thathe remained at Waddesdon till King James I., who had made himone of his chaplains, raised him to the See of Llandaff in 1618. Heheld Llandaff little more than a year, for, being appointed one of theEnglish divines who were sent to the Synod of Dordt, he behavedhimself so admirable well to the credit of our nation, that upon hisreturn he was elected to the See of Chichester, confirmed by hisMajesty, 20th September, 1619. He maintained at Dordt thedoctrine of apostolical succession in the Church of England, against GEORGE CARLETON. 459 a proposed article which affirmed that ministers of the Word, where-soever settled, had equal jurisdiction and authority, being all ministersof C
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