John Bridges (bishop)

John Bridges (1536–1618) was an English bishop.

Life

He graduated M.A. at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1560, having been a Fellow there since 1556.^[1] He became Dean of Salisbury in 1577.^[2]

He was appointed Bishop of Oxford on the accession of James I of England, and took part in the Hampton Court Conference, in 1604.^[2]^[3]

Works

A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of England for Ecclesiastical Matters (1587) was a controversial work, expanded to 1400 pages from a Paul's Cross sermon, aimed at the theories of church polity of Thomas Cartwright, Laurence Chaderton and Walter Travers in defence of the current Church of England settlement. It brought replies by Dudley Fenner and Travers. It also provoked the first of the tracts by Martin Marprelate, Oh read over D. John Bridges ... Printed at the cost and charges of M. Marprelate gentleman (1588).^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]

He was formerly considered a possible author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, now attributed to William Stevenson.^[7]

Notes

^ Bridges, John in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
^ ^a ^b ^c Concise Dictionary of National Biography
^ http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/England/_Topics/churches/_Texts/KINCAT*/Oxford/2.html
^ Cyndia Susan Clegg, Press Censorship in Elizabethan England(1997), p. 184.
^ Whitney Richard David Jones, The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793 (2000), p. 98.
^ http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pamphlets
^ http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/headers/1788.xml

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Underhill	Bishop of Oxford 1604–1618	Succeeded by John Howson

Bishops of Oxford

Early modern	Robert King Thomas Goldwell Hugh Curwen John Underhill John Bridges John Howson Richard Corbet John Bancroft Robert Skinner William Paul Walter Blandford The Lord Crew Henry Compton John Fell Samuel Parker Timothy Hall John Hough William Talbot John Potter Thomas Secker John Hume Robert Lowth John Butler Edward Smallwell John Randolph

Late modern	Charles Moss William Jackson Edward Legge Charles Lloyd Richard Bagot Samuel Wilberforce John Mackarness William Stubbs Francis Paget Charles Gore Hubert Burge Thomas Strong Kenneth Kirk Harry Carpenter Kenneth Woollcombe Patrick Rodger Richard Harries John Pritchard

Persondata
Name	Bridges, John
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Date of birth	1536
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Date of death	1618
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