Richard Butler (priest)

Richard Butler (d. 14 September 1612) was Archdeacon of Northampton from 9 July 1611 until his death.^[1] Butler was among the earliest Arminians, along with John Buckeridge (his predecessor), Benjamin Carier, and Richard Neile.^[2]^[3]

Butler was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.^[4] He was ordained deacon and priest in 1588 at Peterborough. He held incumbencies at Spratton (starting 1591) and Ashton-in-the-Wall (starting 1602).^[3]

Butler attended the Hampton Court Conference of 1604, where he famously described Puritans as being Prostestants "frayed out of [their] wits".^[3] He received his Doctor of Divinity in 1608, on the same day as William Laud.^[3] Butler assisted Neile in the examination of Edward Wightman, who was the last person to be burned at the stake in England for heresy.^[3] Butler was one of the founding benefactors of St John's College, Oxford, to which he bequeathed certain medieval manuscripts, including Richard Rolle's Parce mihi.^[5]

References[]

^ Horn, Joyce M. (1996), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 8, pp. 122–123
^ Cambers, Andrew (2012). Lewycky, Nadine; Morton, Adam (eds.). "Reading Libels in Early Seventeenth-Century Northamptonshire". Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Shiels. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: 118.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Foster, Andrew. "Butler, Richard (d. 1612), Church of England clergyman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65644. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p273
^ Ogilvie-Thomson, S. J. (2007). The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist VIII. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. p. xviii.

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[1] Horn, Joyce M. (1996), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 8, pp. 122–123

[Cambers-2] Cambers, Andrew (2012). Lewycky, Nadine; Morton, Adam (eds.). "Reading Libels in Early Seventeenth-Century Northamptonshire". Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Shiels. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate: 118.

[ODNB-3] Foster, Andrew. "Butler, Richard (d. 1612), Church of England clergyman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65644. Retrieved 5 December 2021.

[4] Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p273

[Ogilvie-Thomson-5] Ogilvie-Thomson, S. J. (2007). The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist VIII. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. p. xviii.

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v t Archdeacons of Northampton
High Medieval	Herbert Poore Savaric FitzGeldewin () (i.e. ) () Richard Gravesend Thomas of Sutton
Late Medieval	Richard Bury d'Aungerville John Gynwell John Bokyngham William of Wykeham / Henry Wakefield Walter Skirlaw Henry Bowet Thomas Butiller Robert FitzHugh William Grey George Neville John Chadworth William Say John Rudying or
Early modern	John Apharry (ap Harry, Parry) Nicholas Sheppard John Buckeridge Richard Butler John Quarles Richard Cumberland John Browne William Brown William Strong Owen Davys
Late modern	Francis Thicknesse William Holden Hutton Norman Lang Carey Knyvett John Grimes Ronald Goodchild Bazil Marsh Michael Chapman Christine Allsopp Richard Ormston

v t Diocese of Peterborough
Peterborough Cathedral
Office holders	Donald Allister, Bishop of Peterborough John Holbrook, Bishop suffragan of Brixworth AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough & Rod Thomas, Bishop suffragan of Maidstone Chris Dalliston, Dean of Peterborough Richard Ormston, Archdeacon of Northampton and Acting Archdeacon of Oakham , Archdeacon-designate of Oakham
Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Leicester (1888–1927; Diocese of Leicester erected) Archdeacon of Leicester (1837–1926; became Diocese of Leicester) Archdeacon of Loughborough (1921–1926; became Diocese of Leicester)