FREWEN, ACCEPTED archbishop of York, was born at Northiam, in Sussex, and educated at Magdalen Col lege, Oxford. As chaplain to Sir John Digby, ambassador in Spain, he preached at Madrid a sermon which pleased Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I., who, on his accession, appointed Frewen one of his chaplains. In 1625 he became canon of Canter bury and vice-president of Magdalen College, and in the following year was elected president. He was vice-chancellor of the uni versity in 1628 and 1629, and again in 1638 and 1639. It was mainly by his instrumentality that the university plate was sent to the king at York in 1642. Two years later he was consecrated bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and resigned his presidentship. Parliament declared his estates forfeited for treason in 1652, and Cromwell afterwards set a price on his head. He escaped to France, and at the Restoration was consecrated archbishop of York. In 1661 he acted as chairman of the Savoy conference.