ANDREWES, LANCELOT • An eminent English prelate. He was born in London. September 25, 1555, and educated successively at the Coopers' Free Grammar School, Ratcliffe, Merchant Taylors' School, London, and Pem broke Hall, Cambridge, of which college, after having greatly distinguished himself by his in dustry and acquirements, he was in 1576 elected a fellow. On taking orders, 1580, he accompa nied the Earl of Huntingdon to theNo•th of Eng land. His talents attracted the notice of Wal singham, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State. who appointed him successively, in 1589, to the vicarage of St. Giles, Cripplegate, a prebendary and canon residentiary of St. Paul's, a preben dary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell. and master of Pembroke Hall. The Queen next testi fled her esteem for his gifts and piety by ap pointing him one of her chaplains in ordinary mall/eon of 1Vestminster. He rose still higher in favor with King James, who was well qualified to appreciate his extensive learning and peculiar style of oratory. He attended the Hampton Court Conference, as one of the ecclesiastical com missioners, and took part in the translation of the Bible. The portion on which he was engaged was the first twelve books of the Old Testament. In 1605 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester. In 1609 he was translated to the see of Ely, and appointed one of his :Majesty's privy councillors both for England and Scotland. To the latter country he accompanied the King in 1617, as one of the royal instruments for persuading the Scotch of the superiority of episcopacy over pres bytery. In 1619 he was translated to Winehes1
ter. He died in Winchester House, Southwark, London, on September 25, 1626. Bishop An drewes. was, with the exception of Ussher, the most learned English theologian of his time. As a preacher he was regarded by his contemporaries as unrivaled; but the excellent qualities of his discourses are apt to suffer much depreciation in modern judgment from the e.dremely arti ficial and frigid character of the style. His prin cipal works published dnring his life were two treatises in reply to Cardinal Bellarmin, in de fense of the right of princes over ecclesiastical assemblies. His other works consist of sermons, lectures, and manuals of devotion. Bishop An drewes was the most eminent of that Anglican school in the seventeenth century of which the nineteenth witnessed a revival under the name of Puseyism. Its distinctive peculiarities were high views of ecclesiastical authority, and of the effi cacy of sacraments, ceremonies, and apostolic succession, and extreme opposition to Puritan ism. His works are in the Library of Anglo Catholic Theology, Oxford, 1841-54, 11 volumes. Of most fame are his Devotions (many editions, London. 1898) ; Seventeen Sermons on the iVa tirity (1887). For his life. consult: Whyte (Edinburgh. 1896), and M. Wood (New York, 1898).