Richard Butler (English priest)

Richard Butler (died 14 September 1612) was

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

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.
^
doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65644
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^ 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.

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Buckeridge	Archdeacon of Northampton 1707–1737	Succeeded by Thomas Dove

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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] 
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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