 | 1816 - 788 pages
...which he, following the rule of the primitive church, would never change for a better. He used to say his church was his wife, and he would never part with her, because she was poor. He continued in great favour with the king, till the business of the Divorce... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1816 - 720 pages
...which he, following the rule of the primitive church, would never change for a better : he used to say, his church was his wife, and he would never part with her, because she was poor. He continued in great favour with the King till the business of the divorce was... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1825 - 620 pages
...which he, following the rule of the primitive church, would never change for a better ; he used to say his church was his wife, and he would never part with her because she was poor. He continued in great favour with the king till the business of the divorce was... | |
 | Robert Sangster Rait - 1910 - 394 pages
...London Bridge. He could never be induced to change his bishopric for a better one, and often said that his church was his wife, and he would never part with her because she was poor. He was the last to live at the Rochester Palace, which was let for a term of... | |
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VII. gave him the bishoprick of Rochester; which he, following the rule of the primitive church, would never change for a better; he used to say his church was his wife, and he would never part with her because she was poor. He continued in great favour... 