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26-479: Oley may refer to: People Barnabas Oley (1602–1686), English churchman and academic Johann Christoph Oley (1738–1789), German organist and composer Places Oley Valley , Pennsylvania Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania Oley, Pennsylvania , a census-designated place within this township Other OleY, acronym for L-olivosyl-oleandolide 3-O-methyltransferase , an enzyme Oley ,

52-441: A car brand Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Oley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oley&oldid=1037810886 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

78-575: A wench, and that he is a very wencher as can be and tells us that is publicly known that Sir Charles Sedley had got away one of the Archbishop's wenches from him..." Such stories, spread by his enemies, were common. There is in fact no credible evidence that Sheldon led an immoral life, though Samuel Pepys's cousin Roger Pepys , a Puritan , may well have believed the gossip. A later entry in Pepys' Diary praises

104-531: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Barnabas Oley He was baptised in the parish church of Wakefield on 26 December 1602, as son of Francis Oley, a clerk, who married Mary Mattersouse on 25 June 1600. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, which he entered in 1607. In 1617 he proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge , probably as Cave's exhibitioner from his school, and graduated B.A. 1621, M.A. 1625, and B.D. A crown mandate for

130-701: The visitation , but was finally and physically ejected from All Souls in early 1648. Taken into custody, he was to have been imprisoned in Wallingford Castle with Hammond but the commander was unwilling to have them. He was freed, with restrictions on his movements, later that year. He lived quietly for a dozen years in the Midlands, at Snelston in Derbyshire or with friends in Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan , where he stayed with Sir John Aubrey. He

156-405: The conversion of William Chillingworth from Roman Catholicism. Sheldon was not initially a Laudian, and he resisted (unsuccessfully) Laud's appointment of Jeremy Taylor to a fellowship at All Souls'. In 1634 and 1640 he was pro-vice-chancellor. In 1638 he was on the commission of visitation for Merton College; the visit produced a report requiring reforms. During the years 1632–1639 he received

182-509: The countrey parson, Jacula Prudentum , &c. Prefixed was an unsigned preface by Oley. The second edition appeared in 1671 as A Priest to the Temple or the Country Parson , with a new preface, signed Barnabas Oley. These pieces were reprinted in later editions of Herbert's Works . The manuscript of The Country Parson was the property of Herbert's friend, Arthur Wodenoth , who gave it to Oley;

208-436: The degree of D.D. to him and two other eminent divines was dated 14 April, and published 17 June 1663, but the honour was declined. He was elected probationer-fellow of the foundation of Lady Clare at his college on 28 November 1623, and a senior fellow in 1627, and filled the offices of tutor and president, one of his pupils being Peter Gunning . Oley was also taxor for the university in 1634, and proctor in 1635. In 1633 Oley

234-410: The following year but he retained the stall at Worcester until his death. Oley died at Gransden on 20 February 1686, and was buried there on the night of 22 February, an inscription to his memory being placed on the wall at the west end of the interior of the church. Oley edited in 1652 Herbert's Remains, or sundry pieces of that Sweet Singer, Mr. George Herbert , containing A Priest to the Temple, or

260-554: The king at Nottingham to be converted into money for his use, it was entrusted to his care and safely brought to the king's headquarters, August 1642, a mission with John Barwick . For not residing at Cambridge, and for not appearing before the commission when summoned to attend, he was ejected by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester from his fellowship on 8 April 1644. He was also plundered of his personal and landed property, and forced to leave his benefice. For seven years Oley wandered through England in poverty. In 1643 and 1646 he

286-604: The king, especially in connection with the navy. Sheldon lost political influence after the fall of Clarendon in 1667, and by making Charles's philandering a matter of religious reproach. He was vocal against the Royal Declaration of Indulgence of 1672. He is depicted in a window in Gray's Inn Chapel . Sheldon is mentioned in Pepys' Diary who relates a story from his "Cozen Roger" that "...the Archbishop of Canterbury that now is, do keep

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312-496: The livings of Hackney (1633); Oddington, Oxfordshire ; Ickford , Buckinghamshire (1636); and Newington, Oxfordshire ; besides being a prebendary of Gloucester from 1632. Sheldon gravitated towards the Great Tew circle of Lucius Cary (Falkland), and was on friendly terms with Edward Hyde ; he had no Puritan sympathies. He became a royal chaplain through Coventry, and the king intended preferment for him, plans interrupted by

338-538: The new Scottish bishops. The Savoy Conference of 1661 was held at his lodgings. He hardly participated but was understood to be pulling strings in terms of the outcome. In his formulation, Puritan objections should be set out and considered; the point of the Conference was liturgical, to look into reform of the Book of Common Prayer . The subsequent Uniformity Act 1662 was very much in line with Sheldon's thinking. The Act

364-442: The north, near Lady Saville's demolished house. In 1659 Oley returned to Gransden, and on 9 July 1660 he was restored to his fellowship by an order of the same Earl of Manchester. Through Gilbert Sheldon he was presented on 3 August 1660 to the third prebendal stall of Worcester Cathedral , and on 8 November 1679 he was collated, on the nomination of Gunning, his old pupil, to the archdeaconry of Ely. This preferment he resigned in

390-709: The political crises. He was intimate with the Royalist leaders, and participated in the negotiations for the Uxbridge treaty of 1645. During this period he became with Henry Hammond one of the churchmen closest to the king, and attended him as Clerk of the Closet in Oxford, later in Newmarket, Suffolk and finally in the Isle of Wight . When the parliamentarians occupied Oxford in 1646 he resisted

416-512: The prefaces were a source for Izaak Walton 's memoir of Herbert. Three volumes of the works of Thomas Jackson appeared under the care of Oley in 1653-57. The three volumes were reissued in 1673, with a general dedication to Sheldon, then Archbishop of Canterbury, and with a preface to the reader enlarged and edited from the three that existed (reprinted in Jackson's Works , ed. 1844). The Jackson manuscripts were left by Oley to Thomas Lamplugh . Oley

442-448: Was a sequel to Sheldon's successful orchestration of opposition to Charles II's intended Declaration of Indulgence, earlier in 1662. He was translated to become Archbishop of Canterbury in 1663: the congé d'élire was issued on 14 July, Sheldon was elected on 11 August, royal assent was given on 20 August and his election was confirmed (in a legal ceremony by which he officially took his new post) on 31 August at Lambeth Palace ; he

468-440: Was active in fundraising for the poor clergy and for Charles II in exile. He corresponded with Jeremy Taylor, whom he supported, and with Hyde. On the death of John Palmer, whom the visitors had made warden of All Souls' in his place, on 4 March 1659, he was quietly reinstated. On 21 September 1660, Sheldon was nominated Bishop of London ; he was elected on 9 October and his election was confirmed on 23 October. On 28 October, he

494-587: Was an English religious leader who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1663 until his death. Sheldon was born in Stanton, Staffordshire in the parish of Ellastone , on 19 June 1598, the youngest son of Roger Sheldon; his father worked for Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury . He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford ; he matriculated at Oxford on 1 July 1614, graduated BA from Trinity College on 27 November 1617, and MA(Oxon) on 28 June 1620. In 1619, he

520-463: Was appointed by his college to the vicarage of Great Gransden , Huntingdonshire , and held it until his death; but for several years he continued to reside at Cambridge. The first steps for the rebuilding of the college, which was begun on 19 May 1638 but not finished until 1715, were taken under his direction; he was called by Thomas Fuller its "Master of the Fabric". When the university sent its plate to

546-409: Was at Oxford. Early in 1645, when Pontefract Castle was being defended for the king, he was within its walls, and preached to the garrison; and when Sir Marmaduke Langdale was condemned to death in 1648, but escaped from prison, and hid for some weeks in a haystack, he made his way to London in clerical dress supplied by Oley. For some time he lived at Heath, near Wakefield, and in 1652-3 he stayed in

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572-583: Was consecrated in the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey ; he had been made Dean of the Chapel Royal not long before and became Master of the Savoy not long after. Since William Juxon was now Archbishop of Canterbury, but was aged and infirm, Sheldon in practical terms exercised many of the powers of the archbishopric in the period to 1663, and he was on the privy council. He was commissioned to consecrate

598-606: Was enthroned by proxy and vested with the temporalities on 7 September. He was greatly interested in the welfare of the University of Oxford, of which he became Chancellor in 1667, succeeding Lord Clarendon , as Hyde now was. The Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford was built and endowed at his expense. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1665. He accepted much purely secular work, acting as arbiter on petitions presented through him, and taking up investigations passed on by

624-502: Was incorporated at Cambridge. In 1622 he was elected fellow of All Souls' College , where he took the degrees of BD on 11 November 1628 and DD on 25 June 1634. In 1622, he was ordained, and shortly afterwards he became domestic chaplain to Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry . In March 1636 he was elected warden of All Souls' on the death of Richard Astley. He had already made the acquaintance of William Laud , and corresponded with him on college business, university politics, and on

650-525: Was one of those appointed by Gunning to sort Nicholas Ferrar's papers. Oley built and endowed the brick school-house of 1664 in Great Gransden , now the Barnabas Oley School. Oley made other charitable bequests. In 1685, he granted money to 10 poor parishes in the diocese of Carlisle, Cumbria , in order that they should buy a set of 16 divinity books, a set to be placed in each vicarage. This

676-656: Was the first time that libraries had been provided for the poorest parishes, and was work that was taken up in the 1690s by Dr. Thomas Bray both in England and Wales, and in British North America. Attribution [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Lee, Sidney , ed. (1895). " Oley, Barnabas ". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Gilbert Sheldon Gilbert Sheldon (19 June 1598 – 9 November 1677)

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