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DNB

 * Article title: Abbot, George (1562-1633)
 * Author: Lee, Sidney Lazarus
 * LEAD: ABBOT, GEORGE (1562–1633), archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Guildford on 29 Oct. 1562.
 * Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1
 * LEAD: ABBOT, GEORGE (1562–1633), archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Guildford on 29 Oct. 1562.
 * Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1

General
"[The fullest accounts of Abbot’s life are to be found in the Biographia Britannica and in Hook’s Lives of the Archbishops. The former was by William Oldys, and was reprinted at Guildford, in a separate volume by Speaker Onslow, a fellow-townsman of Abbot, in 1777. It is full of references to all printed authorities accessible in the eighteenth century. Hook’s Life (1875) attempts to incorporate with the older biography some more recently discovered information, but is only very partially successful; it is disfigured by many errors as to dates and by want of sympathy with Abbot’s position. Hook gave a less elaborate, but more valuable, account of Abbot in his Ecclesiastical Biography, 1845. By far the best account of Abbot is to be found in Mr. S. R. Gardiner’s sketches of him in his History of England. Original authorities for Abbot’s biography are his own papers and works, referred to above, which should be compared with Laud’s diary and Heylin’s Cyprianus Anglicanus, or the Life of Laud, on the other side. Abbot’s will was printed at Guildford by Onslow in 1777. Hearne’s biographical notice in Rawlinson MS. C. 146, f. 386, and Dr. White Kennet’s biographical notes on Abbot in Lansdowne MS. 984, are of very little value. The Domestic State Papers from 1600 to 1633 are full of references to his public and private life, and contain a vast number of his letters. The Rolls of Parliament; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses; Strype’s Annals; Winwood’s Memorials; Rymer’s Fœdera; Hacket’s Life of Williams; and the publications of the Camden, Abbotsford, and Bannatyne Societies concerning the reign of James I throw occasional light on Abbot’s life; Nichols’s Progresses is very useful for his relations with the court. It is important to compare the views taken of him in Clarendon’s History, in Fuller’s Church History, and in Neal’s History of the Puritans.]"

Cites

 * Murray’s Surrey, p. 74
 * Fuller’s Abel Redivivus, p. 539
 * Aubrey, Miscellanies, ed. 1857, p. 58
 * History, i. 125, ed. 1849
 * Chamberlain’s Letters, Camd. Soc., p. 102
 * Manningham’s Diary, Camd. Soc., pp. 126–7
 * Laud’s Diary, in his Works, iii. 145
 * H. Savage, Balliofergus, p. 114
 * Heylin, ed. 1668, p. 54
 * Foley, Records, vi. 192
 * Strype, Annals, II. i. 498
 * Nichols, Progresses, i. 559
 * Hist. of Kirk of Scotland, published by the Wodrow Soc. vi. 735
 * Orig. Letters on Eccles. Affairs, Bannatyne Club, i. 146
 * Calderwood, vii. 150
 * Appendix to the Scourge of Folly
 * Nichols, Progresses, ii. 424 n.
 * Le Neve, Fasti
 * Rawlinson MS. at Oxford, C. 155, No. 54
 * Egerton Papers, Camd. Soc. pp. 446–8
 * Spedding, Life of Bacon, v. 91
 * Winwood, Memorials, iii. 459–60
 * Strype, Annals, II. i. 252
 * Goodman, Court of James I, i. 339
 * cf. his letters in Lewis Atterbury’s Some Letters relating to the Council of Trent, 1705
 * Cal. State Papers
 * Pattison, Life of Casaubon, pp. 410, 418, 429
 * Calderwood, History, vii. 218, 226
 * Letters during Reign of James I, Bannatyne Club, ii. 471 et seq.
 * cf. Strype, Annals, iv. 564
 * Winwood, Memorials, iii. 454
 * Goodman, Court of James I, ed. Brewer, ii. 157
 * Spedding, Bacon, v. 205
 * Weldon, Court of King James, printed in Secret History of James I’s Court, 1811, i. 388
 * Spedding, v. 288
 * Goodman, Court of James I, ii. 160
 * Rushworth, Collections, i. 456
 * Gardiner, History, ed. 1884, iii. 53
 * Abbot to Sir Thomas Roe, 19 Feb. 1618–19
 * Cabala, ed. 1654, i. 169
 * Biog. Brit.
 * Laud’s Diary in Works, iii. 134
 * Yonge’s Diary, Camd. Soc., p. 43
 * Reliquiæ Spelmanniæ, pp. 111–120, under date 19 Oct. 1621
 * Nichols, Progresses, ii. 626
 * Rushworth, Collections, i. 431–3
 * Burrows, Worthies of All Souls, pp. 126 et seq.
 * Martin, Archives of All Souls College, pp. 310–77
 * Harl. MS. 7000, f. 181
 * Fuller, Church History, ed. Brewer, vi. 44, note
 * Cal. Clarendon Papers, i. 40
 * Memorials, 18, ed. 1732
 * cf. May, Long Parliament, p. 23, ed. 1854
 * History, i. 134, ed. 1849
 * Church History, ed. Brewer, vi. 46

Likenesses

 * Evans, Cat. of Engraved Portraits, i. 1, ii. 1