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Francis Gastrell (1662–1725) was bishop of Chester and a writer on deism. He was a friend of Jonathan Swift, mentioned several times in ''A Journal to Stella'', and chaplain to Robert Harley, when Harley was speaker of the House of Commons.〔(Francis Gastrell ), Jonathan Swift's 1710-1713 London letter-journal, Swiftiana, (archived version )〕〔''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''〕 ==Life== He was born on 10 May 1662 at Slapton, Northamptonshire and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.〔 He was Boyle Lecturer in 1697.〔(Francis Gastrell Bibliography ), Eighteenth Century Bibliography〕 One of a group of Tory High Churchmen, he was on good terms with Francis Atterbury, George Smalridge and Robert Nelson, and one of the Commission of the end of the reign of Queen Anne.〔(The Commissions For Building Fifty New Churches the Minute Books, 1711-27, A Calendar. Originally published by London Record Society, London, 1986. ), British History Online〕 In 1714, the year of her death, he became bishop of Chester through Harley's influence (consecrated on 14 April of that year in Somerset House Chapel). When Atterbury was put on trial in 1723, Gastrell spoke in his defence.〔Linda Colley, ''In Defiance of Oligarchy'' (1982), p. 105.〕 He was a noted controversialist, but considered to hold moderate views. He criticised Anthony Collins, but was quite approving of John Locke.〔David Berman, ''A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell'' (1990), p. 79.〕〔Andrew Pyle (editor), ''Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers'' (2000), article pp. 329-331.〕 He criticised the Trinitarian theories of William Sherlock as innovative.〔Michael Alexander Stewart, ''English Philosophy in the Age of Locke'' (2000), p. 119.〕 As a diocesan bishop, he is noted for the fine-grained survey he made of every parish, published in the nineteenth century as ''Notitia Cestriensis''. Along with it was published the so-called Gastrell Manuscript, or ''Chronicle of St. Werburg'', edited by F. R. Raines.〔https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67184〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Gastrell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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