The King's favour showed in the rapid promotion of Dr. Abbot. In 1609 he was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and later in the same year he was translated to London. In the next year, on the death of Archbishop Bancroft, Abbot was made Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Abbot had no sinecure in his Archbishopric, and his many enemies and the troubled state of theological matters generally left him but little peace. In 1621, when shooting with a crossbow at a buck, he accidentally killed a gamekeeper, and this not only preyed much upon his mind, but it also offered a handle for his detractors, especially those among the clergy, many of whom held that homicide rendered him unfit for his high position.
On the death of James I. Royal favour deserted the Archbishop, as Charles I. never appears to have thought well of him. In 1627, on more or less unjust pretexts, he suffered sequestration of his office, and a commission was appointed to exercise the Archiepiscopal functions, and Abbot retired to his native town, Guildford, where he died in 1633. Many of his books remain in the Library at Lambeth Palace.
_Arms._--Per pale or and gu., three roundels interchanged, a crescent for difference.
Probably belonged to the Library of a member of the Worcestershire family of Abrol.
[TUSSER. _Five hundred pointes of good Husbandrie._ 1593.]
ALBERT OF SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA, PRINCE CONSORT OF QUEEN VICTORIA
The initial "A" within the garter and ensigned with the Ducal Crown of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
[RAPHAEL. Works at Windsor Castle, 1876.]
Prince Albert (born 26th August 1819, died 14th December 1861) was the second son of Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He married Queen Victoria at St. James's, 16th February 1840, and was all his life a Patron of the Arts and of Literature, and the International Exhibition of 1851 is said to have been originally thought of by him.
Prince Albert's books were kept at one or other of the Royal Palaces, and few of them are anywhere else.
ANNE (BULLEN), QUEEN CONSORT OF HENRY VIII.
1 and 4. France } All as used by Henry VIII. 2 and 3. England } (q.v.).
1. Gu., 3 lions passant guardant or, a label of three points az., each charged with three Fleur-de-lys or. _Earls of Lancaster._