Sti1lingfleet

Sti1lingfleet, EDWARD (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester, was born in Dorsetshire, and took his degree at Cambridge. After he was ordained he received a living at Sutton, and while there published his Irenicum, a work which he subsequently retracted to some extent. At the Restoration he was given several valuable preferments, and on the accession of William III. was appointed to the see of Worcester. He was engaged during most of his life in strong controversy with the Catholics and Dissenters, and wrote many works against them. His two chief works are his Origines Sacrae, or a Rational Account of the Christian Faith, and his erudite history of the British Church, 0rigines Britannicae.