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  Cuthbert Tunstall - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A friend of Thomas More and of Erasmus, Tunstall served Henry VIII on many diplomatic missions, held numerous positions in the church, and in 1530 succeeded Thomas Wolsey as bishop of Durham.
Although Tunstall never gave up his belief in Roman Catholic dogma and although he wrote numerous tracts in Latin defending his beliefs, he adopted a policy of passive obedience to the ecclesiastical revolution of Henry VIII.
Tunstall refused to take the oath of supremacy when Elizabeth I came to the throne, and he was placed in the custody of the archbishop of Canterbury.
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 Cuthbert TUNSTALL (Bishop of Durham)
Brother of Brian Tunstall (killed 1513 at the battle of Flodden Field and immortalized at the "shining knight" in Canto 6 of Sir Walter Scott's "Marmion").
Tunstall was a learned man, a language scholar of some ability himself, and he had declared his affection for some of Erasmus’s reform oriented ideas.
In 1537 Tunstall was given the onerous position of President of the Council of the North, and Scottish affairs occupied much of his attention.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/CuthbertTunstall.htm   (954 words)

  
 Bedlington - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Its dedication recalls the transportation of the body of the saintly bishop of Lindisfarne from its shrine at Durham by the monks of that foundation to Lindisfarne, when in fear of attack from William the Conqueror.
Bedlington (Betlingtun) and the hamlets belonging to it were bought by Cutheard, bishop of Durham, between 900 and 915, and although locally situated in the county of Northumberland became part of the county palatine of Durham over which Bishop Walcher was granted royal rights by William the Conqueror.
When these rights were taken from Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, in 1536, Bedlington among his other property lost its special privileges, but was confirmed to him in 1541 with the other property of his predecessors.
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 Tyndale - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
But the persecution of the clergy led him to seek an antidote for what he regarded as the corruption of the Church, and he resolved to translate the New Testament into the vernacular.
In this he hoped to get help from Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of London, and so "with the good will of his master" he left Gloucester in the summer of 1523.
Tunstall disappointed him, so he got employment as a preacher at St Dunstan's-inthe-West, and worked at his translation, living as chaplain in the house of Humphrey Monmouth, an alderman, and forming a firm friendship with John Frith; but finding publication impossible in England, he sailed for Hamburg in May 1524.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tyndale   (817 words)

  
 Cuthbert Tunstall Summary
Cuthbert Tunstall was among the first generation of England's humanist scholars, statesmen, and ecclesiastics.
The Bishop of London, and later of Durham, Tunstall was a key Catholic figure in the troubled years of the English Reformation.
Cuthbert Tunstall (or Tonstall) (1474 – November 18, 1559) was an English church leader, twice Bishop of Durham during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Childhood and early career Cuthbert Tunstall was born at Hackforth,...
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 The Galileo Project
Tunstall was a natural son of Thomas Tunstall, legitimized later by the marriage of his parents and accepted as a member of the family.
Tunstall was an outstanding classical scholar, the friend of both Thomas More and Erasmus.
Tunstall was intimate with the whole circle of English humanists.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/tunstall.html   (791 words)

  
 Durham (Dunelmum)
A stone chapel was built to receive the remains of St. Cuthbert's body and Aldhun began a great church where the cathedral now is, which was finished and consecrated in 999.
He built the nave and aisles and the lower part of the west front, and in 1104 the shrine of St. Cuthbert was transferred to the new cathedral.
The see at this time was held by Cuthbert Tunstall, the venerable prelate who was the last Catholic bishop and who lived to witness the suppression of the monasteries, The Pilgrimage of Grace (1536), and finally the surrender of Durham Abbey (1540) which involved the spoliation of St. Cuthbert's shrine.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/durham.html   (2066 words)

  
 Cuthbert Constable
He was the son of Francis Tunstall of Wycliffe Hall, Yorkshire, England, and Cicely, daughter of John Constable, second Viscount Dunbar.
When in 1718 he succeeded, on the death of his uncle, the last Viscount Dunbar, to the estates of Burton Constable, he changed his surname from Tunstall to Constable.
He was educated at Douai and subsequently studied medicine at Montpellier, where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
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 History of the English Bible - 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Tunstall was deeply committed to the church and the king, Henry VIII.
Cuthbert Tunstall, the Bishop of London, is nursing a deep personal grudge against Tyndale and is determined to "get him" any way possible.
Direct evidence is missing, but it seems that Cuthbert, the same one Tyndale first approached for support in his translation project, figured out where Tyndale was living.
home.comcast.net /~welliott21/BibleHistory/BHLesson4.html   (1933 words)

  
 Cuthbert Tunstall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cuthbert Tunstall was born at Hackforth, Yorkshire in 1474, an illegitimate son of Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
On February 22, 1530, again by papal provision, Tunstall succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as Bishop of Durham.
On the accession of Mary I in 1553, Tunstall was set at liberty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuthbert_Tunstall   (1100 words)

  
 The William Tyndale Home Page: William Tyndale: Fire for the Ploughman
So Tunstall was leery of anything that smacked of "Lutheranism", and it was Luther’s common-language German version of the New Testament that figured prominently in the sources of the havoc.
Unfortunately for Wolsey, he was unable to secure papal permission for Henry’s divorce from Catharine quickly enough, and so was sentenced by the king to die "for treason." Just past 61 years of age, he died of fright and heart failure en route to his execution.
The bishop of London after Cuthbert Tunstall, he became infamous as one of the cruelest opponents of Protestantism to ever hold church office in England.
www.williamtyndale.com /0characterswilliamtyndale.htm   (1751 words)

  
 Tyndale' s Crucible
RP After the Bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall, refused to give Tyndale permission to translate the New Testament into English, Tyndale fled to Worms, Germany, where it was safe to print his English translation.
Tunstall couldn’t risk his position, so it was a totally political move.
Tunstall is famously reported to have said, “They can’t have the English Bible, because if they do, they’ll see what we do.” The church considered the New Testament a horrifying document for the people to have.
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 Tunstall biography
Cuthbert Tunstall was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, then left because of the plague to go to King's Hall, Cambridge.
Tunstall wrote the first printed work published in England devoted exclusively to mathematics.
Tunstall also has the distinction of having the Grynaeus's edition, being the first printed edition, of Euclid's Elements in Greek dedicated to him.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Tunstall.html   (189 words)

  
 Last Word - Cuthbert’s Choice - By Diogenes - Catholic World Report - November 2000
Cuthbert Tunstall might have been famous—as famous as St. Thomas More.
The moment of truth came during the controversy over the Oath of Supremacy when Cuthbert was summoned for a chat with his sovereign.
Later in life Bishop Tunstall regained his courage, and he did dare to oppose Queen Elizabeth I. He might well have become a martyr on the second go-round, but he died of natural causes before Elizabeth caught up with him.
www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Igpress/2000-11/lastword.html   (853 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Marmaduke Constable's uncle, Marmaduke Tunstall, who died a bachelor aged 89 in 1760, left him his estates but in order to inherit he had to resume the family name of Tunstall.
He married Miss Markham of Hoxley in Lincolnshire in 1776 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.
Tunstall was a Roman Catholic and was known as 'a man of gentle manners and high principle'.
www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk /hist3.htm   (318 words)

  
 Focus on the Bible | Restoring Bible Literacy to the Church | Articles | WILLIAM TYNDALE Covenant Theologian, Christian ...
Cuthbert Tunstall, the bishop of London who had rebuffed Tyndale earlier and referred to Tyndale and Joye as “children of iniquitie mainteiners of Luthers sect,” wrote of the arrival of these new translations in terms of a public health crisis:
Tunstall worked furiously to stem the flood of New Testaments which were being smuggled into London from the continent, but came quickly to realize that his battle against the demand-side only effort (“interdiction,” to use the phrase of our modern drug war) was doomed to failure.
Tunstall would oversee his dramatic book burning in London in St. Paul’s churchyard, which included the Testaments he had purchased from the German printers and many others.
www.focusonthebible.org /researching/index.php?id=3,193,0,0,1,0   (4205 words)

  
 William Tyndale
This permission he sought from Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of London, a scholarly man and close friend of Erasmus.
But Tunstall, loyal to Rome and afraid of the new Lutheranism, refused permission to Tyndale and became, in later years, one of Tyndale's most vicious opponents.
Many of the copies were confiscated and burned by the Roman authorities and many were bought up by the church and burned in St. Paul's by Cuthbert Tunstall.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cuthbert Tunstall
In the divorce question Tunstall acted as one of Queen Katherine's counsel, but he endeavoured to dissuade her from appealing to Rome.
On 21 Feb., 1529-30, he was translated by the pope from the Diocese of London to the more important See of Durham, a step which involved the assumption of quasi-regal power and authority within the bishopric (see DURHAM, ANCIENT CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF).
During the troubled years that followed, Tunstall was far from imitating the constancy of [St. John] Fisher and [St. Thomas] More, yet he ever held to Catholic doctrine and practices.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15091a.htm   (911 words)

  
 Tunstall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tunstall, Staffordshire, one of the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent
Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, England in the 16th century
Fred Tunstall, a footballer (soccer), who played for Sheffield United F.C. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
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 EIPS - Tyndale - A Great Hero
Cuthbert Tunstall was at this time Bishop of London and had regarded the writings of Erasmus (a Dutch writer) as very good and valuable.
He did not (as we have seen) find that place in the residence of Cuthbert Tunstall and indeed he looked to England in vain for such a provision, and he was eventually forced to leave the country.
It happened that a certain merchant named Packington, who was a friend of Tyndale, was in Antwerp at about this time (1529) and pretended to the Bishop of London who was also in the city that he could secure all Tyndale's copies of the New Testament for him and thus end their circulation.
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 AllRefer.com - Cuthbert Tunstall (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Cuthbert Tunstall (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
Cuthbert Tunstall, Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biographies
Cuthbert Tunstall[both: tun´stul] Pronunciation Key, 1474–1559, English bishop.
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 Speaking Volumes: 600 years of Cambridge University Library
Part of its premises was reclaimed for lectures, 'since in its present condition it is useless', as books were borrowed and not returned, vandalised for their illuminations, or allowed to rot as representative of obsolete disciplines.
Cuthbert Tunstall, De arte supputandi libri quattuor (London, 1522).
Cambridge University was late to embrace Renaissance learning; the first Greek texts did not arrive until 1529 as the gift of Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk /exhibitions/volumes/medieval.html   (238 words)

  
 Life of William Tyndale
John Foxe reports in his Acts and Monuments (1563) that one day at dinner, Tyndale announced to a visiting clergyman that he meant to translate the Bible so that ploughboys should be more educated than the clergyman himself.
In October, Tunstall had all the copies he could trace gathered and burned at St Paul's Cross in London.
Tunstall arranged to buy them before they left the continent, so that they could be burned in bulk.
www.tyndale.org /DeCoursey/life.html   (539 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ushaw College
It also preserves a chasuble that tradition connects with Westminster Abbey and another that belonged to Cuthbert Tunstall, the last Catholic Bishop of Durham.
The collection of relics is one of the largest extant in private hands, and includes a large relic of the True Cross and a ring that was taken from the body of St. Cuthbert when the tomb at Durham was rifled during the Reformation.
In her system of education Ushaw has clung tenaciously, though progressively, to the traditions she inherited from the "Alma Mater Duacensis" which she was founded to replace.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15233b.htm   (1672 words)

  
 Advantages of the New World Translation: William Tyndale’s Bible for the People
Strangely, those Bibles were being burned at the order of the Bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall.
More than a century later, Bishop Tunstall applied this decree in burning Tyndale’s Bible, even though Tyndale had earlier sought the approval of Tunstall.
In the opinion of Tunstall, Tyndale’s translation contained some 2,000 errors and was therefore "pestilent, scandalous, and seductive of simple minds." But was this an excuse on the part of the bishop to justify his burning of it?
jehovah.to /exe/translation/tyndale.htm   (1425 words)

  
 William Tyndale + Anwar Sadat
In London, Tyndale conceived the idea of translating the Bible into vernacular English, so that even "a boy that driveth the plough" might — not read them, of course, because literacy was in the single digits at the time, but understand the words in English, rather than the original Greek and Hebrew.
The idea was opposed by clerics such as Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall.
But the authorities were closing in on Tyndale and used subterfuge of their own: an Englishman named Henry Phillips betrayed Tyndale to the imperial authorities.
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1006almanac.htm   (657 words)

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