Excerpt from The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall D.D, Vol. 5: Sometime Lord Archibishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan of All Ireland, With a Life of the Author, and a Collection of His Letters
Bramhall, says Comber (as just quoted, p. Was not either by nature or study much of an orator. And compare what Vesey himself says of him in his Life, above in vol. I. P. Xiv.; and the quotation from Thurloe's State Papers, given above in vol. 111. P. 23. Note f.
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Bramhall was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, the son of Peter Bramhall (died 1635) of Carleton. He matriculated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1609, and graduated B.A. 1612, M.A. 1616, B.D. 1623, D.D. 1630 . He was ordained around 1616, and was presented with a Yorkshire living, South Kilvington, by Christopher Wandesford.
He went to Ireland in 1633 with Thomas Wentworth and was archdeacon of Meath. As a royal commissioner he worked to obtain the surrender of fee-farms on episcopal and clerical revenues, recovering church income. He was consecrated bishop of Derry in the chapel of Dublin Castle on 16 May 1634, succeeding the Puritan George Downham.... Show more