References
Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1663
- Apr
Benjamin Laney (Bishop of Peterborough 1660-3)
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
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First Reading
TerryF • Link
Benjamin Laney (1663-1667), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1632-1633; Dean of Rochester, July 1660; Bishop of Peterborough, Dec. 1660-1663; translated to Ely, 1667; d. Jan. 1674-5. http://www.medievalarthistory.co.…
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Benjamin Lany. S.T.P., Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I., made Bishop of Peterborough, 1660, translated to Lincoln, 1662-3, and to Ely, 1667. Ob. 1674.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.
Bill • Link
LANEY, BENJAMIN (1591-1675), bishop successively of Peterborough, Lincoln, and Ely; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1611; entered Pembroke Hall; M.A., 1615; M.A. of Oxford, 1617; B.D., 1622; D.D. and master of Pembroke Hall, 1630; vice-chancellor, 1632-3; chaplain to Charles I.; deprived of his preferments as a royalist and high churchman; ejected from Cambridge, 1643-4; at Restoration recovered his mastership and other preferments; bishop of Peterborough, 1660, of Lincoln, 1663, of Ely, 1667-75. His sermons were published in 1668-9, and 'Observations' upon a letter of Hobbes of Malmesbury (anonymous, 1677).
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.