John Bridges (bishop)

John Bridges (1536–1618) was an English bishop.

Life

Born in 1536, he graduated M.A. at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1560, having been a Fellow there since 1556.^[1] He became Dean of Salisbury in 1577.^[2]

He was appointed Bishop of Oxford on the accession of James I of England, and took part in the Hampton Court Conference, in 1604.^[2]^[3]

Works

A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of England for Ecclesiastical Matters (1587) was a controversial work, expanded to 1400 pages from a Paul's Cross sermon, aimed at the theories of church polity of Thomas Cartwright, Laurence Chaderton and Walter Travers in defence of the current Church of England settlement. It brought replies by Dudley Fenner and Travers. It also provoked the first of the tracts by Martin Marprelate, Oh read over D. John Bridges ... Printed at the cost and charges of M. Marprelate gentleman (1588).^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]

He was formerly considered a possible author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, now attributed to William Stevenson.^[7]

Quotes

He is known to have coined the phrase, "a fool and his money are soon parted," originally written in the 1587 Defence treatise.

If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them..let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted.^[8]

Notes

^ "Bridges, John (BRGS554J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ ^a ^b ^c Concise Dictionary of National Biography
^ "History of the See of Oxford • King's Handbook to the Cathedrals of England".
^ Cyndia Susan Clegg, Press Censorship in Elizabethan England(1997), p. 184.
^ Whitney Richard David Jones, The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793 (2000), p. 98.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pamphlets" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 659.
^ "Gammer Gurton's needle". Oxford University Computing Services. Archived from the original on 1 July 2008.
^ "'A fool and his money are soon parted' - the meaning and origin of this phrase".

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Underhill	Bishop of Oxford 1604–1618	Succeeded by John Howson

[1] "Bridges, John (BRGS554J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[CDNB-2] Concise Dictionary of National Biography

[3] "History of the See of Oxford • King's Handbook to the Cathedrals of England".

[4] Cyndia Susan Clegg, Press Censorship in Elizabethan England(1997), p. 184.

[5] Whitney Richard David Jones, The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793 (2000), p. 98.

[6] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pamphlets" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 659.

[7] "Gammer Gurton's needle". Oxford University Computing Services. Archived from the original on 1 July 2008.

[quote-8] "'A fool and his money are soon parted' - the meaning and origin of this phrase".

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