Morgan Godwin

English priest

Morgan Godwin was an English priest in the first half of the 17th century.[1] He was born in 1602 or 1603.[2]

Godwin was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.[3] Both his father Francis Godwin (1562-1633) and his grandfather Thomas Godwin were Church of England bishops, Thomas of Bath and Wells and Francis of Llandaff and then Hereford.[4][5] Morgan Godwin's mother was the daughter of Dr. John Wolton, bishop of Exeter.[5]

Morgan Godwin held livings at Bicknor and Lydney. He was Archdeacon of Shropshire from 1631 until his death in 1645.[6] He was also a prebendary at Hereford Cathedral. Godwin was a committed Royalist who had once been Charles I’s personal priest.[4]

Godwin translated his father's book Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus annales into English during his father's lifetime.[7]

The Morgan Godwin baptised at Bicknor on 2 December 1640, who became a priest in Virginia, and argued for the conversion of African slaves and native Americans to Christianity, was his son.[8][9][4]

References

  1. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ from the First Erection Thereof to this Present Year 1715" p120: London; J.Nutt; 1716
  2. ^ "Godwin, Morgan, 1602 or 3-1645 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  3. ^ 569–599 Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Gilpin-Greenhaugh
  4. ^ a b c "Morgan Godwyn – Trade Preferred Before Religion (1685) | Slavery Law & Power in Early America and the British Empire". blog.umd.edu. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  5. ^ a b Cooper, Thompson (1890). "Godwin, Francis" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 22. pp. 56–58.
  6. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 10, pp. 12–14
  7. ^ "Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus annales. English, by Francis Godwin et al. | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  8. ^ Goodwin, Gordon (1890). "Godwin, Morgan" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 22. p. 62.
  9. ^ "Godwin, Morgan". The Episcopal Church. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
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