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Excerpt from A Consultation on the Subject of a Standing Army, Held at the King's-Arms Tavern, on the Twenty-Eighth Day of February, 1763 I am fure, gehtlemen, none of you fufpeel: me'of anything unfair, in recommending this method. Ihave no private ends to anfwer. Ihave the honour, indeed, to be a counfellor, but you all know, that it is not a profitable honour. It only gives me a title and a precedency amongfl: you, which I am not fo ri diculoufly formal as to value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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He was not a member of either Cambridge or Oxford University, but in later life he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Cambridge.
As a young man he was a tutor in the family of Mr Child, a banker. Having taken orders he became a popular preacher in London, and in 1754 he published a sermon, preached at Street Paul"s Cathedral before the Sons of the Clergy. In the title-page, he is described as chaplain to the Princess Dowager of Wales.
In the same year, he also published a sermon preached before the trustees of the Public Infirmary.
He was installed as a prebendary of Winchester in 1760. In the title-page of a sermon preached before the House of Commons at Saint Margaret"s, Westminster, on the occasion of a general fast in 1758, he is described as minister of Great Yarmouth and chaplain to the Princess Dowager.
Despite of this relationship to the princess"s household, in 1762 he issued a political pamphlet addressed to the "Cocoa Tree" (the Cocoa-Tree Club was associated with the Tories) and signed "A Whig." In this pamphlet, which ran to three editions, he bitterly attacked John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and the conduct of his ministry since the accession of George III. He was appointed chaplain to Thomas Hayter, received the living of Everley, Wiltshire, and on the recommendation of Arthur Onslow was made one of the king"s chaplains. In 1769 he was made archdeacon of Surrey.
During the American War of Independence he issued a number of political pamphlets, under the signature of "Vindex," in which he strongly supports the policy of Lord North.
In 1777, he was appointed Bishop of Oxford, being consecrated at Lambeth on 25 May. Butler had now adopted strong Tory principles, and on 30 January 1787 preached before the House of Lords about the death of Charles I. While bishop of Oxford he helped Carl Gottfried Woide to transcribe the Codex Alexandrinus. In 1788, he was translated to the bishopric of Hereford.
He died in 1802, in his eighty-fifth year, leaving no children.In 1786, a great fire burnt down the old medieval west end of the cathedral nave.
John Butler was responsible for a fore-shortened modern construction. He also installed a private chapel for the bishop"s entourage in the palace, which is adjoined by the cloisters to the cathedral.
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