Word: oratorship
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...early destined to service in the church. For this purpose he was sent to Westminister School at London, and from there to Trinity College in Cambridge. Ordinarily he would have immediately prepared for the priesthood, but his desire for honor still kept him at Cambridge, where he obtained the oratorship. At the death of King James, however, all his hopes of securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke, he obtained a small recforship, and in this period of consecration...