Richard Barnes (1532 – 24 August 1587) was an

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priest who served as a bishop in the

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during the reign of

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Early life, education and family

He was born in

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which was then a village near St Helens in south

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. He attended

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and then was admitted to

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. Here he was elected a

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in 1552, and received his BA in 1553. This was followed by a BD and then a postgraduate MA in 1557. Finally he became a DD in 1579. Barnes was ordained a deacon on 24 September 1558 at St Bartholomew-the-Great by Peter Wall, Bishop of Clonmacnoise and a priest on 7 December by

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at his manor's chapel. After receiving Holy Orders he was made

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in Yorkshire. In 1561 he was appointed

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(and canon of the Laughton

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which was annexed thereto) of York Minster, which offices he held until 1571. He married Fredesmund Gifford in the 1560s. Their daughter Mary was born about 1567; she married Richard

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of Hyde Hall in

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. (Jocelyn was an ancestor of the Baronets Jocelyn of Hyde Hall, the Viscounts Jocelyn and the

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by his second wife Joyce Atkinson.)

Episcopal career

In 1567 he was appointed Bishop suffragan of Nottingham and later, in 1570, was appointed

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. As bishop, he soon gained a reputation as someone dedicated to seeking out recusants. In 1575 he was translated to Durham, as a result of the patronage of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley: his

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to that See was

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on 9 MayThe Injunctions and other Ecclesiastical Proceedings of Richard Barnes, Bishop of Durham, from 1575 to 1587: p. IX
(Accessed 1 February 2014) and he was enthroned at

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on 19 May. It seems that he was on bad terms with

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, then

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. One possible reason for this is that Barnes disapproved of Grindal's refusal to suppress the prophesyings – which refusal had led to Grindal being suspended from office.

Whittingham affair

At the first Metropolitan

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of Barnes' tenure, in 1577, Edwin Sandys,

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, delegated his authority to Barnes. However, he met determined opposition from the Dean,

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, who refused to allow him in to the

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. In retaliation, Barnes

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Whittingham. Barnes later, during a legitimate episcopal visitation, described the diocese's affairs thus: :''...that Augiae Stabulum, the church of Durham ... whose stink is grievous in the nose of God and of men and which to purge far passeth Hercules' labours'' (BL,

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25, fols. 161–2) However, the conspiracy against Whittingham was brought to an end by the dean's death in 1579.

Styles and titles

*1532–1558: Richard Barnes Esq. *1558–1561: ''

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'' Richard Barnes *1561–1567: ''The Reverend'' Canon Richard Barnes *1567–1579: ''

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'' Richard Barnes *1579–1587: ''The Right Reverend'' Doctor Richard Barnes

References

Sources

*Foster, Alan, ''A History of Farnworth Church, its Parish and Village'', 1981. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnes, Richard 1532 births 1587 deaths Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Bishops of Carlisle Bishops of Durham Anglican suffragan bishops of Nottingham Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford People from St Helens, Merseyside 16th-century Church of England bishops