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nn, _English Rationalism in the 19th Century_ (2 vols., London, 1906); A. C. Benson, _Life of Archbishop E. W. Benson_ (2 vols., London, 1899); J. W. Burgon, _Lives of Twelve Good Men_ (2 vols., London, 1888); R. W. Church, _History of the Oxford Movement_ (London, 1891); J. T. Coleridge, _Life of Keble_ (Oxford, 1869); R. T. Davidson and W. Benham, _Life of Archbishop A. C. Tait_ (2 vols., London, 1892); H. P. Liddon and J. O. Johnston, _Life of Pusey_ (4 vols., London, 1893-1895); T. Mozley, _Reminiscences of Oriel and the Oxford Movement_ (2 vols., London, 1882); J. H. Newman, _Apologia pro Vita sua_ (London, 1864); R. Prothero, _Correspondence of Dean A. P. Stanley_ (2 vols., London, 1893); R. G. Wilberforce and A. Ashwell, _Life of Bishop S. Wilberforce_ (3 vols., London, 1879) _Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts_ (1883), and _Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline_ (1906), both H.M. Stationery Office; _Official Year Book of the Church of England_, S.P.C.K. (1906). (W. HU.) ENGLEFIELD, SIR FRANCIS (c. 1520-1596), English Roman Catholic politician, born probably about 1520, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Englefield of Englefield, Berkshire, justice of the common pleas. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton, one of the well-known Catholic family of Coughton, Warwickshire. Francis, who succeeded his father in 1537, was too young to have taken any part in the opposition to the abolition of the Roman jurisdiction and dissolution of the monasteries; and he acquiesced in these measures to the extent of taking the oath of royal supremacy, serving as sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire in 1546-1547, and accepting in 1545 a grant of the manor of Tilehurst, which had belonged to Reading Abbey. He was even knighted at the coronation of Edward VI. in February 1547. But the progress of the Reformation during that reign alienated him, and he attached his fortunes to the cause of the princess Mary, whose service he entered before 1551. In August of that year he was sent to the Tower for permitting Mass to be celebrated in Mary's household. He was released in the following March, and permitted to resume his duties in Mary's service. But in February 1553 he was again summoned before the privy council, and may have been in confinement at the crisis of July; perhaps he was only released on Mary's triumph, for his name does
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