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Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough (1632 - 1718)

Clergyman and philosopher closely allied with the Cambridge Platonists Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6887?docPos=1 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cumberland_(philosopher) Relevant locations: Title (royalty or holy order) Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The new Edition of the Bible in 4to. to which is added the Bishop of Worcester's learned Collection of Parallel Scriptures*, So I am informed by the R. R. Bishop of Peterborough. an Epitomy of Archbishop Usher's Chronology, An Index to the holy Bible, or an Account of the most remarkable Passages in the Old and New Testament, pointing to the Time wherein they happened, and the Places of Scripture wherein they are recorded. And Tables of Scripture-Measures, Weights and Coins; with an Appendix containing the Method of calculating its Measures of Surface, hitherto wanting in Treatises of this Subject, by the R. R. Richard Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Memorandum, That though Measures of Length and Capacity had been learnedly treated upon before, yet this of the Measures of Surfaces is a new Discovery, for which the World is obliged to the said learned Bishop Cumberland.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) The new Edition of the Bible in 4to. to which is added the Bishop of Worcester's learned Collection of Parallel Scriptures*, So I am informed by the R. R. Bishop of Peterborough. an Epitomy of Archbishop Usher's Chronology, An Index to the holy Bible, or an Account of the most remarkable Passages in the Old and New Testament, pointing to the Time wherein they happened, and the Places of Scripture wherein they are recorded. And Tables of Scripture-Measures, Weights and Coins; with an Appendix containing the Method of calculating its Measures of Surface, hitherto wanting in Treatises of this Subject, by the R. R. Richard Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Memorandum, That though Measures of Length and Capacity had been learnedly treated upon before, yet this of the Measures of Surfaces is a new Discovery, for which the World is obliged to the said learned Bishop Cumberland.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) and four Parchments containing the Subscriptions of Archbishop Parker, (of which his Mem. p. 62.) and most of the first Sett of Qu. Elizabeth's Bishops, when they took the Oath of Supremacy. These, and their Successors, are digested Alphabetically; Abbot, Atterbury; Barckley, Barlow, Bentham, Best, Beveridge, Boyle, Bramhall, Brideoake, Bridgeman, Bullingham, Burnet; Compton, Cosins, Cox, Cumberland; Davyes, Dolben, Doping; Fell, Fleetwood, Fowler; Gardiner, Geste, Goodman, Grindall, Guning; Hacket, Hall, Harsnet, Hartstong, Hooper, Hopkins, Hough, Humfreys, Huntington, Hutton; Jewel, Jones, Juxon; Ken, Kidder, King; Lake, Lamplugh, Laud, Leighton, Lloyd, Loftus; Margetson, Marsh, Matthewes, Merrick, Mewe, More, Morley, Morton, Montague; Neile, Nicolson; Palliser, Parker, Parkurst, Patrick, Pearson, Pilkington; Rainbow, Ravis, Reynolds, Robinson; Sandys, Scory, Sharp, Sheldon, Smalridge, Sprat, Stern, Stillingfleet, Stratford; Taylor, Tenison, Thornbrough, Tillotson, Turner; Usher; Wake, Walker, Walton, Watson, Wettenhall, White, Whitgift, Wickham, Wilkins, Williams, Wilson, Worth; Young.