Letter 1646

Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury to Hans Sloane – December 30, 1709


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Date: December 30, 1709
Author: Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 79-80



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Tenison is thankful that his sister is feeling better. He would like to visit Sloane in person to thank him. He is planning on selling or letting his house. Thomas Tenison was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 to his death in 1715. A staunch anti-Catholic, he devoted much time to promoting the Church of England and establishing it as the sole religious institution in England (William Marshall, Tenison, Thomas (16361715), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27130, accessed 25 May 2011]).




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