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  1. 1643-1715. British historian and bishop,
  2. author of History of His Own Time 1723-24.
  3. His Whig views having brought him into
  4. disfavour, he retired to the Netherlands on
  5. the accession of James II and became the
  6. confidential adviser of William of Orange,
  7. with whom he sailed to England in 1688. He
  8. was appointed bishop of Salisbury in 1689.
  9.