Robert Abbot (Guildford, about 1560- Salisbury, 1617) was the Anglican Bishop of Salisbury in 1615. The elder brother of the Archbishop, George Abbot, he shared his brother's good fortune. Having passed through the same course of education with his brother, he early distinguished himself as a preacher, and his popular talents procured him the living of Bingham, in Nottinghamshire. In 1594, Abbot appeared as a writer against the Roman Catholic Church, in a piece titled, … Wikipedia
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