Francis Gastrell (10 May 1662 – 24 November 1725) was Bishop of Chester and a writer on deism. He was a friend of Jonathan Swift.
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Francis Gastrell
Bischof
Francis Gastrell war Bischof von Chester und ein Autor über Deismus. Er war ein Freund von Jonathan Swift, der mehrmals in A Journal to Stella erwähnt wurde, und Kaplan von Robert Harley, 1. Earl of Oxford und Earl Mortimer, als Harley Sprecher... Wikipedia (Englisch)
Geboren: 10. Mai 1662, Slapton, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verstorben: 24. November 1725, Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Ausbildung: Christ Church und Westminster School
Bücher
Notitia Cestriensis
1850
The Principles of Deism Truly Represented and Set in a Clear Light: In Two Dialogues Between a Sceptick and a Deist. The First Concerning the Christian Revelation. The Second Concerning Natural Religion
1708
The Christian institutes, or, The sincere word of God
A moral proof of the certainty of a future state
1725
Notitia Cestriensis, Or, Historical Notices Of The Diocese Of Chester: Cheshire
Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester: Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices Of The Diocese Of Chester; Volume 22
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Who knocked down Shakespeare's house?
Gastrell was already in the town's bad books after chopping down a mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare in the garden. Then, in an extraordinary fit of spite, he demolished the whole house in 1759. It was never rebuilt and only the foundations remain.
Why was Shakespeare's New Place demolished?
His application was rejected and his tax was increased, so Gastrell retaliated by demolishing the house in 1759.
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(d. 1772),. a vicar (not of Stratford) who in 1756 bought from Sir John Clopton the house that had replaced Shakespeare's New Place, along with its gardens.