Thomas Sprat
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Thomas Sprat, FRS was an English churchman and writer, Bishop of Rochester from 1684.
Sprat by Michael Dahl
Frontispiece to A History of the Royal Society, showing the crowning of King Charles II. Sir Francis Bacon is shown on the right; William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, the president of the Society, is on the left.
Clerk of the Closet
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A Clerk of the Closet is a member of the clergy within the United Kingdom who is appointed to minister to the monarch of the United Kingdom.
Thomas Sprat
…Chapel Royal, Windsor in 1681, Dean of Westminster in 1683 and Bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was appointed Dean of the Chapel Royal in 1685 and was Clerk of the Closet from 1685 to 1687. Sprat was a member of James II's ecclesiastical commission, and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in…
The Tudor closet at Hampton Court Palace; the door beyond leads to the Royal Pew in the gallery of the Chapel Royal.