The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Daily entries from the 17th century London diary

Peter Gunning

1893 text

Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely. He had continued to read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. Evelyn relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife being among them. There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in Evelyn’s Diary. When he obtained the mastership of St. John’s College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life. He was a great controversialist, and a man of great reading. Burnet says he “was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no prudence in affairs” (“Hist. of his Own. Time”). He died July 6th, 1684, aged seventy-one.

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Chris Adams   Link to this

More information of Peter Gunning from the Diocese of Ely http://www.ely.anglican.org/history/talk1999020...

language hat   Link to this

Description of Gunning and pre-Restoration Anglican churchgoing
from Bryant's Pepys bio:

"...[Pepys] now [1658-59] transferred his affections to that Church in which he had been born... In one or two obscure corners of London there were still cellars and upper rooms... where the ministers of the banished Church defied the law and read the old Prayer Book to Anglican congregations. These Pepys now began to patronize, setting out on a Sunday morning from Westminster to hear Mr Gunning at Cary House by Exeter 'Change... read his Church's glorious and forbidden liturgy and preach on such subjects as the blessed widowhood of Anne, the mother of the Virgin."

Roger Miller   Link to this

John Evelyn's diary is online at AStext. These are the entries for 1657 including that for December 25th mentioned above.

http://astext.com/history/ed_1657.html (Click on re-FRAME to navigate the site.)

The site includes copies of correspondence between Pepys and Evelyn and an as yet partial searchable database of Pepys' meals.

Susanna   Link to this

1911 Britannica

There is an entry for Gunning in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is available online here:

http://99.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GU/GUNNING_PET...

vicente   Link to this

according to this review Gunning was very pro Rome..' Dr. Gunning appeared to lean considerably towards a reconciliation of the church of England to Rome. He used, says Bishop Burnet, all the arts of sophistry in as confident a manner, as if they had been sound reasoning, and was very fond of Popish rituals and ceremonies.

http://www.newblehome.co.uk/bates/biog-memoir.html

Pedro.   Link to this

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