22/28 His son, Thomas Sherlock, D.D., born 1678, was also a distinguished theological writer. He was made Bishop of Salisbury in 1689. He is principally known by his _History of the Reformation_, written in the Protestant interest, and by his greater work, the _History of my Own Times_. Not without a decided bias, this latter work is specially valuable as the narration of an eye-witness. The history has been variously criticized for prejudice and inaccuracy; but it fills what would otherwise have been a great vacuum in English historical literature. |