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RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA Felix and P'estua
1673); and The Vanity of Scoffing (London, 1674). His chief editions are those of Aratus and Eratosthenes (Oxford, 1672) and Cyprian (1682).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. b Wood. Athena Oxoniensee, ed. P. Bees, iv. 193, London, 1820; Burnet's History o1 My Own Time, Supplement. edited by Miss H. C. Foxcroft, pp. 47, 214, 464, 509 note, Oxford, 1902; DNB, xviii. 293-295.
FEUER, fel'er or (French) f6"tar', FRAN gOIS XAVIER DE: Belgian Jesuit; b. at Brussels Aug. 18, 1735; d. at Regensburg, Bavaria, May 23, 1802. He entered the order of Jesuits in 1754 and later held professorships at Luxemburg, Lioge, and Tyrnau, Hungary, whither he had gone on the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. In 1771 he returned to Belgium, residing in Lidge and Luxemburg. In 1794 he removed to Paderborn, and in 1796 to Regensburg. His works, including the Journal de Luxembourg (70 vols., 1774-94) of which the wrote the greater part, number some, 120 volumes. The works by which he is best known appeared under the name Flexier de Rt:val, probably an anagram. They are, CaMchisme philosophique (Li6ge,1773); Dictionnaire historique et litteraire (8 vols., 1781; frequently reprinted, with additions, under the title, Biographic universelle (new ed., 8 vols., Lyons, 1860); and Coup d'wil sur le congas d'Ems (2 vols., Diisseldorf, 1789).
BIHLIodHAPHY: Notice our to vie et tee oxvrapea de Mr. t'AbbE de Fetter, Lidge, 1802; KL, iv. 1322-23; C. A. Balder, Lexicon . . . baieriacher SchriftsteUer, 4 vole., Augsburg, 1824-25.
FELLTHAM, OWEN: English author; b. at Mutford, Suffolk, c. 1602; d. at Great Billing (3 m. e.n.e. of Northampton), Northamptonshire, 1668. He was probably chaplain to the family of the Earl of Thomond, at Great Billing, and is known chiefly by his Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political (London, 1620?), a collection of 100 short essays. This work, subsequently greatly augmented, passed through numerous editions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: An extended notice will be found in DNB. xviii. 30.3-304.
FELTEN, PETER JOSEPH: German Roman Catholic; b. at Difren (18 m. e. of Aachen) Feb. 9, 1851. He studied in Bonn, Miinster, Wiirzburg (D.D.,1876), and Louvain. He was ordained priest in 1874, was professor of St. Cuthbert's College, Durham, England, 1877--86, curate at Suchteln, 1886-88, associate professor of New-Testament exegesis at the University of Bonn 1888-92, full professor since 1892. He has written Papst Gregor der Neunte (Freiburg, 1886); Robert Grosaeteste, Bischof van Lincoln (1887); Apostelgeschichte ubersetzt and erkldrt (1892); and Die Grandung and Ttitigkeit des Vereins vom Heiligen Karl Barromwua (Bonn, 1895).
FELTON, HENRY: English clergyman; b. in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, Feb. 3, 1679 d. at Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Mar. 1, 1740. He was educated at Westminster school, Charterhouse, and Saint Edmund Hall, Oxford M.A., 1702 ; B.D., 1709; D.D., 1712), of which he was made principal in 1722. On his admission to priest's orders in 1704 he left the university to preach in and about London. During 1708-09 he was pastor of the English
Church in Amsterdam. On his return he became domestic chaplain to the . duke of Rutland, retain ing this office under three successive dukes. In 1711 he was presented to the rectory of Whitwell, Derbyshire, and in 1736 to that of Barwick-in Elmet, Yorkshire. He was an eminent preacher and his tracts and sermons received considerable attention. His principal works are, A Dissertation on Reading the Classics (London, 1711; 4th ed., 1757), very popular in its day; The Resurrection o f the Same Numerical Body and its Reunion to the Same Soul (Oxford, 1725), an Easter sermon preached at Oxford to refute Locke's idea of per sonality and identity; The Christian Faith Asserted against Deists, Arians, and Soeinians (Oxford, 1732), Lady Moyer lectures delivered at St. Paul's in 1728-29, forming his greatest work; and Ser mons on the Creation, Fall, and Redemption of Man (London, 1748), published, with a sketch of Felton, by his son. BIBLIoasAPHY: DNB, xviii. 305.FELTON,JOHN: English Roman Catholic layman (d.1570). He was born of an old Norfolk family, inherited large means, and lived in the dissolved abbey of Bermondsey, near Southwark, on the Surrey side of the Thames (in present London). He was an ardent Roman Catholic, and his wife had been a maid of honor to Queen Mary. She was a child friend of Queen Elizabeth, and remained on friendly terms with her. When the papal bull excommunicating Elizabeth arrived in England he procured copies from the Spanish ambassador and circulated them. One of them he affixed to the gate of the palace of the bishop of London, then in St. Paul's churchyard, between two and three in the morning of Thursday, May 25th, 1570 (Corpus Christi Day). The bull is dated in Rome Feb. 25th, 1570. In the list of bulls it is called Regnans in excelsis, from its opening words. After a brief introduction, in which mention is made of the " One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, out of which is no salvation," it asserts that heresy was introduced into England by Henry VIII., purged away by Mary, but reintroduoed by Elizabeth. It then specifies Elizabeth's offenses in abolishing the mass and other rites and ceremonies of the Roman Church, permitting heretical books to be circulated, and in depriving the Roman Catholic clergy of their positions and imprisoning many of them. It then goes on to say: " We make it known that Elizabeth, and as many as stand on her side in these matters, have run into the danger of our curse and to be cut off from the unity of the body of Christ. We also make it known that we have deprived her of that right which she pretended to have in the kingdom aforesaid, and also from all and every authority, dignity, and privilege of hers. We declare that all, whosoever by any occasion have taken oath to her, are forever discharged of such oath, and also from all fealty and service which was due to her by reason of her government, and we deprive the said Elizabeth of all legal claim to reign and of the allegiance of the abovesaid. We charge and forbid all and every one of her nobles, subjects and people, and others aforesaid, not to be so hardy as to obey her, or her will