Llorente's character and writings have been the object of as extravagant praise by some as of extravagant cen- sure by others. He lived in a time of great fermenta- tion, and in a country where the struggle between prog- ress and conservatism gave rise to innumerable par- ties: under these circumstances he remained true to progress, and if he did not remain true also to any of the divers political parties, it was because he could not maintain his tideUty to both. When writing the his- tory of the Inquisition, he was j'et a fervent Koman Catholic ; and in attacking an institution which he con- sidered and proved to have been more political than re- ligious, he undeservedly received the censure of a large proportion of the Roman CathoUc world; he did not mean to attack the Komish Church, but, on the contrary, to vindicate it from the imputation of having been sol- idly concerned in the transaction of that fell tribunal. If in his subsequent works he went further, and attack- ed the Koman Catholic Church itself, the reason is to be found in the persecutions he endured at the hands of that Church. Llorente is not to be considered as a his- torian; neither his literary talents, nor his historical knowledge, nor the gift of correctly combining and con- necting events, gave him any title to that appellation. His greatest production, the Ci-itical History of the In- quisition, such Protestant historians as Prescott and Kanke judge to be of but little value, because of its par- tisan character, and the exaggerations in which it abounds, and, as the readers of this Cyclopedia must have noticed, in the article Inquisition (see especially p. 603, col. 1), he has rarely been quoted. His only credit in the work is that lie brought together much material before inaccessible. We might say Llorente was a good and diligent compiler, but too ardent a par- tisan to be aught of a historian. See his autobiography entitled Notitia biograjica o Memorias para la Ilistoria de su Vidu (1818) ; IMahul, A'o/ice bior/raphique siir Don J. II. Llorente (1823); Prescott, Hist, of Ferdinand and Isabella, i, pt. i ; Ranke, Hist, of the Papacy, i, 142, 272 ; ii, 293 ; Monthly Revieiv, xci (1820), Append. ; Revue En- cyclopedique (1823). (J. H.W.)
Lloyd, Charles Hooker, a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 21, 1833. His early life was spent m mercantile pursuits in New York
City. In 1856, however, purposing to become a mis- sionary to the heathen, he entered New York Universi- ty ; later he studied divinity in the theological semina- ry at Princeton, N.J., and graduated in 1862. He was licensed and ordained as an evangelist by the New York Presbytery April 29, 1862, and appointed (June 21, 1862) by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to South Africa. He did not, however, do much eifective mission work, as he died Feb. 10, 1865. Mr. Lloyd, as a preacher, was eminently wise to win souls. He was gifted with a strong passion for music, and wrote and arranged many chants and hjonns for the African converts. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1867, p. 169.
Lloyd, Thomas, a noted Quaker preacher, was born in North Wales in 1619. While a student at Ox- ford University, he visited, during a vacation, his broth- er Charles, who had been imprisoned for Quakerism at Welch-Pool, and by the latter's influence became him- self a convert to the religion of the Friends. He imme- diately left Oxford, suffered with the Quakers in their persecutions, and became an " instructor" on their " First- days." On account of persecution, reproach, and loss of property for his religion's sake, he emigrated to Penn- sylvania soon after the first settlement of that province. He died July 10, 1691. As president of the council, and subsequently as deputy governor of Pennsylvania, he exercised a most salutary influence upon the inter- ests and progress of the colony. See Januey's History of Friends, ii, ch. xvii; iii, ch. ii.
Lloyd, 'William, a noted English prelate, was born in Berksliire in 1627, and was educated at Oriel Coflcge, Oxford. In 1640 he removed to Jesus College, where he became fellow in 1646. He took deacon's or- ders from Dr. Skinner at the time of Charles's execution. In 1656 he was ordained priest, and acted as tutor of John Backhouse, son of Sir Wm. Backhouse, at Wadham College, Oxford. In 1660 he became master of arts at Cambridge, and was also made a prebendary of Ripon, in Yorkshire. In 1666 he was appointed king's chap- lain, and in 1667 was collated to a prebend of Salisbury, and proceeded doctor of divinity at Oxford. In 16(i8 he was presented to the vicarage of St. Marj-'s, in Read- ing, and also installed archdeacon of Merioneth, in the church of Bangor, of which he became deacon in 1672, besides being made prebend in St. Paul's Church, Lon- don. In 1674 he was made residentiary of Salisburj', and in 1676 promoted to the see of Exeter, the vicarage of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Westminster. In 1680 he was appointed bishop of St. Asaph, was translated to Lichfield in 1692, and to Worcester m 1699-1700. He took an active part in the troubles between the Roman- ists and Protestants in 1678. He preached the funeral sermon of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, believed to have been murdered in carrying out what is known as the popish plot for overthrowing Protestantism in England. In 1688, with six other bishops, he signed, and, as spokes- man, presented to the king, a memorial against the pub- lication of his declaration of indidgence to Romanists and Dissenters. He was one of the six bishops who, together with archbishop Sancroft, composing the illus- trious seven bishops, for their refusal to publish the king's declaration, were shortly after imprisoned by James II in the Tower, and, after trial, acquitted, to the great joy of aU England. He became almoner to Wil- liam III, and later also to queen Anne. He died at Hartleburj' Castle Aug. 30, 1717. Lloyd furnished val- uable materials to Burnet's History of his Oicn Times, and wrote Considerations touching the true Way to sup- press Popery in this Kingdom, etc. (Lond. 1684, 8vo, 2d edit.) [a work which was attacked by JIacKenzie {De- fence of the A ntiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland, etc.), and was defended by bishop Stillingfleet {OriginesBrit.), who reprinted it, with Notes by T. P. Panton (Oxford, 1842, 2 vols. 8vo)]: — History of the Government of the Church of Great Britain : — A Dissertation on Daniel's Seventy Weeks: — A System of Chronology (1712) : — Har-