Ussher
JAMES, an Irish clergyman, archbishop of Armagh; born in Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 4, 1581. He was USURY the first student of Trinity College, Dublin; ordained 1601. In 1612 he published "The Unbroken Succession of Christian Churches, Especially in the West." In 1615 he was employed to draw up the articles for the Irish Established Church.
He corresponded extensively with European scholars, and employed persons to visit the East for the purchase of manuscripts; two of the most valuable obtained were the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Old Testament in Syriac. In 1639 he printed his "Antiquities of the British Churches." His principal other works are: "Tracts on Episcopacy"; "The Power of the Prince and the Obedience of the Subject"; "Annals of the Old and New Testament," containing his famous scheme of Biblical chronologyfollowed without authority, by the p Bible." The volume entitled, "A Body of Divinity" (1854, folio) was compiled without his consent from his sermons and notes. He died March 21, 1656; and he was buried in Westminster Abbey. His library was given to Trinity College, Dublin. printhe "Authorized Version of the