Editing Gilbert Sheldon (section)

==Bishop of London==
On 21 September 1660, Sheldon was nominated [[Bishop of London]]; he was elected on 9 October and his election was confirmed on 23 October. On 28 October, he was consecrated in the [[Henry VII Chapel]] at [[Westminster Abbey]]; he had been made [[Dean of the Chapel Royal]] not long before and became [[Master of the Savoy]] not long after. Since [[William Juxon]] was now Archbishop of Canterbury, but was aged and infirm, Sheldon in practical terms exercised many of the powers of the archbishopric in the period to 1663, and he was on the privy council. He was commissioned to consecrate the new Scottish bishops.<ref name="DNB" />

The [[Savoy Conference]] of 1661 was held at his lodgings. He hardly participated but was understood to be pulling strings in terms of the outcome. In his formulation, [[Puritan]] objections should be set out and considered; the point of the Conference was liturgical, to look into reform of the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]''. The subsequent [[Uniformity Act 1662]] was very much in line with Sheldon's thinking.<ref name="DNB" /> The Act was a sequel to Sheldon's successful orchestration of opposition to Charles II's intended Declaration of Indulgence, earlier in 1662.<ref name="FR">Ronald H. Fritze, William B. Robison, ''Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603–1689'' (1996), p. 492</ref>