FREWEN

frewen, accepted (1588-1664), archbishop of york, was born at northiam, in sussex, and educated at magdalen college, oxford, where in 1612 he became a fellow. in 1617 and 1621 the college allowed him to act as chaplain to sir john digby, ambassador in spain. at madrid he preached a sermon which pleased prince charles, afterwards charles i., and the latter on his accession appointed frewen one of his chaplains. in 1625 he became canon of canterbury and vice-president of magdalen college, and in the following year he was elected president. he was vice-chancellor of the university in 1628 and 1629, and again in 1638 and 1639. it was mainly by his instrumentality that the university plate was sent to the king at york in 1642. two years later he was consecrated bishop of lichfield and coventry, and resigned his presidentship. parliament declared his estates forfeited for treason in 1652, and cromwell afterwards set a price on his head. the proclamations, however, designated him stephen frewen, and he was consequently able to escape into france. at the restoration he reappeared in public, and in 1660 he was consecrated archbishop of york. in 1661 he acted as chairman of the savoy conference. frey (old norse, freyr) son of njord, one of the chief deities in the northern pantheon and the national god of the swedes. he is the god of fruitfulness, the giver of sunshine and rain, and thus the source of all prosperity. (see teutonic peoples, _ad fin._) freyburg [freyburg an der unstrut], a town of germany, in prussian saxony, in an undulating vine-clad country on the unstrut, 6 m. n. from naumberg-on-the-saale, on the railway to artern. pop. 3200. it has a parish church, a mixture of gothic and romanesque architecture, with a handsome tower. it is, however, as being the "mecca" of the german gymnastic societies that freyburg is best known. here friedrich ludwig jahn (1778-1852), the father of german gymnastic exercises, lies buried. over his grave is built the turnhalle, with a statue of the "master," while hard by it the jahn museum in romanesque style, erected in 1903. freyburg produces sparkling wine of good quality and has some other small manufactures. on a hill commanding the town is the castle of neuenburg, built originally in 1062 by louis the leaper, count in thuringia, but in its present form mainly the work of the dukes of saxe-weissenfels.