Venn: EDWARD. Matric. from Corpus Christi, Easter, 1623; B.A. 1626-7; M.A. 1630. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Apr. 12; priest, Apr. 13, 1627. Possibly identical with the ejected minister (D.D.), of Ripon, Yorks. If so, minister of Sawley Chapel, Ripon, 1639, and kept a school there. Preacher in Ripon Minster during the Commonwealth; there in 1649. (His wife Dorcas died Aug. 31, 1653; M.I. in Ripon Cathedral.) Afterwards went to Holland. Pastor of the English Church at Leyden, 1670-4. Adm. at Leyden University, Feb. 23, 1671; as of Yorks., minister of God's word
in the Enghsh Church. Author Anglo-Belgica. Died c. 1677, at Amsterdam. Perhaps father of Edward (1659). (Leyden Students; Ripon Millenary Record; M. H. Peacock.)