Purchas, Samuel (1598-1626)

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VENN: Matric. from ST JOHN'S, c. 1594. S. of George, of Thaxted, Essex. Bapt. there, Nov. 20, 1577. B.A. 1596/7; M.A. 1600. Ord. deacon (London) May 1, 1607/8; priest, Jan. 25, 1608/9. Incorp. at Oxford, as ;B.D.,; 1615. C. of Purleigh, Essex. V. of Eastwood, 1604-14. R. of St Martin, Ludgate, 1615-26. R. of All Hallows, Bread Street, London, 1626 (Apr.-Sept.). Author of the Pilgrims. Died Sept. 1626. Will proved ('Prerogative Court of Canterbury.'P.C.C.) Oct. 21, 1626. Brother of Thomas (1609-10) and father of the next.

SEE OXFORD DNB: Purchas, Samuel (bap. 1577, d. 1626), geographical editor and compiler and Church of England clergyman; The Purchas handbook: studies of the life, times and writings of Samuel Purchas, ed. L.E. Pennington, 2 vols., Hakluyt Soc., 2nd. ser., nos. 185, 186 (1997), in which D.R. Ransome, 'A Purchase chronology', 1.329-80, is very good on his clerical career. This notes that he appeared as Curate of Purleigh at Archdeacon of Essex's visitation at Maldon, 23 April 1601, when he exhibited his letters of ordination (1.334).

Father of Samuel Purchas [67832]; brother of Thomas Purchas [42514]

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