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Adm. pens. (age 20) at ST JOHN'S, May 24, 1735. S. of William, attorney-at-law, of Lincs. B. at Boston. School, Boston. Matric. 1735; B.A. 1738-9. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Mar. 18, 1738-9; priest, May 27, 1742. R. of Beesby, Lincs., 1742-71. (Scott-Mayor, III. 466.)
Close was convicted at the Lincolnshire Assizes in 1763 of 'a Sodomitical Attempt, for which he stood in the Pillory'. See Robert G. Ingram 'Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Secker and the Church of England' (2007) p.130