Adee, Nicholas (1662-1712)

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Foster: 'serv.' MAGDALEN HALL, matric. 24 June, 1653, B.A. 26 June, 1662; M.A. from PETERHOUSE, Cambridge, 1669, vicar of St. Paul, Malmesbury, and of Rodborne Cheney, Wilts., 1671; father of Bayly Adee.

Venn: M.A. from PETERHOUSE, 1669. Of Wilts. Matric. (Magdalen Hall, Oxford), June 24, 1653; B.A. (Oxford) 1662. V. of St Paul's, Malmesbury, 1667. V. of Rodborne Cheney, Wilts., 1671. Died 1701.

There are two problems with the linkage of the Nicholas Adee ordained deacon in 1662 and priest in 1663 and the one who was vicar of St. Paul, Malmesbury and vicar of Rodbourne Cheney:
a) the latter has no academic qualifications noted, except for his institution to St Paul's in 1667, when he is recorded as being M.A.(not in his subscription), whereas both Venn and Foster state his M.A. dated from 1669.
b) Venn gives his date of death as 1701, whereas the institution of his successor at Rodbourne Cheney was not until 1712 - it seems a long vacancy; the parish register of Rodbourne Cheney gives 7 Oct. 1712 as his burial date "vicar of this parish".

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