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Venn: Adm. at King's, a scholar from Eton, 1624. 6th s. of Robert (1570). Bapt. June 12, 1606, at
Tichmarch, Northants. Matric. 1624; B.A. 1628; M.A. 1632. Fellow, 1624-34. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) July 9, 1630. 'Lost his leg by a cannon ball, at Newark.' R. of Elton-on-the-Hill, Notts., 1634-80. R. of Fulbeck, Lincs., 1635. Known as a persecutor of nonconformists, his particular victim being William Claytor, a farmer, of Elton, whose case was specially dealt with in a tract entitled, 'The Ravenous Beast discovered', by William Smith, 1664. Died 1680. Brother of Thomas (1609), Henry (1626), etc. (Harxvood; Godfrey, Notts., 168.)