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Venn: Matric. sizar from Christ's, Michs. 1575; B.A. 1579-80; M.A. 1583. Incorp. at Oxford, 1585. Ord. deacon and priest (Peterb.) Mar. 5, 1586-7. Probably V. of North Somercotes, Lincs., 1602-25. Will (Lincoln) 1624-5. One of these names V. of Fordham, Cambs., 1587-92. Died there July 23, 1592. Admon. to widow Barbara. [Peile wrongly assigns both these livings to this John, who apparently was the J. W., 'minister, near Louth, Lincs.,' i.e. of North Somercotes, mentioned in Henry Newcome's Autobiography, p. 91, and a brother of Robert (1570) and Henry (1587)] (Peile, i. 134.)