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Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 14) at TRINITY, 09 Sep., 1694. S. of John, of Markshall, White Roding, Essex . B. in Gt Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London , 27 Dec., 1679. School, Eton [ Buckinghamshire]. Matric. 1696. Ord. deacon (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Norwich) 05 Mar., 1720/1, as of Trinity College, literate ; priest (Peterb., Litt. dim. from Lincoln) 24 Sep., 1721. R. of Thornton-le-Moor, Lincolnshire , 1721-41. Imprisoned for insolvency, 1722. A noted antiquary. Author of Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae and of Monumenta Anglicana, etc. Died 1741. ( D.N.B. )