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VENN: Matric. sizar from QUEENS', Easter, 1605. Of Cambridgeshire. B.A. 1608-9; M.A. 1612; B.D. 1621; D.D. 1631-2 ( Lit. Reg.). Fellow, 1617-31. President, 1631-44, ejected. Re-instated President, 1660. Incorp. at Oxford, 1621. Ord. priest (Peterb.) Sept. 21, 1617. V. of Oakington, Cambs., 1626. Chaplain to Archbishop Laud, 1627. R. of Conington, 1630. R. of Uppingham, Rutland, 1631-7. R. of Houghton Conquest, Beds., 1638. R. of Doddington, Cambs. Sent the College plate to the King, 1642, and was thereupon imprisoned in the Tower. Drew up the famous Mock Petition, Submission to the Covenant. Dean of Ely, Feb.-Apr. 1662. Author, controversial. Died Apr. 28, 1662. Buried in Queens' College Chapel. Will proved, 'Vice-Chancellor's Court, Cambridge. See notes on the Sources for Personal Histories V.C.C. (D.N.B.; Walker, Sufferings, 154.)
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