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VENN [as GOOCH or GOOGE]: Matric. pens. from TRINITY, c. 1596. S. of Barnabe (1555). B. at Lamberhurst, Kent. Scholar, 1599; B.A. 1600/1; M.A. 1604; B.D. 1620; D.D. 1627 ( Lit. Reg.). Fellow, 1602. Senior proctor, 1618. Ord. deacon and priest (London) Mar. 4, 1609/10, age 26. Minister of Longstanton St Michael, Cambs., 1616-26. Travelled with Sir Dodmore Cotton, on an embassy to Persia, by the Cape. Buried him at Kasbin and returned by the same route in 1629. R. of Cheadle, Staffs., 1630-45, sequestered. Died before 1660. (Herbert, Oriental Travels.)