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VENN: Matric. pens. from ST JOHN'S, Easter, 1613; B.A. 1616-7. Perhaps R. of Claughton, Lancs., 1629, and C. of Disley, Cheshire. Died at Edale, 1643. (Vict. Hist. Lancs., Vol. 8.)
Edward Creswell was Curate of Disley by 1630, when he witnessed an agreement as 'capitulanus Dislei'. In the chapel's register signed himself 'Edward Creswell, Philo-Theologus et Concionatur Dei'.
He was chaplain to Sir Peter Legh of Lyme (who presented him to Claughton), and accompanied Legh's funeral from Lyme to Winwick in 1635 and Lady Legh's funeral in 1639.
'He was sometime chaplain at Lyme Hall and preacher not far from it', according to William Bagsahwe in De Spiritualibus Pecci'. He evidently later served at Edale in Derbyshire ('Surely Edale...was adale or valley of vision in those days' according to Bagshawe) and died shortly before or early in the Civil War.
J.P. Earwaker, East Cheshire, 2 vols. (1880), 2.98.