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Venn: Adm. pens, at Christ's, May 24, 1623, S. ofJohn. B. at Sykhouse, near Bradfield, Yorks., June 23, 1608. Schools, Darwen and Rotherham. Matric. 1623; B.A. 1626-7; M.A. 1630. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Dec. 27; priest, Dec. 28, 1629. Minister at Brampton, near Chesterfield, 1630-3. Minister of Chulmleigh, Devon, 1634-6. Lecturer at All Hallows, York, 1636-9. Head of the Puritan party in York. V. of Rotherham, 1639-45. R. of Lymm, Cheshire, 1643. V. of Skerringham, near York, 1644. Lecturer at Holy Trinity, Hull, 1645-62, ejected. Chaplain to Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery and Earl of Pembroke. Chaplain to Parliamentary commissions, 1646. Master of the Charter- house, Hull, 1651-62. Royal chaplain, 1660-2. Ejected from all his prefeiments, 1662. Returned to Rotherham, in 1662, and preached there as curate. Author, religious. Died Apr. 19, 1672, aged 65. Buried at Rotherham. M.I. WiU, York. Father of John (1679) and perhaps of Eusebius (1656). {D.N.B.; Calamy, 11. 588; Peile,
i. 351; Hunter, 11. 24.)
See Oxford DNB 'John Shawe 1608-72'.