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Venn: Adm. sizar at Emmanuel, Mar. 8, 1616-7. S of Robert, of Preston, Northants. Matric. 1617; B.A. 1620-1; M.A. 1624. V. of Womboum, Staffs., 1632-52. Perhaps sequestered to St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, 1642. V. of Ashby de-la-Zouch, Leics., 1652-61. Died Nov 22, 1661, aged 62. Father of the next. Probably brother of Nathaniel (1608). (Shaw, i. 308; Nichols, iii. 619.)
Ordained deacon and priest by Bishop Bayly of Bangor at St Margaret's Westminster, 18-19 June 1624. For this and additional biographical information, see BL, Sloane MS 271, fos 72v-73r.