VENN (as ARMESTEAD): Adm. sizar, CAIUS College, 10 Aug. 1616, aged 22. Son of William, Vicar of Chipping, Lancs. [23411].
VENN, Caius, I, 234: gives as of Gisburn, Yorks.; son of William, Vicar of Chipping.
H. Fishwick, History of the Parish of Kirkham, Chetham Society, 92 (1874), 144: Curate of Kirkham and a substitute for the commissary of Richmond.
Appointed Master of Kirkham Free Grammar School, 1631.
Five of his children were baptised at Kirkham between 1623 and 1637.
Minister of Lytham, 1646-1654.
He was bur. at Kirkham, 14 Oct. 1658.