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VENN: Matric. pens. from TRINITY COLLEGE, Easter 1618; scholar from Westminster; BD 1631-2 (lit. Reg.). Chaplain to James, Earl of Derby. Curate of Billinge, Lancs., 1626. Rector of Bury, Lancs., 1633-1654. Rector of Halsall, 1634-c. 1645, ejected. D. c. 1654.
See Walker Revised, 230-1: Committee for Plundered Ministers sequestered him from Bury on 24 April 1645 as disaffected from Parliament (he was then in the royalist garrison of Lathom House). On 13 Dec. 1645 T. Johnson was admitted in his place at Halsall. D. c. 1654.