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VENN: Matric. sizar (age 19) from CHRIST'S, May, 1576. S. of John, of Healey, Lancs. B. at Rochdale. B.A. 1579-80; M.A. 1583; B.D. from Emmanuel, 1590; D.D. 1605. Incorp. at Oxford, 1583. Fellow (one of the first three) of Emmanuel, 1584. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 1581. V. of Winsford, Somerset, 1594-1601. V. of Woodham Ferrers, Essex, 1601-27. Perhaps Lecturer at Market Rasen, Lincs., 1614. Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, and to James I, also to Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk. Preb. of York, 1625. Died May 4, 1627. Will, 'Prerogative Court of Canterbury.'P.C.C. Brother of John (1585) and Jordan. (Peile, I. 137.)