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VENN: Matric. sizar from QUEENS', Michs. 1572. S. of Richard, Merchant Taylor. B. in London. School, Merchant Taylors'. B.A. 1576-7. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 15, 1578. R. of North Ockendon, Essex, 1582-1619. V. of Horndon-on-the-Hill, 1588-1619; returned ;a double-beneficed man;; also ;ignorant and unpreaching.; Author, The Tragedy of Tancred and Gismund, a play based on Boccaccio. Buried (at ? North Ockendon), 1619. (W. Palin, More about Stifford; D.N.B.)
SEE OXFORD DNB: Wilmot, Robert (b. c.1550, d. in or before 1608), playwright and Church of England clergyman.