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VENN (as WILLET or WYLLIATT): Adm. pens. (age 15) at PETERHOUSE, Feb. 2, 1576-7. S. of Thomas, R. of Barley, Herts. B. at Ely, 1562. School, Ely. ' Matric. 1577. Migrated to Christ's. B.A. 1580-1; M.A. 1584; B.D. 1591; D.D. 1601. Fellow of Christ's, 1583-88. Incorp. at Oxford, 1584. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Aug. 13, 1612. Ord. deacon (London) Apr. 25, 1584. Preacher at Bourn and Fen Drayton, Cambs., 1585-8. Canon of Ely, 1587-1621. R. of Childerley, Cambs., 1588-94, and of Little Gransden, Hunts., 1597-9. R. of Barley, Herts., 1599. R. of Reed, 1613-5, and of Little Chishall, Essex, 1620. Chaplain to Prince Henry, and a preacher at Ely, and at St Paul's. Imprisoned for opposition to the Spanish marriage for Prince Charles, in 1618. Married Jacobine, dau. of Dr Roger Goad, of King's, 1588 (by whom he had 18 children; his 4th s. Thomas, was the first Mayor of New York, 1665 and 1667). Author, controversial. Died Dec. 4, 1621, as the result of a fall from his horse. Buried in Barley Church. 'Monumental inscription.'M.I. Will ('Prerogative Court of Canterbury.'P.C.C.) 1622. Father of the next, of Paul, James (1613), and probably of Robert (1626). (Peile, I. 143; D.N.B.; Al. Oxon.; Nichols, III. 1070.)
SEE OXFORD DNB: Willet, Andrew (1561/21621), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist.
Son of Thomas Willet [104542]