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VENN (as SPEIGHT or SPEGHT): B.D. from CHRIST'S, 1596; 11 years from his first admission, probably therefore a ;10 year man.; S. of John, of Horbury, Wakefield, Yorks. D.D. 1623. Incorporation in another University. It conferred the privileges of their degree.'Incorp. at Oxford, 1597. Ord. deacon (London) 1590-1, age 26; priest, May, 1591. R. of St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, 1592-1637. R. of St Clement's, East-cheap, 1611-37. He witnessed the nuncupative will of William (1577). Author, religious. Died before May 2, 1637. Will, 'Prerogative Court of Canterbury.'P.C.C.; of Deptford, Kent. Possibly father of John (1621) and Nathaniel (1621-2). (Peile, I. 172.)
When ordained deacon, 29 March 1591, noted as constituted to serve cure of souls, St Margaret New Fish St, London; commended by Messrs Wm Cotton and Lancelot Andrewes, canons residentiary of St Pauls Cathedral.