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VENN: Adm. sizar (age 16) at ST JOHN'S, Apr. 7, 1660. S. of Francis, mercer, of Stockport, Cheshire. B. there. School, Stockport (Mr Tho. Combes). ' Matric. 1660; B.A. 1663/4. Ord. deacon (Chester) Sept. 25, 1664; priest (Lichfield) Dec. 17, 1665. C. of St Mary's, Oldham, Lancs., 1669-96. Buried at Chester Cathedral, Jan. 17, 1706/7; ;schoolmaster at the abbey Court.; (E. Axon.)
VCH, Lancs. 5: His tutor at St John's was Mr. Kenyon, afterwards rector of Prestwich. He was ordained in 1664 and 1665. The date of his appointment to the curacy is from Stratford's Visitation List, 1691; but from Harpur's list of preachers at Oldham, printed in Pal. Note Bk. iv, 546, it is clear that he was in charge from early in 1665, for on 5 Apr. of that year he states that 'Mr. John Walworke, my predecessor,' preached.
From: 'The parish of Prestwich with Oldham: Oldham', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911), pp. 92-108. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53007&strquery=harpur. Date accessed: 26 November 2007.
[Note, if this is right, it is complicated by his lcience to Drayton Bassett in Dec. 1665].