Comments
Venn: Adm. aged 15 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE 2 May 1625; son of John, citizen of Bristol; born there; school Wells, Somerset (Mr Ash) matric. 1625; BA 1629; MA 1632; subs. for deacon's orders (Bristol) 19 Dec. 1630; for priest 7 Oct. 1632. Perhaps R of St Phillip and St Jacob, Bristol 1633, still there 1642.
One John Peirce was R of Cheselbourne, Dorset 1654)
But see Al. Oxon. for contemporary namesake. FS Hockaday).
Foster gives this namesake at St John's College Oxford so clearly not the same person.