Comments
Venn: Matric. sizar from Queens', Michs. 1626. Of Lancashire. B.A. 1629-30. Doubtless minister at Burnley, 1638-63. Perhaps C. of Daresbury, Cheshire, 1665-6. Admon. (Chester) 1670. Father of Abdias (1666). (E. Axon.)
See VCH Lancashire vi (1966), p. 452 and n. 156.
In a letter to Bishop Bridgeman, 22.vi.37, Archbishop Laud recommended that HM, 'now Curate of Church Kirk', be removed to Burnley 'which I am told is somewhat better then that he hath already': Staffordshire RO, D1287/18/2 (P/399/151).