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VENN: Matriculated pensioner from CORPUS CHRISTI, Lent, 1597/8. Of Norfolk. B.A. 1602/3; M.A. 1606; (D.D. 1660, according to Masters). Fellow, 1605-13. Incorp. at Oxford, 1606. Rector of St Mary Abchurch, 1613-43 and 1660-2. Vicar of Leyton, Essex, 1624-8. Rector of St Clement's, Eastcheap, 1637-43; sequestered; reinstated, 1660-5. Prebendary of St Paul's, 1639-42, ejected. Chaplain to Bishop Juxon; ejected from his preferments, 1643, and sent prisoner to Plymouth, by sea. Reinstated, 1660. Died 6 Nov. 1666. (Al. Oxon.; Walker, Sufferings, 53; A. B. Beaven.)