VENN (as PURCHASE): Matric. pens. from ST JOHN'S, Michs. 1622. S. of Samuel (above). B.A. 1625/6; M.A. 1629. Perhaps ord. deacon (London) Dec. 24, 1626, age 24 (as Daniel); R. of Sutton, Essex, 1629-58. Author of a work upon bees: A Theatre of Political Flying Insects. Died c. 1658. Will proved ('Prerogative Court of Canterbury.'P.C.C.) Jan. 28, 1658/9. (Essex Arch. Soc., IV. 183.)
On the title page of 'A Theatre of Political Flying-Insects' (1657, and dedicated to Robert, Earl of Warwick) he describes himself as MA and Pastor at Sutton in Essex.
Son of Samuel Purchas [42516].
See The Purchas handbook: studies of the life, times and writings of Samuel Purchas, ed. L.E. Pennington, 2 vols., Hakluyt Soc., 2nd. ser., nos. 185, 186 (1997), 1.335, 344, 358, 365, 380.
He is very possible DANIEL PURCHAS [42515]