Venn: Adm. sizar (age 16) at St John's, Oct. 18, 1652. S. of Richard, of Northallerton, Yorks. School, Danby Wiske (private). Matric. 1652; M.A. 1661 (Lit. Reg.); D.D. 1669 (do.). 'Incorp. at Oxford, 1657' (Al. Ox.). Ord. deacon (Lincoln) May 28: priest. May 30, 1661. Lecturer at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and St Mary-at-Hill. R. of St Nicholas Acons, London, 1656; reinstituted, 1660-4. R. of Walsoken, Norfolk, 1661. R. of Little Fakenham, Suffolk, 1662. R. of St Michael, Cornhill, 1664-1704. R. of St Mary Bothaw, 1666-96. President of Sion College, 1676-7. Author, sermons. Buried at St Michael's, Comhill, Dec. 11, 1704. (D.N.B.)
Oxford DNB suggests that Venn has conflated several ministers called 'John Meriton'. What is clear, is that the ex-Presbyterian and incumbent of St Nicholas Acons was ordained by Bishop Sanderson in 1661.