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VENN: Adm. pens. (age 19) at ST JOHN'S, June 12, 1649. S. of Roger, gent., of Park Head, Whalley, Lancs. B. there. School, Manchester (Mr Wickins). B.A. 1652/3; M.A. 1656; B.D. 1663. Fellow, 1653. R. of Slaidburn, Yorks., 1659-1660. R. of Prestwich, Lancs., 1660-8. Married, at Prestwich, May 15, 1663, Anne, dau. of Richard Holland, of Heaton, Lancs. Died July 15, 1668. Buried at Prestwich. (Scott-Mayor; J. Parker; Vis. of Lancs., 1664.)
VCH, Lancs., 5:
'He was appointed [to Prestwich] before the Restoration; writing to his mother from London on 4 May 1660, he says: 'The commissioners having heard counsel on both sides, were fully satisfied with my patron's right, and proceeded to make trial of my fitness for the ministry, and thereupon did approve of me and give me the instrument '; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 67. Another of his letters is printed, ibid. 80.
His connexions and training would put him on the Presbyterian side, but he seems to have conformed readily to the restoration of episcopacy and the Prayer-book services, and held the rectory till his death. He was buried at Prestwich, 18 July 1668. Tablets commemorate him and his wife Anne, daughter of Richard Holland of Heaton; she died 23 Sept. 1706.'
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53001#n64, accessed 2/2/2008.