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Venn: Matric. sizar from Emmanuel, Easter, 1623. B. in Leicester. B.A. 1627-8; M.A. 1631; D.D. from Peterhouse, 1649. Master of Peterhouse, 1644-60. Vice-Chancellor, 1653-4. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Feb. 12, 1627-8. Lecturer at St Martin's, Ludgate, London. Chaplain to Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland. R. of All Hallows, Bread Street, London, 1642-62. One of the Westminster Assembly, 1643, and a Parliamentary Trier, 1645. President of Sion College, 1651-3. Author, sermons, etc. Died Sept. 1675. Will (P.C.C.) 1676. His library sold by Cooper, in 1676; the earliest sale of which a catalogue has been preserved. Father of Joseph (1652). (R. South; D.N.B.; Emm. Coll. Hist., 69.)