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Christ College, Cambridge. He was ordained both deacon and 

 priest at the Trinity Ordination in 1630, by Bishop Morton of 

 Lichfield and Coventry. A year and a half later, he became 

 chaplain to Sir Henry Leigh at Egginton, and preached at 

 Newton Solney, where he made the acquaintance of the 

 Countess of Chesterfield, from whom he received many tokens 

 of esteem. 



" When the Rev. Joseph Taylor, Schoolmaster and Lecturer 

 at Ashbourne, died in 1634, John Hieron became Lecturer, 

 and not long afterwards married Taylor's widow. He caused 

 great uneasiness and controversy in Ashbourne by his vehement 

 denunciation of the Book of Sports and Sabbath desecration. 

 The Bishop of Lichfield was powerless to settle the contro- 

 versy, and Hieron was summoned to Lambeth Palace, but was 

 discharged without a trial. At the commencement of the 

 Civil War he was apprehended for preaching against Episcopacy, 

 but was liberated through the influence of his father-in-law ; 

 his house was searched, and fearing further molestation he 

 left Ashbourne for Derby in 1643. He was appointed to 

 the living of Breadsall by Sir John Gell. His wife died 

 in 1657 at Hopton, the residence of Sir John Gell, and was 

 buried at Breadsall, Before his ejectment in 1662 he instituted 

 a monthly lecture at Dale Abbey : he petitioned to preach 

 there gratis afterwards, but Bishop Hacket would not allow 

 this unless he conformed. From Breadsall he settled for a 

 short time at Little Eaton, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and Newthorp, 

 settling finally at Loscoe in the parish of Heanor, where he 

 continued the work of his ministry in his own house and at 

 the houses of neighbours as long as he lived. He died at 

 Loscoe on July 6th, 1682, aged 73. 



'' By Anne Taylor he had a son Joseph (mentioned above), 

 who died in 1690, leaving five children, Ann, Mary, John, 

 Rachel, and Joseph — all these are entered in the Heanor 

 Registers, but Rachel's name is obliterated. 



"John Hieron collected a mass of valuable material for a 

 topographical history of the county of Derby — the MSS. are 



