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but this is admitted to be wrong. In 1606 we 

 find him a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and 

 in 1611 he was ordained by Dr King, Bishop of 

 London. We never read that he was an angler. 

 He was given the living of Boothby Pagnell in 

 Lincolnshire, and became Chaplain to King 

 Charles I. He married Anne, daughter of the 

 Kev. Henry Nelson, Rector of Hangham, Lincoln- 

 shire. The Parliamentarians compelled him to 

 alter the form of the prayers read in his church. 

 As he refused to take the Solemn League and 

 Covenant his living was sequestered. Some say 

 he wrote (but this is rather doubtful) the prayer in 

 the Book of Common Prayer for all sorts and con- 

 ditions of men and also the General Thanksgiving. 

 Walton says that the three offices added at the 

 Savoy Conference to the Book of Common Prayer, 

 viz. : A Form of Humiliation for the Murder of 

 King Charles the Martyr, A Thanksgiving for the 

 Restoration of his Son our King, and for the 

 Baptising of Persons of Riper Age, were formed or 

 worded more by Sanderson than any single man 

 of the Convocation. It is agreed by all writers 

 that he composed the preface to the Book of 

 Common Prayer (on the subject see Proctor, 

 Whately, and Barry on the Book of Common 

 Prayer). Sanderson left the following direction : 

 '* I do absolutely renounce and disown whatsoever 

 shall be published after my decease in my name." 



