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College in 1637, and Vice- Chancellor of the Univer- 

 sity in 1640. He did not write much. Though a 

 staunch Royalist, he was a very moderate Church- 

 man, and was appointed Dean of Worcester, but 

 was never installed. He was dispossessed of all 

 his preferments, imprisoned, and so harassed that 

 he died soon after the execution of the king in 1649, 

 being deeply affected thereby (see Tlie, Monastery 

 and Cathedral of Worcester, by John Noake, 1866). 

 He was buried in St Peter's Poor Church, Broad 

 Street, London, having remembered his College, St 

 John's, in his will by bequeathing some books to it. 

 There was a dispute, however, over the bulk of 

 his library between the University and Emmanuel 

 College. The former, by paying the College a sum 

 of money, acquired it. 



THOMAS KEN 



(1637-1711). 



"I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and 

 will not be ashamed." 



He was educated at Winchester and at New 

 College, Oxford. He was a son of Thomas Ken 

 by his second wife Martha, daughter of John 

 Chaulkhill, and was born at Berkhamstead, Herts, 

 in July 1637. It is thought likely that his home, 

 on his father's death, was at the house of Walton, 

 who married his half-sister Anne. In 1675 he 

 travelled abroad with Izaak Walton's son, who was 



