NATIVES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 433 



was incorporated at Oxford, ijth July, 1617. He was eminent 

 for his learning in both univerfuies. He was made chaplain to 

 Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas. His 

 Lordfhip prefented him to a living in the weft-riding of York/I/ire^ 

 which he exchanged for the rectory of St. Peter le Poor, in London, 

 in 1623, or 1624 (3). Here he exerted every faculty of his foul 

 for the good of his people, even at the peril of his own life, not 

 deferring them in the dangerous ficknefs in 1625-, attending them 

 with his prayers, his counfel, his charity, and like a faithful 

 fteward and phyfician, adminiftring to all their neceffities, with- 

 holding no confolation from them in his power. He filled and 

 adorned fome of the higheft flations ; was chofen, without any 

 folicitation, divinity-profefTor at Gre/tjam-col\ege in 1630 (t) ; made 

 archdeacon of Huntingdon, isth January, 1633, on the death of 

 Dr. Owen Givyn (uj ; and was at St. Peter le Poor, when the ge- 

 neral return was made for churchwardens, in 1636 fv). He 

 was elected mafter of Emanuel college, in Cambridge, in 1637; alfo 

 .Mflrg-tfr^-profeflbr of that univerfity by an univerfal fuffrage; 

 their vice-chancellor for three years together, 1640, 1641, 1642 

 (w). About the latter end of the year 1643, he had a grant of 

 the deanery of Worcejler, after declining the acceptance of the 

 biflioprick of Briflol In 1644, he was turned out of all his pre- 

 ferments by the parliament (x), and committed prifoner to Ely- 



(s) Stripe's Edit, of S tow's Survey, fol. vol. 2. Append, p. 24. 



(t) Ibid. 



(u) Mercur. Ruft. p. 247. 



(v) Ibid. p. 257. 



(1v) Le Neve's Fafli, p. 438. 



(*) Ibid. 



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