biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1615–91)
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| biography:
| Nonconformist clergyman, born in Rowton, Shropshire, WC England, UK. He adopted Nonconformist views as minister at Kidderminster (1640–60). During the Civil War, his sympathies were almost wholly with the Puritans, and after Naseby he acted as army chaplain. At the Restoration he was appointed a royal chaplain, but in 1662 the Act of Uniformity drove him out of the Church of England. Frequently persecuted for his views, he was imprisoned for 18 months in 1685 for alleged sedition. |
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