Item CC/2/15 - Elementa Religionis

LITTLETON, ADAM, sixth son of Rev. Thomas Littleton, Vicar of Halesowen, Worcs.; b. 2 Nov 1627; adm.; KS 1641; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1644, Westminster Student; expelled by Parliamentary Visitors, but seems to have come back into residence, for in May 1651 he petitioned for restitution of his Craven Scholarship, which had been sequestered; DD 1670; an Usher at the School; Under Master 1658-61, resigned; started a school at Chelsea; ordained deacon and priest 10 Mar 1665 (Winchester); Rector of Chelsea, Middlesex, from 3 Feb 1669/70; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II, James II and William III from 1670 (still listed as such Miege1691); granted reversion of Head Mastership of the School after the death of Richard Busby (qv), 1670; Prebendary of Westminster from 16 Sep 1674; Rector of Overton, Hampshire, from 1683; Perpetual Curate of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, London 27 Mar 1685-9; a man of considerable learning and a collector of books and manuscripts; author of a Latin dictionary in four parts, 1673, and other works; said to have been the author of Tragi-Comoedia Oxoniensis, also attributed to John Carrick (qv); m. 1st, 6 Mar 1665/6 Elizabeth Scudamore, St. Andrew Undershaft, London; m. 2nd, 7 Feb 1666/7 Susan, dau. of Thomas Rich, St. Andrew Undershaft, London, citizen and mercer; m. 3rd, Susan, dau. of Richard Guildford, Chelsea, Middlesex; d. 30 Jun 1694. DNB.