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Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678
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1634-1678
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VINCENT, THOMAS, second son of Rev. John Vincent, Rector of Sedgefield, co. Durham, Puritan sympathiser; bapt. All Saints, Hertford 18 May 1634 (IGI); adm.; recorded by Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, 1691, 463, to have been “educated partly in grammar learning in Westminster-school, and partly in that at Felsted, in Essex”; Canoneer Student, Christ Church, Oxford 29 Sep 1648 (date of admission by Parliamentary Visitors) to resignation 1660, Catechist 1654, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1; BA 16 Mar 1651/2; MA 1654 (incorp. Cambridge 1656); Chaplain to Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester; Rector of St. Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, London 15 Jul 1657 - Sep 1662, when ejected under Act of Uniformity; preached constantly in London parish churches during the plague year of 1665; officiated at Hoxton, Middlesex, and assisted Thomas Doolittle in his school at Bunhill Fields; imprisoned for nonconformity; licensed as Presbyterian preacher, Hand Alley, Bishopsgate Street, London 2 Apr 1672; author, God’s Terrible Voice in the City by Plague and Fire, 1667, and other works; d. 15 Oct 1678. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.