BOREMAN (or BOURMAN), ROBERT, son of William Boreman, East Greenwich, Kent, holder of a position at courts of Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I, and brother of Sir William Boreman, Kt., Clerk of the Green Cloth; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1627, scholar 1628; BA 1631/2; MA 1635; BD 1643; DD 9 Aug 1660; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Oct 1633, Major Fellow 10 Mar 1634, Tutor 1636-41; deprived of his Fellowship by the Parliamentary Visitors, but restored to it 1660, remaining Fellow until c. 1669; ordained priest (Peterborough) 18 Feb 1637/8; Rector of Blisworth, Northants., 15 Oct 1660 -3; Rector of St. Giles’s in the Fields, London, from 18 Nov 1663; Prebendary of Westminster from 19 Dec 1667; a pious and learned divine; made an unfounded attack upon Richard Baxter; author, The Countryman’s Catechism or the Churches Plea for Tithes, 1652, and other works; d. unm. 15 Nov 1675. DNB.
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