ALFORD, MELCHIZEDEK, son of William Alford, Lyme Regis, Dorset; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1641, matr. 10 Dec 1641, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 1648; expelled from his studentship by the Parliamentary Visitors 9 Nov 1648 for being “absent divers yeares and never appearinge to do any exercise” (Burrows, 212); treasurer to the Royalist garrison at Exeter during its siege by Parliament, and was “imployed in carrying letters and other messages to the King at Oxford and elsewhere” (Walker, Sufferings, pt. ii, 109); ordained 1653; Curate, Dunsford, Devon 1656; Curate, Culmstock, Devon 16 Mar 1658/9; Vicar of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, from 20 Mar 1661; m. 18 Dec 1650 Elizabeth, only child of Richard Channon, Escot, Ottery St. Mary, Devon; buried Ottery St. Mary, Devon 10 Aug 1689.
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- https://collections.westminster.org.uk/index.php/college-1