HEATH, JAMES, son of Robert Heath, The Strand, London, the King’s Cutler, and Dorothy --- (IGI); bapt. St Clement Danes 6 Jan 1629 (IGI); adm.; KS in 1644; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, matr. 16 Dec 1646, Westminster Student to 13 Oct 1648, when ejected by Parliamentary Visitors; at The Hague in 1649; adhered to exiled court of Charles II; returned to England and wrote and corrected for publishers and printers in order to support his family; sometimes known as “Carrion” Heath; author, A Brief Chronicle of the late Intestine War, 1661, Flagellum, or the Life and Death of O. Cromwell, the late Usurper, 1663, and other works; m.; d. 16 Aug 1664. DNB.
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