SEVERNE, THOMAS, son of John Severne, Powick, Worcs., and Mary, dau. of Richard Langley, The Abbey, Shrewsbury, Shropshire; bapt. 28 Apr 1620; adm.; KS 1635; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1638, matr. 23 Nov 1638, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1642; MA 1645 (incorp. Cambridge 1651); although an order was made on 15 May 1648 for his removal from his Studentship on account of his non-submission to the Parliamentary Visitors, he was not ejected until Jul 1650, and a few weeks afterwards he was restored by the Committee (Burrows, 296, 300, 301); formally reinstated 1660; ordained; “an eminent tutor and venerable divine”; does not seem to have held any ecclesiastical preferment; a quaint letter of his to his “ever-honoured master” Richard Busby (qv), dated Worcester 21 Oct 1689, in which he describes himself as “your first-beloved scholar”, is printed Nichols, Literary Illustrations, iv, 406; d. unm. 6 Oct 1698.
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