Item I/ii/15 - Bishop Hacket's Memoirs of the Life of Archbishop Williams

HACKET, JOHN, son of Andrew Hacket, Westminster, tailor; b. 1 Sep 1590; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1608, adm. scholar 1609, matr. Easter 1609; 6th in “ordo” 1612/3; BA 1612/3; MA 1616 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1616); BD 1623; DD 1628; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1614 – c. 1621; ordained deacon and priest 20 Dec 1618 (London); Rector of Stoke Hammond, Bucks., 30 Sep 1618 [sic : check]-24; Chaplain to Right Rev. John Williams DD, Bishop of Lincoln, also Chaplain to James I; Rector of Kirkby Underwood, Lincs., 23 Feb 1623; Prebendary of Lincoln 10 Dec 1623 - 1661; Rector of Cheam, Surrey 1624-62; Rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London 31 Dec 1624 – sequestered 13 Dec 1645; Archdeacon of Bedford 4 Oct 1631 - 1661; President, Sion Coll. 1633; attempted to moderate Laud’s zeal; member of Committee for Religion, appointed by House of Lords, and as such pleaded for the retention of Deans and Chapters before House of Commons 1641; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 28 Mar 1642-61; refused to join the parliamentary side, and retired to Cheam during the rebellion and Commonwealth; consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 22 Dec 1661; restored Lichfield Cathedral; bequeathed £1200 to Trinity Coll. Cambridge and all his books to Cambridge Univ. Library; he and Ben Jonson (qv) translated Bacon’s Essays into Latin; author of Loyola, a Latin comedy acted twice before James I, first published 1648, and Scrinia Reserata, a Memorial offered to great Deservings of John Williams DD, 1693; m. 1st 14 Sep 1625 Elizabeth, dau. of William Stebbing, Earl Soham, Suffolk; m. 2nd, Frances, widow of Rev. Dove Bridgeman DD, Prebendary of Chester, and dau. of William Bennet, Yeoman of the Pastry to Queen Elizabeth I; d. 28 Oct 1670. DNB.