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Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672
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1604-1672
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MAYNE, JASPER, son of Jasper Mayne, Hatherleigh, Devon; bapt. Hatherleigh, Devon mettayer 23 Nov 1604; at school under Wilson (G. Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, 1691); Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 23 Dec 1623; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, adm. as servitor, matr. 10 Oct 1628, aged 20, Canoneer Student 1627 – expelled 2 Oct 1648 by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission; BA 1628; MA 1631; BD 1642; DD 1646; acquired the Oxford reputation of being “a quaint preacher and a noted poet”; ordained; Rector of Cassington, Oxfordshire 1639 – c. 1652; Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire 30 Mar 1648-56; reinstated in benefices and Studentship at Restoration; Archdeacon of Chichester from 2 Jul 1660; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 27 Jul 1660; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; wrote a number of verses; translated some of Lucian’s Dialogues; author of plays The City Match, 1639, and The Amorous War, 1648; d. 6 Dec 1672. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.