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an English nonconformist divine, was born at Gloucester in 1620. He was educated at a grammar school there, and graduated at Oxford in 1639. He preached successively at Gloucester and Chichester, and became rector at Bramshot, in Hampshire, but was ejected in 1662, and afterwards lived privately in London, where he died December 26, 1680. He published an account of the siege of Gloucester, besides several tracts, for which see Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.