, uncle to the preceding, was also a native of Northamptonshire, but became a trader in London,
, uncle to the preceding, was also a
native of Northamptonshire, but became a trader in London, and probably an unsuccessful one, as during the time
that Oxford was in possession of the parliamentary forces,
we find him promoted to the office of steward to Magdalen
college, by Dr. Thomas Goodwin, the famous independent
president of that college. On the restoration, he was obliged
to quit this situation, but acquired the preferable appointment of clerk to the East India company, which he probably held to his death, at London, in October 1688,
upwards of eighty years old. He is known to this day by
his “Practical Discourse of God’s Sovereignty,
” London,