Samuel Browne

, born at, or near to, the antient Borough of Shrewsbury, became a Servitour or Clerk of Aills. coll. in 1594. aged 19. took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and afterwards was made preacher at S. Maries in the said Town of Shrewsbury, where he was much resorted to by precise people for his edifying and frequent preaching. He hath published,

The sum of Christian Religion by way of Catechism. Lond. 1630. and 37. oct.

Certain Prayers—And left behind him at the time of his death, 1632 in sixteen hundred thirty two. Several Sermons to be made publick, but whether they were printed I cannot tell. One of both his names, was summer Reader of Lincolns Inn 18 Car. 1. afterwards Serjeant at Law, one of the Justices of the Common Bench, and one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, in the time of Usurpation, but what he hath extant, I cannot tell. He died in the beginning of the year 1668. being then a Knight, and a possessor of Lands at Arlesbury in Bedfordshire.