John Carpenter

received his first breath in the County of Cornwal, was entred a Batler in Exeter coll. about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more, with unwearied industry, left the University without a degree, and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon. He hath written and published,

A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls, composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth, 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct.

Remember Lots Wise, two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct.

Preparative for Contentation. Lond. 1597. qu.

Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard; or, two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct.

Christian Contemplations, or a Catechism. Lond. 1601. oct.

K. Soloman’s Solace. Lond. 1606. qu.

Plain Man’s Spiritual Plough. Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year, viz. in March, in sixteen hundred and twenty,1620-21. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, before the 25. of the said month, as it doth partly, appear in the Register of that place; leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel, whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts, by way of Debtor and Creditor. Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian.