John Chardon

or Charldon a Devonian born, became a Sojourner of Exeter coll. in 1562. or thereabouts, made Probationer thereof, 3. March 1564. perpetual Fellow in Octob. two years after, entred into Holy Orders in Aug. 1567. being then Bach. of Arts, and resigned his Fellowship on the 6. Apr. in the year after. About that time being beneficed in his own Country, particularly within the City of Exeter, he proceeded soon after in Arts, became a noted Preacher, and wonderfully followed for his edifying Sermons. In 1581. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, (or the Epistles of St. Paul, as it was then among the Puritans stiled,) proceeded in Divinity five years after, and in 1596. in May, he was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor, in the Church of St. Patrick at Dublin in Ireland. All that are extant of his writing, are only,

Several Sermons, Preached in the Churches of St. Peter in Exeter, St. Maries in Oxon, and at S. Pauls-Cross in the City of Lond. viz. (1) Sermon of the World, on Luke 21. 25. Lond. 1580. oct. (2) Serm. at S. Mar. in Ox. on Joh. 9. 1, 2, 3. Ox. 1586. oct. (3) Serm. at S. Mar. Ox. 11. Dec. 1586. on Joh. 9. 4, 5, 6, 7. Lond. 1587. oct. (4) Serm. at Paulscross 29. May 1586. on Matth. 6. 19, 20, 21. Lond. 1586. oct. (5) Fun. Serm. on 1 Thes. 4. from 13. to 18. verse. Ox. 1586. oct. He hath another Sermon extant on Isay 1. ver. 1, 2. Lond. 1595. but this, and others, which he hath printed, as I conceive, I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing of him besides, save only that he died in Ireland, in sixteen hundred and one; 1601 but where buried, unless in his own Cath. Church, I cannot tell. The next in order, according to time, to be mentioned, is a most reverend and learned Divine, and an ornament to his profession in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth.