John Doughtie

was born of gentile Parents at Martley near Worcester in Worcestershire, educated in Grammar learning in Worcester, under Mr. Hen. Bright, as it seems, and at 16 years of age, or more, became a Student in this Univ. in Lent Term 1613. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, he was one of those many prime Scholars that were Candidates for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. an. 1619, and being throughly sifted by Sir Hen. Savile the Warden, was forthwith chosen and made senior of the Election. After he had compleated the degree of M. of Arts, he entred into Orders, and became much frequented for his edifying Sermons. In 1631 he was admitted to the procuratorial Office, but before he had served four months of that year, he was deprived of it, and the reason why, is told ((a))((a)) In Hist. & Antiq. Ʋniv. Oxon, lib. 1. p. 335. you elsewhere. About that time he became Chaplain to the Earl of Northumberland, and on the 11 of Jan. 1633 he was presented by the Warden and Society of Merton Coll. to the Rectory of Lapworth in Warwickshire: where continuing till the beginning of the Civil War, he left all there, purposely to avoid sequestration and imprisonment, and forthwith retired to the King at Oxon. Soon after meeting with Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury, he preferred him to be Lecturer of S. Edmunds Church within that City; where continuing about two years, at which time the Kings Forces were routed in the West, he retired to London, and for some time found relief in the house of Sir Nath. Brent then living in Little Britaine. After his Majesties Restauration he became one of the Prebendaries of Westminster, Rector of Cheame in Surrey, and was actually created Doct. of Divinity. His works are these,

Discourse concerning the abstruseness of divine Mysteries, together with our knowledge of them, on Rom. 12.16. Oxon. 1628. qu.

Disc. touching Church schismes, on Rom. 16.17.—Printed with the former Discourse.

The Kings cause rationally, briefly and plainly debated, as it stands de facto, against the irrational misprision of a deceived people. Oxon. 1644, in 6 sh. in qu.

Phil-Iren-Alethius. Velitationes polemicae. Or, polemical short discussions of certain particular and select Questions. Lond. 1652. oct. The two letters J. D. are only set to it, and it was then, and is, taken to be of Doughties composition. There is a great deal of good reading, and skill in the Gr. tongue shew’d in the book.

Analecta sacra: sive excursus philologici super diversis sacrae scripturae locis, &c. part 2. Lond. 1658. and 1660. in a thick oct. He died at Westminster, after he had lived to be twice a child, on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and two,1672. and was buried in the Abbey Ch. of S. Peter there, near to the body of Dr. Brian Duppa sometimes Bishop of Winchester, in the Area on the north side of the Chappel of S. Edward. Over his grave was soon after a stone laid, with this inscription thereon. Johannes Doughtie S. T. D. hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarius: obiit xxv. Decemb. MDCLXXII. aetatis suae lxxv.