John Faireclough

commonly called Featley, Son of Joh. Featley of Oxon (elder brother to Dr. Daniel Featley) was born in Northamptonshire, became either Clerk or Choirister of Alls. Coll. in Mich. term 1620, aged 15 years, took one degree in Arts four years after, and in 1626 had the honor to be the first Preacher of the Gospel in the infancy of the Mother Colony of S. Christophers in the Western Indies. How long he continued there, I know not: sure I am, that after his return he became beneficed in Surrey, Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Prebendary. as it seems, of Lincoln. In the beginning of the Rebellion he lost all, was for a time Curate at Acton for his Uncle Dr. Featley; and in June 1643, he, with his Wife, Children, and Servants, shipped themselves for S. Christophers before mention’d; where he and they continued several years. After his Majesties return in 1660, he became one of his Chaplains, was installed Chantor of Lincoln in the same year, was in the next actually created D. of D. and soon after had the Vicaridge of Edwinstow in Nottinghamshire (worth about 60 l. per an.) confer’d on him by the Dean and Chapter of the said Church. He hath written and published,

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. to the West-India Company, on Josh. 1.9. Lond. 1629. qu. (2) Obedience and Submission, at S. Saviours in Southwark at a Visitation 8 Dec. 1635. on Heb. 13.17. Lond. 1636. qu. &c.

A succinct history of the life and death of the learned and famous Divine Daniel Featley D. D. Lond. 1660. in tw. Printed at the end of a book intit. Dr. Dan. Featley revived: proving that the Protestant Church is the only Cath. and true Church.

A divine Antidote against the Plague; or mourning tears in Soliquies and Prayers: as 1. For this general Visitation. 2. For those whose houses are shut up of the Plague, &c. Lond. 1665. He also published a book intituled The league illegal. Lond. 1660. qu. Written by his said Uncle Dr. Featley, and ded. to Edw. Earl of Clarendon by the Publisher, who put an Introduction to the book.1666. He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six, and was buried in one of the Chappels, joyning to the Cath. Church. Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley, a true and zealous son of the Church of England, was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a nonconforming Minister, and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles, (sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh. afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristow) one or more of whose Sermons, you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery, &c. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4. July 1682 aged 61, and was inter’d in the burial place joyning to the Artillery Yard near London, in the presence of 500 Persons, who accompanied him to his grave. Of the same family, tho remote, was Sam. Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk, 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age, &c. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark, p. 153.