Thomas Good

became scholar of Ball. Coll. in the latter end of 1624, aged 15 years, Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Mich. term 1628, and on the 29 of Nov. the next year, he was admitted probationer Fellow of that house, ran thro all exercises of the Coll. and University till he was Bach. of Div. in 1639. Afterwards, tho he was absent in the times of distraction, yet he kept his Fellowship and submitted to the men of the interval. At length having obtained a small Cure at Coerley in his native Country of Shropshire, he resigned his Fellowship in 1658, and at the Kings restauration was, as a Sufferer for the Kings Cause, (as ’tis said in the Univ. Reg. of that year) actually created D. of D. About that time he was made one of the Residentiaries of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford and Rector of Winstanstow in his own Country, and at length, on the death of Dr. Savage, Master of Ball. Coll. He was in his younger years accounted a brisk Disputant, and when resident in his Coll. a frequent Preacher, yet always esteemed an honest and harmless Puritan. A noted ((†))((†)) Rich. Baxter in his Apol. for the Nonconformists Minist. p. 27. &c. Lond. 1681. qu. p. 146. author of the Presbyterian perswasion tells us that he was one of the most peaceable, moderate and honest Conformists of his acquaintance, and subscribed the Worcestershire agreement for concord, and joyned with the Presbyterians in their association and meetings at Kedirminster, and was the man that drew the Catalogue of Questions for their disputations at their meetings, and never talked then to them of what he afterwards wrot in his book called Dubitantius & Firmianus: which, when published he lost his credit among them and was lesser esteemed by Mr. Baxter the pride and glory of that party. He hath written and published,

Firmianus and Dubitantius: Or certain Dialogues concerning Atheisme, Infidelity, Popery and other Heresies and Schismes, &c. Oxon. 1674. oct. Animadverted upon by the said Mr. Baxter in a letter directed to him, dat. 10 Feb. 1673 in the Apologie here quoted from pag. 142 to 146.

A brief English Tract of Logick—Printed 1677. in a little oct. of 2 sh. and an half. He had, as I have been informed, other things laying by him at his death fit for the press, but of what subject they treated, or in whose hands they are gotten, I know not. He died at Hereford on the ninth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and was buried in the Cathedral Church there.1678. On the 24 day of the same month, was elected in his place of Master of Ball. Coll. John Venn M. A. and Fellow of that House.