John Goughe

commonly called Goffe, Son of the Rector of Stanmer in Sussex, was born in that County, began to be conversant with the Muses in Merton Coll. an. 1624, made Demie of that S. Mar. Magd. in 1627, aged 17 years or more, perpetual Fellow 29. July 1630, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he entred into Orders, and became a Preacher in these parts. In 1642. Sept. 26. he was inducted into the Vicaridge of Hackington alias S. Stephen near to the City of Canterbury, in the place of James Hirst deceased. From whence being ejected soon after, for refusing the Covenant, was, with other loyal Clergy men, cast into the County Prison in S. Dunstans Parish in the Suburbs of the said City. In 1652 he, by the endeavours of his Brother William, whom I shall anon mention, was inducted into the rectory of Norton near Sittingbourne in Kent on the thirteenth day of March, and in the year 1660, he being restored to his Vicaridge of S. Stephen, was actually created Doctor of Divinity in the beginning of December the same year, and inducted again according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England into the rectory of Norton, on the 4. of March following, which were all the spiritualities he enjoyed. He hath written a book intit.

Ecclesiae Anglicanae ΘΡΗΝΩΔΙ’Α, in qua perturbatissimus regni & ecclesiae status, sub Anabaptistica tyrannide lugetur. Lond. 1661. oct. Also a large latine Epistle written to Dr. Edw. Simson, set before a book written by him intit. Chronicon Catholicum, &c. Lond. 1652. fol. He concluded his last day in the Parish of Norton beforementioned, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Alphage in Canterbury on the 26. day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and one.1661. This Person who was a zealous Son of the Church of England, had an elder Brother named Steph. Goffe, originally of Mert. Coll, afterwards of S. Alb. Hall and a Bigot of the Church of Rome; and another Brother named William, whether elder or younger I know not, who was originally a Trader in London, afterwards a Presbyterian, Independent, one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and one of Olivers Lords; who to save his neck from the Gallows, did, upon a foresight of the Kings return in 1660, leave the Nation, and died obscurely in a strange Land. The Father of the said Goffes was Steph. Goffe somtimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll, a good Logician and Disputant, but a very severe Puritan, eminent for his training up, while a Tutor, several that proved afterwards very noted Scholars; among whom must not be forgotten Rob. Harris D. of D. sometimes President of Trin. Coll. in Oxon.