William Hinde

was born at Kendall in Westmorland, became a poor serving Child of Qu. coll. in Mich. Term 1586. aged 17. afterwards Tabarder, M. of A. and perpetual Fellow of the said house; wherein, having been alwaies a close and severe Student, he was much respected and beloved by the famous Jo. Rainolds a Commoner of the said Coll. during his time. Whose doctrine making impressions on the Juniors there, our author Hinde became an admirer of him. At length being full ripe for a removal, he left the Society about 1603. being then much in esteem among them for his excellent Theological Disputations and Preachments, and became Minister of Gods word at Bunbury in Cheshire, where he was much noted among the puritanical party for his piety, and so much followed by them for his frequent preaching, that he was esteemed the Ring-leader of the Nonconformists in that County, during the time that Dr. Tho. Morton sate Bishop of Chester, with whom our author had several (a)(a) See in The life of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish. of Durham, p. 132. &c. written by Joh. Barwick, D. D. Lond. 16 [•] 0. qu. contests about Conformity. He hath written,

The office and use of the Moral Law of God in the days of the Gospel justified, and explained at large by Scriptures, Fathers, and other Orthodox Divines, &c. Lond. 1623. qu.

Path to Piety; a Catechism.

A faithful remonstrance: or, the holy life and happy death of John Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford in the County of Chester Esq; exhibiting variety of many memorable and exemplary passages of his life, and at his death, &c. Lond. 1641. oct. Published by Sam. Hinde a Minister, Son of William the author. The said John Bruen who was a noted Calvinist, and Brother to that mirrour of Piety Mrs. Cath. Brettergh, was a Com. or Gent. Com. of S. Albans hall an. 1577. aged 18. where he was much noted for an early Zealot. Our author Will. Hinde did also revise, correct, and publish, The discovery of the Man of Sin, &c. Oxon. 1614. qu. written by Jo. Rainolds before-mentioned, and An exposition on the last Chapter of the Proverbs. Lond. 1614. qu. penn’d by Rob. Cleaver the Decalogist, then lately dead. At length after our author had undergone several troubles concerning matters of indifferency, he surrendred up his last breath in his study at Bunbury, in the month of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, 1629 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, as I have been informed by his Grandson Thomas Hinde D. of D. sometimes Fellow of Brasnose college, afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of Ormond, and Dean of Limerick in Ireland, who died in his house at Limerick in Nov. 1689.