Philipp Hunton

son of Ph. Hunt. of Andover in Hampshire, was born in that County, became either Batler or Servitour of Wadham Coll. in Lent terme 1622, of which House he was afterwards Scholar, and Master of Arts. At length entring into the sacred function, he became successively Schoolmaster of Aburie in Wilts, Minister of Devises, afterwards of Hatchbury, and in fine of Westbury in the said County; and as Minister of the last place, he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts. for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians, Independents and other factious people called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, an. 1654. In the beginning of the year 1657 he was appointed the first Provost of the new College at Durham erected by Oliver the Protector; which, with the Academy there, being soon after dissolved, he retired to Westbury, and continued at that place till 1662, at which time being ejected for Nonconformity, held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived. He hath written,

A treatise of Monarchy, containing two parts. 1. Concerning Monarchy in general. 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy, &c. Lond. 1643 qu. Answer’d by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises, &c. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy. Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct. This Sir Robert, by the way must be known, was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent, by Elizabeth his wife daugh. of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq, and was, as I conceive, educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge. Our author Hunton hath also written,

A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy. Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles, was reprinted when the Press was open, in 1680, when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs, upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch, as ’tis said therein, that the Soveraignity of England is in the three Estates, viz. King, Lords and Commons, that proposition was condemned by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation, held 21. July 1683, and the book it self wherein it is, was then publickly burnt in the School-quadrangle. Afterwards, as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England, at which time the Nation was in a hurry, it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it. Under our authors name goes also a book entit.

Jus Regum, &c. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen, and therefore I can say nothing of it: Nor no more of the author, (who was a man of parts) only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two,1682. was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned, having some years before married a widdow with a good joynture, which maintained him, and kept up his port.