Michael Jermin

Son of Alex. Jerm. Merchant and Sherriff of Exeter, Son of Mich. Jermin somtimes twice Mayor of the said City, was born at Knowston in Devonshire, entred a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. in the beginning of 1606 aged 15 years, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 23. Sept. 1608, Master of Arts in the latter end of 1614, and Probat. Fellow of the said House 25 of Apr. in the year following. Afterwards he was made Chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth, Consort to the Pr. Elector Palatine of Rheine, made D. of Div. of the University of Leyden, in his passage thither or return thence, incorporated in the same degree at Oxon, in 1624, constituted Chaplain to K. Ch. 1, and at length in 1638, or thereabouts, he was made Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate within the City of London, which was all the preferment, I think, that he enjoyed. He was always reputed a pious and laborious man in his calling, learned and well read in most parts of Divinity, as in these his labours following is evident.

Paraphrastical meditations by way of commentarie on the Proverbs, &c. Lond. 1638. fol.

Commentarie on Ecclesiastes, &c. Lond. 1639. fol.

Exemplary life and death of Mr. . . . Jurdaine—printed in qu. One Ferdin. Nicolls Minister of S. Marie Arches in Exeter, hath written The life and death of Ignat. Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of the City of Exeter. Whether he be the same Jurdaine, whose life Dr. Jermin wrot, I know not, for I have not yet seen it, nor The Fathers instruction to his Child, printed at Lond. 1658. oct. said to be written by Jermin. At length after he had suffer’d much for the royal cause in the time of the rebellion by sequestration of his rectory, plundering and other miseries, lived as opportunity served, and on the benevolence of some generous Loyallists. Afterward retiring to Kemsing near to Sevenoke in Kent, lived obscurely with his Son in law for about 7 years before his death. In fine, preaching at Sevenoke on the 14 day of August, being then the Lords day,1659. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, dropt dead from his horse in his return thence to Kemsing. Whereupon he was buried on the north side of the Altar, in the Chancel belonging to the Church of Kemsing. Over his grave was a marble monument set up near to the East Window, with an inscription engraven thereon; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 243. a.