John Latch

a Sommersetshire man born, descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County, was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly, as I have been informed, in S. Johns Coll, where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature. Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple, studied the municipal Laws, but being very sickly, lived a solitary and studious life, and improved his natural talent as much as his abilities of body would permit. He hath written,

Reports of divers causes, adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the Kings bench. Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes (as it seems) in Middlesex, in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five,1655. and was buried in the Church there. Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion, partly, if not altogether, by the perswasion of one called Francis Harvey (whose right Sirname was Hanmer) a pretended Solicitor, and a Broker for letting out money, esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit, for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus. Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch, who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew, and others entrusted by the R. Catholicks. What the event of the matter was, I know not, only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison, for conveying away his Will, and the matter it self was examined by the Protector in Sept. following.