Thomas Merriot

was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts. educated in Wykeham’s School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an. 1610, aged 21 years or more, took one degree in the Civil Law, and for a time taught in the Grammarschool joyning to the Cloister there. Afterwards being presented to the Vicaridge of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death. He hath written,

Vulgaria: sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta; ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis, emittendos, quàm maximè conducentia; modo solerter edoceantur &c. in novem classes distributa. Oxon. 1652. oct.

Adagia selectissima, &c. Ib. eod. an. oct. He died at Swaclyve, on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two,1662. after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years, and was two days after buried in the Church there.