Richard Moket

, was born in Dorsetshire, in the Dioc. of Salisbury, elected from Brasnose, to be Fellow of Allsouls, coll. in 1599. being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty, took on him the Sacred Function, became Domestick Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury, Warden of Allsouls, Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks, and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire, D. of D. and one of the Kings Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs. He published in the Latin tongue,

To which he added his own book, written in Latin, intituled,

De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct. Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations. But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church, or so much byassed towards those of Calvins Platform, that it was thought fit not only to call it in, but to expiate the errours of it in a publick flame. And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burn’d, was, that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church, he totally left out the first clause of it, viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus & caeremonias statuendi jus, & in controversiis fidei authoritatem. By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified, the Churches authority disowned, and consequently a wide gap (a)(a) See in Arcb. Lauds Life, by [〈…〉] lib. 1. an. 1617. opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever. He yielded up his last breath, (with grief, as ’tis thought, for what had been done to his book) on the day before the nones of July, 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen, and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll. chappel, just below the steps leading to the high Altar. In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon, who was afterwards Bishop of London, and at length Archbishop of Canterbury.