Samuel Page

, a Ministers Son and a Bedfordshire man born, was admitted Schollar of C. C. coll. 10 June 1587. aged 13 or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, but whether he was Fellow of that house, or Master of that faculty, it appears not. In his Juvenile years, he was accounted one of the chiefest among our English Poets to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of Love in his Poetical and Romantick writings; but when he became Elder, he applyed his Muse to the study of the sacred writ, in which faculty he was admitted Bachelor in 1603. being then, or about that time, Vicar of Deptford alias West Greenwich in Kent, and in 1611, he proceeded in his faculty, being then much in esteem by the Clergy of the neighbourhood, where he lived, and reverenc’d by the Laity for his orthodox principles and continual and unwearied labours in his function. His works are these.

God be thanked; Serm. of Thanksgiving for the happy success of the English Fleets, set forth by the company of Adventurers to the E. Indies, on Psal. 126. 2. Lond. 1616. qu.

Divine Sea service; containing sundry and useful forms of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the help of such as travel by Sea, fitted to their several necessities—Printed with the former, 1616. qu.

Other Sermons, as (1) Allegiance to the Clergy, on Rom. 13. 2. Lond. 1616. qu. (2) The Supper of the Lord, on Prov. 9. 5. Lond. 1616. qu. Preached at Hampton-court. (3) Cape of good hope, or Zebuluns blessing, five Sermons for the use of the Merchant and Mariner, on Deut. 33. 18, 19. on Psal. 95. 5. &c. Lond. 1616. qu. &c. (4) Remedy of Drought, two Serm. on 1 Kings, 8. 35. and Psal. 68. 7. Lond. 1616. qu.

A Manual of private devotions—Published by Nath. Snape of Greys Inn Esq.

Godly and learned Exposition, together with apt and profitable notes on the Lords Prayer. Lond. 1631. qu. Publ. by the said Snape.

The broken heart: Or Davids pennance fully exprest in holy meditations on 51 Psal. Lond. 1637. 39. and 1646. qu. He ended his days at Deptford before mention’d, and was buried in the Church there, on the eighth day of August, 1630 in sixteen hundred and thirty. One Dr. Page published a book intit. Jus fratrum, or the Law of Brethren. Printed in oct. 1658. but whether it was written by Dr. Samuel, or Dr. William Page, or by another, I cannot know, unless I could see the book.