Barnabas Potter

received his first being in this world within the Barony of Kendall in the County of Westmorland, became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1594 aged 15 years. Where after he had undergone, with some hardship, the place of a poor serving Child and Tabarder, he was, when M. of Arts, made Fellow of the said College. Afterwards entring into holy orders, he became not only a puritanical Preacher in these parts, but at Totness in Devonshire, where he was much followed by the precise party. In 1615 he proceeded in Divinity, and in the year following was elected Provost of his College: which place he holding about 10 years, resign’d it, (being then one of the Kings Chaplains) and by his interest got his Nephew Christopher Potter to succeed him. In 1628 he, tho a thorough pac’d Calvinist, was made Bishop of Carlile, to which being consecrated in the Chappel of Ely house in Holbourn near London, on the 15 of March, had the temporalities thereof ((a))((a)) Pat. 4. Car. 1. p. 37. given to him by the King on the 23 of the same month, in the year before mention’d. He hath written and published,

Lectures on the sixteenth Chapt. of Genesis—When or where printed I know not.

Lect. on the 12.13.14.15.17.18. Chapters of Genesis.—Whether printed I cannot tell. He had also written Lectures on the Plagues of Egypt from Exodus, and on the Beatitudes from part of S. Luke, but are not, as I conceive, extant.

Several Sermons, as (1) The Baronets burial: Or a funeral sermon at the solemnities of that honorable Baronet Sir Edw. Seymours burial, on Deut. 34. ver. 5. Oxon. 1613. qu. (2) Sermon on Easter Tuesday at the Spittle, &c. This learned and godly Bishop gave way to fate in his Lodgings within the Parish of S. Paul in Covent Garden near London in the beginning of January in sixteen hundred forty and one:1641/2. whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish on the sixth day of the same month: At which time he left behind him a widow named Elizabeth, but whether any Children I cannot tell.