Edward Reynolds

sometimes Fell. of Merton Coll. and afterwards Dean of Ch. Ch, was consecrated B. of Norwych in the beginning of Jan. 1660, and died in sixteen hundred seventy and six,1676. under which year you may see more among the Writers, p. 420. In the said See succeeded Anth. Sparrow D. D. Bish. of Exeter, who after his Translation, was confirmed on the 18 of Sept. the same year, where he sate to the time of his death. This learned Doctor, who was the son of a wealthy father named Sam. Sparrow, was born at Depden in Suffolk, educated in Queens Coll. in Cambr, of which he was successively Scholar and Fellow, but ejected thence, with the rest of the Society, for their Loyalty, and refusing the Covenant, an. 1643. Soon after he was prevail’d upon to take the benefice of Hankdon in his native Country, but by that time he had held it 5 weeks, where he read the Common Prayer, he was ejected thence by the Committee of Religion sitting at Westminster. After the restauration of his Maj. he returned to his Living, was elected one of the Preachers at S. Edmunds Bury, and made Archd. of Sudbury, as I have told you in the Fasti under the year 1577. Soon after he became Master of the Coll. wherein he had been educated, and thereupon left his charge at S. Ed. Bury, and in short time after resigned Hankdon to his Curate, having before expended in reparations there 200 l. On the 3 of Nov. 1667 he was consecrated Bish. of Exeter, upon the Translation thence of Dr. Ward to Salisbury; where sitting with great commendations till the death of Dr. Reynolds, was then translated to Norwich, as I have before told you. He hath published (1) Rationale upon the book of Common Prayer of the Ch. of England. Lond. 1657. &c. in tw. (2) Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, &c. Ibid. 1661. qu, besides a Sermon concerning Confession of sins and the power of absolution, &c. He died towards the latter end of the month of May, an. 1685, and in the next month he was succeeded by Dr. Will. Lloyd B. of Peterborough, who continuing there till after K. Will 3. came to the Crown, was then ejected as a Non-juror, or one that would not violate his Oath so the former King.