Job Roys

Son of a Father of both his names a Scrivener of London, and he the Son of another Job of Lubenham in Leycestershire, was born in the County of Middlesex, in the Parish, as it seems, of S. Giles Cripplegate, an. 1631, educated partly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks, (founded by John Royse 1563) became a Student in Pembroke Coll. 1650, and soon after was elected one of the Postmasters of Mert. Coll. where continuing under the tuition of a severe Presbyterian, became well qualified with the spirit, took one degree in Arts, an. 1655, left the Coll. soon after, and retiring to the great City, became a puling Levite among the Brethren, for whose sake, and at their instance, he wrot and published,

The spirits Touchstone: or, the teaching of Christs spirit on the hearts of Believers; being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know, whether he be really taught by the spirit of God, &c. Lond. 1657 in a pretty thick octavo. What other books he published besides this, (which was esteemed an inconsiderable canting piece) I know not, nor any thing else of the Author, only that first, if you had set aside his practical Divinity, you would have found him a simple, shiftless and ridiculous Person,1663. and secondly that dying in sixteen hundred sixty and three, was buried in some Church in, or near, London; being then weary of the change of the times, and the wickedness, forsooth, that followed.