Anthony Sadler

son of Tho. Sadl. of Chilton in Wilts. was born in that County, entred in S. Edm. Hall in the condition of a Batler, in Lent term 1627, admitted Bach. of Arts and in Orders, an. 1631, being then 21 years of age: Soon after he became Chaplain to an Esquire of his name in Hertfordshire, and in the beginning of the Civil War Curat of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire, afterwards Chaplain to the Lady Let. Paget Dowager, and at length being presented to the Living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire, was refused to pass by the Triers, an. 1654, and thereupon no small trouble passed between him and them. Soon after he was made Vicar of Mitcham in Surrey, where I find him in much trouble, an. 1664, (occasion’d by Rob. Cranmer of London Merchant an inhabitant of that place) and afterwards to be Doctor of Div. and Chapl. extraord. to his Majesty. He hath written and published,

Inquisitio Anglicana: or the disguise discovered, shewing the proceedings of the Commissioners at Whitehall for the approbation of Ministers, &c. Lond. 1654. in three sh. in qu.

Several Sermons, as (1) Benedictio, Valedictio: or, the remembrance of thy friend and thy end, being a farewell serm. preached at the house of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased, on 2 Cor. 13.11. Lond. 1655. oct. (2) Mercy in a miracle; shewing the deliverance and duty of the King and People, on Matth. 8.25. Lond. 1661. qu. It was preached at Mitcham in Surrey 28 Jun. 1660, in a solemn congregation for the restauration of his Maj. to his royal throne, &c.

A divine Masque. Lond. 1660. qu, ded. to the Lord Gen. Monke.

Strange news indeed, from Mitcham and Surrey; of the treacherous and barbarous proceedings of Rob. Cramer Merchant of London, against A. Sadler Vicar of Mitcham, &c. Lond. 1664. in one sh. in qu.

Schema sacrum in ordine ad ordinem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ceremoniarum. Lond. 1683. on a broad side of a sheet of paper, written in English, partly in verse and partly in prose. This is the second or third edition, but when the first came out I know not, nor any thing else of the author,1680. only that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty, or thereabouts, leaving then behind him the character of a man of a rambling head and turbulent spirit.