William Sandbrooke

of Glocester Hall took one degree in the Civil Law in 1630, and about that time entring into Holy Orders, became Rector of the Church of S. Pet. in the Baylie in Oxon, 1635, where he was much frequented by Puritanical People and precise Scholars, as Rogers Principal of New Inn was, who had his turn in preaching there. In the beginning of the Civil Wars he left the University, and betook himself to a Sea employment, in the quality of a Chaplain, under the Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament, but being weary of it by the year 1644, he officiated as Vicar of S. Margarets Church in the City of Rochester by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true Incumbent, who having a good temporal estate, allowed Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living. Afterwards he was appointed by the Presbyterian Party one of three Lecturers in the Cathedral there, purposely to preach down the Blasphemies and Heresies of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and begotted followers. This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published,

The Church, the proper subject of the new Covenant, in three Sermons. Lond. 1646. oct.

Several Sermons, as (1) Fun. Sermon on Col. 2.6.—printed 1657. in oct. &c. which, and others, I have not yet seen. He died at Rochester in sixteen hundred fifty and eight,1658/9. and was inter’d in the South Isle joyning to the Parish Church of S. Margaret beforemention’d, (remarkable for being the place of burial of one of the Saxon Kings as the People there say) on the fifteenth day of March, leaving then behind him the character of a godly and painful preacher.