Edmund Stanton

son of Sir Franc. Stanton Knight, was born in Bedfordshire, became a Communer of Wadham Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged about 14 years, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year, and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders, he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire; but his title to the Rectory being weak, he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey. In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity, and being puritanically affected, he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers, was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London, and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament. In 1648 he was, for the services done for the cause, constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being, and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline. Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement, as before he had done the Covenant; but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him, whose bread he had eaten for 12 years, he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth, where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day, an. 1662, was then silenced for Nonconformity. He hath published,

Several Sermons as (1) Rupes Israelis: the rock of Israel, preached at S. Marg. Westm. before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644, on Deut. 32.31. Lond. 1644. qu. (2) Phinehas’s zeal in execution of judgment, Fast-serm. before the House of Lords, 30 oct. 1644. on Psal. 106.30. Lond. 1645. qu. (3) Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654, at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall, on 1. Thes. 4.14. Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death, 2 Verses and Elegies on her death, made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll, Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband, &c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen.

Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger. Lond. 1673. oct.

Treatise of Christian conference.—Pr. with the Dialogue. He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire (after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years) on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one,1671. and was buried in the Church there. His life, such as ’tis, was written by one Richard Mayow; wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor, but not so fully, as may be wished, unless he reads the Appendix to it, written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683, involves all or most of that written by Mayow, without taking any notice of the Appendix, either because he had not seen it, or that it was too satyrical, or made much against the Doctor, as it doth with unquestionable veracity. Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames, but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662, and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer. Pr. in oct.