Rowland Stedman

was born at Corfton in the Parish of Didlebury in Shropshire, 1630, admitted Communer of Ball. Coll. 13. Mar. 1647, and the year following removed to Univ. Coll. In 1655 he was admitted Master of Arts, and soon after became Minister of Hanwell near Brentford in Middlesex; where continuing till 1660 he removed to Okingham or Wokingham in Berks, and thence, two years after, was ejected for Nonconformity. Afterwards he was entertained, in the condition of a Chaplain, by Philip Lord Wharton, in whose service he died. He hath written,

The mystical Union of believers with Christ: or, a treatise wherein the great mysterie and priviledg of the Saints Union with the Son of God is opened, &c. Lond. 1668. oct.

Sober Singularity: or, an antidote against infection by the example of a multitude; being practical meditations on Exod. 23.2. &c. Lond. 1668. oct. He died at Ubourne or Wobourne (where the Lord Wharton hath a Seat) near to Beaconsfield in Bucks. on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and three, and was buried two days after in the Church there,1673. leaving then behind him the character of a zealous Nonconformist.