Joshua Stopford

a Lancashire man born, was entred into Brasnose Coll. in Mich. term 1654, aged 18 years, being then or soon after Scholar of that House, went afterwards to Magd. Coll, and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts, an. 1657. Afterwards he entred into Orders, became Preb. of Donington in the Church of York, (collated thereunto by Archb. Frewen 9. Nov. 1660) and about the same time Vicar of S. Martins Church in Conystreet there. In the month of Apr. 1670 he was created Master of Arts, and in the next month he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being at that time Rector of Allsaints Church in the said City of York. He hath written,

Pagano-Papismus: or, an exact parallel between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian in their doctrines and ceremonies. Lond. 1675. oct. publ. in Mich. term 1674. Before this work is a catalogue of books and authors made use of by this writer, which is very considerable both for number and value: To which piece is joyned another of smaller bulk, written by the same author, entit.

The ways and methods of Romes advancement; or, whereby the Pope and his Agents have endeavoured to propagate their doctrines, discovered in two Sermons preached 5. Nov. 1671 on Rev. 18.23.24.—A catalogue of authors of the like nature with the former, is also prefix’d; and in the Epistle to the Reader ’tis said, that those two Sermons were published to vindicate them and their author from the unjust aspersions and false accusations cast upon them by a generation of men, who make lies and calumnies a constituted part of their religion. He died in the month of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and five, and was, I presume,1675. buried in the Church of Alls. before mention’d, and not in the Cathedral, because he resign’d his Prebendship in 1663. He was a person very well read in substantial and noted authors, and might, had life been spared, done good service for the Church of England, of which he was a most zealous member.