Thomas Sutton

, a most florid preacher in the time he lived, was born in the Parish of Bampton or Banton in Westmoreland, made a poor serving child of Queens coll. in 1602. aged 17, afterwards Tabarder, and when M. of A. perpetual Fellow, an. 1611. About that time being in holy orders, he was made Lecturer of S. Helens Church in Abendon in Berks, and minister of Culham near to that Town. At both which places he was much followed, and beloved of all for his smooth and edifying way of preaching, and for his exemplary life and conversation. After he had taken one degree in Divinity (for he was Doctor of that fac.) he was made Lecturer of S. Mary-Overhee in Southwark, where also he was much followed and admired. At length being desirous to finish a work of charity which he had began, took a journey into his own Country, in 1623. and there at his native place put his last hand to the finishing of a Free-School, which he before had began, as his Son Tho. Sutton sometimes of C. C. coll. Oxon. hath told me, but in his return from Newcastle to London by Sea, was unfortunately drown’d, as I shall tell you anon. He was a person esteemed by all that knew him to have been furnished with many rich endowments, and as a true servant of God, to have employed his talent faithfully and fruitfully. His works are only,

Sermons and Lectures, as (1) Englands summons, Sermon at Pauls Cross, on Hosea 4. 1, 2, 3. Lond. 1613. oct. (2) Engl. second summons, preached at the same place on Rev. 3. 15, 16. Lond. 1615. oct. These two were reprinted in one vol. at Lond. 1616. in oct. (3) The good fight of faith; Serm. before the Artillery company, on 2 Tim. 6. 12. Ibid. 1626. qu. published by Francis Little Student of Ch. Ch. whose Sister, the Daughter of Francis Little of Abendon Brewer and Inholder, Dr. Tho. Sutton our author had taken to Wife while he was Lecturer there. (4) Jethroes counsel to Moses: or, a direction for Magistrates, Serm. at S. Saviours in Southwark 5. Mar. 1621. before the honourable Judges, on Exod. 18. 21. Lond. 1631. qu. Printed by a certain Bookseller, who, as ’tis said, took it in shorthand from Dr. Suttons mouth.

Lectures upon the eleventh chapt. to the Romans. Lond. 1632. qu. Published by Joh. Downham Bac. of Div. (brother to Dr. George Downham B. of London-Derry in Ireland) who married the widdow of the author Sutton, and promised in his Epistle to the Reader, set before them, that if the said Lectures took with the men of the world, to put forth Lectures on the 12. chapt. to the Romans, and on a great part of the 119. Psalm, which Dr. Sutton had left behind him in MS. He died in the Ocean, (as I have already told you) before he had attained to high noon of perfection, on S. Barthelmews day (24. Aug.) in sixteen hundred twenty and three; 1623 at which time, many besides being cast away, some of their bodies were taken up, among which that of Dr. Sutton, was (as is supposed) one, and forthwith buried in the yard belonging to the Church of Aldborough a Sea-port Town in Suffolke. As soon as the news of this great loss came to London one Rob. Drurie who was first a R. Catholick, afterwards a Protestant and at length a Jesuit, did much (a)(a) See in a book intit. Poetici Cona [•••] written [〈◊◊◊◊〉] p. 11. 12. rejoyce at it, as a great judgment befallen on Dr. Sutton for his forward zeal in preaching against the Papists; but the 26. of Octob. following he the said Drurie was suddenly slain by the fall of the floor at an assembly of R. Catholicks in the place called the Blackfriers in London.