Henry Thurman

the Son, if I mistake not, of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex (who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest, an. 1643) was educated in Westminster School, and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline, became a Preacher some years before his Majesties restauration; but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return, he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents: So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party, had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex. He hath written,

A defence of humane learning in the Ministry: Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister (or Preacher) should be skill’d in humane learning. Oxon. 1660. oct. Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it, for which he was then rewarded, but not altogether to his mind. This book being published in Mich. term 1659, was look’d upon as a seasonable piece of service, because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake, and had certainly gone to the pot, had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief. This Mr. Thurman, 1670. died about sixteen hundred and seventy, in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch, have informed me, but where buried they could not further add.