Thomas Traherne

a Herefordshire man born, was entred a Communer of Brasn. Coll. on the first day of March 1652, took one degree in Arts, left the house for a time, entred into the sacred function, and in 1661 he was actually created Mast. of Arts. About that time he became Rector of Credinhill commonly called Crednell near to the City of Hereford, afterwards Domestick Chaplain to S. Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and Minister of Tuddington . called by some Teddington, near Hampton Court in Middlesex, and in 1669 Bach. of Divinity. He hath written,

Roman forgeries: or, a true account of false records discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the Church of Rome. Lond. 1673. oct.

Christian Ethicks: or, divine morality, opening the way to blessedness, by the rules of virtue and reason. Lond. 1675. oct. He died at Teddington before mention’d, in the house of S. Orl. Bridgman, and was buried on the tenth day of Octob. in the Church there, under the reading desk, in sixteen hundred seventy and four.1674. This Person who always led a single and a devout life, was well read in primitive antiquity as in the Councils, Fathers, &c.