Thomas Washbourne

a younger Son of Joh. Washbourne of Wychenford in Worcestershire Esq. was born there, entred a Communer of Balliol Coll, in the beginning of the year 1622, aged 16 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, being then esteemed a tolerable Poet, holy Orders, and in 1636 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences. In the time of the rebellion he had a Prebendship in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester confer’d upon him, and suffer’d for the Royal cause, but when his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was restor’d, he was setled and installed in it, actually created Doctor of Divinity and became Rector of Dumbleton in Glocestershire. He hath written and published,

Divine Poems. Lond. 1654. oct.

Several Sermons as (1) Serm. at the funeral of Charles Cocks Esq, on Psal. 90.9.10. Lond. 1655. qu. (2) The repairer of the breach, preached in the Cathedral of Glocester 29 May 1661 being the anniversary of his Majesties birth day, and happy entrance into his imperial City of London, on Isa. 58.12. Lond. 1661. qu. &c. He died on the sixth day of May in sixteen hundred. eighty and seven,1687. and was buried in our Ladies Chappel within the Cathedral Church of Glocester. Soon after was a little monument set up on the wall over his grave, with an inscription thereon, wherein ’tis said that he was Theologus vere Christianus, vere primitivus, per annos 44 Eccl. Cath. Gloc. Prebendarius, and that he desired to have this written on his mon. that he was primus Peccatorum, minimus Ministrorum Dei, &c.