Timothy Woodroffe

son of Rich. Woodr. sometimes Vicar of Sherton, and afterwards Rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts, was born in that County, (at Sherston as it seems) educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under Rob. Latymer, who taught school there 40 years, and was Master to Tho. Hobbes the famous Philosopher. In 1610, T. Woodr. being then 16 years of age, he was sent to Balliol Coll. in Lent term, and [•] hen matriculated as a Ministers son. After he had taken the degrees in Arts he translated himself to S. Albans Hall, and as a member thereof he was admitted and proceeded Master of that faculty. About that time he entred into holy orders, and became Chaplain in the family of the St. Johns of Lidyard St. Johns in his own Country, but before he had continued long there, he, by the favour of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England, was prefer’d to the Vicaridge of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts, which being about 14, or more, miles from Oxon, gave him the opportunity of spending much of his time in Ball. College, where he set up a Divinity Lecture, and himself read it for several years, he being then Bach. of Divinity. In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much by both Armies, and was plundered of a very good library: whereupon he left his Living and removed to London, and thence, without his seeking, he was invited to Great Dunmow in Essex, where he was recieved as an Angel, and became a frequent Preacher. Not long after he was invited by Sir Rob. Harley Knight of the Bath to be one of the Preachers in the Minster or Cath. at Hereford; from whence by his favour he was again, in the year 1649, removed to the Parsonage of Kingsland in the same County; where after many years painful preaching and much good done in the Neighbourhood by the practice of Physick (wherein he always gave his advice and remedies gratis) he finished his course. He hath written and published,

Heavens Alarum &c. Serm. on Hosea 4.3.4. Lond. in tw.

A religious Treatise upon Simeons song: or instructions advertising how to live holily and dye happily. Lond. 1659. oct. Built on Luke 2.29.30. and composed for the use of Sir Rob. Harley before mentioned, when weakness and old age confin’d him to his chamber. Before this book is a commendatory Epistle subscribed by Joh. Row and S. Wood, who stile the said book a sound and savoury discourse, and such that wanteth not a pleasant quickness to hold on the Readers appetite, 1677. &c. He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was buried in the Church of Kingsland before mentioned. Among several Children that he left behind him at the time of his death, were Tim. Woodroffe sometimes of Magd. Coll, now a Physitian at S. Albans in Hertfordshire, and Benj. Woodr. D. of D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.