Athenæ Oxonienses. The History of Oxford Writers. Vol. 2, p. 398
Thomas Woolnough
a ministers Son of Gloustershire, as it seems, became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall, 1648, trained up there acording to the presbyterian way, took a degree in Arts, afterwards had a cure in the interval, and at length became Rector of S. Michaels Church in Glocester, where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching. He hath extant,
Fideles aquae: or, some pious tears drop’d upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistris Sarah Gilby, together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother. Lond. 1661. oct.
Dust returning to the earth: Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles. 12.7. Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things, as tis said, which I have not yet seen. He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five,1675. and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mention’d, near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife, dau. of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh. Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts. Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb. 1665.