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| − | Born in [[place of birth::Hertford]], son of [[family::John Vincent]], a puritan [[occupation::clergyman]]. BA [[education::Christ Church, Oxford]] 1652, MA 1654. [[occupation::Chaplain]] to [[associates::Robert Sidney]], 2nd Earl of Leicester. [[occupation::Rector]] of [[location::St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London]] 1656 (ejected 1662); thereafter he assisted [[associates::Thomas Doolittle]] at his academy in [[location::Bunhill Fields]], and was licensed to preach in [[location::London]], 1672; he died in [[location::Hoxton]]. He published a number of doctrinal and devotional works. | + | Born in [[place of birth::Hertford]], son of [[family::John Vincent]], a puritan [[occupation::clergyman]]. BA [[education::Christ Church, Oxford]] 1652, MA 1654. [[occupation::Chaplain]] to [[associates::Robert Sidney]], 2nd Earl of Leicester. [[occupation::rector|Rector]] of [[location::St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London]] 1656 (ejected 1662); thereafter he assisted [[associates::Thomas Doolittle]] at his academy in [[location::Bunhill Fields]], and was licensed to preach in [[location::London]], 1672; he died in [[location::Hoxton]]. He published a number of doctrinal and devotional works. |
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Thomas VINCENT 1634-78
Biographical Note
Born in Hertford, son of John Vincent, a puritan clergyman. BA Christ Church, Oxford 1652, MA 1654. Chaplain to Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester. Rector of St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London 1656 (ejected 1662); thereafter he assisted Thomas Doolittle at his academy in Bunhill Fields, and was licensed to preach in London, 1672; he died in Hoxton. He published a number of doctrinal and devotional works.
Books
Vincent's will has no explicit mention of books; his goods and estate were divided between his wife and children. His library was auctioned in London, 29.11.1680, as part of a joint sale with the books of Henry Stubb, Thomas Cawton, Benjamin Dillingham and John Dunton; the sale catalogue runs to over 13,000 lots but does not distinguish which books came from which source.
Characteristic Markings
None of Vincent's books have been identified.
Biographical Note
- Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
- Will of Thomas Vincent, The National Archives PROB 11/361/458.
- Catalogus variorum librorum ... D. Henry Stubb [etc], [London, 1680], ESTC r31959.
- Lynch, Beth. '"Vincent, Thomas [T. V.] (1634–1678), clergyman and ejected minister." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Matthews, A. G. Calamy revised. Oxford, 1934.