Hamlet Puleston or Puliston (1632–1662) was an English academic, known as a political writer.
Life
Born at
Old Alresford,
Hampshire
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, he was the son of Richard Puleston, a cleric, and nephew of
John Puleston. Admitted a scholar of
Wadham College, Oxford
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Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...
on 20 August 1647, he graduated B.A. on 23 May 1650, and M.A. on 25 April 1653.
Puleston at first declined to subscribe to the ordinances of the
parliamentary visitors;
he took part, in fact, in the stubborn armed resistance in
Lincoln College, around George Hitchcocke.
Subsequently he became a fellow of
Jesus College. He was nominated moderator dialecticæ on 19 May 1656.
Anthony Wood wrote that he also became a local preacher.
Puleston later settled in London, where he died at the beginning of 1662, in poverty according to Wood.
Works
Puleston published in 1660 ''Monarchiæ Britannicæ singularis Protectio; or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial providence over the British Monarchy''. It was reissued as the ''Epitome Monarchiæ Britannicæ … wherein many remarkable observations on the civil wars of England, and General Monk's Politique Transactions in reducing the Nation to a firm Union, for the resettlement of his Majesty, are clearly discovered'', 1663.
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1632 births
1662 deaths
Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
English writers
People from the City of Winchester