John Bond LL.D. (1612–1676) was an English jurist, Puritan clergyman, member of the
Westminster Assembly
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, and Master of
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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.
Life
He was born at
Chard
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, in
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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; his father was
Denis Bond. He was educated at
Dorchester under
John White, and afterwards entered at
St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
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, of which he became a fellow. He took his B.A. degree in 1631, became M.A. in 1635, and LL.D. ten years later. In 1643 he became a member of the Westminster Assembly, and in December 1645 succeeded to the
mastership of the Savoy
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.
In the same year,
John Selden
John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned ...
having declined the mastership of Trinity Hall, Dr.
Robert King was chosen by the Fellows: but, Parliament interposing on behalf of Bond, he was elected Master on 7 March 1646. Three years later he was made
Professor of Law at Gresham College, London, and in 1654 became assistant to the commissioners of
Middlesex
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and
Westminster
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The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Bu ...
for ejecting scandalous ministers and schoolmasters. He was appointed
vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1658, but lost his preferments at Cambridge and London on the
Restoration
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...
of 1660.
[
He retired to ]Dorset
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, where he died at Sandwich (Swanage
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), in the Isle of Purbeck
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, and was buried at Steeple
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on 30 July 1676. He is thought by some to be identical with the John Bond who was member for Melcombe Regis
Melcombe Regis is an area of Weymouth in Dorset, England.
Situated on the north shore of Weymouth Harbour and originally part of the waste of Radipole, it seems only to have developed as a significant settlement and seaport in the 13th centu ...
in the last parliament of Charles I, recorder of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1645 and subsequently a recruiter in that district for the Long Parliament
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.[Hutchins, ''Dorsetshire'', ed. Ship and Hodson.]
Works
He published the following sermons:
* ''A Door of Hope'', 1641.
* ''Holy and Royal Activity'', 1641.
* ''Sermon at Exeter before the Deputy Lieutenants'', 1643.
* ''Salvation in a Mystery'', 1644.
* ''Ortus Occidentalis'', 1645.
* ''A Reliquary of Gospel'', 1647.[
* ''Grapes amongst Thorns'', 1648.
* ''A Thanksgiving Sermon'', 1648.][
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Notes
References
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1612 births
1676 deaths
17th-century English Anglican priests
English legal professionals
Westminster Divines
Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Masters of the Savoy
Professors of Gresham College
People from Chard, Somerset
Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge