John Featley, also known as John Fairclough (c.1605 – 1666), was a chorister and

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. He was a

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''John Featley'' His uncle was the theologian

Daniel Featley Daniel Featley, also called Fairclough and sometimes called Richard Fairclough/Featley (15 March 158217 April 1645), was an English theologian and controversialist. He fell into difficulties with Parliament due to his loyalty to Charles I of Eng ...

Life

The son of John Fairclough, the elder brother of Daniel Featley, he was born in

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in or about 1605. He was admitted either clerk or chorister at

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, and took his B.A. degree on 25 February 1624. After being ordained he went to

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, the first preacher in the colony, in 1626. During 1635 and 1636 he was curate to his uncle at

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, and probably at

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. In 1639 he was made chaplain to Charles I, in the

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was turning adverse for the royalists, he was persuaded by his uncle to return to Saint Kitts, for which he sailed with his wife, children, and servants from

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on 24 June 1643. In 1646 Featley was in

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, Netherlands. After the

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he was appointed on 29 June 1660 chaplain extraordinary to the king, who presented him on 13 August to the precentorship of Lincoln, and in September following to a prebend in

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. In 1661 he was rector of

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; he was later instituted to the vicarage of

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, Nottinghamshire. On 7 June 1661 he was created by royal mandamus D.D. at Oxford. Featley died at Lincoln in 1666, and was buried in a chapel in the cathedral.

Works

Featley published at least two of his uncle's tracts, together with his life, and was himself author of: * ''Sermon to the West India Company n Joshua i. 9', London, 1629. * ''Obedience and Submission. A Sermon n Heb. xiii. 17preached … 8 Dec. 1635'', London, 1636. * ''A Fountain of Teares emptying itselfe into three rivelets, viz., of (1) Compunction. (2) Compassion. (3) Devotion'', Amsterdam, 1646; another edition, London, 1683. His portrait, a small head, appears on the engraved title of the first edition of this manual.

References

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