Jonathan Newey (c1637-1716) was curate of
Kinver (1665-1716).
Life
Jonathan Newey was educated at
Pembroke College,
Oxford, matriculating 25 July 1655 and awarded his BA on 12 February 1659. He was married to Mary. Their elder son,
John Newey
John Newey (4 December 1664 – 13 September 1735) was an English churchman, Dean of Chichester from 1727 to 1735.
Life
Born in Kinver, Staffordshire, he was the elder son of Jonathan Newey, Rector of Kinver. Newey was educated at Kinver and ...
(4 December 1664 – 13 September 1735), became
Dean of Chichester Cathedral. While at Kinver, their children were Elizabeth (bap. 1666, d. 1675), Deanes (bap. 1669, d. 1671), Anne (bap. 1672), Sarah (bap. 1674), Katherine (bap. 1676), Frances (bap. 1678, d. 5 September 1728) was married (20 June 1699) to
Edward Waddington,
Bishop of Chichester., Samuel (bap. 1681).
Career
Newey was ordained on 17 September 1661 by
Thomas Sydserf,
Bishop of Galloway. He was licensed as a preacher in the
Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield (10 December 1663) and appointed to the curacy of
Kinver on 4 August 1665 on the nomination of twenty parishioners led by William Talbot and after the ejection of
Richard Morton. Newey was instituted (26 June 1704) as non-resident Rector of
Doverdale (Diocese of Worcester) at the invitation of
William Lloyd,
Bishop of Worcester
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
and former
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
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.
Newey’s theological position is not clear. His appointment to Kinver came with the restoration of the monarchy and the
ejection of
puritan ministers from
Church of England parishes. He must have taken the oath of allegiance to
William III William III or William the Third may refer to:
Kings
* William III of Sicily (c. 1186–c. 1198)
* William III of England and Ireland or William III of Orange or William II of Scotland (1650–1702)
* William III of the Netherlands and Luxembourg ...
rather than joining the
nonjuror faction. Newey’s theological views seems to have been sympathetic to the puritan faction. When Revd Joseph Eccleshall moved to Kinver, having been forced by the
Oxford Act
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to leave his parish of Sedgeley, Eccleshall preached to his followers in private then accompanied them to Kinver church “to hear Mr Jonathan Newey,’ a worthy man’”.
In 1677, Newey was one of several ministers involved in the case of John Duncalf. Duncalf was, by his own admission, a petty criminal who stole bibles, amongst other things. On one occasion, denying a theft of a bible, he cursed himself wishing that his hands would fall off before he died if he had stolen the bible. Soon afterwards, his hands and feet began to rot and fall off and he subsequently died. This was attributed to divine judgement although modern medicine might diagnose dry gangrene. During Duncalf’s last illness, he was visited by several ministers, including Jonathan Newey who contributed to a book about this case. The popularity of the book is witnessed by the numerous editions produced from 1678 to 1750.
Jonathan Newey provided in his will for the founding of a
charity school and for the poor of Kinver. In 1717, Mary Newey provided an income for the charity as directed in his will. Although cottages in Whittington were acquired by the trustees, there is no evidence that the school was ever established. The cottages seem to have been used as poorhouses by the nineteenth century (and perhaps as early as 1758). Jonathan and Mary Newey presented a large silver chalice to Kinver church engraved with "J.N.M.".
References
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1716 deaths
People from Kinver
17th-century English Anglican priests