Mascal Gyles (died 1652), was an English polemic. Gyles was vicar of

Ditchling Ditchling is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is contained within the boundaries of the South Downs National Park; the order confirming the establishment of the park was signed in Ditchling. ...

, Sussex, from 1621 till about 1644. In 1648 he became vicar of

Wartling Wartling is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, between Bexhill and Hailsham, ten miles (16 km) west of the latter at the northern edge of the Pevensey Levels. The parish includes Wartling itself an ...

, also in Sussex, as appears by an order of the House of Lords, 2 March of that year. Gyles was buried at Wartling 14 August 1652. By Sarah his wife (died 1640) he had a numerous family of sons and daughters. Gyles was engaged in a controversy, carried on with the usual personalities and violent invective of the period, with Thomas Barton, rector of

Westmeston Westmeston is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England heavily dependent in amenities on larger Ditchling to the near-immediate northwest. It is four miles (6 km) south-southeast of Burgess Hill and (10 ...

in Sussex, as to the propriety of bowing at the name of Jesus. He wrote: * &c., dedicated to Anthony Stapley, M.P. for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

, London, 1642, 4to, reprinted with Barton's reply, 1643. * ''A Defense of a Treatise against Superstitious Jesu-Worship, falsely called scandalous, against the truly scandalous Answer of the Parson of Westmenston icin Sussex,'' &c., dedicated to the House of Commons, London, 1643, 4to.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gyles, Mascal Year of birth unknown 1652 deaths People from Lewes District Anglican writers English religious writers 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers 17th-century English Anglican priests