Samuel Pullen (also Pullein and Pulleyne) (1598–1667) was the

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Biography

Samuel Pullen was the son of William Pullein, rector of Ripley,

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. Born in Ripley in 1598, he commenced

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, 1623, and in 1624 was appointed the first master, under the second endowment, of the

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, and lecturer in the

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. In both offices he was succeeded in 1630 by his brother Joshua Pullen (d. 1657), father of Tobias Pullen. Joshua continued as master until 1651. Samuel accompanied the

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to Ireland as private chaplain in 1632. He was installed a

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of the

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on 5 June 1634, appointed rector of Knockgraffon,

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, and chancellor of Cashel in 1636. On 14 November 1638 he was created

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. On the outbreak of the Catholic rebellion in October 1641, Pullen, who was then living in Cashel, Tipperary, was plundered of all his goods, to the value of four or five thousand pounds, and, with his wife and children, only escaped murder by the protection of a

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father named James Saul, who sheltered him for three months. On his escape to England, Pullen became chaplain to

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. Invited by the Countess of Oxford to hear a sermon of a popular Puritan preacher, an alleged shoemaker, Pullen recognised in the preacher his former benefactor, the Jesuit, in disguise. Pullen contrived that Saul should quit Oxfordshire without exposure. Pullen was collated on 28 October 1642 to a prebend in

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which he held until the

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, when he was incorporated

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of Dublin, and, through the Duke of Ormonde's influence, elevated to the see of Tuam, with that of Kilfenoragh (19 January 1661). He died on 24 January 1667, and was buried in the cathedral at Tuam. Pullen married, first, on 8 June 1624, Anne (d. 1631), daughter of Robert Cooke, B.D., vicar of Leeds, by whom he had three sons, Samuel, Alexander, and William. Pullen's second wife was a sister of Archbishop

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References

;Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pullen, Samuel 1598 births 1667 deaths People from the Borough of Harrogate People from County Galway Deans of Clonfert Anglican archbishops of Tuam 17th-century Anglican archbishops Clergy from Yorkshire