Theophilus Wodenote ( bapt. 1588 – 1662) was a

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clergyman and

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divine.

Life

Theophilus Wodenote, born at

Linkinhorne Linkinhorne (in Cornish ''Lanngynhorn'') is a civil parish and village in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village itself is situated at and is approximately four miles (6.5 km) northwest of Callington and seven miles (1 ...

, near Launceston, Cornwall, was son of Thomas Wodenote, MA, fellow of

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

, and vicar of that parish, who was descended from the Wodenoths or Woodnoths of Cheshire. His mother was Francisca, daughter of Henry Clifford of Boscombe, Wiltshire. He was educated at

Eton school Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...

, and was elected in 1606 to King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship. He proceeded MA in due course, and was incorporated in that degree at Oxford on 13 July 1619. He graduated BD at Cambridge in 1623, and was created D.D. in 1630. He was vicar of Linkinhorne from 1619 to 1651, when he was sequestered from his benefice on account of his adherence to the Royalist cause. He was restored to his vicarage in 1660, and was buried at Linkinhorne on 1 October 1662. He married at Linkinhorne, in 1615, Mary, daughter of James Spicer of St. Gorran, "who came out of the East Countrey". His son Theophilus (born 1625) was matriculated at

Exeter College, Oxford Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth-oldest college of the un ...

, in 1652, and, like his father, furnished

John Aubrey John Aubrey (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the ''Brief Lives'', his collection of short biographical pieces. He was a pioneer archaeologist, ...

with notes for his ''

Brief Lives ''Brief Lives'' is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626–1697) in the last decades of the 17th century. Writing Aubrey initially began collecting biographical material to assist the Oxford scholar Anthony Wood, who ...

''.Aubrey, ''Brief Lives'', ed. Clark, i. 139, 245, 281, 308, ii. 203, 307.Cooper 1900, p. 228.

Works

His principal works were: # ''Hermes Theologus: or a Divine Mercurie dispatcht with a grave Message of New Descants upon Old Records'', London, 1649, 12mo, edited with a preface by the Rev. Edward Simmons. There is a portrait of Wodenote in the engraved title-page. # ''Good Thoughts in Bad Times'', London, . Wood says this manual was written at Broad Chalk, Wiltshire, while the author "absconded in the house of a near relation of his (vicar of that place), being then obnoxious to arrests". # ''Eremicus Theologus; or a Sequestred Divine his Aphorisms or Breviats of Speculations'', London, 1654, 8vo.

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''National Portrait Gallery''. Accessed 26 February 2022. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wodenote, Theophilus 1588 births 1662 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests category:Burials in Cornwall Clergy from Cornwall People educated at Eton College