Thomas Barton,
D.D.
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(died 1681–2), was a
royalist
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divine.
Life
Barton received his education at
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
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, and took both degrees in arts in that university before 20 November 1629, when he was presented by
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
to the
rector
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y of
Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, then void by
simony
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.
[Bruce, Cat. of Domestic State Papers of Charles I, iv. 101; Rymer, Fœdera, xix. 139; but cf. Notes and Queries, 4th ser. i. 66] He subsequently, and apparently in 1631, became rector of
Westmeston, Sussex, of which
benefice
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he was, for his loyalty to the King, deprived in 1642 by the
Parliamentarians. During the civil war he was
chaplain
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to
Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 (O.S.) / 27 December (N.S.) – 29 November 1682 (O.S.)) was an English army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalr ...
, and on 25 August 1660 he was restored to his rectory of Westmeston. On 21 March 1663 he was created D.D. at Oxford by virtue of a letter from the
Earl of Clarendon, chancellor of the university. He was buried at Westmeston 25 March 1682–3.
Works
* 'Ἀντιτείχισμα, or a Counter-scarfe prepared Anno 1642 for the eviction of those Zealots that in their Works defy all external bowing at the Name of Jesus. Or the Exaltation of his Person and Name, by God and us, in Ten Tracts, against Jewes, Turkes, Pagans, Heretickes, Schismatickes, &c., that oppose both, or either,’ London, 1643, 4to.
*'Ἀπόδεισις τοῦ Ἀντιτείχισματος. Or a Tryall of the Covnter-scarfe, Made 1642. In answer to a Scandalous Pamphlet intituled A Treatise against superstitious Jesu-worship written by Mascall Giles, Vicar of Ditcheling, in Sussex. Wherein are discovered his Sophismes; and the Holy Mother, our Church, is cleered of all the slanders which hee hath laid on her,’ London, 1643, 4to.
*'Λόγος ἀγώνιος, or a Sermon of the Christian Race, preached before his Maiesty at Christ Church in Oxford, 9 May 1643'
xford 1643, 8vo.
*'King David's Church-Prayer; set forth in a Sermon preached at
S. Margaret Pattens, alias Rood-Church, London,’ on 24 June 1649. Printed in 4to in that year.
References
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1680s deaths
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English religious writers
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