William Ford or Foord (1559 in

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– in or after 1616) was a

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clergyman.Stephen Wright
‘Ford, William (b. 1559, d. in or after 1616?)’
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 November 2011 Ford was educated at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1578. He was elected fellow of Trinity in 1581, proceeded M.A. in 1582, and commenced B.D. in 1591. He has been identified with a William Ford who became Rector of

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, in 1594, and was Vicar of

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in 1596–7. By 1611 he had become chaplain to the

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. On 31 July 1611 he petitioned the court for an augmentation of his salary of two hundred

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; on the following 1 October the court allowed him an advance from £30 to £50 on the ground of his being 'well spoken of for paines and merits in his charge.' On 1 September 1613 he intimated a wish to resign his post, but was requested to remain a year longer. He received permission to return home, 6 July 1614. He may be the William Ford who became Vicar of Bristow (

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in 1615.

Works

Ford's only known publication is ''A Sermon n Gen. xxiii. 2-4preached at Constantinople, in the Vines of Perah, at the Funerall of the vertuous and admired Lady Anne Glover, sometime Wife to the Honourable Knight Sir Thomas Glover, and then Ambassadour ordinary for his Maiesty of Great Britaine, in the Port of the Great Turke'', 4to, London, 1616. In dedicating this discourse to Lady Wentworth the author would perhaps be encouraged, should it prove acceptable to her, 'to second it with some more pleasing and delightfull subiect, which mine owne experience hath gathered from no lesse painefull then farre forraigne obseruations'.

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