a learned and pious Nonconformist divine, was born in Oxfordshire. He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1604, and obtained the living of Stepney in 1656. Having joined the Independents during the Commonwealth, he was ejected at the Restoration, and died about 1677. His principal work is An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel, with useful Observations thereupon (Lond. 1645, 5 volumes, 4to). A new edition, revised and corrected by Sherman, was published in 1839 (Lond. imperial 8vo). — Darling, Cyclop. Bibliographica, s.v.