an English clergyman, was born at Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in 1609, and entered Queen's College, Oxford, in 1626. He became vicar of Almeley, Hertfordshire; subsequently a Presbyterian, and then an Independent. In 1668 he removed to Dublin, and became assistant to Samuel Mather, and afterwards to Nathaniel Mather, and died there in 1681. He wrote Defense of Sundry Positions and Scriptures alleged to Justify the Congregational Wy. (Lond. 2 pts. 4to: pt. 1, 1645; pt. 2, 1646). They were answered by Richard Hollingsworth in his Certain Queries (1646, 4to). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.