July 24, 1651
I Robert Pecke, minister of the word of God at Hingham in the County of Norfolk, being in bodilye health and perfect memory knowinge the uncertainety of mans life, doe dispose of that worldly estate God hath given me in manner and form followinge. Continue reading
Nathaniel Ward, clergyman, born between the years 1578 and 1580; died in Shenfield, England, in 1652. Cotton Mather, in the “Magnalia,” gives his birthplace as Haverhill, England, which is probably correct; and the date of his birth as “about 1570,” which is evidently wrong. Continue reading
JOHN WARD of St. Clement’s parish, Ipswich, Suffolk, Clerk, 15 April 1662, proved 29 April 1662. Continue reading
SAMUEL WARD, the elder, of Ipswich, clerk, 19 October, 1639, proved 24 April, 1640, by Nathaniel and Joseph Ward, sons of the deceased and executors of his will; Continue reading
JOHN WARD, preacher of God’s word in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 9 October 1598, proved 31 October 1598. Continue reading
St. Mary Magdalene, Wethersfield
RICHARD ROGERS (1551-1618); Puritan divine and author. Rogers was born in Moulsham, a parish of Chelmsford, Essex, and baptised there on 29 June 1551. He matriculated as a sizar at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1566 and graduated A.B. in 1571, in which year he was ordained deacon and priest. He later migrated to Caius College and received his M.A. in 1574. Continue reading