Nathaniel Ward Biography

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

Richard Rogers Biography

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

Edward Warde of Little Wrathinge

Edward Ward was the brother of John Ward of Haverhill, who John named as alternate executor in his will. Continue reading