Adam Littleton

On 3 February 1669 he was admitted rector of Chelsea (which he held until his death),[2] and accumulated the degrees in divinity on 12 July 1670.

During the same year Charles II made him a royal chaplain, and gave him a grant of the reversion of the head-mastership of Westminster School on the death of Richard Busby.

In September 1674 he became prebendary of Westminster Abbey, in 1683 rector of Overton, Hampshire and in 1685 he was licensed to the church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, where he served for about four years.

[1] A Latin poem Tragi-Comœdia Oxoniensis, ridiculing the parliamentary visitation of Oxford, has been ascribed both Littleton, and to John Carrick, also of Christ Church.

In the same year, under the name of Redman Westcot, he published an English translation, with notes, of John Selden's Jani Anglorum Facies Altera (1610).

Spending freely as a collector, he left his widow, who was buried at Chelsea on 14 November 1698, in poor circumstances, and his books were sold in 1695.

Tracts Written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple , which was published in 1683, contained an English translation of Selden 's Jani Anglorum Facies Altera (1610) by Littleton under the pseudonym Redman Westcot