[6] On 10 April 1633, having taken his doctor's degree in the previous March, he became rector of St Andrew's Church, Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham.
[4] Duncon, who was one of the most learned as well as ablest promoters of Laud's high church policy, was stripped of all his preferments by the parliament, and retired to the continent.
In 1651 he was in attendance upon the English court in France, and officiated with other exiled clergymen in Sir Richard Browne's chapel at Paris.
[11] On 28 August 1659 John Cosin, writing from Paris to William Sancroft, says of Duncon, "now all his employment is to make sermons before the English merchants at Ligorne and Florence".
[4] His only known work, De Adoratione Dei versus Altare, his determination for the degree of D.D., 15 March 1633, appears to have been published soon after that date.
[15] John Duncon, brother of Eleazar, was, as he says, holding a cure in Essex at the time of the civil war.
He is author of a quaint and once popular religious biography, The Returnes of Spiritual Comfort and Grief in a devout Soul.
Lady Lettice, vi-countess Falkland... Another brother, Edmund Duncon, was a puritan who was sent by Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding, near Huntingdon, to visit George Herbert during his last illness.