Francis Bampfield

He was expelled from the church following the 1662 Act of Uniformity, and became a Nonconformist; he spent nine years in prison, where he preached, and established congregations of Seventh Day Baptists.

[2] His parents intended him for a life in the church, and had him privately educated by 'pious families'; in 1631, he entered Wadham College, Oxford, where he earned two degrees, graduating in 1638.

Ordained in 1639, he was appointed rector in the Devon village of Rampisham; provided with a private income from his father, he spent his stipend from this position on his parishioners.

He continued using the Book of Common Prayer, until forced to stop by Parliamentary troops; he later denounced it as an "unclean constitution of humanely invented worship".

[2] In 1647, he moved to the parish of Wraxall, Somerset, and a few years later became an associate of Richard Baxter, a cleric known as the 'Puritan saint', and supporter of the Reformation of Manners.

Committed to court in March, he refused on principle to swear the Oath of allegiance, and was sent to Newgate Prison, where he died of fever on 16 February 1684.