Son of a father of the same names, of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, he matriculated at Oxford as a student of Oriel College in 1634, and took his B.A.
He then left the university, and is said to have become a chaplain in the parliamentarian army and to have been an eager disputant.
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Dictionary of National Biography.
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