John Battely

John Battely (also spelt 'Batteley') (1646–1708)[1] was an English antiquary and clergyman, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1688–1708.

John Battely was born on 11 November 1646 in the Parish of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds.

After his education at the King Edward VI Grammar School, Bury St. Edmunds, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1662 (B.A.

He was made Archdeacon of Suffolk, which entitled him to a stall at Norwich Cathedral and gave him nominal pastoral oversight of his native county.

He was installed as Archdeacon of Canterbury on 24 March 1688 and became Master of the Eastbridge Hospital in the same year.

Fig. 6-9: illustration from critique of Antiquitates Rutupinae, published in Acta Eruditorum , 1712