Joseph Caryl

[1] He was born in London, educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, and became preacher at Lincoln's Inn.

By order of the parliament he attended Charles I in Holmby House, and in 1650 he was sent with John Owen to accompany Cromwell to Scotland.

He continued, however, to minister to an Independent congregation in London until his death in March 1673, when John Owen succeeded him.

Their son, Samuel, committed himself to publish it as a single work and Mary transferred the rights to him in 1673.

[3] Joseph Caryl married, and his daughter Elizabeth married the merchant Benjamin Shute; their child John Shute, the lawyer and theologian, was born at Theobalds, Essex.

Joseph Caryl.