Laurence Fogg

Fogg, son of Robert Fogg (who was an active worker for the parliament, rector of Bangor-is-y-Coed, Flintshire, ejected 1662, died 1676), was born at Darcy Lever, in the parish of Bolton, in 1623, and educated at Bolton Grammar School and at Cambridge.

In 1662 he resigned his living, owing to an apparent ambiguity in an act of parliament relating to subscription, but he afterwards conformed.

In the latter year he became vicar of Plemonstall, Cheshire, on the presentation of Orlando Bridgeman, the lord keeper, and on 14 November 1691 was installed dean of Chester.

A candid, sober-minded churchman, he was well-regarded by more moderate dissenters, with whom he was on close terms.

'I have from my heart forgiven,’ he writes, 'so I will endeavour to forget all that the dean has at any time said against dissenters, and against me in particular.'