Robert Bolton (clergyman, born 1572)

On James I's visit to the university in 1605, he was appointed to hold a disputation in the royal presence on natural philosophy, and his majesty was loud and frank in laudation of Bolton.

A school friend named Anderton made a plan with Bolton to travel to a Catholic seminary in Flanders, but this fell through.

[3] In 1610, now aged 37, he was presented by Sir Augustine Nicolls, a judge and occasional preacher, to the rectory of Broughton, Northamptonshire.

[5] James Darling, founder of the Metropolitan Library in London, England in 1840, wrote: He was one of the best scholars of his time, a zealous and successful preacher, and particularly skilled in resolving the doubts of timid Christians.

"[6]In his well-known book, General directions for a Comfortable Walking with God, Bolton discusses subjects like Idleness, Government of the Tongue, Recreations, Visitations, Sleep, and Marriage.