Barton received his education at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and took both degrees in arts in that university before 20 November 1629, when he was presented by Charles I to the rectory of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, then void by simony.
[1] He subsequently, and apparently in 1631, became rector of Westmeston, Sussex, of which benefice he was, for his loyalty to the King, deprived in 1642 by the Parliamentarians.
During the civil war he was chaplain to Prince Rupert, and on 25 August 1660 he was restored to his rectory of Westmeston.
at Oxford by virtue of a letter from the Earl of Clarendon, chancellor of the university.
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