William Lucy

[1] He belonged to the Arminian party, and became Rector of Burghclere in 1619, Highclere in 1621.

[4] William Lucy's tomb and wall monument are at Christ College, Brecon.

[5] He rebuilt the church there, demolished in the Civil War period.

[6] In 1657, William Lucy published an attack on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and in particular on Leviathan (1651), using the pseudonym William Pyke, Christophilus, and circulated by Humphrey Robinson.

[7] A later and expanded edition, of 1663, was under his real name, as Observations, Censures and Confutations of Notorious Errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan.

William Lucy from an 1827 engraving