Tuesday 14 February 2023

Ejected men in the ODNB 'T-W'

T
Derbyshire born Francis Tallents 1619–1708
William Thomas 1592/3–1667
Lancashire born John Tilsley c1614–1684
John Tombes 1602-1676 the celebrated Baptist
Robert Towne 1592/3?–1664
William Troughton 1613/14–1686/90
Joseph Truman 1631-1671 religious writer

V
Edward Veal or Veel 1632/3–1708 who became a Nonconformist Tutor in Wapping after being silenced in 1662.
Ralph Venning c 1622–1674 author of Sin, the Plague of Plagues in 1691.

W
Monmouthshire born Henry Walter 1611–1678? ministered there both before and after 1662 despite strong opposition.
John Warren 1621–1696 was a friend of Baxter's based in Hatfield Braod Oak. Camy quotes him saying that ‘he would not leave Hatfield Christians for any place in England’.
Another graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, William Whitaker (d 1672) was ejected from Bermondsey in 1662.
Henry Wilkinson was the name of two ejected men, neither of whom is to be confused with a Roman Catholic apologist of the same name. Henry Wilkinson 1610–1675 was a renowned preacher in Camberwell and Clapham. In his Oxford days he was known as Long Harry to distinguish him from Dean Harry, Henry Wilkinson 1616/17–1690, then head of Magdalen Hall but after ejected, imprisoned and fined for nonconformity.
There were also two men called Thomas Willis, one of whom was more moderate and later conformed. They are Thomas Willis fl 1618-1673 and Thomas Willis d 1692

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