Pauline on 4 Aug 2004  •  Link

from L&M Companion
(?1633-1707). A Magdalene graduate (B.A. 1652); elected Fellow 1652, re-elected 1660....

Pauline on 26 Nov 2004  •  Link

from L&M Companion (continued)
...Rector of St. Clement Eastcheap 1666-1707, and Canon of York 1669-1707. He married Mary Archer of Bourn, Cambs. in 1669. In 1666 he paid tax on a small cottage (assessed on one hearth) at Bourn.

Terry Foreman on 6 Mar 2021  •  Link

Clemens Sankey married Mary Archer of Bourn, Cambs. in 1669, when he was rector of St Clement's, Eastcheap, and a Canon of York.

San Diego Sarah on 26 Nov 2024  •  Link

The series of books published by Whitchurch [Shropshire] History and Archaeology Group is continued with the story of Whitchurch parish as it divided into two distinct congregations of church goers.

When Henry VIII was on the point of meeting Anne Boleyn, Whitchurch people had their first glimpse of the New Testament in English. None of them knew of the dramatic consequences for the nation, and for Whitchurch, which followed from these events of the 1520s.

The principal actions in Whitchurch came just over a century later when Puritanism had taken a firm hold in the English church nationally, and when King Charles I fell out with his Parliament over who had the last word in government. His budget deficit left him unable to finance the armies he wanted to raise for wars in Scotland and some of his English subjects then took up arms against him. Whitchurch stood in the centre of a whirlpool of military forces fighting viciously for control of a nation sharply divided politically and religiously.

Whitchurch underwent its own revolution when Thomas Porter arrived in 1646, and Paul Anderton’s book traces the consequences of his work in the parish. Puritans, like prosperous Daniel Benyon of Ash and John Hotchkis (a successful mercer in the town) anticipated Porter but the chief witness to the serious persecutions of Presbyterians in the parish in the reign of Charles II was Philip Henry.

Paul Anderton weaves their stories into a narrative of actions involving excommunications and imprisonments, property confiscations and ultimately devastating riots in 1715.

St. Alkmund’s church was the symbol of the domination of the Church of England throughout the period and successive rectors such as Thomas and Matthew Fowler and Clement Sankey figure largely in the unfolding account of life as Whitchurch people knew it in the 17th century. ..."

FROM:
PUBLICATION "The story of people in the parish of Whitchurch when going to church was compulsory"
Published by Whitchurch History & Archaeology Group, 2011
https://whitchurchhistoryarchaeol…