FEATLEY (or FA1xcLOUGH)

See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

DANIEL (1582-1645)  , English divine, was born at Charlton, Oxfordshire, on the 15th of March 1582 . He was a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and probationer fellow in 1602, after which he went to France as chaplain to the English ambassador . For some years he was domestic chaplain to George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury, and held also the rectories of Lambeth 0619), Allhallows, Bread Street (c . 1622), and Acton (1627), this last after leaving the archbishop's service in 1625 . His varied activities included a " scholastick duel " with James I. in 1625, and the publication of (r) the report of a conference with some Jesuits in 1624, (2) a devotional. manual entitled Ancilla Pietatis (1626), (3) Mystica Clavis, a Key opening divers Difficult Texts of Scripture in 70 Sermons (1636) . He was appointed provost of Chelsea College in 163o, and in 1641 was one of the sub-committee " to settle religion." In the course of this work he had a disputation with four Baptists at Southwark which he commemorated in his book Karaf3aarwvrai Karaarvvroi, The Dippers dip' or the Anabaptists duckt and plunged over head and ears (1645) . He sat in the Westminster Assembly 1643. and was the last of the Episcopal members to remain . For revealing its proceedings he was expelled and imprisoned . He died at Chelsea on the 17th of April 1645 .