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STEPHEN MARSHALL (c. 1594-1655)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPHEN MARSHALL (c. 1594-1655)  ,
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English
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Nonconformist divine, was born at
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Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (M.A . 1622, B.D . 1629) . After holding the living of
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Wethersfield in Essex he became vicar of Finchingfield in the same county, and in 1636 was reported for " want of conformity." He was a preacher of
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great power, and influenced the elections for the Short Parliament of 164o . Clarendon esteemed his influence on the
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parliamentary side greater than that of Laud on the royalist . In 1642 he was appointed lecturer at St Margaret's, Westminster, and delivered a series of addresses to the
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Commons in which he advocated episcopal and liturgical reform . He had a share in writing Smectymnuus, was appointed
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chaplain to the
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earl of Essex's regiment in 1642, and a member of the Westminster Assembly in 1643 . He represented the English Parliament in Scotland in 1643, and attended the parliamentary commissions at the
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Uxbridge
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Conference in 1645 . He waited on Archbishop Laud before Ms execution, and was chaplain to Charles I. at Holmby House and at
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Carisbrooke . A moderate and judicious presbyterian, he prepared with others the " Shorter Catechism " in 1647, and was one of the " Triers," 1654 . He died in November 1655 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, but his
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body was exhumed and maltreated at the Restoration . His sermons, especially that on the
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death of John Pym in 1643, reveal eloquence and fervour .

The only " systematic "

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work he published was A Defence of Infant
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Baptism, against John Tombes (
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London, 1646) .

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