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

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

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