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See also: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
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1622, B.D
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1629)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He waited on See also:Archbishop Laud before Ms See also:execution, and was chaplain to See also: The only " systematic " See also: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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