Education
He was a clerk of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1594, at the age of nineteen, graduated Bachelor of Arts on 3 November 1601, and Master of Arts
He was a clerk of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1594, at the age of nineteen, graduated Bachelor of Arts on 3 November 1601, and Master of Arts
On 3 July 1605, and took orders. In 1618, he was appointed minister of Saint Mary"s Church, Shrewsbury, "where he was much resorted to by precise people for his edifying and frequent preaching" (Wood).. the Disobedience of that Section(s).
. is plainly set forth" (1635), the author, Peter Studley, minister of Street Chad"s Church, Shrewsbury speaks of him with great respect, and says that during the thirteen years of his ministry he was "rudely and unchristianly handled" by the disloyal and schismatical party in the town, and that finally, "by an invective and bitter Libel, consisting of fourteene leaves in quarto cast into his garden, they disquieted nis painefull and peaceable soule, and shortened the date of his troublesome pilgrimage."
Browne died in 1632, and was buried at Saint Mary"s on 6 May.