Education
He was a native of Shropshire, was admitted pensioner of Queens" College, Cambridge, on 25 June 1595, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1599, and was elected fellow on 11 October 1599.
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Stephen Nettles
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He proceeded Master of Arts In 1610 he became rector of Lexden, on 24 March 1617 vicar of Great Tey, which he resigned before 27 January 1638, and in 1623 vicar of Steeple, all in Essex. He signed the 1629 petition for conformity. During the period of the First English Civil War he ignored the Solemn League and Covenant, and continued to use the Book of Common Prayer.
His livings of Lexden and Steeple were sequestrated in 1644, but he resisted the sequestration and his successor Gabriel Wyresdale until 1647, when he was removed from the rectory at Lexden.
Membership
In 1602, and commenced Bachelor of Divinity as a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
