Education
Street John"s College.
Street John"s College.
Barbar was admitted scholar of Saint John"s College, Cambridge, 8 November 1560, proceeded Bachelor of Arts 1563-1564, Master of Arts 1567, and Bachelor of Divinity 1576, and was elected fellow 11 April 1565. He subscribed in 1570 a testimonial requesting that Cartwright might be allowed to resume his lectures. He became preacher at Saint Mary-le-Bow, London, about 1576, and in June 1584 he was suspended on refusing to take the ex officio oath.
The parishioners petitioned the court of aldermen for his restoration.
In December 1587 Archbishop Whitgift offered to remove his suspension if he would sign a pledge to conform to the law of the church and abstain from conventicles. He declined to pledge himself. du Jou"s ‘Exposition of the Apocalypse’ (Cambridge, 1596), and of a ‘Dialogue between the Penitent Sinner and Sathan’ (London, without date).
