Background
He was born at Salisbury, England, on 7 May 1673.
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Thomas Bennet
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And was educated at the free school there.
Career
He entered Street John"s College, Cambridge, in 1688, before he was fifteen, took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1694), and was chosen Fellow of his college. He was instituted 15 January 1701. He left Colchester at the end of the decade, and became deputy chaplain to Chelsea Hospital.
He preached a funeral sermon at Street Olave"s Church, Southwark, and was chosen lecturer there.
He was appointed morning preacher at Street Lawrence Jewry under John Mapletoft, and was also presented by the dean and chapter of Street Paul"s Cathedral to Street Giles Cripplegate. The presentation, however, involved him in disputes over a tithe on peas and beans.
He died on 9 October 1728. Thomas Emlyn praised him for his "small respect to decrees of councils or mere church authority".
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