Background
He was born at Rainham, Norfolk.
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Thomas Cawton
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After seven years at Cambridge, he studied theology at the house of Herbert Palmer, vicar of Ashwell, Hertfordshire.
Career
After the discovery of the plot of Christopher Love, he went into exile in the Netherlands. In 1605. He was sent to Queens" College, Cambridge, by Sir Roger Townshend, 1st Baronet. He was then for four years chaplain to Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet of Orton, Northamptonshire, and in 1637 was presented by Sir Roger Townshend to the vicarage of Wivenhoe, Essex, where he persuaded his parishioners not to sell fish on Sunday.
Seven years later he became minister of Street Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, London.
He joined in the declaration of the London ministers against the death of Charles, and preached a sermon before the mayor and aldermen at Mercers" Chapel on 25 February 1649, when he prayed for the royal family and Charles World War II He was brought before the council of state, and, refusing to recant, was committed to the Gatehouse Prison.
He was released with other prisoners on 14 August 1649 as a thanksgiving for Michael Jones"s victory at the Battle of Rathmines. Here he became acquainted with scholars, and took pains to encourage Edmund Castell"s Lexicon Heptaglotton, and Brian Walton"s polyglot bible.
Cawton died at Rotterdam on 7 August 1659.
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In 1658 Charles II addressed a letter to him, requesting Cawton to defend him among the Dutch ministers.
