Background
Fox was born in 1628, and educated at Birmingham, whence he proceeded to Christ"s College, Cambridge.
Fox was born in 1628, and educated at Birmingham, whence he proceeded to Christ"s College, Cambridge.
Christ"s College.
He was admitted by the Commissioners of the Great Seal to the rectory of Drayton, Staffordshire, but on being ejected by the Bartholomew Acting of 1662 he settled for a while in a neighbouring town, where he made a shift to live by his pen and the help of relations, till the Oxford Acting forced him to remove, and rent a farm in Derbyshire. He again suffered imprisonment when Monmouth was in the west, on this occasion in Chester gaol. Number cause whatever was assigned for his detention.
After enduring a month"s confinement he was released on finding ample security for his good behaviour.
From the time of his ejectment he preached in private as he had opportunity, and after public liberty was granted, he opened a meeting in his own house at Caldwell, Derbyshire, where he preached twice a day and catechised. He died in May 1710.