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The son of a carpenter, he was born at Penshurst, Kent, in November 1632.
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William Fulman
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He remained relatively unknown in his time, not being inclined to push himself forward, and suffering, according to David C. Douglas, from a "persistent lack of bare recognition". Henry Hammond, then rector of Penshurst, found him a place in the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford choir, in order that he might be taught by William White, master of the school. In 1647 he was elected to a scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and placed with Zachary Bogan as his tutor.
On 22 July 1648 he was ejected by the parliamentary visitors.
Along with another scholar of Corpus, one Timothy Parker, Fulman had deliberately "blotted" and "torn out" the name of Edmund Stanton, the parliament"s choice of college President, which the visitors, on 11 July, had entered in the buttery book in place of Robert Newlin, who had been expelled as President. Hammond, who was himself expelled from his positions, then employed him as his amanuensis.
When twenty-one years old he became, by Hammond"s introduction, tutor to the heir of the Peto family of Chesterton, Warwickshire, in which capacity he continued until the Restoration. Then, resuming his scholarship at Corpus, he was created Master of Arts 23 August 1660, and made Fellow.
Foreign several years he stayed in college, as a serious scholar.
In 1669 he accepted the college rectory of Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire.
