Background
He was second son of Anthony Sclater, who is said to have held the benefice of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire for fifty years, and to have died in 1620, aged 100. William Sclater was born at Leighton in October 1575.
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William Sclater
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He graduated M. A., and was admitted to priest"s orders in 1599, shortly after which he left Cambridge and served a curacy at Walsall.
Career
A king"s scholar at Eton College, he was admitted scholar of King"s College, Cambridge, on 24 August 1593, and three years later was admitted fellow of his college. On 4 September 1604 he was preferred to the rectory of Pitminster, Somerset. After some resistance, he accepted the ceremonies and the surplice which he had rejected in his former diocese.
