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Wyatt, son of William Wyat or Wyatt of ‘plebeian’ origin, was born at Todenham, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, in 1616.
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He died in Nuneaton in the house of Sir Richard Newdigate on 9 September 1685
Wyatt matriculated from Street John"s College, Oxford, on 16 March 1637-1638, but was prevented by the outbreak of the civil war from taking his degree in arts He seems to have spent a portion of his time with Taylor"s family at Golden Grove.
By recommendation of the chancellor he was created Bachelor of Divinity at Oxford on 12 September 1661, and when Fuller became bishop of Lincoln he made Wyatt his chaplain.
He obtained a prebend in Lincoln Cathedral by Fuller"s favour (installed on 13 May 1668, "vice William Gery, deceased"), and on 16 October 1669 was admitted precentor of Lincoln. In 1681 he exchanged this preferment with John Inett for the living of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, where he died.
