Cornelius Burges or Burgess, D.D. (1589? - 1665), was an English minister. He was active in religious controversy prior to and around the time of the Commonwealth of England and the The Protectorate, following the English Civil War. In the years from 1640 he was a particularly influential preacher.
Burges was descended from the Burgesses of Batcombe, Somerset, was probably born in 1589. In 1611 he was entered at Oxford, but at what college is unk...
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Cornelius Burges or Burgess, D.D. (1589? - 1665), was an English minister. He was active in religious controversy prior to and around the time of the Commonwealth of England and the The Protectorate, following the English Civil War. In the years from 1640 he was a particularly influential preacher.
Burges was descended from the Burgesses of Batcombe, Somerset, was probably born in 1589. In 1611 he was entered at Oxford, but at what college is unknown. He was transferred to Wadham College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. on 5 July 1615, and thence migrated to Lincoln College, Oxford, of which he was a member when he graduated M.A. on 20 April 1618. He must have taken orders before graduation, if it be true that on 21 Dec. 1613 he obtained the vicarage of Watford, Hertfordshire, on the presentation of Sir Charles Morison. On 16 Jan. 1626 he was allowed to hold, along with Watford, the rectory of St. Magnus, London Bridge. This latter he resigned in 1641, his successor being admitted on 20...
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