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 title ‘England's First and Second Summons.’ They had originally been printed separately. A third impression appeared in 1633, 12mo.

After his death his brother-in-law, Francis Little, student of Christ Church, published ‘The Good Fight of Faith: a Sermon preached before the Artillery Company,’ 1626, 4to; and in 1631 a sermon said to have been taken down in shorthand, which had been preached before the judges at St. Saviour's, Southwark, on 5 March 1621, appeared under the title ‘Jethroe's Council [sic] to Moses: or a Direction for Magistrates.’ Another posthumous work, ‘Lectures upon the Eleventh Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans,’ was published by John Downham [q. v.], who married Sutton's widow. In his epistle to the reader Downham promised to issue other lectures left in manuscript by the author if the present series ‘took with the men of the world.’ No more appear to have been published.

Sutton married a daughter of Francis Little the elder, ‘brewer and inholder’ of Abingdon. A son, Thomas, at the age of seventeen, graduated B.A. from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1640, and obtained a fellowship, from which he was ejected on 20 Oct. 1648 by the parliamentary visitors. Wood obtained information from him about his father's life. A small head of the elder Sutton is represented on a sheet entitled ‘The Christian's Jewel’ (, Biogr. Hist. of England, i. 363).



SUTTON, THOMAS (1767?–1835), medical writer, was born in Staffordshire in 1766 or 1767. He commenced to study medicine in London, whence he proceeded to Edinburgh and finally to Leyden, where he graduated M.D. on 19 June 1787. He was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians on 29 March 1790, and soon afterwards was appointed physician to the army. Sutton eventually settled at Greenwich, where he became consulting physician to the Kent dispensary, and died in 1835. He was the first modern British physician to advocate bleeding and an antiphlogistic treatment of fever, and to him is due the discrimination of delirium tremens from the other diseases with which it had previously been confounded.

He was the author of:
 * 1) ‘Considerations regarding Pulmonary Consumption,’ London, 1799, 8vo.
 * 2) ‘Practical Account of a Remittent Fever frequently occurring among the Troops in this Climate,’ Canterbury, 1806, 8vo.
 * 3) ‘Tracts on Delirium Tremens,’ London, 1813, 8vo.
 * 4) ‘Letters to the Duke of York on Consumption,’ London, 1814, 8vo.



SWADLIN, THOMAS, D.D. (1600–1670), royalist divine, born in Worcestershire in 1600, was matriculated at Oxford, as a member of St. John's College, on 15 Nov. 1616, and graduated B.A. on 4 Feb. 1618–1619. In 1635 he was appointed curate of St. Botolph, Aldgate, London, where he obtained celebrity as a preacher, and ‘was much frequented by the orthodox party’ (, Repertorium, i. 916). In the beginning of the great rebellion, being regarded as one of ‘Laud's creatures’ and a malignant, he was imprisoned in Crosby House from 29 Oct. to 26 Dec. 1642, and afterwards in Gresham College and in Newgate. His living was sequestered, and his wife and children were turned out of doors. On gaining his liberty he retired to Oxford, where he was created D.D. on 17 June 1646 (, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714, p. 1445). About this time, according to Wood, ‘he taught school in several places, meerly to gain bread and drink, as in London, and afterwards at Paddington.’ At the Restoration he was reinstated in the church of St. Botolph, Aldgate, but, being wearied out by the contentiousness of the parishioners, he resigned the benefice. At one period he was curate of Marylebone. In 1662 he was collated by Archbishop Juxon to the vicarage of St. James, Dover, and to the neighbouring rectory of Hougham; but the yearly valuation of both livings did not exceed 80l. a year, and he grew ‘crazy and infirm.’ In 1664, by the favour of Lord-chancellor Clarendon, he became rector of St. Peter and vicar of All Saints, Stamford, where he remained till his death on 9 Feb. 1669–70.

He obtained a license on 21 April 1662, being then a widower, to marry Hester Harper, widow, of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Swadlin's works are:
 * 1) ‘Sermons, Meditations, and Prayers upon the Plague,’ London, 1636–7, 8vo.
 * 2) ‘The Soveraigne's Desire, Peace: the Subject's Duty, Obedience’ [in three sermons], London, 1643, 4to; some passages in these sermons were the cause of his imprisonment as a malignant.
 * 3) ‘The Scriptures vindicated from the unsound Conclusions of Cardinal Bellarmine, and the con-