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 there. After ordination he received the living of Weobley in Herefordshire, of which, however, he was deprived by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. He subsequently maintained himself by teaching, but suffered much persecution, and underwent many privations in consequence of his refusal to conform. After his deprivation he resided chiefly at Blakeney in Gloucestershire, but finally removed to Bristol where he died in 1709. At the age of 15 he published some Poetry, and his writings are numerous; but his chief work is entitled "Brachy-Martyrologia," and is an account of the "greatest persecutions which have befallen the people of God from the Creation to the present times."

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STEPHEN BIRCHINGTON,

BIOGRAPHER,

In all probability took his name from the place of that appellation in the isle of Thanet. He was a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, in which foundation he held the offices of Treasurer and Warden. He was the Author of a work entitled "Vitæ Archiepiscoporum Cant." included in Wharton's "Anglia Sacra," and, as Wharton thinks, of other treatises on English and Roman History.

[See Wharton's preface to Anglia Sacra.]