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OHN BRIDGEMAN was admitted to the rectory of Wigan on the 21st of January, 1615-16.

He was the eldest son of Mr. Thomas Bridgeman of Greenway, otherwise called Spyre Park, near Exeter, in the county of Devon, and grandson of Mr. Edward Bridgeman, sheriff of the city and county of Exeter for the year 1562-3.

John Bridgeman was born at Exeter, in Cookrow Street, and christened at the church of St. Petrok’s in that city, in the parochial register of which is the following entry: “the seconde of November, 1577, John Bridgman, the son of Thomas Bridgman, was baptized.”