The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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whom he once called his brethren, was in the course of the
year [1557] presented to the vicarage."*
On the death of Tye, Bishop Grindall presented the living
to John Dodman, 24 February, 1559. William Thorne suc-
ceeded, 31 March, 1569; on his death Robert Dernell was
• appointed 2 November, 1585, and was in charge when Reinold
and Matthew were christened. He served until his death :
Bishop Bancroft appointed, 20 February, 1601, a Deacon, John
Todd, to succeed him. Todd seems to have held it in ex-
change with Thomas Wennington, or Withington, who fol-
lowed that Clergyman ;
Todd was ordained Priest while at St.
Mary's, and later was promoted to be Bishop of Down and
Connor. After Wennington died, Richard King, S. T. P.,
became the incumbent 20 May, 161 2, but resigned the follow-
ing year, and Richard Ram took charge 7 April, 161 3, but
soon resigned, and 21 April, 161 5, Israel Edwards obtained
the living: "he conformed."! Joseph Brodey held it tem-
porarily, by whose authority does not appear. Archbishop
Laud appointed, 5 May, 163 1, William Simpson, who must
have been the Clergyman who certified that Matthew Marvin
was "conformable."
* Davids, " Annals of Non-Conformity in Essex," p. 48, where will be found some
account of his cruel work. Fox, in his Martyrology, gives particulars of the martyrdom
of members of the family of William Munt of Great Bentley, among them his
daughter and his maid, Rose Allen, who were executed at Colchester 2 August, 1557
dealings with these and others of this Parish are described in a letter of Tye. See
also Davids, as cited, pp. 46-51, for an interesting account of the occurrences there
in that year. These must have been familiar tales to Edward Marvin, then a youth of
Ramsey, where persecutions were also rife in his day, and on similar grounds.
t Davids, as cited, p. 301.
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