Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 43 (Classic Reprint)

Owtram where he graduated B.A. in 164o. He was afterwards elected to a fellowship at Christ s College, where he graduated M.A. in 1649. In 1655 he held the university office of junior proctor, and in 1660 he was created D.D. (L,E NEVE, Fasti, ed. Hardy, iii. 624). His first church preferment was in Lincolnshire, and he subsequently obtained the rectory of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, which he resigned in 1666. He stayed in London during the plague in 1665 (A ddit. MS. 5810, p. 290). On 30 July 1669 he was installed archdeacon of Leicester. On 30 July 1670 he was installed prebendary of Westminster, and he was also for some time rector or minister of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. He died on 23 A ug. 1679, and was buried in Westminster A bbey, where a monument, with a Latin inscription, was erected to his memory (DART, Westmonasterium, ii. 620). His will, dated 5N ov. 1677, was proved in London 3S ept. 1679 (P. C. C. 119, King). He bequeathed lands in Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, and left legacies to the children of his brother Francis Owtram, deceased, and of his sisters Barbara Burley and Mary Sprenthall, both deceased, and Jane Stanley, then living. An elaborate catalogue of his library was compiled by William Cooper, London, 1681, 4to. Owtram swidow lived forty-two years after him, until 4O ct. 1721 (CHESTER, Westminster Abbey Registers, pp. 197, 304). Owtram was a nervous and accurate writer. and an excellent preacher, and he was reputed to have extraordinary skill in rabbinical learning. Baxter speaks of him as one of the best and ablest of the conformists. His principal work is De Sacrificiis libriduo; quorum altero explicantur omnia Judseorum, nonnulla Gentium Profanarum Sacrificia; altero Sacrificium Christi. Utroque Ecclesise Catholicse his de rebus Sententia contra Faustum Socinum, ejusque sectatores defenditur, London, 1677, 4to, dedicated
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