Thomas Stoughton, Reverend^{[1, 2]}

1557 - 1622  (65 years)

• Name	Thomas Stoughton
  Suffix	Reverend
  Birth	3 Sep 1557	Naughton, Suffolk, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Dec 1622	Sandwich, Kent, England   [3]
  Person ID	I750	Master
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Francis Stoughton,   b. 1531, Saint Peters, Sandwich, England d. 30 Sep 1557, Sandwich, Kent, England (Age 26 years)
  Mother	Agnes Tringall,   b. 1535, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 1557, Naughton, Suffolk, England (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F3763	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Evelyn Montpesson,   b. 1564, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 18 Apr 1603, Naughton, Suffolk, England (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	1585	Naughton, Suffolk, England   [4]
  Children	1. Christian Stoughton,   b. 1578, Coggeshall, Essex, England d. 19 Apr 1659, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 81 years)   2. Mary Stoughton,   b. 1586, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 17 Dec 1591, Naughton, Suffolk, England (Age 5 years) + 3. Thomas Stoughton,   b. 9 Jul 1588, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 25 Mar 1661, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 72 years)   4. Abigail Stoughton,   b. 1590   5. Elizabeth Anne Stoughton Scudder Chamberlaine,   b. 1591, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 1647, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 56 years)   6. Nicholas Stoughton,   b. 20 Sep 1592, Stoughton, Surrey, England d. 4 Mar 1648, Stoughton, Surrey, England (Age 55 years)   7. John D Stoughton,   b. 23 Jan 1594, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 4 May 1639, London, London, England (Age 45 years)   8. Annie Stoughton,   b. 1595, Naughton, Surrey, England d. 1691, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 96 years) + 9. Judith Stoughton,   b. 3 Jul 1599, Coggeshall, Essex, England d. 18 Mar 1639, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 39 years) + 10. Israel Stoughton,   b. 18 Feb 1603, Coggeshall, Essex, England d. 1 Jul 1644, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 41 years)
  Family ID	F3752	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 3 Sep 1557 - Naughton, Suffolk, England Marriage - 1585 - Naughton, Suffolk, England Death - 6 Dec 1622 - Sandwich, Kent, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Dissident Preacher and Writer. Fellow of Queens College, Cambridge. Stoughton matriculated pensioner from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1573, received his B.A. from Queens College 1577, his M.A. 1580. He was ordained deacon and priest at Lincoln Cathedral on Feb. 13, 1582, and was brought to the attention of Robert, 3rd Lord Rich by John Butler of Thoby Priory, Essex, and continued to benefit from Rich's patronage for many years. He was rector of Naughton from 1586 until 1594, at which time he was made curate of Great Burstead, Essex. He published A general treatise against poperie, and in defence of the religion by publike avthoritie professed in England and other churches reformed (Cambridge, 1598), which was dedicated to Lord Rich. In 1600 he was instituted vicar at Coggeshall at Lord Rich's presentation, but due to his nonconformity he was admonished by Bishop Richard Vaughan and deprived of Coggeshall by the High Commission in 1606. Despite being removed from his living it was reported in 1606 that he 'doeth often expound the Word in his deske'. In 1610 at Great Totham, Essex, he signed the dedicatory epistle to his work The dignitie of Gods children. By 1616 he had returned to his native Sandwich, where he remained living in poverty until his death. He continued to expound on his beliefs, publishing Two Profitable Treatises in 1616, followed up in 1622 with The Christians Sacrifice, a text of some 251 pages, which was dedicated to his patron, who had since purchased the title Earl of Warwick. He signed the dedicatory epistle to this on 20 Aug. 1622 from 'my poore lodging in the poor Hospitall called S. Bartholomewes by Sandwich in Kent', and further stated he was now 'ready to be dissolved, and to laye down my earthly Tabernacle...the time of my departing being at hand...' Two days later he appended the work with The Authors postscript to his Children as it were his Last Will and Testament unto them. At the end of his life he recalled being present at Hampton Court 43 years earlier, where he heard ministers preaching before Queen Elizabeth. In 1606 Stoughton was a legatee, along with others, in the will of Timothy Saint Nicholas, who 'moste humblie thanckinge them for their faithefull endeavor and for their earnest labour and paines for the instruction of my conscience and the consciences of many men in the knowledge of Gods truthe and relligion'. Described as 'a silenced preacher', he received a bequest in the 1610 will of Alice Wade of Bildeston, Suffolk, and in 1612 was mentioned in the will of his first cousin Thomas Stoughton of St Paul's Parish, Canterbury. In the 1619 will of Charles Eure, esquire, fourth son of William, 2nd Lord Eure, Stoughton being described as of St Bartholomews in Sandwich, Kent, received the generous bequest of £10.

  
  

• Sources

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