Name Thomas Brasbridge | Died 1593 | |
Thomas Brasbridge (1547–1593) was an English divine and author.
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Life
Brasbridge was born in 1547, of a Northamptonshire family, but lived at Banbury in his childhood. He was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1553, a probationer fellow of All Souls' in 1558, when he graduated B.A. (18 November), and a fellow of Magdalen in 1562. He proceeded M.A. on 20 October 1564. At Oxford he studied both divinity and medicine, and remained to tend the plague-stricken during the severe epidemic of 1563–64. He supplicated for the degree of B.D. on 27 May 1574, but does not appear to have been granted it. About 1578 he resigned his fellowship. He describes himself as an inhabitant of London in that year, and engaged in tuition there. He subsequently obtained a living at Banbury, where he also opened a school and practised medicine. At Christmas-time 1558 he was seriously assaulted by a number of his parishioners belonging to the hamlet of Wickham, who refused to come to church. His assailants, who preferred "dancing, or some other like pastime" to church-going, were charged with recusancy before the privy council in March 1588–89.
Writings
Brasbridge was the author of: