Name William Lyford | ||
Books The Instructed Christian, Or, The Plain Man's Senses Exercised to Discern Both Good and Evil: Being a Discovery of the Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies of These Times (1655), and the Toleration of Them, as They are Collected and Testified Against by the Ministers of London, in Their Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ | ||
William Lyford (1598–1653) was an English nonconformist clergyman, elected to the Westminster Assembly though not sitting in it.
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Life
Lyford was born at Peasemore, near Newbury in Berkshire, the son of the rector, an elder William Lyford and his wife, Mary Smith. He entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, as a commoner on 26 April 1615, became a demy of Magdalen College in 1617, and graduated B.A. on 16 December 1618. He proceeded M.A. on 14 June 1621 (incorporated at Cambridge 1623), and B.D. 12 May 1631. On the presentation of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, he became vicar of Sherborne, Dorset, in 1631.
His Calvinistic views left him undisturbed during the civil war; he was chosen member of the Westminster Assembly, but did not sit. In 1653 he was allowed an annuity out of Lord Digby's estate. Lyford died at Sherborne on 3 October 1653, and was buried under the communion table in the chancel of the church. By his wife Elizabeth he left children.
Works
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Posthumous were:
Lyford edited in 1634 the second edition of William Pinke's Tryall of a Christians syncere Love unto Christ.