"  He  was  a  scholar  of  the  Charter  house.  Ho  came
from  the  university  very  zealous  for  the  ceremonies,  but
being  curate  to  old  Mr.  Candler  of  Coddenham,  his  zeal
very  much  abated.  He  there  married  a  gentlewoman  of
a  very  good  family.  He  afterwards  had  a  living  (in  the
gift  of  the  Charter  house)  near  Bishops-Stortford,  in
Herts.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war,  he  Went
to  New-England,  and  had  removed  all  his  effects  in  order
to  his  settling  there.  But  soon  hearing  of  the  death  of
his  wife's  brother  (upon  which  a  good  estate  fell  to  her
and  her  sister),  he  returned  to  Old  England,  when  ho
became  master  of  the  public  school  in  Colchester.  He
had  not  been  there  long  before  he  had  an  impulse  upon
his  spirit  that  some  remarkable  judgment  would  befall
that  place,  upon  which  he  determined  to  remove,  and  no
arguments  could  prevail  with  him  to  stay.  Accordingly^
in  about  half  a  year  that  town  was  besieged,  and  the  hard-
ships they  went  thro'  were  peculiar.  Mr.  W.  had  removed
into  High-Suffolk,  where  his  wife's  estate  lay.  After  be-
ing silenced,  ho  lived  at  Ipswich,  and  sometimes  preached
there  occasionally;  but  his  principal  emplojrment  was
teaching  a  school,  for  which  he  was  peculiarly  qualified,
and  he  had  good  success.  He  died  at  Creeting  in  1679
or  1680,  near  80  years  of  age.  Ho  was  a  very  useful
man,  of  a  blameless  conversation,  and  very  firm  in  his  Non*
conformity."


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482  HISTORY  OP  DORCHESTEtt.
Henry  Butler  was  the  teacher  as  early  as  1648.
He  was  born  in  the  county  of  Kent,  England,  and
received  the  degree  of  M. A.  at  Cambridge  University.
