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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 6: Bottomley Browell
Westminster School, whence he was elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford (ba. 1609, m.a. He was ap inted chaplain to Dr. Howson, bisho of xford; he afterwards held a cure at ray in Berk shire; and on 13 April 1633 was collated to the rectory of Woodchurch in Kent. The presbyterian inhabitants of Woodchurch pe titioned against him in 1640 for having acted as a justice of the peace, and he was ejected from both his livin Thereupon he retired to Oxford, where g: was created D.D. On 1 July 1646, shortly before the surrender of the rrison to the parliamentary forces; he rwards resided at Chartham in Kent. Wood says: 'this Dr. Bo hen, as I have been informed, lived to see �s majesty re stored, and what before he had lost, he did obtain and Baker also states that Boughen died soon after the Restoration, aged 74, plus minus.' It is not improbable that he is identical with the Edward Roughen, re bendary of Marden in the church of Chic se ter, whose death occurred between 29 May and 11 Aug. 1660 (walker, Sufe?ngs of the Clergy, ed. 1714, ii.
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