Burges, Cornelius ( - 1665-06-06)

B.A. (1615) from Wadham College, Oxford. M.A. (1618) from Lincoln College, Oxford. Vicar of Watford, Hertfordshire, 1618-1645. Travelled to the Continent in 1620 with the English troops fighting in the Thirty Years' War. Chaplain-in-ordinary to James I and Charles I. Rector of St Magnus, London beginning in 1626. D.D. (1627) from Oxford. A Puritan, he became engaged in conflict with the Laudians during the 1630s and was summoned to court of high commission (in 1636) for a sermon he preached in 1635. Lecturer at St Paul's beginning in 1643. Assessor at the Westminster Assembly. President of Sion College, 1647-1648. In 1656 he stopped lecturing at St Paul's and was moved to Wells Cathedral, where he stayed until deprived in 1660. He lived the last years of his life in poverty.