S. GEREE. 265 down the rails in the chancel of the church at Higham, and levelled the altar and the whole chantel a foot below the church, as it remains to this day ; but, being prosecuted for it by Bishop Wren, he fled to NewEngland, with many of his parishioners, who sold their estates for half their value, and conveyed all their effects to the new plantation. They erected the town and colony of Higham, where many of their posterity still remain. He promised never to desert them ; but, hearing that the bishops were,deposed, he left them to shift for themselves, and came back to England in 1646, after a banishment of ten years. He resumed his charge at Higham, where he died in the year 1656. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Nathaniel Joceline, and afterwards published ;"o but this we have not seen. STEPHEN GEREE, A. B.-This person was elder brother to Mr. John Geree, another puritan divine; was born in Yorkshire, in the year 1594, and educated in Magdalen- hall, Oxford. Having finished his academical pursuits at the university, he entered upon the ministerial work, but laboured most probably in the two-fold capacityof minister and schoolmaster. On the approach of the civil wars, he took part with the parliament, became minister of VVonnersh, near Guildford in Surrey ; but he afterwards removed to Abinger in the same county. Wood, in contempt, styles him " a zealous brother in the cause that was driven on by the saints."i He appears to have been living in 1656, but died probably soon after that period,. He published several sermons, oneof which is entitled, " The Ornament of Women; or, a Description of the true Excellency of Women, at the Funeral of Mrs. Eliz. Machel, on Prov. xxxi. 29, 30"-1639. He also published " The Doctrine of the Antinomians by Evidence of God's Truth plainly Confuted, in an Answer to divers dangerous Doctrines in the seven first Sermons of Dr. Tob. Crisp," ,1644; and " The Golden Meane, being some Considerations, together with some Cases of, Conscience, resolved, for the more frequent Administration of the Lord's Supper," 1656. * Bimefiehrs Hist. of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 668. f Wood's Athenas Oxon. vol. ii. p. 132.
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