II. WILKINSON. 59 HENRY WILKINSON, B. D. - This worthy divine was born in the vicarage of Halifax, Yorkshire, October 9, 1566, and educated in Merton college, Oxford. He was a near relation to Sir Henry Savile, by whose favour he was elected probationer fellow-of the college ; and in the year 1601, he became pastor of Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire, where he continued in the laborious and faithful exercise of his ministry forty-six years. He married the only daughter of Mr. Arthur Wake, another zealous puritan divine, by whom he had six sons and three daughters. She was a person of most amiable character, and they lived together in mutual affection upwards of fifty years. He was a man, of considerable learning and piety, and beingan old puritan, says Wood,+ was elected one of the assembly of divines. lint it is said that he spent most of his time among his parishioners, by whom he was exceedingly beloved and revered. Mr. Wilkinson was author of " A Catechisme for the use of the Congregation of Waddesdon," oftentimes printed. Also " The Debt-book ; or, a Treatise upon Horn. xiii. S. wherein is handled the civil debt of moneyor goods," 1625 ; and several other articles. The celebrated Dr. Henry Wilkinson, Margaret professor al Oxford; and ejected at the restoration, was his son.t Mr. Neal very much confounds the one with the other.# Mr. Wilkinson died at Waddesdon, March 19, 1647, aged eighty-one years. Slis mortal remains were laid in the chancel of his own church, where, against the south wall, was a monumental inscription erected, of which the following is a translation :¢ HENRY WILKINSON, Forty -six years the faithful pastor of this church, wasborn the ninth day of October, 1566, and died the nineteenth day of March; 1647. He married SARAH the only daughter of ARTHUR WAKE- of Sawey Forest in the county of Northampton, with whom he lived in holy concord fifty-three years, and by whom he had nine children, six sons and three daughters. The remains of the aforesaid SARAH WILKINSON, who lived to the age of seventy years, were laid by the side of her husband, leavingus an example of a most upright and holy life, Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 59. Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. i. p. 241. Neal's Puritans, vol. iii. p. 54. Ward's Gresham Professors, p. 213, 214.
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