Author talk:Richard Watkins

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• "R. WATKINS, B.A. 1644; M.A. 1647; vicar of Ambrosden, Oxon., 1665-60; rector of Whichford, Warwickshire, 1661; and of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucestershire, 1673. He held these two last-named livings at his death, which happened in 1707, at the age of 83. He was buried in the church at Bourton, and a monument was erected to his memory there.
  "Watkins wrote an account of the recovery of a woman who had been hanged at Oxford, December 14, 1650; it was entitled "Newes from the Dead," and was twice printed in 1651; to it were appended poems on the subject written by divers Oxford scholars. He was also the author of a set of Latin verses in the "Oxonia Eucharistica" in 1641; and of an English poem, prefixed to the volume of W. Cartwright's Poems, published in 1654. He was born at Sutton under Brails, Qloucestershire, and his father was Henry Watkins, D.D. of Christ Church, Oxford. R. Watkins had a son Henry, for whom see Election 1684.— Fasti Ox. ii. 70. 203; Hist, and Antiq. II. ii. 643-4; Bigland's Gloucestershire, 243; Kennett's Par. Antiq. 675; Dugdale's Warwickshire, 585." —The List of the Queen's Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster
• "Watkins, Richard s. Henry, of Sutton under Brailes, co. Gloucester, S.T.D. Christ Church, matric. 4 June, 1641, aged 17, student 1640, B.A. 5 July, 1644, M.A. 8 July, 1647; vicar of Ambrosden, Oxon, 1655-9, rector of Whichford, co. Warwick, 1659, and of Bourton-on-the-Hill, co. Gloucester, 1673, until his death 11 Feb., 1707-8; father of Henry 1684, and Richard 1682. See Al. West. 115; Fasti, ii. 103; & Burrows, 491." —Al. Oxon.

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