Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Stubbs, Henry (1606?-1678)
STUBBS, STUBBES, or STUBBE, HENRY (1606?–1678), ejected minister, born about 1606, was son of Henry Stubbes of Bitton in Gloucestershire, and was born at Upton in that county. He matriculated in April 1624, from Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1628, and M.A. in 1630. He became rector of Partney, Lincolnshire, but on the outbreak of the civil war he took the covenant, becoming minister of St. Philip's, Bristol, and afterwards of Chew Magna, Somerset. In 1654 he was at Wells, acting as assistant to the commissioners for ejecting scandalous ministers. In 1662 he was ejected from Dursley, where he was assistant to Joseph Woodward. He then preached in London for some time. In April 1672 his house in Jewin Street was licensed as a presbyterian meeting-house (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1672, pp. 274, 326). The bishop of Gloucester subsequently connived at his officiating at Horseley, Gloucestershire. He died in possession of the vicarage of Horseley on 7 July 1678, and was buried in Bunhill Fields. His son Henry is separately noticed [see Stubbs, Henry, (1632–1676)].
Stubbes's chief works were: 1. ‘A Dissuasive from Conformity to the World,’ London, 1675, 8vo, to which were appended ‘God's Severity against Man's Iniquity’ and ‘God's Gracious Presence the Saints great Privilege.’ 2. ‘Great Treaty of Peace. … Exhortation of making Peace with God,’ London, 1676–7, 8vo. 3. ‘Conscience the best Friend upon Earth,’ London, 1677, 12mo; 1684, 24mo; 1840, 12mo; and in Welsh, 1715, 12mo.
[Calamy's Account, p. 318; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. iii. 1255; Murch's Presbyterianism in the West of England; Baxter's Funeral Sermon on Stubbes in Practical Works, vol. iv.; Holy and Profitable Sayings of that Rev. Divine Mr. S., London, 1678; J. A. Jones's Bunhill Memorials.]