Theophilus Higgons
Theophilus Higgons (c.1578–1659) was an English
Life
The son of Robert Higgons, he was born at Chilton, near Brill, Buckinghamshire, and was educated partly in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire. In November 1592 he became a student of Christ Church, Oxford, at the age of 14. He proceeded B.A. 20 October 1597, and M.A. 4 June 1600.[1]
Higgons was inclined to
After he had been established at St Dunstan for some time, Higgons married. He did so practically in secret, and his congregation disliked what he had done.[2] He therefore left his wife and went into the North of England.[1]
Higgons became discontented; and was converted to
Higgons was reconverted to Protestantism by Thomas Morton, who had replied to one of his books. He then became rector of Hunton, Kent, near Maidstone. During the First English Civil War his living was sequestered, and he was taken into the house of a Daniel Collins of Maidstone. He died there in 1659 and was buried in Maidstone churchyard.[1]
Works
- ‘A Scholastical Examination of Man's Iniquity and God's Justice,’ 1608.
- ‘Apology, refuting Sir E. Hoby's Letter,’ &c., Rouen, 1609.
- ‘The First Motive to suspect the Integrity of his Religion, with an Appendix against Dr. Field, Dr. Humfrey, &c.,’ 1609. Under his Catholic pen name of Thomas Forster.
- ‘Sermon at St. Paul's Cross,’ 1610.
- ‘Reasons proving the lawfulness of the Oath of Allegiance,’ 1611.
- ‘Sermon on Ephesians ii. 4–7,’ London, 1611.
- ‘Mystical Babylon, or a Treatise on Apoc. xxiii. 2,’ London, 1624.
- ‘A Miscellany of divers remarkable Passages and Practices of Master Freeman, by T. H., rector of Hunton,’ 1655 (appended to Robert Boreman's Mirrour of Mercy and Judgment).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Pearce 1891.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13241. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Pearce, Nigel Douglas Frith (1891). "Higgons, Theophilus". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.