Robert Hill (died 1623) was an English clergyman, a conforming Puritan according to Anthony Milton. [1]
Robert Hill (died 1623) was an English clergyman, a conforming Puritan according to Anthony Milton. [1]
He was a native of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1584, M.A. in 1586. [2] In 1588-9 he was admitted fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and from about 1591 to 1602 was perpetual curate of St Andrew's Church, Norwich. He found Norwich full of preaching, and attributed this in part to the mayor, Francis Rugge. [3]
Hill took an active part in the disputed election to the mastership of St. John's in 1595. By October 1601 he was chaplain to Lord Chief Justice John Popham. Having commenced B.D. in 1595, he was incorporated at Oxford on 10 July 1605. In 1602 he became lecturer of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, and on 15 September 1607 rector of St. Margaret Moyses, Friday Street. In 1609 he proceeded D. D. On 24 February 1613 he was preferred by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to the well-endowed rectory of St. Bartholomew Exchange, and resigned his other cure.
Hill died in August 1623, and was buried by his desire near his first wife in the chancel of St. Bartholemew. He married, first, between 1613 and 1615, Margaret, daughter of John(?) Witts of Ghent, and widow of Adrian de Saravia, who died in childbed on 29 June 1615, aged 39. Her death was mourned by Joshua Sylvester. Hill's second wife, Susan, apparently the sister of Thomas Westfield, survived him.
Hill was author of:
Hill translated from the Latin of William Bucanus Institvtions of Christian Religion, London, 1606, and edited William Perkins's Godly Exposition upon the three first chapters of the Revelation, London, 1607. In the fourth part of the Workes of Richard Greenham London, 1612, is An Exposition of the 119 Psalme found unperfect and perfected by R. Hill. He also collected the posthumous sermons and lectures of Samuel Hieron, and published them in 1620 as the second volume of Hieron's works. Hill has Latin verses before Foulk Robartes's The Revenue of the Gospel in Tythes, 1613.
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