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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Henry Scudder Rev. Note Born: Abt 1585 at Kent, , , England Married: Abt 1620 at London, , Middlesex County, England Died: Abt May 1652 at Wiltshire, , , England Other Spouses: Joyce
Father: Henry Scudder Mother: Elizabeth
WIFE
Name: Elizabeth Hunt Note Born: Abt 1600 at London, , Middlesex County, England Died: Abt 1625 at London, , Middlesex County, England
CHILDREN
Name: Elizabeth Scudder Born: Abt 1620 at London, , Middlesex County, England Died: Bef 1651 Husband: John Thompson
Name: Jane Scudder Born: Abt 1622 at London, , Middlesex County, England Died: Aft 1651 Husband: Richard Russell
Name: Martha Scudder Born: Abt 1623 at London, , Middlesex County, England Died: Aft 1651 Husband: Thomas Jacob
Name: Bridgett Scudder Born: Abt 1625 at London, , Middlesex County, England Died: Husband: John Grayle
NOTES
1). !BIRTH Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, ed s . , T H E DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY Oxford Unive rs it y Pr e ss, 1973 ed. , XVII, p.1096 , copy in possessi o n o f the c om piler. !MARRIAGE Ibid. !DEATH Will of Henry Scudder, 12 February 1651 pr o v e d 3 1 May 1652 , London , Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltsh ir e , E ngla nd. The will names wife Joyce daughters Jan e , Ma rtha , Bri dgett, and deceased daughter, Elizabeth gr andda ughte r, Elizabeth and brother Thomas Scudder , an d all h is son nes an d his daughter Elizabeth now i n New E ngland.. . Th e will a lso names cousins Bridget t Giles , and Joh n Scudde r and Eli zabeth Lathrop now i n New Engl and. Henry Scudder d. 1659? , divine, graduated M.A. fr o m C h r ist s College,Cambridge, in 1606. Afterwards min is te r a t D rayton, Oxfordshire, he in 1633 was presente d b y th e ki ng t o the living of Collingbourne Ducis, nea r Ma rlbor ough , Wiltshire. He held Presbyterian views . In Ju ne 164 3 h e was sum moned to the Westminster assem bly of d ivine s Rus hworth, pt . iii , vol. ii, p 338 . When in J une 16 45 an o rder came f rom the House o f C ommons to pra y for t he force s, Scudder was one of the f our preacher s assigne d to Aldga te. On 6 Apr il 1647 he made report o f the revi ew of the p roofs of th e Confess ion of Faith of the seve n first chap ters and par t of t he eighth. O n 9 Feb. 164 8 his name wa s added to th e co mmittee for th e scriptures . Scudder preac hed before t h e House of Commo ns in Octobe r 1644, on a fas t day at S t. Ma rgaret s West minster, an d his sermon was pr inted b y reques t of the ho use Common s Journals, iii, 639, 682 . He died b efore th e Restoratio n, and his successo r a t Collingbourne D uci s was institut e d in 1660. He w as bur ied in the churc h , but the tomb h as been remove d . He mar ried Elizabeth , da ughter of Geor ge Hunt, for f ifty years r ector of Col lingbou rne Ducis . She died whe n little over t wenty. H e r siste r marrie d William What ely q.v. , Scudde r s fol low studen t at Chr ists s Colle ge, and subsequentl y vica r of Banbury , whos e life Sc ud der wrote in 1639 40 . A m onument to Scud der swife i n the chancel wall of Lea ming ton parish churc h wa s dest royed by fire in 1699, but t h e inscription is cor re ctl y preserved in Dingley s Histo r y in Mar ble Camd e n S oc. A daughter married John Gr ayl e q.v. in 1645 . Sc u dder wasauthor if a celebrate d devot ional work enti tl ed T he Christian s Daily Walk e in Holy S ecuritie an d P eace. Th e sixth edition, issue d in 1635, ha s an Ep istl e to the Rea der, by John Daven port q.v. , da ted f rom Co leman Street , 25 April 1627. D avenport writ e s th at th e first coppi e was more brief e but? , upon oc cas ion o f a second letter , wherein som e other cases wer e p ropound ed, the judicio u s author no t only handled th ese ar gument s largely in hi s public min is tery, but als o added m ore p articulars for hi s friend s full satisfact ion in a sec on d coppy. The title page d escribes it a s first intend e d for private use now t hro ugh importun itie published f o r the common good. A Ger m an translat ion by Theodore Ha a k appeared at Frankfurt i n 16 36.
2).  !BIRTH   Biography of Henry Scudder, copy in posses s i o n o f the compil er.  !MARRIAGE   Ibid.  !DEATH   Ibid.

						

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