Where can I obtain particulars of this divine ? He was some time Rector of Sevenoaks, and suffered greatly for his loyal attachments to Charles I. C.J. Robinson, Sevenoaks.

Nicholas Gibbon was born at Poole, co. Dorset, in 1805; entered at Queen's College, Oxford, 1622; and removed to Edmund Hall, 1632; where he proceeded D.D. 1639, having been Rector of Sevenoaks seven years. He was sequestered 1645. His attachment to Charles I, who sent for him to the Isle of Wight, 1647, and had a great esteem for him, occasioned his being turned out of Sevenoaks, with eleven children, and obliged to rent a piece of land of �4 per annum, and drive the plough himself; his second son, Dr. Nicholas Gibbon, afterwards a noted physician at Lyme and Weymouth, holding it. He subsequently lived with a farmer as his servant; when, being seized, and brought before the committee in Kent, they asked him how he spent his time. He answered, that by day he wrought for his master, and a peat part of his night he spent in study; and showed them his hands, callous and hard by labour. Some pitied , others derided him; to whom he made this spirited and noble return, Mallem callum in manu quam in conscientia. After this, they tendered him the covenant, and his living, which he nobly rejected. At the Restoration he was presented to the rectory of Corfe Castle, co. Dorset, where he died, and was buried in 1697, at 92. For a list of his works see Wood's Athenae (Bliss), iv, 788. Consult also Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part ii, 251, 252, and Hutchins Dorsetshire, I, 295, 297.

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