Clagett, Nicholas (1)

Clagett, Nicholas (1)

an English divine, was born at Canterbury in 1607, and in 1628 entered Metton College, Oxford, where, in 1631, he took his degree of A.B. In 1636 he became vicar of Melbourne, in Dorsetshire, and some years later was elected minister at St. Mary's Church, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He died September 12, 1663, having published The Abuses of God's Grace (1659, 4to).