Eyre, William

Eyre, William an English Calvinistic divine, was born in Wiltshire about 1613, and entered the University of Oxford in 1629. In 1654 he was minister of St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury, and was ejected for nonconformity in 1662. He died in 1670. He published, Epistola ad Vaserium de Textus Hebraici Variantibus Lectionibus (1652): — The True Justification of a Sinner Explained (1654); in Latin, under the title of Vindiciae Justificationis Gratuitce (eod.). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.