CARYL, JOSEPH, a nonconformist divine (1602-1673), was educated at Oxford, and held for some time the office of preacher to the society of Lincoln's Inn. He frequently preached before the long parliament, and held several im-
portant offices among the nonconformist clergy. He was a licenser of their theological books, one of the assembly of divines, and one of the board for the approbation of ministers. On the restoration of Charles II. he was silenced by the Act of Uniformity, but continued to preach privately in London, where, besides other works, he wrote an Exposition of the Book of Job.