(John), a very learned English bishop in the 17th century, was born at Snoring in 1613. After his education at Eton and Cambridge, he entered into holy orders in 1639, and was the same year collated to the prebend of Netherhaven in the church of Sarum. In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the lord keeper Finch, and by him presented to the living of Torrington in Suffolk. In 1650 he was made minister of St Clement's, Eastcheap, in London. In 1657, he and Mr Gunning had a dispute with two Roman Catholics, upon the subject of schism; a very unfair account of which was printed at Paris in 1658. Some time after, he published his Exposition of the Creed, and several other works. After various preferments, he was advanced in 1672 to the see of Chester; where he died, in 1686.