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Reverend John Grayle
Abt 1614 - Abt 1654 (40 years)-
Name John Grayle Prefix Reverend Birth Abt 1614 Stone, Gloucestershire, England 
Gender Male Death Abt 1654 England Burial Tidworth, Wiltshire, England Person ID I602 Scudder Last Modified 17 Jan 2019
Family Bridget Scudder, b. Abt 1625, England d. Aft 1652, England (Age > 28 years) Marriage Abt 1645 England Children 1. John Grayle, b. Abt 1646, England d. England 2. Bridget Grayle, b. Bef 1651, England d. England 3. Henry Grayle, b. Bef 1651, England d. England Family ID F296 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Mar 2024
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Notes - John Grayle (or Graile), puritan minister, was the son of John Grayle, priest, of Stone, Gloucestershire, where he was born in 1614. At the age of eighteen he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1634 and M.A. on 15 Jun 1637. Wood states that in 1645 he succeeded George Holmes as master of the free school, Guildford, but this is erroneous. The John Grayle who then became master held the post until his death, at the age of eighty-eight, in January 1697/8, and was buried in Guildford Church. Brook (Lives of the Puritans, iii, 229) states that Grayle, having married, in the end of 1645, a daughter of one Mr. Henry Scudder, went in the next year, probably as minister, to live at Collingbourne-Ducis, Wiltshire. He subsequently became rector of Tidworth in the same county, 'where,' says Wood, 'he was much followed by the precise and godly party.' He was a man of much erudition, and a 'pious, faithful, and laborious minister,' much beloved by his parishioners.
While a strict presbyterian Grayle was apparently charged with Arminianism and defended his principles in a work, which was published after his death with a preface by Constantine Jessop, minister at Wimborne, Dorsetshire, entitled 'A Modest Vindication of the Doctrine of Conditions in the Covenant of Grace and the Defenders thereof from the Aspersions of Arminianism and Popery, which Mr. W. Eyre cast on them.' London, 1655. The preface (dated 15 Sept. 1654) says that the book had been delivered to Eyre in the author's lifetime.
Grayle died, aged 40, early in 1654. after a lingering illness. He was buried in Tidworth Church, and a neighbouring minister, Dr. Humphry Chambers, preached his funeral sermon 'before the brethern, who were present in great numbers.' It is published with the 'Modest Vindication.'
See Dictionary of National Biography, v. 8, 472.
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- John Grayle (or Graile), puritan minister, was the son of John Grayle, priest, of Stone, Gloucestershire, where he was born in 1614. At the age of eighteen he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1634 and M.A. on 15 Jun 1637. Wood states that in 1645 he succeeded George Holmes as master of the free school, Guildford, but this is erroneous. The John Grayle who then became master held the post until his death, at the age of eighty-eight, in January 1697/8, and was buried in Guildford Church. Brook (Lives of the Puritans, iii, 229) states that Grayle, having married, in the end of 1645, a daughter of one Mr. Henry Scudder, went in the next year, probably as minister, to live at Collingbourne-Ducis, Wiltshire. He subsequently became rector of Tidworth in the same county, 'where,' says Wood, 'he was much followed by the precise and godly party.' He was a man of much erudition, and a 'pious, faithful, and laborious minister,' much beloved by his parishioners.