John Bond LL.D. (1612–1676) was an English jurist, Puritan clergyman, member of the

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, and Master of

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Life

He was born at

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, in

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; his father was Denis Bond. He was educated at Dorchester under John White, and afterwards entered at

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, of which he became a fellow. He took his B.A. degree in 1631, became M.A. in 1635, and LL.D. ten years later. In 1643 he became a member of the Westminster Assembly, and in December 1645 succeeded to the mastership of the Savoy. In the same year,

John Selden John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned ...

having declined the mastership of Trinity Hall, Dr. Robert King was chosen by the Fellows: but, Parliament interposing on behalf of Bond, he was elected Master on 7 March 1646. Three years later he was made Professor of Law at Gresham College, London, and in 1654 became assistant to the commissioners of

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and

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for ejecting scandalous ministers and schoolmasters. He was appointed vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1658, but lost his preferments at Cambridge and London on the Restoration of 1660. He retired to

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, where he died at Sandwich (

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), in the

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, and was buried at

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on 30 July 1676. He is thought by some to be identical with the John Bond who was member for Melcombe Regis in the last parliament of Charles I, recorder of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1645 and subsequently a recruiter in that district for the

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.Hutchins, ''Dorsetshire'', ed. Ship and Hodson.

Works

He published the following sermons: * ''A Door of Hope'', 1641. * ''Holy and Royal Activity'', 1641. * ''Sermon at Exeter before the Deputy Lieutenants'', 1643. * ''Salvation in a Mystery'', 1644. * ''Ortus Occidentalis'', 1645. * ''A Reliquary of Gospel'', 1647. * ''Grapes amongst Thorns'', 1648. * ''A Thanksgiving Sermon'', 1648.

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bond, John 1612 births 1676 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests English legal professionals Westminster Divines Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Masters of the Savoy Professors of Gresham College People from Chard, Somerset Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge