Mascal Gyles (died 1652), was an English

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. Gyles was vicar of

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, Sussex, from 1621 till about 1644. In 1648 he became vicar of

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, also in Sussex, as appears by an order of the

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, 2 March of that year. Gyles was buried at Wartling 14 August 1652. By Sarah his wife (died 1640) he had a numerous family of sons and daughters. Gyles was engaged in a controversy, carried on with the usual personalities and violent invective of the period, with Thomas Barton, rector of Westmeston in Sussex, as to the propriety of bowing at the name of

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. He wrote: * &c., dedicated to

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, M.P. for

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, London, 1642, 4to, reprinted with Barton's reply, 1643. * ''A Defense of a Treatise against Superstitious Jesu-Worship, falsely called scandalous, against the truly scandalous Answer of the Parson of Westmenston icin Sussex,'' &c., dedicated to the

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, London, 1643, 4to.

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