Robert Pory or Porey (c.1608?–1669) was an English churchman,

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from 1660.

Life

Pory was a son of Robert Pory, born in

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, probably about 1608. He was educated at St. Paul's School under Alexander Gill, and went up with his class-fellow

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, where he was admitted a lesser pensioner 28 February 1625. He graduated

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1629, M.A. 1632, B.D. 1639, D.D. ('' per literas regias'') 1660. In 1631, on the birth of the Princess Mary, 4 November, he contributed to the ''Genethliacum'' put forth by the university. On 20 September 1640 Pory was collated to the rectory of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London (which he resigned before 18 August 1660), and in November following to that of Thorley,

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. On the outbreak of the

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he was, according to Richard Newcourt; "plundered and sequestred"; but his name does not appear in John Walker's ''Sufferings of the Clergy''. At

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preferments were showered on Pory. On 2 August 1660 he was made Doctor of Divinity (DD) by royal mandate ("'' per lit. reg.''"), along with

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and others. On 20 July 1660 he was collated both to the rectory of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London (resigned before 22 May 1663), and to the archdeaconry of Middlesex. The articles on his visitation in 1662 were printed. On 16 October (but, according to

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, 16 August) 1660 he was installed prebendary of

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, in the

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, and before the year was out was made chaplain to Archbishop

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. In February 1661 Pory was instituted to the rectory of

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; in 1662 to that of

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, Hertfordshire; and in the same year to the rectory of

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. On 19 July 1663 he was incorporated Doctor of Divinity (DD) of

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. He died before 25 November 1669, when Henchman was admitted to the rectory of Hadham. Pory was licensed, 21 September 1640, to marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Juxon of

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, a relative of the archbishop. It is said that ''

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'', the first edition of which appeared in 1663, was so entitled in derision of him. It professed to bear his imprimatur.Wood, Fasti, pt. ii. col. 267; cf. Peat, Thomas. By cancer.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pory, Robert 1608 births 1669 deaths Archdeacons Anglican clergy from London Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 17th-century English Anglican priests People educated at St Paul's School, London