Julines Herring
| Julines Herring | |
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| Born | 1582 Llanbrynmair |
| Died | 1644/5 Amsterdam |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Puritan preacher. |
| Years active | 1610–45 |
| Spouse(s) | Christian Gellibrand |
| Children | John, Jonathan, Samuel, James, Christian, Dorcas, Mary, Joanna |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Church | Church of England, Dutch Reformed Church |
| Ordained | 1610 |
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Offices held
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Preacher at Calke Lecturer at St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury Pastor at English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. |
Julines Herring (1582–1644/5) was a Puritan clergyman within the Church of England who served in Derbyshire and at Shrewsbury. Ejected from his positions for nonconformity, he became a minister serving the English-speaking community in the Netherlands. He was a staunch proponent of Presbyterianism and an opponent of separatism.
Herring was born at Llanbrynmair, then part of Montgomeryshire, in Central Wales, and often rendered in older sources in Anglicised forms, e.g. Flamber-Mayre, or Flambere-Mayre. He was a son of Richard Herring, a prominent local politician of Coventry, who served at various times as mayor and sheriff. The Herring family had branches in Shropshire and the 1623 heraldic visitation of Shropshire named the parent Warwickshire branch as being "of Owsley iuxta Couentry" in Warwickshire, which seems to be the modern Allesley, a parish that was broken into smaller parts in Victorian times. St Andrew's Church, serving Allesley Green and Eastern Green on the eastern edge of Coventry, claims Pond Farm as the former local residence of Julines Herring.
It seems that the Herring family returned to Coventry while Julines was very young. He was schooled initially at the small border village of More, Shropshire by a Mr Perkin, a close relative of his mother. Samuel Clarke, whose 1651 account is the basis for all later biographers, thought that it was from Perkin at More that Herring "learned the Principles of Religion." Clarke describes Perkin as a minister at More-chappel and these details have generally been accepted at face value. However, the Clergy of the Church of England database lists More as a parish church within the Diocese of Hereford, not as a chapelry.Eyton, the pioneering historian of Shropshire, considered that More probably began as a chapelry of Lydbury North but "became independent, at a period which the earliest Records fail to reach." CCEd does list some clergy at More in the 1580s and Perkin is not among them, although the database cannot be exhaustive. It does not note any parish school at More but there was one at nearby Lydbury, although records of staff seem to start only with the Restoration. The older Dictionary of National Biography avers that Perkin was a minister at Morechurch: there is a Churchmoor, further east, in Lydbury North parish, but it is a hamlet with no chapel.
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