Gervase Bryan (c. 1622 – 27 December 1689) was an English clergyman, an ejected minister of 1662.
Gervase Bryan | |
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Born | c1622 |
Died | 27 December 1689 67) Coventry, England | (aged
Resting place | Holy Trinity Church, Coventry |
Children | Elizabeth (bap. 7 March 1648); John (bap. 27 Feb 1649, buried 2 Oct 1653); Samuel (bap. 12 May 1652); Paul (buried 23 Sept 1652); Gervase (bap. 27 Sept 1653); unnamed son (bap. 10 Feb 1655, buried 12 Feb 1655); Timothy (b. 3 April 1656); Humphrey (b. 3 April 1656, buried 13 Sept 1660); Prudence (b. 15 July 1657); Susanna (b. 15 Mar 1659, buried 11 Jan 1664); Simon (b. 8 June 1660, 17 Aug 1664) |
Relatives | John Bryan (ejected minister) |
Gervase Bryan (also known as Jarvis or Jervis Brian) was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, matriculating on 26 May 1640, graduating with BA (1643/44) and MA (1647).[1] He died at Coventry on 27 December 1689, being buried at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, on 31 December 1689.[2] His son, Samuel (born 1652) at Oldswinford, Worcestershire also studied at Cambridge.[3]
Bryan was installed as rector of St Mary's, Oldswinford in 1648 from where he was ejected in 1662.[4] In November 1661, he was one of the ministers in Worcestershire implicated in the (probably) sham Pakington Plot and was briefly arrested alongside the supposed leader, Andrew Yarranton,[5]
Gervase Bryan continued to live in the area being granted a licence to preach at his house in 1672.[6] He moved to Birmingham in 1675 and then, in 1676, succeeded his brother, John, as Presbyterian minister to a congregation meeting in Coventry.[7] The liberty to meet in licensed rooms was withdrawn in 1682; but in 1687, after James II's declaration for liberty of conscience, ministers Obadiah Grew and Gervase Bryan reassembled their congregation in St. Nicholas Hall, commonly called Leather Hall.
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