William Starkey succeeded his father William Starkey D.D. as Rector of Pulham St. Mary in Norfolk. He had been vicar of Corpus Christi College and of Stetchworth in Cambridgeshire before his appointment to Pulham St. Mary. [1] He had married Mary Weld, the daughter go Gascoigne Weld and Ann Hall. Mary's mother Ann was the eldest daughter of Bishop Hall and it was through Mary that the Golden Medal presented to Bishop Hall by the synod of Dorchester passed into the hands of the husband of William Starkey's only daughter Mary; John Jermy of Bayfield Hall, and thence to their only son William Jermy who died childless and bequeathed the Golden Medal to Emanuel College. [2]
William Starkey died in 1717 aged 66 and was buried by his second wife in the church of Pulham St. Mary-the-Virgin with the inscription - Here lieth the Body of William Starkey, the son of Dr. Starkey, both rectors of this church, whose first wife was Mary the daughter of Gascoigne Welde of Braken-Ash, Esq. His 2d wife, the daughter of John Amyas of Hingham, Gent. who in pious memory, caused this stone to be laid. He died Oct. 13, 1717, aged 66. [3]
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text of an address titled The divine obligation of humane ordinances delivered in a sermon upon the 26th of February, before the iudge, at St. Maries in Bury St. Edmonds, By William Starkey, D.D. Rector of Pulham in Norfolk. pub: Cambridge: printed by John Field, printer to the University: and are to be sold by Henry Dickinson bookseller in the Regent Walk in Cambridge, 1668. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A61335.0001.001?view=toc
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