Stephen Bachiler (abt.1561-abt.1656)
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Early Life
After entering college about 1581, he matriculated about 1586 at Oxford from St. John's College, and received his B.A. 3 February 1585/6 [Foster 1:53].
- 17 July 1587: presented as vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire, and remained at that parish until he was ejected in 1605 [NEHGR 46:60-61, citing Winchester diocesan records].
- 1593: cited in Star Chamber for having "uttered in a sermon at Newbury very lewd speeches tending seditiously to the derogation of her Majesty's government" [NEHGR74:319-20]. One of nearly a hundred ministers deprived of their benefices between the years 1604 and 1609 [Kenneth Fincham, Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I (Oxford 1990), p. 326].
- 1606: living at Wherwell when he was a legatee in the will of Henry Shipton [NEHGR 74:320].
- 1614: A case in Star Chamber still refers to Bachiler as of Wherwell, and adds much other useful information about the family.[PRO REQ2/678/64].
- 28 April 1614 Stephen Bachiler was a free suitor of Newton Stacey at the view of frankpledge of the Barton Stacey Manorial Court, and was a free suitor of Barton Stacey at the court of 2 October 1615.
- 19 February 1615[/6?] Edmund Alleyn of Hatfield Peverell, Essex, bequeathed £5 to "Mr. Bachelour," and Stephen Bachiler was one of the witnesses [Waters 518-19].
- 11 June 1621 Adam Winthrop, father of Governor JOHN WINTHROP , reported that "Mr. Bachelour the preacher dined with us" at Groton, Suffolk [WP 1:235].
- 1622 and 1629: "Stephen Bachiler, clerk" acquired land in Newton Stacey in, and sold it in 1630 and 1631 [Batchelder Gen 76-77]. While at Newton Stacey (a village within the parish of Barton Stacey) Bachiler had managed to incite the parishioners of Barton Stacey to acts that came to the attention of the sheriff, who petitioned for redress to the King in Council; the complaint described Bachiler as "a notorious inconformist" [NEHGR 46:62, citing Domestic Calendar of State Papers, 1635].
- 23 June 1631 applied for permission to travel to Flushing in Holland "to visit their sons and daughters" [Waters 520].