and my desire is that in the printing thereof great regard be had to the specific dispersings of the copies' (will proved 10 June 1645; registered in P.C.C. 69, Rivers).
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 158-59, 1254, and passim; Wood's Fasti Oxon. (Bliss), i. 291, 306, 353, 374; John Featley's History of his Life and Death, part ii.of Featlei Παλιγγενεσία; Nichols's Bibliotheca, vol. ii. No. 36, pp. 35, 55-9, appendix, pp. 52-3 (Ducarel's Lambeth); vol. x. No. 5 pp. 314-41 (Donne's Addenda); Biog. Brit. (1763), supplement,, pp. 44-50; Chalmers'a Biog. Dict. xiv. 162-7; Lloyd's Worthies, p. 527; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy (1714). pp. 75-8. 169-70; Lysons's Environs, i. 250, 293-4, 323n., 416. ii. 11, 152, 153, 154n.; Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, iii. 47, 58, 78-0, 257-9; Manning and Bray's Surrey, iii, 483, 502, 504, 514, 517, appendix, c. iii.; Allen's Lambeth. pp. 21, 22, 34, 69, 73, 355; Tunswell's Lambeth, pp. 135-7; Brayley's Surrey, iii. 321-322; Perfect Diurnal, 2 Oct. 1643; Perfect Declaration of Proceedings in Parliament, 28 April 1646; Wilson’s Dissenting Churches, i. 413. ii. 442; Claude's Esasay On the Composition of a Sermon (Robinson), ii. 98; Fuller's Worthies (1662), Oxfordshire, p. 346; Granger's Biog. Hist. of England (2nd ed.). ii. 176-7; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. ix. 13, 64, 87-8, 313, 485, 3rd ser. iv. 46, 4th ser. viii. 3, 84.]
FEATLEY or FAIRCLOUGH, JOHN (1605?–1666), divine, son of John Fairclough, the elder brother of Daniel Featley [q. v.], was born in Northamptonshire in or about 1605. He was admitted either clerk or chorister at All Souls' College, Oxford, and took his B.A. degree on 25 Feb. 1624 (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 414). After being ordained he proceeded, as he tells us, to ‘Saint Christophers in the Western Indies, where I had the honor to be the first preacher of the Gospel in the infancy of that Mother-Colony in the year 1626’ (Featlæi Παλιγγενεσία, pt. ii. p. 38). During 1635 and 1636 he was curate to his uncle at Lambeth, and probably at Acton. In 1639 he was made chaplain to Charles I, ‘at Hurtly Fields in the first Scottish expedition’ (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1660–1, p. 226). When the king's cause had declined he was persuaded by his uncle to again withdraw to St. Christopher's, for which he sailed with his wife, children, and servants from Tilbury Hope on 24 June 1643 (Featlæi Παλιγγενεσία, pt. ii. p. 39). On 17 April 1646 he writes from his house at Flushing, Holland. After the Restoration he was appointed on 29 June 1660 chaplain extraordinary to the king, who presented him on 13 Aug. to the precentorship of Lincoln (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, ii. 86), and in September following to the prebend of Melton Ross with Scamlesby in the same cathedral (ib. ii. 204). In 1661 he appears as rector of Langar, Nottinghamshire, having in the previous year petitioned for the rectory of Beckingham, Lincolnshire (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1660–1, pp. 226, 601). By the dean and chapter of Lincoln he was afterwards instituted to the vicarage of Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire. On 7 June 1661 he was created by royal mandamus D.D. at Oxford (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 256). He died at Lincoln in 1666, and was buried in a chapel in the cathedral. He published two if not more of his uncle's tracts, together with his life, and was himself author of: 1. ‘Sermon to the West India Company [on Joshua i. 9],’ 4to, London, 1629. 2. ‘Obedience and Submission. A Sermon [on Heb. xiii. 17] preached … 8 Dec. 1635,’ 4to, London, 1636. 3. ‘A Fountain of Teares emptying itselfe into three rivelets, viz., of (1) Compunction. (2) Compassion. (3) Devotion,’ 12mo, Amsterdam, 1646; another edition, 12mo, London, 1683. His portrait, a small head, appears on the engraved title of the first edition of this manual.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 729–31; Cox's Magna Britannia, iii. 587; Nichols's Bibliotheca, vol. x. No. 5, p. 337 n. (Denne's Addenda); Chalmers's Biog. Dict. xiv. 168; Granger's Biog. Hist. of England, 2nd ed. ii. 190.]
FEATLEY, RICHARD (1621–1682), nonconformist divine. [See Fairclough.]
FECHIN, Saint (d. 664), was born in the north of Connaught. Of his genealogy no more is known than that his father's name was Coelcarna, his mother's Lassair. In some lists of saints he is named Ecca or Mo-Ecca. Prodigies are recorded of his gestation, birth, and childhood, resembling those of other saints of his time, and even the successful milking of a bull which is attributed to him is not without parallel. When he grew up he converted pagans, defeated devils, raised the dead, and boiled water without fire. Most of his miracles have no local colouring or individual propriety, and are merely part of the composition of his biographers; but some fragments of genuine history seem contained in his lives, the best being that in which he bids Themaria, queen of Diarmait, king of Meath, find the way of her salvation in dressing the sores of a leper. The drainage of wounds and sores was not then understood, and in bidding the queen clean the leper's ulcers with her lips Fechin was not intentionally adding unnecessary horror to her task, but was merely indicating the best method then known, and one of which
