Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Corderoy, Jeremy
CORDEROY, JEREMY (fl. 1600), divine, was the son of a Wiltshire gentleman. He was sent about 1577 to St. Alban Hall, Oxford, and after taking his degree in arts in due course continued to reside there for the purpose of studying theology. He took holy orders, and in 1590 was appointed a chaplain of Merton College, a post which he occupied for at least thirteen years and possibly longer. He was the author of two small works: ‘A Short Dialogue, wherein is proved that no Man can be Saved without Good Works,’ Oxford, 1604, 12mo, 2nd edit.; and ‘A Warning for Worldlings, or a Comfort to the Godly and a Terror to the Wicked, set forth Dialoguewise between a Scholler and a Trauailer,’ London, 1608, 12mo. In the latter, which is an argument against atheism, the ‘scholler’ would appear to be meant for Corderoy himself, and speaks of his not having been preferred to any living, since, although some had been offered to him, they were not such as he could enter into with a good conscience.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss) ii. 47; Brit. Mus. Cat.]