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migrated to St Mary Hall, where he graduated B.A. 20 April 1618, and commenced M.A. in 1621. He was incorporated in the latter degree at Cambridge in 1622. He became chaplain to Robert, earl of Warwick, who presented him in 1626 to the rectory of Moreton, near Ongar, Essex. On 15 June 1630 he was admitted B.D. at Oxford, and in 1632 he was incorporated in that degree at Cambridge. In 1637 he was collated to the prebend of Willesden in the church of St Paul. He died on 15 Feb. 1657-8, and was buried in the chancel of Moreton Church. Wood says he was 'well read in the fathers and schoolmen, was a good disputant and preacher, a zealous Calvinist in the beginning, but a greater Arminian afterwards' (Athenae Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 449).

His works are: 1. ‘Gods Love to Mankind manifested by disproving His absolute Decree for their Damnation’ (anon.), Lond. 1633 4to, 1658 12mo, 1673 8vo. It is thought that Henry Mason had a share in this work, which was answered by William Twisse and John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury. Morant remarks that Hoard had the courage to publish the book ‘at a time when it was accounted a greater crime than treason to boggle at the doctrine of absolute predestination, with all its blasphemous consequences’ (Hist. of Essex, i. 146). 2. ‘The Soules Miserie and Recoverie: or, the Grieving of the Spirit, how it is caused, and how redressed. Wherein is shewed, among other things, the nature of presumptuous sins, with preservatives against them, and remedies for them,’ London, 1636, 8vo, dedicated to Robert, earl of Warwick. Reprinted, with many additions, Lond. 1658, 8vo. 3. ‘The Churches Authority asserted; in a sermon [on 1 Cor. xiv. 4] preached at Chelmsford, at the metropolitical visitation of William [Laud], archbishop of Canterbury … March 1, 1636,’ Lond. 1637, 4to. Reprinted in ‘Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ,’ 1709, i. 190–246.

[Authorities quoted; Addit. MS. 5872, f. 67; Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 230, ii. 424; Le Neve's Fasti (Hardy), ii. 452; Oxford Univ. Reg. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 362, pt. iii. p. 363.]

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HOARE, CHARLES JAMES (1781–1865), archdeacon of Surrey, born in London on 14 July 1781, was third son of Henry Hoare, banker, of Fleet Street, London, one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society (d. 15 March 1828). His mother was Lydia Henrietta (d. 19 July 1816), daughter and coheiress of Isaac Malortie of Hanover and London, merchant. Charles James was educated under the Rev. John Simons of Paul's Cray, Kent, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a Pensioner on 7 May 1799. Here among his friends were Henry Martyn, the two Grants, Archdeacon Dealtry, and J. W. Cunningham. In 1803 he passed as second wrangler, second Smith's prizeman, and second classical medallist, graduated B.A. in the same year and M.A. in 1806, and was Seatonian prizeman in 1807. On 24 March 1806 he was chosen Lady Margaret fellow of his college, and was ordained in 1804 as curate to Dr. Thomas Rennell, dean of Winchester and vicar of Alton, Hampshire. In 1807 he was appointed vicar of Blandford Forum, Dorsetshire, where he won numerous friends. He removed to the family living of Godstone, near Reigate, Surrey, in March 1821, which he held for the remainder of his life. In 1829 he became rural dean of South-east Ewell, on 10 Nov. in the same year archdeacon of Winchester, and on 2 Dec. 1831 a canon residentiary of Winchester Cathedral. He interested himself in the defence of the Irish church, the maintenance of cathedral establishments in their integrity, and the cause of education. He was a great supporter of religious societies, and held a yearly missionary gathering at Godstone vicarage. On 14 Nov. 1847 he was transferred to the archdeaconry of Surrey. He chiefly directed his energies to providing further church accommodation for the populous districts on the south side of London. Among his more intimate acquaintances were Hannah More, Wilberforce, the Thorntons, Venn, Macaulay, and Simeon. He resigned his archdeaconry in 1860. He died at Godstone vicarage on 15 Jan. 1865, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard on 21 Jan. He married, on 4 July 1811, Jane Isabella, only daughter of Richard Holden of Moorgate, Yorkshire. She died on 15 Nov. 1874, having had seven children.

Hoare was author of: 1. ‘The Shipwreck of St. Paul. A Seatonian Prize Poem,’ 1808; another edition 1860. 2. ‘Thoughts suited to the Present Crisis, in three Sermons preached for National Schools,’ 1820. 3. ‘Sermons on the Christian Character, with Occasional Discourses,’ 1821. 4. ‘The Course of Divine Judgments, eight Lectures on the Impending Pestilence,’ 1832. 5. ‘The Prebendary or Cathedral Establishments, Ancient and Modern,’ 1837, 1838, 2 parts. 6. ‘Remains of C. J. Paterson,’ ed. by C. J. Hoare, 1838. 7. ‘A Letter to the Bishop of London on the Cathedral Question,’ 1840. 8. ‘The Holy Scriptures, their Nature, Authority, and Use,’ 1845; second ed. 1857. 9. ‘Baptism, or the Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants scripturally illustrated,’ 1848. 10. ‘Church