John Rawlet
English Anglican priest
John Rawlet or Rawlett (27 March 1642 – 28 September 1686) was an English Anglican cleric, known as a preacher and writer of religious literature, and for his close sympathy with Presbyterians.
Life
Baptised at Tamworth in Warwickshire on 27 March 1642, Rawlet was religiously inclined from a young age. He matriculated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge on 15 December 1659. Prevented by poverty from proceeding to an ordinary degree, he later obtained the degree of Bachelor of Divinity on 23 June 1676, with a royal mandate of Charles II.
After taking holy orders and engaging in clerical work in London, Rawlet was settled in the north before 1761, acting for a short while as chaplain to John Wilkins, the bishop of Chester from 1668. In 1670, Rawlet let Richard Baxter know that Wilkins had succeeded with John Tilsley, an ejected minister of local prominence, in efforts to have him conform to the Church of England. At this period, Rawlet mentioned to Baxter rumours of preferments that he could have himself as an Anglican.
In 1679, Rawlet described himself as minister of Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland. In the summer of the same year (25 June 1679), he succeeded the Rev. John Marsh in the lectureship at St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne the parish church).
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