Tho Lushington S.T.P 22 Apr: 1633 (unitd to Netesherd) col: by the Bishop.

Thos Lushington S.T.P. was born at Sandwich in Kent educated partly at Pembroke and partly at Lincoln Col: Oxford. He was made Prebend of the Prebendary of Bemister 2da in the Cathedral of Salisbury June 23 1631, Chapln to Dr Corbet Bishop of Oxford and after Chapln to the King, and in 1639 He was presented by the King to the Rectory of Burnham Westgate in Norff (when it is probable he quitted these Vicarages but of that Q?) He was sequesterd during the Usurpation and forced to live obscurely and published Books for a maintenance; at the Restoration of the King he was restored to his preforments and had the tender of a Deanry, which, being old and infirm, he refused; and died before the month of June 1661 aged 72 years. He was a learned man but suspected to be a Socinian from his translating the Socinian Comment on the Hebrews; a Sermon also of his on the Resurrection, which he printed , and which was after reprinted in a Collection of profane pieces (says Walker) called the Phoenix, gave offence to some of his bretheren. Thus Walker but he is guilty of at least one Mistake for upon Lushingtons being ejected from Burnham Christopher Dunwell A M was admitted on ye prsentation of of Sr Nich L’estrange in 1655 and held it to his death in 1685. Therefore Lushington was never restored.

The Barton Turf pages of Anthony Norris’s detailed histories of the eastern hundreds of Norfolk include notes about various past incumbents, including Thomas Lushington. The manuscript now resides in the Norfolk Record Office.  The following extract comes from a transcript of these pages. The full transcript of the pages relating to Barton Turf can be viewed as a PDF document.