Simon Browne

BROWNE, Simon. b. Shepton Mallet, Somerset, 1680; d. Shepton Mallet, 1732. He was educated at Shepton Mallet by the local pastor, John Cumming, and then at a Dissenting Academy at Bridgwater run by John Moore, the pastor there. He entered the Independent ministry and was ordained to a charge at Portsmouth followed by that of the Independent Chapel at Old Jewry, London (1716). He was a voluminous writer, publishing many pamphlets and sermons, including ones that demonstrated the dissenters’ loyalty to the Hanoverian regime (Religion and Loyalty, 1716). Others included A Caveat against Evil Company (1706) and The Charge of Schism against the Dissenters charg’d (1710). Browne was a participant...