Hamlet Puleston

Hamlet Puleston or Puliston (1632–1662) was an English academic, known as a political writer.

Life

Born at Old Alresford, Hampshire, he was the son of Richard Puleston, a cleric, and nephew of John Puleston. Admitted a scholar of Wadham College, Oxford on 20 August 1647, he graduated B.A. on 23 May 1650, and M.A. on 25 April 1653.[1]

Puleston at first declined to subscribe to the ordinances of the parliamentary visitors;[1] he took part, in fact, in the stubborn armed resistance in Lincoln College, around George Hitchcocke.[2] Subsequently he became a fellow of Jesus College. He was nominated moderator dialecticæ on 19 May 1656. Anthony Wood wrote that he also became a local preacher.[1]

Puleston later settled in London, where he died at the beginning of 1662, in poverty according to Wood.[1]

Works

Puleston published in 1660 Monarchiæ Britannicæ singularis Protectio; or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial providence over the British Monarchy. It was reissued as the Epitome Monarchiæ Britannicæ … wherein many remarkable observations on the civil wars of England, and General Monk's Politique Transactions in reducing the Nation to a firm Union, for the resettlement of his Majesty, are clearly discovered, 1663.[1]

Notes
  1. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Puleston, Hamlet" . Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. Anthony à Wood (1796). The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books. editor. p. 703.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Puleston, Hamlet". Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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