Stampe of Reading with a licence granted 13 August 1672, having at least one child. Martha Ford died 13 November 1684. His will makes reference to his third wife, Catherine. He was survived by his daughters Mary Hercy and Martha Milward. Works Ambitio Sacra. Conciones duæ Latine habitæ ad Academicos Oxon, Oxford, 1650. Two Dialogues concerning Infant Baptism, the first published in 1654 and the two together in 1656, with a commendatory preface by the Rev. Thomas Blake of Tamworth. The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption largely and practically handled, together with a Discourse on the Duty of Prayer in an Afflicted Condition, London, 1655. A Sober Answer [see above], London, 1656. A Short Catechism declaring the practical use of the Covenant interest of Baptism of the Infant Seed of Believers, London, 1657, an epitome of No. 2. Three Poems relating to the late dreadful Destruction of the City of London by Fire . . . entitled : I. Conflagratio Londinensis [in Latin hexameters with English translation in heroic verse]; II. Londini quod reliquum [in Latin elegiacs with English translation]; III. Actio in Londini Incendarios [in Latin hexameters only], London, 1667. The first two parts have separate title-pages. A copy in the Bodleian of the first poem is entitled The Conflagration of London, poetically delineated, and has commendatory manuscript verses by John Mill addressed to Thomas Barlow (afterwards bishop). A fourth part, Londini renascentis Imago poetica, published in Latin only in 1668, was issued in an English translation in 1669. In its Latin form it is sometimes bound up with the three earlier poems. Carmen Funebre ex occasione Conflagrations Northamptonæ, 20 Sept. an. 1675 conflagrate, concinnatum, London, 1676; republished in an English translation by F. A., M.A., as The Fall and Funeral of Northampton in 1677. A Plain and Profitable Exposition of, and Enlargement upon, the Church Catechism, London, 1684, 1686. A new version of the Psalms of David, in metre, London, 1688. Ford also translated two discourses for the first volume of the English version of Plutarch's Morals, London, 1684. His published sermons are also numerous. They include sermons on the king's return, 1660; on the burial of Elizabeth, wife of Sir James Langham, 1665; on the Duke of York's victory over the Dutch, 1665. A Discourse concerning God's Judgments, London, 1678, was prepared as a preface to James Illingworth's account of "a man" [John Duncalf] "whose hands and