himself with the royalists; so that in the list of the Assembly in the ordinance of June 1643 his name no longer appears. He was deprived of his See by Parliament on 9 October 1646, as episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. He maintained himself in his diocese until the end of the war, and was in Worcester when the city capitulated to Thomas Rainsborough. Deprived of what remained to him of the episcopal estates, he sought a refuge with his son-in-law, Dr Henry Sutton, rector of Bredon, Worcestershire. His last years were spent in comparative poverty, and he had to sell his library to provide for his family. He died of fever at Bredon on 29 July 1650 and was buried in the chancel of the church there 15 August. Views Described as one of the most influential Calvinists inside the Church, he was censured in 1631 for his tolerance of preachers in Oxford attacking William Laud. Works Matthias Prideaux, a Royalist soldier, was his son, and predeceased him in 1646. John Prideaux edited his work on history. He wrote a substantial academic treatise, Hypomnemata, as well as theological works. References Sources 1578 births 1650 deaths People from South Hams (district) Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford English chaplains Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Rectors of Exeter College, Oxford Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford Bishops of Worcester 17th-century Church of England bishops Regius Professors of Divinity (University of Oxford) 16th-century Anglican theologians 17th-century Anglican theologians