Cestriensis.
On the fly-leaf of Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice, a divine poem by E. B., Esq., London, 1652, I find the following rare morsel:
"Mr. James Tinker,
Rector of St. Andrews, Droitwich.
"Father Tinker, when you are dead,
Great parts a long wir you are fled,
O that they wor conferred on mee,
Which would ad unto God's glory."
The subject of the above laudation flourished in the early part of the last century.
In a Geneva Bible, date 1596: