@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt163tc5f.12, ISBN = {9781843832539}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt163tc5f.12}, abstract = {On 1 August 1654 Simeon Ashe preached the funeral sermon at Rotherhithe, Surrey, for Thomas Gataker, BD, rector for forty-three years and an ‘eminently learned and faithful minister of Jesus Christ’. Ashe published the sermon some months later to which he appended an account of Gataker’s life and his ‘patient, comfortable death’. In the epistle dedicatory to ‘my much honored brethren, the Presbyterian ministers of the gospel within the province of London’, Ashe began by mourning the recent loss not only of Gataker but also of William Gouge and Jeremiah Whitaker, ‘members of, but also cordial friends unto our provincial}, author = {PAUL SEAVER}, booktitle = {Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {128--142}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {Puritan Preachers and their Patrons}, year = {2006} }