Historia
WOMOCK, LAURENCE (1612-1686)
Se casó la primera vez con una viuda, Anne Aylmer de Bury, en Westly Bradford el 18 de noviembre de 1668 y la segunda en St. Bartholomew-the-Less, Londres, el 25 de abril de 1670, con Catherine Corbet de Norwich. Sólo tuvo una hija de su primera esposa, llamada Anne, y que murió poco después de él. Su heredero fue su sobrino, Laurence Womock († 1724), rector de Castor por Yarmouth.
Los principales escritos de Womock, la mayoría controversiales, fueron: Beaten Oyle for the Lamps of the Sanctuarie; or, the great Controversie concerning set prayers and our Liturgie examined (Londres, 1641); The Examination of Tilenus before the Triers... to which is annexed the Tenets of the Remonstrants (Londres, 1658); Arcana Dogmatum Anti-Remonstratium; or, the Calvinist's Cabinet unclosed. In an apology for Tilenus against a pretended vindication of the Synod of Dort... together with a few drops on the papers of Mr. Hickman (1659); The Result of False Principles; or, error convinced by its own Evidence, managed in several Dialogues (1661); The Solemn league and Covenant, arraigned and condemned by the sentence of the Divine of London and Cheshire (1662); Pulpi-Conceptions, Popular Deceptions... an answer to the Presbyterian papers (Londres, 1662); An Antidote to cure the Calamities of their Trembling for Fear of the Arke (Londres, 1663), Go shew thyself to the Priest: safe Advice for a sound Protestant (1679); Treatise proving both by History and Record that the Bishops are a Fundamental and Essential Part of the English Parliament and that they may be Judges in Capital Cases (1680); A Letter containing a further Justification of the Church of England (1682); Billa Vera; or, the Arraignment of Ignoramus put forth out of Charity, for the use of Grand Inquests, and other Juries, the Sworn Assertors of Truth and Justice (1682) y Suffragium Protestantium. Wherein our governors are justified in their proceedings against Dissenters (1683), intento de refutar Protestant Reconciler de Daniel Whitby.
Bibliografía:
Thomas Seccombe, Dictionary of National Biography; Masters, Hist. of the Coll. of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, 1831; Coles, Athenæ Cantabr. Add. MS. 5883, f. 83; Bentham, Ely, p. 258; Davy, Athenæ Suffolcienses (Addit. MS. 19165, f. 503); Kennett, prefacio a Collection of Tracts concerning Predestination and Providence, Cambridge, 1719, p. 179; Eachard, History, p. 1073; Chester, Marriage Licences, col. 1497; Le Neve, Fasti; Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Wood, Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 946, iv. 369; Chalmers, Biogr. Dict.; Watt, Bibl. Brit.; Cat. of Tanner MSS. (Bodleian); Nichols, Lit. Anecd. iv. 240; Silvester, Life of Baxter, p. 380; Manby, Hist. and Antiq. of St. David's, p. 163; Jones and Freeman, St. David's, p. 163; Blomefield, Hist. of Norfolk, 1810, i. 101, 236, iii. 654–5, v. 441, vi. 444, xi. 213, 230; Walcot, St. Margaret's Church, p. 22; Barksdale, Nympha Libethris, 1651, páginas 9, 10; Add. MSS. 19174 f. 797, 22910 f. 25. Se ofrece un relato de los escritos controversiales de Womock en Lives of the English Bishops from the Restauration to the Revolution, 1733, páginas 234–40. de Salmon.