Webberley John W ebberley John , Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, was the son of Thomas Webberley , of East Kirbey, in Lincolnshire. He took his degree of B. D., Jan. 30th, 1640; and even then had the reputation of being a thorough Socinian. He translated...
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Vortius William Henry V ortius William Henry , or (Vorts), was the son of Conrad Vorstius, (vide Art. 151,) and Pastor of a Church of Remonstrants at Warmond. He is incidentally mentioned by Bock, (Hist. Ant. T. I. p. 1003,) who promises a fuller account...
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Vorstius Conrad V orstius Conrad , (or Vorst,) was born at Cologne, on the 19th of July, 1569. His grandfather was Councillor to the Elector ; and Diedrick Vorst, his father, was a Dier. Conrad Vorstius was sent, in 1578, to Bedberdyk, in the county of...
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Volkelius John V olkelius John , (Germ. Volkel,) of the town of Grimma, in the Circle of Meissen, was known, among the Crypto-Socinians of Altorf, by the name of Popilius, or Populceus, which is a Latinized form of the German name Volkel. Of his history...
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Voidovius Andrew V oidovius Andrew , (Polon. Woydowski,) was by birth a Pole, and either the son or the brother of John Voidovius, Pastor of Chmieln, who is mentioned in the Manuscript Acts, as having attended the forty-fifth Synod of Racow, in 1580....
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Wogel Catharine (1459-1539) V ogel Catharine , (or, as the name is written by Count Krasinski , Weygel,) wife of Melchior Vogel , a goldsmith, and Alderman of Cracow, was tried before the Ecclesiastical Court of that diocese, on a charge of apostasy from...
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Vitrelinus Alexander V itrelinus Alexander was Pastor of Pinczow in the year 1555. He is often mentioned in the Synodical Acts ; but little is known of his personal history, beyond the meagre account, which Sandius has furnished of him. (B. A. p. 46.)...
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Viret Christopher V iret Christopher , a Familist, was a joiner by trade, who lived in the borough of Southwark, in the reign of Mary. Honourable mention is made of him by the Ministers of Poland and Transylvania, in their treatise "Concerning the true...
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Vigilius Bartholomew V igilius Bartholomew , (Germ. Wach-auf,) was a Westphalian, whose German name appears to have been Latinized, not, as Bock insinuates, for the purpose of concealment, but to give it a more classical air, in accordance with a well-known...
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Van Parris George V an Parris George of Mentz, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, was a member of the Strangers' Church, in Augustin Friars, London. His profession was that of a Surgeon ; and by a law, passed in the year 1531, strangers acting in that capacity...
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