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Joseph Symonds

English pastor and puritan

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Joseph Symonds (d. 1652) was an English Pastor and puritan.

Career When Joseph Symonds was a young man he was assistant to Thomas Gataker at Rotherhithe. He was appointed rector of St. Martin's Ironmonger-lane, London, in 1632. He was persecuted by Archbishop Laud for adopting the church government views of the Independents.

Symonds returned to England in 1647 and was appointed as a minister in John Goodwin's congregation on 1 March. On the same year he became the vice president and fellow of Eton College which office he held until his death in 1652.

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