John Sadler, M.A.

John Sadler (of Warmwell) (18 August 1615 – April 1674) was an English lawyer, academic, Member of Parliament, Town Clerk of London, Hebraist, Neoplatonist, and millenarian thinker, private secretary to Oliver Cromwell, and member of the Parliamentarian Council of State. He was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1650 to 1660.

Family

He was the son of Rev. John Sadler (d 1640) and Mary Shelley (d 1646). He married Jane, daughter of the Dorset MP John Trenchard. His sister Ann married John Harvard.

“Family of 14 children to provide for ...” [Two sons noted, John & Thomas]

Notes

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sadler_(Town_Clerk_of_London)_

Ernestine van der Wall writes:

“John Sadler (1615–1674) was a well-known London lawyer and constitutional theorist, and a good friend of Oliver Cromwell, at one time serving as his personal secretary. During the 1650s he held several offices, being secretary to the Council of State and a member of the Committee for the Advancement of Learning and the Committee for Lunatics. ...

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From http://www.weymouth-dorset.co.uk/warmwell.html

Perhaps the most interesting building in the parish of Warmwell is the old Manor House, Warmwell House. The Manor of Warmwell was originally held by the de Warmwell family and one Geoffrey de Warmwell is recorded as having interests in several places locally. It then came to the Newburghs and then to the Trenchards of Wolfeton from 1526. Sir Thomas Trenchard was the first of the line to hold it and in 1618 Sir George Trenchard settled it upon his son John. John Trenchard's daughter Jane, married John Sadler, a man fluent in Oriental languages and a Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
John Sadler came into possession of the Manor and Warmwell House in 1662. It is said that he died 'having been much disordered in his senses'. Maybe he was not so much 'disordered in his senses' but rather ahead of his time in some way. Perhaps he was at that time a modern-day Nostradamus. For, as he lay ill in bed in 1661, with his wife at his bedside, along with the local minister and a servant, Thomas Gray, he began to foretell the future. The events he foresaw were the Plague and Great Fire of London (1666) and the Monmouth Rebellion, all of which came true in the fullness of time. His own house, Salisbury Court, was burnt in the Great Fire of London at which point he retired to Warmwell and remained there to live out his days.

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From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 40 1886. By New England Historic Genealogical Society. Page 283-284 “John Harvard and his ancestry.” GoogleBooks

John was a graduate of Emanuel College, Uambrid e, M.A. 1638, Fellow of the College, Master in Chancery, Town Clarke of Lon on and Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, we learn from Cole’s Collection (Add. MS. 5851, British Museum). From he i\'eve’s Fast. Eccl. Angl. we et this confirmed and with further information, under the title St. Mary Magda ene Coll. Masters. John Sadler, M.A., was admitted 1650. and deprived at the restoration.

References

• A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge link John SADLER Approx. lifespan: 1615–1674 Adm. pens. at Emmanuel College 1630:11:13 Of Sussex , s. of John SADLER (1598) b. 1615:08:18 Matric. 1631 B.A. 1634 M.A. 1638 Fellow 1639 Master of Magdalene College 1650-60 Of Lincoln's Inn, [London], Master in Chancery 1644-56 Bencher 1654 Master of Requests. Town clerk of London , 1649-60 A member of the Council of State 1653 M.P. for Cambridgeshire , 1653 ; and for Yarmouth ( Isle of Wight , ) 1659 Lost his offices 1660 Retired to Warmwell, [Dorset], Married Jane TRENCHARD dau. of John TRENCHARD of Warmwell, Dorset , Esq. 1645:09:09 Author, historical. d. Warmwell, [Dorset], 1674:04 ( D.N.B. ; Mag. Coll. Hist. 115)
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 40 1886By New England Historic Genealogical Society. Page 367. “John Harvard and his ancestry.” GoogleBooks
• ODNB Sadler, John (1615–1674), political theorist and reformer, was born on 18 August 1615 at Patcham, Sussex, the eldest son of John Sadler (d. 1640), vicar of Patcham, and from 1627 of Ringmer, Sussex, and his wife, Mary, widow of Edward Fenner, late of ..
• Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 91, Part 2; Volume 130. Page 568. GoogleBooks
• (DNB) Page 105. GoogleBooks