Nicholas Battely
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Nicholas Battely (1648-1704) English clergyman and antiquary, editor of William Somner’s Cantuaria Sacra and brother of John Battely. Nicholas Battely was born in Bury St. Edmunds, the son of Nicholas Battely, an apothecary. He attended the Bury Grammar School and was admitted a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge on 30th March 1665. He was made a fellow of Peterhouse in 1670 and ordained priest at Ely Cathedral on 18th September 1675. He was Rector of Nowton in Suffolk 1680-85 and Rector of Creeting St. Olave in the same county in 1681. In 1685, he became Rector of Ivychurch in Kent and Vicar of Bekesbourne. He married Anne Pocklington, of Brington in Huntingdonshire. He was the father of Oliver Battely. Nicholas Battely died on 19th May 1704, shortly after the publication of his edition of Somner. He is buried in Bekesbourne church.
