Thomas Vicars was a 17th-century English

English people

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 theologian and religious writer.

He was born in Carlisle in Cumberland

Cumberland

Cumberland is a historic county of North West England, on the border with Scotland, from the 12th century until 1974. It formed an administrative county from 1889 to 1974 and now forms part of Cumbria....

 (now Cumbria

Cumbria

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), the son of William and Eve Vicars. He entered Queen's College, Oxford in 1607 as a poor serving child. He then became a tabarder, chaplain and fellow within nine years. In 1622, he was admitted to the reading of the sentences. Recognised as a learned theologian, he entered the household of George Carleton

George Carleton

George Carleton was an English churchman, Bishop of Llandaff . He was a delegate to the Synod of Dort, in the Netherlands. From 1619 to 1628 he was Bishop of Chichester.-Life:...

, the Bishop of Chichester, whose step-daughter, Anne, the daughter of the sometime Ambassador to France, Henry Neville of Billingbear House

Billingbear House

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 in Berkshire

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, he married. Carleton made him Vicar of Cuckfield

Cuckfield

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 in West Sussex

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.

His works include:

• Translation of Bartholomew Keckermann's Latin 'Manuduction to Theology', dedicated to 'Lady Anne Neville' (his mother-in-law) and 'Lady Anne Fettiplace
  Fettiplace
  Fettiplace is an English family name of Norman descent, with at least 800 years of history. They were landed gentry, chiefly in the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.-Origin:...
  
   of Childrey
  Childrey
  Childrey is a village and civil parish about west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. The parish was part of the Wantage Rural District in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the whole of the Vale of White Horse from Berkshire to Oxfordshire.Childrey was originally an island...
  
  ' in Berkshire, the mother of John Fettiplace
  John Fettiplace (politician died 1658)
  John Fettiplace was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1626 and 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....
  
  MP (1620)
• 'Manuductio ad artem rhetoricam' (1621)
• 'A Brief Direction on how to examine Ourselves before we go to the Lord's Table' (1622)
• 'Confutatio cusjd' (1627)