John 1653-1683 Oldham

OLDHAM, JOHN (1653-1683), English satirist, son of a Presbyterian minister, was born at Shipton Moyne, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, on Aug. 9, 1653. He graduated from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1674, and was for three years an usher in Whit gift's School, at Croydon. In 1681 he became tutor to the grand sons of Sir Edward Thurland, near Reigate. Garnet's Ghost was published as a broadside in 1679, but the other Satires on the Jesuits, although written at the same time, were not printed until 1681. His undoubted services to the Country Party brought no reward from its leaders. Eventually he became chaplain to William Pierrepont, earl of Kingston. He died at Holme-Pierre point, near Nottingham, on Dec. 9, 1683.

Oldham took Juvenal for his model, and in breadth of treat Baden and Hesse.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.-An

outline of the whole movement up to the year 1875 will be found in The New Reformation, by "Theodorus" (J. Bass Mullinger) ; and an excellent résumé of the main facts in the history of the movement in each European country, as connected with other developments of liberal thought, and with political history, is given in the second volume of Dr. F. Nippold's Handbuch der neuesten Kirchen

geschichte, vol. ii. (1883). See also A. M. E. Scarth, The Story of the Old Catholic and Kindred Movements (London, 1883) ; Biihler, Der Altkatholicismus (Leiden, 188o) ; J. F. von Schulte, Der Altkatholicis mus (Giessen, 1887) ; and article in Herzog-Hauck's Realencyk. fur prot. Theol. and Kirche, i. 415. For details the following sources may be consulted: (a) For the proceedings of the successive congresses: the Stenographische Berichte, published at Munich, Cologne, Constance, etc.; those of the congress of Constance were summarized in an English form, with other elucidatory matter, by Professor John Mayor; (b) the series of the Catholique national (Berne, 1898-1908) and the series of the Revue Internationale de theologie (Berne, 1893-1910).