Hamlet Puleston
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Hamlet Puleston or Puliston (1632–1662) was an English academic, known as a political writer.
Life
Born at Old Alresford, Hampshire, he was the son of Richard Puleston, a cleric, and nephew of John Puleston. Admitted a scholar of Wadham College, Oxford on 20 August 1647, he graduated B.A. on 23 May 1650, and M.A. on 25 April 1653.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Puleston, Hamlet|volume=47}}
Puleston at first declined to subscribe to the ordinances of the parliamentary visitors; he took part, in fact, in the stubborn armed resistance in Lincoln College, around George Hitchcocke.{{cite book|author=Anthony à Wood|title=The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuxEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA703|year=1796|publisher=editor|page=703}} Subsequently he became a fellow of Jesus College. He was nominated moderator dialecticæ on 19 May 1656. Anthony Wood wrote that he also became a local preacher.
Puleston later settled in London, where he died at the beginning of 1662, in poverty according to Wood.
Works
Puleston published in 1660 Monarchiæ Britannicæ singularis Protectio; or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial providence over the British Monarchy. It was reissued as the Epitome Monarchiæ Britannicæ … wherein many remarkable observations on the civil wars of England, and General Monk's Politique Transactions in reducing the Nation to a firm Union, for the resettlement of his Majesty, are clearly discovered, 1663.
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