page_title: Julines Herring
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Julines Herring / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Samuel Clarke (1599-1683), minister and biographer.
context_page_description: Julines Herring was a Puritan clergyman within the Church of England who served in Derbyshire and at Shrewsbury. Ejected from his positions for nonconformity, he became a minister serving the English-speaking community in the Netherlands. He was a staunch proponent of Presbyterianism and an opponent of separatism.
context_section_description: Herring seems to have entered into a long illness and he was clearly troubled by periods of doubt as well as suffering, in the language of the time, assaults by Satan. His last reported words, after such a period of uncertainty, were: "He is overcome, overcome, through the strength of my Lord and only Saviour Iesus, unto whom I am now going to keep a Sabbath in glory." He died the following morning, given by Clarke as Sunday 28 March 1644. The date is widely but not universally accepted. William Steven in 1833 calculated Herring's ministry as lasting eight years from 1637, which implies he died in 1645. Coulton in 2010 noted that the corporation of Shrewsbury wrote to Herring again asking him to return, apparently in 1645, some months after the town fell to Parliamentarian forces. The corporation's invitation seems inconsistent with a death in 1644. Coulton is noncommital about the actual date, but points out that the register of the English Reformed Church shows he was certainly dead by 18 May 1645. The parishioners of Chad's parish in Shrewsbury subsequently switched their attention to Thomas Paget, Herring's co-pastor at Amsterdam, and in 1646 elected him their minister. Herring's will was proved by Christian, his widow on 26 March 1646.
  Samuel Clarke's biography of Herring, part of a set of Puritan studies appended to his Generall Martyrologie, appeared as early as 1651, under the Commonwealth of England, and is informed by many who knew Herring.
caption: Samuel Clarke, biographer: a 1650 engraving attributed to Thomas Cross.
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