in Miles Lane, Cannon Street, and continued to officiate as their pastor nearly thirty years. He often preached in the time of the plague, when other ministers had fled into the country. In May 1692 Matthew Clarke (1664–1726) [q. v.] was ordained joint-pastor with him. Ford is said to have died ‘some time in the year 1694’ (Walter Wilson}}, Dissenting Churches, i. 473). He published: 1. ‘The Evil Tongue condemned; or, the Heinousness of Defaming and Backbiting,’ 8vo, London, 1672. 2. ‘A Gospel-Church: or, God's Holy Temple opened,’ 8vo, London, 1675, and other tracts vaguely mentioned by Calamy. Ford was one of the twenty-one divines who subscribed John Faldo's ‘Quakerism No Christianity,’ 8vo, 1675.
[Calamy and Palmer's Nonconf. Memorial (1802–3), iii. 121–2; Walter Wilson's Dissenting Churches, i. 472–3, 476–7; Joseph Smith's Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, p. 188.]
FORD, THOMAS (d. 1648), composer, was one of the musicians of Henry, Prince of Wales. The appendix to Dr. Birch's ‘Life’ of the prince shows that in 1611 Ford received a salary of 30l. per annum, which was soon afterwards increased to 40l. He with the rest of the musicians may possibly have been appointed before the prince was created Prince of Wales (see Birch, p. 427 n.) It is probable that after the prince's death the salaries were continued, for in 1626 he received a grant of 80l. per annum, ‘40l. for the place he formerly held, and 40l. for that which John Ballard deceased held’ (Rymer, Fœdera, ed. 1715, xviii. 728). In 1607 he published ‘Musicke of Sundrie Kindes. Set forth in two Bookes. The first whereof are Aries (sic) for four Voices to the Lute, Orphorion, or Basse-Viol, with a Dialogue for two Voices, and two Basse-Viols in parts tunde the Lute way. The second are Pavens, Galiards, Almaines, Toies, Iigges, Thumpes, and such like, for two Basse-Viols, the Liera way, so made as the greatest number may serve to play alone, very easy to be performde. Composed by Thomas Ford. Imprinted at London by Iohn Windet at the Assignes of William Barley, and are to be sold by Iohn Browne in Saint Dunstons churchyard in Fleetstreet, 1607.’ The first book, containing eleven songs, among which are the celebrated ‘Since first I saw your face,’ and ‘There is a Lady sweet and kind,’ is dedicated to Sir Richard Weston, and the second, containing eighteen pieces, to Sir Richard Tichborne. An anthem, in five parts, ‘Let God arise,’ is printed in the Musical Antiquarian Society's publication for 1845 (p. 61), from a set of manuscript part-books in the possession of the editor, Mr. Rimbault, and formerly in that of John Evelyn. Ford contributed to Sir William Leighton's ‘Tears and Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule’ (1614) two anthems, ‘Almighty God, which hast me brought,’ for four voices with lute and treble-viol, and ‘Not unto us’ for five voices. In Hilton's ‘Catch that catch can’ (1652) three sacred canons by Ford are contained: ‘I am so weary’ (reprinted in Burney's Hist. iii. 415), ‘O Lord, I lift my heart to Thee,’ and ‘Look down, O Lord’ (ib. p. 416). Another canon, ‘Haste thee, O Lord,’ contained in Tudway's collection (Harl. MS. 7337), ascribed to Ramsey, is considered by Mr. T. Oliphant to be by Ford (pencil note in MS.). Ford died in November 1648, and was buried on the 17th in St. Margaret's, Westminster.
[Hawkins's Hist. ed. 1853, pp. 566, 570; Birch's Life of Henry, Prince of Wales, 1760, pp. 427, 455, 467; Grove's Dict. i. 540; Registers of St. Margaret's, Westminster; authorities quoted above.]
FORD, THOMAS (1598–1674), nonconformist divine, was born at Brixton, Devonshire, in 1598. According to Wood he was entered, in Easter term 1619, a batler in Magdalen Hall, Oxford, as a member of which he proceeded B.A. 22 Feb. 1624, and M.A. 1 June 1627 (Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 414, 431). When taking orders he became ‘a very faithful’ tutor in his house for several years. His puritanical opinions, which he took no pains to conceal, subjected him to considerable persecution at the hands of Laud. Accepted Frewen [q .v.], then president of Magdalen College, ‘changed the communion-table in the chapel into an altar,’ as the puritans considered. Several of the preachers at St. Mary's inveighed against this innovation. Ford in his turn preached on 2 Thess. ii. 10, 12 June 1631, and offered some ‘smart reflections’ on making the eucharist a sacrifice, setting up altars instead of tables, and bowing to them. This plain speaking having excited the wrath of the Laudian party, the next Saturday the vice-chancellor (William Smith) called Ford before him and demanded a copy of his sermon. Ford offered to give him one if he demanded it ‘statutably.’ The vice-chancellor then ordered him to surrender himself prisoner at the castle. He refused to go unless accompanied by a beadle or a servant. The following Saturday the vice-chancellor sealed up his study, and afterwards searched his books and papers, but found nothing that could be urged against him, as Ford had taken care to secrete his private memoranda. In the meantime an information was sent to Laud, then
