 Robert Browne, who authored the founding principles of Congregationalism, served as lecturer at St Mary's until around 1578.John Webster the Elizabethan dramatist, married his heavily pregnant 17-year-old second wife, Sara Peniall, at St Mary's in Lent 1606, by special licence.William Cave became vicar in 1662, at the age of twenty-five, and held the office until 1689.