Simon Birckbek [SEP] date of death
Simon Birckbek
Simon Birckbek or Birkbeck (1584–1656) was an English clergyman and controversialist. 
Life.
He was born at Hornby, Westmoreland. At the age of sixteen he became a student at The Queen's College, Oxford, where from a tabarder he became a Fellow. He proceeded B.A. in 1604, and B.D. in 1616. Entering holy orders about 1607, he became noted as a preacher and disputant, as well as for his knowledge of the Church Fathers and scholastics. 
In 1616 he was admitted
debate on the claims of Rome was held at his London house. Daniel Featley and Francis White represented the Protestants, and the Jesuits John Percy alias Fisher (1569–1641) and John Sweet argued on behalf of the Catholic views. A report of the debate, "The Romish Fisher Caught", 1624, was published by Featley, at the command of Archbishop George Abbot.
He was well known to Simon Birckbek, and James Duport notices him in his "Musæ Subsecivæ". Lynde died 8 June 1636, and was