Editing Ralph Cudworth (section)

===Education===
The second son, and third of five (probably six) children, Ralph Cudworth (Jnr) was born at [[Aller, Somerset|Aller]], [[Somerset]], where he was baptised (13 July 1617). Following the death of his father, Ralph Cudworth Snr (1624), [[Reverend|The Rev.]] [[Doctor of Divinity|Dr]] [[John Stoughton (priest)|John Stoughton]] (1593–1639), (son of Thomas Stoughton of Coggeshall; also a Fellow of Emmanuel College), succeeded as Rector of Aller, and married the widow Mary (née Machell) Cudworth (''c''.1582–1634).<ref>J.C. Whitebrook, 'Dr. John Stoughton the Elder', ''Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society'', 6(2), (1913), [https://archive.org/details/transactionscong6191cong/page/88 pp. 89–107]; and 6(3), (1914), [https://archive.org/details/transactionscong6191cong/page/176 pp. 177–87] (Internet Archive).</ref> Dr Stoughton paid careful attention to his stepchildren's education, which Ralph later described as a "diet of [[Calvinism]]".<ref>F.J. Powicke, ''The Cambridge Platonists: A Study'' (J.M. Dent & Co.: London, 1926), p. 111.</ref> Letters, to Stoughton, by both brothers James and Ralph Cudworth make this plain; and, when Ralph matriculated at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]], Cambridge (1632),<ref>{{acad|id=CDWT632R|name=Cudworth, Ralph}}. See Venn, ''[[Alumni Cantabrigienses]]'' i(1), p. 431.</ref> Stoughton thought him "as wel grounded in Scho[o]l-Learning as any Boy of his Age that went to the University".<ref>Mosheim, ''Radulphi Cudworthi Systema Intellectuale'' (1733), i, 'Praefatio Moshemii' (34 sides, unpaginated) [https://books.google.com/books?id=LO9OAAAAcAAJ 19th side, note.]</ref> [[John Stoughton (priest)|Stoughton]] was appointed Curate and Preacher at [[St Mary Aldermanbury]], [[London]] (1632),<ref>Venn, ''[[Alumni Cantabrigienses]]'', i(4), p. 171.</ref> and the family left Aller. Ralph's elder brother, [[James Cudworth (colonist)|James Cudworth]], married and emigrated to [[Scituate, Massachusetts|Scituate]], [[Plymouth Colony]], [[New England]] (1634).<ref>'Letter of James Cudworth of Scituate, 1634', (to Stoughton), in ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'', 14 (1860), pp. 101–04.</ref> Mary Machell Cudworth Stoughton died during summer 1634,<ref>Whitebrook, 'Dr John Stoughton the Elder', [https://archive.org/details/transactionscong6191cong/page/94 p. 94] (Internet Archive).</ref> and Dr [[John Stoughton (priest)|Stoughton]] married a daughter of John Browne of [[Frampton, Dorset|Frampton]] and [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]].<ref>Marriage at St Mary Aldermanbury, 18 January 1635/6; J.P. Ferris, ''Browne, John II (1580–1659), of Dorchester and Frampton, Dorset'', [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/browne-john-ii-1580-1659 History of Parliament online, 1604–29.]</ref>