in 1609, having decided to become a clergyman in the church of England. Under the influence of Thomas Peacock of Brasenose he then proceeded B.D. A school friend named Anderton made a plan with Bolton to travel to a Catholic seminary in Flanders, but this fell through. He was also appointed lecturer in logic and moral and natural philosophy. On James I’s visit to the university in 1605, he was appointed to hold a disputation in the royal presence on natural philosophy, and his majesty was loud and frank in laudation of Bolton. He was not particularly religious at this period, and was unimpressed with the preaching of William Perkins Bolton said he thought Perkins was “a barren empty fellow.” there on 2 December 1596 and was chosen in 1602 as a fellow of the college, taking his M.A. He transferred to Brasenose College where there was a Lancashire fellowship available, and proceeded B.A. He was a gifted student, but the next year his father’s death caused him financial problems. At age 18, he was admitted in 1592 to Lincoln College, Oxford, where John Randall was.
He attended what is now Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was a founding governor, and was described as ‘the best scholar in the school’. He was born on Whit Sunday in Blackburn,Lancashire, the sixth son of Adam Bolton of Backhouse. Robert Bolton (1572-1631) was an English clergyman and academic, noted as a preacher. Abandon Your Beloved Sin – Puritan Robert Bolton