In 1622 Dean Thomas Pierce was born.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 8th April 1663. Thence by water to White Hall, to chappell; where preached Dr Pierce [aged 41], the famous man that preached the sermon so much cried up, before the King [aged 32] against the Papists. His matter was the Devil tempting our Saviour, being carried into the Wilderness by the spirit. And he hath as much of natural eloquence as most men that ever I heard in my life, mixed with so much learning.
John Evelyn's Diary. 18th August 1663. To London, to see my Lord Chancellor [aged 54], where I had discourse with my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [aged 65] and the Bishop of Winchester [aged 65], who enjoined me to write to Dr. Pierce [aged 41], President of Magdalen College, Oxford, about a letter sent him by Dr. Goffe [aged 58], a Romish Oratorian, concerning an answer to Dean Cressy's late book.
On 4th May 1675 Dean Thomas Pierce [aged 53] was appointed Dean of Salisbury.
John Evelyn's Diary. 26th March 1680. The Dean of Sarum [aged 58] preached on Jerem. xlv. 5, an hour and a half from his common-place book, of kings and great men retiring to private situations. Scarce anything of Scripture in it.
On 28th March 1691 Dean Thomas Pierce [aged 69] died at North Tidworth, Wiltshire where he had an estate.