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4.
THE
NONCONFORMIST'S
MEMORIAL;
BEING
AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES, SUFFERINGS,
TWO
AND
PRINTED WORKS
OF THE
THOUSAND
MINISTERS
Ejected from the Church of England, chiefly by the Act of Uniformity,
Aug. 24, 1662.
+
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY
EDMUND CALAMY, D. D.
Abridged, Corrected, and Methodized, with many additional Anecdotes
AND
SEVERAL NEW LIVES,
BY SAMUEL PALMER.
The Second Edition.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
Embellished with Heads of the principal Divines, chiefly from original Pictures.
VOL. III.
Your brethren that hated you, and cast you out, for my name-sake, said, Let the Lord be
glorified. But he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
ISAIAH, Ixvi. 5.
When the governors of the church impose, as conditions of my communion, things that are
either unlawful in themselves, or that, after due examination, I verily believe are unlawful,
I am bound, in obedience to the authority of Christ, rather to desert that communion than
comply with the terms and conditions of it.
SCOTT's Christian Life.
LONDON:
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PREFACE
TO THE THIRD VOLUME.
ON
N a review of this work it is sufficiently evident, that the
number of ministers ejected or silenced soon after the Restora-
tion, instead of being much smaller than Dr. Calamy had stated
(as their enemies would have it believed,) is on the contrary con-
siderably larger; and it has likewise appeared, that we are yet
far from possessing the names of all those who either resigned,
or refused to accept, livings in the church of England, on ac-
count of the new terms of conformity imposed in the year
1662.
It deserves also to be mentioned, as honourable to the cause
of Nonconformity, that among those who afterwards conformed,
there were great numbers in most parts of the kingdom who at
first hesitated, and even relinquished their benefices, and not a
few who for some years espoused the cause of the Nonconform-
ists. Several of these were great and good men, who to the last
retained the spirit of their Dissenting brethren, always treated
them with the greatest candour and respect, and would gladly
have promoted such alterations in the terms of conformity as
would have fully satisfied them. But others plainly shewed, by
their subsequent behaviour, that they were influenced in their
conformity chiefly by motives of worldly interest. Even their
conduct, however, gives weight to the arguments in favour of
Nonconformity; and had not honour and emolument lain on the
other side, our list would have been much larger.
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PREFACE.
It is easy to conceive that some upright and pious men might
be imperceptibly influenced, in yielding to what their impartial
judgments would not have intirely approved, by a regard to
secular advantage and the dread of suffering, as well as by the
hope of some favourable alterations in the establishment;
and it is well-known that in some cases great influence was
exerted, by persons of power and wealth, to keep clergymen of
character and ability in the church who would otherwise have
left it, on account of the unreasonable impositions of the Uni-
formity-act. As a proof of this, it may be proper here to in-
sert the following paper which the editor received from a cor-
respondent in WESTMORELAND, in the year 1775, respecting
what was known to be matter of fact in that county; and it is
easy to believe that similar circumstances took place in some
others.
"The following remarks are taken from an original MS. in the
hands of a gentleman in the county of Westmoreland, which bears
date 1669. In mentioning that unhappy year 1662, he says as
follows:
"We have in Westmoreland perhaps fewer clergy who have
been deprived of their livings than most other counties in
England: not because they favoured Episcopacy; for they did
not; but on different motives they have mostly conformed. The
gentry have exerted themselves to the utmost, in their respective
neighbourhoods, to prevent Nonconformity. The most active
in this matter are as follows.-In the East IVard, the Countess
of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, who constantly resides.
here, being three months at each of her castles: viz. the spring
at Brough; the summer at Pendragon; the autumn at Brougham;
and the winter at Appleby. She diffuses her charity where it is
wanted, and has great influence amongst the Clergy.—Also the
Musgraves of Hartley Castle; the Dents of Hilbeck Hall; the
Dalstons of Smardall Hill; the Sandfords of Ormside and
Hougill castles; have all endeavoured to prevent Nonconfor-
mity. In the West Ward, the following nobility and gentry are
exerting themselves in favour of Episcopacy: viz. Lord Clifford
at
PREFACE.
at Ashby; the Nevisons at Newby; the Thwaites at Nad-
dle ; the Tathams at Asham; and the Flemmings at Cros-
by.-In Kendal Ward, the Flemmings at Rydall; the Phil-
lipsons of Ambleside; the Stricklands of Syzergh (who are
papists); the Belinghams of Levons; the Willsons of Dalham
Tower, &c.-In Lonsdale Ward, the Wilsons of Casterton; the
Mydeltons, Middleton Hall; the Otways and the Brathwaites,
are all exerting themselves. After such united force, we can-
not expect the Dissenters to be much encouraged. Conformity
is not by choice, but by constraint.-Mr. Francis Higginson, of
Kirkby Steven; Mr. John Dalton of Shap; Mr. Thomas Dodg-
son of Ravenstonedale, are all conformed; and the generality
of my acquaintance think-much against their inclination."
Since this second edition of the Nonconformist's Memorial
commenced, two other periodical works have appeared in oppo-
sition to it. The one intitled The Orthodox Church-man's Maga-
zine: a performance too contemptible to deserve any further
notice than was taken of it on the covers of some of our num-
bers, where the grossest ignorance of the editors, in the plainest
matters of fact, was clearly evinced. The other is entitled
The Church-man's Memorial, which is chiefly an abridgment of
WALKER's Sufferings of the Clergy; for an account of which work,
and the answers to it (long since published, and never con-
futed) the reader is referred to the Note in the Preface to the
first vol. of The Noncon. Mem. p. 13.
The editor has now to make his acknowledgments to those
of his brethren, and other correspondents who have contributed
to the improvements in this new edition. Besides those whose
names were mentioned with the articles which they communi-
cated, particular thanks are due to the Rev. Mr. Sutcliff of
Olney, Dr. Ryland of Bristol, Dr. Toulmin of Taunton, Robert
Wild Moult, Esq. of Wickersley, Yorkshire; Mr. Smith of
Sheffield, and Mr. Whittuck of Bristol, for corrections, or anec-
dotes, or the use of Lives or Funeral Sermons. If any of these
or other correspondents should be disappointed in not seeing
some articles inserted which they had sent to the editor, they
are
vi
PREFACE.
are informed that the reason was, either that the particulars did
not immediately fall in with the plan of this work, or that there
was not room for the insertion of them, without extending the
publication too far beyond the proposed limits; which are al-
ready exceeded above a hundred pages, though some care has
been taken to compress many of the articles, and more is put
into a page than in the former edition; as well as a smaller let-
ter used for the Notes. Some of the principal communications
which could not be here inserted have been printed, as others
probably will be, in a periodical publication. *
Notwithstanding all the corrections which have been made in
this edition, some errors may probably remain, particularly in
respect to names of persons and places, to dates and other
figures. For these the editor must rely upon the candour of
such readers as may discover them; it being next to impossible,
in a work of this nature to be perfectly accurate. The same
must be said with regard to Typographical errors, of which
more now appear than had been apprehended. The most mate-
rial of those which have been discovered (besides what were
mentioned in the former volumes) are specified in the table here
subjoined..
On the whole it is hoped that this edition, which has been a
work of more labour than may be generally imagined, will be
found to contain many considerable improvements throughout,
as well as many valuable additions. A continuation of the His-
tory of the Dissenters to the present time, is a work much to be
desired, which however the editor of this must recommend to
some one who has more leisure than himself, and who is less
advanced in years.
HACKNEY, Jan. 22,
1803.
S. P.
*Two valuable Letters of Mr. Maidwell, were inserted in the 2d vol. of
the BIBLICAL MAGAZINE. In the THEOLOGICAL, Jan. 1803, will be found,
a pleasing account, transmitted by Mr. James Jackson, of the successors of Mr.
Taylor, and the present state of the society, in the chapel of Ellenthorpe,
Yorkshire.
1
ERRATA.
Note, the first figure refers to the page, and the second to the line. (¿)
signifies, from the bottom.
VOL. I. In the Title-page of the first copies, 1666 was put for 1662.-
PREF. i. 5 (b) read Giles Firmin. xv. Note 4 Barber. xvi. 2 (b) Nonconform-
ists.-INTROD. 7. 13. Westfield. 17. 36. 1655. 23. 18. rigorous. 36. 18. states-
men. 37. 21. dele it. 40. 9. religion. 42. 29. Bel. 44, 26. canon. 42. 41. repug-
ant. 48. 26. trific. 59.36. Burnet's.—MEMORIAL p. 80. 12. Mr. LOE. 90. 28.
of it." Note §. 127. 3. (b) Dr. A.
138. 30. Of Mr. Kentish, see more
Vol. iii. p. 513.-154. 7. for a serm. 182 Note §. 244. 17. See V. ii. p.
326. 31. Leavesley. 331. § 3. if he. 340. 15. Barlow. 361.7 (b)
He was however. The page figure 389. 402 note 19. Hertfordsh. 426. 18.
After. 434. 20. distinguished.
287.
VOL. II. 38. 25. Croslyn. 57. 34. 1644. 123. 20. for * put f. 132 note.
This was not that Mr. Moore. 195.7. Edmund. 253. last 1. William. 303. 25.
and 304. 10. Chauncy. The quotation there, Mr. James thinks, does not re-
fer to this Mr. Cater. 306. 1. Munden. 306 ii. note, of my ordinary, come
hither. 307. 4. Bovingdon. 308. 16. KELSHALL. 411. 14. Yaxley, at
Kibworth. Sam. Blackersley, Langston. There are other smaller errata in
this list.
VOL. III. 46 note, Chicheley. 105. 29. Josiah. 139. 4 (b) the vith
of Mat. 217. 24. add, A small vol. of sacramental medit. 232. 156. Green-
smith. 258. 6. succeeded. 263. 15. dele then. 284. 8. Woods. 315. 19.
Goldham, 820. It is doubtful whether Mr. Attersol was not the author of the
work on Philemon ascribed to Aspinwall iii. 100. 347.2 (b) belonged. 365.
13. Bartholo- 374. 7. speak. 391. 5 (b) Westmancot. 406. 27. increase
alluding to the name. 407. 9 (b) trouble that he. 445. 20. Phäeton's.
448. 10 (b) Mrs. 480. 14. BANGER: Note, Bangor. 496. 10. Grandfather;
unless of a different family.
It appears that, in the county of Northumberland, there are three towns
placed, which properly belong to the County of Durham: viz. Cornhill, An-
croft, and Tweedmsuth: a mistake, however, not peculiar to this work. For
this information, and a good geographical account of these places, the Editor
is indebted to Mr. Andrew Burn, of Tweedmouth, whose ancestors lived at
Ancroft, and suffered persecution for their Nonconformity. For several of
the above the edutor is obliged to a friend. He requests the reader, to correct
others which may be discovered, as yet overlooked.
DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PORTRAITS.
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N. B. Those marked * are new ones, some of which were never
engraved before.
VOL. I.
Page,
Page. JOHN HOWE
81
DR. CALAMY, facing the
Title-page
EDMUND CALAMY
THOMAS DOOLITTLE
*INCREASE MATHER
*NATH. PARTRIDGE
245
301
DR. WILLIAM BATES
76|| *THOMAS JOLLIE
86 *SAMUEL MATHER
115|| SAMUEL SHAW
348
355
404
*DR. ANNESLEY
124
HENRY JESSEY
129
VOL. III.
*THOMAS WATSON
188
*DR. JOHN OWEN
198
VINCENT ALSOP
91
DR. T. GOODWIN
236
WILLIAM BRIDGES
48
*SAMUEL CLARK
301
FRANCIS TALLENTS
153
*NATH. VINCENT
304
*SAMUEL CRADDOCK
ib.
*JOHN HICKES
368
*SAMUEL STODDEN
178
*GEORGE NEWTON
205
VOL. II.
RICHARD BAXTER
393
JOHN FLAVEL
18
*OLIVER HEYWOOD
428
OBADIAH HUGHES
56
*JAMES JANEWAY
513
Those who chuse to have their books bound early, are advised to have
the thin paper bound with the Heads, whether they be put into the proper
places, or (as some prefer) at the end of the volumes.
THE
NONCONFORMIST'S
MEMORIAL.
MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED
IN
NORFOLK.
LDY [Chap.] Mr. JOHN BANISTER.
A¹
Probably the
place intended is ALDBY, which is in Clavering
Hundred, or Alby, near S. Reppis.
BARFORD [R.] Mr. ROBERT PURT. He lost two liv-
ings of considerable value, and suffered greatly by imprison-
ment and loss of goods. He continued, after his ejectment,
preaching at Windham to a good old age. He was a man of
a sweet temper and a gracious frame of spirit: an able mini-
ster, and of a correspondent life and conversation.
BARTON HULM. Mr. CHARLES SUMPTER.
BECONTHORP. Mr. JOHN LOUGHER. His father,
Mr. Thomas Lougher, was minister of Lotheringefield near
Holt in this county, in which living he was succeeded by this
his son, who, after some time, had the living of Beconthorp
near the same place, and from thence was ejected. He could
not, however, have been long in it at the time of his eject-
ment, because he was ordained by Bp. Reynolds, who had
but lately obtained a bishoprick. He afterwards became mi-
nister of a congregational church at South-Reppis and Alby.
He was a man of great moderation, of a catholic spirit, and a
diffusive charity; much beloved and respected by serious per-
sons of all denominations. He, with many others, was im-
prisoned, about the time of Monmouth's landing, when he
contracted an illness from which he never recovered. In other
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respects he met with no trouble; for he had such favour
among his neighbours, that his meetings were never broken
up.
He died Oct. 14, 1686. 'Mr. Chr. Amyraut was af-
terwards pastor of his church.
WORKS. Precious Promises the Portion of Overcomers.-A
Discourse of the Preciousness of Christ and of Faith-[Sermons
on God's Love to Mankind.-Salvation by Grace.-Wilderness
Provision,-A Strong hold in Trouble,-Light to be improved.]
BLICKLING [R.] Mr. BURRough.
BLOWFIELD [R. 23l. 65. 8d.] Mr. SAMUEL MALTBY.
BODHAM [R. 481. 12s. gd.] Mr. ROBERT WATSON.
When he signed the Attestation of the ministers in Norfolk
to the Truths of Jesus, &c. he wrote himself minister at
Bakingstroppe. He published a wedding-sermon on Luke
xiv. 20, entitled The school of the untaught Bridegroom;
preached at Yarmouth, and dedicated to the people of that
town.
BUCKENHAM (New). Mr. CHRISTOPHER AMYRAUT.
After his ejectinent he preached in several places in this
county. In his latter days he was pastor of a congrega-
tional church at South-Reppis, where he ended his life and
labours. He was much esteemed for his gifts and graces,
and his great usefulness in the ministry.
WORKS. Sacramental Discourses upon several Subjects: To
which is added; A Discourse on the Life of Faith.
Mr. NICHOLAS PITT. He signed the Attestation as
minister of the gospel at Bunwell.
BURNINGHAM [C.] Mr. THOMAS WORTS. Brother
to Mr. Richard Worts of Foulsham. After his ejectment
here, he was pastor of a congregation at Guestwick in this
county. He died about 1697. [A correspondent has com-
municated the following anecdote of him. He was brought
from Burningham into Norwich with a sort of brutal tri-
umph, his legs being chained under the horse's belly. As he
was conducted to the castle, a woman looking out of a
chamber-window, near St. Austin's-gate, at which he was
brought in, called out, in contempt and derision, "Worts,
where's now your God?" The good confessor in bonds, de-
sired her to turn to Micah vii. 10. She did so, and was so
struck, that she was a kind friend to him in his long confine-
The words are, Then she that is mine.
Then she that is mine enemy shall
see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me,
4
66 Where
ment.
IN NORFOLK.
3
Where is the Lord thy God," &c.] The same story is
related of Mr. Norman of Bridgewater.
BUNWELL [R.] Mr. PITTEDATE.
CARLTON [R. 2.] Mr. JAMES GEDNY.
DENTON [R.] THOMAS LAWSON, M. A. Of Kath.
Hall. Camb. where he was so well esteemed as to be chosen
afterwards to a fellowship in St. John's. After his ejectment
he lived in Suffolk. He was a man of ability, but had not a
good utterance. He was the father of the unhappy Mr.
Deodate Lawson, who came hither from New-England.
TREE.
DICKLEBOROUGH [R. S. 200/.] Mr. ELIAS Crab-
Mr. Christopher Barnard, of whom Dr. Walker
gives a high character, was sequestered from this place, and
appears to have been treated with great cruelty. But no-
thing is said of Mr. Crabtree.
DIS [R. 2001.] RICHARD MORE, M. A.
DRAYTON [R. 357.] Mr. RICHARD VIN.
ELMERTON [C.] Mr. JOHN SMITH. In the Attesta-
tion of the ministers of this county, he signed as Minister of
God's word at Almerton.
ERSHAM. Mr. THOMAS Bayes.
FELTWELL [R. 2001.] Mr. JOHN BUTLER. A man of
a sound judgment, an unblameable life, and most healthful
constitution. When he subscribed the Attestation of the
Norfolk ministers, in 1648, he was minister at Oldton. Af-
ter his ejectment, he for some years preached but seldom,
and was prevailed with to travel to Smyrna. On his return
he preached oftener; and after some time, more statedly at
Harwich, whence he removed to Ipswich, where he preach-
ed occasionally and in the country round. He died in 1696,
in the 84th year of his age. His funeral sermon was preach-
ed by Mr. Fairfax, upon those words, 2 Tim. iv. 7.
• I
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,' &c.
Mr. Stancliff here wrote in the margin, Desiderantur
quamplurima: but the author knew not how to supply the
deficiency.
FORNCET [R.] Mr. WILLIAM HINTON.
FOULSHAM [R.] and GUESTWICK. Mr. RICHARD
WORTS. A very worthy man, and a great sufferer for Non-
conformity. He was imprisoned by a writ de excom. capi-
B 2
endo,
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endo, taken out Nov. 15, 1664, and was continued in the
common jail till Sept. 3, 1665, when the plague was at the
height in London. He was kept close prisoner till Nov.
9th, not knowing by whose order, or for what additional
offence. On Feb. 2, he, with six more, was put into the
castle, in a narrow hole in the wall, which had neither door,
window, nor chimney; and only room for one truckle-bed:
the others, lay in hammocks. This place had three wickets
into the felons yard, one of which was necessarily kept open
night and day, otherwise they must have been stifled with
the steam of the charcoal. For five weeks the door below
this vile place (which was about forty steps high) was kept
locked night and day. The keeper usually went away with
the key about four o'clock, to a village, a mile and half
from the head jailer's house, and did not return till eight in
the morning, so that no one could come to the prisoners,
whatever occasion there might be; and they were not per-
mitted, for five weeks, to go out into the yard. If a pri-
soner's wife came to see him, he was called down to the
door, and the keeper used to set his back against one side of
the door-way and his foot against the other, so as to prevent
her entrance any farther. After about two months continuance
here, they were removed to another prison. They were won-
derfully preserved this year from the contagion, while the ar-
rows of the Almighty fell mortally very near them on all
sides, there being only a narrow lane between the prisons, so
that they could see some that were shut up in the other, and
hear them crying for bread. In this situation they fled to their
strong Tower, the name of the Lord,' where they found
safety and peace.-Some time after, a great man then in
power, told the jailer, he must carry them to the castle, and
put each in a place alone. The jailer answered, "It cannot
be done; the castle is full, and I daily fear the plague should
break out amongst them." He replied, "Then put them
into a place together: what do I care if the plague be in it?"
However they were preserved in that filthy hole, at whose
wickets the odious smells of the common yard of the felons
greatly annoyed them. One of them was almost suffocated
by it, and the physician could give him no relief, so long
as he was confined there. Upon which an account was sent
to the sheriff, of his miserable situation, with a petition to
remove him for a little time, as his life was in danger. The
sheriff answered, He durst not meddle, he must abide it.
<
The
IN NORFOLK.
5
The poor man however recovered. Mr. Worts continued a
prisoner seven years. (Conformist's Fourth Plea, p. 66.)
[It seems from Mr. Harmer's account, that Mr. Worts
had been pastor of a congregational church before he pos-
sessed this living, and was so afterwards, viz. at Guestwick,
as appears from the church book; where it is said, "that
the Dissenting-church in and about Guestwick sat down in
gospel order in the end of 1652, and chose Mr. Richard
Worts for their pastor; who with fidelity and success la-
boured among them till his death, about May 6, 1686. He
was succeeded by Mr. Giles Say, (father of Mr. Samuel
Say of Westminster) who died Ap. 8, 1692." From whence
it should seem there had been a mistake in the date of Mr.
Worts's death, in 1697, as also with regard to his given
name
FUNWELL. Mr. SHEPHERD.
GORSTON [Spelt Godnaston R.] Mr. ROBERT Purt.
Dr. Walker says he was presented to this living in 1654.
Mr. PEW. He had a flourishing school many years
at Beccles in Suffolk; and in the latter part of his life he
preached occasionally in several public churches.
* GREATWICH. Mr. JOHN HOOKER.
HARDINGHAM [R. 120/.] Mr. NATHANIEL JOCELYN.
[He published a funeral sermon for the Rev. Robert Peck,
M. A.]
HEYDON [R.] Mr. THOMAS NEWMAN.
INTWOOD [R.] Mr. SHEFFIELD.
LOPHAM [R.] Mr. THOMAS ELLIS. [He was a Bap-
tist, and as such deprived in 1663, by six justices. Bloom-
field's Essay towards a Topogr. Hist. of Norfolk, Vol. I.
P. 157. .]
LYNN, Alhallows [V.] Mr. JOHN HORNE. Of Trin.
Col. Camb. where Mr. Henry Hall, B. D. was his tutor.
Born at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. He preached first at
Sutton St. James's, and afterwards [1647] was beneficed and
settled at Alhallows church in Lynn Regis †, from whence
he
+ Dr. Calamy (Contin. p. 634.) desires Bullingbrook to be inserted here in-
stead of Lynn; from whence the reader might imagine Mr. Horne's ministry
в 3
Was
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MINISTERS EJECTED
·
he was ejected in 1662. But he lived in the town till his
death. He was an Arminian in the point of Redemption,
and contended earnestly for the universality of it; but care-
fully guarded men against supposing that they might live in
sin, because Christ died for them; and taught that Christ
therefore died for all, that they which live should no longer
live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them and
C rose again,' 2 Cor. v. 14. 15. He was a man of most ex-
emplary and primitive piety, and blameless conversation;
very ready in the scriptures, excellently skilled in the Orien
tal languages, and very laborious in his private capacity after
he was cast out of his living. He went constantly to church,
and yet preached thrice at his own house every Lord's day;
first, in the morning before church-time, again after dinner,
and in the evening. On the other days of the week, beside
lecture-sermons, he constantly expounded the scriptures in
order twice a day, to all that would come to hear him, as
some always did. He was a man of such great charity, that
he commonly emptied his pocket of what money he had in it
among the poor, when he went into the town; giving to any
such miserable object as presented, the first piece of silver
that came to hand. He shewed peculiar compassion towards,
such as were in any affliction; and was generally very much
honoured and esteemed for his goodness, both in town and
country. He was a man of wonderful meekness, patience,
and dispassionateness-The circumstances of his marriage
were particular. Three young women, who were sisters,
coming to hear him preach at Hareby, a village near Bul-
lingbrook in Lincolnshire, the clerk after sermon insinua-
ting himself into their company, took the liberty to ask
them, which of them would like such a man as Mr. Horne
for her husband? The two elder, tho' they could not but
com.mended his preaching, exclaimed against such a connec-
tion, and urged as a reason, the poor circumstances in which
ministers' widows were often left: but the younger said,
she would think herself happy if she might but have such a
man, tho' she begged her bread with him. This was carried to
'
was exercised wholly in Lincolnshire. But it appears, from the list of his
works, that several of his printed sermons were preached in Noriolk, and
two of them at Lynn. And it is very observable, that one of these is, A
Farewell to his Neighbours, the Parishioners of LYNN.' No date indeed is
here mentioned, but this sermon is placed after a tract printed in 1662. So
that after all, it is most likely he was ejected from LYNN; moreover, from
two following picces, dated 1667 and 1669, that he continued there after his
ejectment. ED.
Mr.
IN NORFOLK.
7
Mr. Horne, and he married her. She survived him, but never
wanted while she lived. He died Dec. 14, 1676, aged 61.
WORKS. The Righteous Man's Hope in his Death; at the
funeral of Capt. W. Conyers of Walpole.---The Life of Faith in
Death, at the fun. of Mr. Thomas Slaney, mayor of King's Lynn,
Jan. 10, 1649, on Heb. xi. 13, 14.---The Open Door; or a Vindi-
cation of the Extent of Christ's Death: in answer to John Owen
of Coggeshall, [afterwards D. D.]--A brief Discovery of some Pieces
of close Idolatry, in some pretending to Religion, both Indepen-
dents and Presbyterians.---A Caveat to all true Christians, against
the Spirit of Antichrist.---A Consideration of Infant Baptism, ag.
Mr. Tombes; with an Answer to Mr. Kendal.---A Catechism.---
Christ exalted in the Sufficiency of his Scripture-Doctrines; in
answer to Dr. Kendal's Fescue for a Horn-Book.---Essays in 4to.---
A brief Discovery of the Quakers.---A fuller Discovery, &c.---
Quakers proved Deceivers.---Truth's Triumph.---A Discourse of
the New Heavens and Earth; at the funeral of Mary, wife of Philip
Neave, of Rockland, June 19, 1660.---The Reviewer reviewed.--
An Appeal, &c. 1662.---A Farewell to his Neighbours, the Pa-
rishioners of Lynn Alhallows, a sheet.---Balaam's Wish; on the
Decease of Mrs. Barbara Whitefoot, of Hapton, April 11, 1667.---
A gracious Reproof to Pharisaical Saints; on Luke xv. 30, 31.---
The Reward of Murder; or a Relation of the penitent Behaviour
of Rose Warne, of Lynn, a condemned Malefactor.---The best
Exercise for Christians in the worst Times; on Jude 20, 21.---The
Reward of the Wise, &c. at the funeral of Mr. T. Moore of Whit-
tlesey; on Dan. xii. 3----A Comfortable Coroborative Cordial,
against the Horrors of Death; on the Death of Mrs. Rebecca
Jackler.---The Brazen Serpent, on John iii. 14, 15.---The Cause
of Infants maintained; a Reply to Thomas Grantham.---Essays
about general and special Grace; 2d Part, 8vo.---The Divine
Wooer, a Poem.---Paraph. on Rev. xiii, against Popery.
Mr. FENWICK, and Mr. JOHN DOMINICK.
MUNDESLEY [R.] Mr. PAUL AMYRAUT. In 1648 he
was vicar of East Deerhum in this county. More of him
may be known from a little piece, entitled, Lutheri Post-
huma; being prefatory to a large work, translated out of
Dutch: in which it appears that Mr. Amyraut was an old
man when he was ejected. Sir Edward Deering, in the year
1644, says of him, "He was a learned minister, beneficed
in Essex; but was born in High Germany in the Palatinate.
He was desired by a committee of parliament to compare the
original and translation of the said work of Luther, and he
gave a certificate of their agreement under his hand." He
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printed a sermon on Rev. ii. 10. called, The Triumphs of a
good Conscience.
Mr. ROBERT BIDBANK.
* NAYTON. [Q. Naughton in Suffolk.] Mr. Israel
SHIPDAM.
* NEASTED. [Perhaps the same as the next.] Mr. JOHN
LEVINGTON.
NETISHEARD [V.] MILES BURKITT, M. A. Of Ed-
mund Hall, Oxf. He was ordained by the Bp. of Oxford
in 1630, and presented to the living of Patteshul in Nor-
thamptonshire, by George Steward, Esq; the patron, in 1633.
While he was there, he was for some time very zealous for
Conformity, and the ceremonies of the church; but after-
wards he grew more moderate, and on that account met with
much trouble from the spiritual courts. From thence he
removed to Hitcham in Suffolk; but upon the Restoration
was turned out, by virtue of the broad seal in favour of
another person; the former incumbent (Mr. Lawrence
Bretton), being dead. He was afterwards presented by Bp.
Reynolds to the united livings of Netisheard and Irstead in
Norfolk, which were not far distant, but he enjoyed none of
the profits of them, being ejected by the Act of uniformity,
before he had been in them three months. He afterwards
lived privately at Monks Ely, where he had purchased land
and built upon it to the amount of 2500l. The author saw
a petition of his to K. Charles, soon after the Restoration,
in which he represented his compassionable case in this man-
ner, viz. “that having in the year 1650 unhappily pur-
chased the manor of Monks Ely in Suffolk, belonging to
the dean and chapter of Canterbury, and paid to Mr. Richard
Duke, the immediate tenant, 150l. for his right, (excepting
only his lease, and term for six years, determining Sept. 29,
1656) the said Mr. Duke had, with the very money which
he had paid him, purchased a new lease of the dean and
chapter; sued the petitioner, and obtained a verdict to cast
him out of possession, without any satisfaction; notwith-
standing that he by purchasing and building, planting and
improving the premisses, had expended above 2500l. and run
himself into debt: whereupon he humbly threw himself and
his eight children at his majesty's feet, begging that he might
berelieved, either by commissioners, appointed to enquire.
into particulars, or by his majesty's recommending his case
to
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to the house of peers."-But he could get no answer to his
petition, nor find any way to obtain relief. He used often
to say to his friends, "Tho' I have lost a great many scores
of pounds by my Nonconformity, yet, blessed be God, I
never wanted."-Some people, upon his being turned out,
scoffingly said, "Now we shall see Burkitt and his family
starve." But he lived to relieve the families of some of those
very pesons at his own door. He had a son, Mr. William
Burkitt, who conformed, who lived first at Milden in Suf-
folk, and afterwards at Dedham in Essex; a man eminent
for piety and diligence in his Master's work, who published
a folio volume upon the New Testament.
NORWICH. St. Stephen's [V.] JOHN COLLINGES, D. D.
Of Eman. Col. Camb. Born in Essex. His father, Ed-
ward Collinges, M. A. was a minister, to whose faithfulness
many, both in Old and New-England, could witness. The
Dr. was a man of great worth and reputation; of general
learning, signal piety, and eminent ministerial abilities, which
rendered him a blessing to the city of Norwich for above forty
years. He was mighty in the scriptures, an excellent casuist,
an uwearied preacher, and a patient sufferer. Being appoint-
ed one of the commissioners at the Savoy, he was very de-
sirous of an accommodation, but in vain. Notwithstanding
his Nonconformity, he had an interest in many persons of
note and figure; being of a very candid and peaceable spirit,
and an admirer of true goodness, wheresoever any thing of it
was discernable. He died much lamented in January, 1690,
in the 67th year of his age. He gave an account of several
particulars relating to himself and his family, in his Answer
to Mr. Bradburn. His funeral sermon was preached Jan. 5.
by Mr. Martin Fynch, who gives only the following
brief sketch of his character: "This holy man was an ortho-
dox divine; a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up
in the words of faith;' firm to the scripture, and the old pro-
testant doctrine of justification by the righteousness of Christ.
He laboured much in the gospel in his younger years, and
as much as could be expected in his age.-If a minister leave
a great estate, except it came by parents, marriage, or friends,
'tis an ill sign; or if he be for gay cloathing, &c. but this
man of God used none of these things. I have heard him
say, that all the estate he had was but about what he had from
his relations; and as to his habit, it was always grave, de-
cent, and humble. He was a burning and shining light,'
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'
in this city many years, and we rejoiced in his light. His
• works praise him in the gate.' He was a spiritual father to
beget many souls to Christ by the gospel. He was eminent
in the grace of love to saints as saints. I heard him say,
that in his younger years he could not bear with those who
differed in judgment from him; but he [afterwards] saw,
that in this imperfect state it could not be expected that Chris-
tians should be of the same judgment in every thing, and that
he had now learned to love and honour all that were sound in
the fundamental doctrines of religion, and were for holiness
and the power of godliness.]
The following is a copy of his Epitaph:
זכר עדיק לברכה
Hoc in Busto, Mortalitatis suæ Exuvias, Spe Resurrec-
tionis lætæ, Lætus deposuit
JOHANNES COLLINGES S. Theologiæ Professor,
qui Boxtedæ in agro Essexiensi natus, Cantabrigiæ in Col-
legio Emanuelis educatus, Norvici sacro Ministerio, XLIV
annis functus, illic et defunctus, Gregem, Concives, omnesq;
Pietatem verè amantes, summo in luctu reliquit: Gregis sui
Pastor vigilantissimus, Evangelii Præco indefessus, Veritatis
Pugil. Errorum Malleus, Theologiam sanam Morum Inte-
gritate illustravit, Eruditionem multiplicem Vitæ Simplici-
tate ornavit, Humilitatis et Humanitatis Exemplar non Vul-
gare; In rebus secundis modestus, In adversis erectus, Utri-
usq; fortunæ Victor.
Qui cum verum Dei ministrum, per famam et infamiam'
Illam merendo, Hanc ferendo, Se diu approbaverat, Tandem
Seculum hoc (heu! tanto Hospite indignum!) deseruit,
Cœlumque,jubi diu antea versatus est, lubens immigravit XV
Calend, Februar, Salutis MDCXC. Ætatis LXVII. *
WORKS.
Thus translated.
The memory of the Just is blessed.
In this sepulchre, in hope of a blessed resurrection, JOHN COLLINGES
D. D. joyfully deposited his earthly remains. He was born at Boxstead in
the county of Essex, was educated at Eman. Col. Cambridge, and discharged
the work of the ministry at Norwich for four and forty years. There he
ended his course, and left his flock, his fellow citizens, and every friend of
piety, in the deepest affliction. He was a most vigilant pastor, an unwca-
ried preacher of the gospel, a defender of truth, and an opposer of error.
He illustrated his sacred character by the integrity of his manners, and
adorned his extensive learning by the simplicity of his life. He was an un-
common example of humility and benevolence. Modest in prosperity;
serene in adversity; victorious in both. Having long approved himself a
faithful servant of God, thro' honour and dishonour (the one deserved, the
other
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WORKS. A Caveat &c. about keeping the Festival of our
Saviour's Birth.--Cordials for fainting Souls, 3 vol. 4to.-Five
Lessons. An Exercitation on acting contrary to one's own Con-
science.-Vindicia Ministerii Evangelici; against Lay-Preachers.
-Revindicate; against Martin's Preacher sent.-Intercourse be-
tween Christ and his Church.-Discourses of the Providences of
God.-Par nobile; the excellent woman, representing the Lady
Hobart.-Faith and Experience in the holy Life of Mrs. Mary
Simpson. A modest Plea for the Lord's-day, as the Christian
Sabbath. A short Discourse against Transubstantiation.-A Word
in Season.-Defensive Armour against four of Satan's fiery Darts.
-English Presbytery; an Account of the main Opinions of those
who go under the Name of Presbyterians.-The Case and Cure of
Persons excommunicated.-The History of Conformity; or the
Mischiefs of Impositions for more than a hundred years.-The
Weaver's Pocket-Book; or Weaving spiritualized *.-Sermons
upon Canticles i. & ii.-Thirteen Sermons on several Subjects.-
A Plea for the Nonconformists, justifying them from the Charge
of Schism.-The Judgment of the Nonconforming Ministers as to
prescribed Forms of Prayer; with an Answer to Dr. Falconer on
Liturgies. A Reply to his Vindication of Liturgies.-[The Hap-
piness of Brethren's dwelling together in Unity; on 2 Kings ii. 12.
at the Funeral of the Rev. Mr. Carter of Norwich.]-The Im-
proveableness of Water-baptism.-Answer to Dr. Scott on Forms
of Prayer, and other of the London Cases.-He also drew up the
Annotat. in POOLE's Contin. on the Six last Chapt. of Isaiah'; all
Jerem. Lament. four Evangelists; both Eps. to Cor. Gal. 1 and 2
Eps. to Tim. Philem. and Rev.
St. GEORGE'S [R.] THOMAS ALLEN, M. A. Of
Caius Col. Cam. He was born at Norwich, 1608, and was
afterwards minister of St. Edmond's in the same city; but,
with Mr. Bridge and several others, was silenced by Bp.
Wren, about the year 1636, for refusing to read the Book of
Sports, and conform to other impositions in that diocese. În
1638 he fled into New-England, [and approved himself (says
Mr. C. Mather) a pious and painful minister of the gospel at
Charles-Town.] He staid there till about 1651, and then
returned to Norwich, where he continued the exercise of his
ministry till 1662. Mr. Harmer says, that he was chosen
pastor of the Congregational church there, (as appears from
the church-book) in Jan. 1657, and continued in that rela-
other patiently endured) he at length exchanged this world (unworthy alas!
of such a guest) for that Heaven where he had long been conversant, Jan.
17, 1690. Aged 67.
* See some account of this book, and of the author, in Mr. B. Fawcett's
Preface to his Religious Weaver.
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tion to his death. This may seem inconsistent with his hav-
ing been ejected from one of the parish-churches, especially
as it is further said, that when he was chosen, he was preacher
to the city, and that the church applied to the city to dismiss
him, and promised him an honourable maintenance from
themselves. But he might become Pastor to the Indepen-
dent church, and yet continue Preacher to the Parish, as was
the case of some others.] After the Uniformity-act passed,
he preached to his church here upon all occasions that offered
till the time of his death, which was Sept. 21, 1673, aged 65.
He was a very pious man, greatly beloved, and an able prac-
tical preacher. Mr. Martyn Fynch, in a Preface to one of his
books, printed after his death, gives him a great character.
WORKS. [An Invitation to thirsty Sinners to come to their
Saviour; printed in New-England.]--The way of the Spirit in
bringing Souls to Christ.-The Glory of Christ set forth, with the
Necessity of Faith; in several Sermons.-A Chain of Scripture
Chronology, from the Creation to the Death of Christ, in seven
periods. A most learned and useful Piece, says Mather, with
a high commendation prefixed by Mr. Greenhill. See Math.
Hist. B. iii. p. 215.
--St. GILES'S [R. 35/.] BENJAMIN SNOWDEN, M. A.
Of Eman. Col. Camb. Born at Norwich, ordained by Bp.
Hall. He was a man of a most amiable temper. Ingenuous
learning illustrated his mind; love to God and man possessed
his heart; purity of doctrine, neatness of stile, and exem-
plary holiness, adorned and enlivened his ministry; constant
serenity, sweet affability, and an unclouded vivacity shone in
his countenance. Humility and meekness adorned his life.
His whole conversation spake quietness and peace. In every
condition he shewed a just equanimity; and passed so inof-
fensively thro' the world, as scarcely to have an enemy. He
met with good acceptance in his native city, which enjoyed
and rejoiced in the light of his ministry, first in the public
churches, till black Bartholomew hid it (with so many
more) under his dark mantle; afterwards in private, or less
public assemblies, till his total removal to a higher orb,
Ap. 28, 1696, aged 70.
Besides the above, there were ejected in this city
Mr. WINDRESS: Calamy says, from St. Faith's, but there
is no such parish.
From St. Nicholas, Mr. FRANCIS ENGLISH, who pub-
lished The Saint's Ebenezer.
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From St. George's, Mr. ENOCH WOODWARD. [Mr.
Harmer who was a native of Norwich, says, that from the
tradition he received when a boy, there was such a person at
one of the parishes, a very worthy good man, but not a po-
pular preacher.]
Also Mr. JOHN HASBART. [Mr. Rastrick writes to Dr.
Calamy, "I wonder nobody from Norwich should have sent.
you an account of this gentleman. I have heard that he was
a very rouzing awakening preacher."]
PULHAM [Chap. 300l.] Mr. THOMAS BENTON, sen.
REPEHAM [R. S.] Mr. WILLIAM SHELDRAKE. The
former incumbent Mr. Gardiner being alive, returned to his
living soon after the Restoration. Mr. Sheldrake finding the
church-doors shut against him, by the Act of uniformity, ap-
plied himself for some time to deal in wool and yarn, for the
maintenance of his family. In the opinion of some who were
intimately acquainted with him, he was a person of uncom-
mon sagacity, and capable of managing the greatest business,
or of being a considerable statesman. Upon the death of
Mr. Bridge, the dissenting congregation at Yarmouth
Mr. Sheldrake a call to be their pastor, and built him a large
meeting-house; at the opening of which he preached upon
Ezra vi. 6, &c. He died about 1690. He was very authori-
tative, and yet a very agreeable acceptable preacher. Either
he, or his brother Mr. John Sheldrake, of Wisbeach, publish-
ed Popery a great Enemy to Truth.
gave
Mr. SAMPSON TOWNSEND, Dr. Walker says, that he
got the living of Hackford cum Whitwil, in 1655.
WORKS. The Christian's Daily Practice; or a Practical Dis-
course of Prayer.
REPPIS (South). Mr. EDMUND BROME. Father to Mr.
Edmund Brome, minister of Woodbridge in Suffolk, and
grand-father to Mr. Edward Brome, Fellow of St. John's
College in Cambridge. This living was of considerable value.
Mr. Brome was much esteemed for his learning, gravity,
piety, and moderation, and was accounted an excellent
preacher. He was so devoted to his studies, that he left the
management of all his temporal concerns to his wife. After
he was ejected, he exercised his ministry in private, as he had
opportunity, among his old parishioners, till the time of his
death, which was about 1667.
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REPPIS (North). Mr. EDWARD CORBET. He was
ejected from this considerable living in 1662, and died in
this neighbourhood soon afterwards. There was one of the
same name who was of Merton College in Oxford, was a
member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster; and
took the degree of D. D. He was in the living of Great
Hasely in Oxfordshire, and died in London in 1657.
ROLLESBY [R. 2001.] Mr. JOHN REYNER. He had
not the advantage of a learned education, but was a very
serious, prudent, and conscientious man. After his ejectment.
he went with his family to Holland, and lived at Rotterdam,
where he was employed by his acquaintance in England as
their factor, and by that means got a comfortable subsist-
ence for himself and family. He was noted for his great care
in making a just entry of all the goods consigned to him ;
and on a particular occasion, he declared to the lords of the
admiralty, that he could appeal to the Judge of all the world,
that he had never defrauded the country of one penný. He
died at Rotterdam about 1697.
ROUGHTON [V.] Mr. JOHN REYNOLDS. After his
ejectment he came to London, where he died Dec. 25, 1692.
Mr. Slater preached his funeral sermon. He was universally
esteemed an Israelite indeed, in whom there was no guile.
He was a humble Christian, a useful preacher, an able ca-
techist, and a faithful friend.
•
SCOTTO [V. 9ol.] WILLIAM BIDBANCK, M. A. After
his ejectment he was pastor of the congregation at Denton for
several years, and there, with a small estate of his own, and
a slender allowance from his people, he lived comfortably and
usefully; being greatly beloved by all that knew him, for
his sweetness of temper, obliging deportment, and excellent
preaching. He died much lamented, about 1693.
WORKS. A present for Children.---He also wrote a Preface
to some Sermons of Mr. Robert Ottees, entit. Christ set forth.
STATHAM [V.] Mr. JOHN LUCAS. He afterwards.
lived at Norwich, and often preached at Tunstead, Bradfield,
and other places, as he had opportunity. He was a man of
extraordinary humility, exemplary piety, and great industry.
STANFIELD. Mr. SAMUEL ALEXANDER. Dr. Walker
says, He came to this living in 1654.
STIBARD
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STIBARD [R. 40/.] Mr. JOHN DURANT.
STRATTON [R.] St. Michael. Mr. THOMAS BEN-
TON, jun.
SWANTON [R.] MORLEY, [R.] Mr. JOHN Daliel.
TIMSTEAD (Before falsely printed Tipton) Mr. JOHN
GREEN senior. Mr. Harmer says, He was a very consi-
derable minister in his time, and was one of the founders of
the dissenting churches in this county, tho' not equal in fame
to some others, being in an obscure part. He adds, that
he had seen an original picture of Mr. Green, which was in
the possession of Thomas Nutthall Esq. of London. It seems
probable that this Mr. Green, senior, was the father of Mr.
John Green of Tunstead.
"
TRUNCH [R.] RICHARD LAWRENCE, M. A. Of both
universities. He was the son of a gentleman of some estate
in Cambridgeshire, where he was born. From his child-
hood he was designed for the ministry, and after his grammar
learning, went to St. John's College, in Cambridge, and from
thence to Oxford. When he was cast out of his living he
had a wife and six children. He afterwards became pastor
of a church at Amsterdam. In the latter part of his life he
was assistant to Mr. Matthew Mead. Upon Dr. Owen's
death, he was solicited to supply his place: he also had other
invitations; but he was unwilling to go from Stepney. He
was humble and inoffensive in his carriage, and gene-
rally well spoken of. He never was imprisoned for his
Nonconformity, but was often in great danger from officers
and informers, and several times very providentially escaped
them. After being disabled from his work (which he was
six years before his death) he used often to say, that he long-
ed to know what heaven was. He died Nov, 17, 1702, aged
75. That day he said to his daughter, "Now, child, flesh
and heart fail; but" (raising his voice considerably)
"God
"is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."
Mr. Galpin preached his funeral sermon, on 1 Pet. i. 4.
and represented the deceased as one of those in whom his
text was exemplified. Mr. Lawrence, with Mr. Greenhill
and Mr. Caryl, prefaced Mr. Samuel Malbon's Discourse of
Life and Death.
TUNSTEAD [V.] Mr. JOHN GREEN. He came to this
living in 1657. He was moderately congregational in his
judgment,
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judgment, and continued in his pastoral relation and labours
among his people, for above fifty years. When the severity
of the times drove him for a while from his habitation among
them, he visited them frequently, and preached to them pri-
vately; sometimes in disguise, to avoid being apprehended.
He afterwards returned, and preached more publicly and con-
stantly. When the necessities of a neighbouring congrega-
tion at Bradfield called for his help, he preached to them in
1667, as well as at his own place, every Lord's-day, as long
as his health and strength would permit.-He was of a very
pleasant aspect and chearful conversation: an excellent and
lively preacher. He had an amicable correspondence with
many who differed from him in opinion; particularly with
the very worthy Mr. Jeffery, minister of North Walsham,
where he spent some of his last years. His acquaintance
with whom was so intimate and pleasing, that he desired to
be buried in his church, as near as conveniently could be, to
the place where he himself designed to be laid; which ac-
cordingly he was. He suffered for some time, with great
patience and submission, the violent pains of the gout, com-
plicated with a severe asthma; comforting himself with the
hope of being for ever with the Lord,' which (at his de-
sire) was the subject of a sermon, preached upon the occasion
of his death, which happened on Feb. 17, 1709.
WALCOT [C.] Mr. JOHN CORY. He was a humble
serious person, but of weak lungs, and a low voice; on which
account he rarely preached, unless upon extraordinary oc-
casions. But being excellently well skilled in the Latin and
Greek languages, he taught a private school at Norwich for
many years before his death, which happened in 1698, when
he was about the age of 67.
WALSHAM, Mr. JOHN BAKer.
WALSHAM (North) [V. 357.] Mr. NATHANIEL MIT-
CHEL. His name is to the Attestation, as minister at Eden-
thorpe. He married the sister of Dr. Collinges of Norwich.
He was a sincere and pious man, but under an extra-
ordinary melancholy for many years, thro' which he was
once under a sore temptation to destroy himself. He had
several times told some of his relations, and Dr. Collinges
among others, that he must put an end to his days, not be-
ing able to bear the trouble he was under. Many prayers
were put up to God for him, and with him, and he himself,
when
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when out of his bed, was almost always alone upon his
knees. He indeed did little else but read and pray. After
continuing some years in this deep affliction, it pleased God
considerably to relieve him, so that tho' he had some remain-
ing bodily disorder, yet his mind was much more free from
these impetuous assaults, and he at last died quietly in his
bed, calmly surrendering up his soul to God.
WALSINGHAM [C.] Mr. NATHANIEL NORTHCROSS.
WYMONDHAM [V.] Mr. JOHN MONY. He conti-
nued preaching in and near this town as long as he lived.
He was eminent both for learning and piety, and generally
admired for his frequent, fervent, and exact preaching; and
the rather, because he never wrote any part of his sermons.
+
YARMOUTH, JOHN BRINSLEY, M. A. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. He was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leices-
tershire, in 1600. His father was a worthy minister, whose
name he bore. His mother was sister to Bp. Hall, as appears
from an epistle of his written to her, (Decad. 2. Ep. 4.) He
was educated by his father, who had the care of the public
school at Ashby. He was admitted to Cambridge at the age
of 13 and a half. Having resided there three or four years, be
attended his uncle, Dr. Hall, then dean of Worcester, as
his amanuensis, to the synod of Dort. After his return, he
continued constant in his studies, and being elected scholar
of the house, resided there till he took his degrees. Being
ordained, he preached at Preston, near Chelmsford. In 1642
he was pastor at Somerleyton in Suffolk, and was afterwards
called to Yarmouth. But being elected by the township,
contrary to the good liking of Bp. Harsnet of Norwich, he
met with no small trouble and vexation. At his coming to
the town, or soon after, the plague broke out, and the bills of
mortality rose to near 100 a week; but thro' the goodness
of God he was preserved, tho' he constantly attended his
charge. After some time, by the means of Sir John Went-
worth, a door was opened for the exercise of his ministry
on the week-day, at a country village in the island of Lov-
ingland. Hither the people of Yarmouth and other places
resorted, and God blessed his labours, making them more
than ordinarily useful. The Long Parliament coming on,
the township applied themselves to his majesty for his li
cence for Mr. Brinsley to preach again in Yarmouth, and the
king readily granted it; upon which he wholly devote
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himself to the service of their souls. He continued indus-
trious and diligent in his work till the fatal Bartholomew.
Tho' tempted with the offers of preferment at the restoration,
he accepted none, desiring no higher honour than to serve his
Saviour in the ministry, in that place where he had been so
useful, with a safe conscience.
When the Uniformity-act took place, he desisted from
the public exercise of his ministry, but his constant labour
in reading and writing was the same as formerly. His car-
riage was highly civil, tho' grave. His discourse was fa-
cetious, especially in suitable company; but in the pulpit
none had a more reverend aspect, or discovered a greater
degree of seriousness. Nothing dropped from him that had
the least shew of levity. He had many afflictions; among
the rest, he lost two hopeful sons, when arrived at manhood,
which somewhat clouded his spirit, tho' it never created
any moroseness or pevishness. He was of an even tem-
per, rarely ruffled with passion, and seldom warm, unless
the cause of God and goodness required it. He greatly con-
temned the world, and never sought after more than a com-
petency, to enable him to be serviceable in his work. He
was well skilled in sacred critics, and spent much time in
studying the holy scriptures. If he handled any difficult.
text, he made it as clear as the nature of the subject would
permit. In a word, he lived exemplarily, and by the assist-
ance of the Almighty, bore up against all the opposition he
met with in the way of his duty; and at last with great calm-
ness resigned his soul to God, Jan. 22, 1665, aged 65.
WORKS. The healing of Israel's Breaches, 1642.-Church-
Reformation, 1643.- The sovereign Church Remedy; or the
primitive Way of composing ecclesiastical Differences.-
[Aywvolpoxia; or the running the Christian Race with patience.]
A Looking-glass for good women.-Pado-Baptism asserted and
vindicated. The Arraignment of the present Schism, or new
Separation in Old-England, 1646.-A Bridle for the Times,
1647.-Christ's Mediatorship.-The Mystical Brazen Serpent.-
The Saints Communion with Christ, sacramental, spiritual, and
celestial.-Groans for Israel; or the Church's Salvation-Three
sacred Emblems, and Tears for Jerusalem.-The Mystery of Re-
demption, &c.
Mr. JOHN ALLEN. He was several years teacher of
the large church of which Mr. Brinsley was pastor, and he
bore a good character. After being silenced, he took a house.
at Goulstone, a place out of the jurisdiction of the bishop,
and

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and often preached there. He died of the plague when it was
at Yarmouth, in 1665, aged upwards of 50.
WILLIAM BRIDGE, M. A. He was a student in
Cambridge about 13 years, and for several years Fellow of
Eman. College. After being a minister in Essex for five
years, he was called to Norwich, where he settled in the
parish of St. George's Tombland, and held on his ministry
for several years; but was at last silenced by Bp. Wren, in
1637, as not being a thorough Conformist. He continued
in the city some time after his suspension, till he was excom-
municated, and the writ de capiendo came forth against him;
upon which he withdrew into Holland, and settled at Rot-
terdam, where he was chosen pastor to a congregational
church of which Mr. Jer. Burroughs was teacher. He re-
turned into England in 1642, in the time of the Long Par-
liament, before whom he frequently preached. He was
one of the dissenting brethren in the Assembly of Divines.
He at length fixed at Yarmouth, where he continued his
labours till the Bartholomew-act took place. The author of
the Friendly Debate was very severe upon him; but a re-
taliation had been easy, if it could have been thought likely
to do any service to religion. One to whom he was well
known gives the following account of him; He was no
mean scholar, had a library well furnished with fathers,
schoolmen, critics, and most authors of worth. He was a
very hard student; rose at four o'clock winter and summer,
and continued in his study till eleven. Many souls heartily
blessed God for his labours. Though he was strictly con-
gregational, he heartily respected his brethren of other sen-
timents: witness his carriage to his fellow minister Mr.
Brinsley, for whom he used all his interest to have him
continued in his place, when the government was in the
hands of the Independents, among whom he had many ene-
mies, who were strenuous to get him removed, as being
averse to their principles. They lived and conversed toge-
ther comfortably many years. He died March 12, 1670,
aged 70.
WORKS. Twenty-one of his Treatises were collected into
2 volumes, in 4to, 1657. Besides which, and several Sermons be-
fore the Parliament, he hath sundry Tracts extant.-Ten Sermons
of God's Return to the Soul.-Ten on Christ and the Cove-
nant.-Eight on good and bad Company.-Seasonable Truths in
evil Times.---The Freeness of the Grace and Love of God to Be-
lievers.
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lievers.---The Sinfulness of Sin and Fulness of Christ.---A word to
the Aged.---His Remains.
Mr. JOB TOOKIE. Of Eman. Col. Camb. He was
the son of Mr. Job Tookie, minister of St. Ives in Hunting-
donshire, who was turned out of that living for not reading
the Book of Sports. He also was the son of a minister;
and there had been some ministers in the family for several
generations. This Mr. Tookie, was born at St. Ives, Dec.
11, 1616; and at about 14 was sent to Cambridge, where
he was remarkable for his serious piety, and diligent applica-
tion to his studies. From his first entering the college he
seemed to consecrate himself to the immediate service of
God, by frequent and fervent prayer, and a diligent care to
improve his time. Then, and for many years after, he al-
lotted to his retirement and studies ten hours in a day, and
sometimes twelve. He had eminent ministerial gifts, which
were well approved; and he was greatly beloved in the se-
veral places in which Divine Providence was pleased to place
him. He was chaplain to Lady Westmoreland, and tutor
to her sons, Lord Townshend and Sir Horatio Townshend.
The former highly respected him to his dying day, and fre-
quently advised with him in affairs of moment; the latter
used often to say, He loved Mr. Tookie because he was true
to his principles.
J
He was at first, minister of St. Martin's Vintry in Lon-
don, where he made no long stay, being dissatisfied with
their general way of administering the sacrament. He went
from thence to St. Alban's in Herefordshire, where he was
preacher at the Abbey, and gathered a congregational church.
But the wideness of the place drowned his voice. After
continuing there two or three years he removed to Yar-
mouth, where Mr. Bridge and he were pastor and teacher
in the congregational way, as Mr. Brinsley and Mr. Allen
were ministers of a Presbyterian congregation in the same
place. There was a sweet accord among them all, which
continued till the fatal Bartholomew dismissed them from
public service.-Mr. Tookie continued at Yarmouth some
time after his ejection, and preached as he had opportunity.
He was once imprisoned, but bailed out the next day. Át
length he was excommunicated for absenting from the esta-
blished church, and a writ de excom. cap. being taken out
against him, he came to London in 1665, and lived in
Bunhillfields, where great numbers about him died of the
4
plague,
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plague, but he and his were preserved. He took all oppor
tunities that offered to preach, till his strength failed him.
He was eminent for his gift in prayer, in which he was
so happy in his expressions, and so pathetic in his supplicá-
tions, as warmed the hearts of his hearers, and stirred up
such attention to his sermons, as contributed not a little to
the usefulness of his labours in the whole of his ministry.
When he found enlargement of spirit, or met with ap-
plause in his service, he was ever jealous of his own heart,
and fearful of its being lifted up. Having heard that some
of his performances were much applauded, and that by some
who had before discovered no great respect for him, his
desire was, that God would pardon the weakness of hist
servant, and keep him from spiritual pride; and that the
more he was pleased to honour him, he might be so much
the more humble, and watchful over his own heart, that
God alone might be glorified. He was much afflicted
when any opposed or slighted that gracious assistance of
the blessed Spirit in prayer, which he himself so often
had experienced. One instance of this is recorded by him-
self as follows:
"
-
July 3, 1642, being the Lord's-day, I was much
troubled at a sermon preached by one Mr. Reynolds, who
bitterly inveighed against extempore prayer; which (to
see the disposition of such men against the ways of grace)
much perplexed me, lest in the delivery of the word this
day I might any way miscarry, whereby to maintain that
prejudice still in carnal hearts; for which I sought the
Lord, and he was found giving of me that enlargement
of spirit I desired: which I begged not for my own vain-
glory, but to protect the word from scandal and re-
proach. I also covenanted this day between God and
my own heart, to labour after some preparations better
than formerly, before I entered upon the duty of prayer.
Oh learn to live by faith upon God, and be daily begging
the spirit of prayer, or thy heart will fall back into its
wonted straitness.
""
He would not willingly spend an hour unprofitably;
and such he counted (bare necessities excepted) what was
not spent in his studies, or in some of the labours for his
calling, in Christian conference, or visiting the afflicted;
in which duty he diligently applied himself to suit his advice
to the condition of the patient, whether needing instruction,
comfort,
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comfort, or humbling; lest the promises should be cast
away upon hard hearts, or broken spirits not bound up. "In
visiting others (says he) I find it hard to walk profitably to-
ward company, to make my conversation savoury, seasoned
with salt,' towards those among whom I converse. La-
bour therefore after heavenly-mindedness, that it may bring
on those that are weak, and convince those that are strangers
to the ways of grace; and that I may always aim either at
doing or receiving good."
He was a man of compassion, and deeply concerned for
the calamities of the church, a sad lamenter of her afflic-
tions, and a constant orator for her at the throne of grace,
both in public and private. He used to say, "Prayer is the
arrow; love the bow that sends it forth; and faith the
hand that draws that bow; but when the bow is not strong,
or the hand feeble that draws it, the arrow must needs fall
short of the mark." To encourage himself in this duty,
he diligently observed and took care to record instances of
remarkable answers to prayer. He was of a very meek and
healing spirit, yet, in what he apprehended to be the cause
of God, he was bold and courageous, which sometimes ex-
posed him to the rage of the enemies of truth and good-
ness. August 31, 1642, being a public fast, he was told,
that one had threatened to shoot him, and was inclined to
do it in the church that day, while he was in the pulpit. His
only answer was this: "The Lord keep me in his way and
fear, and that will be my protection." He was very com-
posed and easy under persecutions and sufferings, to which
he was exposed. After he had borne the brunt for a con-
siderable while, he was at last obliged to retire, in the year
1665 to London, where he continued some time exercising
his ministry, as opportunity offered, with good acceptance.
It pleased God to give him rest from his labours, on Nov.
20, 1670, aged 54:
•
It was observed of him, that as his outward man dè-
cayed, his inward man was renewed day by day.' Tho'
his pain was extreme, he took his last leave of his friends
with great meekness and composure of mind, in the words
of St. Paul, Rom. xiii. 11. Farewell, be perfect, be of
good comfort, be of one mind, and the God of Love and
Peace shall be with you.'-A son of his was useful in the
ministry among the Dissenters in Farmouth, but died there
in 1724, much lamented.
He
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He wrote a Concordance to the Bible, according to the
original Hebrew, but never published it. His widow parted
with it to Mr. Plumsted of Wrentham *.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. JOHN BENTON, of Great Dunham.-Mr. MARK
LEWIS, of Shipdam.-Mr. ELWOOD, of Walcot and East-
Ruston. Mr. DAY, of Hingham. Mr. DENHAM, of
Causton. Mr. GooсH and Mr. JOHN NEWTON, of Scharm-
ing. Mr. POOL, of Romorton. And Mr. ODER of
Blitching.
*This MS. was afterwards in the possession of the late Rev.
Mr. Isaac Toms, of Hadleigh, and has since been deposited by
his son, Mr. Say Toms of Framlingham, with some manuscripts of
Mr. OWEN STOCKTON, in Dr. WILLIAMS's Library, Red-cross-
street, London.
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MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED
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NORTHAMPTONSHIRË.
A
LDWINCKLE [R. 100%.] NATHANIEL WHITING,
M. A. Of Camb. Univ. After his ejectment he
gathered a church at Cranford. He was not so eminent for
his learning, as for his holiness and heavenly-mindedness.
He was a very useful preacher, and had many converts. Not
only in the pulpit, but in his visits, he discovered a great
concern for the souls of his hearers. He brought many to
the strict and solemn worship of God in their families, who
before were utter strangers to family religion. He had a sin-
gular gift in comforting the sick. He had a plentiful estate,
and made good use of it. When he was presented in the ec-
clesiastical court, God raised him up friends and made many
of his enemies to be at peace with him, or at least stilled
their rage against him. After he had been in some trouble,
the Earl of Peterborough sent him two letters, assuring him
that if he would conform, he had such a value for him, that
he would give him the choice of three livings which were at
his disposal. But he could not satisfy his conscience to ac-
cept the offer. He used to say, "The door is too narrow
for me to enter in." He was master of the free-school as
Aldwinckle, from which he was ejected as well as from the
living. He had no portion with his wife, tho' her parents
were wealthy, of which she often complained; when he used
to reply, "We have no need of it now; it will come per-
haps when we need it more." And it pleased God in his
providence so to order it, that her parents died about the time
of his ejectment, and left them all their property. As Mr.
Whiting died without any children, he was a considerable
benefactor
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benefactor to the school from which he had been ejected.
He lived in expectation of dying suddenly, as several of his
relations had done. Accordingly, as he went to bed, he was
seized with a violent fit of the wind, to which he was subject,
and died before morning. Mr. Willis preached his funeral
sermon, in which, among other things, he said, "He had
often heard him mourn, but never heard him murmur; and
that he was much taken up in admiring the goodness of
God."
WORKS. The Saints Triangle of Duties, Deliverances, and
Dangers: 4to. 1659.
war."
ASHBY (Castle) [R. S. 200l.] Mr. PETER AUSTIN. He
constantly gave to Mr. Press, who was sequestered here, 30%.
per ann. and made him welcome whenever he came to his
house. This Dr. Walker takes no notice of, tho' he mentions
his holding this living till the Restoration. § Bridges in
his history of this county, says, "It appears from the register,
that one Robinson was an intruder here during the civil
While Mr. Austin was in the living he was so cha-
ritable, that he would have but five teeth in his rake in har-
vest-time, that there might be the more left for the gleaners;
so that a boy has often gleaned half a bushel of barley in a
day. He always sold his grain to the poor below the mar
ket price. He employed a great many poor people in plant-
ing the common hedges with plumbs, cherries, and other
fruit-trees, for the supply of the poor, and of travellers. He
used to instruct children in the Assembly's Catechism on the
Lord's-day evening, taking six at a time; and when he had
done, he gave them a shilling amongst them. Thus he went
on till he had passed thro' all his young people, and then be-
gun again. At Christmas he gave every poor parishioner of
Ashby and Chatsdon a peck of corn. He was much respect-
ed as a preacher, and his removal was much lamented. He
was treated very civilly by Lord James Crompton, father to
the Earl of Northampton. He died at Ashby some little time
after his ejection.
WORKS. Scripture Manifestation of the Equality of the
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
ASHBY (Meers) [V.] Mr. RICHARD COLSTON. He
was born at Wollaston, and educated at Cambridge. When
he came from the university he kept a school at the place of
his nativity, and preached about the country with good ac-
ceptance.
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ceptance. At length he settled in this town, where he was
well beloved by his parishioners, but did not continue in the
living above two or three years. Dr. Walker says, he was
settled here by Mr. George Lawson, whose sequestered liv-
ing this had been. Mr. Holmes, who came to this living at
the Restoration, offered to continue him as his curate; but
he returned to his parents at Wollaston, and not long after
died of a consumption, between 30 and 40 years of age.
AYNHO, [R.] ROBERT WILD, D. D. [Of Oxford uni-
versity.] He was born at St. Ives in Huntingdonshire.
Bridges, in his History says, "Dr. Longman was removed
in 1646, and the famous Dr. Rob. Wyld put in his place by
order of Parliament, (which he quotes) and Dr. Longman
re-entered about 1660."-Wood says, "He was a fat jolly
man, and a boon Presbyterian." But those who knew him
commended him not only for his facetiousness, but also his
strict temperance and sobriety. He was very serious in seri-
ous things; so that if any thing contrary to this was intend-
ed to be insinuated by the above reflection, it is an injury to
his memory.
[The following is related as one of his witticisms: He and
another divine had preached as candidates for this living.
The Dr. being asked whether he or his competitor had got-
ten it, he answered, "We have divided it; I have got the
AY, and he the NO."-Of his seriousness, the following
anecdote affords a striking proof: Mr. Baxter, being much
displeased at some instances of his facetiousness which he
had heard of, called on him in his way from Kidderminster
to London, to reprove him, as the times were very dark. When
he came to Aynho, he found the Dr. just gone to church, on
a day observed by him and his people as a fast. Mr. Baxter
got into a corner of the church, and when the service was
over, came to the Dr. thanked him for his service, and desired
that he would rebuke him sharply, as he deserved it. Being
desired to explain himself, Mr. Baxter answered, "For my
great uncharitableness and folly in regarding reports," &c.
and then told him why he had called upon him+] Mr. Stan-
cliff, over against Dr. Wild's name in this place, wrote thus:
"He was excellently qualified unto his ministerial work;
none more melted and melting in prayer; nor more serious
and fervent in preaching Christ and his gospel." He died at
+ Mr. Orton, who related both the above anecdotes, had the latter from
an ancient christian in Northamptonshire.
Oundle
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Oundle, in 1679, aged 70; and left the poor of the parish at
St. Ives 6l. per ann. for ever. A little before his death he
preached on Rev. xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus;' and in the
course of the sermon he expressed his apprehension of his ap-
proaching end, saying, "It is but a short time, and I shall be
in paradise." He had two sons, who conformed.
WORKS. The Tragedy of Mr. Christopher Love, at Tower-
Hill-Iter Boreale, upon Monk's March from Scotland to Lon-
don-A Poem upon the Imprisonment of Mr. Edmund Calamy in
Newgate. They came out separately, and were published toge-
ther with other poems in 1668, 8vo.-A Letter to Mr. J. J. upon
his Majesty's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, 1672.--He
hath also some Sermons extant; one entitled, The Arraignment of
of a Sinner, on Rom. xi. 32. &c. § In the vol. of his Poems, are the
following among others---To the memory of Jer. Whitaker. On
the death of many rev. ministers. On the death of Mr. Vines:
The grateful Nonconformist; or thanks to Sir J. B. who sent the
author ten crowns 1665. On the death of Mr. Calamy: The loyal
noncon formist.---Many of his poems are full of wit.
Some in-
decent ones have been printed with them: but Wood intimates that
these were the E. of Rochester's, Fasti Oxon. p. 21. where is an
account of some pieces written against Dr. Wild.
BARBY [R. 200/.] Mr. RICHARD THORPE. None of
the ministers in these parts were reckoned to exceed him in
prayer. He kept the youth of the town in great awe, and
particularly from prophaning the Sabbath, as had been too
common there. He was so much taken up with, spiritual
things, that he knew not his own cattle, except the horse he
usually rode; and he left all his worldly concerns to the care
of a faithful servant. After his ejectment he preached in his
own house on Thursdays, without molestation. On Lord's-
days he statedly went to church, to hear Mr. Isam, with whom
he had a friendly correspondence till his death. § Bridges
mentions him as instituted. in 1649, and says, He gave ten
shillings a year for ever to the poor, which is now, by gene-
ral consent diverted to another use,
BILLING (Great) [R.] DANIEL CAWDRY, M. A.
[Bridges has it S. T. P. 1623.] Of Peter-house, Camb. He
was the son of an old Nonconformist, Mr. Robert Cawdry,
who struggled hard with the Bishops upon his deprivation.
His case was published, and the injustice that was done him
is upon recordt. This son was the youngest of many. He
† See Strype's Life of Abp. Aylmer, Chap. viii. p. 129.
was
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was a considerable man, of eminent learning, and a noted
member of the Assembly of Divines. He was ejected from
this place after 36 or 37 years labour in the gospel. He re-
moved afterwards to Wellingborough, where he had a daugh-
ter married. He was there exercised with great affliction
and pain, but received all that came to visit him, and encou-
raged them in the ways of holiness. In October 1664, he
fell asleep in the Lord, aged near 76 years. Mr. Vincent Alsop
made him an Epicedium, comprehending his life and death,
labours, and publications, which were these:
WORKS. Humility the Saint's Livery; on 1 Pet. v. 5.— Su-
perstitio Superstes, 1641.--Vindicia Clavium.-The Inconsis-
tency of Independency with Scripture and itself; containing (1.)
Vindica Vindiciarium. (2.) A Review of Mr. Hooker's Survey.
And (3.) Of his Infant Baptism.-An Assize Sermon at Nor-
thampton, 1627, on Psalm Ixix. 9.-Sabbatum Redivivum: in the
first part of which Mr. Herbert Palmer was concerned.-A good
Man a public Good; a Sermon before the H. of Commons.-In-
dependency a great Schism.-A Diatribe against Dr. Hammond
on Superstition and Festivals.-A Vindication of the Diatribe
against Dr. Hammond.-A sober Answer to a serious Question;
against Mr. Giles Firmin.-A Sermon at Paul's, July 3, 1653, on
1 Tim. i. 19.-Self-Examination in Preparation for the Lord's Ta-
ble.-Family Reformation.-Church Reformation.-Bowing to or
towards the Table superstitious.-An Essay against Usury.-The
Grand Case, with Reference to the New Conformity.
BRAMPTON (Church) [R. S.] Mr. VINTRESS. He was
reckoned much to resemble Mr. Stephen Marshal. He lived,
after his ejectment, at Godmanchester, and there he died. He
was a person of great worth, and above the common level for
ministerial abilities. Dr. Walker owned that he paid the se-
questered minister his fifths, tho' he says he behaved inso-
lently towards him. Bridges says, Mr. Canon was eject-
ed here by military force, and had two successors of no abili-
ties or morals; but does not mention Mr. Vintress. At Pisford
(which is a neighbouring village) he says, that on Mr.
Vaughan's ejectment, the living was supplied by one Ventris,
who allowed him a fifth of the profits.
BROUGHTON [R. S. 140/.] Mr. JOHN BAZELY, junior.
A man of great note in these parts. He was put into this liv-
ing by the parliamentary commissioners in 1643, in the room
of
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of Mr. Bentham t, who was sequestered, of whom Dr.
Walker gives a particular account, and who at the Restora-
tion came in again. Mr. Bazley was a man of substance, and
after his ejectment, bought a house and estate at Kettering,
where he resided. He was generally respected by the mini-
sters in the neighbourhood, and lived in good repute. His
only daughter was married to Morgan, Esq; of Kings-
thorpe near Northampton. He was blind for some time be-
fore he died, but continued preaching. He was one of the
twelve lecturers at Kettering. Dr. Walker relates some
things of him, which, if true, cannot be justified.
BURTON LATIMER [R. S.] Mr. JOHN BAYNARD. Dr.
Sibthorp was ejected from this living in the civil wars.
§ There was a John Baynard rector of Hardwick, in this
county, in 1626, probably the same.
CASTOR Mr. HENRY ROOSE.
of the best preachers in England.
He was said to be one
CHESTER [Chap.] Mr. STRICKLAND NEGUS. A truly
pious man, and a very useful preacher. He was one of the
Thursday lecturers at Oundle.
COTTERSTOCK [R. 42/. 15s. 11d.] Mr. MALKINSON.
Of Eman. Col. Camb. where he was educated under Dr.
Tuckney. Justice Norton was very much his friend, both
while he was in his living, and afterwards. He continued at
this village till his death.
. COTTERSBROOK [R.] Mr. THOMAS BURROUGHS,
B. D. [instituted 28 Oct. 1651.] A learned, pious, humble
man. After his ejectment he was entertained by Sir John
Langham.
WORKS. A Sermon at the Funeral of Sir John Langham
July 29, 1657.-Directions about preparing for death.
CRANFORD Mr. HENRY SEARL. A man of an ex-
cellent spirit, a lively fervent preacher, and remarkably pious
and circumspect in his conduct. He was greatly reverenced
and admired.
§ Mr. Joseph Bentham was successor to ROBERT BOLTON the famous
putitan, who died in 1631, for whom a fine monument remains, represent-
ing him in the pulpit.
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CREATON [R.] Mr. RICHARD HOOK. He was pre-
sented to this living by Mr. Markham. He was not so well
liked by the inhabitants at first as he was afterwards. When
he was ejected, he for some time preached in his own house,
and then went to Northampton, where he had some estate,
and there he taught school, and went to church, but preach-
ed occasionally. He was buried at St. Peter's, Northamp-
ton, where is the following inscription: "Hic jacet corpus
Richardi Hooke, artium magistri, et servi Jesu Christi in
evangelio, qui obiit tricessimo Junii 1679, Ætatis fuæ 67."
CREEK [R. 300l.] Mr. STEPHEN FOWLER. Fellow of
St. John Col. Oxford. [instit. 18 Feb. 1650.] The son of
Richard Fowler, a worthy Nonconformist minister, ejected
from Westleigh in Gloucestershire, and brother to Dr. Fow-
ler, Bp. of Gloucester. This rectory, tho' very valuable,
was no temptation to him to conform against his conscience.
He was a very popular preacher, and indefatigable in his la-
bours. He was called to Newbury upon the death of Mr.
John Woodbridge, who had been there ejected. He died
thro' an excess of hard studies, and too frequent preaching
there and at other places. He was eminent for the holiness
of his life, his zeal and constancy in his work at all times, his
great moderation, and many other excellent qualities.
DAVENTRY [L.] Mr. TIMOTHY DOD. He was the
son of the famous Mr. John Dod of Fausley, and imitated
his excellent father in piety and gravity. At what university
he was educated doth not appear. He was publicly ordained
in this town some time after 1640, and there settled as a
preacher. Mr. Crafts had the vicarage and free-school, and
Mr. Dod was only afternoon lecturer: yet was so well be-
loved, that the town contributed to him 40l. per ann. and
thus made his income almost equal to the vicarage. When
the burgesses and chief men of the town brought him what
they collected for him, he used to charge and entreat them
to receive nothing from the poor, lest the gospel might be
made burthensome to them. He was a celebrated preacher,
but in the latter part of his time was so very corpulent, that
he could not get into the pulpit, and therefore preached in
a pew, or in the desk. One of his hearers having died under
a cloud, he delivered an oration at the grave, instead of
preaching a serinon, as usual, which was much applauded.
He was universally respected by the ministers who preached
´the Wednesday-lecture in this town. He was of a sweet,
humble,
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humble, affable temper, but melancholy. After his ejection.
he lived privately, being extremely afflicted with the gout
and other disorders. He removed from Daventry to Everdon,
a neighbouring village, upon occasion of a great sickness in"
the town, where he soon after died, about the time of the
plague in 1665. It was his constant custom to pray seven
times a day; viz. twice with his whole family, twice private-
ly with his wife, and three times alone. He brought up his
son John to the ministry, who conformed. Over his grave
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at Everdon church is this inscription: "Hic jacet Timotheus
Dod, vir pietate, doctrina et modestia insignis: apud Da-
ventrienses concionator, facundus et pacificus, qui obiit. Dec.
12, 1665."
somewhere near Daventry. Mr. CRANE. It
seems probable that he should have been placed at Irtling-
borough, as there is this entry in the register. "WILL.
CRANE, occur. anno 1641." Bridges says nothing of H.
Lucas, there mentioned.
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DESBOROUGH [V.] Mr. THOMAS BROWNING. He
was a man of a strict life, and a warm, lively, affectionate
preacher; very zealous in his work, and a great sufferer. He
was committed to Northampton jail for preaching, and yet
would not desist. He had a high idea of his ministerial
office, and was always careful, both by his words and actions,
to keep up the credit of it. The author of The Conformist's
Plea (Pt. iv. p. 83.) relates a remarkable story in which he
was concerned, [which is as follows; "Some soldiers came
one Lord's-day, April, 1682, to break up a meeting, and to
take Mr. Browning of R. (i.e. Rowell.) The constable ad-
monished them to be well advised in what they did; for
(said he) 'when Sir **** was alive, he eagerly prosecuted
these meetings, and engaged eight soldiers of the country
troop therein, whereof myself was one. Sir **** himself
' is dead; six of the soldiers are dead; some of them were
hanged, and some of them broke their necks; and I myself
fell off my horse and broke my [collar-bone] in the act of
prosecuting them, and it cost me 30s. to be cured. It hath
given me such warning, that for my part, I am resolved I
will never meddle with them more,' This story he repeated
several times that day; which shews how readily conscience,
when awakened, construes the divine providences to be acts
of judgment and admonitions to them. A particular account
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of this Mr. Browning was published by Mr. Maurice of
Rowell, in 1729, of which the following is an extract :
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"Mr. Thomas Browning was a child of many prayers and
tears, designed by his parents for the ministry, and sent to
Oxford about the age of 16. He had early convictions of re-
ligion, which gradually wore off; and having at the univer-
sity chosen the worst companions, and despised the best in-
structions, he became greatly hardened; so that, tho' by in-
terest he got into Col. Sydenham's family, there was so much
religion there that he qickly grew weary of it, and chose ra-
ther to embrace a vain course of life. He was followed by
many afflictions, but still went on frowardly in the way of
his own heart,' tho' mercifully preserved from gross immo-
ralities. In consequence of his marriage he removed to Lon-
don, and was providentially brought into a religious family,
who used to attend the morning lecture at Westminster-abbey.
Mr. Browning, partly on account of his former resolutions.
to reform when he should be settled in the world, and partly
with a view to his secular advantage, attended with them.
Upon one of these occasions God was pleased to bless a dis-
course of Mr. Rowe's on Eph. iv. 18. for striking such terror
into his conscience, that he reckoned this "the beginning of
God's work upon him;" which was greatly promoted by
some sermons of Mr. T. Weld, Mr. Pinchback, and particu
larly Mr. Samms, who was minister at Coggeshall in Essex,
where his parents lived, to whom he and his wife, made a
most agreeable visit. He now began to enjoy much spiritual
comfort, particularly in meditating upon, and praying over,
that encouraging passage, Isaiah xxx. 18.
"After some time he thought it his duty to relate the deal-
ings of God with his soul, in the congregational church at
Coggeshall, of which he was received a member, to the re-
joicing of many. He appeared to be an eminent christian;
and as he possessed considerable gifts, Mr. Samms and the
church desired him to exercise them for the edification of
others. He discovered a great sense of his weakness and un-
fitness, upon which Mr. Samms advised him to read and pray
over Is. xl. 29-31. by which he was greatly encouraged,
and on a day fixed, preached his first sermon on Mat. i. 20.
and God was with him. He preached twice more in Essex,
and was soon after remarkably called into Northamptonshire.
Going with Mr. Samms to a commencement at Cambridge,
they met with Mr. John Beverley, pastor of the church at
Rowell, who enquired of Mr. Samms for a hopeful young
man,
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man, whom he might recommend to a small parish near him,
viz. at Desborough, Mr. S. told him he was going to enquire
of him for a place for such a man. Hereupon Mr. Browning
went to Desborough and preached, viz. in 1657, on Ps. ciii.
3. when the good people gave him an unanimous call, which
he accepted, being sent forth by fasting and prayer, in the
church to which he belonged. He preached here five years
faithfully and successfully, till 1662, when he was turned out
for Nonconformity, preaching his farewell-sermon on 2 Cor.
xiii. 14. Upon this the church at Rowell, who had con-
stantly attended his ministry at Desborough, [since the death
of their own pastor Mr. Beverly] called him to the pastoral
office among them, Accordingly, by fasting and prayer he
was set apart thereunto, his pious friends at Desborough and
those at Rowell uniting in the call, and in a church-relation.
Mr. Browning continued in their service above twenty years
under many persecutions, with great faithfulness and success;
the church greatly increasing even in the most calamitous
times. In all his work he followed the advice once given him
by Dr. Owen: “ Sudy THINGS: acceptable words in course
will follow." A specimen of his sentiments and strain of
preaching may be seen in a Tract of his on Rom. v. 21. which
he intended for the press, which Mr. Maurice has preserved,
(see p. 32-46) who mentions several of his letters as be-
ing in his possession, and has printed two of them, written.
from Northampton jail to the members of his church, which
breathe an excellent spirit. The first closes as follows:
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-And now, my brethren and beloved, what
remains but that we walk in the fear of the Lord, and keep
ourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our
dear Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life? You are under the
awe of that word, Heb. x. 23~25. A suffering day is the
trial of our love to follow Christ. When there is no opposi-
tion it is easy. Do not the hypocrites do so? But this is the
commendation of Christ's followers, they follow him whi-
thersoever he goeth. These are they that came out of great
tribulation. They are before the throne-and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes! Come, my brethren,
you weep now; our tender Father will wipe away our tears
ere long. Do not offend with weeping. • Woman, why
weepest thou?' was our Lord's enquiry. Too many tears
may defile -Oh, my brethren! methinks I am with you,
weeping with you, joying with you, praying with you, and
hearing with you. It is true fellowship my soul has with
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at a distance. I long after you much in the Lord, yet re-
joicingly stay his good pleasure. I would not come out a
moment before his time; I would not take a step without his
direction. I am wonderfully well; better and better. The
cup of afflictions for the gospel is sweeter the deeper; a stronger
cordial the nearer the bottom; I mean death itself. Oh the
joy unspeakable and glorious the dying martyrs of Jesus have
had! I tell you, if you knew what Christ's prisoners, some
of them, enjoyed in their jails, you would not fear their con-
dition, but long for it. And I am persuaded, could their
enemies conceive of their comfort, in meré vexation of heart
they would stay their persecutions. Therefore my brethren,
my joy, my crown, stand fast in the Lord. Rejoice greatly
to run your race; fear not their fear; sit loose from the
world; allot yourselves this portion which God has alloted
you, thro' many tribulations to enter into the kingdom of
heaven. Come, the worst is death; and that is the best of
all. What! do we stick at dying for him, who stuck not at it
for us? Do we find difficulty in that which will be our en-
trance into glory? Do princes dread their coronation days?
Are any loth to come to their nuptials? Foolish hearts! why
do we err, not knowing (rather not believing) the scriptures?
I must stay my pen to dry my eyes, because of the overflow-
ings of God's love upon my soul. And now I see if I had
not something to keep me down, I could not bear the loads.
of God's favour. Blessed be God! blessed be God! Let every
one that hath breath praise the Lord. Oh love the Lord, ye
his saints. My brethren, do not [flee]. Keep your ground; the
scripture is your law; God is your king. Your principles are
sober, your practices are peaceable. Your obedience to supe-
riors known, in those things wherein your obedience is re-
quired. If men have nothing against you but in the matters
• of your God,' rejoice and triumph in all your persecutions.
You that are young, and flourish in your abilities the Lord
has given, you I counsel; yet not I, but the Lord, in the.
words of his servant Paul, 2 Tim. ii. 21. If a man purge
himself from all drossy corruption, he shall be a vessel unto
honour, &c. You that are aged I advise--in the words of
Peter, 2 Ep. i. 8. If these things be in you and abound, &c.
I exhort you all to walk in the faith, fear, love, and joy of
the Lord-Study your mutual edification. Fear nothing of
events till they come; only fear offending God with a neg-
lect of your duty. There is no shadow like the shadow of
God's wings, therefore keep close to God."
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Mr. Browning died May 9, 1685. aged 52. He was
buried in Rowell church-yard, where his tomb yet remains,
with a Latin inscription. The late Mr. Moses Gregson, who
married a descendant of his, communicated to the editor
some extracts from his diary, which discover an ardent piety,
but which we have not room to insert. He was succeeded
by Mr. Richard Davis, but not till the latter end of the year
1689. Nor did Mr. Davis come into Northamptonshire till
that time. From this undeniable fact it is plain, that Dr.
Calamy's account of his ill usage of Mr. Browning must be
false t.
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FAXTON. Mr. WILLS. This probably was JOHN
WILLES, M. A. who was buried at Spratton, in this neigh-
bourhood, on whose grave-stone is a Latin inscription,
which imports that he did not long survive his wife, who
died in 1703.
GLAPTHORN. Mr. WILLIAM OLIVER. After his
ejectment he lived at Fotheringay in this county. He was
also chaplain to the pious and excellent Lady Norcliff. He
was a little man, full of spirit, a good scholar, and a useful
preacher. He died July 10, 1686, aged 72.
GRENDON [V.] Mr. SAMUEL BAYES. Of Trin. Col.
Camb. A Yorkshire man. He was also ejected in Derby-
shire. Upon being silenced [in 1662] he lived privately at
Manchester, and there died.
HOUGHTON Parva. Mr. THOMAS MARTYN. After
his ejectment he came to London, and lived retired. In
Bridges the entry is, "Tho. Martyn, occur. Vicar, in 1641.
Ob. 1662," an apparent mistake.
+ Mr. Maurice of Rowell, wrote to Dr. Calamy, informing him of the mis-
take, but received no answer. This occasioned him to publish a vindication
of Mr. Davis from the several charges brought against him, which was but a
piece of justice due to his character. However it is to be wished that he had
written with more temper, and had not himself discovered the same censo-
rious disposition that he had condemned in the Dr.: As also, that he had
not undertaken to exculpate Mr. Davis from every thing laid to his charge,
His sentiments and conduct were certainly in many particulars highly ex-
ceptionable. As to the irregularities complained of in his congregation, Mr.
Haworth of Hertford (whom Mr. Maurice mentions as Mr. Davis's friend)
who went to Rowell on purpose to know the truth, reported. "That he never
saw so much of God, and so much of the devil in one place."-But the prin-
cipal evidence against him is, "The sense of the united ministers in London."
published in 1692; which may be scen in Dr. Calamy's first volume, p. 512,
&c. of which Mr. Maurice took no notice.
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HASELBEACH [R.] Mr. Butler.
IRTLINGBOROUGH [commonly called Artleborough].
Mr. HUMPHREY LUCAS. See Crane, p. 30.
3º.
KELMARSH [R.] Mr. SAMUEL AINSWORTH, * [1653]•
Bp. Laney, after his remove to Lincoln, thro' connivance,
suffered this worthy man, tho' a Nonconformist, to preach
publicly very near him, viz. at Brampton joining to Bugden,
for some years together, (Conformist's Plea for the Non-
conformists, p. 39.) He printed a sermon preached at the
funeral of Mr. Andrew Pern, minister of Wilby, one of the
Assembly of Divines.
KETTERING [R.] JOHN MAIDWELL, M. A. Of Camb.
university, where he was chamber-fellow with Bp. Gunning.
He was born at Geddington in this county, and first settled
in a good living at Sympson in Bucks. During the civil war
he put in another to supply the place, and take the profits,
while he retired to London, where he employed his labours.
When the war was over, he was sent down to Cleabrook in
Leicestershire, (where Mr. Herbert Thorndike had been mini-
ster) and there built the best parsonage-house in the country.
He did not continue here long (tho' he was not without good
success in his work) before the people of Sympson laid claim
to him, and invited him to return to them. The matter was
referred to Dr. Arrowsmith and three others of the Assem-
bly. Upon hearing both sides, they were equally divided in
their opinion, so that he determined for himself to return to
Sympson, because they were his first people, and were both
more serious and more numerous, tho' the living was less
worth by gol. per annum. He had some success in his work
there, tho' not without discouragements, and continued in
his public ministry among them till silenced t. The religious
Sir Thomas Alston and his lady had him in very great esteem,
and he preached often at their house at Odel in Bedfordshire.
He was a good scholar, and an excellent preacher; of great
* § It is doubtful whether he should be on our list. It appears that Samuel
Ainsworth, M. A. was inducted to Merston Trussel, a few miles distant, in
1679; being presented by Walter Hornby, the ejected patron, before men-
tioned.
+ Dr. Calamy says, by the Uniformity-act. If so, he should have been
placed in Bucks. The Dr. does not say when he came to Kettering, nor
how long he held that living. Mr. Collis of that town informs the editor,
that he came thither about 1650, and continued in the church 12 years; so
that it appears he was ejected here in 1662.
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modesty and humility, and of eminent piety. He was
more abundant in labours; being never weary of his work,
and seldom weared in it. He had the happy art of win-
ning souls to Christ. His daily converse was a continual
preaching of the gospel. His sweet and chearful temper
made him amiable to all. None that knew him could lightly
speak evil of him. Many who differed from him in judg-
ment, held him in high veneration. He had learnt that
heavenly alchymy from his great Lord and Master, to make
a spiritual improvement of all earthly business and occur-
rences. It was doubtful whether he did more good, and
converted more souls, in the pulpit or out of it.
[After his ejectment, he often preached in his own and
other houses in Kettering, where he lived thirty years. In
the latter part of his time he opened a meeting-house which
was lately in being, and had a considerable congregation to
the last. A much larger place was afterwards built, in which
the excellent Mr. Benjamin Boyce was many years minister
to a flourishing society, of which Mr. Toller is the present
pastor. Mr. Maidwell was buried in the parish church,
where his grave-stone yet remains, with a Latin inscription,
now almost worn out; from whence however it appears that
he had been minister there, that he was a man of learning,
and that he died Jan. 9, 1692, aged 83, He had been per-
secuted by Sawyer, Esq; and often escaped with diffi-
culty, and sometimes in disguise. He was once in prison,
but it is uncertain where and for what cause. The follow-
ing is a letter of his, written to his friends in that imprison-
ment, but the MS. is inaccurate *
:
July 31, 1683.
My dear friends; Grace and peace be multiplied.
"Since I heard of the great distress you are in, on several
accounts, it cannot but much affect and afflict me; and the ra-
ther, because my present dangers and sufferings add to yours;
which makes the burden heavier to us both. But if our God,
*This letter was in the possession of Mr. Jos. Roberts, whose father was
a member at the first settlement of the church. He did not think Mr. Maid-
well was ever in prison, but said that the letter was written when he was
in exile on the Five-mile-act, at — Barquell's Esq. at Merston Trussel.
The editor has since received two more excellent letters of the same pious
divine, from his worthy friend Mr. Nath. Collis; but fearing this volume will
be swelled to a disproportionate size, he has sent them to Mr. Morris of
Cliptone, to be inserted in the BIBLICAL MAGAZINE.
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who directs, helps us to cast our burden on him, he will
• sustain' it, and us under it; as at present he doth, blessed
be his name. For though we are troubled on every side,
'yet we are not distressed; tho' perplexed, not in despair;
'tho' persecuted, yet not forsaken; tho' cast down, yet not
destroyed. Tho' we bear in our outward man the dying of
the Lord Jesus,' yet, if the life, spirit, and vigour of Christ
be exercised in our inward man, we shall [live] to him eter-
nally hereafter, as spiritually here. But the want of that di-
vine vigour and true christian magnanimity fills most souls
with despondency, bowels with sighs, and tongues with com-
plaints. Yet we have no reason to murmur against, or com-
plain of our God, who doth all things justly, wisely, and
well; but of ourselves, who neither know, do, nor suffer,
as we ought; but in many things we offend all,' and there-
fore all suffer justly. It's true, you will say, What is to be
done under our present sufferings? What?
(1) Let every one search and try his and her ways, and say
seriously, what have I done' to kindle so great a fire of
God's indignation against myself, and the church of God?
the sin of any one of his may provoke him against every one;
as of Jonah, David, and Hezekiah. God is calling the sin
of his people to remembrance, and shall not they do it, as he
to afflict them so they to repent them?-(2.) Let not self-
examination be common, [superficial] inaffectionate; but
special, thorough, affectionate, heart-melting soul-afflicting,
extraordinary; becoming so dark a day. Judgment is more
than begun at the house of God; and therefore it becomes
God's house to be a house of mourning indeed, for their own
and others sins, like that of Hadadrimmon in the valley of
Megiddo.-(3.) Let us not now take up with a formal search,
confession, and humiliation as heretofore, but press after a
personal, relative, and thorough reformation of what is amiss
in heart, tongue, and life. Let us forsake sin confessed, that
we may obtain mercy; and let us indeed so turn from all our
sins of life actually, of heart affectionately; and so turn to the
Lord our God, that he may turn to us in mercy to heal our
hearts, lives, church, and land.-(4.) Let us indeed have a
daily vigorous recourse, by a lively faith, unto Christ and his
blood of sprinkling, that by virtue thereof all the blessings of
the new covenant may be more powerfully, effectually, and ex-
perimentally conveyed into our hearts and lives, more to assi-
milate both to the heart and life of our dearest Lord Jesus, in
grace here, and glory hereafter-(5.) Let that faith, in the
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reality and eminence of it, be daily more and more manifest in
our new obedience, especially in our united affections of love
to and delight in our God thro' Christ, and thro' him in each
other! Oh! where is that fervent love to God and each
other, with purity of heart? Is not the love of many waxen
'cold in this day wherein iniquity abounds?' Where is that
union of hearts and ways [which] God's covenant promises
and calls for? Enemies are one to destroy us, studying all
artifices imaginable to do it; and shall not we be one for
mutual edification, confirmation, and consolation? By what
strength of arguments, what holy and fervent passion is this
often argued by the apostle, 1 Cor. xiii. Eph. iv. Phil. ii.
He saw the excellency and necessity of it in the church of
Christ in his day, and is it not so at this day? O God, let
us be found in the spirit of it!— (6.) Whatever you do in the
worship and service of God, carefully see that your chief
motives therein, and thereto, be not the examples of others,
slavish fear of men, and persecution by men; this will not
bear you out before God: but let them be, obedience to a
divine precept, general or particular; a persuasion of God's
spirit with yours, that the way of worship you walk in is
agreeable to God's revealed will; (for whatever is not of
faith is sin'); and that love to God in Christ engages you
so to worship and walk.-(7.) Wherein you differ in your
opinion and practice from others, take heed of contemning
or reproaching each other; of animosity and bitterness of
spirit, against one another; but rather pity each other; and,
in love, counsel, instruct, and pray one for another, waiting
patiently for God's blessing on these counsels and prayers:
in the mean time forbearing one another in love,' until
God by his spirit shall reveal his mind to them that differ
from you.
If any be over-taken in a fault, you that are
spiritual, restore such a one with the spirit of meekness,
considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.'-(8.) Take
heed of all sinful compliances and mixtures of human inven-
tions with divine institutions in the worship of God. Will-
worship will prove vain worship. We must not be men's
servants but Christ's; not seek to please them, but him.
We must not lift our tool on God's altar,' lest we defile
it, nor set our post by his; our Dagon by his ark, lest we be
broke in pieces.-(9.) Take heed of a spirit of estrangement
from each other, but maintain a holy christian communion
God promises his presence to the meeting of
When you meet, let it ever be for the better;
as you can.
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for mutual edification, (Mal. iii. 16.) Strengthen one ano-
ther's hands in God, as Jonathan did David's when he was
in the wood.—(10) Sit loose to the creatures, and all crea-
ture-enjoyments. Sit near and cleave close to your dear Lord
Jesus. Seek not great things here for yourselves, but seek
the things above, where Christ sits at the right hand of
• God.' Let your affections and conversation be in heaven;
lay up your treasures there, where thieves cannot break
thro' nor steal.' Many Demas's there are, who do and
will forsake Christ's interest, to embrace the present world.
• What is written aforetime, is written for our learning.'-
(11,) Really and frequently in your thoughts resign up your-
selves, with all that you are and have, to the sole and so-
vereign disposal of the only wise God, and Almighty Crea-
tor and Governor of all; and seeing our times, our all, are
in his hand, a hand so good, so powerful, so tender, so safe,
let us humbly, quietly, and contentedly leave all there, with
all patience and long-suffering; verily believing that he will
order all for his glory and for the good of his.-(12.) Give
all diligence to make your calling and election sure;' to get
assurance of God's love and favour in Christ to your souls in
particular. All we have is now agoing; there is no assu-
rance of liberty, estate, relations, or life to any. O that this
might awaken us to assure God in Christ to us! that while
evil men are devising and endeavouring to take all from us, we
may on good ground say, the Lord is our portion;' and he
being ours, in him we inherit all things.-(13.) Get and main-
tain in your souls an inward spiritual joy and peace in be-
lieving. In every thing give thanks. Rejoice in the Lord
always. Again I say rejoice.' This will be your strength,
to mortify corruptions, resist temptations, perform all duties.
absolute and relative, and with courage to undergo the worst.
of sufferings you can meet with; to persevere to the end in
doing and suffering God's will, that therein being faithful
unto death, you may obtain a crown of life.' That
may embrace the counsel given, O pray, pray, watch and
pray;' pray for yourselves, for me, and for all that love
Christ in sincerity, that I, you, they, may be accounted
worthy either to escape those dismal things that are coming
upon us, or if not, yet may stand before the Son of Man,
when he comes to judge the world in righteousness,' with
courage, confidence, and comfort.
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your last I received, heartily letting you know, that tho' I
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am 'absent in body' from you to my great grief, yet I am
present with you in spirit,' daily praying for you, longing
'to see you, which I should have done once and again, had
'not Satan hindered;' which he will do till Christ comes
and binds him in chains, and removes him out of the way, and
gives his [people] a quiet and full enjoyment of himself in each
other. Which that he may, is the earnest prayer of your un-
worthy pastor, solicitous for your souls good. I am, &c.
Communicate this to ours.
KILSBY [V.] Mr. WORTH. Born in the parish of Wool-
stane, near Coventry. He was first ejected from a sequestra-
tion at Burton upon Dunsmore in Warwickshire, and after-
ward from this place, where he preached without any title,
by the Bartholomew-act. After this ejectment he preached
a short time at Daventry, and then at Chipping-Norton. He
had three sons ministers among the Dissenters; John (who
took his degree in physic) settled at Marlborough; William,
at or near St. Ives, in Cornwall; and Stephen, at Cirencester
in Gloucestershire, where he succeeded Mr. Beeby. § A
number of pious christians in this village and its vicinity,
used to maintain meetings for religious worship, with the
occasional assistance of neighbouring ministers, for many
years before they had a fixed pastor; till the late Mr. Thomas
Strange supplied them from Dr. Doddridge's academy at
Northampton, whom they cordially invited to settle among
them. He accepted this invitation, and proved a very labo-
rious and successful minister. Under him both the congre-
gation and church encreased, so that in a few years, the place
which they had fitted up required enlargement, and soon after
the erection of a new one became necessary. By the bles-
sing of God on his labours the interest of practical godliness
also prospered. Mr. Strange was a minister of a truly primi-
tive stamp, highly esteemed by his brethren, and venerated
by the tutors and students in the academy at Daventry, six
miles distant, several of whom found their visits to Kilsby
equally pleasant and profitable. The editor has peculiar plea-
sure in mentioning himself as one of the number; at whose.
request some memoirs of this excellent inan were drawn
up by Mr. Thomas Robins, late tutor of the Daventry aca-
demy, and inserted in the Protestant Dissenter's Magazine.
They contain a perfect model of a village pastor.
LODDINGTON [R.] HENRY WILLES, M. A. [instit.
1655]. An able scholar, a considerable mathematician, and
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of great skill in the law; an eminent preacher, and of a most
engaging carriage. After his ejectment he lived at Cransley
in the same county, having a considerable estate. Some
time after he preached privately to the people at Welling-
borough, where his memory was long exceedingly precious,
for two things especially, viz. the extraordinary suitableness
of his composures to the minds of the weakest, notwith-
standing the depth and fulness of his matter; and that great
piety and refreshing favour, which seasoned his common
conversation.
WORKS. The Marriage-blessing, in a Crown of Children.
MERSTON Trussel, [150l.] Mr. WALTER HORNBY.
Of Eman. Col. Camb. His father was also a minister, who
had this living many years, and bought the advowson of it
for his son. In Oliver's time they both preached the lecture
at Harborough. The father died just before the Uniformity-
act took place, in his 68th year. The son was earnestly
pressed by his mother to conform; but he refused, and gave
this answer: "If I want bread you can help me; but if I go
against my oath, and have a guilty conscience, you cannot."
He presented Mr. Blackerby to this living; upon whose re-
moving into Suffolk, he presented Mr. Bodington; and after
him, Mr. Pike. He himself preached some time at Langton,
under Mr. Blackerby, before the Act of uniformity, and after-
wards kept up the meeting at Shawel near Lutterworth,
[where he resided in 1669] but was not pastor of a congre-
gation. He communicated with Mr. Clark of Harborough.
He was a very pious man, but subject to melancholy; yet at
times very chearful. He used to hear moderate Conformists,
such as he presented to Marston living; who would join
with Mr. Clark, Mr. Shuttlewood, and other dissenting mi-
nisters, in keeping private fasts. Mr. Hornby, tho' the pa-
tron of the living, received nothing out of the profits of it,
unless now and then some small present. § Nichols says,
He died at Lubenham, Dec. 20, 1687, in the 59th year of
his age. Some of the dates in the former account were in-
accurate.
NORTHAMPTON. St. Giles's. Mr. JEREMIAH LEWIS.
This living was formerly in the gift of the Earl of Northamp-
ton, who had bestowed it on Mr. Bennet. He being rich,
and not needing it, gave leave to Mr. Whaley, mayor of the
town, to put in any one that he and the people liked best, and
he,
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he, with Mr. Bennet's full approbation, and the general con-
sent of the people, gave it to Mr. Lewis, who enjoyed
it near twelve years before his ejectment in 1662. He was
a very reserved man, and it doth not appear that he ever
preached afterwards. Indeed he seldom went abroad, and
not long after died at Northampton. He was greatly fol-
lowed, and universally respected, except by some Quakers,
who would sometimes affront him, but he used to pass by
without regarding them. He was a man of great meekness,
and singular prudence; much beloved by the neighbouring
ministers, and an intimate of Mr. Daniel Cawdry of Billing.
§ In Bridges there is this entry: "Jeremiah Lewes 1616.
Probably this was his father.
NORTON [near Daventry R. 6ol.] Mr. ROBERT Allen.
He was one of the lecturers at Daventry. A man of an
excellent, mild, affectionate temper; and a very popular
preacher. His church was crowded, from Buckby, Weedon,
Badby, and all the neighbouring parts. After his ejectment.
he removed to Adston, six or seven miles distant, where
Harbye Esq; entertained both him and his wife; and
there he died within a few years, leaving no children.
OACKLEY (Magna). THOMAS DANDY, M. A. Of
Oxford university. A very warm affectionate preacher: both
a Boanerges and a Barnabas. He was a man eminent for
holiness and spirituality in his frame and conversation, as
well as in his public ministrations. He was singular in the
conversion and edification of many. He was first chaplain
to Sir William Fleetwood, at Woodstock, and afterwards.
removed to Colonel Brook's, where he was instrumental to
the good of several branches of his family, and had great in-
fluence on the children and servants. That gentleman had
made the living of Oackley (which was but six nobles a year)
worth 40l. per annum to Mr. Dandy. After Bartholomew-
day, he preached in the Colonel's house near the church.
He afterwards resided with Mr. Brooks (the son and succes-
sor to the Colonel) to his dying day. He lived so much
above the world, had such sweet converse with God, such
an heavenly rest of soul in Christ, and satisfaction concern-
ing the favour of God thro' him for eternal life, that he
would often say, "I long to be at home.”
OUNDLE [V. 24l. augmented to 40l.] Mr. RICHARD
RESBURY. Lord Montague was very kind to him, as were
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several others, on account of the smallness of his income
He resigned six weeks before Bartholomew-day, and preach-
ed afterwards in his own house at Oundle. He practised
physic with good success, and was consulted by persons of
all ranks. After some time it pleased God to visit him with
the palsy. Dr. Wild, who then lived at Oundle, wrote let-
ters in his behalf to all parts of the country, in order to raise
money to carry him to Bath for his relief. Among the rest,
he sent one to Mr. Coldwell, the public minister at West-
beach, which procured 20/. of which he gave 57. himself.
He returned from Bath, but did not live long after. He was
a man of bright parts, and very facetious. He had the ge-
neral reputation of a solid divine, and made a considerable
figure in this county. He was particularly honoured for
what he wrote in opposition to Mr. John Goodwin in the
Arminian controversy.
WORKS. A Stop to the Growth of Arminianism.----The Ta-
bernacle of God with Man; or the visible Church reformed: a
Disc. of the Matter and Discipline of the visible Church.
PAULERSPERY [R. 300l.] Mr. VINCENT CRupper.
He used to pray for King Charles before his restoration, and
read the creed, and ten commandments, &c. When he was
silenced he lived with his son, whom he had brought up to
the ministry, and who conformed. He was reckoned but a
mean preacher, but was an honesst good man, and very cha-
ritable. He found employment for many poor. Bridges
mentions him as succeeding to this living by intrusion, 20
June 1647, and says, "He had followed the law in quality
"of an attorney, tho' Mr. Walker tells us, his friends
"affirmed him to be a Master of Arts.”
RINGSTEAD and DENFORD. Mr. RAYMOND. He
was an able preacher, and bold as a lion. It doth not appear
that he preached after he was cast out of his living; but he
lived privately in the place where he was ejected till his death,
which was not long afterwards, in the 70th year of his age.
He was a very fervent affectionate preacher; zealous against
the errors of the times. His family was well provided for.
He had two sons, whom he brought up to the ministry, who
both conformed.
SUDBOROUGH [R.] Mr. JOHN ROWLET. [instit. 1648.]
He preached in his turn at the lecture at Thrapston, which was
carried
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carried on by six persons of eminence. If any of them failed,
Mr. Rowlet was ready to supply for them. After Bartho-
lomew-day 1662, he removed to Nether Dean, in Bedford-
shire, where he lived privately, but as often preached as he
had opportunity, and was supported by a little estate of his
own, of about 20l. per annum. He ordinarily went to the
public church, and in the evening of the Lord's-day used to
preach to such of his neighbours as were willing to hear him
in his own house. In the time or King Charles's Indul-
gence, there was a meeting every Lord's-day at Welling-
borough, upheld by Mr. Alsop, and this Mr. Rowlet, who
continued preaching there till death disabled him. He is re-
presented by such as attended on his ministry and knew him
well, as a most agreeable preacher, who used to charm his
hearers. Mr. Alsop once speaking to a person concerning
him, said, "If this man had but a body to his soul, he would
be incomparable." He died of a consumption.
TANSOVER [R.] Mr. EDWARD CAWTHORNE. [instit.
20 Jan. 1646.]. He was one of the lecturers at Oundle,
where he had a good estate, and whither he removed after his
ejectment in 1660, and there he died in 1665 or 6, He was
a man of great meekness, and a very able preacher.
THORP Malzover [R.] JOHN COURTMAN, B. D. Fel-
low of Trin. Col. Camb. and one of the university preachers.
He was a very facetious person, of a ready wit, and florid
talents. After his ejection, he preached only in the house
of Mr. Mansel, the patron; keeping the living, and employ-
ing a curate. He afterwards resigned it to his son, and prac-
tised physic with great success; being particularly noted for
curing paralytic distempers, and insane people. One Sabbath-
day, when all the family were gone to church, he was seized
with a fit, and when they came home was found past recovery.
On a freestone, in the middle of the chancel, is this in-
scription: "Here lyeth the body of John Courtman, Di-
vine and Physician, who was born at Heningham Sible, in
Essex, and died Feb. 9, in the 65th year of his age, 1691.
There is also a monument for his son, who succeeded him as
rector, and died in 1719.
THRAPSTON [R.] Mr. THOMAS TARRY. He had a
very large congregation; was much beloved by his parishion-
ers, and greatly respected by all the neighbouring ministers.
He was very charitable to the poor while he was in his liv-
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ing; but after his ejectment was reduced so low, that his
wife made band-strings (then much in fashion) for a liveli-
hood. After some time, he was invited to the free-school
at Higham-ferrers *, the salary of which was only 107.
per annum; [but he had many other scholars] many gentle-
men sending their sons to him for instruction, so that he grew
rich; but some difference arising between him and some
wealthy persons in the town, he removed to some place
near London, where he spent the remainder of his days.
TWYWELL (R. 50 or 60l.] Mr. JOHN SEATON. Sliptan
living is commonly joined with this. Mr. Seaton was very
fervent in the pulpit, but very mild out of it. After his eject-
ment he taught school at Islip, where several of the neigh-
bouring gentlemen committed their children to his care.
He removed from thence to Thrapston, where also he con-
tinued to keep school; and there he died, about the 70th year
of his age. He often went to church, having no congrega-
tion of his own, but preached now and then at Sir Gilbert
Pickering's at Tichmarch; at Cranford for Mr. Whiting,
and at a few other places. He met with no trouble for his
Nonconformity.
WERKWORTH (near Banbury) Mr. FRANCIS FUL-
LER §. He was curate to Dr. Temple in this living. He
was the son of Mr. Fuller of Ironmonger-lane, London.
He was a facetious pleasant man; [and discovered great sa-
gacity in judging of some future events.] He was some-
times in the West of England, and sometimes in London,
preaching occasionally, but not inclined to fix. He died at
London, July 21, 1701, aged 64. His funeral sermon was
preached by Mr. Jeremy White, which was his first publi-
cation.
WORKS. Rules how to use the World-Of Faith and Re-
pentance-Of the Shortness of Time.-Words to give the young
Man Knowledge and Discretion.-Advice to his Son.-A Trea-
tise of Grace and Duty.-Peace in War, by Christ the Prince of
Peace; a Serm. on a Fast Day, June 26, 1696.-Some of these
are very excellent, entertaining and useful. J. o.
* Erccted and endowed by Abp. Chichley, who was a native of this town,
Ob. 1443. The school-room in the church-yard, still in being, is a most
elegant building.
§ WOOD writes him FRANCIS FULLER, M. A. Of Queen's Col. Camb. and
mentions the 2d and 4th of the above pieces. Fasti Oxon. p. 153.
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WEEDON Beck [V.] Mr. GEORGE MARTYN. He lost
an arm for the King, in Sir George Booth's rising; and yet,
such was the ingratitude of those in power, that in 1667, he
was in Warwick jail some months for preaching. After his
ejectment he often exercised his ministry among a handful of
honest people at Stony Stratford, who long had a great re-
spect for his memory. He was a serious, holy, good-tem-
pered, and couragious man.
He
WELLINGBOROUGH [V.] Mr. THOMAS ANDREws.
Of Camb. university. After his settlement in this living,
(which was given him by Lord or Lady Brook) he often had
disturbance from the soldiers quartered in the town, two of
whom had formed a design to stab him in his bed; but they
were prevented. He had trouble also from the Quakers, who
would come into the church and disturb him as he was preach-
ing; when he used to stop till they were taken out.
was generally respected by the ministers in his neighbour-
hood, twelve of whom took their turn at his Wednesday
lectures. By his frugality he had saved some hundreds of
pounds; so that he was better provided for at his ejectment,
than many of his brethren. When the Act of uniformity
took place, he retired to Meers Ashby, where he preached
at Mr. Preston's in the night. He often preached also at Lady
Tyrrel's. Archdeacon Palmer, his wife's brother, much pres-
sed him to conform, but he was not to be prevailed with:
however he took the Oxford-oath, and sometimes went to
church, so that he lived quietly at Ashby. He was a man
of great courage, of an agreeable behaviour, and much belov-
ed by his neighbours. His son John conformed, and was
minister of Yaxley.
estate.
WHITTLEBURY, JOHN FIDO, M. A. Of Trin. Col.
Camb. He was born at Stanford upon Teeme in Worces-
tershire, and was the son of a gentleman of a considerable
He continued at the university 14 years. He was
first minister of Hardwick, near Cambridge, and was pre-
sented to this living by the parliament. At the Restoration,
Dr. Skinner laid claim to it, when Mr. Fido stood a trial
with him at the assizes at Northampton, and cast him. The
judge declared that Mr. Fido had a legal title to the living,
of which no one could dispossess him; and told the Doctor,
"that when preachers were well provided for, and still co-
veted more, it shewed they minded the fleece more than the
flock."
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flock." However Mr. Fido was soon after ejected by the
Bartholomew-act, when he went to London, and there died
in 1667 or 1668, about the 37th year of his age. He was
strictly congregational in his judgment.
WILBY [R.] VINCENT ALSOP, M. A. Of St. John's
Col. Camb. After he left the university he was for some
time assistant in the free-school at Oakham in Rutland. He
there got into loose company, to whom his facetiousness made
him very acceptable; but by conversation with Mr. Benj.
King, the minister of the town, (whose daughter he after-
wards married) shook off his bad acquaintance, and hearti
y
fell in with serious piety, of which he was all his life after
a diligent promoter. A worthy person says, he was told by
Mr. King, that Mr. Alsop had episcopal ordination: but
that, not being satisfied with it, he was afterwards ordained
by Presbyters. Herein he differed in judgment from the
generality of the ejected ministers. After his ejectment at
Wilby for Nonconformity in 1662, he lived some time at
Wellingborough, where he exercised his ministry as the
times would permit. He was bound over to the sessions
for preaching in Oakham, and lay six months in Northamp-
ton jail for praying with a sick person; but he continued un-
moved. The first thing that made him generally known
was, his writing with such smartness against Dr. Sherlock's
book on the knowledge of Christ. It was on account of that
performance that Mr. Cawton recommended him for his suc-
cessor at Westminster. He was accordingly chosen, and
accepted the call. He was here well accepted and very use-
ful. However, he met with not a little trouble from ill-af-
fected people, and his nearness to the court the more exposed
him. Certain persons, to curry favour with those in power,
were active in their endeavours to sour the spirits of some
who perhaps of themselves had no inclination to give him.
disturbance. And yet he never was imprisoned, as many of
his brethren were, in the latter part of Charles's reign; nor
were his goods confiscated. He was screened from several
seizures by the ignorance of his enemies, respecting his given
name.
His answer to Dr. Goodman and Dr. Stillingfleet, much
increased his general reputation. The latter indeed answer-
ed him with contempt; at which his old tutor at Cambridge
expressed his displeasure, saying, that his pupil, while at col-
lege, was reputed to have the better abilities. His conduct
in

Branwhice, Se.
Vincent Alsop.
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of
in the reign of King James occasioned him much censure:
But who is wise at all times? And yet his concern for a be-
loved son, his only child, who was spared to him by the
king's pardon, may be allowed to plead for him in excuse of
some high flights in an address, which could not be supposed
any material consequence. But none more rejoiced in the
Revolution, or were more hearty in King William's interest,
than Mr. Alsop; who set himself to improve to the utmost,
the liberty legally granted, endeavouring with all his might
to promote truth, peace, and holiness. He preached once on
the Lord's day, had a Thursday-lecture, and was one of the
six lecturers at Pinners-hall; and he was not without suc-
cess, but many heartily blessed God for him. He died at
his house in Westminster, May 8, 1703. His funeral ser
mon was preached by Mr. Slater. Anthony Wood sum-
mons all the ill-nature he was master of in censuring Mr.
Alsop's wit, declaring him, "no way qualified for any per-
formance wherein any thing of wit was requisite, either by
the natural bent of his own genius, or by any acquired im-
provements."
Of the justice of this censure, let those judge
who are acquainted with his writings; particularly his An-
swer to Dr. Sherlock, who had affected to treat the most
sacred things of religion in a jocular way. Mr. Alsop so
sharply turned the edge upon him, that this celebrated author
never cared to reply, nor was he ever fond of that way of
writing afterwards. And Dr. South, who was as famous for
his wit and drollery as any one of the age, and a most bitter
enemy of Dissenters, acknowledges that Mr. Alsop obtained
a compleat victory.
He was succeeded by Dr. Calamy, in whose ordination
he had been concerned; of which the Dr. gives the follow-
ing account. "I was very strictly examined by him before
my ordination; at which time I made and defended a Latin
Thesis, upon this question, which he gave me, An Christus
Officio Sacerdotali fungatur in Calis tantum? He (for argu-
ment-sake) opposed me with all the vigour, smartness and
fluency of a young man. This was in the year 1694, when
Mr. Jos. Bennet, Mr. Thos. Reynolds, Mr. Jos. Hill, Mr.
Eben. Bradshaw, Mr. Joshua Bayes, Mr. King of Rumford,
were publicly ordained with me, in Little St. Helens. The
other persons who assisted in the solemnity, were Dr. An-
nesley, Mr. Stretton, Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Daniel Williams,
Mr. Mat. Sylvester, and Mr. Tho. Kentish. This was the
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first public ordination among the Dissenters in the city after
the Act of uniformity." (See Vol. I. p. 127.)
WORKS. Antisozzo; in Vind. of some great Truths opposed
by Mr. W. Sherlock.-Melius Inquirendum; in Ans, to Dr. Good-
man's Compassionate Enquiry.The Mischief of Impositions, in
Ans. to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of Separation.---Duty and In-
terest united in Prayer and Praises for Kings, &c.---A Thanksgiving
Sermon on Sept. 8, 1695.---Practical Godliness the Ornament of
Religion. [The Life of Mr. Daniel Cawdry.]-God in the
Mount; a Serm. on the Deliverance of his Majesty from Assassi-
nation, and the Nation from Invasion.-A Fast Serm. at West-
minster, Dec. 19, 1701, on Gen. xviii. 32.—A Serm. to the Socie-
ties for Reform of Manners.-A faithful Rebuke to a false Report:
as to the Differences among the united Ministers in London.-
Two Sermons in Morn. Ex.
WOODFORD [in Huxlow hundred] Mr. WILLIAM
LLOYD : commonly called Doctor, because of his practi-
sing physic; but it is uncertain whether he ever took his de-
gree. There are two livings in this place, which were both
given him by Lord St. John of Melchburn. Some time after
his ejectment he lived for a while at Ipswich, where he left
a good name. He often went to visit and assist his old neigh-
bour Mr. Whiting of Cranford. He was a man of a plea-
sant countenance, well beloved by his neighbours, much
commended as a preacher, and esteemed one of the greatest
scholars in the county.
WOLLASTON. Mr. EDMUND MATTHEWS. A man
of good learning, sound judgment, and serious piety: but
not of a ready elocution. He continued in this place when
he might have had a living of 200l. per annum. After the
Bartholomew-act silenced him, he lived privately at Welling-
borough, and practised physic for a livelihood, being reduced
to great straits. But when things were at the lowest with
him, he committed his wife and seven children to the care of
providence; and God mercifully regarded him and his: for
when he lay on his death-bed, he had a messenger from two
of his relations (the one a draper, and the other a minister)
bidding him be easy about his wife and children: for that
the one would cloath them all, and the other provide them
food. His widow afterwards practised physic, and sent two
§ Calamy had it Flood; probably corrupted from FLOYD, as that often has
been from Lloyd, Bridges has it," Will. Lloyd, Cl. 23 Nov. 1648.”
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of her sons to the university; the eldest daughter married a
knight. Mr. Matthews was a man full of compassion, and
unwearied charity. While he was in his living, when in
the course of his visits, (which were frequent, and managed
with great seriousness) he met with sick persons who needed
relief, he would often order his wife to get a joint of meat,
and make broth and send it to their houses. He was also
exemplary for faith, meekness, patience, resignation to the
will of God, and reliance on his promises; and he had great
comfort in his death.
The following afterwards conformed.
Mr. DICKENSON, of Paston.-Mr. LIONEL GOODRICK,
of Overston.—Mr. JOHN STANLEY, of Corby.-Mr. EL-
BOROUGH, of Geddington.-Mr. SOUTHWOOD, of Pytch-
ley. Mr. PHILIP TALLENTS, of Lilford, (brother to him
of Shrewsbury). He was vicar of Moulton in Lincoln-
shire.-Mr. GASCOYN, of Warmington.—Mr. WINSTON
and Mr. MARSHALL.-Mr. WARRE, of Morton Pinkney,
where he continued preaching till the 80th year of his age.
Mr. Jos. NEVILL, of Potterspery.—Mr. TROTT, of Draug-
ton: he bought the living of Newton, near Higham Fer-
rers.-Mr. NICHOLAS KENRICK, of Earls Barton. It was
said he never went up the pulpit-stairs with comfort after his
conforming. He had written against the ceremonies, and
was at last but half a Conformist; for which he was cited
into the spiritual court, but was screened by Archdeacon Pal-
mer, under pretence of bodily infirmities. He freely suffer-
ed his children to go and hear the ejected ministers, and al-
ways maintained a brotherly affection towards them.
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ALLENTON
ALNWICK [Curacy.] GILBERT RULE. M. D. Before
his settlement here, he had been a noted tutor in the univer-
sity of Glasgow; and in 1651 he was sub-principal of
King's College, Aberdeen. While he was at Alnwick he
was very useful, and much beloved by the generality of peo-
ple; but after the Restoration, he met with great difficulties.
One Major Orde, a churchwarden, who had been very
friendly to him before, about the beginning of August, 1660,
when the congregation was assembled, and Mr. Rule was in
the pulpit, going to begin the worship, came and presented
the service-book to him, desiring him to read it. Mr. Rule,
after some debate, took it and laid it by him, telling him,
he either would read it, or give his reasons for the contrary.
He then prayed; and instead of expounding a portion of
scripture, discoursed for about half an hour against the ser-
vice-book; and after another prayer, preached as usual.
When he returned to church in the afternoon, he found
the doors shut, and the congregation gathered without upon
which he preached in the church-yard, to a very numerous
auditory. At the Assizes at Newcastle, a few weeks after,
Major Orde indicted him for depraving the Common-Prayer,
and gave in articles against him, from what he had said in the
pulpit, which was written from his mouth, by one of the
Major's associates. Mr. Rule not being then at Newcastle,
the Major procured from the judge a special warrant to ap-
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prehend him. When he had notice of it, he went and
spoke to the judge in his chamber, gave bond to appear at
the next assizes, and got a supersedeas to the warrant. The
Major shewed so much zeal in the business, that he went
from house to house threatening the people who should sign
a certificate of Mr. Rule's peaceable carriage amongst them,
to which some had procured several hundreds of hands. He
also railed at Mr. Rule in the streets, and when desired to
give up the warrant, on its being superseded, he refused, say-
ing, he would keep it for his own satisfaction. About three
weeks after, the Major as he was returning homeward, fell
from his horse near Ovingham, when they who saw him
fall, ran and found him dead, and the jury were agreed that
he was dead before he fell. Mr. Rule appeared at the next
assize; but this awful providence struck such terror into his
prosecutors that they meddled no more in the business, and he
was acquitted. There is some account of this affair in Annus
Mirabilis secundus, p. 51, which is inaccurate. The above
is from Mr. Rule's own letter, dated Edinburgh, Sept. 2,
1696 which was found among Dr. Sampson's papers.
:
After his ejectment in 1662 he went into Scotland, and from
thence into France and Holland, where he studied physic,
and took his Doctor's degree. When he returned he lived
some time in Berwick, and preached to the Dissenters there,
frequently in the night. He also there practised physic,
making up his own medicines, and he met with much esteem
and success. Being once called on to visit a patient on the Scots
side, viz. the Laird of Houndwood, and obliged to stay all
night, he expounded a chapter, and prayed in the family, none
else being present. For this the Laird was fined in 100 Scots
marks: and could they have found the Dr. he must have suf-
fered too but being aware of the danger, he did not expose
himself on that side. After some time the Earl of H
who was very zealous against the Dissenters, and often sadly
worried them with his troop of horse, thinking it would be
meritorious to seize a man of the Dr.'s note, adopted this
stratagem to entrap him. A letter was drawn up as coming
from Mr. Carr of Ninewells, desiring the Dr. to come im-
mediately and bring such medicines as he thought proper for
him in the utmost extremity of the cholic. This letter
he sent by one of his servants in the habit of a countryman.
The Dr. ordered his own servant (who related the story) to
make up the medicines, while he got himself ready. The
horse was brought out, and he was just going to mount;
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when the messenger, being touched with remorse at such
abominable treachery, frankly told him, that if he went with
him it might cost him his life; for that the Earl of H
lay with his troop of horse at the bound road to seize him,
as soon as he entered Scotland; that he belonged to the Earl,
who framed the letter himself, purely with a design to ap-
prehend him. Thus this good man providentially escaped
the snare.
When K. Charles granted an indulgence to the dissenters
in Scotland, the Earl of Haddington, Sir Robert Sinclare,
and other persons of quality, invited Dr. Rule to preach in
a meeting-house which they had fitted up for him at Lintin-
bridge, near Haddington. After a few months, going to
visit his niece, Mr. Kennedy's lady, at Edinburgh, who at
that time lay-in, they desired that he might baptize the child.
Accordingly they prevailed with the episcopal minister of
the parish to invite the Dr. to give him a sermon on a lec-
ture-day in his church, which he did; and after sermon he
baptized the child, not being apprehensive of any inconveni-
ence from it. But he was seized the next day, in the street
by an officer, committed to a file of musqueteers, and sent
prisoner to the Bass, where he was confined above twelve
months. And tho' he was dangerously ill, no interest of
his worthy friends (several of whom were considerable no-
blemen) could prevail for his liberty. At last, when he was
quite spent, they banished him out of Scotland; and he soon
after had a call to Dublin, where he preached for some time
with good acceptance.-After the Revolution he was invit-
ed to Edinburgh, and became Principal of the College, and
one of the stated ministers of that city. He was induced to
accept of that station, in hope of more extensive usefulness;
tho' he was rather inclined to have settled at Alnwick,
where he was first ordained, and had been ejected. He con-
tinued in this station till his death.
He was a man of great learning, candor and moderation,
generally esteemed and beloved. K. William took particular
notice of him, when he was one of the commissioners from
Scotland, at his court, in the beginning of his reign, and shewed
him much respect. The university of Edinburgh was at that
time happy in two bright ornaments, Dr. Rule and Mr.
Campbell, Professor of Divinity. They lived together in great
harmony and friendship, but were in different habits of study-
ing. Dr. Rule used to sit up late, but Professor Campbell
rose very early; so that many times the Dr.'s candle was
not
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not put out, by the time Mr. Campbell's was lighted, which
was seen from the windows being opposite. The one was
commonly called The Evening-Star, and the other The
Morning-Sar. The Dr. died a little before Mr. Campbell.
When the news came to him that the Dr. was departed, it
made no small impression upon him, and he presently said,
"The Evening-Star is now gone down, and the Morning-
Star will soon disappear." A large account of this worthy
person may be seen in Woodrow's History of the Sufferings
of the Church of Scotland, Vol. II. B. iii. p. 126.
WORKS. A rational Defence of Nonconformity-The good
old Way defended against A. M. D. D. in his Enquiry into the
new opinions of the Scots Presbyterians.-The Cyprianic Bishop
examined, and found not to be a Diocesan-An Answer to Dr.
Stillingfleet's Irenicum.-A Vindication of the Purity of Gospel-
Worship, ag. Ritchel and others.—A Representation of Presbyt.
Government, &c.-Answer to ten Qrs. concerning Episcopal and
Presbyt. Government.-A second Vindic. of the Church of Scot-
land.-Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church
of Scotland.
ANCROFT [C.] Mr. JOHN FORESIDE.
BEDLINGTON [V.] Mr. JOHN DARNTON. After be-
ing silenced here, he lived at Tanfield, near Rippon in York-
shire. He was not ordained when ejected, nor for several
years after. When he was called to preach in 1672, he was
ashamed and grieved that he had preached to long without
ordination, and applied to a meeting of ministers to be or-
dained, as he accordingly was, July 10, 1678. He did much
good at Tanfield, which was a dark place, and died there,
July 9, 1680.
BENTON Magna [V.] Mr. ALEXander White.
BERWICK upon Tweed. [V.] LUKE OGLE. M. A. He
was first minister of Ingram, from whence he removed to
Berwick, where he was when Gen. Monk came from Scot-
land with his army; who having at first thought of conti-
nuing a while in that town, which was the best post in the
North, made Mr. Ogle a visit, and was exceedingly kind to
him, as he found he had great interest in the affections of the
people. But finding it necessary to move forward, he left
his family at Berwick; and Lord Widdrington was made
governor, who once heard Mr. Ogle preach, and was at first.
civil to him, but afterwards, on his refusing to conform,
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proved his most implacable enemy. It much afflicted Mr.
Ogle to see how soon prophaneness and all kinds of wicked-
ness grew up in the town, by means of the numerous garri-
sons, and the many Romanists that came to reside there.
In a sermon on the 5th of Nov. following, he laid open the
dangerous principles and the cruel practices of the Papists.
Many of the officers were chagrined, and informed the Go-
vernor, who was much incensed; and soon after employed
a person to write his sermon after him, to try if he could
that way get any advantage against him. He once sent for
Mr. Ogle, at a time when he had many officers and gentle-
men with him, and told him he had preached treason. Mr.
Ogle replied, That he had delivered nothing but what he
could prove from the word of God. The Governor said,
He had many articles against him, to which he would make
him answer; and added, That he knew very well, that by
chusing that text (Amos ii. 1.) he meant to reflect on K.
Charles. On the 26th of Dec. following, it being usual to
have a sermon on Thursdays, the bells were rung, and Mr.
Ogle intended to preach, but the Governor ordered the
church-doors to be locked, and set a guard of soldiers to keep
him and the people out, because, he said, he had not preach-
ed on Christmas-day, the day preceding; and declared that
he should preach in Berwick church no more. And as it
happened he never did, for the Bartholomew-day after, he
was ejected by law for Nonconformity.
Hereupon he was invited to bestow his labours in a coun-
try church about three miles off, called Ancroft, where many
of the people of Berwick went to hear him. At this the Go-
vernor was so enraged, that one day he ordered the gates to be
shut, till Mr. Ogle and the people came together to the bridge,
and then they were opened, when he took the names of the
people, and committed Mr. Ogle to prison, where he remain-
ed six weeks. As he was sending him away, a friend of Mr.
Ogle's standing by, said boldly to the Governor, "It was
visible now what they aimed at, when they sent a Protestant
minister to prison by an officer who was a Papist." Upon
which he called the officer back, and went himself and put
Mr. Ogle into the Marshal's hands. After some weeks, upon
the solicitation of Sir Patricias Curwen, he was admitted to
bail, and confined within the town. A little after, getting
his liberty, he went to visit his friends in England, and after-
wards in Scotland, where he preached at a communion. The
Governor hearing of it, said, He preached treason there, as
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he had done before in England, and threatened to confine
him again. Upon the advice of his friends, he staid a good
while from his family, till several of the officers promised
that he should not be molested. And yet, when he returned,
he was sent to the Marshal's again, where he continued
some weeks, till, upon the intercession of friends, the Go-
vernor gave him his liberty, but banished him the town, be-
cause he refused to give him 500l. bond, that he would not.
seduce his majesty's subjects, which he knew he should be
represented as doing, if he offered to preach. Hereupon he
went to London, and made his application to General Monk,
telling him how the Governor had used him. The General
received him with the greatest civility, and promised, that if
he would conform, he would use his interest to make him a
bishop; but if he did not, he could do him no service; nor
even protect him in his parish. Mr. Ogle told him, that the
height of his ambition was only to live quietly amongst his
own people; but if that could not be obtained, he must sub-
mit to providence. On returning home, he was sent for by
the Governor, and Mr. Wrissel with him, who were both
sent to prison together, upon pretence of a Presbyterian
plot, said to be discovered in the South of England. But
after a month's imprisonment, upon the earnest solicitations
of some friends, he got his liberty, upon condition he should
leave Berwick.
}
Upon the Five-mile-act he went to Bousden, where he
had a small estate of his own, and there preached privately
some years, without being burdensome to any. But even
there he was molested, sometimes by dragoons, sometimes
by bailiffs, sometimes presented at the courts, and sometimes
complained of at the sessions for keeping conventicles; so
that his house was little better than a prison. But he had
inward peace and comfort, hoping he was doing God ser-
vice; and many were long after very thankful to God for the
benefit they received by his labours. When Charles II.
granted liberty to Dissenters, the Governor would not suffer
Mr. Ogle to live in Berwick, unless he would conform.
Upon the Indulgence in Scotland he was called to Lantown.
In Monmouth's time, by the order of Sir John Fenwick, he
was taken up by a party of soldiers and carried to Newcastle,
where tho' he was much indisposed, he was confined six
weeks, which had like to have cost him his life. Upon K.
James's liberty he was invited again to Berwick, and there
had a numerous congregation. In K. William's time he was
invited
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invited to Kelso, a considerable living upon the borders of
Scotland. He had also a call from the magistrates, ministers,
and people of Edinburgh, to be one of the fixed ministers
of that city; but he was not to be prevailed with to leave
Berwick, where God had signally supported, owned and
blessed him. There he lived beloved, and died much lament-
ed in April, 1696, aged 66.-He was a man of great learn-
ing, and particularly well skilled in ecclesiastical history. He
was a laborious, judicious, and affectionate preacher, and a
wise and prudent person for church government. He well
understood the art of preaching to all sorts of hearers.
When he would inform the more judicious, he did it so as
to fix the attention, but no way racked the understandings of
the less knowing; and when he would instruct the ignorant,
it was to the edification and satisfaction of the most intel-
ligent.
NICHOLAS WRESSEL, M. A. He was a man of great
piety, and very diligent in his ministerial work. After suf-
fering much for Nonconformity, he went to London. In
the latter part of his life he kept a private school at Stockwell,
where he died about the year 1695.
BOLHAM [V.] Mr. ROBERT LEAVER. Of St. John's
Col. Camb. Born in 1624. He was nephew and heir to Mr.
Henry Leaver of Brandspeth. His father a mercer in York,
was son to Mr. Sampson Leaver, and grandson to Mr.
Thomas Leaver, a man of much note in the time of Henry
VIII. An ancestor of his was chaplain to K. Edward VÍ.
This Mr. R. Leaver spent seven years in the university, and
being very studious, would have staid much longer; but his
father dying, he entered on the ministry at Bolham, where
he spent ten years; but this. being a sequestration, he was
obliged to resign it in 1660. He had laid out considera-
ble sums in repairing the parsonage-house, at the desire of
the parish, but never got the money repaid. Some time after,
he married Margaret, eldest daughter of Robert Dingley, Esq;
of Bramhope, and preached sometimes at a chapel in that
parish belonging to Sir W. Middleton, and elsewhere as op-
portunity offered, but was no where settled afterwards. When
he saw there was no prospect of public usefulness without
Conformity, he retired to a small estate which he had near
Durham, and every Lord's-day morning walked two miles
with his family to the parish church at Brandspeth, where
he had often been the preacher; and in the afternoon preached
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in his own house. Here he enjoyed quiet in obscurity, not
being disturbed by the Five-mile-act, or any of the laws then
in force against the Nonconformists; and preached when-
ever an opportunity offered. In 1672 he was engaged at
several places in this county: but by travelling in all wea-
thers, and being ill-accommodated among the miners and
workers at the forges, he contracted a paralytic habit. His
most frequent labours were in or near Newcastle, where he
often preached to some young men, but with such privacy
that he knew not where they met till one of them came to
conduct him to the place. These were the young men who
were cited before Lord Chief Justice Jefferies at Newcastle,
who are mentioned by Mr. Bennet in his Memorial of the
Reformation, p. 362. He also constantly kept up a meet-
ing at the house of Mr. Wilson, who was ejected from
Lamesley, in Durham, which was a little out of town. Here
they preached alternately gratis for two years.
In August 1684, Mr. Leaver was apprehended at his inn
in Gateshead, for preaching at a conventicle, at Mr. G.
Horsley's of Milburn Graing, a gentleman of family and
fortune, who spared neither his pains, nor purse, nor per-
son, to serve the interest of religion among the despised Non-
conformists, and was a considerable sufferer. He paid 60l.
for two sermons preached at his house in one day, by Mr.
Owen and Mr. Leaver. The warrant against Mr. Leaver
in this case was for 20l. to be levied upon his goods; and
by that was detained, till they procured one for his person,
by which he was carried before a justice, who committed
him to Durham jail. In about a week he was bailed and
bound over to the quarter sessions. When he appeared upon
his recognizance, none coming to demand the fine, he was
discharged, and the money was never paid. After this he
continued preaching, and upon Mr. Wickliffe's death was
called to his congregation. Here he met with some dis-
couragements, on account of a disagreement among the peo-
ple in the choice of an assistant, which occasioned a division,
tho' they did not raise above 10l. per annum for the pastor.
A gentleman in the congregation drew up a state of the case,
in which he complains of the ungovernableness of the peo-
ple, and the intrusion of the Scottish ministers. He also
gives some account of Mr. Leaver; whose grandfather, he
says, not only lost a considerable living for his Nonconfor-
mity, but spent nigh 1000l. of his own estate among his peo-
ple, and suffered with them.
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He continued to preach to the remaining part of the peo
ple, who were the majority, till July 1, 1690, when he
died after a few days illness, tho' he had been declining some
time, aged 66. He was of a low stature, and a weak con-
stitution, yet a hard student, and a learned man.
He was
not hasty in entering on the ministry, for he preached seven
years before he was ordained, which was at St. Nicholas in
Durham, with Mr. Franklin, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Thomp-
son; after which he would suffer nothing to divert him from
his work. His genius seems to have been acute and pene-
trating. He was a very subtle disputant, but a man of great
sincerity, and a very strict observer of the Lord's-day. He
desired to be buried in the church where he had been stated
preacher, but the old incumbent would not allow it, though
he had regularly paid him his fifths.
BOTHALL [R. 2001.] Mr. JOHN THOMPSON. His
sufferings for Nonconformity were very great. He was
taken in the bishopric of Durham, and imprisoned in the
common jail. This brought him into a dropsy, of which,
he died. He was a man of learning and an excellent preacher;
of a very peaceable temper, and a moderate congregationalist.
§ Brand says,
"He was cast out of the parsonage of Bottle,
came to Newcastle, married a great fortune, and kept his
coach."
BOWTON. Mr. MURROW.
BYWELL St. Peter's. [V.] Mr. JOHN DAVIS. Of Ox-
ford university. [Randal says, Fel. of Magd. Col. Camb.}
Born in Worcestershire. He was one of those who in Crom-
well's time were sent down to supply places in the North.
He first settled at Kirk-oswald, where his ministry was very
acceptable and useful. He afterwards removed to this place,
which was in great want of a faithful minister; whereas
Kirk-oswald had several. However he still visited the good
people in those parts, once or twice a year, out of his great
affection to them, as they treated him with much respect. At
Bywell he had good success, till the Act of uniformity si-
lenced him. He afterwards lived at Weldon, three miles
distant, where he preached all the time of the severities in K.
Charles's reign, sometimes in his own house, and sometimes
at Sir Wm. Middleton's at Belsay; at Mr. Bourflower's at
Apperly, and at other places. He was of the congregational
judgment, but had a general respect from persons of different
persuasions.
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persuasions. He loved all good men, and all good men loved
him. Among the rest Mr. Henry Hudson, of Newbegin, a
Baptist, shewed him much kindness, and took care of his son's
education, who was left fatherless at five years of age, and
who also enjoyed his friendship after his entrance on the
ministry. Mr. Davis was very intent on his Master's work,
and valued not the preferments of the world. After being
silenced, his elder brother wrote to him, and promised him
great things if he would but conform, but on his refusal never
would own him. After the Conventicle-act came out, he
continued to preach in his own house to all that would come,
and yet never had any meeting disturbed. He also took
many painful journies over the mountains, not regarding the
weather, to the good people in Weresdale and Allendale,
where he did much good. Upon K. Charles's liberty, he
removed into that country, licensed several houses, and was
continually going from place to place to preach the word.
He received much kindness from old Sir Wm. Blacket of
Newcastle. He was a man of exemplary piety and prudence,
and died as he lived, in comfort and peace, A. D. 1676,
aged 50.-The author of the Conformist's Fourth Plea for
the Nonconf. p. 63, (speaking of some ministers who, to
avoid offence and danger, went in the night to preach and
pray in caves and pits, venturing their health and lives to
save sinners from everlasting destruction) mentions a Mr.
Davis of Cumberland, (probably this person) as preaching
in one of those pits, and getting a cold that proved mortal,
leaving six children to the charity of good people, and parti-
cularly to the care of Mr. Richard Wilson, a gentleman of
a small estate, but of great piety and usefulness, who had like
to have been ruined on the 35th of Eliz.
A very
CHATTON [V.] Mr. JAMES DUNCANSON.
pious man, who was put into this living by the commissioners
in the time of the Long Parliament. Seeing the place much
given to drunkenness and other vices, he preached freely
against them; for which he was shut out of his church by
Captain Muschamp, and Mr. Swinhoe a justice of peace. He
thereupon preached in the church-yard, and in his sermon
uttered these words: "I do not pretend to be a prophet, and
yet I am verily persuaded, that there are some hearing me
this day, who shall live to see these great men that have so
violently opposed the preaching of the gospel in this town,
not to have one foot or furrow of land in Northumberland.'
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Which accordingly happened, as many living, when the
account was first published, were ready to attest. After his
ejectment he retired to Leeds, where he was kindly received
by Mr. Stretton, at whose house he died, and was buried at
the new church, Dec. 24, 1674. His friend had prepared
an inscription for his grave-stone, giving a particular account.
of him; but an alderman of the place opposed its being
laid down.
CHOLLERTON [V.] (or Thockerinton). Mr. TAYLOR.
He forbore preaching for several years after being ejected;
but being under trouble of mind, he returned to his work.
CORNHILL. [or Cornell chapel, in the parish of Nor-
ham] Mr. HENRY ERSKINE. [Randal has it-" A. Scott,
an intruder, 1649"] He was born in 1624, at a village called
Dryburgh, the seat of an ancient abbacy in the Merce, upon the
the river Tweed, on the Scottish side. His father Mr. Ralph
Erskine, who was descended of the honourable family of
Marr, had 33 children, of whom Henry was one of the young-
est. He was educated at Edinburgh, and having gone thro'
his studies with reputation was licensed to preach, and ordained
minister of Cornhill, about ten miles from the place of his na-
tivity. When he had been there about three years, he was
ejected by the Act of uniformity. When he first came to
Cornhill, the people were so virulent, that while he sat in
his house he could hear them cursing him in the streets; but
in a little time he gained much upon them. However he
had none of the profits of the living, and therefore went to
London to petition his majesty for some relief. Coming by
sea, he was forced in at Harwich, where he continued wind-
bound for three weeks. Getting acquainted with the good
people there, he exercised his ministry among them, and
received much civility from them, both during his stay and
at his departure. In London he applied to some of the Scot-
tish nobility about the court to forward his suit to his ma-
jesty: but tho' they offered him civilities if he would con-
form, he could get no assistance from them without it, and
therefore he was for returning, with a heavy heart and emp-
ty pockets. Being on ship-board with only a crown left,
he offered to change it for smaller money to buy some re-
freshment; when to his great surprize, he was told that his
crown was not worth a farthing. Hereupon he made known
his case to the master of the vessel, promising him payment.
at Edinburgh, for what he should furnish him with in his
passage.
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passage. The vessel was again forced into Harwich by a
severe storm, and detained there six weeks, in which time,
as Mr. Erskine was not idle, so had he again the experience
of the goodness of God, in the supply sent him thro' the kind-
ness of the good people there, who earnestly endeavoured
to get him to settle amongst them; which he would willingly
have done, but could not prevail with his wife to leave her
friends and native country. After his return to Scotland, he
exercised his ministry as he had opportunity, and God took
care of him and his.
In 1682 he was seized by the Laird of Meldrum with a
company of soldiers, as he was worshipping God on the
Lord's-day with his family. After some removes to Melros
and Stredburgh, &c. which were very inconvenient to him
because of the ague then upon him, he was carried before a
committee of the privy-council at Edinburgh. Sir G. Mac-
kenzy, the king's advocate, asked him, if he would give
bond to preach no more at conventicles? Mr. Erskine told
him, "That he had his commission from Christ, and that
if he was within an hour of his death, he durst not lay it down
at the foot of any man." He was afterwards brought be-
fore the council, and a libel was read against him, charging
him with preaching at conventicles, and disorderly baptizing
and marrying, &c. Being asked by the chancellor what he
had to say to the libel, he answered, It was well known that,
from Sept. 22, 1681, to the end of Feb. 1682, he was under
such a bodily indisposition, that he was not capable of any
part of his ministerial function, &c. Nothing in particular
was proved against him, and yet he was fined 5,000 marks,
committed to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, and ordered to be
carried the next day to the Bass, to lie there till the fine was
paid, and bond given that he should preach no more Here-
upon he that very afternoon presented a petition to the coun-
cil, for liberty to quit the kingdom, offering to find sureties.
for his doing so. This was granted as a favour, and on June
14, Mr. John Brown of Park, nephew to Mr. Erskine,
bound himself in a bond of 5,000 marks, that his uncle
should within 14 days, remove out of Scotland, never to re-
turn, without liberty granted. When he was released, the
clerks of the council got 21 dollars from him, and the jailor
and his servants four.
Having provided himself for his journey, and taken leave
of his friends, his wife and children, he left the kingdom,
not knowing of any certain abode. He went first into Nor-
thumberland,
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thumberland, and thence into Cumberland, and at length.
fixed at Parkridge, about ten miles from Carlisle, the pro-
prietor of the place offering him a house. In September he
sent for his wife and small children thither, where he lived,
two years, till he was invited by one Mr. Grey, of Preston,
to live under him in an obscure place called Monilaws, about
a mile from Cornhill. But he could not long live here in
peace; for on July 2, 1685, he was apprehended by eight
of the militia horsemen, and carried to Wooler, and the next
day to Foberrie to Col. Struther's, who told him he must go
to Newcastle to Sir John Fenwick, by virtue of an order from
the king; and that night he was sent back to Wooler prison,
where he found Mr. Ogle confined. On July 4, they were
carried together to Eglington, to the justice-house, guarded
by nine soldiers on horseback, where they staid till Monday
July 6, when Mr. Erskine was seized with a violent cholic,
of which he thought he should have died; yet such was the
barbarity of the soldiers, that they hurried him away in the
greatest extremity of torment. About seven at night they
arrived at Sir John Fenwick's gate, who ordered them to prison,
and their horses were taken from them. Mr. Erskine's ill-
ness continuing, the other prisoners interceded with the jailor
that he might have liberty to quit the prison for a time, in
order to his relief, which was obtained. He lodged a fort-
night with one Mrs. Man, who, tho' a stranger, would take
nothing of him. He then returned to prison. On July 22,
He and Mr. Ogle were set free, upon the act of indemnity.
At his departure the prisoners gave him gos. to bear his
charges home. He continued preaching at Monilaws till
1687, when upon K. James's Toleration, he was invited by
a number of Presbyterians at Whitsome, on the Scottish side,
to be their minister. After he had got his bond from the coun-
cil of Scotland, he accepted the call; and in Sept. removed
with his family to Rivelaw, in the parish of Whitsome, and
preached there in a meeting-house till the Revolution; when
he was called to be minister of Chirnside, five miles from
Berwick, where he continued till the day of his death, August
10, 1696, aged 72.
The good man met with several very remarkable provi-
dences, of which his son Ebenezer, minister at Portmoag,
communicated the following account: "While he lived at
Dryburgh, after his ejectment, he and his family were often.
in great straits. Once particularly, when the cruise of oil
• and barrel of meal were intirely spent,' so that, when they
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had supped at night, there remained neither bread, meal, flesh,
nor money in the house. In the morning the young children
cried for their breakfast, and their father endeavoured to di-
vert them, and at the same time to encourage himself and his
wife, to depend upon that Providence which feeds the
young ravens when they cry' for food. While he was
thus engaged, a countryman knocked hard at the door, and
called for some one to help him off with his load. Being
asked whence he came, and what was his errand, he said that
he came from Lady Reburn, with some provision for Mr.
Erskine. They told him he must be mistaken, and that it
was more likely to be for Mr. Erskine of Shiefield in the
same town. He replied, No, he knew what he said; he
was sent to Mr. Henry Erskine, and cried, "Come help
me off with my load, or else I will throw it down at the
door." They then took the sack, and upon opening it found
it filled with flesh and meal; which gave him no small en-
couragement to depend upon his bountiful benefactor, in
future straits.
At another time, at Edinburgh, he was so reduced that he
had but three halfpence in his pocket, when, as he was
walking about the streets, not knowing what course to steer,
a man came to him in a countryman's habit, and asked if he
was not Mr. Henry Erskine? He told him he was, and ask-
ed his business. The man replied, "I have a letter for you;'
which he accordingly delivered, and in it were inclosed seven
Scotch ducatoons, with these words written, "Sir, Receive
this from a sympathizing friend. Farewell." Mr. Erskine
being desirous to know his benefactor, invited the man to
go into a house just by and drink. Having got him alone,
he enquired with some earnestness, who it was that sent him.
The honest man told him, that secrecy was enjoined him,
and therefore he desired to be excused. Mr. Erskine however
still continuing to ask him further questions, that he might
guess
from what hand this seasonable relief came, the man
desired him to sit a little, while he went out of doors; but
being got out, he returned no more; nor could Mr. Erskine
ever learn who his benefactor was.-At another time, being
on a journey on foot, his money fell short, and he was in
danger of being exposed to difficulty, when happening to
put his walking stick among some rushes, he heard some
thing tinkle at the end of it, and upon stooping down, he
found two half crowns, which served to bear his charges
home.
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He was very zealous in his master's work, and not easily
daunted. He was often sent by the presbytery, at the time of
the Revolution, to preach in and take possession of those
churches, where people were disaffected to the Presbyterian
interest, and where ministers had the greatest difficulty of ac-
cess; and he sometimes preached in such places, while
showers of stones were breaking in upon him at the doors
and windows all the time. Such treatment as this he met
with particularly at Coldingham. The last sermon he ever
preached was to that people who had given him such harsh
entertainment. On the Monday after the administration of
the Lord's Supper among them, he discoursed to them upon
Dan. v. 27. Thou art weighed in the balance, and art found
wanting.'-The manner of his death was remarkable. He
was seized with a fever, which carried him off in a fort-
night. Finding his end draw near, and having set his house
in order, he called for his children, of whom six out of the
nine then living were present. With a kind of heavenly au-
thority he exhorted them to cleave to the Lord with full
purpose of heart;' declaring that the advantages of serious
religion and true holiness infinitely outweighed all the hard-
ships and difficulties that possibly could attend it. As a dy-
ing man, and a dying father, he gave his testimony to the good-
ness of the ways of God; assuring them that as he never had
repented, so more especially he did not then repent, of any
hardships he had endured in his Master's service. He added,
"I know I am going to heaven; and if
you follow my
steps, you and I, ere long, shall have a joyful meeting there."
He then caused them, one after another, from the eldest to
the youngest present, to kneel down at his bed-side, and tak-
ing them in his arms, he solemnly charged them to serve the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and his own God, and
to keep his ways, as ever they would look him in the face at
the great day of the Lord. And thereupon, like dying Jacob,
he blessed them, and committing his wife and them to the
care of divine providence, he recommended his spirit into
the hands of his covenant-God, who had cared for him
all his life long. He was buried in the church-yard of
Chirnside, and an epitaph was drawn up for him by Mr. John
Dycert, minister of Coldingham. (Woodrow's Hist. Vol. I.
p. 256.)
foot-
EARSDEN [R.] Mr. WILLIAM HENDERSON. After-
wards chaplain to Sir Ralph Delaval, to whom he dedicated
}
a dis.
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a discourse against Conformity, a work which was never
printed but there are several copies of it in private hands.
It shews both the candor and learning of the author, who
was remarkable for both. $Randal mentions Henderson,
as an intruder, ejected from Earsden Curacy, and Elsdon
Rectory, in 1662.
EDLINGHAM [V.] Mr. JOHN MURRAY. After his
ejectment he was a preacher at Edinburgh. (Woodrow's
Hist. Vol. I. p. 347).
EGLINGHAM [V.] Mr. JOHN PRINGLE. He was
ejected here at the Restoration. He afterwards went to
Newcastle, where he preached occasionally for Dr. Gilpin,
and practised physic with reputation and success.
He was
esteemed a man of learning, was very communicative, and
pleasing in conversation. He once suffered imprisonment. He
died at Newcastle about the year 1690. § Brand calls him,
"Dr. Pringle, a pastor some time of a congregation at
Newcastle."
ELLINGHAM [V.] Mr. PATRICK BROMFIELD. A very
facetious, but plain-hearted man. After he was silenced he
supported himself by practising physic.
FELTON [V.] Mr. JOHN SEATON. He was a good
preacher, and did much good in his place.
HARTBORN. [V. S. 130/.] RALPH WARD, M. A. Of
Sydney Col. Camb. under the tuition of Mr. Elias Pauson.
While at the university he found much benefit by the mini-
stry of Mr. Samuel Hammond, Fellow of Magd. Col. and
preacher at St. Giles's, who was the instrument of his con-
version. When he first began in earnest to apply his thoughts
to religious matters, he found himself in great perplexity
but by Mr. Hammond's advice was relieved. He was very
diligent in his studies, and noted for his proficiency. He
began his ministry at Denby chapel, in Pennyston parish,
Yorkshire, where he was born. Mr. Hammond, on leaving
the university to settle at Bishops-Waremouth, recommend-
ed him as chaplain to Col. Fenwick, whose regiment remain-
ed at Leith, after the battle at Dunbar. Mr. Ward began
to preach at Leith in August, 1651, and was much respected;
but going the year after to visit his friends in Yorkshire, they
prevented his return; and in 1653 he was fixed at Wolsing-
ham in Durham, and was ordained Sept. 14. After this,
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he visited Oxford and Cambridge, took his degree of M. A.
at both universities, and returning to Wolsingham (a benefice
of 150l. per ann.) he applied himself vigorously to his work.
He laboured hard on the Sabbath, and went on the week-
days from house to house, to enquire after the fruit of his
labours. The poor he invited to his house once or twice a
week to be catechized and instructed, promising them food
for their bodies, if they would mind the good of their souls.
But he found to his sorrow, that they soon grew weary;
and his hearers who were in better circumstances, tho' they
carried it respectfully to him, generally declined his personal
applications. On account of this and some other difficulties,
he accepted an invitation to the sequestered living of Hart-
born, where his income was less but his prospect of success
greater. Here he did much service in a little time. Soon
after the Restoration the former incumbent dispossessed him;
when he retired to Newcastle, and kept school, having many
gentlemen's sons. He also preached occasionally for Mr.
Hammond and Mr. Durant, then ministers there, till they
were all called to Durham, to give their reasons why they
did not comply with the Act of uniformity. He then retired
and lived privately; but after some time became domestic
chaplain to the learned and worthy Sir John Hewley of York,
in whose family he was greatly respected and singularly use-
ful. The Oxford-act forced him to retire from this city, but
it was not long before he returned and lived with his own
family, preaching privately without disturbance. Here he
wore out more than thirty years of his life in labours and
sufferings.
On the Indulgence in 1672, he began his public ministry
in that city; and soon had a very flourishing congregation.
He constantly preached twice every Lord's-day, without
any assistance, till his strength failed him; and for near
twenty years, after prayer, expounded part of a chapter.
He had a lecture every fortnight,.and administered the Lord's
Supper every six weeks. For many years he repeated his
sermons every Tuesday morning, and had days for confer-
ence with his people, and for answering questions in divinity.
He had also set times for philosophical disputations with some
young scholars in the city; besides diligently catechizing
youth; putting parents and masters upon that work; visiting
the sick, and resolving the doubtful. He frequently went
into the villages and preached on the week-days, when he
could not appear in the city. All this was the labour of love;
and
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and his success added much to his pleasure in it; for many
heartily blessed God for his exertions.
The devil, however, would not suffer him to live without
disturbance. He met with some opposition in his ministry
before Charles's Indulgence, nor was he free afterwards. He
was put into the spiritual court by the churchwarden, and
excommunicated for deserting his parish church, and not re-
ceiving the sacrament there. The excommunication was re-
newed from year to year, and was driven to a capias, which
coming out every term, either confined him to his house, or
obliged him to be very cautious in going out. Sometimes
he escaped when writs were out against him, by being fa-
voured with private notice. In 1682 he was fined 20/. at ano-
ther time 40l. upon information against him for a conven-
ticle. He appealed to the quarter-sessions, and was dis-
charged by the jury. His doors were broke open in the
night, and his house searched in the day-time; sometimes
professedly for Mr. Ward, sometimes pretendedly for some
persons disaffected to government. In 1684 he was taken
on the Lord's-day, at a gentleman's house, with all the
hearers, and informed against for a riot: quod vi & armis,
riotosè & routosè assemblavere, in terrorum regis subdito-
rum, &c. He
He gave bail for his appearance at the assizes,
when Judge Jefferies, then coming the northern circuit,
abounded in raillery; but Mr. Ward behaved before him
with great calmness and prudence. A capias was served
upon him in the open court by the ecclesiastical officers.
For the riot (so called) he was fined 50l. and left a prisoner. A
mittimus also was afterwards sent to the jailer from the sheriffs,
to detain him on account of five 20l. fines, out of the Ex-
chequer, for not surrendering his body within six days after
proclamation; tho' neither the bishop's significavit, nor the
king's writ gave any addition to his name, either of gentle-
man, or any other title, according to the statute of 5 Hen. V.
the want of which rendered the forfeiture void, by sta-
tute of 5 Eliz. c. 23. And yet he was still kept prisoner
upon Ouse bridge. Hereupon he and his fellow prisoner,
Mr. Andrew Taylor (that public-spirited merchant, who
opened his doors for private meetings in the straitest times)
petitioned the judge at the next assize, but in vain. His im-
prisonment was continued; but he was allowed to preach on
the Lord's-day to several that went to visit him, which alle-
viated his bonds.
C.
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When James II. opened the prison doors by his Declara-
tion, Mr. Taylor was liberated by the king's special order,
without paying any fine, having been illegally prosecuted.
The great expences which the court alledged they had been
at, kept Mr. Ward still prisoner; but at length the matter
was compromised; so that upon his paying 40l. they gave
him their absolution, March 8, 1685, and he received his
quietus from the Exchequer in June, 1686.-Being restored
to his liberty, he returned to his work with the same ardour
to do good as before, but not with the same strength of body,
his health being much impaired by his long confinement; so
that he engaged Mr. Noah Ward to assist him every third
Sabbath. As his strength now sensibly declined, and he
found his end approaching, he was intent upon making suit-
able preparation. He met death, not with a stoical insensi-
bility, but with the reverential fear and tried faith of a Chris-
tian. When a certain pious lady, who had much respect for
him, came to pay him a visit, he said to her, among other
things, "I hope I can say this, That in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God,
I have had my conversation in the world.' He expired
March 13, 1691, aged 62.
Mr. Ward was a thinking man, of a solid and discerning
judgment, but not lavish of his words. He was a substan-
tial divine, well acquainted with systematical, casuistical and
polemical divinity; particularly with the Popish, Arminian,
and Socinian controversies. He was of a bold spirit, and un-
daunted in his work; but had prudence and meekness so to
regulate his courage, that while it kept him true to his own
conscience, it made him not justly offensive to others. He
was eminently pious. All his sermons were preached over
twice; first to himself, and then to others. His motto was,
Vive ut vivas. He was much in prayer. He was not afraid
of his own company, but delighted in soliloquies, and kept
his heart with all diligence. He was excellent in all rela-
tions. His family was a well-ordered church. His friend-
ship was safe, edifying and honourable. In a word, all the
characters of a worthy gospel-minister met in him.-The
following is an extract from a letter which he wrote to his
people, when he was driven away from them:
Dear Friends,
I cannot now, thro' want of opportunity, serve you in the
work of the gospel as I would: but that I may not be totally
wanting
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wanting to you; that I may shew my longing desire after
your good, and spiritual health, and that my labours among
you may not be in vain, I have writ these lines to put you in re-
membrance of what you have been taught, and to exhort
you unto, and encourage you in, your present duty.-In the
course of my ministry
my ministry I have endeavoured to discover the
apostacy of man from his Maker; the glorious and wonder-
ful mystery of redemption by Jesus Christ; the covenant of
grace; both what is promised and what is required in it.-
You have heard that it is impossible to please God without
faith; and to escape everlasting wrath without repentance;
that these are the gifts of God thro' Christ, in the use of
the means he hath appointed; and that therefore they that
want them must be diligent in the use of means for obtain-
ing them: prayer, reading, hearing, conference, &c. and
must look for the promise of the Spirit of the Father, by the
the Son; that this promise being made good, the law of
the Spirit of Life in Christ may set them free from the law
* of sin and death.'-That it is the duty of those who pro-
fess faith in our Lord Jesus, to walk worthy of that high
and holy calling wherewith they are called, being fruitful in
every good work.-You have heard that a Christian's work
is soul-searching, self-judging, and sin-mortifying work;
that we must crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts
thereof.—That it is sinful, and unbecoming Christians, to be
proud, passionate, worldly, wanton, vain and frothy in dis-
course, intemperate, fraudulent and deceitful, slothful, idle,
careless or unwatchful, or mispenders of precious time.-You
have also heard that a name to live, if we be dead, will not profit
us; that the Lord looks not at the outward appearance, but
at the heart; and requires truth in the inward parts. And
lastly, that if we will be Christ's disciples indeed, we must
deny ourselves, take up our cross daily and follow him; that
it is not he that draws back, but he that endures to the end
that shall be saved; and that therefore it greatly concerns us
to look upon what foundation we are built, and that the sin-
cerity of our love to our dearest Lord and Redeemer appear,
in sticking close to him in a day of trial, and being willing to
suffer the loss of all, that we may win Christ, and keep faith
and a good conscience to the end of our days.-These things,
my
dear friends and brethren, you have heard in some mea-
sure opened to you, and have received them; tho' alas with
much weakness discovered by the instrument: but the word
of God is sure, lively, and powerful. Life and death have
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been set before you; therefore chuse life, that you may live.
What now remains, but that I should exhort, persuade and
press you, to look to yourselves, every one of you in particu-
lar, that you receive not the grace of God in vain; and that
both my account and yours may be with joy, and not with
grief. For this end let me,
1. Exhort you to hold fast the truth in faith and love.
Both are necessary, that we may hold fast our profession
without wavering. If we mix not the word with faith, it
takes no root in us, and will not work effectually in us, to
make us obedient to it. As faith comes by hearing the word
of God, so obedience comes by believing it to be the word
of God. When the authority and majesty of the Lord is
seen in the word, it will cause the soul to tremble at it, and
make it afraid of slighting it, and walking contrary to it.
One great reason of our unprofitableness has been the want
of faith; therefore let me beseech you to eye the Lord in
what hath been, or may be, spoken to you by any of his
messengers, and stir up yourselves to the exercise of faith.
You must also have Love to the truth, if you would hold it
fast. Love will cause you to ruminate upon what you have
heard, to hide it in your hearts, and make improvement of
it, for your furtherance in communion with the Lord, and
obedience and conformity to him. Love will help you to
taste the sweetness of it; and what you find to be so sweet
you will not readily part with.
2. Let me beseech you to exercise yourselves unto godli-
ness daily. This consists not in a slight performance of duty,
morning and evening, nor in the length of duties, nor in any
outward service whatsoever; much less in being of this or
the other opinion, in matters circumstantial, but in behold-
ing God thro' faith, as constantly present with us; in a de-
pendance on him for strength to enable us to become fol-
lowers of him as dear children; in giving up our hearts to
him, in devoting ourselves to be his servants, to do the things
that please him; in sticking close to him both in love and
obedience; in keeping our hearts with all diligence that we
do not treacherously depart from him; in doing what we do,
not only in obedience to him, but for his honour and glory;
and in setting forth his praise in our generations.
3. Let me beseech you to give all diligence to make your
calling and election sure. Think it not a thing either im-
possible, or unnecessary, or unprofitable. Others have ob-
tained it by diligence; and why [may] not you?—If we
wrestled
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wrestled more with God in prayer, and searched our own
hearts more, and looked more seriously for the witnessing
of the Spirit, and stirred up our hearts more to the exercise.
of faith, repentance, love, and obedience, we might attain to
more certain evidence that we are the called of God accord-
ing to his purpose. And what profit and comfort should we
find in this? We should come to God with a more child-like
frame, experience more sweetness in communion with him;
walk more chearfully before him, taste more sweetness in
every enjoyment: find our hearts more enlarged in doing
God service; be more thankful and joyful in him, and more
ready to leave this world and go to the Father. We should
more easily conquer death, and lay down these tabernacles
with a more triumphant hope of a glorious resurrection ;
and be more contented with our lot and portion in this life,
whatever it be. Oh! let us not therefore be slothful in this
business.
•
4. Get your hearts and affections weaned from things
here, and set upon things above. Is not your treasure above?
And where should your hearts be but where that is? Is not
your life, your portion above? Is not your Christ, your
dear redeemer, your advocate with the Father above? Is not
your country, your habitation, your resting-place above?
And should not your hope, your desire, your love, your de-
light, be above also? Consider the uncertainty of things
below; consider what present providences call for. Is not
the Lord shaking our hold of all earthly enjoyments? And
shall we cross the providence of God, and be glewed to those
things from which he is beating us off? O let us eye provi-
dence, and mind what the Lord is speaking to us by it,
5. Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly
love. Let love be without dissimulation. Love not in word
or in tongue only, but in deed and in truth. Consider your
relation to each other. Are you not living members of the
same body? Consider your badge or character whereby you
are known to be Christ's disciples. Is it not by loving one
another? This will make you true and faithful one to ano-
ther. This will knit you together, and make you willing
to serve one another. Let not your love be for opinion's
sake, but for Christ's, and the truth's sake; for the image of.
God which you bear, and profess to have renewed on you.
Yea, love not them only that love you, but love your ene-
mies, and do good to them that hate you, that you may be
the children of your heavenly Father.
6. Prepare
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6. Prepare for suffering greater things. Get acquaintance
with the truth, and labour to be established in it, that you
may know it is truth you suffer for; and then you will
have the Lord on your side, whoever be against you. Then,
you will suffer with more resolution, confidence, and chear-
fulness. Then may you look on your sufferings, not as your
shame, but your glory and honour; not as a token of God's
hatred, but love; not as a forerunner of your future misery,
but as a pledge of your future glory. For if you suffer with
Christ, you shall reign with him.
7. Make it your business to honour the Lord in the sta-
tions wherein he hath set you, to render your profession
more amiable and beautiful to those who observe you. Let
your children and sei vants fare the better for you. Be you in-
structors of the simple, and teachers of babes; and be in
travel to see Christ formed in them.-Bear with patience
what the Lord is pleased to lay on you; knowing it is by
faith and patience we must look to inherit the promises.-
Beware of mispending your time, but account it your duty
and privilege to redeem it, for your good, and the good of
others. And lastly, be importunate with the Lord that there
may be an increase of those who are faithful to him in the
midst of the land; that so we may become more beautiful
and glorious, and there may be a healing of our wounds';
that both pastors and people may rejoice together and say,
the Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.
These are the words of exhortation which I beseech you,
my dear friends, to take into your serious consideration;
and be persuaded to follow the counsel, given you that both
you and I may rejoice together in the day of the Lord.
That tho' we be now separated in place, not in heart, we
may be running in the same race; and if it be the good plea-
sure of God we may meet again, with liberty to wait on the
Lord in the ways of his appointment: however, we may
meet at last with joy and gladness, that our labours and
communion together have not been in vain. Now, my dear
friends, I hope you will not forget me. And my request for
you is, that
our Lord Jesus Christ, and God even our Fa-
ther, who hath loved us and given us everlasting consola-
tion, and good hope thro' grace: would comfort your
hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.'
This is the cordial desire and prayer, of your faithful friend
and servant, for Jesus sake,
RALPH WARD."
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HAUGHTON. Mr. JOHN HUME. It is probable this
was a sequestered living, and that he was dismissed here at
the Restoration, and went into Scotland; as one Mr. John
Hume is mentioned in Mr. Woodrow's List of the suffering
Scottish Ministers, as one of the members of the presbytery
of Edinburgh. (Append. to Hist. vol. I. p. 72)-It deserves
observation, that as several of those who were cast out and
silenced in the northern counties of England, went afterwards
into North-Britain, so also several of those who after the
Restoration suffered for adhering to Presbyterian principles
in North-Britain, were glad to flee for refuge into our north-
ern counties, particularly into Northumberland.
HOUGHTON (Long) [V.] Mr. SAMUEL LANE, A
man of great sincerity, and of an unblameable exemplary con-
versation.
KIRK-HARLE [V.] Mr. ROBERT BLUNT. Of Trin.
Col. Camb. where Mr. Wm. Culverwell was his tutor.
From hence he went to London, where he had some friends,
and there preached occasionally. He afterwards settled in
the north, and was ejected here in 1662. Upon which he
took a farm; but growing weary of it in a year's time, he
lived farther north, with his wife's mother, and preached
in her house. But the archdeacon of Durham keeping his
court in the neighbourhood, he was prosecuted, and for non-
appearance was excommunicated. Writs came out against
him every term, and yet he escaped out of the hands of his
enemies, and continued preaching every Lord's-day. In
1672 he got a licence to preach; but that being soon called.
in, he was outlawed, and fined gol. in the Exchequer; and
yet continued preaching to poor country people in the night.
[A descendant of his says, that in 1682 he settled with a
congregation at Horsley near Newcastle, where he conti-
nued his ministerial labours till within two years of his death,
in 1716, aged 92.]
MITFORD. Mr. BENLOWs. He was afterwards a.
counsellor of law, and a justice of the peace.
NORHAM [V. S.] Mr. EDWARD ORD, or OGLE.
Randal's entry here is, "Edw. Ogle, an intruder. He con-
tinued a Nonconformist at the Restoration, but now forced
to quit this living to the rightful owner, Davison."
NEWCASTLE
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NEWCASTLE upon Tyne. St. Nicholas [V.] SAMUEL
HAMMOND, D. D. Of King's Col. Camb. where he was
servitor to Dr. S. Collins, Regius Professor of Divinity, who
could not endure a dull genius about him. By the Earl of
Manchester's interest he obtained a Fellowship in Magd.
Col. and was a happy instrument in reforming and raising
that society. He had many pupils, several of whom were af-
terwards of great repute both in church and state. He began
to preach in St. Giles's church Cambridge, with such pious
zeal, liveliness, and christian experience, that his ministry
was attended by persons from all parts of the town, and the
most distant colleges; and it was crowned with the conver-
sion of some scores (Mr. Stancliff says, some hundreds) of
scholars. It was generally allowed, that there was not a
more successful minister in Cambridge, since the time of
Perkins. Sir Arthur Haslerigge, engaged him as his chap-
lain, when he went into the North; where he was first mi-
nister at Bishops-Waremouth, and from thence was invited
by Dr. Jennison's church at St. Nicholas's in Newcastle, to
assist the Dr. who was disabled, with a design to chuse him.
pastor, upon his decease. But for some reasons not chusing
that, he continued only lecturer till after the Restoration.
He was then invited by a society of merchants to be their
preacher at Hamburgh; but their charter being nearly expir-
ed, the Lord Chancellor Hyde would by no means renew it
till Mr. Hammond was dismissed, who would not use the
rites and ceremonies of the church of England; so that he
*
* § Randal says,
"Dr. Robert Jennison, an intruder, 1645-Sam. Ham-
mond, another intruder, 1652: he ran away upon the restoration-John
Knightbridge, a third intruder, or interloper, 1660, afterwards a Conformer."
Dr. Jennison is mentioned among the conformists in Yorkshire. He was one
of the guardians of Newcastle bridge and masters of the chapel there. Wm.
Durant is mentioned as Lecturer in 1645, and John Tylsley as removed into
Lancashire (see DEAN). Respecting him there was the following order of
common council dated March 26, 1656, viz. “for Mr. John Tylsley, of the
presbyterian judgment, to preach at St. Nicholas, Newcastle, every Lord's-
day afternoon, and once a month in the forenoon, at the monthly sacrament,
with a salary of 1501. per ann."-" Nov. 5, 1672; there was an order of
common council to appoint Mr. Hammond to preach at St. Nicholas on Sunday
forenoon, and to lecture on Thursdays, with a salary of 1501. He was of the
sect called Congregational."-The MS. Life of Mr. Barnes says, "he was a
"butcher's son of York, but raised the meanness of his birth by the eminence
"of his qualifications. He was long of Cambridge, afterwards colleague
"with Mr. Weld of Gateshead." Dr. Ellison's MS. says, " when questioned,
on the restoration, by Bp. Cousins about his orders, he had nothing to plead
but a university or college licence. He was appointed Master of St. M. Mag.
Hospital, Feb. 24, 1653."
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was not suffered to preach there any more. He then removed
to Stockholm, in Sweden, where one Mr. Cutler, a mer-
chant from London, was very kind to him; and from thence
to Dantzick, for a few months. But England was the place
he preferred, and hither he returned in 1665, when he took
up his abode at Hackney, amongst some merchants with
whom he had been abroad; where he preached occasionally,
in his own and other families; and there he died, A.Ď.
1666. § He was a native of York, and universally reputed
one of the most learned men, and best preachers in the
North. He was also highly esteemed by the foreigners with
whom he conversed in his travels.
WORKS. He had a hand with other ministers in The False
Jew at Newcastle. As also in The Perfect Pharisee under
Monkish Holiness, &c. against the Quakers.-He wrote a
short but lively Epistle before a Book of Examples against Swear-
ing, Drunkenness, &c.-His Letter from Stockholm has some-
thing of the spirit and style of the Martyrs. It shews the man in
his true temper, and deserves to see the light.
A.M. Of
All Saint's. WILLIAM DURANT,
Exeter Col. Oxf. He was appointed morning lecturer here,
July 5, 1647, as he had been Friday afternoon lecturer,
Feb. 20, 1645. Also, May 30, lecturer of St. Nicholas,
with a salary of 80l. Dr. Ellison's MS. says, "He was
not the low person mentioned by Edwards, in his Gangræna,
but had a university education, and took one degree, if not
more." He married the sister of Sir James Clavering, Bart.
Mr. John Durant of Canterbury, was his brother. He was
congregational in his principles, and of an unspotted conver-
sation. After being silenced, he continued to preach to his
people in private, often in the night, and not without much
difficulty. Upon Charles's Indulgence he preached to a
numerous auditory, in a licenced house, in this town.
was a man of peace, and did not meddle with controversies
in his sermons. He died in the latter end of Charles's reign,
and was buried in his own garden; not being allowed to be
interred in what was called, holy ground.-§ Brand's account
confirms this: "I found (says he) the following inscription
on a flat grave-stone, under a staircase in one of the stables
of the late Sir Walton Blackett's house, in Pilgrim street,
He
In the parish register it is, " Mr. Samuel Hammond, minister, was buried
"the 10th of December, 1665.”
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The stable appears to have been built over it.
The place
was long known among the servants by the name of the dead
man's hole."-Parentis venerandi Gulielmi Durant, A. M.
Ecclesiæ Christi D. V. hac in urbe pastoris vigilantissimi,
officii pietatis ergo, Funeri subjacenti sepulchrale hocce mar-
mor lu. ma. posuit Johannes Durant F. Josh. xxiv. 29. &c.
1681. This his son, John Durant, M. D. died here in 1683,
aged 35, and was buried in the Dissenter's ground, where is
a handsome monument to his memory, with his coat of
arms, and a Latin inscription. 1. j.
St. John's. Mr. HENRY LEAVER. His grandfather,
Thomas Leaver, was chaplain to Edward VI. and one of
the refugees at Frankford in Queen Mary's reign. Upon
the disturbances among the exiles there, he removed to
Arrau in Switzerland, and was first minister of the English.
congregation. (See The History of The Troubles of Frank-
ford, in Bale's Centuries, and in Dr. Fuller's Worthies).
After his return into his own country, he was master of the
hospital at Sherborn, near Durham, and intimate with the
famous Bernard Gilpin. He came of a good family at Lit-
tle Leaver in Lancashire, and had a son named Sampson,
from whom sprung Mr. Henry Leaver, who at the beginning
of the civil war was minister of Alnwick. From thence he
removed to succeed Dr. Cosins in the rectory of Branspeth,
in Durham, about the year 1644. When the design was
formed for erecting a college at Durham, he was one of the
commissioners. In that capacity he shewed his candor and
moderation, and did great kindness to Dr. Naylor, who was
sequestered from the rich living of Sedgfield. The Dr. be-
ing informed, that his quondam parsonage was designed for
the endowment of this new college, and no reservation made
for his wife's fifths, wrote to Mr. Leaver, desiring him to
use his interest with the other gentlemen to save his family
from so great a loss. Mr. Leaver heartily and effectually
recommended his case; upon which the Dr. wrote him a
long letter of thanks for his kindness; and gives this reason
for writing it in Latin: Amorem tuum tam non Vulgarem,
vulgari modo agnoscere noluerim.†
Mr. Leaver continued at Branspeth, in good repute, and
great usefulness, till 1659, and removed to Newcastle before
+ Your's being no common kindness, I was unwilling to acknowledge it in
the common manner. See an extract from it in Calamy, Contin, p. 653. It
begins, "Dilecte in Christo Frater, &c."
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the Restoration.* He was a Conformist at the beginning of
the civil war, and not altogether puritannical; but he saw
that Conformity had afterwards much changed its shape.-
When he was ejected, he removed to Skinclif, near Durham,
to the house of his late wife's son, Mr. Thomas Dixon; for
he had no children. Here he continued till 1665; but after-
wards returned to Newcastle, where he married again. It
doth not appear that he had any settled congregation after his
ejectment, tho' he had a call to a people at Darlington, in
the bishopric of Durham, in the time of the Indulgence in
1672. He died some time in the summer following. His
death was occasioned by the unskilful cutting of a corn. His
foot and leg swelled prodigiously, and was exceeding painful ;
but he bore it with great patience, and resignation to the
will of God. When his case became threatening, he said,
"If God had no more for him to do in the world, he could
as chearfully lie down and die as go to his bed to rest." § He
was buried at St. Nicholas church, June 6, 1673.
He had a close correspondence, for many years, with
Philip Lord Wharton, by whom, and his Lady, he was much
respected. He was a man of good learning, moderate prin-
ciples, great piety, and a sweet temper: much of a gentle-
man, affable and courteous, and very agreeable in conversa-
tion. He was also a very useful minister, an affectionate
friend, and remarkable for his generosity and liberality; so
that, tho' besides his wife's jointure, he had an estate of
about 100l. per ann. and no children, yet when he was eject-
ed he had saved nothing. When Mr. Dixon, his wife's son,
married, he resigned his mother's jointure to them. He bore
almost the whole expence of educating his nephew, Mr. Ralph
Wickliffe, and gave portions to two of his wife's nieces.
His estate, and the most of his library, he left to Mr. Robert
Leaver. Dr. Naylor had his fifths duly paid him quarterly
to the last.
OVINGHAM [V.] Mr. THOMAS TRURANT. [Randal
has it JOHN.] He continued preaching here after he was eject-
ed; and by his moderate and prudent carriage gained much
§ He was called hither about March 1659, and established June 20, 1660.
Randal, who calls him intruder at St. John's, cjccted by the return of Shaw,
says, "He was ejected also at Brancepeth in co. of Durham in 1662." He
has also Henry Leaver, A. B. vicar of Long Houghton, 1640.-The MS. Life
of Alderman Barnes says, " Mr. Leaver was a descendant of a Popish Preben-
dary of Durham, of that name." !!!
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upon his enemies. He afterwards exercised his ministry at
Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, where he had a meeting-
place, till God called him to his rest, in the year 1676.
PONTLAND [V.] Mr. HUMPHREY BELL. Though he
was much solicited to conform, yet upon mature deliberation
he refused, and turned farmer for a livelihood. Upon his
death-bed he thanked God that he had preserved a good
conscience, and used this expression: "What comfort should
I now have had if I had conformed against my conscience,
as I doubt Mr. Dockwray did?" meaning Mr. Thomas
(afterward Dr.) Dockwray, who was by the Duke of York
preferred to be chaplain to the Earl of Sandwich, and was
burnt in the same ship with him. Mr. Bell was a learned
man, as his MS. papers testify, and of great moderation. He
died in 1671.
*STANNERTON. Mr. JOHN OWENS. He preached
frequently in his own house, and at the houses of neighbour-
ing gentlemen, He was fined for preaching at Mr. George
Horsley's, and was carried prisoner to Newcastle, where he
was treated with great harshness, but discharged upon the
payment of the money by his friends. The Duke of Lau-
derdale made him kind offers of a settlement at Hownam in
Scotland, which he at first refused, but afterwards accepted,
thro' the persuasion of Rutherford's son-in-law; where he
continued his ministry till he was so worn out with age and
infirmity, that he could not be heard; and then he return-
ed to England and died. He is said to have resided for
some time in Newcastle.
STANNINGTON [V.] Mr. HADDON. Randal has
it GEO. HOWDEN, M. A. 24 Sept. 1661.
TINMOUTH [V.] Mr. ALEXANDER GOURDON. After
his ejectment he went into Scotland, where he is mentioned
in Woodrow's History, Vol. I. p. 418.
TWEEDMOUTH [and SPITTLE Chapels.] Mr. WIL-
LIAM MENE.
WHALTON [R.] Mr. RALPH WICKLIFFE. He was
the sober son of an extravagant father, who spent a hand-
some estate. He was born in or near Sunderland in the bi-
shopric of Durham. He was sister's son to Mr. Henry Leaver,
who had the chief care and expence of his education. After
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his ejectment he frequently preached in the severest times, par-
ticularly to a congregation gathered out of the neighbouring
parishes. He met with discouragements from the coldness of
some of his hearers, and the busy intrusions of some of the
ministers from the other side of the Tweed, of which several
others at that time complained.-In 1672 he was invited to
Sunderland, where he preached during Charles's short Indul-
gence, and afterwards returned to his farm, and to his old
congregation. He was fined 20l. for preaching at Mr.
Ogle's of Kirkley, a neighbouring gentleman, and had his
cattle driven away for the money.
He died towards the
latter end of 1683, about the 52d year of his age, and left
the character of a sober, modest, and prudent man.
Some account of his peculiar discouragements was given
in a case drawn up by Mr. R. Fenwick, a member of his
church, and a gentleman of good estate and character. The
substance of it is as follows:-At the Restoration, Mr. Ward
was pastor to a considerable congregation at Harthourne, of
which Mr. Wickliffe was then a member. He was after-
wards ordained by the presbytery at Morpeth, and when Mr.
Ward was driven away, by the acts against nonconformists
and by the conformity of some of his people, Mr. Wick-
liffe preached among the rest as he had opportunity. In
times of danger he freely opened his doors to them. Some
of them, he hoped, dissented upon conscientious principles,
and stood by him under the troubles he suffered on their ac-
count. But others occasioned him great uneasiness. It was
the cause of no small sorrow to him to observe such a fickle-.
ness and itching humour in some old professors, that if a
stranger (e. g. a young raw Scotchman) came and said he
was a minister, and offered to preach in the neighbourhood,
away some of them would run, sometimes by his door, three
or four miles to hear him. Another source of uneasiness was
the want of proper maintenance; so that he was obliged to
farm, and teach children, in order to support his family.
Often, says his friend, have I heard him sigh and groan be-
cause, instead of being in his study, he was forced to be
looking after his cattle and plough. Many of his people treat-
ed him with personal incivilities, and behaved as if he had
been beholden to them for hearing him. The sordidness also of
some professors was such, as to refuse contributing to indem-
nify him when he was fined for preaching, tho' they urged
him to do it, so that his cattle were driven away and sold.
Yet notwithstanding these discouragements he was, by divine
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aid, carried thro' his work in the severest times, and was
useful in ministering to the handful of people that adhered
to him.
WARKWORTH (S. 100l.] Mr. ARCHIBALD MOOR.
He made a very great reformation in the parish by his pru-
dence, diligence, and obliging behaviour. He went after-
wards into Ireland, where he died at Tredagh, 1670.
WHITTINGHAM [R.] ABRAHAM HUME, M. A. He
was born in the shire of Mers in Scotland, and had his edu-
cation at St. Andrews. When he left that university he was
chaplain to the Countess of Hume, who having business at
court, brought him with her to London. Here he had an
opportunity of observing the state of public affairs, upon
which he made his remarks. On his return to Scotland, he
became acquainted with the Duke of Lauderdale, who mar-
ried the Countess's daughter, and accompanied him in his
travels to Paris and Geneva. He continued abroad with him
two years or more, and then returned with him to Scotland.
He staid there till 1643, about which time the Assembly of
Divines met at Westminster, when four ministers were de-
puted by the General Assembly of Scotland, to meet with
them; viz. Messrs. Henderson, Bailie, Rutherford, and
Gillespy. One ruling elder was joined with them, who was
the Duke of Lauderdale. Mr. Hume came again to London
with his patron, and the other commissioners. While he was
here, he was invited to Benton near Newcastle, and was or-
dained in London, April 20, 1647. Upon settling there, he
had the general love of the people, both in his own parish
and the neighbourhood, and was very successful in his mini-
stry. But being a firm Presbyterian, and zealous for the
King and royal family, he was turned out of his place by the
existing government, and chiefly thro' the influence of Sir
Arthur Haslerigg, who pursued him till he was banished
out of England. Hereupon he retired into Scotland, where
he lived very privately till Oliver was settled in the Protec-
torship. He then had a call to Wittingham, where Sir Ar-
thur had an estate; who now, sensible of the injustice he had
done the good man before, not only concurred in calling him
thither, but afterwards carried it to him with great respect;
tho' no temptation could induce him, directly or indirectly,
to own Cromwell as head of the government. However,
his unaffected and exemplary pięty, his serious and fervent
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pulpit-performances, and his pleasing ministerial deportment,
so endeared him to persons of all denominations, who were
not downright enemies to Christianity itself, that he ac-
quired a general influence in that country. This gave him
advantage for getting the vacant parishes in the neighbour-
hood filled with men of his own principles, both as to loyalty,
and the Presbyterian discipline. But tho' he had done and
suffered much for the king and his cause, he was turned out
as soon as others, after the Restoration, because he could not
conform to the prelatical government and worship.
:
Upon leaving Wittingham he was kindly invited by the
Duke of Lauderdale to his family, where he continued till
the Five-mile-act drove him away, because he could not take
the Oxford oath. The duke pressed him at length to con-
form and not only promised him a good living, but en-
gaged that he should be favoured as to the oath of canonical
obedience, the business of assent and consent, and other
things that he most scrupled. But he was immoveable; for
which the Duke grew cold to him, and afterwards seemed
by his carriage to be quite alienated from him. He had,
however, the testimony of innocence and a good conscience.
In 1669, he travelled again to France, where he renewed his
acquaintance with several divines, and commenced a friend-
ship with others; particularly with Mons. Claud, minister
at Charenton. Had not some private concerns obliged him
to return, he would have continued there longer.-Being
afterwards cast upon providence in a time of trouble, and un-
der many discouragements, it pleased God to stir up Alder-
man Plampin to invite him to his house, who kindly enter
tained him as long as he lived. After his decease, Mr. Hume
was chosen pastor to a society of Dissenters, without Bishops-
gate, in London. But that society being soon broken up
by dissention, he preached privately at Theobalds in Hert-
fordshire, and there continued till K. James's liberty; upon
which he was called to a congregation in Drury-lane, with
whom he continued till his death, Jan. 29, 1707, aged (as
appears from his tomb-stone in Bunhill-fields) about 92.
His funeral sermon was preached and printed by Mr. Robert
Fleming. He was succeeded by Mr. (afterward Dr.) Jabez
Earle, [as he was by the late Dr. Rice Harris, in Hanover-
street.]
WOOLER [V. S. 100l.] JOHN LOMAX, M. A. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. On leaving the university he lived with his mo-
ther
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ther at Newcastle, and after some time was invited to Wooler,
where he was highly esteemed. Lord Grey, to whom the
town chiefly belonged, had a great respect for him, and often
invited him to his house at Chillingham. He continued
here till the Restoration; and then, rather than act without
the full approbation of his conscience, he chose to leave the
place, and removed with his family to North Shields, where
he practised physic and surgery, and kept an apothecary's
shop; there being then no other in the place. He there
preached to a congregation from whom he had but 41. per
ann. and could scarcely have supported his family, had not
his mother (a woman distinguished for piety and discretion)
given him assistance, from a jointure which she had by Mr.
Bonner, an eminent merchant, who died mayor of Newcastle;
a man of so much worth, and of so public a spirit, that he
deserves to be remembered with honour.-Mr. Lomar suffer-
ed much for his Nonconformity in the reign of Charles II.
tho' never imprisoned. He was often forced to leave his
family, and was not a little exposed in travelling about the
country in all weathers; but God still supported him, and
his good mother maintained him. She spent her time in a
most devout manner, and much of it in reading. When
her son came to see her, on Charles's Indulgence, she told
him, That was the last time she should read; that she verily
believed she was kept alive for the support of him and his
family; adding, That now God had restored liberty, she
should be removed, as no valuable purpose could be answer-
ed by having her life prolonged. She accordingly died the
very next day, and he did not long survive her.
He was a man of a very comely aspect, and a pleasant hu-
mour, yet grave without affectation. His conversation was
so agreeable and obliging, that he was valued by all that
knew him. He was of a very even temper, and was never
seen ruffled, or heard to rail at any person or party. He was
just to every man's character, and where he could not com-
mend, was silent. He was a judicious and solid preacher;
and tho' he used notes, (which was not so common in this
country as in other parts) that did not at all hinder his ac-
ceptance. He was so reserved as to his opinion about church-
government, that very few besides his intimate friends were
acquainted with it. He broke communion with no good
people, whose terms were not unscriptural, He was a man
of substantial and polite learning; which Bp. Cosins (a pre-
late of great integrity, tho' very high in his notions as to ec-
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clesiastical polity) did him the justice to acknowledge. When
Dr. Cartwright (then prebendary of Durham, afterwards
made a bishop by K. James) took occasion in the presence
of Bp. Cosins to reflect upon Mr. Lomax, among other dis-
senting ministers, the bishop said to him, "Doctor, hold
your tongue; for to my certain knowledge John Lomax is
a learned man.” Indeed that learned prelate seemed more
solicitous to get him to conform, than any preacher in the
country; and tho' he did not succeed, he often spoke of him
in terms of great respect. Mr. Lomax died about 1694.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. COLE.-Mr. RICHARD PRIDEAUX.-Mr. ASHBURN-
HAM, and Dr. KNIGHTBRIDGE; all of Newcastle. Mr.
THOMAS LUPTON, of Woodhorn. Mr. JAMES AIRD, of In-
gram, conformed in Scotland.
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LKRING. Mr. MATTHEW THOMPSON. His was rec-
koned one of the best benefices in these parts. He had
six children at the time of his ejectment; after which he re-
moved into Lincolnshire. He was a humble charitable man,
and a celebrated preacher.
ARNOLD [V.] JOHN CROMPTON, M. A. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. He was born of religious parents, at Brightmet,
a hamlet in Bolton parish, Lancashire. On returning thither,
when he left the university, he was called to be lecturer to
Dr. Wilmot at Alhallows in Derby. He was ordained Dea-
con by the Bp. of Chester, and Presbyter by the Bp. of Litch-
field and Coventry. The certificates may be seen, Calamy's
Account, p. 531. Together with his Licence * to preach
in the last bishop's diocese, which was only "during his
pleasure, and as long as he continued to obey all the canons,
and conform to all ceremonies of the church."
Mr. Crompton gained much respect at Derby, by his chear-
ful and obliging temper, but particularly by continuing to
perform all the duties of his office during the time of a raging
pestilence, by which the town was so desolate, that grass
sprung up in the market-place. Yet he himself was preserved
from the infection; which he attributed to the blessing
of God upon a plaister applied to his stomach, sent him
* In 1698 was published, A Discourse of Licences to preach, by Mr. Ja.
Metford, rector of Basingham, who shews that Ordination gives authority to
preach; and that a Licence to a christian minister to preach the gospel is
unnecessary and absurd.
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by an able physician. From Derby he removed to Bralis-
ford, a sequestered living, five miles distant, where he paid
the fifth of the whole profits; as appears by the receipts
found amongst his papers. This is the rather noticed, be-
cause it has been commonly said, and Wood affirms the same,
(Athene Oxon. vol. ii. p. 578.) that "no Presbyterian or
Independent was ever known to allow any Loyalist, whose
places they had occupied for several years, the least farthing.'
The falshood of which appears from many instances pro-
duced in the course of this work.
""
While Mr. Crompton was at Bralisford, he gave the
profits of Osmaston chapel, which belonged to his rectory
(reckoned at 40l. per ann.) to a preaching minister, that he
might attend wholly to his own cure; and God was pleased
to give more than ordinary success to his endeavours. Many
were brought to an acquaintance with practical religion, and
to be constant in family and secret prayer; and many of the
rising generation followed the example of their parents. He
preached twice every Lord's-day, and in the evening repeat-
ed the sermons in his own family, where several of his
neighbours constantly attended. He kept every first Wed-
nesday in the month as a fast, at the church, most of the time
K. Charles was in exile; when he was narrowly watched,
tho' not disturbed, by those that were then in authority,
On the rising of Sir George Booth in Lancashire, and Col.
White at Nottingham, in order to the king's restoration,
Mr. Crompton went with his neighbours, with such arms
as they could get, to assist at Derby. But the design mis-
carrying, he and some of his friends were for a while suf-
ferers. Several of them were imprisoned; and five or six
soldiers were quartered in his house. But the sudden turn of
affairs prevented what was intended against them.
At the Restoration, he was forced to give up his living to
Mr. Edw. Love; tho' Mr. Greaves, the former incumbent,
was dead before that time. His continuance was much de-
sired, and a certificate was drawn up, testifying his worth and
loyalty, subscribed by seven aldermen and some substantial
inhabitants of Derby, as well as by the ministers of the
town, and of the places adjacent; but it had no effect.
He then removed to Arnold, a small vicarage near Notting-
ham; and his services were very acceptable there, and in all
the neighbourhood. But by the Act of uniformity he was
soon dispossessed; and he did not chuse to preach in the vil-
lage afterwards, except at such times as there was no preach-
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ing in the church, or he was prevented going to the parish
churches of Gedling or Bassford, where he usually attended.
Arnold benefice being but small, he rented the vicarage-
house, where he lived till the Five-mile-act removed him to
Mapperly, in Derbyshire, where he attended the next parish-
church, unless the minister was ill or absent; in which cases
he went to some other church, or performed worship in his
own family, or a neighbouring house; as he sometimes did
on the week days also. He was here much respected, and
very useful. Some men employed in the coal-mines men-
tioned his familiar reproofs and good advice, with pleasure,
many years after his death; which happened Jan. 9, 1669,
and he had longed for the rest into which he then entered.
He was buried at Westhallum, and a useful sermon, on John
xiv. 1. was preached on the occasion, by Mr. Robert Horn
rector; who himself died about six weeks after, and desired to
be laid in the same grave. A worthy Churchman, remarked
of Mr. Crompton, "That he was always chearful, tho' on
the losing side." His Farewell-sermon was printed, and is
the IXth in the Country Collection, upon Eph. vi. 18*. Mr.
Samuel Crompton, one of his sons, was pastor of a dissenting
congregation at Doncaster.
BESTON [V.] Mr. WILLIAM CROSS. Of Pemb. Col.
Oxf. One well. known, and generally respected in this
county, as also in Leicestershire, and Derbyshire.
He was
born at Frinkford in Oxfordshire, and ordained by the Pres-
bytery at Nottingham. He was first called to Attenborough,
and afterwards removed to this place, where the Act of uni-
formity found him. After his ejectment he lived at Lough-
borough, where he preached when the law allowed him.
He died pastor of a numerous congregation in Derby, A. D.
1698. He was a good preacher, and exemplary in his con-
versation. His Farewell sermon is the VIIth, in the Country-
collection, on 1 Sam. xxx. 6. A good discourse; short
and full.
BLEASBEY [V.] Mr. JOHN JACKSON. Born at Oxton
in this county, in 1622. He was the son of Mr. W. Jack-
son, a conforming Puritan minister, a good preacher, and an
eminently holy man, who continued his labours till he was
above 100 years old, and left many manuscripts behind him.
*The text is only that clause, " With all prayer." The sermon is a mere.
skeleton, very inaccurately written, and not at all fit for publication. ED.
!
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This his son, at the time of his ejectment, was offered a much
better benefice, if he could have conformed. He afterwards
removed to Morton near Southwell, where he taught school,
and preached in his own house, and other places, as he had
opportunity. He was often disturbed by informers, but it
doth not appear that he was ever fined or imprisoned for his
nonconformity; tho' he was cited into the spiritual court,
and excommunicated. He afterwards kept a school as Kees-
all, (a place noted for Puritans) where he preached twice
every Lord's-day, till sickness and infirmities of age disabled
him, but continued his service in the afternoon till his death,
Dec. 26, 1696. He was a sober, grave, and good man;
very circumspect and conscientious in his conversation, and
spent much time in his closet. He was strict in family-dis-
cipline, a bold reprover of vice and profaneness; very tem-
perate, and much weaned from this world; so that he bore
all his afflictions with great patience and submission. He was
well satisfied in his nonconformity to the last. His funeral
sermon was preached by Mr. S. Coates of Mansfield, to a
numerous auditory, from John ix. 4.
BLODWORTH [V.] Mr. THOMAS ROSE. He was
born near Sheffield, and went to school at Rotheram; which
town being assaulted by a party of the king's forces in the
time of the civil war, he and about thirty more of the school-
boys there, got a small piece of artillery planted at the en-
trance of the bridge, and played upon them as they came
down the hill, so as to do great execution; whereas the fire
of the enemy flew over their heads. Thus they saved the
town. It doth not appear where he preached before he came
to Blodworth; but he was there several years before his
ejectment, and afterwards continued preaching there, tho'
grievously harassed by the prebendaries, &c. from Southwell.
He removed from hence to Nottingham, where he was im-
prisoned six months, and upon his release, lived at Adbolton,
where he preached to a considerable number, sometimes
within doors, and sometimes without, till the Duke of Mon-
mouth's landing in the West, when he and many others were
clapped up in prison. Upon his release, he continued preach-
ing as before, till his death, which was about the year 1698,
and was interred in the usual burying-place, tho' he was ex-
communicated.
BRIDGFORD (West) [R.] SAMUEL COATES, M. A.
Of Camb. university. He was born at Rawden in Guiseley
parish,
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parish, Yorkshire, and brought up under his uncle Mr. Coates
of Nottingham, who supported him at Cambridge till he took
his degree. He then came to Nottingham, and was fixed
in the living of Bridgford, which is near this town; being
ejected in 1662, he removed to Wathe near Rotheram, and
thence to a house of his own at Rawden. He had a good
estate, and preached at Wathe, Rawden, and Idle, gratis.
Instead of gaining by his labours, he was at great expence in
entertaining his hearers. He was a profound scholar, a solid
judicious divine, who preached substantial sermons, but had
an unpleasant stammering in his delivery. He was a pious.
man, and full of tenderness to a melancholy wife. His name
was precious in all the neighbourhood for his labours, piety,
and charity. When he was on a visit to some relations in
Derbyshire, he died suddenly. Having retired to his cham-
ber to prepare for preaching, he fell down in a fit of the palsy,
and was found lying along on the floor, with his notes and
spectacles in his hands. He never spoke afterward, but died
the next day, 1683, aged 69.
CALVERTON [V.] Mr. JOHN ALLOT. A laborious and
useful preacher. Soon after his ejectment in 1662, he re-
moved to London, and exercised his ministry among a few
people in private; but died in a little time.
CLAWORTH [R. 180/.] JOHN CROMWELL, B. A. Of
Magd. Col. Camb. under Mr. Francis Tallents. He was a
tall comely person, of a robust constitution, and in the col-
lege was very studious and serious. As soon as he took his
degree in 1652, he longed to be at work in his Lord's vine-
yard. Consulting with Dr. Tuckney, he advised him to con-
tinue longer in the college, which accordingly he did, and
obtained a fellowship; but accepted invitations to preach in
the villages near Cambridge. He first settled, when young,
with a mean people at Royston, whom he was unwilling to
leave, till his relations, by their importunity, prevailed with
him to think of this living of Claworth, in their neighbour-
hood, void by the death of Dean Topham. He soon ob-
tained a presentation from Oliver, who pretended to be the
patron; and who, for the sake of his Name, would have per-
suaded him to accept of preferment in his court. He at the
same time offered him 200l. per ann. to be houshold chap-
lain to his son Henry then in Ireland. But Mr. Cromwell
thought preaching the gospel the highest preferment. On
obtaining this living in 1657, he resigned his fellowship at
college,
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college, and was ordained by his uncle Mr. Fisher of Shef-
field, and other ministers. However he sometimes preached
at court, with great applause, especially on a fast-day, in
1658, for success in war with Spain. Some courtiers gave
him the preference to Dr. Owen and others. He was indeed
a very acceptable and zealous preacher; congregational in
his judgment.-At the Restoration he met with fierce oppo-
sition from a potent adversary, Dr. Br, who would
have ejected him by a title obtained from the king, but could
not legally do it. However the Bartholomew-act soon eject-
ed him effectually. A few years after, thro' the malevolence
and suspicions of some persons in power, he, with many
others, were made prisoners at Newark, upon occasion of
what was called the Yorkshire-plot. The lord-lieutenant of
the county, the old Duke of Newcastle, was against the
measure; but some of the deputy-lieutenants were resolute
for it, tho' nothing appeared against him, except that his
name was CROMWELL. He often requested a trial but could
not obtain it. He continued some years in prison, by which
he contracted such disorders that his life was despaired of.
The Duke wrote to the council on his behalf, and endea-
voured to soften Sir Wm. Hickman, his chief persecutor, and
at length prevailed for his enlargement. Sir William him-
self was heard afterwards to say, That his violent prosecution.
of this innocent person gave him no little trouble.
Some few years after his release, he lived at quiet in his
own country; but being called to Norwich, he enjoyed but
one peaceable sabbath after his settlement there; being on
the second, forced out of his meeting-house, the licences be-
ing called in; and afterwards for nine years together, he was
never without trouble; being pursued with indictments at
sessions and assizes, and with citations from the ecclesiasti-
cal courts. Feigned letters, rhimes, or libels, were dropped
in the street or church, and fathered upon him. So that he
was forced to make his house his prison. At length his house.
was broke open, and he absconded, till he contracted his old
diseases. He removed, for a change of air, to his own na-
tive place, Barmby Moor, where he had a good estate; but
it was too late to receive any benefit. However, be there
found a place, where the wicked cease from troubling, and
the weary are at rest. He died about April 1685. [A cor-
respondent writes, that during his residence in Norwich, he
was invited to dine with Bp. Reynolds, when many young
clergy were present. The conversation was carried on by
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the bishop and Mr. Cromwell. When Mr. C. went out
of the room, the bishop rose up and attended him; upon
which a general laugh ensued. When his Lordship came
in again, he addressed his clergy with great gravity; told
them how ungenteel it was to scoff at a friend at his table;
and added, with regard to Mr. Cromwell, "Thus far I can
aver, he has more solid divinity in his little finger than all of
you have in your bodies."]
WORKS. A Discourse of Spiritual Blessings, in four Sermons,
on Eph. i. 3.----On God's owning the least Degree of Grace, in
two Sermons on Amos ix. 9.
CODGRAVE [R. 240.]' JOHN CLARK, M. A. Some
time Fellow of Pem. Hall. Camh. He was second son of
Mr. Samuel Clark of Bennet-Fink. A good scholar, and a
sound, plain, profitable preacher. He was presented to this
living by the Marquis of Dorchester, but enjoyed it not quite
four years. He had six children at the time he was ejected;
on whose account, as well as because of his own worth, his
ejectment was greatly lamented. His farewell sermon on
Eph. v. 15, 16. is to be seen among those of the Country-
ministers, No. XVII. It breathes a very serious spirit §; as
did his constant preaching. He had not a strong constitu-
tion, but was subject to a cough, and sometimes spit blood;
yet, where he could have liberty to preach in private, he did
not decline the work, while he was able, to his dying-day.
He was of a calm spirit; endued with great meekness and
patience under his trials. He had some skill in physic, but
practised gratis only. He peaceably departed this life at
Bassford, Sept. 19, 1669, but about 39 years of age.
WORKS. A Discourse on the Subject of spiritual Comfort.
(It is brief and pithy).
COLLINGHAM (South) [R.] Mr. JOHN PINDAR.
Soon after Bartholomew-day, he removed to London.
§ This is not a sufficient commendation. It is a very pertinent, judicious
and useful discourse. The conclusion is appropriate and striking. The editór
laments the want of room for some extracts-N. B. There seems to be
some inaccuracy respecting this Mr. John Clark's relation to Mr S. Clark of
Bennet-Fink. See Vol. I. p. 101, and Hungerford p. 288. Query whether he
was not the fon of the last, if not the same person? See Doddr. Fun. Ser. for
Dr. Clark.
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CRUMWELL (R.] JOSEPH TRUMAN, B. D. Of Clare
Hall, Camb. He was born at Gedling near Nottingham, in
April, 1631, of religious parents. His father was employed
in public business for the country many years, and was much
esteemed for his wisdom and fidelity. The following anec-
dote concerning him is from good authority: Upon the pub-
lication of the Book of Sports, in the reign of Cha. I. going
to visit a sick friend on the Lord's-day, and passing thro' a
village where a May-pole had been lately erected, and great
numbers were collected for their diversion, as he rode by
them, two of the company came up to him, and in a very in-
sulting manner told him," That tho' he had lately frighted
people from such exercises, they were now in no fear of him,
having the king's allowance for what they did." Mr. Tru-
man only answered, "It is true, gentlemen, you have the
king's law for what you do, but we must have respect to
God's laws as well as the king's. Upon which they went
to the next justice of peace, and made oath, that Mr. Richard
Truman had said, "We ought to have respect to God's
laws, and not to the king's laws." This was made the ground
of a most violent prosecution, in all the courts in England,
which issued in an outlawry. He was forced to be absent
from his numerous family and his business, to attend the
courts, for near three quarters of a year. One of his prose-
cutors was the Earl of Chesterfield, whose son being at that
time in London, met Mr. T. and asked him what brought
him thither? He was not very forward to tell him, because
of his father's concern in the business; but Mr. Stanhope
pressing him, he at length related the whole matter. That
honourable gentleman expressed his hearty concern that any
of his family should have a hand in such a prosecution, and
desired Mr. T. to keep an exact account of all the expence
he was at, and promised that, if ever he came to the honour
and estate, he would repay him the whole. This comforted
him at the time; but that worthy gentleman died soon after,
when the whole burthen fell upon himself, amounting to
near 1500l. It pleased God, afterwards to give one of the
prosecutors such a sense of his guilt, in swearing falsly
against an innocent person, that he said, He should be damn-
ed if he did not see Mr. T. before he died. An account of
this being sent to him, he visited this gentleman in his way
home, before he had seen his own family, and found him un-
der great agonies of conscience. Among other things, he
told Mr. T. that he could not die in peace, unless he forgave
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him what he had done, and intreated that he woul pray to
God to forgive him; both which he did before he left him,
and in a few days after the gentleman died. As to the other
person concerned, tho' he never discovered any uneasiness of
conscience for his villainy, yet within a few years Mr. T.
saw him at his door begging an alms, tho' he had possessed
an estate of 120l. per annum. It pleased God soon to make
up all Mr. Truman's losses, as well as to vindicate his repu-
tation. Besides his own land he rented 500l. a year; and
providence ordered it, that the season that year was exceed-
ingly wet, so that when the greatest part of the corn upon
the low lands was bad or destroyed, his ground, being high
and sandy, he had so large a crop that he cleared 200l. beyond
his expectation.
Mr. Joseph Truman was betimes instructed in the princi-
ples of Christianity, and had a great advantage in the pious
and devout example of his parents. He began school-learn-
ing under Mr. L. Palmer, minister of Gedling, and finished
at the free-school in Nottingham, from whence he was sent
to Cambridge, and admitted pensioner of Clare Hall, under
the tuition of Mr. Wm. Pendock. He was of the same year
and college with Abp. Tillotson, tho' they had not the same
tutor. Their tempers were very suitable, and they com-
menced a friendship which continued afterwards. Mr. Tru-
man had a great degree of innocent pleasantry, united with
the strictest piety and virtue, by which he conveyed to the
minds of all that conversed with him a very amiable idea of
religion. He continued in his living of Crumwell some
time after the Act of uniformity took place, but did not
read the whole service in the Common Prayer-book; which
occasioned an indictment against him; to which he answer-
ed the next assizes. When the trial came on, the judge asked
him why he did not read the Common Prayer, as the act
directed? My Lord, (says he) shall I tell your Lordship
plainly what the true reason is?" The judge answered,
"Yes."- "Why then, my Lord, says Mr. T. the true rea-
son why I do not read the Common Prayer, according to
the direction given, is because there are lies in it; neither
can I, for that reason, give my unfeigned assent and consent
to all and every thing contained in that book." The judge
was so incensed at this, that he immediately fined him 57.
for contempt of the Common Prayer, in the face of the
court; and he was forced to pay it down immediately. A
Prayer-Book was then ordered to be brought, that he might
give
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give some proof of his assertion. He immediately turned
to the collect for Chrismas-day, where he read these words:
Almighty God who hast given us thine only begotten Son, to
take our nature upon him, and THIS DAY to be born, &c.
He then turned to the collect for the Sunday after, where
the same words were repeated. "Now, said he, supposing
Christ was born on Dec. 25, (which yet I never saw proved)
he could not be born on the 26th, or the Sunday after Christ-
mas-day, whenever it fell. This, says he, I cannot subscribe
to; for if the first collect is true, the second must be false;
and vice versa." The judge seemed surprized at the obser-
vation; confessed that there was a mistake, and told the
court he would endeavour to have it rectified. Accordingly
the expression was altered in the following editions of the
Prayer-book. How the trial issued, doth not appear.
Mr. Truman possessed excellent natural abilities, and could
endure long and hard study, for which he was so remarkable at
the university, that it was common among the scholars, to
say, "Such a thing is as true as that Truman is in his study.'
He allowed himself but three hours sleep, and very little re-
creation. His time was chiefly spent in study, meditation,
and prayer;
and he attained very uncommon degrees of
knowledge and learning. He was well skilled in the lan-
guages, and was a very good critic in the Greek. His head
supplied the place of a lexicon; for he was able to give all
the senses of any Greek word, where any thing of moment
depended upon it, and to produce authorities both out of sa-
cred and prophane authors. He also made surprizing profi-
ciency in the Hebrew in a short time. He was well ac-
quainted with the statute and common law, nor was he a
Stranger to the civil law; and he well knew how to make
the whole subservient to divinity.
He was well read in an-
tiquity; particularly in the history and constitution of the
church of Christ, in the first three centuries. He could not
find Diocesan prelacy, &c. in those early writers, and there-
fore had the less inclination to comply with the forms esta-
blished in the church of England. He had several offers of
great preferment in it, from persons of the highest dignity
both in church and state, but he preferred the peace of his
conscience, and the pleasing of God, to all other considera-
tions. Yet he commonly attended the worship of the establish-
ed church at Mansfield, where he resided after his ejectment,
for the sake of Mr. Porter's conversation. His latitude was
great, and his temper candid. But he did not lay aside his
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ministy, thinking it his duty to preach the gospel where he
had opportunity. His discourses were elaborate and well
digested; adapted both to inform the judgment and affect
the conscience. Tho' he was immersed in controversies a
great part of his time, his preaching was very plain, practi-
cal, and edifying to the meanest capacity. His notes were
short, and written in characters which were understood by
none but himself.
He was a man of a profound judgment, and a tenacious
memory; very swift in reading books, and happy in retain-
ing what he read. He was also of a free and chearful tem
per in conversation, and very communicative of what he
knew. The Marquis of Dorchester, who had a particular
esteem for him, frequently engaged him in a dispute with
some of the most eminent clergy who came to visit him,
merely to entertain himself with the strength of his reason-
ing. He was not however disposed to insult any on account
of their inferiority to himself, in ability or learning, unless
he found them intolerably vain and self-confident; but when
he clearly got the victory, he generally had something ready
to divert the company from attending to their weakness.-
He was a man of admirable temper and moderation, for
whom the worthy bishops Tillotson and Stillingfleet had a
great esteem. Mr. Barnaby Oly (Bishop. Gunning's tutor)
highly applauded his book intitled The Great Propitiation,
and charged the bookseller to introduce him to the author's
acquaintance whenever he came to town. Mr. Nelson has
given a good character of him in his Life of Bishop Bull;
p. 204. But notwithstanding all his excellencies, and the
respect he met with, he was often indicted, and once sued to
an outlawry, which was very expensive to him. He begged
leave to plead his own cause, and he pleaded so well that
he got off, though the justices were no friends to the Non-
conformists.
Mr. Truman having taken a journey to London, in his re-
turn, made a visit to Mr. Baxter at Totteridge, who highly
valued him and his writings, and urged him to write a trea-
tise upon The two Covenants
The two Covenants; which if God should spare
his life, he promised to do. He was then unwell, and Mr.
Baxter importuned him to stay till he was better. But he
said, he was expected at home, and therefore [tho' he was
unmarried] he must go. Accordingly he rode thirty miles
that day, to visit his old friend Mr. Stevens, of Sutton in
Bedfordshire. When he got there he complained that his
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At
throat was sore, but he supped as usual, and sat up rather
late. He rested tolerably well, and rose about 8 o'clock;
but perceiving himself grow worse, he made his will, writing
part of it himself, and dictating the rest to Mr. Stevens.
11 o'clock he went to bed again. A physician was sent for,
who came about three. Finding his throat was very sore,
he gave him some beer to drink, to see how he swallowed.
As he sat up in his bed to take it, he expired without sigh or
groan, July 19, 1671, in the 43d year of his age. He was
buried privately in the chancel at Sutton, and on the next
Lord's-day, Mr. Stevens improved the event in a suitable
sermon. The night before he died, he had so little appre-
hension of danger that he told Mr. Stevens, Dr. Tillotson
and Dr. Stilling fleet had cut out a great deal of work for
him. When the news of his death came into his own coun-
try, there was a general lamentation; and on a day of prayer,
kept at Nottingham, Mr. Robert Porter greatly affected all
the congregation with the notice he took of the great loss the
church of Christ had sustained.
WORKS. The Great Propitiation; or Christ's Satisfaction and
Man's Justification by it.-An Endeavour to rectify some prevail-
ing Opinions contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England.—
A Discourse of natural and moral Impotency.
FLINTHAM [V.] and SUTTON. Mr. JOHN JAMES.
Of Exeter Col. Oxf. He began to preach in this county,
and was lecturer of Newark at the Restoration; but was dis-
possessed before the Act of uniformity was drawn up, and
hurried to Nottingham jail, where he lay for 17 months.
He then petitioned Judge Atkins when on the circuit, and
was released. However, he was sometime after seized again,
and lay in Newark jail about six years, because he would
not promise to give over preaching. His prison indeed was
tolerably comfortable, thro' the favour of his keeper, who
suffered him to enjoy the company of his friends, and to
preach amongst them, both in the prison, and in other houses.
in the town. His confinement continued till the Indulgence
in 1672. Afterwards falling again into the same sin of preach-
ing, he was informed against, and warrants were granted
to seize his goods, which was done with such rigour, that
they left him not a stool to sit on. They broke open his
house, stable, and barns, taking away whatever they met
with; and behaved in so furious a manner as to frighten
three children into fits; one of whom, about six years old,
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died a night or two after. He lost nearly 500l. in goods and
cattle. His chief adversary, Justice Whaley, who then had
an estate of 1500l. a year, afterwards died in prison for debt
at London. Some time before his death, he wrote a letter to
Mr. James, acknowledging his great crime in being such an
enemy to him, and owning that the hand of God was justly
upon him for it. Mr. James being destitute, fled to Lon-
don, and after some time became pastor of a congregation
in Wapping; where he died, in 1696, aged 70. He published
a funeral sermon for Dr. John Buckley, on Prov. xiv. 32.
GREYSLEY [V.] Mr. ROBERT SMALLEY. Of Clare-
Hall, Camb. A native of Beston in this county. He had
been a hard student; was a winning preacher, and had great
success in his ministry. A man of a very sound judgment,
and lively affections. He had an unusual presage of his own
death; upon which be called together a number of worthy
ministers who had retired to Mansfield, and engaged them
to spend some time with him in prayer, to assist him in the
solemn surrender of his soul to God; telling them that he
knew he must be speedily taken away from them. He him-
self closed the service with a most moving prayer, suitable to
the case of a pious soul just going to the bar of God. They
afterwards ate and drank, and conversed pleasantly together;
but that day (if not while they were together) he dropped
down dead from his chair, Sept. 7, 1670. He united with
Messrs. Coats, Reynolds, and Whitlock, in an Epistle pre-
fixed to Mr. Ball's Treatise on Meditation.
KIRTON [V.] Mr. WILLIAM HERBORN. Of Kath.
Hall, Camb. where he was cotemporary with Dr. Tho. Good-
win. He was of a good family in Norfolk; an able man,
a very solid practical preacher, and of a holy conversation.
He had some estate of his own, and was very charitable
with it. He had a very infirm constitution, and was much
troubled with the spleen. Some time after his ejectment he
lived at Watford in Herts, and afterwards in his native coun-
ty, where he died. He left several legacies to charitable
uses, and amongst the rets, to poor nonconforming ministers.
He was also the first mover and a great promoter of a quar-
terly contribution, from ministers who had competent liv-
ings, towards the relief of ministers' widows and children in
necessity; which was continued till Bartholomew, 1662.
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KNEESAL [V.] Mr. TURNER. [He had been before
ejected from Hawton upon another person's producing a title
to it; and preached here till Bartholomew-day, 1662, He
was poor, and had many children.]
Mr. BOSWORH. Upon his ejectment from Kneesal,
he removed to Nottingham, where he preached in his own
house, and there he died.
LINBY [R.] Mr. JOHN LEIGHTON. He was a pious
good man, but very poor.
WORKS. A Cordial for drooping Sinners; or Comfort to
such as tremble at God's Word.
MATTERSEY [V. 60l.] WILLIAM ASPINWALL, B. A.
Of Magd. Col. Camb. where he was under the tuition of
Mr. Joseph Hill. He was ordained at Claworth church,
with Mr. Cromwell and two others. His name is subscribed
to The Harmonious consent of the ministers in Lancashire,
his native county, in 1648, as minister of Mayhull. After
his ejectment he took a farm at Thurnsco in Yorkshire,
which had a good house belonging to it, and there he con-
tinued some years. Mr. Grant and Mr. Tricket, there sojourned
some time time with him. He was a plain, practical, edify-
ing preacher, of an unblameable life, and was a great bles-
sing to the people. He continued among them some time
after Bartholomew-day, but at length returned to Lancashire.
§ But he did not die there, as Dr. Calamy supposed, for it
appears from a letter, now before the editor, dated Cocker-
mouth, Ap. 16, 1724, that he was afterwards settled with a
dissenting congregation in that place. The letter was written
by Mr. John Atkinson, who says, in answer to some inqui-
ries, "You are mistaken in supposing that I am capable of
doing justice to the memory of the Rev. and pious Mr. Wm.
Aspinwall, so as to deserve a place in Dr. Calamy's Appen-
dix. He was a stranger when he came to us, and far ad-
vanced in years. Tho' I sat under his ministry, and had
frequent advantage for conversing freely with him, I never
knew much of his former circumstances. He removed to
us from a dissenting congregation in the bottom of Lan-
cashire. But from my own knowledge I can say, that he
was an eminent preacher and an excellent expositor; and
his death was greatly lamented. He was dearly beloved of
his people, both for his affectionate ministering among them,
and his abundantly obliging behaviour; for he was courte-
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ous and communicative to all. My wife gives you thanks
for your great respect to the memory of Mr. A. whom she
knew to be so deserving a person. She has heard him speak
of losing a hundred a year by the Uniformity-act.-Pray
give my service to Dr. Calamy and Mr. Brooksbank. *”
WORKS. A Discourse of the principal Points touching Bap-
tism, so far as Scripture-light directs.-§ There is a small folio
Volume of Sermons on the whole Epistle of Paul to Philemon,
with the Name of William Aspinwall prefixed, which the Editor
supposes to be by the same Person. It is a valuable Work.
In
NOTTINGHAM. St. Mary's. Mr. JOHN WHITLOCK.
Of Eman. Col. Camb. where he was under the learned Mr.
Ralph Cudworth. He was the son of Mr. Richard Whitlock.
merchant in London, of a very ancient family. His early
proficiency in learning was such as gained him great ac-
quaintance and esteem with ministers of note. At the uni-
versity he commenced an intimate and uncommon friendship
with Mr. Wm. Reynolds, which was of above fifty years
continuance. They lived together, they preached together,
they travelled together: nothing but death could separate
them, and that but for a short season. Their friendship was
indeed such, that they seemed to have but one soul. În the
year 1651 they fixed together at Nottingham. Mr Whitlock
had the presentation to the place from the Marquis of Dor-
chester, and Mr. Reynolds was joined with him as lecturer;
and considering the spaciousness of the church, and largeness
of the parish, there was need of both. Mr. Whitlock's mi-
nisterial services were acceptable to most serious judicious
persons: there were both heat and light in them. He was of
an active spirit, and zealous for God. A great reformation.
was visible in the town after his coming to it.-He had a
good estate of his own, and was ready to do good with it,
particularly in assisting poor scholars. He was a man of a hum-
ble spirit, and an upright heart. He brought forth fruit in
old age, and after suffering some of the infirmities of it, he
departed this life Dec. 4, 1708, aged 83; but lived in his son,
who reaped where his father had sown. His funeral ser-
mon was preached by Mr. John Barret, of St. Peter's in the
*The above letter was written to Mr. Johnson, late of Hackney, and at
that time a servant to Mr. Brooksbank, who built the house which was
purchased for the College, now demolished. He appears, at Dr. Calamy's
request, to have employed Mr. Johnson, a native of Cockermouth, to make
inquiry respecting Mr. Aspinwall.
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same town. It appears from his farewell-sermon, that he was
suspended several weeks before Bartholomew-day.
WORKS. A Tract on keeping ourselves from our Iniquity.-
A Sermon at the Funeral of Francis Pierepont, Esq; A short Ac-
count of the Life of his friend William Reynolds.§ Two Ser-
mons on Rev. iii. 3. which are the first and second in the Collection
of Farewell-sermons by County-ministers. They are both good
Discourses, delivered at a Friday-lecture; the 1st. June 27, the 2d.
July 6, 1662. This last he introduces in the following manner:
Beloved, when I entered on this verse, in my course of the Fri-
day-lecture, I little thought that I had so short a time to preach
among you. I hoped I should have enjoyed some further oppor-
tunities for some few weeks, at least as long as the Act of uniformity
allows. But it hath pleased God by his wise and holy providence
to order it otherwise; I being suspended from preaching here,
from this day forward, for Nonconformity: How regularly or legally
on man's part, I shall not dispute, but leave to the righteous God
to determine. I desire that both you and I may not eye man, but
God in this dispensation. I did not think to have preached my
Farewell Sermon to you from these words; but having begun this
text, and finding the matter of it so suitable to this sad occasion, I
shall by God's assistance proceed in the handling of it. Being
probably to preach no more unto you, I judge it very seasonable.
to leave the exhortation in the text with you, to call upon you that
you would remember those wholesome truths you have heard." &c.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS, M. A. Of Eman. Col. Camb.
under the tuition of Dr. Whichcote. Mr. Whitlock and he
were chamber-fellows in the college, where they contracted
a peculiar friendship. (See the foregoing article). Mr. Rey-
nolds for some time (tho' with regret) diverted his thoughts
from the ministry, in compliance with his father's wish, who
sent him into Russia to manage his business there, in 1644.
In two years, upon his father's death, he returned, expecting
to find a good estate, but was disappointed and discouraged.
Hereupon he thought of following merchandize, and was
going to sea, but was stopped by a false arrest, which was a
happy providence; for the ship he had agreed to go in was
never heard of more, nor any of the passengers. On further
consideration he re-assumed his studies for the ministry, to
the great benefit of the church of God. At the latter end of
the year, Mr. Whitlock settling at Leighton in Bedfordshire,
persuaded Mr. Reynolds to come and reside with him; from.
which time they perpetually lived together, till death made a
separation, being under the same roof, tho' they kept distinct.
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houses, after they were married, and frequently studying in
the same room. They had not been long together before
Okingham in Berkshire being vacant, they two undertook to
supply both Leighton and that place by turns. Okingham
having a settled minister in six months, they in the same
manner supplied Leighton and Aylsbury. In 1649 they
jointly refused to take the Engagement, tho' they thereby
lost the augmentation at Leighton, which was all they had
there, and displeased those thro' whose hands the allowance
was to pass. At length the providence of God removed them
to Nottingham, by a means unthought of. The carrier, Mr.
Adrian Cook, used to go to London thro' Fenny Stratford;
but the road being bad, in Feb. 1650, he left it to go by
Leighton, where he lodged, which he never did before or
after. Hearing that two ministers lived there, who were un-
der discouragement, for refusing the Engagement, he made
them a visit; told them that St. Mary in Nottingham want-
ed a minister, and pressed them to come and preach there;
which they told him, some time in the approaching summer,
they might probably do. When Mr. Cook came home, he
related what had passed; upon which the people in general
were very desirous to hear both these ministers, and drew up
an invitation to them, to spend some time with them, in order
to mutual trial and acquaintance. It was signed by Francis
Pierpont, Esq; member of parliament for the town, several
aldermen and principal inhabitants, and sent by Mr. Spencer,
one of the churchwardens. They accordingly went and were
unanimously approved. In 1651, they were ordained at
London, by the classis, in Andrew Undershaft church, Dr.
Manton being moderator; and then they returned and settled
a regular church order at Nottingham, which continued till
1662. They enjoyed much peace and comfort between them-
selves, with their people, and the neighbouring ministers;
and found encouraging success to their labours. In the latter
end of 1660 they were disturbed by indictments for not read-
the Common Prayer, and from the spiritual court. Mr. Rey-
nolds was excommunicated, and put to a vast expence in jour-
neys to York and London upon this occasion. At last he
procured a prohibition, the proceeding against him being di-
rectly against the act of indemnity. (Conformist's 4th Plea.
P. 36.)
In October, 1662, after being silenced, they removed with
their families to Colwich-Hall, about a mile off; and there
they were seized at their meeting, in September, 1663. They
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were seized again in August, 1665, and imprisoned for about
three months at the marshal's, without any cause assigned.
When the Five-mile-act took place, they removed to Ther-
brook in Derbyshire, where they lived two years, frequently
visiting their Nottingham friends. In 1668 they removed to
Mansfield, where they continued 19 years; in which time
they often officiated by turns among their people at Notting-
ham. In March, 1685, going as freeholder to Newark, to
an election of Members for the county, thy were seized and
sent to Nottingham jail by eight justices, upon the Five-mile-
act. There they continued till July 1685, when, upon the
Duke of Monmouth's landing, they and many others, were
sent prisoners to Hull. Upon the liberty given in 1687, they
returned with their families to Nottingham in peace, much
to the joy of their people. There they continued labouring
together very comfortably till it pleased God by a fever to
remove Mr. Reynolds, Feb. 26, 1698, aged 73. Mr. Barret
preached his funeral sermon, in which he gave this short but
full account of him: "He was a sound, lively, practical
preacher; a holy liver, an exemplary walker; one that could
not live without daily secret converse with God in the word
and prayer, and God was with him." Mr. Reynolds printed
only a Funeral Sermon for the Hon. Francis Pierpont, Esq;
-A short account of his life was published by his friend
Mr. Whitlock.
St. Peter's. JOHN BARRET, A. M. He was invited
to this place upon the death of Mr. Richard Whitchurch, in
1656. When Dr. Calamy's work was first published, he was
living as pastor of a congregation at Nottingham. His case,
and that of Mr. Whitlock, as to their ejectment was singular.
The following account of it was left under Mr. Barret's
own hand.
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They were both cited to appear at the Archdeacon's
court, and upon their appearance, sentenced by Sir Edward
Lake the official, for a future offence; that is, if they did not
read the Common Prayer, and wear the surplice, the next
Lord's-day, July 6, 1662, exnunc prout extunc, & extunc
prout exnunc, to be suspended from office and benefice. This
was after Dr. Harcourt, the Archdeacon, had told some of
their friends, that he had received a prohibition from the Abp.
of York, against meddling with any new cause, (as theirs
was, not being yet cited) to the prejudice of his (the Arch-
bishop's) visitation. Both Mr. Whitlock and Mr. Barret
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were determined to hold on preaching in their places tho' Sir
Edward Lake should prohibit them, till restrained by force.
But they were prevented thus: At the same time that he de-
creed their suspension, he also decreed the excommunication.
of the churchwardens of both parishes, if they did not present
their ministers with Common-prayer-books and surplices:
and (in case the ministers did not conform thereupon) if they
did not provide conforming clergymen from the day before
mentioned; which some of them were ready enough to do.
So that Mr. Whitlock and Mr. Barret could not get into their
pulpits, but against the churchwardens; which would have
been deemed a riot.-The irregularities of these proceedings
plainly appeared at the Archbishop's visitation, after Bartho-
lomew-day, when the Chancellor, Dr. Borell, sat as judge
in the court, before whom these two suspended ministers
were cited to appear. When Mr. Barret was called, the
Chancellor asked whether he had conformed? He answered,
No, "Then I suspend you," says the Chancellor. Mr.
Barret replied, "I am suspended already." That caused a
silence in the court for some time, and a private debate be-
tween the Archdeacon and the Chancellor took place. Here-
upon the opinion of the serjeant at law was asked, upon a
copy of Sir Edward Lake's decree of suspension; and it was
queried whether their ejection was not contrary to the Bar-
tholomew-act, as it was against the Abp's prohibition. By
that Act they should have been allowed till August 24, to
consider whether they could with a safe conscience conform ;
for the new Prayer-book (to which they must give their assent
and consent if they would keep their places) was not come
down by the 6th of July; so that their assent and consent,
must have been by an implicit faith.—Mr. Barret met with
much opposition, but he was preserved by a special providence.
The author of the Conformist Plea, P. iv. 77. relates the
following instance: [Aug. 26, 1676, four informers had form-
ed a design to take Mr. Barret and his hearers, at a meet-
ing in a private house. At the town's end, two of the in-
formers rode off for a warrant, and the others came to dis-
cover the meeting. One of them walked backwards and for-
wards between two stiles, leading into the yard where the
meeting was, but had not power (as he said afterwards) to go
over the stile nearest the house, tho' he often had his hand
upon it; and tho' he could not but know the house, by the
description given of it, he turned to another, and asked a wo-
man whether the meeting was not there. She was so over-
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come with fear, that she could make him no answer.
consequence of this delay, the people got away before the
informers came.-The same author also relates, That the
informers haunted them several times afterwards, but were
as often crossed; and that Mr. Barret, at one time, charged
two of them with guilt in violating the Sabbath, and hinder-
ing others who would keep it; and reminded one of them of
the great terrors he had formerly suffered in a fit of sickness,
and how welcome he himself was to him at that time, to
visit and pray with him; upon which both of them seemed
to relent. One of these men, soon after this, was sent to
jail for deer-stealing.]-Mr. Barret died Oct. 30, 1713, aged
82. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Whitlock,
junior, his colleague, where his character may be seen.
WORKS. Two Farewell Sermons in the Country Collection,
on Phil. ii. 12. and 1 Kings xviii. 21. [§ No. III. and IV. ap-
propriate, affectionate and judicious]-Treatise on the Covenant
of Grace.-The Christian Temper; a Disc. on the several Graces
which make a compleat Christian.-Two pieces in Def. of Non-
conformity ag. Stillingfleet.-50 Queries about Inf. Baptism, col-
lected from Baxter.-Disc. on Pardon of Sin.-Of secret Prayer.—
Fun. Serm. for Mr. Whitlock--and for Mr. Reynolds.-[Vindica-
tion of Nonconformists ag. Durel and Scrivener.]
RATCLIFF [V.] Mr. JOHN PEN.
ROULSTON [V.] Mr. THOMAS OGLE. Of St. John's
Col. Camb. He was congregational in his judgment; and
was one of those who at the time of Monmouth's rising, were
taken prisoners at Chester.
SAUNBY [Chap.] Mr. JOSEPH ROCK. After his eject-
ment, he taught school privately; but some time before his
death he got into a privileged place in the gift of John Disney,
Esq; where he preached publicly without conforming. He
was a good man, of a very calm, humble, sober, peaceable
temper: a godly, blameless and useful minister, of very good
abilities; very diligent and successful in catechizing.
SIBTHORP or FLINTHAM. Mr. GEORGE Cook.
When the Act of uniformity took place, he offered to preach
in the church, but was violently hindered by two men, who
forced the pulpit-door against him when he was opening it,
and crushed his hand; upon which he withdrew, and said,
They were a wicked generation, and he would have no more
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to do with them. He was a good scholar, a great disputant,
and a sound preacher. He afterwards removed to London.
SOUTHWELL [V.] JAMES MOWBRAY, B. D. Of
St. John's Col. Camb. Of which he was one of the senior.
fellows. A man of great piety, and considerable learning.
He was ejected here upon title. He afterwards lived and
preached at Sleaford in Lincolnshire.
SUTTON in Ashfield. Mr. TUKE. At the time when
he was ejected he was an old man and blind. He was of the
congregational persuasion.
THORP. Mr. HENRY FEATLY. He was younger bro-
ther to Dr. John Featly, rector of Langer in this county,
who after the Restoration was Precentor in the cathedral of
Lincoln; and nephew to Dr. Daniel Featly, who was one of
the Assembly of Divines, till he was imprisoned for sending
intelligence to Oxford. Mr. Henry Featly was an amiable
person for the mildness, peaceableness, moderation and candor
of his temper, and remarkable for the holiness of his life.
He was generally beloved and well spoken of, even by such
as had no affection for Nonconformists.
THRUMPTON [Chap.] Mr. FERDINANDO POOL. He
was born at Ulsthorp in Leicestershire, of godly parents,
and educated in the college of Dublin. He was afterwards
forced to go for ordination to Ireland, where there was a more
moderate bishop than his native country would then afford.
He was there ordained without subscription to those things.
which his conscience could not comply with. The bishop
(who stiled himself Laonensis) gave him deacon's orders
Aug. 24, and priest's orders Sept. 3, 1626. The author had
a copy of them, and his grandson, Mr. Shaw of Derby, the
original. Nothing is there mentioned as previous to his ordi-
nation but the taking the oath of allegiance and supremacy.
Mr. Pool was a serious, plain and constant preacher. For
the greater part of his time he was in the family of that grave
and pious matron Mrs. Piggot of Thrumpton, who by her
interest and money sheltered him from the bishops' courts
for several years. In her family he had seven children born.
and brought up. But when the civil war broke out, not be-
ing able to continue there any longer, he removed into Hun-.
tingdonshire, one of the associated counties, where he had
the living of Great Catworth, of about 130l. per annum; yet
such was his contempt of the world, such his affection to the
good
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good people of Thrumpton, and such his grateful respect to
his good friend Mrs. Piggot, that when the war was over, he
voluntarily left this living, and returned to his former, tho' he
had there a much smaller stipend.
Here he continued till
Bartholomew-day, 1662, and then was forced away again
by his Nonconformity. He died at Ashby-de-la Zouch, in
the house of his son-in-law Mr. Samuel Shaw, 1676, aged
upwards of 80. He was a man of great humility and sin-
cerity, a true Nathaniel without guile. He also possessed
considerable ministerial abilities. He was particularly emi-
rent in prayer, and had many remarkable answers to his
prayers.
* *
Mr. JOHN WOODHOUSE. He was silenced
in this county by the Act of uniformity, though he was not
ejected by it, as he was not then fixed in any place. Dr.
Williams, who preached his funeral sermon, gives the fol-
lowing account of him: "God began to deal effectually with
his heart in his tender years, and prayer (his great talent) was
his fiequent exercise when very young. His soul, thus
truly changed by conversion, and assisted by constant supplies
in return of prayer, he escaped the infection of the university,
and was so remarkably serious as to be admitted into the in-
timate society of some of the gravest divines in that place.
He removed from thence, while he was but young, to a
family of note, [Lady Grantham's, where he was chaplain.]
There the evil disposition of some persons made him more
cautious than usual, and put him upon retirement; which
was so blessed, that he often acknowledged he never enjoyed
such uninterrupted communion with God in secret as in that
family. In this private condition he lived many years, which
he spent partly in securing the great concernments of his own
soul, by clearing his evidences, improving his graces, and at-
taining to a more confirmed state; and partly, in informing
and fixing his judgment, both in the disputed articles of faith,
and in the business of Conformity. The latter he disallowed
upon maturest thoughts, and few were so well qualified to
manage that controversy as he was.
In the former he prov-
ed skilful as well as orthodox, tho' disallowing extreams:
particularly as to the extent of the death of Christ, and con-
ditionality of the covenant, with several things depending
thereupon, He to whom the end is known from the be-
ginning,' and who hath in prospect the service he designeth
by every instrument, made use of this retirement to qualify
Mr.
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Mr. Woodhouse for greater usefulness than he himself could
expect, both in the salvation of sinners and in the education
of youth for the ministry. And he had an early pledge of
more extensive fruits by the conversion of some in this very
family. Lest his zeal in awakening the secure might occa-
sion him to break the bruised reed,' providence directed his
acquaintance with a pious gentlewoman under great doubts
and perplexities of mind, by whose experience he became in-
structed in the various exercises of a child of light walking
in darkness, so as to be prepared to be a vessel of consolation
to many, as he also was to her.
He married the daughter of Major Hubbard of Leicester-
shire; a woman of singular piety, and of a good fortune.
Hereupon, so far from that base spirit of some, who espouse
idleness when they become independent, he applied himself
to educate young men, and to preach more publicly and con-
stantly; for he reckoned an estate a further obligation to serve
the donor, and an encouragement for more successful service,
as it sheltered him from the temptations of the necessitous,
set him above contempt, and obviated that common prejudice
against ministers, that their grand aim is to get a maintenance.
His dexterity in governing, by a due mixture of sweetness
and authority, gave him no small advantage to improve young
persons. His diligence was extraordinary till a great distem-
per enfeebled him. He piously managed his house as a nur-
sery for heaven, as well as a school for promoting learning;
and the many excellent ministers in the church, and eminent
gentlemen, both qualified and disposed to serve their country,
who were educated by him, were sufficient proofs of his abi-
lity for his office and fidelity in it. Many of his pupils owned
him as their spiritual father.-That of which he made the
highest account, and most frequently inculcated on his stu-
dents, was, a faithful diligent aim at usefulness in saving im-
mortal souls. From this design he could not be bribed by
an employ of far greater benefit to his family, nor diverted by
the many threatenings, losses, or imprisonments he endured.
He thought the best way to effect his great design was a plain,
warm, familiar way of preaching: he therefore chiefly re-
sug-
garded the frame of his own heart in his work, as what
gested the most moving words, and whence by the divine
And he was en-
blessing he expected the greatest success.
couraged in this way by the affectionate seriousness of his
auditory. In pursuit of his great end he also embraced pri-
vate opportunities, and very industriously visited sick people,
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in hope that the nearness of another world might awaken
their attention. And God was pleased to give a signal blessing
to his ministry. About the vale of Beaver he diffused saving
light, and was an instrument in the conversion of great num-
bers, among whom some despisers of himself were remarkable
instances; and in other places he was not without seals to his
ministry. He used often to say, “ I am much afraid of my
work, from a sense of my own indisposition and insufficien-
cy; but when I have looked up to God for help, I have
found his presence warming and enlarging me, &c. and yet
what I had thought best prepared hath had least success.
He dreaded a useless life; and when some unhappy circum-
stances broke up his school, it was his frequent moan," Now
every field is unpleasant, for fear I shall live to no purpose.'
But soon after he was invited to be pastor of a congrega-
tion [at Little St. Helen's in Bishopsgate-street, London,]
where he continued in the useful discharge of his ministry
till within a few days before he died. He was still of public
use in the country (where he was better acquainted than in
London) and also in successfully guiding multitudes in what
concerned the safety and liberty of this nation, when the tide.
ran high against religion and property.
His care to observe the conduct of providence was very
strict. He used often to say, "I can go any where if God
will lead." He thankfully acknowledged the blessings of
providence, and was very resigned to its severest disposals. By
his great moderation towards all who differed from him in
judgment he became acceptable to men of different denomina-
tions. He was ever ready to acts of kindness and charity.
He supported several poor students, and sometimes maintained
a minister and his family till he was provided with some em-
ployment for his subsistence.-Nor did he serve God for
nought. Mercy filled his life beyond that of many faithful
ministers. He had the great satisfaction to see many of his
children in the way to heaven, and one of them well qualified
and useful to bring others there.-He took a kind of solemn
leave of his people in a sermon he preached, with his usual
warmth, a few days before he died, and mercy followed him
in his death. The exercise of reason was not intermitted, nor
of grace neither. He prayed with great fervour; the tempter
was chained from disturbing; he was full of inward com-
fort; he chearfully joined with the prayers of others, and
died without a groan." Dr. Calamy says, in 1700, but at
what age doth not appear. He kept his academy at Sherif-
hales
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hales in Shropshire where, Mr. Orton says, he was an eminent
tutor, and educated many excellent divines, and several gen-
tlemen of the most considerable families in these parts; as
Foley, Harley, Hunt, &c. and adds, that he has heard some
of his pupils remark, that Dr. Williams hath said too little
of him.
WORKS. A Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Jane Papillon;
on Rev. xiv. 13.—A Catalogue of Sins ; (highly useful for Self-Exa-
mination, &c.)—A Serm. before the Society for the Reformation
of Manners.
The following afterwards Conformed.
Mr. DANIEL CHADWICK, of Tallaston, viz. in 1666, when
the Five-mile-act took place.-Mr. FLOWER, of Staunton.-
Mr. HORN, of Nutthal.-Mr. BOOLE, of Clifton.—Mr.
KENDAL, of Widmier-Pool.-Mr. ORMSTON, of Keyworth.
-Mr. FORTH OF FRITH, of Fledborough.-Mr. FISHER, of
Blith. Mr. CHARLES JACKSON, of Selston. Mr. Salter,
of Winthorp; who accepted a small benefice at Conton.
Mr. RAINBOW, of Triswel, in this county, upon the Res-
toration, was vehemently urged by his wife to conform; but
he told her it was against his conscience. When the Act
took place, the clerk of the parish brought the Common-
Prayer Book to his house, at which he was troubled, and
shook his head, saying, "Hast thou brought this gear?" He
was very thoughtful about reading it, and his wife was very
pressing; but he fell ill on the very Lord's-day morning,
when he was obliged to read it, if he kept his living; and he
died in a few days after, saying to his wife, "If thou couldst
have trusted God, thou mightest have had a living husband,
and a livelihood for thyself and children; but now art like to
lose both."
Dr. Calamy closes this county with answering some remarks
of the Compilers of Magna Britannia, &c. concerning the
ministers ejected in it.
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OXFORDSHIRE.
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MBROSDEN [V.] EDWARD BAGSHAW, M. A. OF
Christ-Ch. Oxf. He was the son of Mr. Edw. Bag-
shaw, an eminent attorney at Broughton, who besides many
other pieces published the Life of his Tutor, Mr. Robert
Bolton. Wood gives a full account of them and the author,
Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 315.-This his son had a great re-
putation in the university as a scholar, and was, for a time,
second master of Westminster School, when Dr. Busby was
first master. He was ordained by Dr. Brownrigg, Bp. of
Exeter, in 1659. After the Restoration he was chaplain to
the Earl of Anglesea. Dr. Walter Pope, in his Life of Bp.
Ward, p. 30, says,
"He was advised by some considerable
friends to live peaceable and conformable for the space of a
year; who assured him that at the end of it they would pro-
vide him some considerable preferment in the church. Ac-
cordingly (says that author) he went and tried, but not be-
ing able to hold out so long, he soon repaired to London,
much more imbittered against ecclesiastical and kingly go-
vernment than when he went into the country." He then
adds, "He sided tooth and nail with the fanatics, and made
a great figure amongst them;" but gives it as his judgment,
"that he exceeded most, if not all of them, in natural and
acquired parts." But this writer was too little acquainted
with that sort of people whom he calls Fanatics, to be able to
pass a judgment. Wood says, "He went into Ireland, and
returned discontented in 1662, at the latter end of which year
he was seized on by order of the council, and committed pri-
soner to the Gatehouse in Westminster; whence he was re-
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moved to the Tower, and from thence to South-sea Castle
near Portsmouth, where he had a tedious confinement."
Dr. Pope tells us, " that K. Charles sent for him, designing
to work some good upon him, and to do him a kindness; but
he found him so obstinate and refractory, that he was forced
to leave him to his own imaginations." When he was with
the King, he said something that was so offensive to him that
he was sent to the dungeon in the Tower.* Mr. Bagshaw
afterwards married a blind gentlewoman, who fell in love
with him for his preaching. [Wood says, she was a virtuous,
superannuated maid; the daughter of John Peacock, of
Chawley, near Abington, Berks.] He was at last sent to
Newgate, for refusing to take the Oath of allegiance and
supremacy, where he continued 22 weeks, and there died,
Dec. 28, 1671.-Tho' he was possessed of very considerable
abilities (which even Wood himself acknowledges) those who
had the highest value for his ministerial gifts, were ready to
own that he was a man of a very warm and violent temper.
Dr. Kennet, in his Parochial Antiquities of Ambrosden, &c.
has these words: "Mr. E. Bagshaw, B. D. of Christ
Church, Oxon, was possessed of the said church; who
"being a turbulent Nonconformist, was ejected by the Bar-
"tholomew-act, 1662."
§ The account given of him by Wood, in his Athen.
Oxon. is as follows: "He was born at Broughton, in Nor-
thamptonshire, educated at Westminster-school, elected
thence a student of Chr. Church, May 1, 1646, aged 17, yet
was capable of that place a year before, but hindered coming
to Oxon, it being a garrison for the king," He represents
him as having been very insolent and turbulent all the time
he was at the university, and says, that it was for the same
behaviour that Dr. Busby got him removed from Westmin-
* Mr. BAXTER'S account of this interview is most probable: viz. that it was
to examine him about a paper found upon him, relating to one Davis, who
had been transported from the Tower to Africa; concerning which he re-
fused proper information, and gave his majesty a very impertinent answer.
Mr. Baxter describes his situation in the Tower dungeon as very deplorable,
being "three or four days and nights without fire, candle, bed, or straw;
"when he fell into a terrible fit of the Hæmorrhoids, which however the
"physicians thought did save his life; for the pain was so vehement, that
"it kept him in a sweat, which cast out the infection of the damp
Baxter adds, "at last by the solicitation of his brother, who was a Confor-
"mist, and dearly loved him, he was taken up; and after that was sent
"away to South-sea castle, where he remained a close prisoner many years,
"with Vavaser Powell, an honest injudicious zealot of North Wales, who
" heightened him in his opinions." Baxt. Life, p. ii. p. 379, and p. iii. p. 72.
Mr.
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ster school. He even accuses him of being "very loose in his
morals," and after mentioning several things to his disadvan-
tage, adds—“ He was a person of very good parts (which he
knew too well) well learned, but of a hot and restless head, and
was (as an eminent presbyterian [Baxter] who wrote against
him, saith) an anabaptist, fifth monarchy man and a separa-
tist: a man of an extraordinary vehement spirit-No one of
'the nonconformist ministers of England wrote in his defence,
⚫ or pleaded for him.'-At length, after his time had been spent
in a continued agitation, in opposition to all that was, in rela-
tion to the church, settled by law, he unwillingly laid down his
head and died, in Tothil street Westminster, Dec.28, 1671, and
was buried Jan. 1, 1672, in the fanatical burying place Bun-
hill, accompanied by near a 1000 protestant dissenters. Over
his grave was built an altar monument, on which was this in-
scription by Dr. J. Owen, [whose testimony was full as credible
as Mr. IVood's] "Here lies interred the body of Mr. Edward
"C
Bagshaw, minister of the gospel, who received faith from
"God to embrace it, courage to defend it, and patience to suf-
"fer for it, which (is) by the most despised, and by many per-
"secuted; esteeming the advantage of birth, education and
learning as things of worth to be accounted loss for the
"knowledge of Christ. From the reproaches of pretended
"friends, and persecutions of professed adversaries, he took
"sanctuary, by the will of God, in eternal rest, the 28th
"Dec. 1671.-Ath. Ox. ii. 491, 4."
WORKS. Dissertationes duæ Anti-Socinianæ, &c.-De Mo-
narchia absoluta Dissertatio Politica.-Appendix de Monarchia
mixta-Exercitationes duæ, altera Theologica de Presbyteris &
Episcopis; altera Academica, de Philosophia veteri;..and many
other things in English. §WOOD gives the following list of
them (here abridged.)-Pract. disc. on God's decrees; dedicated
to Bradshaw, who condemned K. Cha. I. to die; (complimenting
that famous regicide)—A true Nar. of the Diff. between Mr. Busby
and Mr. Bagshaw-Saintship no ground of Sovereignty.-The
great Quest. concern. things indifferent-Do. part ii.-Do. part iii;
the necessity and use of heresies.- Discourse about Christ and
Antichrist--Treatise on the Resurrection-Animadversions on Bp.
Morley's Letter (in which he defends Mr. Baxter, but for which Mr.
B. did not thank him.)- Do. part ii. with an answer to all that Roger
L'Estrange intends to write.-Letter to Edw. E. of Clarendon,
vindicating his former actions in relation to church and state.
Treatise on the spiritual nature of God. Eng. about Infal. of the
Pope and Rom. Ch.-Ready way to prevent sin.-Discourse of
Conscience.-Letter to Sir J. Robinson lieutenant of the Tower
VOL. III.—NO. XXIII.
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(while a prisoner there)-Antidote ag. Mr. Baxter's treatise of
Love and Unity.-To this Baxter answered, and he replied.-
Baxter wrote A Second Admon. to Mr. Bagshaw, calling him to repen
tance for many false doctrines, crimes, untruths, &c. He then wrote-
A Review of all Mr. Baxter's Calumnies: ag. which Baxter pub-
lished, The Church told of Mr. Bagshaw's scandal, and warned of dan-
gerous snares &c. *-This Catalogue will throw some light on the
temper of the man.
BADDINGTON, [Q. Pidington, or Padington in
Gloucestershire]. Mr. JAMES Wyar.
BAMPTON [V. 1407.] SAMUEL BIRCH, M. A. [Of
Mary's Hall Oxf. and chaplain] of Corp. Chr. Col. when
Dr. Staunton was President. At the latter part of his time
there, he himself had many pupils, several of whom were
gentlemen commoners. He was a native of Lancashire.
From the university he went to Bampton, where he was one
of the three vicars who had each 140l. a year, and some-
times more. In the time of the civil war, he had a commis-
sion in the army; but when he found things were run to ex-
tremity, he quitted it, and returned to Oxford. In one of his
MSS. (several of which the author perused) he gives the fol-
lowing short account of himself. After I had not only ut-
terly refused all compliance with the wickedness of the army
under Cromwell, opposing their most unrighteous and horrid
practices, about king and parliament, but had also given what
assistance I could to the king when he came thro' Scotland ;
success failing, partly by their attempting to have sequestered
me, partly for my non-engagement, I was turned out of all
ways of ordinary subsistence public or private."-How he
came into Bampton again doth not appear. After the Re-
*At the end of the above list, Wood says, " Mr. Baxter tells us, that E.
Bagshaw published The Life and death of Mr. Vavaser Powell, that faithful mi-
nister and confessor of Christ, &c. But there are such silly things, and such
canting impertinent stuff in it, that no generous scholar, of Academical breed-
ing, as Bagshaw was, would or could be the author of it. 'Tis true he com-
pleated V. Powell's Collect. of Prophesies, and added to his Concordance: yet
I cannot belieye he was the author of the said Life.”—For further particulars
of his character, the reader is referred to the LIFE of Mr. BAXTER, who fre-
quently mentions him, and the controversies he had with him. What he
says of his last piece against Mr. Bagshaw, P. iii. p. 89, is truly affecting, and
worth the serious attention of all controversial writers. "About the day it
❝came out (viz. his third reply) Mr. Bagshaw died..a prisoner, tho' not in
"prison: which made it grievous to me to think that I must seem to write
"against the dead. While we wrangle here in the dark, we are DYING, and
"passing to the world that will DECIDE ALL CONTROVERSIES: and the safest
passage thither is by peaceable holiness."
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storation, Mr. White laid claim to this vicarage; but Mr.
Birch, June 11, 1660, put in a caveat with the Lord Chan-
cellor Hyde, against his taking out the great seal, as having
the king's presentation. On August 25 there was a hearing
before the Chancellor, who refused to give Mr. White the
seal, and so Mr. Birch continued in the vicarage till Aug. 24,
1662, when he was ejected. He had then seven children.
In one of his MSS. was found a solemn appeal to God upon
this occasion, with this title;
Upon the act of uniformity, and my conforming thereunto,
or leaving my ministry, vicarage, &c. Humble address to my
Lord, July 30, 1662. The following is a copy of it.
My Lord and Master. It is now high time that I prostrate
myself at thy feet, and earnestly beg to know thy good plea-
sure with thy poor creature. Thou gavest me my commis-
sion to preach the gospel, and by many strange providences
hast settled my station in Bampton. The civil magistrate
(who is thine authority) forbids me under severe penalty to
perform any of those things for which thou hast given me
commission, unless upon such terms as himself proposeth.
My God, may I declare mine unfeigned assent and consent
to all things in this Book of Common Prayer, &c: to the use
of those unprofitable but most offensive ceremonies, which
have occasioned so much mischief already in thy church, and
turned so many out of the way? to the constant practice of
this Common Prayer, as now it is? to this consecration of
bishops, and to many things in the ordaining priests and dea-
cons? to the reading of those vain stories in Apocrypha,
while so much of thy word, inspired by thy spirit, is left out?
to those things in the Catechism, which intimate baptismal
regeneration? May I now renounce the solemn oath, the
covenant, wherein the nations stand bound to a reformation,
and which hath been so great an instrument for the restoring
of king, parliament, laws, &c. May I openly profess and
subscribe that it is in itself unlawful? Did thy faithful ser-
vants (so many thousands in England) wickedly, in entering
thereinto? Or thy ministers (so many hundreds) no better,
in their public owning and avouching the same in print, to all
the world, after so many years? My Lord, I am by act of
parliament (thy authority over me) ipso facto avoided as
dead, if within the time I do not this. I am at thy footstool.
I may not do evil that good may come. I may not do this
great sin against my God, and the dictates of my conscience.
I therefore surrender myself, my soul, my ministry, my peo-
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ple, my place, my wife and children, and whatsoever else is
herein concerned, into thy hand, from whom I received
them. Lord, have mercy on me, and assist me for ever to
keep faith and a good conscience. I do not yet see, (for all
that is said against it) that the covenant is the worse, or these
other things better, than formerly I accounted them. Thou
hast graciously brought me without scandal, or breach of
conscience, thro' the former snares on the other extreme;
my gracious Lord, bring me also safe and sound thro' this.
I do not beg for riches, honours, great places, or a pleasant
life, for myself or mine. I beg thy grace in Christ, and that
we may be kept from scandal to religion, and may be brought
the next way to heaven. Mortify the sin of my heart and
life which might turn me out of the way, blind mine eyes,
or occasion thee to permit my fall. Lord, I earnestly re-
commend the souls of this poor people, my flock and charge,
to thee. O Lord Jesus, the head of thy church, the Re-
deemer of thy people, the Saviour of thine elect, the great
shepherd and Bishop of our souls, take the care and charge.
of them; provide for them, keep them, save them. If thou
takest me from this work here, my God, provide some work
somewhere, and set me about it. Let me live no longer than I
may be of use in such employment as thou shalt assign me,
and therein make me faithful. I am thy servant, let me not
be altogether unprofitable.-As for my provision, I never had
any considerable estate, and yet I never wanted. I have lived
well, without injury to or need of others; plentifully, by thy
gracious providence, and bountiful hand. I depend on thy
promise, (Matt. vi. 24, 33.) and have reason (more than
others) from good experience to trust thee. When I come
into extreme need or straits, I will (thro' thine assistance) as
formerly, come to acquaint thee with it, and to devolve my-
self at thy footstool for the like relief. In the mean time I
give thee most hearty thanks for what I have, and humbly
beseech thee for grace to use it well. My God, I beg thy
direction in this great business, and beseech thee to shew me
what is fully pleasing to thee, and enable me to do it, for my
Lord Jesus's sake, my Saviour and blessed Redeemer. Amen.
There was found another paper of his, dated June 10,
1662, with this title: Upon the fall of the lectures about
us at Witney, and Farrington, and here at Bampton, which
the late act of parliament for uniformity hath overturned,
in which he expresses the deepest concern at the event, and
especially at the influence of the fathers of the church in pro-
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moting it; appealing to God for his own sincerity and zeal
in setting up and maintaining these lectures.
Mr. Birch staid at the vicarage some time after being
silenced, to which he observes, a variety of providences con-
tributed, He continued preaching there on Lord's-day even-
ings, till Mr. Cook, his successor came to Bampton, and then
he hired a house for a school, at Shilton in Berks, where he
fixed in May, 1664, and had a good number of boarders. In
1665, the churchwardens of the parish, by the direction of
Mr. Grove the minister, presented him to the bishop's court
for not communicating at church, and for teaching school.
But the Chancellor, Dr. Ailworth, was very civil to him.
In March, 1666, by a warrant from the deputy-lieutenants
of Berks, he was seized and carried before some justices for
keeping conventicles, &c. but they took bail for his appear-
ance. Some time after, he was again summoned into the
bishop's court at Oxford, and severely threatened; but upon
his appearance in the spiritual court, as Lord Wharton's chap-
lain, he was dismissed. He was inclined to have removed to
his native place near Manchester, where he had a small estate;
but the gentlemen of the parish would not suffer him to leave
that country. They placed him in a large mansion-house
in the neighbourhood, belonging to Hoard, Esq; and
sent their sons to him for education, (a service for which he
was peculiarly qualified) and he remained there till the time
of his death, having his house continually full of young no-
bility and gentry from many parts of the nation. Fourteen
of those who had been his scholars were in parliament the
same session, in the reign of Q. Anne: and some of her chief
ministers of state were of the number. On this account it
appeared, to several considerate persons, not to have a very
decent appearance for them to countenance the Schism-bill
to prevent the Dissenters educating their own children; un-
less they did it to atone for the sins of their youth, when they
themselves were in such hands.-One of these gentlemen
told Mr. Tanner, (a grandson of Mr. Birch) at the time
when the Dissenters were so much inveighed against in par-
liament, "That his grandfather was the best christian, the
"best scholar, and the most gentleman-like master he ever
"knew." And others who had their education under him,
in like manner often expatiated in his commendation. How
ever, he could never be at rest till the last years of his life,
but was perpetually molested, either by the deputy-lieutenants,
or the bishops of Oxford, or the gentlemen of Doctors-com-
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mons. He was once imprisoned, but some gentlemen in
the neighbourhood gave bail for him, and he was liberated the
next day.
When the Five-mile-act came out, he measured from his
house at Shilton, along the King's highway to Bampton
church, and found it to be above 300 yards more than five
miles distant; and therefore he had no disturbance on that
account. He went constantly to church on the Lord's-day
morning (at which time only there was a sermon) and in the
afternoon preached to his own family. When the times
would permit, many came to hear him, some from a gooddis-
tance, and at proper seasons, he administered the sacrament to
them. Thus he held on to the day of his death. When he
came to lie on his dying bed, his eldest daughter, who sat
behind his bolster to bear him up, asked him what his thoughts
then were of the many changes, as to public affairs, which he
had passed through? His answer was, "I bless God I took
"the parliament's part: I bless God I opposed Oliver Crom-
"well; I bless God, with all my soul, I did not conform."
After this, when many of his neighbours came to see him,
he said to them, "See that none of you miss of the great
end you came into the world for, of knowing God and Jesus
Christ whom he hath sent, savingly." The last words that
were heard from him were, "Thankfulness! thankfulness!"
He died Jan. 22, 1678, aged 61, and was buried at Shilton. §
Among his MSS. there are various meditations and self-
examinations before the sacrament; with pious aspirations
towards God, and prayers offered on account of the public,
as well as his own private and family concerns and difficulties,
for many years together; which shew him to have been a
very thoughtful, humble, pious man; zealous on the parlia-
ment side, at their first taking up arms, and as zealous after-
wards against Cromwell and his schemes; warm for the cove-
nant, and as much against the Engagement; a great enemy
to confusion, both in church and state; and a mighty pro-
A
Woon's account of him (which Calamy imperfectly quotes) is upon the
whole favourable. Having mentioned his taking his degree, and being
made chaplain of C. C. Col. he says, "Afterwards being averse to confor-
mity, he taught school at Shilton, where he had constantly under his tuition
the sons of divers persons of quality, and these too who were good Loyalists.
He died at that place, Jan. 22, 1679, leaving the character of a good man,
among the precise people, but otherwise among the Loyalists, who esteemed
him an instiller of evil principles into youth." (Fast. Oxon. ii. 110.) Qu.
How then came they to put their sons under his care?
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moter of the Restoration, which yet exposed him and many
others to great hardships. He was a very chearful christian,
and had a continual inward serenity and peace. He kept his
numerous family in great order and decorum, tho' he some-
times found it very difficult. He was ready to forgive in-
juries, and pass by many reproaches undeservedly cast upon
him. It was his common saying, with regard to his enemies,
"Let us pray for them, and wipe out all disrespect from our
hearts, towards them." In some instances God turned his
bitterest enemies into hearty friends.
JOHN OSBORNE, M. A. Of New-Inn Hall, Ox-
ford. [The son of J. Osborne of Crediton, Devon, “whence
(Wood says) after he had been trained up in trivial learning,
he was sent to New Inn, 1634, aged 16, took the degrees in
arts, and became a frequent preacher up of the Presbyterian
design; a forward zealot for carrying on the righteous
cause."] He was ordained by Bp. Hall, and was another
of the three vicars of Bampton, but was cast out soon after
the Restoration. Dr. Hodges put in a claim against him, as
former incumbent, and cast him at law, though he then had
another living, being rector of Ripple in Worcestershire,
which (Dr. Walker says) he was allowed to keep thro' the
whole usurpation. When Mr. Osborn was ejected he had
six children. He afterwards preached about the country as
he had opportunity, and at length was imprisoned in Oxford
castle. When he got his liberty he went to London. ¡Vood
says (not as Calamy quotes him) he there taught school,
and lived in Bartholomew parish near Little Britain, to the
"time (as I take it) of his death." He preached occasionally
in that church; but his son affirms, that he had no public
place after his ejectment. He died about the year 1665, aged
46. As to his learning which Wood speaks of as trivial [be-
fore he went to the university] his son (who was a Nonjuror,
and therefore probably not much prejudiced in his favour)
declares, he was satisfied that the reflection was without
cause.
"
WORKS. The Mystery of the Resurrection; on Acts xxiv.
15.-A Conference with R. Coppin, at Burford, on the Resurrec
tion of the Body. He had drawn up a Concordance to the
Bible; of Things, and not barely of Words; but finding somebody
had been before-hand with him, he never published it. Wood
calls it, A Catalogue of English writers on the O. and N. T. He
adds, "One John Osborn translated into English, for the use of
Schools, Comenius's Vestibuli linguarum &c. printed several times."
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BANBURY [V.] Samuel WELLS, M. A. Of Magd·
Col. Oxf. Son of Mr. Wm. Wells, of St. Peter's in Oxford,
and born there August 18, 1614. [Yet Wood does not men-
tion him.] He took his degree in 1636, and was ordained
Dec. 23, 1638. He then kept a school at Wandsworth.
In 1639 he was assistant to Dr. Temple at Battersea. In
1644 he left his family in London, and went as chaplain in
the army. In 1647 he settled at Remnam in Berks, where
his income was about 200l per ann. but he had not above
20 families in the parish. In 1649 he accepted of a call to
Banbury, tho' the profit was much less, that he might have
an opportunity of doing good to a larger number of souls.
He was offered the presentation of Brinkworth, a rich par-
sonage, but refused it, and continued at Banbury till August,
1662, when he remitted 100l. of what was due to him, and
chearfully declared, that he had not one uneasy thought
about the support of his family, tho' he had then ten chil-
dren, and his wife was pregnant. The Five-mile-act re-
moved him to Deddington, from whence he used to write
letters every week to his friends at Banbury, which he after-
wards printed. When the times permitted, he returned to
Banbury, and purchased a pleasant house, in which he con-
tinued till his death. He and Mr. (afterwards Dr.) White,
the parish minister, had a very friendly correspondence.
He often heard Mr. White preach, who sometimes privately
heard him; and used often to say to him, "I pray God bless
your labours in private, and mine in public." Mr. Wells was
of a chearful disposition, and of a large and liberal heart, but
especially for encouraging good designs. He was so remark-
able for captivating the attention, that one who had often
heard him preach, said, "the ears of his auditors were chain-
ed to his lips.
""
WORKS. A Spiritual Remembrancer...The Substance of a
Farewell Sermon at Banbury, on Acts xx. 27; with a Collection of
Letters, mentioned above. His name is subscribed to The humble
Advice of certain Ministers to Lord Fairfax, in 1649.
BARTON Westcote. Mr. BowEN. Dr. Walker says,
he used his predecessor very ill, and refused to pay him his
fifths; which cannot now be disproved.
BICESTER [V.] Mr. BASNET or BARNET. Dr. Kennet,
in his Antiquities, mentions Mr. Wm. Hall as the only in-
cumbent between 1604 and 1670.
BLOXHAM.
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BLOXHAM. Mr. CHRISTOPHER NEVIL.
BROUHTON [R.] Mr. CONEY.
CHIPPING-NORTON [V.] Mr. STEPHEN Ford. Af-
ter his ejectment he continued to preach among his people,
as he had opportunity; but was sadly harassed, and at length
some of his enemies threatened his life, so that he was forced
to fly to London, where he often preached in the time of the
plague, when many others fled into the country to escape it.
When liberty was granted, a meeting-house was erected for
him in Miles-lane, Canon-street, where he was pastor of a
congregational church. Here he held a catechetical lecture for
young men at seven o'clock on Lord's-day mornings, which
he afterwards changed to the evening; and which, it was
hoped, did much good.-Dr. Walker says, "It hath been
reported that this Mr. Ford had been a servant to the head
of an house." Supposing that report true, he might yet be
a very worthy and useful man, and might afterwards have
gone thro' a course of study.
This supposition is confirmed by a correspondent, * who
has transmitted the following addition to the above account
of Mr. Ford. He pursued his studies at Oxford, but at
what college doth not appear. That he was a man of a truly
disinterested soul, and influenced by the most ardent wishes
to promote the best interests of the people of his charge, there
remains very substantial evidence. In an epistle of his to his
people, still extant, he says, "When the blessed God in-
clined my heart to the ministry, my earnest request was, that
he would he pleased to cast my lot in a place where I might
be eminently useful in the church and cause of Christ.-At
the time I became your minister I had three places offered
me: one of them was worth near twenty times as much as
this poor Vicarage. But I found my heart inclined more to-
wards you than towards any of the said places, and thro' grace
I refused them all for your sakes." And it appears that in a
short time he had the satisfaction to find his labours among
them crowned with eminent success. He testifies that," the
saints in this place were many." On his being expelled.
from Norton, he left an address with his people, in the most
faithful and affectionate terms; in which he
"Now
my beloved, the returns that I expect and desire of you, for
says,
* Mr. M. Dewes, of Chipping-Norton, in a Letter expressive of great satis-
faction in the republication of this work.
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all the sufferings that I have [undergone] and am likely still
to undergo for your sakes; for all my temporal losses, for
my care and pains, labour and travail for your everlasting
happiness, are, That you will be pleased to read, consider,
and practice these following duties." He then exhorts them
to serious self-examination, watchfulness and prayer; and
dissuades them from conformity to the world, &c.-The
place and time of his death are not certainly known.
WORKS. Discourses on a Gospel-church, and Regenera-
tion. An epistle to the people of his care.-Scripture Rules, which
Jesus Christ hath given to his Churches to walk by; which were
approved of and consented to by all the members of the church at
Chipping-Norton.
Mr. CLARK was also at this place, with Mr. Ford,
and was ejected at the same time.
ENSTON [V.] Mr. SAMUEL BURNET. He afterwards
applied himself to the study and practice of physic.
GARSINGTON [R.] Dr. WARD. Probably ejected in
1660, for in the Act which then passed for confirming and
restoring ministers, provision is made for annexing this living
as formerly to the presidentship of Trin.` Col. Oxf.
GLIMPTON [R.] Mr. NATHANIEL STANIFORd,
HASELEY. Mr. ANTHONY STEPHENS.
HENLEY upon Thames [R.] Mr. WILLIAM BRICE.
An eminently pious and learned man. When he was Fel-
low of Eaton College he closely studied the Greek and
Latin fathers, particularly Chrysostom and Augustine. While
he continued in his living he was very charitable to the poor
of the parish, seldom failing of having something boiled for
them, with broth, on the Lord's-day. After his ejectment,
he lived in or near Maidenhead, upon his own estate. Tho'
he did not afterwards take the charge of a congregation, he
could not be satisfied to be idle while he thought there was
room for his endeavours to do good to souls; and therefore
he used to ride up and down the country, and preach some-
times among the Dissenters, and sometimes in the public
churches, where he could have liberty, and other help was
wanting; which was not uncommon. He did this in all
weathers, and to an advanced age. Dr. Seth Ward, Bp. of
Sarum, hearing that he had preached in some churchess in
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his diocese, expressed some displeasure at it. When Mr.
Brice heard of it, he took an opportunity to wait on his
lordship and frankly owned to him, That he had indeed
preached in some churches in his diocese, and should make
bold to continue doing so, as opportunity offered, unless his
Lordship took more care of the souls of the poor people,
and made better provision for them.
HEYFORD (Nether) [R.] Mr. JOHN DOD. Dr. Walker
relates several things to his disadvantage, and says, he was
not beloved by his neighbours. But he is several times men-
tioned very respectfully in Mr. Birch's MSS. as one con-
cerned with him in keeping days of fasting and humiliation
in private, after the passing of the Act of uniformity. It ap-
pears from thence, that he had nine children, and was after-
wards in great necessity and distress.
LITTLINGSTONE-LOVEL [R.] Mr. HATHWAY.
NEWINGTON [C. or D.] Mr. EDWARD ARHCER. His
name was subscribed to The Humble Advice, presented to
Lord Fairfax, Jan. 25, 1649, as minister of Somerton.
When he was cast out of his benefice he had a large family,
and little or no provision for their sustenance; yet he died in
the firm belief, that providence would take care of those
whom he left behind him, telling his wife, "That she
"needed not to be anxious about her children, for God
“would not suffer her or them to want." Which proved to
be true.
He left a son, who was a conforming minister at
Quainton in Bucks.
*SILSAM, ROBERT ROGERS, B. D. After his eject-
ment he lived in Northamptonshire. Dr. Walker says,
" he was the son of a miller." He might be so, and yet be a
very valuable man. But he adds "He was a very dunce."
Had he been ejected out of the church as such, upon suita-
ble proof, there would have been no room for complaint,
[if all the dunces had been ejected with him.] But it was
for his Nonconformity; and he would have fared the same,
had he been the brightest scholar.
SOMERTON [R. 300l.] Mr. JOHN FENWICK. Of
Trin. Col. Camb. He was born in 1623, at East Hedding
in Northumberland. His father was a gentleman of a good
estate, but by a profuse liberality and an ill-managed hospi-
tality, it was so impaired, that at the birth of this son it was
pleasantly
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pleasantly said, "Now the estate was gone, the heir was
come."
His good mother (now near 50 years of age) had
most earnestly desired a son, and she from the first devoted
him to the sacred ministry, if it should please God therein to
favour her. His life was remarkably preserved when he was
about two years old: a servant having given him a plumb,
carelessly let the stone get into his throat, where it stuck a
considerable time, no one being in the house but the aged
grandmother, who usually kept her bed. The maid having
done what she could, tho' to no purpose, carried the child
up to her, and throwing it hastily upon the bed, cried out,
"There! I have killed the child! the child is dead!" and
immediately quitted the room and the house. The old gen-
tlewoman got up in haste, set the child on its feet upon a high
cupboard, and taking him by the hands, jumped him down
to the floor, which moved the stone, and preserved his life.
But the greatness of the leap rendered his legs crooked, and
the grating of the stone so injured the organs of speech, as
occasioned an impediment in his delivery.
His father had a brother, who was grown rich by mer-
chandize, and often said that he would make his nephew his
heir. Having gone abroad, on purpose to bring home all his
effects, he died at sea in his return. In his last will, he made
four persons who were with him in the ship, trustees for his
nephew, in case of his death before he reached home. But
upon his decease, they agreed to divide the whole among
themselves, without giving an account of them to any one.
In order to which they took another ship, into which they
put their cargo, under pretence of getting home the sooner.
The master of the vessel was afraid they had an ill-design;
but it was not in his power to hinder them. When he came
home, he discovered his suspicions, and some persons were
sent in quest of these trustees; but, like King Jehoram's
messengers, they never returned. Mr. Fenwick used to tell
this story without any commotion, and commonly said to
the company,
Thus, you see, I was not intended to be
rich."-He married the daughter of Wm. Sprigge, Esq; of
Doddington; a justice of peace, and a considerable man in the
county. Thro' his interest he got this valuable living, which
he chearfully resigned to keep a good conscience; comfort-
ing the people who were in sorrow for his departure, by mo-
destly telling them, that he hoped a better would succeed.
He took his leave of them with a discourse on Deut. xxxiii. 8.
He had no dispute with his people about tithes, but quietly
took
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took what they brought him, whether in kind or money.
was his usual saying, "This world is but our inn, while we
forget our home." He died at Crayford in Kent, of a ma-
lignant fever, A. D. 1665, in the 43d year of his age. When
he was delirious, he was often crying out, that he would go
to heaven, and complained of those who held him in bed,
that they kept him from going thither. There his friends ob-
served his conversation very much to be, during his pilgri-
mage here on earth.
SWINBROOK. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH. He had form-
erly been at Longborough in Gloucestershire. He was a
man of great humility and sincerity. He seldom prayed or
preached without tears.
WITNEY [R.] Mr. WILLIAM GILBERT, lecturer. It
was upon the fall of this lecture, and others in this county,
that Mr. Birch wrote the paper mentioned p. 116.
WOODSTOCK [L.] Mr. SAMUEL BLOWER. Of Mag.
Col. Oxf. He was first cast out of his fellowship there.
When he was silenced at Woodstock he went to Northamp-
ton, [where he was first pastor of the church which was af-
terwards under the care of the excellent Dr. Doddridge.}
From hence he removed to Abington in Berks, where he died
in 1701. He was of a meek temper, peaceable principles,
and a godly life. He had, like St. Austin, very exalted.
thoughts of Divine Grace and Redeeming Love. He disco-
vered a very tender regard to young persons, and would often
address himself very affectionately to them, not only in his
sermons, but in his visits; and rejoiced much in their hope-
fulness. He did not affect a pompous way of preaching,
nor dispense the truths of the gospel with the wisdom of
man's words,' knowing that was not so likely to be attended
with a divine blessing. Scripture revelation, in scripture-
language, was the main subject of his discourses. He was
very desirable as a friend, being free and communicative;
candid to the last degree; of a very sympathizing spirit with
those in affliction, and particularly mindful of them in his
prayers. He was so firm and constant, where he professed
friendship, that it must have been some thing very bad that
occasioned his breaking it off. Wherever he had any in-
terest, he was for improving it for God to his utmost; and
he took all opportunities to do so. He published a funeral
sermon for Mrs. Elizabeth Tub, on Psalm xviii. 46. Mr.
Wood
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Wood is wholly silent about this good man, and several
others; which appears designed.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. THOMAS HODGES, of Souldren. He became minister
of a chapel belonging to some alms-houses at Oakingham in
Berks. Mr. FRANCIS WELLS, of Atterbury.-Mr. JOHN
HARTCLIFF, of Stadham, who died canon of Windsor.
N. B. Other Nonconformists in this county were men-
tioned as ejected from the UNIVERSITY.- It may not be
amiss here to add some further particulars respecting several
of them, which have been discovered since the publication of
the first volume of this work.
Page 215. Mr. RALPH BUTTON, The following ac-
count of him is extracted from WARD'S LIVES of the Gre-
sham Professors. He was the son of Robert Button of
Bishopstown, Wiltshire. He made such progress in polite.
literature and philosophy, at Exeter Col. Oxford, that hav-
ing taken the degrees of B. A. he was recommended by Dr.
Prideaux, the rector, to Sir N. Brent, warden of Merton, to
stand for a fellowship there, and was chosen 1633. He after-
wards became a noted tutor in that college. The famous
Zach. Bogan was one of his pupils. On the breaking out of
the war in 1642, he removed to London. Nov. 15, 1643, he
was chosen professor of geometry in Gresham college, in the
room of Mr. John Greaves. In 1647, he and Mr. Joshua
Cross, the law professor, were appointed delegates for the
assistance of the visitors of Oxford. When the earl of Pem-
broke made his public entry as chancellor of that university,
Ap. 11, 1648, he was addressed in a Latin speech by Mr.
Button, as proctor elect; and the next day, he and Mr.
Cross, being chosen by order of parliament, were admitted
into this office; and he resigned his Gresham professorship,
June 13. On Aug. 4, he was made canon of Christ-church,
and orator of the university, in the room of the learned Dr.
Hammond, removed by the visitors. He declined addressing
the senate for the degree of D. D. with Mr. T. Goodwin and
two others, being (as Wood says) newly married or on the
point of marriage, and unwilling to be at the charge, and so
remained M. A. all his life.
It deserves to be recorded to his honour, that in Dec. 1650,
he united with Mr. Cross, and several heads of houses, and
other
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​other members, in a petition to the committee of parliament,
in behalf of Mr. Pococke, who would have been expelled in
consequence of a vote which they had lately passed, for not
taking the engagement; and thus the university would have
been deprived of his Hebrew and Arabic lectures. The pe-
tition represented him as excelling any they had ever heard
of in oriental learning, and an ornament to the university.
Mr. Pococke was hereupon continued.
After the restoration, July 27, he was ejected from his
offices in the university, and removed with his family to
Brentford, where he suffered for his nonconformity. For,
as Mr. Baxter says, "Tho' he never was in orders, nor a
preacher, yet besides a great loss in his estate, he was about
six months in jail, for teaching two knight's sons in his house,
not having taken the Oxford oath. On the Indulgence, he
kept an Academy at Islington, where Sir Joseph Jekyll was
one of his pupils. They had among them (as Mr. King, mi-
nister of Wellingborough, who was another of them, in-
formed Dr. Ward) a copy of his orations at Oxford, for their
use and imitation, which they much esteemed. He died at
Islington in October 1680, and was buried in that church,
with his son, who died about the same time.-Wood gives a
very disparaging account of him; the evident effect of a party
spirit. Mr. Baxter in his own life, mentioning his impri-
sonment, says of him: "An excellent scholar; but of greater
excellency a most humble, worthy, godly man; of a
plain sincere heart, and blameless ;" Part III. p. 36 and 96.
He left one daughter, who married Dr. Boteler, a physician
in London.
:
Page 321. EDWARD STAUNTON, D. D. WOOD gives
the titles of his occasional sermons as follows; (1) Rupes
Israelis: the rock of Israel; at St. Marg. Westm. before the
H. of Com. at their monthly fast, 24, Ap. 1644, on Deut.
xxxii. 31. (2) Phineas's zeal in execution of judgment.
Fast serm. before H. of Lords, 30. Oct. 1644, on Psal. cvi.
30. (3) At Great Milton, 9 Dec. 1654, at the funeral of
Mrs. E. Wilkinson, wife of Dr. H. W. principal of Mag.
Hall, on Thes. iv. 14. To which are added, a narrative of
her godly life; and elegies on her death, by John Wallis,
D.D. W. Carpenter, M. A. Dr. H. W. her husband, &c.
*WooD says, That when he settled at Islington, he preached in conven-
ticles, and taught youth to the time of his death. Fasti, ii. 92.
-He
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-He mentions other sermons, which he had not seen; and
an Appendix to Mayow's Life of the Doctor, by I'm. Ful-
man, of C. C. Col. which he speaks of as satyrically written
against the Dr. but with unquestionable veracity, and which
he intimates Clark ought to have seen and noticed. He died
at Bovingden in Hertfordshire, and was buried in the chuch.
there. Ath. Ox. ii. 484.
Page 235.
THANKFUL OWEN, M. A. WOOD says, he
was the son of Philip Owen; was born at Taplow in Bucks.
became a sojourner of Exeter Col. under a puritanical tutor
1635, aged 16; elected fellow of Linc. Col. Aug. 1642, be-
ing then B. A. but soon after left the university, and so did
not bear arms for his majesty. On the surrender of the gar-
rison for the parliament, he returned, and took the degree,
of M. A. submitting to the visitors, being then esteemed a
Presbyterian. But the Independents carrying all before them,
he became one of their number, a preacher in their private
congregations, and proctor of the university in 1650. In the
same year, upon Cheynell's marching off, President of St.
John's Col. and a noted politician. In 1653, he was ap-
pointed by Oliver one of the Commissioners for the appro-
bation of public preachers; and in 1654, was one of the
Com. of Oxfordshire for the ejection of insufficient mini-
sters. He had a good command of the Latin tongue. Fasti
Oxon. ii. 51.
Page 235. Mr. JOHN TROUGHTON: Son of Nathaniel,
a clothier; was born at Coventry and educated in the free
school there, under Samuel Frankland; became scholar of
St. John's Col. 1655, afterwards fellow and B. A. Being
ejected at the restoration, he retired to Bicester, where living
a moderate nonconformist, he read academical learning to
young men, and sometimes preached in private, whereby he
got a comfortable subsistence. On the Indulgence issued
March 1671, he was one of four, appointed by the brethren,
to carry on the work of preaching in Oxford, and was the
most applauded by the scholars, tho' he had been blind from
his infancy. To the quotation before made from Wood, the
following passage seems worthy to be added, as a proof of
his great moderation. "He was not of so busy, turbulent
and furious a spirit, as those of his persuasion commonly are.
Tho' he often preached in prohibited assemblies, he did not
make it his business.... by railing at the established ordinances,
libelling the conformable ministry &c. to withdraw weaker
persons
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persons from the church.-This learned and religious person
died in a house of one of the brethren, in All-saints parish,
Oxon, Aug. 20, 1681, aged 44, and was buried in the church
at Bicester. At which time, Abraham James, a blind man,
master of the free school at Woodstock (sometime of Magd.
Hall) preaching his funeral sermon, did take occasion not
only to be lavish in the commendations of the [deceased] but
to make several glances on the government." Athen. Ox.
ii. 687.
Page 236. PHILIP STEVENS, M. D. Wood says he was
born at Devizes in Wiltshire, was originally of St. Albans
Hall, and afterwards made fellow of New Col. by the Visi-
tors. He died at London, after the Restoration. Fasti ii. 109.
Page 236. ROBERT WOOD: Born at Pepper-harrow near
Godalming, Surry, educated at Eaton; was made one of the
Eaton postmasters of Merton Col. 1642, took the degree of
M. A. 1649, having submitted to the parl. visitors; was
elected fellow of Linc. Col. by their order, Sept. 1650, in
the place of Th. Owen; went, with leave, into Ireland, and
became retainer to H. Cromwell, who sent him as a spy into
Scotland. Returning to England, he became one of the first
fellows of the College at Durham, founded by Oliver, 1657 .
a great commonwealth man, and a frequenter of the Rota-
club of Ja. Harrington. Being turned out of his fellowship
at the Restoration, he went again to Ireland, and for lucre-
sake expressed his loyalty so much that he became M. D.
and (it is said) LL. D. and Chancellor of two Dioceses, of
which Meath was one. Purchasing an estate there, which
he sold to buy one at Sherwill in Essex, he settled for a time.
in England, and became teacher in Christ Ch. Hospital, of
Mathematics and Navigation. At length he gave up that
place, returned to Ireland, and was made a commissioner of
his majesty's revenue; after wards accomptant-general, which
he held to the time of his death, being then F. R. S. Ough-
tred, the great mathematician, who had been his pupil, says
of him, Philos. atq; Med. studiosus, vir optimus, atq;
doctissimus, &c. He published, The Times mended, or a
rectified account of times by a new Luni-solar year; the
true way to number our days, 1681.—A new Al-mon-ac for
ever, &c. An account of both is in the Philos. Trans. He
died at Dublin, Ap. 9, 1685, aged 63, and was buried in St.
Michael's church; tho' he had desired, some days before, to
be interred in the church-yard, wherever he might die, think-
ing
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ii
ing the burying in churches unwholesome. Wood. i 780.
Qu. whether he belongs to our list?
Page 241. HENRY WILKINSON, D. D. To his Works
add, Prelectiones morales MS. in Magd. Hall library. They
are the Lectures he read in the moral philosophy school.-
After the latter part of the life of this zealous theologist had
been spent in trouble and adversity, for the cause he professed,
he very devoutly surrendered up his soul to God at Great
Connard, May 13, 1690, and was buried at Milding, near
Lavenham, Suffolk, in the church there. Wood. In that
author's account of Theoph. Gale, he says that he kept his
Academy at Newington Green. See p. 44.
Page 245. HENRY HICKMAN. Wood has a long account
of him and his writings (Ath. Ox. ii. 893) from whence it ap-
pears that he was born in Worcestershire, and received his
first academical education at Kath. Hall, Cambridge, and
removed to Magd. Hall Oxon, in 1647. That he first
preached at S. Aldate's ch. Oxf. and then at Brackley, Nor-
thamptonshire, where he was much resorted to. On being
ousted of his fellowship in 1660, he went to Holland, where
he composed his Apologia. At his return he retired to a
place near Sturbridge, in his native county, where he took
pupils and gave lectures in Logic and Philosophy. He after-
wards returned to Holland, and preached several years in the
English church at Leyden." He was a person several
ways learned, much conversant in books, a leading man and
pillar of his party; but altogether a severe enemy to the cere-
monies of the church of England.--He died at Leyden about
Michaelmas 1692." Dr. Calamy has it Utrecht.
Page 252. Mr. THO. CAWTON. Wood has a copy of a
curious Latin Testimonial to his proficiency in literature,
especially in the oriental languages, signed by J. LEUSDEN,
Heb. professor at Utrecht, dated May 18, 1659; which was
publicly read when he was admitted B. A. 1660, at Oxford.
Page 254. HENRY LANGLEY, D. D Wood says, he was
one of the six ministers appointed by the parliament 1648, to
preach at St. Mary's and elsewhere in Oxon, to draw off
the scholars from their orthodox principles, and in 1649 was
made canon of Chr. ch. in the place of Dr. G. Morley.
He was buried in St. Helen's church, Abington, where his
father had been a Shoe-maker.
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Since the publica-
editor has met with
Page 255. THOMAS RISLEY, M. A.
tion of the first vol. of this work, the
Mr. C. Owen's funeral sermon for Mr. Risley, which is an ex-
cellent discourse on 2 Kings ii. 12, and dedicated to his son.
The memoirs at the end are very valuable, and both are well
worthy to be republished. It is to be lamented that we have
not room for more than the following brief extracts.
"He
merited the character of a hard student: Even in his declin-
ing age, it was common with him to spend 8 or 10 hours a
day in his study.-He did not affect to be a party in the
dividing controversies of the age: He made Jesus Christ his
Alpha and Omega. He professed himself entirely satisfied to
the last in his Nonconformity, and about two years before he
died, drew up some papers on the subject, the substance of
which follows."-He never appeared but once in print, viz. in
a Discourse founded on Prov. iii. 33, and Jer. x. 25. In Mr.
Howe's Preface to it, is the following passage concerning
the author. "It is an offspring that has much of the parent's
image, appearing with no ostentation of learning, but where-
in may be seen a pious mind tinctured by much study and
converse with books, an acquaintance with the literate
world, that begot a habit, which is rather by his speech un-
warily bewrayed, than designedly shewn.-The scope of the
discourse shews him a man of thought and prospect: disco-
vers thoughts intent upon the present age, but not confined
to it, making from it an estimate of the sad tendency of things,
and their gloomy aspect upon the future." The short spe-
cimen added of his correspondence with that excellent pre-
late Bp. Hall* gives the reader a high idea of both.
JOHN OWEN, D. D. Vice-chancellor of Oxford, and
Dean of Christ church, out of which place, Wood says, he
was ousted in the latter end of the year 1659. This author,
after a long and virulent account of Dr. Owen, chiefly ex-
'tracted from the writings of high-flown episcopalians and
loyalists, who represent him as one of the vilest of the human
species, has the justice to add the following passage as con-
taining what he himself knew of this great divine.
"Much
more of such black language the said author (Sam. Parker)
hath, in his preface to Bp. Bramhall's treatise, but shall be
*Some anecdotes respecting this good bishop, communicated by a con-
forming brother, deserve to be brought forward in some other place, where
there is room for enlargement.
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+
now omitted. Here you see the characters given by per-
sons of several persuasions, according as their affections led
them. But what I myself knew of him, which may I hope
be mentioned without offence, envy or flattery, is (let rash
and giddy heads say what they please) that he was a person
well skilled in the tongues, Rabbinical learning, Jewish rites
and customs; that he had a great command of his English
pen, and was one of the most genteel and fairest writers who
have appeared against the church of England; as handling
his adversaries with far more civil, decent, and temperate lan-
guage than many of his fiery brethren, and by confining him-
self wholly to the cause, without the unbecoming mixture of
personal slanders and reflections. Dr. Ed. Stilling fleet saith,
That this our author, Owen, treated him with civility and de-
cent language, for which he thanked him. And Mr. H.
Dodwell, That he is of a better temper than most of his bre-
thren, as abstaining from personal slanders, in confining
himself wholly to the cause."-(Why did not Mr. A. Wood
imitate the Dr. in this manner of writing? It would indeed
have rendered his work much less voluminous, but not less
valuable. He goes on to add) "His personage was proper
and comely, and he had a very graceful behaviour in the pul-
pit; an eloquent elocution, a winning and insinuating de-
portment; and could by the persuasion of his oratory in con-
junction with some other outward advantages, move and
wind the affections of his admiring auditory almost as he
pleased." Ath. Oxon. ii. 740.-It deserves to be mentioned
here, that the same author elsewhere records it to the honour
of Dr. Owen, that when the learned Dr. Pocock was likely
to be expelled the university by the Visitors, he with some
others who knew his great merits, interposed to prevent it.
(Ib. p. 869.) It must be added, That Dr. Walker, in his
Suff. of the Clergy, relates, that when the Committee would
have dismissed Dr. Pocock for insufficiency," Dr. Owen,
"who was one of their number, could not forbear to say,
"that they took the ready way to make themselves infa-
mous; the person whom they were now censuring, being
"of such extraordinary learning as was famous thro' the
"world." Partii. p. 104.
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MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED
IN
RUTLANDSHIRE.
BURLEY [V.] Mr. THOMAS PERKINS. He was a hum-
ble, good man; much set against pride in apparel. When
he thought some of his family faulty in this respect, he would
say, "What do I preach against pride, and suffer it in
you?" He was sometimes passionate, but would soon recover
himself, and shew his good-will to the party that had angered
him. After his ejectment, he often travelled on the Lord's-
day several miles to preach, and got ten-shillings for his day's
service; which for a great while was the most that he had to
support his family. He was often in straits, but he lived by
faith, and was pleasant and chearful in all conditions. At one
time a niece of his, whom he had brought up, going after her
marriage to visit him, in the course of free coversation with
her, he said to her, "Child, how much do you think I have
to keep my family? But poor three-pence!" At which she
appearing affected, he with great chearfulness cried out,
"Fear not, God will provide;" and in a little time a gen-
tleman's servant knocked at the door, who brought him a side
of venison, together with some wheat and malt. Upon which
he took his niece by the hand, saying, "Do you see, child?
here is venison, which is the noblest flesh, and the finest of
wheat for bread, and good malt for drink. Did not I tell
you God would provide?"—He had a son, who was a mini-
ster in the established church.
A
CALDECOT [C. or D.] Mr. NATHANIEL BANN.
native of Cheshire. He afterwards settled at Manchester,
and there practised physic.
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LANGHAM. Mr. WILLIAM DRAPER.
OAKHAM [V.] Mr. BENJAMIN KING. The following
account of him is substituted instead of the former. In 1642, he
was appointed one of the lecturers at Dunstable in Bedford-
shire, and on July 14, at Hitchin, Herts, where it appears,
from the parish register, his daughter Susanna was baptized
in July 1644, and his son William in October 1646. He
was also for some time minister at Flamstead, in the latter
county, and afterwards removed to Oakham. Dr. Walker
was mistaken in saying, He was thrust in here upon Mr.
Abraham Wright's refusing to be inducted, to avoid taking
the covenant, tho' he had been instituted to the living by
Dr. Juxon in August 1645. Mr. King appears to have been
minister of Hitchin for above twelve months afterwards.
On the Restoration, he resigned his living under his hand
and seal, Aug. 20, 1660, to Mr. Wright, and retired to Les-
singham; but in what capacity he lived there, does not ap-
pear. He was a man of great gravity and worth; of a very
bold spirit, and in the pulpit a very Boanerges. He was
eminent not only as a preacher, but also for the holiness of
his life. One of his daughters married Mr. Vincent Alsop,
whom he had been instrumental in reclaiming from a life of
dissipation; and the other Mr. Robert Ekins: 'both of them
ejected ministers, the latter of whom settled with a congre
gation at Oakham*.
WORKS. A Discourse of the Marriage of the Lamb. De-
dicated to Sir T. Barrington.
PRESTON. Mr. GABRIEL MAJOR.
*
** SAMUEL WINTER, D. D. Of Queen's Col. Camb.
who was silenced by the Act of uniformity, tho' not ejected,
This seems the properest place to take notice of him, as he
died in this county, where also he had occasionally exercised
his ministry as a Nonconformist, as well as about West-
Chester, at Coventry, and in Herefordshire, after his eject-
ment from his Provostship of Trinity College, Dublin. Dr.
Calamy's account of him is here much enlarged from Clark's
last vol. of lives.
He was born of religious parents at Balsal, in Warwick-
shire, in 1603. From 12 years of age he was evidently under
extraordinary serious impressions of religion, and much in-
There was a Dr. Benj. King (possibly a son of the above) who succeeded
Dr. Conant, at All Saints, Northampton, 1689. In 1700 he became rector of
Ashton, and in 1716 resigned All Saints to his son, Benj. King, M. A. I. J.
clined
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clined to the ministry. One day, as he was coming from
school (about a mile from his father's house) he retired un-
der a hedge to pray, and begged of God, among other things,
that he would fit him for the ministry, and make him useful
in it; when he seemed as if he heard a voice telling him, that
his prayers was heard. Upon this he entreated of his father
that he might be trained up for the ministry. He was ac-
cordingly sent to the free-school in Coventry, at the age of 14,
and soon became fit for the university, where he was under
the famous Dr. Preston. When he left it he went to Boston
in Lincolnshire, where he lived for some time under the mi-
nistry of Mr. John Cotton, one of whose family he afterwards.
married. From thence he removed to Woodborow near Note
tingham, where his ministry was eminently successful. He
had not been there long before he was called to the city of
York, where he was for some time a lecturer, and had great
opportunity for service, and met with eminent success. The
breaking out of the civil war forced him to remove from
thence; and he was quickly invited to Cottingham, within
three miles of Hull. Here he continued, about eight years,
exceedingly industrious and active for God. He preached
twice every Lord's-day in public, expounded the chapters.
which he read, and catechized the younger persons. In the
evening he repeated his sermons in his own family, to which
many of the neighbours resorted. On the week-days he
went from house to house, instructing the ignorant, and en-
deavouring to build up his parishioners in their most holy
faith; and multitudes had cause to bless God for his painful
labours.
A. D. 1650, the parliament resolved to send four commis-
sioners into Ireland, to settle that distracted kingdom, and
ordered Mr. Winter to attend them thither. Weighing the
matter well, and being satisfied in the clearness of his call, he
resigned up his living, which was worth 400l. per ann, and
prepared for his journey and voyage, casting himself upon
strangers, neither knowing what his salary would be, nor capi-
tulating with them for the maintenance of himself and family,
In Ireland he was a laborious preacher, and exceedingly fol-
lowed. His allowance from the commissioners was at first
but 100l. per ann. but after some time they made him Provost
of Trinity College, which was almost desolate and forsaken;
but under his care and conduct it flourished again, and be-
came a most valuable seminary of learning and piety. Here
he commenced D. D. having with singular applause per-
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formed the usual exercises. His being at last forced to leave
the university and kingdom was much to his damage, the
college being indebted to him in a considerable sum of money,
which he had disbursed out of his own estate, for the com-
mon benefit; part of which, however, after his death, was re-
paid to his son.-He was universally respected, and yet was
remarkably humble; conversing freely with the meanest for
their good, and giving them money to make his advice re-
garded. He could bear contradiction from others, and even
bitter reflections, without resentment. His industry was very
exemplary. He was a hard student to the last; very careful
to redeem and improve his time. He was a man of great zeal
and fervent affections: A strict sanctifyer of the Lord's-day:
Rich in good works, and one who devised liberal things. His
candor was great, and his deportinent remarkably courteous.
His faith and patience were very signal both in his life and
death.
While he was in Rutlandshire, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 1666,
he rode to a neighbouring town to assist in carrying on the
service on a day of humiliation; when, having wearied his.
body and spent his spirits, he was unable to return till the
next day. On the Lord's-day following he engaged twice in
divine service in the family where he lived, but at night found
himself ill. On the Friday, growing weaker, he desired his
will might be engrossed, and endeavoured to persuade his wife
to be willing to part with him, adding that it would not be
long before they should meet again; and then prayed for her
and other relations. Finding his strength to decay, he often
repeated these words, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me
up. About six o'clock, on the Lord's-day morning, he raised
himself up in his bed, and with a loud and chearful voice
called to his wife, and said, "I have this night been con-
versing with spirits ;" and, as in a rapture, cried out, “O
the glories that are prepared for the saints of God! The
Lord hath been pleased this night to shew me the exceeding
weight of glory which is laid up in heaven for his chosen
ones!" Further, he said, That he had studied, and thought
he knew as much what the glory in heaven was as another
man; but he now saw that all the divines on earth were mere
children in the knowledge of the great mystery of heavenly
glory, which the Lord that night had given him a clearer sight
of than he ever had before; and his soul was so wonderfully
elevated, that he could not declare what he felt. He then
desired that his relations, and the rest of the family, might
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be called up, that he might acquaint them with the disco-
very he had had; but when he attempted to discribe it, he
was so swallowed up in the contemplation of it, that he
could not utter what he desired. He continued, all that day,
and even till he died, in very high raptures, and great accla-
mations of thankfulness to God for Jesus Christ, the fountain
of that glory, and for the discoveries of it to him. On the
Lord's-day evening an honourable gentleman and his lady,
with some other friends, came to visit him, with whom he
discoursed about heaven and the things of God as fervently,
sensibly, and fluently, as if he was in health. He quoted
several texts of scripture, naming the chapter and verse, and
explaining the Hebrew and Greek originals. Having fatigued
himself with his discourse, which he continued two hours,
he took an hour's repose, and then desired the same company
might be called in again, that he might speak something more
to them. When they and the rest of the family were come
into the room, he told them he thought he had but a short
time to live; that he was going to Jesus Christ to partake of
that joy which God had discovered to him, and reserved in hea-
ven for those that love him and keep his commandments. He
went on to magnify the riches of free grace, thro' which the
saints come to enjoy that felicity.
He exhorted them not so much to trouble themselves in
getting assurance of salvation, as to examine themselves care-
fully whether they were in the way of sanctification; and ad-
vised them daily to ask their souls such questions as these:
What am I? Am I a new creature? Am I born again? If so,
then I have new thoughts, new words, new company, a new
conversation, &c. "If (says he) you find yourself in the
narrow way of sanctification, let God alone with the rest, to
give you assurance of your future happiness, which he will
do in his own time."-Looking up to heaven, he begged of
God that the words of a dying man might make a deep im-
pression upon the hearts of his hearers. He then proceeded
to other pious discourse, and spoke with such strength of lan-
guage, such zeal and fervency of spirit, as drew tears from the
eyes of all present; and gave them a history of his life, of the
conduct of God's providence and grace towards him, and of
his success in his ministry. One of his relations fearing he
would spend himself too much, begged him to repose himself
for a while; to whom he replied with much earnestness,
No; were I sure this would be my last night, (as indeed it
proved) and this the last sermon I should preach, I would con-
tinue
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tinue it two hours longer;" adding that he was not afraid of
death. All the day following he lay in heavenly contempla-
tions and raptures, and sometimes desired his wife, or other
friends, to tell him whether he were in the body or out of
the body, for he could not tell. In the afternoon, finding
death to approach, he often cried out, "Oh, the power of
death!" tho' he had no fear of dying. He desired that some
of his neighbours might be called in, that he might preach
his last sermon to them. About four o'clock his wife and other
friends asking him how he did, he answered, "Very weak;"
and added, That he was going to Jesus Christ. He then
bid them not be afraid of death; and putting forth his hand,
said, "Brother, sister, take death by the hand. Be not afraid;
death is a coward; he flies from me." Soon after, finding
himself dying, he lift up his eyes to heaven, saying, "Come,
Lord Jesus;" and presently, with a smiling countenance,
added,
"Art thou come ?" and so breathed his last.
To the character given of him by Clark, is added an ac-
count of his extraordinary power and prevalence in prayer.
Several instances of the answers given to his prayers, particu-
larly in the recovery of the sick, are there related; and also
of the assurance he had of their recovery; which were they
not well attested, would be deemed incredible. He died Oct.
23, 1666, aged 63.
WORKS. The Substance of several Sermons preached in Dub-
lin, on Infant Baptism; in which the main Objections of Mr. Tombs
and others are answered.
Mr. THOMAS PHILIPS, of Glaiston, Dr. Walker says, was
not ejected or silenced.
Mr. JOHN WELLS, of Barraden, afterwards conformed.
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IN
SHROPSHIRE.
STON [Chap.] Mr. TITUS THOMAS. After his eject-
ment he applied himself to the practice of physic with
good success, tho' not forsaking his ministry. He was fixed
pastor of a congregational church at Salop, where he mar-
ried a lady in very good circumstances, which enabled him.
to be useful. He was an ingenious and learned man. [Mr.
J. Orton (whose father was a member, and who himself was
afterwards minister, of the church of which Mr. Thomas was
pastor) says, he has heard much of his piety, zeal, and use-
fulness.] He died in the year 1686. În Mr. Henry's Life
it is said he was buried Dec. 10, at Felton.
AVELY [Chap.] Mr. LOVEL. A very prudent and wor-
thy man, fond of retirement and privacy.
BASCHURCH [V. 45/.] Mr. EDWARD LAWRENCE. Of
Magd. Col. Camb. Born at Moston in this county. Upon
his removal from the university, he fixed in this vicarage,
which was near his native place. It was small as to mainte-
nance, tho' not as to work; he continued here without seek-
ing any greater place, till the Bartholomew-act ejected him,
at which time he had 11 strong arguments against Noncon-
formity, viz. a wife and ten children; but he answered them
by his faith in God. Being asked how he meant to maintain
them all, he chearfully replied, "They must all live upon.
the v. of Matthew, Take no thought for your life, &c. He
often sang with his family, Psalm xxxvii. 16. They were
accordingly provided for beyond expectation. Having re-
moved to Whitchurch, he was driven from thence by the vio-
·lent
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lent
prosecution of the Conventicle-act in 1670, when he re-
moved to London, and here he spent the rest of his days.
Mr. Baxter relates of him, That he had his goods taken
away for preaching in a private house, where but four neigh-
bours were present, on pretence that a little daughter of the
house, lately come from school, and another child, made the
supernumeraries, which put him to a tedious suit. Mr. Powis,
an able lawyer of that country who had before carried it sober-
ly and moderately, being retained against him, was free and
bitter in his invectives, calling him seditious fellow, &c. In
a week or two after, this man died almost suddenly. Mr.
Lawrence died in Nov. 1695, aged about 68. His funeral
sermon was preached by Mr. Nath. Vincent, where his cha-
racter may be met with at large. He was a solid, calm,
peaceable, godly man, and a good preacher. Mr. Nath.
Lawrence, a nonconformist minister at Banbury, was a son
of his; and Mr. Samuel Lawrence of Nantwich, his nephew,
[the father of the late Dr. Lawrence of Monkwell-street,
London.] Mr. Lawrence had two or three very wicked
children; which occasioned him, in a very feeling manner
to write the first of the pieces here mentioned.
WORKS. Parents' groans over their wicked children.-
Christ's power over bodily diseases.-A Sermon in Morn. Exerc.
ag. Transubstantiation.-Two fun. Sermons on 1 Cor. vi. 13.
BERINGTON. Mr. BOTE.
BOLAS (Great) [R.] Mr. EDWARD BURY. Of Oxford
university. Born in Worcestershire, 1616. By the advice
of Dr. Grew and Mr. Bryan he spent several years at the
great school at Coventry, under the care of the famous Mr.
White, and was afterwards ordained upon good testimonials.
of his qualifications; so that Walker's reflection upon him
appears groundless. At five years old he was adopted by an
uncle as heir to a good estate; but such was the profaneness
of the family, that when God had touched his heart, he de-
sired to be removed; professing he could live no longer where
he could have no more advantages for his soul. Hereupon
both his father and uncle were so disgusted, that he utter-
ly lost their favour, and all expectations from them. "Thus
(saith he) in the morning of my age, I began my sufferings;
chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than
enjoy the profits or pleasures of the world, which are but for
a season."-He was afterwards kindly received by another
uncle,
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uncle, in whose family religion flourished. He was earnest
in the pursuit of learning; spent some years at Oxford; re-
moved thence into a private family, where he was chaplain;
following his studies with unwearied diligence, and became
assistant to the aged minister of the place; whence after some
time, he removed to the rectory of Great Bolas, where he
continued his useful labours for many years, and lived in peace
with all his neighbours, till being suspected of desiring the
king's restoration, his house was searched, his goods plun-
dered, and his life threatened and much endangered. When
the king returned, and the Act of uniformity passed, he care-
fully studied his duty, and thus recorded the result of his
thoughts: "I solemnly profess, in the presence of the great
God, before whom I must shortly give an account of my
words and actions, that in my most impartial judginent, after
all the light that I can get by reading, praying, thinking,
and discoursing with above twenty judicious and solid divines
of both persuasions, I look upon it my duty not to conform ;
and whatever becomes either of myself or family, as I can-
not force my judgment, so I will not dare to force my con-
science." Many years after that, he professess, "That he
never read or heard, or suffered any thing that caused in him
any one repenting thought of his Nonconformity." And
again, says he, “I did and do believe, as I shall answer be-
fore the searcher of all hearts, that if I had conformed upon
the terms enjoined, I had sinned against God; and I do so-
lemnly profess, if ever I can be convinced of the contrary, I
will conform still."
Tho' he was forced from his pulpit, he was loth to leave
his beloved people: and being devoted to the ministry, he
durst not quit it. He built himself a house in the parish,
with a design of continuing his endeavours to do good there;
and how apparent soever the danger was, he never neglected
any opportunity of service that offered. The Oxford-act after-
wards drove him from his house, and put him to his shifts;
for tho' he had a father and a mother and ten brothers and
brothers-in-law, who had families, yet he could not reside with
any one of them, because their habitations all came within
the compass of that act. But when the times were more quiet,
and the king gave liberty to his dissenting subjects, he pro-
cured licences for himself, and for his house, and with great
zeal and fervency began to preach again. He attended with
his family on the public ministry in the morning, and preach-
ed at home in the afternoon, without any salary or the pro-
spect
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spect of emolument from any of his hearers. He would often
say, "I shall heartily rejoice if it will please God to give me
my liberty to preach for nothing to my dying day.' He
looked upon his work to be God's; and the less reward he
had from men, the more he hoped for at last from the Lord
his Master,
June 14, 1681, being earnestly desired to assist in prayer
at a private fast, at a time of exceeding drought, he com-
plied, and another person preached. But the meeting house.
being broke up by some neighbouring justices, it was posi-
tively sworn that HE preached, and he was fined 20/. On his
refusing to pay it, they distrained upon him, and took away
his houshold goods, and books, and even the bed he lay upon.
The sale of them was published in the parish-church, and in
three market towns: but not one person coming to buy them,
they were returned, upon this promise, that they should be
given up when required by lawful authority. He was after-
wards extremely harassed, and suffered great loss in his estate,
by the prosecution of malicious people at sessions, assizes,
and in the crown-office. At last he was again forced from
his family upon the Oxford-act, and wandered from house to
house, and from county to county. But in the midst of all
his troubles and losses, he was persuaded that God would
return, with interest, what he had lost for the sake of Christ
and his conscience; which at last he acknowledged had been
fully done; partly by the death of relations, and partly by
comfortably disposing of his children.-Some years before
he died it pleased God to deprive him of his sight; but tho'
this was a peculiar affliction to one who took such pleasure
in reading, yet he was never heard to speak one repining word,
but was often praising God that so great a mercy as his eye-
sight had been continued so long. His last affliction was a
mortification in one foot, which he bore with invincible pa-
tience, saying in the midst of his utmost torment, "I am not
afraid to die. After many wearisome nights and days, he
breathed out his soul to God, May 5, 1700, aged 84. He
was a holy, studious, and learned man; had great zeal for
God, and was desirous to draw all men to him.-Mr. Samuel
Bury, pastor of a congregation at Bristol, was his son.
WORKS. The Soul's Looking-glass; or a Spiritual Touch-
stone, to discover true Grace from counterfeit.-A short Cate-
chism, on the fundamentals of Religion.--A small Book of relative
Duties. An Help to holy Walking; or a Guide to Glory.-The
Husbandman's Companion; containing 100 occasional Medita-
4.
tions.
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tions.-England's bane; or the deadly danger of Drunkenness.-
A Sovereign Antidote against the Fear of Death.-Death im-
proved, and immoderate Sorrow for deceased Friends reproved.
BRIDGNORTH [C. or D.] Mr. ANDREW TRISTRAM.
A man of more than ordinary ability in preaching and prayer,
and of an upright life. He afterwards commenced physician.
CHETTON [R. S.] Mr. WILLIAM BAGLY. Dr. Walker
says, he was a mere layman, and never paid any fifths to Mr.
Benson, the sequestered minister. However, he tells us, Mr.
Benson, upon the Restoration, sued him, and recovered 80l.
on that account. If the story be true, we can only say,
it would be strange indeed, if among 2,000 men none were
found of bad characters, which we will not attempt to de-
fend.
inen.
CLUN [V.] Mr. THOMAS FROYSELL. Of Clare Hall,
Camb. A divine of extraordinary worth for judgment, mo-
deration, godliness, blameless living, and excellent preach-
ing; who with many others, in poverty and sickness, and
great sufferings, continued to preserve the peace of his con-
science. He was fixed at Clun by that pious gentleman Mr.
Walcot, who preferred none to his livings but the worthiest
The civil war drove him to London, where he had a
large auditory, and was owned of God for good to many;
but he returned to his poor people at Clun, and was highly
prized by them, and indeed, thro' all the country, by such
as were not haters of godliness. He rested from his labours
about the year 1672, aged 52. The iniquity of the times,
and his own comparative uselessness, after he was silenced,
made a deep impression upon him, which terminated in a
fatal melancholy.
WORKS. The Gale of Opportunity; a Sermon at the Fu-
neral of Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq;-The Beloved Disci-
ple; at the Funeral of his Friend Sir Robert Harley.-After his
Decease, some Sermons concerning Grace and Temptation; with
some Account of the Author prefixed, by Mr. R. Steel.
COGSHOT [Chap.] FRANCIS KEELING, B. A. Of
King's Col. Camb. Born at Coventry in 1632. After he
took his degree, he was called to be Sir Thomas Wilbraham's
chaplain, at Weston Hall in Staffordshire. In about two
years he was ordained by the Presbytery at Whitchurch, and
became minister of Cogshot chapel, which was then paro-
chial,
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chial, and a considerable augmentation was procured for him.
Tho' he was but young, God was pleased to succeed his mi-
nistry, particularly his catechetical exercises, which were
attended by many persons advanced in years. About the
Restoration he was invited to a very considerable living in
Cheshire; but apprehending the restoration of episcopacy and
the ceremonies was intended, he waved it, and continued at
Cogshot till he was silenced in 1662. Having married a
wife of a good family, before the Act of uniformity took
place, he was earnest with God in prayer, that she might
acquiesce in his intended Nonconformity. At length, asking
her thoughts about it, she chearfully answered, "Satisfy
God and your own conscience, tho' you expose me to bread
and water." After his ejectment he was pestered with in-
formers; forced-to a distance from his family, and prosecuted
in the ecclesiastical courts four or five years together, for
baptizing his own child, and threatened to be excommuni-
cated: however, he was not imprisoned. Upon the Indul-
gence in 1672 he preached at Wrexham once a month, and
at several other places. He afterwards removed to Shrews-
bury, where for some time he and Mr. Beresford preached
alternately at the Thursday lecture, and his wife kept a
boarding-school for young ladies. When their maintenance
by this means was taken away he removed to London, and
for some time only preached occasionally; but after K.
James's liberty, he settled at Kingston upon Thames where
he died Ap. 14, 1690. When he drew near his end, he ex-
pressed the greatest satisfaction in his Nonconformity, tho'
he had refused considerable offers, and that from relations,
whose favour he lost by his refusal. He carefully observed
the providence of God towards himself and his family, and
made continual remarks upon it in his Diary. He daily spent
considerable time in converse with God, never expecting
to prosper in his studies, without imploring the divine assist-
ance and blessing. He left two sons in the ministry among
the dissenters.
CLEOBURY (North). Mr. CHARLES HUMPHREYS. Dr.
Walker says, he came to this living in 1653. He was a
pious, active, hopeful young man. After his ejectment he
went to London, and died in three or four years, very poor.
CRESSEDGE [C.] Mr. SAMUEL SMITH. § Of St.
Mary's Hall, Orf. He was the son of a minister, and was
born at or near Dudley, Worcestershire, in the year 1588.
In
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In 1603, he was entered at Oxford, and in 1615 became
vicar of Prittlewell in Essex. About the beginning of
Charles I's reign he removed to his own country, and on the
breaking out of the war, to London; where he was a fre-
quent preacher. On returning to the country he became
minister of Cressedge and Cound in its neighbourhood. He
was chosen one of the Triers for this county, and was ge-
nerally esteemed as a very pious and judicious man. He
was also popular as a writer, some of his pieces having gone
thro' an unusual number of editions.
WORKS. David's Repentance; on Ps. li. (This went thro'
40 editions.) David's Blessed Man; a short Exhortation on the
first Psalm: (the 15th edit. 1686.)-The Ethiopian Eunuch's Con-
version; being 13 Sermons on Part of Acts viii.-The Christian's
Guide, with Rules and Directions for leading a holy Life.-The
Chief Shepherd; an Exposition on Ps. xxiii.-The admirable
Convert; or, the miraculous Conversion of the Thief upon the
Cross.-Moses's Prayer; an Explanation of Ps. xc.-A Looking-
Glass for Saints and Sinners; an Exposition of the 2d Epistle of
John. He wrote also on Hosea vi, and some other pieces.-
Joseph and his mistress; 5 Sermons.-Noah's Dove; or, tidings
of peace to the Godly.-Christ's preparation to his own death.
Christ's last Supper.-The Christian Task; a fun. serm. at Prit-
tlewell, 1619.-The great Assize, or day of Jubilee, 1684, the
31st Edition.-A Fold for Christ's Sheep, 1684, the 32d Edit.
DAWLY. Mr. RowLY.
DUNNINGTON. Mr. GEORGE REVES. After his
ejectment he preached some time at Talk chapel.
§ EDGMUND [R. S.] THOMAS GILBERT, B. D. He
was before mentioned as ejected from WINCHENDEN, in
Buckinghamshire. But the account of him there being
very short and imperfect, it is thought proper to introduce a
larger in this place, extracted from Woon's Athen. Oxon.-
He was the son of Wm. Gilbert of Priss, in Shropshire;
became a student in Edm. Hall, under Mr. Ralph Morhall,
1629, aged 16. Took one degree in Arts, went into Ireland,
where he had some mean employment for a time, returned
and took the degree of M. A. 1638. By the favour of
Philip Lord Wharton he became minister of Upper Win-
chington, but closing with the Puritans, was made vicar of
St. Lawrence in Reading, and took the covenant. Turn-
ing Independant, he was created B. D. at the parl. visitation.
About that time he was preferred to the rich rectory of Edg-
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mond,
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mond, whence a royalist had been ejected: where shewing
himself very active for the cause, he was much intrusted by
the usurpers, and was commonly called the bishop of Shrop-
shire. In 1654 he was appointed assistant to the commis-
sioners of Shropshire, Middlesex and Westminster, for eject-
ing insufficient ministers, &c. After the Restoration, he was
ejected for nonconformity, and retired to Oxford, where he
and his wife lived many years obscurely in St. Ebb's parish.
He frequently preached privately, particularly in the family
of Lord Wharton. On the Indulgence in 1672, he joined
with three Presbyterian ministers, Dr. H. Langley, H. Cor-
nish, and J. Troughton, in a course of constant preaching
in the face of the university, in Thame-street, Oxon. When
the toleration was called in, he preached elsewhere, and gave
intelligence to the brethren of what passed in the university.
At length being reduced to extremity, he applied for charity
to several heads of colleges, as well as private persons, and
obtained it [A proof that he was held in some estimation.]
He lived to be above 80; died 15 July, 1694, and was buried
in the chancel of St. Aldate, called St. Tules within the city.
"While he was of S. Edm. Hall, he was esteemed a good
philosopher, disputant and philologist; and afterwards,
"when in orders a good divine." He hath published,
"C
WORKS. Vindicia supremi Dei dominii.-Oppos. nuper
Doct. Audoni Diatriba de justiția &c.-Assize serm. bef. Ld. ch.
just. Glynne &c. at Bridgnorth.-England's Passing Bell; a poem
wrote after the plague and fire in London.-Super auspicat. Regis.
Gulielmi in Hiberniam decessu-carmen grat. 1690, (written
when near 80 years of age).-Epitaphia diversa. A large preface
to Julius Secundus, proving it to be written by Erasmus.-Latin
Translation of part of Potter's Interpret. of the number 1666.—He
is also said to have had a hand in the Anni mirabiles.
EDSTASTON [Chap.] near Wem. Mr. SAMUEL TAY-
LOR. Of Magd. Col. Camb. A learned, holy, humble,
ingenious man, and a good preacher, but sickly. Though
in very low circumstances, with a wife and many children,
he quitted his living in 1662, chusing rather to beg his bread
than to wrong his conscience. He continued in Wem after
being silenced, and preached there as his strength and liberty
would permit. His house was burnt down in the dreadful
fire in that town; and tho' he re-built it, after a sort, by the
charity of his friends, he lived in very great straits, and much
sickness. When he was once in peculiar distress, a gentle-
man
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man who had often been kind to him, desired a respectable
young minister, as he was travelling about the country, to
collect something, among charitable Christians of his ac-
quaintance, for his relief. This he chearfully did; and on
his return desired this gentleman to invite Mr. Taylor to his
house, that he might there give him what he had collected.
Accordingly he came, without any knowledge of the kind-
ness intended him; when the young minister told him what
he had done, at the request of his friend, and paid him down
upwards of 20l. The good man was so affected with this
unexpected relief, that he burst into tears; told him the dis-
tressed case of his family when he left it, which was reduced
to the last extremity; expressed his thankfulness to his friends,
and his sense of the goodness of God, in a manner that made
such an impression on his mind that it was doubtful whether
the distributor or the receiver was the most affected. At
length he quietly departed this life, after a few days illness,
June 26, 1695. Mr. Philip Henry preached his funeral
sermon, on 2 Cor. iv. 7.
ERCALL Magna [V.] Mr. RICHARD HOPKINS.
FELTON (West) [R.] Mr. SAMUEL HILdersham,
B. D. Some time Fellow of Eman. Col. Camb. Son of
the famous Mr. Arthur Hildersham, of Ashby. Mr. Tal-
lents says, he was ordained by an Irish bishop without the
subscription then required. He was settled rector of Vest-
Felton, in 1628, and continued there till silenced by the
Act of uniformity. He was one of the Assembly of Divines;
a father to the sons of the prophets in and about Shropshire;
· a Conformist in the old times, but resolved enough against
the new Conformity. Mr. Baxter says, "He was a grave,
peaceable, pious, learned divine." Mr. Henry adds, "loving
and charitable; an excellent preacher, an eminent expositor,
and very much of a gentleman." Soon after his ejectment
he left Shropshire, and lived privately with a kinswoman at
Erdington, in the parish of Birmingham-Aston, where he
quietly ended his days, in April, 1674, aged 80; and was bu-
ried in the church-yard, without any funeral sermon, accord-
ing to his own order. His wife, who survived him, was
daughter to Sir Henry Goodyear, of Polesworth in that county.
-He printed two epistles before his father's sermons, and
furnished Mr. Ashe with the materials of his father's life.
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HALES OWEN [V.] Mr. EDWARD PASTON. He was
ordained by a bishop before the war, and yet could not be
satisfied to conform. He did not, after his ejectment, keep
up any stated meeting in Hales Owen, where he lived in
great friendship with his moderate successor, and was not
treated with any severity. He sometimes preached for his
brother who conformed, in Kings Swinford church, and
several other churches and chapels, where he could be con-
nived at; but his labours were mostly employed at the meet-
ings of Dissenters. He had a constant turn at Guarnal, in
Sedgely parish, Staffordshire. He was not a popular preach-
er, but very judicious, solid, and practical. He was a grave,
pious and peaceable man, of a humble, catholic spirit, and
of a heavenly conversation. He was for some time steward
to Philip Foley, Esq; and lived to a good old age.
HODNET [R.] Mr. SAMUEL CAMPION, M. A. Of
Magd. Col. Camb. A learned, pleasant, friendly man, and
a very good preacher. His parsonage-house and barns (with
his books and goods) were burnt in 1658, and he re-built
them; yet in 1660 the patron, Sir Henry Vernon, turned
him out. He had a wife and seven children, with very little
to live upon; but God provided for him and them. He de-
parted this life at Salop, about the year 1680, aged 65.
*
KYNESLEY [R.] THOMAS WRIGHT, M. A. A man of
extraordinary learning and ability, moderation and peace-
ableness.
LUDLOW [L.] Mr. RICHARD SADLER. He was born
in Worcester, and went, when young, with his father into
New-England. After the war he returned, and was ordain-
ed at Whixall chapel, May 16, 1648. He removed from
thence to Ludlow. Being turned out there, upon the King's
restoration, he spent the rest of his days in privacy at Whixall
where he died, in 1675, aged 55. He was a man of great
piety and moderation. He had a wife and many children,
with very little to live on, but was chearful and hearty.
grandson of his, Dr. Samuel Benyon, was born and lived in
his house at Whixall, where he kept an academy and preach-
*
A
§" One of his daughters (says Mr. Orton) was a member of my church:
very poor, but the congregation allowed her an extraordinary stipend month-
ly, out of regard to the memory of her father; and the rather, as her husband
and children were all bigots to the church.”
ed
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ed at Broadoak after Mr. Philip Henry's death, till he re-
moved to Shrewsbury. J. O.
MIDDLE [R.] Mr. JOSHUA RICHARDSON. He had been
imprisoned in London, in the time of the war, by the parlia-
ment party; but could not now conform, tho' he had a wife
and a great many children, and no great estate.
He was a
pious and friendly man, and his life was closed with a happy
death, Sept. 1, 1671. Dr. Fowler preached his funeral ser-
mon at Whitchurch, on Dan. xii. 3. highly praising him for
wisdom, piety, and peaceableness.
MORTON [Chap.] Mr. TIMOTHY THOMAS. Brother
to Mr. Titus Thomas, of Aston. He was chaplain to Mrs.
Baker of Swiney, near Oswestrey, and died in that neighbour-
hood, 1676. His widow retired to her father at Wrexham,
where his son Timothy was born, seven months after his de-
cease, who became a baptist minister at Pershore, and was
eminent for piety. He died in January 1717, aged 40, and
was succeeded by his son, Timothy, who died in 1720, aged 22.
NEWPORT [C. or D.] Mr. JOHN MALDEN. His name
is to the Testimony of the Ministers in this county, as pastor
of Cheswardine. He was a man of great learning, an excel-
lent Hebrician, of exemplary piety, and a solid preacher; but
he lived and died very low in his own eyes, esteeming him-
self good for nothing; which was manifestly a prejudice
both to his comfort and his usefulness. He was, however,
far from repenting of his being a sufferer for Nonconformity.
He died May 23, 1681, aged 60.
OSWESTREY [V.] ROWLAND NEVET, M. A. Of
Edmund Hall, Oxf. His labours at Oswestrey were abun-
dant so long as they were allowed, and even after he was
silenced for Nonconformity; for he continued there to his
dying day, doing what he could, when he might not do what
he would. He used to say, He thought the most of his con-
verting work was done there in the first seven years. When
the plague prevailed there, he still continued with his people;
and it was an opportunity of doing much good. His con-
versation from his youth was not only blameless, but pious.
He was exemplary for family religion, and for his great in-
dustry in the education of his children. He died Dec. 8,
1675. [A son of his was a minister among the Dissenters
at Bridgnorth.]
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Mr. THOMAS QUARREL. Tho' he preached here
occasionally, he did not fix here, it is said, till after 1662.
He preached much in Wales. [He was the first pastor of
the congregational church at Shrewsbury, viz. in Oliver's
time, and afterwards preached there as often as the violence
of the times would permit. J. o.] He was born in North
Wales. After his ejectment he became pastor of the Baptist
church at Llangwm and Llantrisaint, Monmouthshire. He
died about 1709, having been in the ministry 56 years or
more. His house in Llangwm parish is still known, and is
called Ty-gwyn, i. e. the White house. It is near Trefeld,
where Walter Cradock was born.
ROCKADYNE, (more properly Wrockwardine). Mr.
JOSHUA BARNET. He was born at Uppington in this county,
where his father, Mr. Humphrey Barnet, was a celebrated
preacher, much admired by the country people, who flock-
ed to hear him twice on every Lord's-day; a thing at that
time very unusual. When the Book of Sports came out,
instead of reading it he preached against it; for which he
was cited to appear before the Bp. of Litchfield and Coventry,
and was forced to retire out of that diocese into Lancashire,
where he died. He and Mr. Wright of Wellington, tho'
they were both of them conformable to the established
church, were accounted the first Puritans in Shropshire; for
no other reason than their sedulous preaching, and pious lives..
Mr. Joshua Barnet was brought up at a school in Lan-
cashire, in the place of his father's retirement, and was af-
terwards educated by the famous Mr. Ball. After his father's
death he was ordained by Presbyters, and chosen lecturer of
Tockholes, in the parish of Blackburn; where he continued
till the imposing of the Solemn League and Covenant; and
not being satisfied to take it, he retired into his native country,
where he preached in two little parishes near Shrewsbury,
Ashley and Hadnall. But he quitted them both because he
could not take the Engagement, and accepted of Wrockwar-
dine, by the advice and procurement of Stevens, Esq;
of Dottel, who had a great respect for him, and allowed him
20l. a year during his life; which after his death he settled
on this vicarage for ever. Here Mr. Barnet continued till
1662. Tho' he then became a Nonconformist, he was very
moderate, and was much beloved and visited by the neigh-
bouring clergy. He went twice every Lord's-day to his
parish-church, at High Ercall, tho' it was two miles from
his
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his house. He preached at home at noon, and then used to
take his whole auditory with him to church.
A main thing
in the terms of Conformity which he stuck at was, Re-ordi-
nation by a Bishop. He removed into Cheshire, some years
before his death, and preached publicly in the parish church
of Warburton; but he never conformed; that place being
exempt from episcopal jurisdiction. He was a personable
man, of considerable abilities, and a pleasing preacher. He
died very much lamented.
RODDINGTON [R. 45%] Mr. ANDREW BARNET. Of
Trin. Col. Camb. Born at Uppington: Brother to Mr. Joshua
Barnet, and the youngest of ten children. He was turned
out of Churchholme in Cheshire, for not taking the Engage-
ment against the King and House of Lords. His sufferings
after his ejectment from Roddington, in 1662, were not so
great as some others met with, as his skill in physic secured
the esteem of the neighbouring gentry, One instance how-
ever is recorded: Being invited to preach in private on a
Lord's-day, a neighbouring justice came while he was in
prayer, and fined him for preaching. He appealed to the
quarter-sessions, and proved that he had not preached. But
the King's attorney said, that he must make a construction
of the matter; which was, That the defendant's praying
was preaching. "Then (said Mr. Barnet) every boy that
says the Lord's Prayer is a preacher." No, no, (says the
attorney) but for you to pray is preaching." Upon this he
was cast, and his fine doubled; so that he paid above 407.-
He was a solid man, and a sound preacher; and most valued
by them that knew him best. From the title page of a
manuscript sermon of his preached at Flower, in Northamp-
tonshire, in the year 1695, it appears that he was at that
time, “minister of the gospel at Daventry;" which is about
five miles distant from that village.
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WORKS. A Sermon upon the Death of Queen Mary; preach-
ed at Daventry.-The Helmet of Hope; Christ in us the Hope
of Glory.
SHREWSBURY. St. Chad's. JOHN BRYAN, M. A. Of
Eman. Col. and Peter-House, Camb. He was the eldest son
of Dr. Bryan of Coventry, and experienced the happy effects
of a pious education. Being designed for the ministry, he was
sent young to the university, where he spent many years.
Soon after leaving it, he was domestic chaplain to the Earl of
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Stamford, lecturer of Loughborough, and minister of Didle-
bury in this county. In the beginning of 1652 he had a call
to the abbey-parish in Shrewsbury, where he had many
friends who valued his labours. St. Chad's being vacant, at
the earnest desire of that parish he removed thither, where
he met with with great love and affection, and continued till
Aug. 24, 1662. He had been twice in prison with Mr. Tal-
lents and others, before the year 1666, tho' nothing was laid
to their charge. In the year 1685 he with great difficulty
escaped, when Mr. Tallents and others were confined. When
the Five-mile-act was executed in 1666, he refusing the oath,
removed with his family to Shefnal, and used to go by night
to Shrewsbury, (sometimes not without great hazard) to ad-
minister gospel-ordinances to his people. Upon K. Charles's
Indulgence in 1672, he returned, and with his colleague Mr.
Tallents, and other ministers, enjoyed uninterrupted liberty of
preaching in the house of the worthy and pious lady, Mrs.
Hunt. In the year 1683 new troubles arose. Two maid-
servants, thro' promises and threats, were induced to give in-
formation against him and others for preaching. He only was
seized and brought before the judge, and fined 40l. After-
wards he and Mr. Tallents, with others, were put into the
Crown-office; his goods were in great danger, and he was
forced immediately to leave the town. Upon K. James's
general pardon, he sued out his discharge from that court.
When liberty was given in 1687, he and Mr. Tallents re-
sumed their former work, and continued together on it till
his death, Aug. 31, 1699.—Mr. Baxter speaks of Mr. Bryan
a godly able preacher, of a quick and active temper, and
very humble." To which it may be added, that he was of
a public spirit; never sought great things for himself; knew
how to be content with a little, and to deal bountifully with
it; hating covetousness, and esteeming it, more blessed to
give than receive. He was very useful in counselling and
comforting the afflicted in body and mind. His doctrine was
sound and plain, his practice regular and conscientious, hist
principles moderate, but fixed; his texts suited to the various
turns of Providence, which he generally observed; his dis-
course pleasant and profitable, intermixing spiritual things
with common. When he was in company with persons
whom he thought no friends to religion, he would use an in-
nocent freedom, and say, "Religion is an enemy to nothing
but sin." He was often serviceable, and ever faithful to his
friend; thankful for the least kindness; obliging towards all,
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and beloved by most that knew him. He often acknowledged
the presence of God with him thro' the whole of his life.
About five years before his death, he had a severe stroke of
the palsy, which produced a continued weakness in his right-
side, and disabled his right-hand, which he bore with great
patience and resignation; blessing God that he was able to do
any thing in his work, and desiring to live no longer than he
might be useful: in which God granted his request. About
two months before his death he told Mr Tallents he was
preparing his own funeral sermon on 2 Tim. iv. 7. upon
which he preached several discourses;- and the last on the
Lord's-day in the morning before his dissolution, under great
weakness, which rapidly increased, and he expired on the
Thursday following.
Alkman's. Mr. RICHARD HEATH. Of Christ's Col.
Camb. An ancient minister; moderate, sedate, quiet, and
religious. He was much valued at the university for his
great learning, especially in the Oriental languages, in which
he was one of the greatest masters of the age. He was em-
ployed to correct the Syriac and Arabic of the Polyglott Bible,
for which purpose the proof-sheets were sent down to him;
and Bp. Walton gave him a copy for his trouble. At the
persuasion of that prelate, he continued a few Lord's-days
after Aug. 24, 1662, reading the liturgy; but was soon silen-
ced, because he could not come up to the imposed terms of
Conformity. When the Five-mile-act commenced, March
25, 1666, he removed to Wellington, and there died on May
the 28th following. When he lay upon his death-bed, Mr.
Laurence asked him what reflections he had upon his Non-
conformity?"Truly, (said he) I would not but have done
as I did for a thousand worlds." He had a great confidence
that God would provide for his widow and children, accord-
ing to the promise. Tho' he was so learned and able a man,
he printed nothing.
St. Mary's. FRANCIS TALLENTS, M. A. Of Peter-
House, and Magd. Col. Camb. He was born at Pelsley, near
Chesterfield, in November, 1619, and brought up at the pub-
lic schools at Mansfield and Newark. About 1642, he tra-
velled as tutor to the sons of the Earl of Suffolk. He often
said, that what he saw abroad of the Popish religion, and
what conference he had with its advocates, added much to his
conviction of the falshood and wickedness of it, and confirm-
ed him in protestantism. Upon his return he was chosen
Fellow
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Fellow of Magd. Col. and was afterwards Senior Fellow,
and President. He was a noted tutor there; and Sir Robert
Sawyer and Dr. Burton were amongst his pupils. He was
ordained at London, Nov. 29, 1648, by the 3d classical Pres-
bytery in that province. In 1652 he left the university, and
went to Shrewsbury, where he became minister of St. Mary's:
and his labours were well accepted and useful. In 1656 he
was moderator at a public dispute about Baptism in the parish
church of Ellesmere, between Mr. Porter of Whitchurch and
Mr. Haggar, a Baptist. He began and ended with prayer,
and directed the progress of the dispute with great prudence
and candour. At the Restoration he was not a little pleased,
and made some advances towards a compliance in ecclesiasti-
cal matters. But when he saw how things were fixed in 1662,
he was necessitated to quit his living, which was his only sup-
port. He remarked, that before the war, the Puritans gene-
rally made a shift to come into the church, notwithstanding
the hard usage they foresaw they were likely to meet with;
but to prevent this afterwards, new barriers were erected by
the Act of uniformity to keep them out. As long as he lived
he observed Bartholomew day, as a day of humiliation and
fasting. He was a man of great moderation, who loved good
people of every denomination, and took all occasions to
witness against bigotry on all sides. For the most part he
attended the public ministry and the liturgy a great while,
morning and afternoon; and undertook no stated work for
some years.
In 1670 he travelled into France as tutor to two young
gentlemen, Mr. Boscawen and Mr. Hampden, the former of
whom died at Strasburgh of the small-pox. Having spent
about two years and a half abroad, he returned to Shrews-
bury, and joined with Mr. Bryan in preaching to a congre-
gation of Dissenters in that town. In 1685, when the Duke
of Monmouth was in the West, he was sent prisoner to Ches-
ter castle; but upon his defeat was released, when he retired.
to London, and there lived privately. While he was there,
in 1686, he was maliciously calumniated as a Popish priest.
A desk which he had left at Shrewsbury, being opened, in
which, among other things, was a piece of an old white da-
mask bed scolloped, and a book containing the names of his
pupils in Magdalen College, a malicious fellow reported,
that he saw, in a desk of Mr. Tallents's, such vestments as
priests say mass in, full of crosses and images; and a book,
in which were the names of such as were admitted into the
order
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order of the Jesuits. When Mr. Tallents returned, and found
this base slander spread to his prejudice, he took the man be-
fore the Mayor, produced the things in question, and so con-
victed him of falshood and malice; but because he was a poor
man, he gave him no other trouble than a reprimand from the
Mayor. And yet there were those who did all they could to
support the slander, one of whom Mr. Tallents was advised
to prosecute; which he did with success. Upon the liberty
given the Dissenters in 1687 he returned to Shrewsbury, and
continued his ministerial service there, in conjunction with
Mr. Bryan.—In K. William's time, when overtures were
made towards a comprehension, some gentlemen who greatly
valued his judgment, sent for him to London to discourse
with him about it; particularly concerning the re-ordaining
of such as were ordained by Presbyters. Upon mature de-
liberation he declared that he could not submit to it; and
drew up his reasons at large. But he was much for occa-
sional Conformity, as a token of charity towards those whom
we cannot statedly join with.-In 1691 he entered into his
new place of worship, and preached his first sermon there on
Is. lvii. 15.
He caused it to be written on the walls of the
meeting-place, "That it was built not for a faction or party.
"but for promoting repentance and faith, in communion
"with all that love our Lord Jesus Christ, in sincerity." He
added that scripture with which the French churches usually
begin their worship: "Our help standeth in the name of the
"Lord, who made heaven and earth." He died on Lord's-
evening, April 11, 1708, in the 89th year of his age, and was
buried in St. Mary's church. A paper was found after his
death, appointing what epitaph should be inscribed on his
grave-stone, and expressing the year of his life then current;
intimating, that he did not expect to out-live that year.
Reliquiæ D. Francisci Tallents. Olim Col. Magd. Cant.
Sen. Socii. Postea Concionatoris Publici in hâc Ecclesià ab
An. 1652, ad Aug. 24, 1662. Qui post various Labores,
expectans misericordiam Domini nostri Jesu Christi in Vi-
tam Æternam, tandem decessit Anno Ætatis suæ 89. Mense
Die-
Mr. Baxter says, "He was a good scholar, a godly blame-
less divine; most eminent for extraordinary prudence and
moderation, and peaceableness towards all." [Mr. Mat.
Henry, at his desire, preached his funeral sermon, on Jude 21.
Being forbidden to say any thing in his praise, he afterwards
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drew up an account of him, which was printed at the end
of the sermon; from which the foregoing account is taken,
as is also the following addition respecting his character and
death
In all his address and converse he was, in the highest degree,
respectful and complaisant. His politeness was a great or-
nament to his learning and.piety.-In his old age he retained
the learning both of the school and the academy to adiniration.
He had something to communicate to those who conversed
with him concerning all sorts of learning; but his master-
piece, in which no man was more ready, was history.-He
abounded much in pious ejaculations in his common discourse.
-He was very happy in counselling his friends who applied.
to him for advice, and knew how to speak a word in season.
-He sometimes expressed his fear concerning many weak and
melancholy Christians, that they had tired themselves in the
exercises of devotion; and would advise such to keep their
minds as calm and sedate as possible, and not aim to put them
always upon the stretch. He would sometimes pleasantly
say, "The Quietists are the best Christians;" and with re-
gard to the external performances of religion, would give this
advice: "Let the work of God be done, and done well; but
with as little. noise as may be."-He was eminent for his
charity, in judging of other persons, and in relieving the
necessitous; particularly strangers in distress.-He was in a
remarkable degree dead to the world, knowing no good in it,
but doing good with it; and, by the little left behind him,
shewed that he had no way of laying up what he had, but by
laying it out in good works, (1 Tim. vi. 19.)-His preaching
was very plain, familiar, and affectionate. He studied not
words, but things. He was frequent and earnest in pressing
brotherly love. Love was the air he breathed in.-He was
much for extolling free grace, &c. but tho' he differed from
Mr. Baxter in many of his notions and expressions concerning
justification and other things, yet he highly valued that great
man for his learning and piety, and the service he had done the
chuch by his practical writings; and often spoke of him
with great respect and affection. He took occasion some-
times to speak of the hope he had of the flourishing of the
church in the latter days." When God (says he) shall repair
its breaches and build it up, the subtilties of the schools, and
many canons of councils, and customs of old, will be laid aside,
and a great simplicity in things of faith and worship shall
be owned and practised. No more conditions shall be made
for
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for the communion of churches than Christ has made for
communion with him."
It pleased God to continue him long a burning and a shin-
ing light. He was chearful and useful to the last. He had
but little bodily pain, and enjoyed great serenity of mind.
Mr. Bryan, Mr. James Owen, and Dr. Benyon, were suc-
cessively assistants to him. The death of the latter affected
Mr. Tallents greatly. Soon after this he was seized with a
fainting fit. When he came to himself, [finding his strength
impaired, and judging his end to be near] he the next day
made some alterations in his will; gave directions about his
funeral; and then addressed himself to his dying work with
the holy chearfulness which became so good a Christian,. as
one who had nothing to do but to die. Tho' he sometimes
expressed a wish that, if it were the will of God, he might
live a little while to see the congregation well settled with
another minister, he soon got over this difficulty, and left the
care of the sheep to the Great Shepherd; praying, that if his
work were done, he might be willing and desirous to depart
and be with Christ. He charged all about him not to pray
for his life, but that he might patiently wait for his change;
and with reference to the means which had been used to re-
cover him from the fit before mentioned, he said to those
about him, Why did you not let a poor old man go quietly
away?" He often expressed his repentance for sin, and his
reliance on Christ alone. Some days before he died he bles-
sed God that he was fuller of inward comfort and joy than
he was able to express. After he had some time lain wait-
ing, he began to think it long that he had not his release, and
to cry,
Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." But knowing
God's time is the best, he waited with patience for it. On the
Lord's-day, April 11, he would have those about him (ex-
cept one person) go to public worship. That day he seemed
somewhat revived. Many savoury words dropped from him,
and he continued very sensible, calling upon God, till about
9 or 10 o'clock at night, when he sweetly slept in Jesus.
66
WORKS. A View of Universal History; or Chronological
Tables [finely engraven on 16 Copper-plates, in his own house,]
(one of the greatest works of the age.)-Sure and large Founda
tions; designed to promote Catholic Christianity.-A short History
of Schism, for the promoting of Christian Moderation. [This was
written in the 85th year of his age.] One S. G. answered it with
great indignation. Mr. Tallents wrote a Reply, in a manner be-
coming a Christian, a gentleman, and scholar.-He left behind
hie
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him many Chronological Disquisitions and Historical Remarks.---
A pretty large Tract occasioned by the Indulgence in 1687, against
Compulsion in Matters of Religion.-A Description of Popery,
written at Paris.-An Answer to the Question, Whether Persons
ordained by Presbyters may submit to be re-ordained by a Diocesan
Bishop. The Sum of his Reasons against this may be seen in
Calamy. He drew up the character of many of the ministers in
this county. [He left a Journal of his Travels, which was in the
possession of Mr. Job Orton, who was for many years pastor of the
church of Shrewsbury, which had been under Mr. Tallents's care.
These papers are curious, but so blotted and soiled, that it is not
easy to read them.]
STANTON [V. S.] Mr. HENRY CRUTCHLOW; or
Churchlow, as Dr. Walker has it, who says, He had been a
gentleman's butler, and used Mr. Orpe, the sequestered mi-
nister, very ill, (which may be like some of his other stories)
that he had been curate to Mr. Gilbert, [who was domestic
chaplain to Oliver Cromwell; and that, being dispossessed
at the Restoration by Mr. Orpe, he died in a few years af-
terwards. ]
Dr. Walker
Dr. Walker says, he
STANWARDINE. Mr. HALL.
STOKE [R.] Mr. JOHN ADAMS.
succeeded Mr. W. Higgins in 1655. Before the war, he had
been a forward Conformist, and a companion of some of the
gentry that were high flown and debauched; but he could
not conform in 1662. Before his decease (which was about
1666) he went to the house of a religious gentlewoman,
and there solemnly bewailed the sins of which he had been
guilty.
STOTTESDON [V. S.] REGINALD FINLOW, B. A. Of
Jesus Col. Camb. He resigned this living (as Dr. Walker ob-
serves) at the Restoration, to the former incumbent, Mr. T.
Amias. He afterwards preached occasionally about the coun-
try, but was very poor. Having a wife and four unhealthy
children, he took a little farm, by which he got a poor liv-
ing. However his sober, peaceable and inoffensive life,
gained him favour from his enemies; so that when his bre-
thren were imprisoned in Monmouth's time, the justices dis-
missed him, and took his word for his appearing when he
was sent for. [Mr. Orton writes concerning him as follow:
"My father bought his library, or the remainder of it. I
have many of his books now, from whence it appears that he
was a careful reader of books, having written remarks upon
many of them. I have also some of his sermons, which shew
him
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him to have been a learned, judicious, and very serious preach-
er; but, I presume, rather dry."]
STRETTON [R. 140] Mr. HENRY MAURICE: QfOx-
ford university. He was the youngest son of Mr. Griffith
Maurice, descended from a considerable family in Carnar-
vonshire. His childhood and youth were vanity. When
he became a preacher, the popular applause he met with
proved a great temptation to him, as he afterwards complain-
ed, calling himself a vain-glorious fellow. He conformed
in 1662, at Brompfield in Herefordshire, but afterwards re-
moved to this valuable living, which had a delightful seat.
He held it till it pleased God to visit the town with a malig-
nant fever, whereby many of his parishioners were cut off;
by which providence he was awakened to a great solicitude
about his everlasting state. He was much dissatisfied with
his Conformity, and could not be easy in his mind till he had
taken a resolution to quit his living, tho' he was gool. in
debt, chiefly contracted by annexing some out-buildings to
the parsonage-house.-He had kept the cause of his trouble.
to himself, till his wife, surprizing him in his retirement,
told him she was determined not to part from him a moment
till he communicated it to her. He then told her, he could
not be satisfied to continue any longer in Stretton as minister
of that place; and that he was much concerned for her and
her child, as to their future subsistence. She desired him to
do as his conscience directed, and assured him she could free-
ly resign herself and her child to the providence of God,
whose care of them she did not at all distrust. This answer
of hers greatly supported and encouraged him. He next
communicated his case to Mr. Quarrel, who had been eject-
ed. He advised him to count the cost before he entered upon
a suffering state. Mr. Maurice replied, If he kept his living
any longer, his conscience would fly in his face. He there-
fore immediately resigned it, and preached his farewell ser-
mon on Luke xxiii. 3. Upon which the Chancellor of the
diocese sent him a citation, charging him with reflecting on
the government of the church. He sent him for answer,
That what he delivered was not to reflect upon, or cause
disrespect to any, but to silence the cries of an awakened
conscience. What personal estate he had he discovered to
his creditors, who took all away. They who remained un-
satisfied, put him in Shrewsbury jail, where he was often re-
markably relieved by persons utterly unknown to him. His
keeper's
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keeper's wife, who at first treated him harshly, was converted
by his means. At last, some friends engaged for the pay-
ment of his debts, and he was set at liberty: upon which he
lived in Shrewsbury a considerable time, and then removed
to Abergavenny. He was soon after chosen pastor to a
considerable body of people, at Llanigon and Merthyrcyn-
nog, within a few miles of that town but his services were
not confined to them. His capacious soul moved in a much
larger sphere. From the time of his coming into these parts,
as long as he was able, he spent his time in travelling all over
Wales; where preaching the gospel of Christ in those dark
parts was his daily work; and God blessed his endeavours to
the conviction and conversion of many souls. The poor
people travelled far to hear the word, and attended it in vast
numbers, with extraordinary earnestness. He endured many
hardships from travelling in all weathers in those mountain-
ous places, and being often but poorly accommodated, both
in respect to diet and lodging.
'
He was often way-laid by his enemies, but was hid in
the hollow of God's hand.' They once searched his house
for him, when he had been preaching; but he was hid in a
closet, adjoining to the room where the meeting was held,
and they could not find the door. Another time a constable
came into the room where he was preaching, commanding
him to desist; when, with an undaunted courage, he charg-
ed him in the name of the great God, whose word he was
preaching, to forbear molesting him, as he would answer it
at the great day. The man hereupon sat down and trem-
bled, heard him patiently till he had done, and then departed.
Mr. Maurice was taken but once, and then he was bailed;
and upon appearance discharged by the favour of some jus-
tices of the peace, who were his friends and relations.
He was sometimes reduced to great straits whilst he lived at
Shrewsbury, but was often surprizingly relieved. One
time when he had been very thoughtful and was at prayer
with his family, suiting his petitions to their necessitous case,
a carrier knocked at the door, enquired for Mr. Maurice, and
delivered to him a handful of money untold, as a present
from some friends, but would not tell who they were.
same person also another time brought him a purse of money
very seasonably in a like necessity. His wife became en-
titled to 40l. per ann. soon after his leaving Stretton; but
it was unjustly alienated for ten years. However, she was
chearfully industrious in mean employments, and contented
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with the coarsest fare; being ambitious only, if possible, to
have the sureties and obligations discharged; which, thro' the
good providence of God Mr. Maurice had the satisfaction of
living to see, tho' he died soon after.
In the latter part of his life he discovered great humility,
meekness, patience and resignation to the divine will, and
much compassion to his enemies. Their reproaches, instead
of discomposing him, did but furnish him with occasions to
pity and pray for those that raised and spread them. His
calmness under all his sufferings, whether from man, or
from the immediate hand of God, was such that they did not
lessen the serenity of his countenance.
He had the mastery
of himself in a high degree of perfection. His natural temper
was quick, and (as he himself used to say) had a mixture of
moroseness; but by grace he governed it as becaine a man, a
christian, and a minister. He was courteous and obliging
to all, and full of compassion to the needy and distressed. He
was a hearty and constant friend, affectionate in all relations,
and a tender, but not a too indulgent, father.-[He occa-
sionally practised physic, and improved his opportunities for
administering to his patients spiritual cures.] One remark-
able instance was, in the case of a gentleman's daughter,
seven years of age, who was a cripple, whose father (tho'
not a dissenter) sent for Mr. Maurice to attend her; by
whose means, tho' her bodily disorder remained, she received
a far greater benefit than the cure would have been, as she was
in an extraordinary manner brought to remember her Creator
and Redeemer.
It was his ordinary custom, both at home and abroad, to
expound the scriptures, mornings and evenings; which prov-
ed
very useful. If he knew of any one person in a family or
congregation, tho' but a child, that did not understand the
language in which he was obliged to speak, it was his custom,
whether in prayer, exposition, or sermons, to deliver a part in
one language, and a part in the other; for he was used to say,
He would not have one soul lose the benefit of an ordinance.
In his preaching he generally aimed at laying the foundation
of the way of salvation by Jesus Christ. In the first part of
his sermons he usually opened some fundamental point of the
gospel, and introduced practical things in the application.
When he quoted scripture, he was used to comment upon it,
so as to shew his heare's the sense, and how it proved the
point in question. He was abundant in allusions and com-
parisons to explain the subjects he discussed. He preached
doctrines
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doctrines in an experimental manner, and had a wonderful
skill in unravelling the very thoughts and inward workings
of mens hearts, and was very particular and convincing, as
well as affectionate, in his applications to the consciences of
his hearers.
He was so assiduous in his work that he was advised by
his friends to be more sparing of himself; but he used to an-
swer, "When a man has loitered the best part of his day,
and the evening draws on, he had need to double his strokes."
Excessive labour at last so broke his constitution, that it
hastened his end. His behaviour on the bed of sickness was
answerable to the past conduct of his life. He discovered a
deep sense of the divine goodness to him and his. When his
wife observed to him, that he had had a wearisome night, he
replied, "What if I have? Job had many wearisome
nights." When he saw the people weeping about him, he
said to her," Dost thou observe the loving kindness of the
Lord to us poor strangers, in raising us so many friends?
The love of God in Christ is a great refreshment to my
soul! Blessed be God, who has made thee and me partakers
of the same grace." He was far from an apprehension of
merit, and yet rejoiced in the testimony of his conscience.
"There is nothing I have to trust to (says he) as to my work
and labour, and yet I shall have joy of that too." He died
in July, 1682, about 40 years of age.
TILSTOCK. Mr. ZECHARIAH THOMAS. He was or-
dained after the Restoration, and was curate to Dr. Bernard,
but could not continue long with him because of his Non-
conformity. He died Sept. 14, 1670, aged 50. Mr. Kirkes,
vicar of Acton, preached at his funeral, and gave him the
good character he deserved, for uprightness, humility, mode-
ration, prayer, faithfulness in reproving, patience under af-
fliction, &c.
WEM [R.] ANDREW PARSONS, M. A. He was born.
in Devonshire, and was minister there some years before the
civil war. Being driven thence to London, he became well
known to Mr. Pym, who sent him down to Wem, when that
town was garrisoned for the parliament. There he continued
in the exercise of his ministry till the year 1660, at the close
of which he was brought into trouble, on the account of sedi-
tious words being sworn against him. The words he used
were these: "The devil is like a king that courts the soul,
and speaks fair till he has gotten into the throne," &c. The
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witness deposed, that he said, "the king was like the devil;"
which was contrary to the coherence of the discourse: [and
it appeared from his own notes, and those of four persons
who wrote after him, that the above were the words he used.]
He was tried at Shrewsbury before Lord Newport, Mr. Ser-
jeant Turner, and others, May 28 and 29, 1661. It was
also charged upon him, that he said other things reflecting
upon the church and the king. He had council assigned
him, who pleaded, that the time limited by the statute, on
which he was indicted, was expired. The court yielded it
was so, allowing 28 days to a month, but they would under-
stand it of Calendar months. So he was found guilty, fined
200l. and sentenced to be imprisoned till it should be paid.
(Conformist's 4th Plea, p. 32.) This trial made a great
noise at that time; and the more, because Mr. Parsons was
a person of known loyalty. He ran several hazards of losing
his life and estate when K. Charles passed with his army to
Worcester; and he sent a horse and arms to the rising at Ches-
ter in his favour. He continued near three months in prison,
till Lord Newport, without his knowledge, procured the King's
remission of the fine. His living was presently sequestered
by the Chancellor of Litchfield. Perhaps the value of this
living made him the more obnoxious. He told them in open
court, that his benefice was condemned long before, and
that 400l. was bidden for it by a great man in the country,
&c. One of the jury, when he had reflected upon what
was done, afterwards came to him much dejected, and told
him, The foreman went against the sense of the majority.
He went also to the Judge, and told him the same; who
replied, he need not trouble himself about that. Mr. Parsons
after this went to London, where he was for several years
assistant to Mr. Wadsworth in Southwark, and afterwards.
had a congregation near Covent-garden. His wife contri-
buted towards their subsistence by making gold and silver
lace. He was a grave and solid, but a lively and useful
preacher. He was also very generous and charitable, tho'
his circumstances were but low. Upon a dreadful fire that
happened at Wem, in 1677, he collected some money for
the sufferers; and with it sent them a printed letter full of
seasonable instructions and consolations. He died at London,
in peace, about the end of the year 1684, aged 68.
WHITCHURCH [R.] THOMAS PORTER, sen. M. A.
Of Camb. university. An ancient grave divine, of great in-
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tegrity, blamelessness and diligence, and was so excellent a
preacher, that Mr. Baxter declares, He thought few arrived
to his degree, that ever he had heard. He was born in Nor-
thamptonshire, and was settled minister of Hanmer in Flint-
shire, long before the war, by the means of Sir John Han-
mer, a pious gentleman, and a great promoter of religion in
the parish. Mr. Porter's ministry was blessed with wonder-
ful acceptance and success, both in that and the neighbouring
parishes; and a great harvest of souls was gathered in to
Christ. After the war was over (in the heat of which he
was forced to withdraw) he procured Mr. Steel to supply his
place, and removed to Whitchurch, where he continued to be
an instrument of much good. By his great prudence he so
managed the ministers on that side of the county, where a
Presbytery was settled, that he found no need of compulsory
laws. When the King was restored, he gave way to Dr.
Bernard, a worthy moderate man. He spent the rest of his
days in silence and affliction, and died at Salop in a good old
age, June 19, 1667. He had a son who preached some
time at Tilstock, one of his chapels; but how long is uncer-
tain. He went afterwards to Bunbury. Mr. Tallents says,
The Bp. of Chester would not give him orders till he solemnly
renounced his former ordination from his father and the
classis; which he submitted to do.
WORKS. Four Sermons; viz. on the Divinity of the Holy
Ghost-at an Ordination on Mat. v. 13.-on the New Creature
-on the Form of Godliness, 2 Tim. iii. 5...There was also pub-
lished an Account of a Dispute between him and Mr. H. Hagar,
in Elsmere church, Ap. 30, 1656, on Infant Baptism.
WOORE, or OARE, [before improperly placed in Staf-
fordshire]. Mr. THOMAS BOWYER.
Mr. PHILIPS-Mr. RUSBITCH-and Mr. STONE, were
silenced in this county; but the places are uncertain : as also
was Mr. JOSEPH LEE, then a candidate, who had often preach-
ed, particularly about Whitchurch. Probably this is the per-
son mentioned by Mr. Tonge, in his Life of Mr. M. Henry,
as residing in his old age at Knutsford; whom he speaks
of as a gentleman by birth, a humble, upright person, and a
good scholar, though not capable of constant work thro'
bodily indisposition.
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The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. LEE, of Shrewsbury.—Mr. AYLMER HOUGHTON, of
Prees. Mr. GEORGE BERKLY, of Westbury.-Mr. WAR-
TER, of Pontesbury.-Mr. MILWARD, of Powderbach.-
Mr. ROBERTS, of Morton-Chapel.-Mr. WORThington,
of Shabury.
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NGELSLEY [R.] Mr. LAWREnce Musgrave.
ASHPRIORS [Chap.] Mr. JOHN GALPINE. Wood
in his account of Mr. Flavel, mentions Mr. Galpin as the
editor of his Remains; calls him a fanatic preacher, and says,
He was some time a student in Exeter College, during the
reign of Oliver, and afterwards at New Inn, where he took
the degree of B. A. 1658, but left the university without
compleating that degree by determination.-Dr. Walker says,
he was an Independent, and that he was in the living of Far-
comb in Devon, which he gave up to the sequestered mini-
ster, Mr. Chase, at the Restoration; which is not inconsistent
with his being ejected from this place by the Act of unifor-
mity. This is one proof, among many, how easily they who
were turned out, when the sequestered clergy were restored,
might have been provided for in other places, if that act had
not silenced them. After the liberty by act of parliament,
Mr. Galpine settled at Totness, where he died in Sept. 1698.
He had a son who was pastor to the dissenting congregation
at Stepney.
WORKS. A Farewell-Sermon in the London Collection.
§ The text, Luke xii. 32. The title is, "The Farewell-Sermons
of John Gaspine, preached at Ashpriors, the two last Lord's-days
before Bartholomew-day, 1662." They consist of near forty quarto
pages, but are not divided. Towards the close, he makes a so-
lemn declaration to his people, that he laid down his ministry
among them merely because he could not in conscience comply
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with the things required. "I dare not, says he, give my assent
and consent to any thing in God's worship, which is not warranted
from his word. But I think it the lesser evil of the two, to expose
myself to sufferings in the world, rather than undergo the reproaches.
of a wounded conscience."-He also published some account of
Mr. John Flavel, in a Preface to his Remains,, above-mentioned;
which consist of two sermons.
BATCOMB, [R.]. RICHARD ALLEIN, M.A. Of St.
Alban's Hall, Oxford, [where Wood says, he was entered a
commoner 1627, aged 16, and having taken the degree of
B. A. went to New Inn, and continued till he was M. A.]
He and Mr. Wm. Allein of Blandford were sons of Mr. R.
Allein who was 50 years minister of Dichiat in this county;
a grave, pious, successful preacher, greatly beloved, and a
great sufferer from the Bp. of Wells. He died full of days
and of honour, aged 80.- This his son, according to Wood,
having taken holy orders, assisted his father, and became a
frequent preacher in his own country. In March 1641,
shewing himselsf zealous for the cause then driving on, be-
came rector of Batcomb, in the place of R. Bernard de-
ceased; where he was several times disturbed by the Cava
liers. He was one who subscribed The Testimony of the mi-
nisters in Somersetshire to the truth of Jesus Christ, and to
the solemn league and covenant. He and his father were
constituted assistants to the commissioners for ejecting scan-
dalous insufficient ministers]-He continued pastor of this
people twenty years; and was a pious, prudent, diligent and
zealous, but meek instructor of his flock; much respected in
these parts, and well known by his pious practical writings.
After he was deprived, he preached as he could. Once he
was apprehended at Mr. More's (a member of parliament)
who would pay his fine of 5. tho' he went to prison for his
own. Sometimes Mr. Allein was sent for to the sessions,
and soundly rated for conventicling (as it was called) but his
gravity, piety and goodness were so conspicuous, that his
enemies knew they should do their own cause more hurt by
sending such a man to prison, than by conniving at him.
Upon the Five-mile-act he removed to Froom Selwood, and
preached privately there to the day of his death, which was
Dec. 22, 1681. [He was buried in the church there, about
the middle of the middle ayle] and Mr. R. Jenkins, vicar of
the parish, preached a sermon at his funeral, and gave him a
good character, for which Wood calls him a lukewarm Con-
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formist. His books entitled Vindicie Pietatis, tho' mani-
festly tending to promote true piety, could not be licensed,
but they were greedily bought up and read by sober people,
and have been very instrumental to reform the world. They
were so saleable, that the King's bookseller caused a great
part of the impression to be seized, because unlicensed, and
sent to the King's kitchen, from whence he bought them
for a trifle, bound them up, and sold them in his own shop.
This was at length complained of: and he was forced to beg
pardon upon his kees at the council-table, and send them back
again to the King's kitchen to be bisk'd, i. e. to be rubbed
over with an inky brush. The following remarkable anec-
dote concerning this work was related by Mr. John Thomas,
the late aged and worthy minister at the Pithay meeting in
Bristol. He knew a man in Yorkshire who stole this book
from a sale near Colne in Lancashire, and was converted by
reading it. After which he brought it back to the owner, Mr.
T. Sawley, with penitence, and with thankfulness to God, who
had over-ruled his theft to the salvation of his soul. Commu-
nicated by Dr. Ryland, who received it from Mr. Thomas.
WORKS. Vindicia Pietatis; in four parts; a Vindication of
Godliness in the Strictness and Spirituality of it, from the Imputa-
tions of Folly and Fancy.-Directions for attaining and maintaining
a godly Life.-The Godly Man's Portion and Sanctuary.—Heaven
opened; or a brief and plain Discovery of the Riches of God's Co-
venant. The World conquered; or a Believer's Victory over the
World.-Godly Fear; its Nature and Necessity, &c.-A Rebuke
to Backsliders, and a Spur to Loiterers.-A Companion for Prayer.
-Instruction about Heart-work; published by Dr. Annesley.-A
Letter to a Friend, to prove that Ordination by Presbyters is valid,
and not to be repeated.
BATH.
his ejectment.
Mr. GEORGE LONG. He died here soon after
Mr. WILLIAM GREEN. Assistant to Mr. Long:
BICKNALLER [Chap.] Mr. THOMAS SAFFORD, bro-
ther to Mr. Bartholomew Safford who died before Bartho-
lomew-day, 1662. Some lists mention both at this place.
* Wood's words are, "Richard Jenkins, M. A. sometime of Gloc. Hall,
(a lukewarm Conformist) preached his funeral sermon, containing many
pathetical encomiums of him, having several times visited him in his sick-
ness.”
Mr.
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Mr. Thomas Safford who was turned out of Ifield in Sussex,
might possibly succeed his brother for a short time. After
being silenced, he continued with a poor people at Bick-
naller many years. He was noted as a good Hebrician.
BLACKDON [C. or D.] Mr. WESTLOC.
BRATTON Seymore [R.] Mr. JEROME LITTLEJOHN. Of
Camb. university. He was born at this place, where his
father had been minister, Oct. 3, 1624. He had his gram-
mar-learning at Bruton, and at Sherborn under Mr. Lyford.
He began his ministry in this his native place, and here con-
tinued till he was silenced in 1662. He afterwards preached
for some time privately at South-Cadbury, from whence he
removed to North-Cadbury, where he purchased an estate,
but much to his prejudice. He preached sometimes at his
own house, and sometimes at other places as he was invited,
till disabled by illness. He died March 2, 1680, aged 55.
His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Josiah Banger.
He was a modest, humble, peaceable, pious man; and had
universally a good report.
BRIDGEWATER [V.] JOHN NORMAN, M. A. Of
Exeter Col. Oxford, where he was at first servitor to Dr.
Conant, the worthy rector. He had good natural abili-
ties, and by his industry, and the blessing of God on that
good tutor's instructions, acquired a considerable stock of
learning both human and divine. He went from the univer-
sity to this place, where he was very useful till the Bartholo-
mew-act ejected him. He was an acceptable preacher, and
of an exemplary conversation; much respected here, and in
all the western parts of the kingdom. About 16 months
after his ejectment he was sent, with several other Noncon-
formist ministers, to the county jail, and there made a close
prisoner for preaching to his people in private. He appeared
as a criminal at the bar before Judge Foster, 1663; and tho'
he was a man of a very decent appearance and address, the
Judge handled him very roughly.
Sirrah, said he, do you
preach ?"-"Yes, my Lord," said Mr. Norman.
"And
why so, Sirrah ?"-Because I was ordained to preach the
gospel." "How was you ordained ?”. "In the same man-
ner as Timothy. -"And how was that?”, By the laying
on of the hands of the Presbytery,"-Which answer the
Judge repeated over and over again, seeming not to know
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what to make of it*. However he sentenced him to pay
100l. fine, and to lie in prison till it was paid, which was
above a year and a half; when Baron Hale, going that cir-
cuit took notice of him, and found out a way to compound
the fine at six-pence in the pound.
While the Judge was handling Mr. Norman so roughly in
the court, he with great gravity told him, That a liberal edu-
cation at the university, and the holy calling of the ministry,
not stained with any unworthy action, merited good words.
from his Lordship, and better usage from the world. The
Judge seemed the more inflamed, and treated him with all
possible contempt. Mr. Norman then said, "Sir, you must
"e're long appear before a greater Judge, to give an ac-
"count of your own actions, and for railing at me, the ser-
"vant of that great Judge."-As he was going to Ilchester
jail, the officers would call at the Sheriff's house in the way;
whose lady began to upbraid Mr. Norman, and scornfully
asked him, "Where is your God now,
God now, that suffers you to
be carried to prison?" Upon which he asked her if she had
a Bible in the house? "Yes, said she, we are not so hea-
thenish as to be without a Bible;" and a Bible being brought,
he read to her Mic. vii. 8, 9, 10. The lady was so struck
with the words, that she immediately retired; and the deal-
ings of God with the family not long after made this remem-
bered*-After Mr. Norman's release, he continued preach-
ing in private some years. Going occasionally to Bristol,
he fell sick and died, to the great grief of his flock, being
but about 40 years of age. Notwithstanding his sufferings,
he kept his temper and moderation to the last.
WORKS. Cases of Conscience; to which an account of him
is prefixed by Mr. Wm. Cooper.-Christ's Commission-Officer;
an Ordination Sermon.-Christ confessed; (written in prison)-
Family Governors exhorted to Family Godliness. § Wood does
not mention them or the author,
BRISTOL. St. Philip's and Jacob's [V.] Mr. Edward
HANCOCK.. Instead of the former account of him the fol-
*
Judge Foster could not forget Mr. Norman's answer, about the laying on
of the hands of the Prsbytery;' for a gentleman coming to him about busi-
ness, at Egham in Sunny, having made him wait a long time, gave this as his
excuse, that he had been searching his books about an odd answer which
a fellow made him in the West, "That he was ordained like Timothy, by the
laying on of the hands of the Presbytery;" which he could find nothing of,
+ This story was before related of Mr. Worts, p. 2. It is possible that it
might be true of both.
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lowing is substituted. Dr. Walker says he had been butler
to Sir George Horner; which may be as true as his other
assertion, That he was put into this living on its sequestration;
for Mr. Hancock himself mentions his being here but three
years. He was a man of considerable property. After his
ejectment he was a sufferer for his nonconformity. In the
Records of the Broad Mead meeting is the following pas-
sage," 1682, April 14. Mr. Hancock, who had formerly
preached several times, was cast into prison for having
preached within this city within seven years last past." He
died at Horfield, about two miles from Bristol. Mr. Barret
in his History of Bristol, p. 243, says, He there kept a
public house. This writer had probably seen Kennett's
Register, in which it is said, "Some of the ejected preach-
"ers possibly returned to their original trades and occupa-
"tions. Mr. Hancock possibly set up a public house.
But is it becoming any historian to assert a thing as fact,
because another is pleased to say it was possible? It is more
than possible, that this stigma fixed on the father, belonged
to his only son, who being educated at Oxford, became a
Conformist; and was so dissipated that tho' his father left
him some thousands of pounds, he soon spent all and was
induced to beg up and down Bristol, and even of Dissenters.
—Mr. Hancock was an earnest and moving preacher. He
published his farewell sermon preached at St. Philip's on the
evening of Bartholomew-day. It is entitled, "The Pastor's
last Legacy and counsel." A copy of it (probably the only
one to be met with) is in the possession of Mr. Whittuck of
Bristol. The following abstract of it, (communicated by
Mr. James) will give the reader no unfavourable idea of the
preacher.
2 Cor. xiii. 11. Finally, Brethren, farewell. Be perfect,
be of good Comfort, be of one Mind, live in Peace; and
the God of Love and Peace shall be with you.
At this time I am called to a work, which possibly may be
unpleasing to many, even as to myself; that is, to die a civil
death, whilst I ani naturally alive. When the sun for this
day is set, I shall then cease from having any charge over
you, and you will then cease from having me to be your
Minister. I may say as one did that was going to die a
violent death, "I am this day to do a work that 1 never yet
did, I desire of God to give me strength that I never yet had."
-Those that die well do usually these things: 1. Make their
Peace with God. I think I can give up my account with
joy,
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joy, in reference to the discharge of my duty, having kept
back nothing from you of the counsel of God. 2. Die in
perfect charity with all men. I hope I do so truly; having
not the least thing against any man this day. 3. Set their
house in order. You know I have made it my work for these
two months past to shew unto every one his duty. 4. Give
good counsel to their friends. I shall take up the greatest
part of my time with counsel to you all, therefore attend to
the last words of a dying man.-1. Consider the days of
grace have their last. The day long threatened is now come,
when my preaching and your hearing can be continued no
longer: So all your comfort and joys [from thence] will have
an end.
2. Let us heartily bless God for so many years
freedom, especially the last three; about which time I have
been with you. 3. Depart not from the truths you have re-
ceived. 4. Let professors study to honour God. 5. Own
God in your families. If no family prayer, expect no fa-
mily blessing. 6. Sanctify the Sabbath. 7. Take heed of
sinking under any sufferings. If persecution may come, we
know not how soon our sins may deserve it. 8. Get all good
from your minister, and do all good to your minister, that
God shall set over you. 9. Study peace.
9. Study peace. There is no ques-
tion but the nonconformists will be used rigorously, but be
contented. It is like many may be come this day to catch
words to entrap me. I beg and beseech you all, that you
think of nothing, nor use any help to deliver yourselves out
of sufferings, but faith, patience, and prayer. I profess be-
fore you all, I have not spoken with, nor heard of any of
this persuasion, but they are all against having any hand in
any war, even those who had a hand in the last; and therefore
a horrible slander is cast upon the most peaceable subjects
that God and earthly princes can have. I hope I shall never
hear of any nonconformist that hath a hand in any rising or
sedition whatever. 10. Be not troubled at the reproaches the
enemies of God may cast upon you. It is likely many of
you may hear say, "What is become of your precious
preacher ?"-Brethren, would we have debauched our con-
sciences, had we not as fair an opportunity as other men
to have continued?-11. Learn how to behave yourselves
well in the day of Jacob's troubles. (1.) Have the mark
of mourners on your foreheads. (2.) Keep yourselves pure
from the sins of the times wherein you live. (3.) Feel the
sorrows of the church. (4.) Cry mightily unto God that he
would have mercy on his people.-12. Be truly wise, i. e.
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(1.) View Truth, and study it. (2.) Follow the light of it.
(3.) Practise self-denial: Live crucifying thy flesh, or thou
shalt be crucified by it. (4.) Live in the sight of, and depen-
dence on the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (5) Live in a
good air; keep good company. (6.) Exchange temporal joys
for eternal. (7.) Fill thyself with religious pleasures. (8.) If
thou lovest life, let death dwell in thy heart. (9.) Conform
to the terms of salvation; impartial dependence upon Christ.
(10.) Lastly, never depart from faith and holiness.-I am
going away and am not to speak any more unto you, except
God find out a way beyond expectation.-Great proffers of
preferment formerly moved me not, but the terrors of the
Almighty now make me afraid. My heart could not be
strong, nor my hands endure in the day of the Lord, should
I, against my conscience, have continued amongst you. I
thank you all for your desire of me to stay: the Lord knows
how loth I am to leave you, might I continue with a good
conscience.—I cannot say more; the sun is even down; my
civil life is near an end; my strength is almost spent.-Fare-
well sermons, farewell sabbaths, farewell fastings, farewell
exhortations, farewell this house, farewell this seat for ever,
farewell my preaching, farewell your hearing, and farewell
your faces in this place. Farewell this world, when we shall
arrive at eternity, both old and young. My brethren and
sisters all, farewell!
Mr. JOHN KNOWLES. Of Magd. Col. Camb. where
he was chamber-fellow with Mr. Vines. He was born in
Lincolnshire. In 1625 he was chosen Fellow of Kath. Hall,
where he had full employment as a tutor, having 40 pupils
at once, many of whom became considerable and worthy
men. About the year 1650, twelve of them were members
of parliament, and no less than thirty eminent preachers.—
Before Dr. Sibbes's death, a Fellowship was vacant in Magd.
college, for which there was a recommendation from Abp.
Laud, for one who was his Bell-ringer at Lambeth; with a
design either to quarrel with them if they refused, or to put
a spy upon them if they accepted. The Dr. who was not
for provoking persons in power, told the Fellows, that Lam-
beth-house would be obeyed; that the person was young, and
might prove hopeful, &c. The Fellows yielded, and among
the rest, Mr. Knowles. But fifty years after he said, that
nothing troubled him more than giving his vote in that elec-
tion; for the person proved one of those who quicquid agunt
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valde agunt. He came thither of the Lambeth cast; but as
the times turned, was a Presbyterian, an Independent every
thing that prevailed, and in every way violent. At last he
wrote a book, called, St. Austin imitated, in his Retracta-
tions. This account is from Dr. Sampson's papers.
While Mr. Knowles was, with great pleasure and useful-
ness, leading a college-life, he had an invitation from the
Mayor and Aldermen, to be lecturer of Colchester, which he
neither sought nor thought of. He accepted the call, and
applied himself to his work with great industry and admirable
success. While here, he was an intimate acquaintance of
the famous Mr. John Rogers of Dedham, whose eyes he
closed, and whose funeral sermon he preached. The school-
master's place at Colchester being vacant, Mr. Knowles and
the Mayor carried it for a person in opposition to the recom-
mendation of Abp. Laud; who was so incensed, that he
would not suffer Mr. Knowles to stay any longer there.
His licence being revoked, in 1639 he went for New-Eng-
land, and became teacher to the church of Watertown, of
which Mr. George Philips was pastor, where he continued
about ten years, and then was sent to Virginia to preach
the gospel there, in conjunction with Mr. Thompson of Brain-
tree. At their first coming, the Governor entertained them
courteously; but when he found they were against the Com-
mon Prayer, surplice, &c. he would not allow of their
preaching at any public places. Mr. Harrison, the Gover-
nor's chaplain, (so useful afterwards in England and Ireland)
openly moved that they might have full liberty, but secretly
endeavoured that they might be dismissed, as he owned af-
terwards with concern and sorrow. Mr. Knowles and Mr.
Thompson being discharged from the public, continued a
while preaching privately, and did much good. Mr. Knowles
often said, that he never saw so much of the blessing of God
upon his ministry as there, and at Colchester. But they
were not allowed to continue. However, it proved a remark-
able and happy providence for them; for no sooner had they
got on board the ship in which they were to have sailed, but
there was a general rising of the Indians upon the English,
whom they miserably massacred, sparing neither old nor
young. Five hundred are said to have been murdered upon
this occasion, besides the mischief done to the plantation.
Among those that escaped this dreadful slaughter, some were
gathered into church-order by Mr. Harrison, who, after this
visitation of providence, became quite another man. But the
Governor
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Governor was the more hardened, and dismissed his chap-
lain, who was now grown too serious for him. Mr. Knowles
returned for some time to Watertown, and afterwards came
back to England, where he was a preacher in the cathedral
of Bristol, and lived in great credit and usefulness. But he
was ousted there soon after the Restoration, and in 1662 was
silenced. He came afterwards to London, where he conti-
nued preaching, as he had opportunity. When some of his
friends dissuaded him for fear of a prison, he answered: "In
truth, I had rather be in a jail, where I might have a number
of souls to whom I might preach the truths of my blessed
Master, than live idle in my own house, without any such
opportunities." He went about doing good. His discourses.
in company about God's dealings with him, his temptations,
and afflictions, his deliverances, and supports, were so many
affecting sermons. During K. Charles's Indulgence he preach-
ed statedly to a people at St. Katherine's. [He was so fervent
in his work, that he sometimes preached till he fell down.]
During the plague in 1665, he was very useful to such as
stayed in the city, visiting rich and poor, without fear. He
lived to a good old age, and died Ap. 10, 1685. Math. Hist.
B. II. p. 216.
Mr. THOMAS EWINS. He had been a mechanic,
and was sent out to preach by a church in London, with one
Mr. T. Barns. Tho' he was no scholar, it is said he was a
judicious methodical preacher. He succeeded Dr. Ingelo as
pastor of a church in Bristol, in 1650, and continued there.
till 1670. He was very laborious and successful. One ser-
mon of his upon blind Bartimeus was the means of conversion
to many. He was remarkable for his meekness, patience,
and charity. So scrupulous was he about maintenance, that
he would accept no tithes, nor salary, but only free gifts.
The Mayor and Aldermen in Oliver's time, called him ordi-
narily to preach at Christ Church in the mornings, and at
Maryport in the afternoons. He also repeated at St. Ewen's
and St. Leonard's; preached a Tuesday lecture at St. Nico-
las, and on Fridays at St. Philip's and St. Michael's alms-
houses alternately, and held a conference on Thursdays. He
was also ready to preach on most other days, if called upon,
when he was not otherwise engaged. He was very grave
and serious every where, and full of good discourse. He was
sometimes abused in the streets, but would not attempt to
retaliate; "For, says he, vengeance is God's; my duty is
patience."
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patience." In his time Quakerism began in Bristol; many
fell in with it, and some gave him disturbance. Upon the
Restoration he soon quitted the public pulpits. The Bishop
courted him to Conformity, but he could by no means be
satisfied to comply. He was often in prison, once for a whole
year, where he preached twice on every Lord's-day. There
he contracted a lethargic distemper, of which he died, aged
about 60. He left a good name behind him.
§ The following is extracted from the church-book of the
Baptist-church, Broad-mead, Bristol, of which Mr. Ewins
was the first pastor: "Being turned out of public places, such
as Nicholas and Christ-church, we first met at our pastor's
house in the castle, and there we continued a long time; but
being straitened for room, we took a larger place, towards
the end of Broad-mead, called the Friars, which formerly
had been some chapel, and there we continued holding forth
the gospel of God's free grace, by our Lord Jesus Christ.
On 15 June, 1661, Mr. Ewins was called before the mayor
for preaching at the Friars, and charged not to preach;
but he continued in the work of the Lord until July 27,
when he was taken up again, by one Adams, a serjeant of the
train-band, to captain Rich, and with a guard of musque-
teers was carried away to the marshal's house, where he re-
mained till Aug. 12. Then he was committed to his own
house as prisoner: but on 26 Dec. he was discharged in open
sessions; and then he preached at the Friars again.- Mr.
Ewins was taken up again Oct. 26, 1662, by captain John
Floydd, coming to the Friars on the Lord's-day, with Lieut.
Smart and others; and continued a prisoner till Nov. 13, and
then was sent home by Mr. Cole, a Major. Then the
church had rest till Sir John Knight came to be mayor. The
same day that he entered on his mayoralty, Oct. 1, 1663, he
sent for Mr. Ewins to his house, and charged him not to
preach; but Mr. Ewins told him, he must discharge his duty
towards the Lord, and therefore in that thing he must not
obey him, but the Lord; and accordingly, the next day
preached as formerly at the Friars; and Sir John sent his
serjeants, Oct. 4, and put him in prison in the jailor's house,
by Newgate. At the next sessions, he and others were in-
dicted for a riot, and (as the mayor and Sir John ordered it)
were found guilty, and Mr. Ewins was fined 50l. He con-
tinued in prison all the time that Sir John was mayor. On
Sept. 26, 1664, he was released; captain Dean and Mr. Ellis.
having laid down the fine. But the long imprisonment so
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decayed our pastor, and his straining his voice in prison to preach
(which he would every Lord's-day) that the people who ga-
thered together under the prison walls might hear, (he being
about four pair of stairs high from them) that when he came
out of prison after the first sermon he preached abroad, he
fainted away, and declined continually, till it hastened his
day. He died Ap. 26, 1670, having faithfully served his
Lord and master Jesus Christ near twenty years in this city.
He was interred in James's yard, Ap. 29, accompanied with
many hundreds to his grave. The like funeral had not been
seen long before in Bristol. He left so good a savour be-
hind, for faithfulness to God, and humility towards man, that
his very chief persecutor, Sir John Knight, said, “He did
believe he was gone to heaven."
St. James's [R.] Mr. JOHN PAUL.
St. Nicholas's [V. S.] Mr. RALPH FARMER. The
old incumbent (Mr. Toogood) surviving, he presently gave
place to him in 1660, and preached in another parish till
Bartholomew, 1662. He then retired three miles out of town,
and preached to the colliers at his own house at Hannam. He
died about 1669. He published a piece against the Quakers,.
entitled, The Mystery of Godliness and Ungodliness.
Ratcliff Parish and St. Ewen's. Mr. MATTHEW
HAZARD. A venerable old man. He was often sadly dis-
turbed in the pulpit by the Quakers.
Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS. Of Oxford university.
He was a minister and school-master in this city in Oliver's
time, and he continued so afterwards, tho' he had no fixed
place. He was tempted to conform by considerable offers in
Wales, but refused to the last. He trained up many for the
ministry. He died at Bristol in 1693.
We may here also mention some who lived in Bristol, tho'
they had been ejected in other places; as
Mr. RICHARD BLINMAN, who had been minister of
Chepstow, but whether ejected there or not is uncertain.
§ Mather, in his Hist. of N. England, has this account of him,
"After a faithful discharge of his ministry at Glocester and
at New London, he returned into England; and living to a
good old age, he who, wherever he came, did set himself to
do good, concluded his life at the city of Bristol, where one
of the last things he did was, to defend in print the cause of
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Infant Baptism," in an Essay tending to issue the controversy.
Part III. p. 213.
ICHABOD CHAUNCEY, M. D. He was chaplain to Sir
Edward Harley's regiment at Dunkirk, when the Uniformity-
Act took place. He afterwards became a physician in Bris-
tol, and was of good note. He was prosecuted on the 35 Eliz.
and upon that act suffered banishment. In 1684 * he was
compelled to abjure the realm, and removed himself and his
family into Holland; but upon K. James's liberty, he re-
turned to Bristol in 1686, and there died July 25, 1691.
In 1684 was published in 4to. Innocence vindicated, by an im-
partial Narrative of the Proceedings of the Court of Sessions in
Bristol against Ichabod Chauncey, physician of that city.
BRUTON [C. or D.] Mr. WILLIAM PARKER. An able,
diligent and pious preacher; a man of great humility and
peaceableness.
BUCKLAND, SAMUEL STODDEN. It is said, that after
his ejectment he practised physic. However he did not lay
asside the ministry. He was a laborious and exact preacher.
His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Walrond of Ottery.
Mr. James Peirce, in his Western Inquisition, p. 44, inti-
mates, that he altered his sentiments in the latter part of his
life respecting some doctrines of Christianity; but this is
contradicted in an answer to that piece.
WORKS. The Voice of the Rod.-A Supplement to the
same. The Pastor's Charge; and the People's Duty; preached
at the Exeter Assembly, June 7, 1693;-Gemitus Sanctorum; or
the Saint's Groans for Deliverance from the Body of Sin and
Death; several sermons on Rom. vii. 24, 25. 1702.-An Answer
to Mr. Burscough of Schism; and some other practical treatises.
CADBURY (North) [R. 300l.] SAMUEL CRadock,
B. D. Of Eman. Col. Camb, of which he was Fellow, and
to which the presentation to North Cadbury belonged. When
he kept the Batchelor of Divinity's act, at the public com-
mencement in 1651, his performance was highly applauded,
and reflected honour on his Puritan-college. What he left
for the sake of his conscience, in quitting his valuable living
In the Church-book of Broadmead meeting, the date of his indictment
is 9th April, 1664. He was sent to Newgate Aug. 15, where he was con-
But it was said, "The Doctor was very chearful under
of Aug. he went privately to London in order to go to
fined four months.
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"Let me
in the church, the providence of God made up to him; for,
upon the death of Mr. George Cradock, he became next
heir to an old gentleman, Mr. Walter Cradock, of Wickham-
brook in Suffolk, who at his death left him his estate: which
singular providence Mr. Cradock used to acknowledge
with great thankfulness, and accordingly took this for his
motto, Nec ingratus nec inutilis videar vixisse.
not seem to have lived either ungrateful or unuseful." Some
years after, he came with his family and lived in that house,
and there for several years usually preached twice every Lord's-
day gratis to the neighbourhood. He there also instructed
some young gentlemen of note and worth, in several parts of
useful learning, and educated several for the ministry. In the
reign of Charles II. he drew up a vindication of himself and
others who kept private academies, notwithstanding their
having taken an oath about that matter at the university. A
copy of it may he seen in Calamy. He lived many years
after his ejectment, and in his 79th year became pastor of a
congregation at Bishop Stortford in Hertfordshire, where
he died, Oct. 7, 1706, [in the 86th year of his age, and was
buried at Wickham-brook.] Mr. Samuel Bury, of Bury St.
Edmunds, preached his funeral sermon.
An excellent and useful discourse, on Matt. xxv. 21. in
which he describes the character of a faithful servant, as ap-
plicable to Mr. Cradock; of whom he gives a fuller account
in the close, of which the following is an abstract:-It
seems by his papers that he feared the Lord from his youth,
as he expresses his thankfulness to God for preserving him
from the common corruptions and vices of the school. In
his riper years I find many pious breathings [of which some
examples are given] which cannot but convince us that he
was a man in love with religion, and under an awful con-
cern for the welfare of his own soul and the souls of others.
Much of the person might be gathered from the very motto
[before mentioned] which he chose in his younger years.
And it is easy to observe, how very correspondent it was
with his temper and life, in both the parts. As to his grati-
tude, I could gather much from his own papers. One of
them he stiles," A Catalogue of the great and undeserved
mercies of God towards me," &c.-As to his usefulness, I
may appeal to yourselves, or rather to the whole church,
whether he did not improve the talents wherewith his Lord
entrusted him to the highest purposes. He began betimes
to lay in a stock of learning and knowledge. He continued
Fellow
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Fellow of Eman. Col. many years, and was not a little use
ful among the many pupils intrusted with him: Nor after
wards in his parish at North Cadbury; nor after that, in this
neighbourhood in Suffolk; where for twenty-fix years he
was a common benefit to mankind. He did not only beget
souls to Christ by the gospel, but also provide ministers for
the Church of Christ, by a liberal education. The nation is
not a little obliged to him for many serviceable instruments
in church and state, both in and out of the establishment.
Nor was he useless in the last ten years of his age, since he
removed to Bishop Stortford, as I could prove by particular
instances.
He thought it not enough to profit the world by preaching,
but with great application and diligent study he prepared for
the press.
And it must be observed to his honour, that he
never employed his pen upon any mean or trivial subjects,
but only such as were of the greatest importance. Mr. Bury
proceeds to mention his publications, in the order in which
they appeared, with a particular account of them, and the
encomiums passed upon them by such men as Abp. Tillotson,
and Bp. Reynolds. The latter recommended his Knowledge
and Practice to be read once a year by every serious chris-
tian. The author gave a copy of this work to every family
in his parish. The following character of Mr. Cradock was
quoted by Dr. Calamy, "He was a man of a serious spirit,
of solid judgment, of digested thought, of a clear method,
and an unaffected style. He was courteous and affable to all,
ready to communicate, facetious in conversation, but one
that never mocked God, nor jested with divinity. His man-
ner of writing was serious and manly. He never affected
fine turns, or jerks of fancy, or strains of wit, but always
studied to be clear and convictive, and to speak in the demon-
stration of the Spirit, when he would argue men into reli-
gion and piety. His temper was truly catholic. He valued
every man for his goodness, and was valued by all that were
truly good, and not abandoned to parties or schismatical
principles on one side or other. He was of a forgiving spirit,
patient under abuses, and condescending to inferiors. [He
preferred the peace of his conscience before any emoluments;
and therefore readily resigned his living of 300 pounds a year;
concerning which he writes thus: "God gave me my living,
"he called for it, and I readily parted with it. Of thine own
"have I given thee." Nor did he to his dying day repent
what he had done, tho' he had lost above 13000l. by his
nonconformity.
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nonconformity. He had a tender regard to the sufferings of
others, during the iniquity of those times; and had learnt
with Mr. Chillingworth, that " nothing can be more against
religion than to force religion." He bewailed the intes-
tine divisions of the church, occasioned by the intemperate
heats of many of its patrons, and the rigorous executions of
penal laws. Speaking of Dissenters, he concludes, "They
would willingly unite, but cannot: whereas others can
"unite but will not."] It was his holy ambition in every
thing to approve himself to God, to be serviceable to men,
and to secure the interest of his own soul. He delighted in
his Lord's work, and laboured in his service to the extre-
mity of old age. He preached constantly twice every Sab-
bath, to the very last of his life, save one, and then with more
than ordinary warmth. After a solemn farewell to his wife
and children, he died in peace, tho' not in extacies of joy.
Mr. Job Orton, a good judge of men and books, in a letter
to the Editor, speaks of Mr. Cradock and of his writings in
the highest terms. "His commentaries (says he) are still ex-
"tremely valuable. His Knowledge and Practice is the
"best book for young ministers that I know." The fol-
lowing is a chronological list of his
WORKS. Knowledge and Practice; a plain Discourse of the
chief Things to be known, believed, and practised in order to Sal-
vation, 1659.—A Supplement to ditto, 1679. A new edit. fol.
with eight addit. chapters, 1702.-A Catechism, on the Principles
of the Christian Faith, &c. 1668.—The Harmony of the four Evan-
gelists, 1668-The Apostolic History; with an acc. of the Times
and Occasions of the Apost. Epistles, and a short Paraphrase on
them, 1672.-The old Testament History methodized, 1683.—
A brief and plain Expos. and Paraph. on the Revelation, 1692.
§ N. B. WOOD mentions Mr. Cradock and his writings, with-
out any reflection! and says, He took his degree of M. A. at Oxon,
Oct. 20, 1649, but did not, as he conceives, go there for prefer-
ment. He adds to the List of his Works, A serious Dissuasive from
some of the reigning Sins of the Times, swearing drunkenness, &c.
1679. Fasti. ìì. 71.
CAMLEY [R.] Mr. RICHARD BATCHELOUR.
CHARFINCH [R.] Mr. FRANCIS CROSS. After his eject-
ment he lived at Bristol, and practised physic.
CHARLCOMB [V.] Mr. ROBERT PINNEY. He was
well beloved by his parishioners. He continued a preacher
among the Nonconformists till his death, about the year 1698.
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He was often in trouble in Charles the Second's reign, and
forced to leave his family for a considerable time.
CHEDDON [R.] Mr. EDWARD WARR.
CHEDSEY [R.] HENRY JEANES, M. A. Of New Inn
Oxford. The former account of him, partly taken from
Wood is here enlarged from the same work. He was the
son of Christopher Jean, of Kingston in Somerset, and born
at Allersay in that county. He became a commoner at
New Inn, 1656, aged 15; where he closely applied to Logic
and Metaphysics, and became a noted and ready disputant.
After he had taken the degrees in Arts, he removed to Hart
Hall, took holy orders, and soon was cried up as a learned
preacher in the university. In August, 1635, he was pre-
sented by Sir J. Windham to the rectory of Beercrocomb
and Capland, and soon after became vicar of Kingston, both
in Somerset. Upon the change of the times, in 1641, he
closed with the Presbyterians, tho' he had before, while in
the university, been a scoffer of them. (Dr. Calamy says,
he was zealous for the impositions of the prelatical party, till
reading the writings of the Puritan side, he found them mis-
represented by their antagonists; and seeing a strength in
their arguments, which he apprehended weak before he had
weighed them, he heartily fell in with them, and strenuous-
ly defended their cause.) When Dr. Walter Raleigh was
thrown out of Chedsey, he became rector of that church:
where during the usurpation, he took into his family divers
youths, designed for the university, and read to them logic
and philosophy, and had often set disputations among them,
while he himself moderated. Dr. Calamy quotes the follow-
ing character given of Mr. Jean by this author.
"He was
a most excellent philosopher, a noted metaphysician, and
well grounded in polemical divinity. He was also a scho-
lastical man, a contemner of the world, generous, free-heart-
ed, jolly, witty, and facetious." It is added, "which qua-
lities seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian persuasion,
who generally are morose, clownish, and of sullen and re-
served natures." He died in the city of Wells, a few days
before the fatal Bartholomew-day, 1662, and was buried in
the Cathedral. One of his persuasion intended preaching on
the occasion; but Dr. Pierce, Bp. of the place, who esteem-
ed Jeanes as a heretic, examined the sermon, lest there
should be in it any commendation of him and his opinions.
Athen. Ox. ii. 299.
A
WORKS.
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WORKS. Treatise on Abstinence from all Appearance of
Evil.-Want of Church Government no Warrant for a total Omis-
sion of the Lord's Supper.-A Vind. of Dr. Twisse, from the Ex-
ceptions of Mr. John Goodwin.-A Reply to Mr. Fulwood's Exam.
of his Disc. of Church-Gov. and Lord's Supper.-A Mixture of
scholastical with practical Divinity, in several tractates § viz. On.
the sinful fear of man: Christ's incarnation: his Resurrection: his
fulness: excellence of praise and thanksg.--On the indifference of
human actions. Of original righteousness, and its contrary, ag.
Jer. Taylor.-Letters between him and Dr. Taylor.-On the gene-
ral judgment.-A piece ag. Dr. Hammond, on Christ's Love of
God.-Uniformity in human ceremonies, ag. Do. on 1 Cor. xiv. 40.
-Dr. Creed's Def. of Hammond examined.-Several Sermons:
one at Taunton, on its relief, May 11, 1645, preached 1648.-
An Ans. to Milton's Iconoclastes was printed by one of the same
name.
CHESLEBOROUGH. Mr. JOSEPH HALLET. Born at
Bridport. He had no university education, but by his own
industry he arrived at a considerable measure of learning.
He was an accomplished critic in the Hebrew and Greek
languages, and an excellent divine. In the time of the civil
wars he was minister of Hinton St. George in this county.
From thence he removed to this place, where he continued
his ministry till the fatal Bartholomew. After that he retired
to Bridport, and lived a while in the house of his wife's fa-
ther, and then in one of his own, in a neighbouring parish
called Bradpole, where he preached several years. At length
he was called to be pastor to a congregation of Dissenters at
Exeter, where he exercised his ministry till his death. He
was twice in the Southgate prison for his Nonconformity.
His confinement much shattered his constitution, and brought
upon him the hypochondria, which at length gained such
power, that he was seized with frequent fits, which, whilst
they continued, deprived him of his reason and senses. For
some time before his death they used to seize him in the pul-
pit. Nevertheless he was a diligent and painful student, and
a faithful affectionate pastor. He readily condescended to
the meanest, and conscientiously discharged the duties of his
function, notwithstanding the frowns of the greatest. He
was as free to reprove the faults of the one as those of the,
other. His prayers were always fervent and pithy; his
preaching clear, yet animated. He delivered his matter with
such a pathos as commanded the attention of his auditory.
The last subject which he preached upon was Deut, xxxii. 1.
the beginning of the Song of Moses. From the considera-
N 4
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tion that Moses delivered that song just as he was about to
take his final farewell of this world, he observed, that "Gra-
cious souls, the nearer heaven they are, the more heavenly
will they be:" and that "good men die with the interest of
God and souls much upon their hearts." He concluded his
discourse with these words, which he spake feelingly, and
with a pleasing accent: "I believe this is the last sermon
you will ever hear from me." Accordingly, when he went
home, he betook himself to his bed, and in a few days was
carried from thence to his grave. He died March 14, 1688 ;
and Mr. George Trosse, who succeeded him, preached his
funeral sermon. §
WORKS. Several Sermóns on Christ's Ascension into Heaven.
Some ascribe to him, 27 Queries to the Quakers.
CLUTTON [R.] Mr. MATTHEW ALFLAT. After his
ejectment he preached at Bath, and there he died. He la-
boured under some distress of mind in his last illness, but he
at length died full of comfort and joy.
COMBE. St. Nicolas [V.] Mr. HENRY BACKALLER. *
He was some time chaplain to Mr. Prideaux. When he
gave up his living he had no estate to maintain himself and
family, which was very numerous. He had 16 children, of
whom 12 lived to be near 20 years of age. He died in 1713,
aged almost 99. He was disabled from preaching above 20
years before his death, part of which time Mr. Aaron Pitts
preached for him out of charity.
COMBE HAY [R.] Mr. THOMAS CREES. Of St. Alban's
Hall, Oxf. but in the time of the war he removed to Cam-
Mr. Hallet had a son, named Joseph, who was chosen one of the ministers
of EXETER, in the year 1687, and who kept an Academy in that city. He,
together with Mr. James Peirce, co-pastor with him, was ejected in
March 1719, at the rise of the debates in the West, concerning the Trinity.
And his son, of the same name, at that time a young preacher, who had been
educated under his father, was chosen Mr. Peircé's colleague in his new
meeting, called JAMES's meeting, because it was opened upon the liberty
granted by James II. He was the author of many valuable writings, in the
title pages of most of which, he stiles himself Joseph Hallet, Junior, his fa-
ther being living.-This note was received (with other remarks) from the
late Rev, and learned PHILIP TURNEAUX, dated Clapham, July 22, 1755, to
correct a mistake in the former edition; which he observes the author of
the CONFESSIONAL had also committed, respecting Mr. Hallet's grandson.
*This is doubtless the same person who is mentioned vol. ii, p. 125, as
ejected from CHIDIOCK, and both accounts should have been incorporated.
bridge.
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bridge. He was a native of this county. After his eject-
ment, in 1662, he continued all his life a quiet, patient, si-
lent Nonconformist. He had 13 children, who all lived to
be men and women. He had little to live upon, but Provi-
dence took care of him and his. He resided at Bath, and
preached in all the obscure corners of the country. He was
of a melancholy disposition, but an excellent Christian. He
died in his 76th year.
CRICKET (Thomas) [R.] Mr. JOHN LANGDALe.
CRICKET (North) [R.] Mr. JOHN TORNER. So he
subscribed The Attestation of the ministers of this county in
1648, when he was minister of Cricket Malherb. He was
a man of note for service and sufferings with Mr. Joseph
Allein. During the war, he had the right of two parishes,
but received no profits from either.-He was chaplain to a
regiment of Sir John Fitz-James, who after 1662 urged him
to conform. He objected, that he had taken the Covenant.
Sir John replied, that now the covenant was void in law. He
answered, “But the counter-part of it is in heaven, and in
force." Being ejected from both his parishes, he preached
in various places, and often in a cellar of Prideaux,
Esq; because of the loudness of his voice. This gentleman,
being a member of parliament, usually engaged Mr. Torner
to spend a day in prayer with him at the beginning of each
session, and another at the end. He was at one time impri-
soned five years at Ilchester, with Mr. Joseph Allein and
Mr. Norman. There he used to preach from a window, to
a number of people in the street, and rehearse to them what
other ministers of lower voices had preached within
After
he was set at liberty, many acknowledged to hitn, that they
owed their conversion to those prison-sermons. Once, while
he was preaching, the jail-keeper shot at him, when he drew
in his head and missed the shot. He then went on preaching,
and addressed himself directly to the jailer, so as to make
him tremble.-Towards the end of K. Charles's reign he
was again imprisoned, and after being released, preached in
the church at Bemister, Netherbury, &c. agreeable to his
expectation; for he all along said, that God would again open
his mouth to preach again in the churches. Stroud,
Esq; gave him two small parishes, and in K. William's time
he preached two or three times in each of them.—He was a
man of great piety, and was converted to God betimes, under
the ministry of his own father. He long had a satisfying as-
?
surance
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surance of the love of God, and his own salvation; and was
so courageous in fulfilling his ministry, that he feared the
face of no man. Several ministers once agreed to visit a cer-
tain lady, who was their hearer, but in some respects walk-
ed improperly, in order to reprove her; but all of them ex-
cept Mr. Torner, were for waving it, lest she should not en-
dure them afterwards. But he said, He had his commission
in his Bible, and he would venture the consequence. The
lady did indeed resent his freedom for the present, but doubly
honoured him ever after. He had a small estate of his own,
and fitted up the barn for his dwelling-house. By the help
of some legacies he purchased something which he held by
the lives of his two sons; but they both dying before him,
he entirely lost it, and afterwards needed the help of his
friends. He lived to the age of 94, in great labour, honour,
and comfort; but was bed-ridden two years before he died.
CROSSCOMB [Chap.] Mr. JOHN WHITBORNe.
CURREY (North) [Chap.] Mr. GEORGE PIERCE. Dr.
Walker says he got the living of West Monkton in this county
in the year 1655.
CURREY Mallet [R.] Mr. JOHN BAKER.
DAULISH [R.] Mr. JOHN Hunt.
DAULTING [V.] Mr. GRACIOUS FRANKLYN.
DICHIATT (R. S. 400l.] Mr. TOBIAS TIDCOMBe. A
man of great piety and learning.
DOWNHEAD [Chap.] Mr. MATTHEW WARREN. Of
Oxf. university. He was the younger son of Mr. John War-
ren, a gentleman of a good estate, who lived at Otterford in
Devon. He was born in 1642, and had his grammar-
learning at Crewkern. Having been near four years at Ox-
ford, he removed (probably upon the change in 1660) with
his tutor to Reading. Having spent one year with him
there, he returned to his relations, and entered upon the
ministerial service, but was soon silenced by the Bartholo-
mew-act. Not long after, thro' the importunity of several
ministers and other friends, he undertook the education of
youth for the ministry: a work for which he was well quali-
fied, both by his learning, and the excellence of his temper.
Humility, modesty, and good humour, were his distinguish-
ing characters; which rooted him in the affections of his pu
pils,
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187
pils, to whose various tempers and talents he so adapted him-
self, as to facilitate their progress in science. He always in-
culcated upon them the principles of loyalty, and sound
morality, as well as carefully instructed them in the several
parts of philosophy and divinity. And he had an excellent
faculty of explaining things to the weakest capacity. As he
was never confident or imposing in any thing; never vehe-
ment, or rigid in his own opinions; so he allowed his pupils
freedom of thought, and never denied them the use of any
authors, while he was careful to establish them against those
erroneous principles which undermine the foundations of re-
ligion. And he was eminently successful in sending forth a
considerable number of able and useful ministers. When he
first undertook the office, he met with many difficulties, and
in the reigns of Charles and James, his sufferings were great.
But he bore up under them with chearfulness, and becaine a
comforter to his fellow sufferers. Providence always kept.
him out of the hands of his persecutors, and sometimes by re-
markable interpositions. One instance in particular he often
related with admiration of the divine goodness. While he
was
as sheltered in the house of a friend, his wife had an
unusual impression upon her mind that he was in danger of
being apprehended. She therefore sent a messenger to him
with a letter earnestly begging him to be at home within a
certain time, lest he should never see her more.
He con-
cluded that she was dangerously ill, and therefore immediate-
ly took leave of his friends and departed. Before he had got
far from the house, looking back from an ascent, he saw it
surrounded by a number of men, sent as he supposed, and
afterwards found, to search for him with a view to take him
prisoner.
Upon K. James's Indulgence he was chosen joint pastor
with Mr. Hartford to a congregation at Taunton, where he
had preached occasionally before, and where he approved
himself a faithful and able minister. His sermons were clear,
solid and affectionate. He declined the ostentation of wit,
or the indulgence of a luxurious fancy, and aimed to bring
what he delivered within the reach of his meanest hearers,
preferring the good of souls to his own applause. His con-
versation was no less pleasing than profitable; and he tran-
scribed into his own life the amiable temper which he re-
commended from the pulpit. He never fomented those con-
troversies which so miserably divided the church, but studied
the things that make for peace. His motto, legible in his
conversation,
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conversation, was Let your moderation be known unto atl
men. He resolved not religion into this or that party, but
in love to God and our neighbour. As he aimed at securing
the peace of the public, so he was happily instrumental in
cementing that of a vast congregation at Taunton; for dur-
ing his time there were no symptoms of those heats and di-
visions which have ruined other societies. As his life was
peace and love; so in his last hours, when under extreme
pain, he discovered true christian patience and submission.
Being asked how he was, he answered, "I am just going
"into eternity; but I bless God, I am neither ashamed to
"live, nor afraid to die.” In a day or two after, his com
plicated distemper dissolved his frame, June 14, 1706, in the
64th year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by
Mr. John Sprint, on Zech. 1, 5, 6. It is a useful discourse,
as addressed both to ministers and people, * but contains very
little relating to Mr. Warren; whose character is subjoined
by another hand. From this Dr. Calamy's account of him
was taken, which is here enlarged. Wood does not men-
tion him. The following epitaph was drawn up by Mr.
Christopher Taylor, who had been one of his pupils:
-
M. S.
D. MATTHÆI WARREN, Theologi vere Venerandi : Literati
sine Fastu, Pii sine Ostentatione, Prudentis absque Astutia,
Faceti sine Vernilitate, absque Asperitate Gravis, Zelo
divino imbuti sine Vecordia.-Qui sincere dilexit Amicos,
Oppidum Tanodunum Patriam, & Universam Christi Ec-
clesiam.-Illustri Comitis Warreni stirpe ortus, Aspectu
decoro, Ingenio comi & Jucundo, Moribus Suavissimis,
Sermone Elegans, candidus, Verecundus.-Natus Otter-
fordia in Provincia Devoniensi, Oxonii Educatus.-Tano-
dunum diu Laborum Palæstram habuit; ubi Juventutem
numerosam, in Pietate, sacris bonisque Literis instituebat,
simulque cœtus Presbyterani Pastorem agebat. Quo du-
plici munere-Fideliter, sedulo, modeste, pacifice, Multa-
* In this discourse (now before the editor) the preacher urges the morta-
lity of ministers, as a motive for the Liberality of their people in their sup-
port, that others may be encouraged to succeed them in their work and
likewise for their zealous exertions to provide a succession of able ministers,
and to maintain candidates for the office in our academies.
:
que
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que cum Laude, functus est: Usque ad d. Junii xiv. Anni
MDCCVI. Cum Deus ad Caelestem quietem evocavit. §
DULVERTON [R.] Mr. HENRY BERRY. § He was a
native of Castlecomb, in Wiltshire, and not, as before stated,
brother to Mr. John Berry, of Eastdown, who was a De-
vonshire man. Mr. Hogg, late of Exeter, who sent this
correction, further says, that Mr. Henry Berry, with thirty
of his brethren, was confined in Exeter jail for nonconfor-
mity, and that he was chosen by them to plead their cause.
at the assizes; which he did so well, that the judge released
them all. From this fact it may be concluded that he was
a man of considerable ability and elocution. He preached
for some time at Torrington, where there was no stated
minister after his death, till 1697, or 1698. He died in the
year 1695, aged 69, and was buried in Torrington church-
yard, where the Latin inscription on his tomb indicates, that
he was a grave divine, of great prudence and probity; pos-
sessed of no small share of learning; and a constant defender
of truth and godliness.*
DUNIET. Mr. HENRY ALBIN. Of Oxf. university.
Born at Batcomb, June 20, 1624; educated in grammar-
learning at Glastonbury. He was ejected at West-Cammel
in 1660, and at Duniet in 1662; after which he returned to
his native place, where he lived to the day of his death;
preaching as he had opportunity, sometimes in his own,
sometimes in other families, but often went to church. At
length he preached twice every Lord's-day, for many years,
§ Thus translated.- -Sacred to the memory of Mr. Matthew Warren, a
truly venerable divine: learned without arrogance: pious without ostenta-
tion: prudent without craft: facetious without rudeness: grave without ri-
gour: zealous without fury. He sincerely loved his friends, his town, his
country, and the whole church of Christ. He was graceful in his person,
gentle and chearful in his disposition; of the sweetest manners. In his dis-
course elegant, candid, modest. He was descended from an illustrious fa-
mily; born at Otterford in Devonshire, and educated at Oxford. Taunton
was for a long time the field of his labours, where he trained up many young
men in piety and in sacred and useful learning. He was also the pastor of a
Presbyterian society. In both capacities he discharged his trust with fidelity,
vigilance, modesty, peaceableness, and with great applause, till the 14th of
June, 1706, when God called him away to his heavenly rest.
*The inscription is as follows: Henricus Berry Castlecombiæ in agro
Wiltoniensis natus. Theologus gravis, animisq: prudens, singulari morum
probitate, cruditione non vulgari clarus: veritatis veræq; pietatis constans
assertor. Postquam munus evangelicum quadraginta circiter annos fide et
integritate obierat, in cœlum lætus migravit, A. D. 1694 Æt. suæ 69. Posi-
tis sub hoc marmore exuviis.
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in the house of Thomas Moore, Esq; at Spargrove. In
1687 he became a stated preacher at Frome-Selwood, Shep-
ton-Mallet, Brewton, and IVincanton in rotation. He died
Sept. 25, 1696, aged 73. His funeral sermon was preached
by Mr. Wm. Hopkins. He was a judicious man, and of
good learning; eminent for his piety, and very diligent in
his work. He was a great redeemer of time, a hard student,
and remarkable for prudence. He had a large acquaintance,
and was of a very friendly temper. He taught by his life,
as well as his doctrine; and lived and died a great example
of strict and close walking with God, and of a heavenly con-
versation. He had a majestic countenance, but was cloathed
with humility.
WORKS. A practical Discourse on loving the World, on
1 John ii. 15.-The Dying Pastor's last Farewell to his Friends in
Frome-Selwood, &c. 1697. 8vo.
ELWORTHY [R.] Mr. JOHN HILL. A great critic.
FIFEHEAD [V.] Mr. FAIRFIELD.
FROME [V.] JOHN HUMFREY, M. A. Of Oxf. uni-
versity. Wood says, he was born in Hertfordshire; was
the son of Wm. Humfrey of St. Albans; entered a stu-
dent of Pembroke Col. 1638, aged 16, became B. A. 1641,
left the university about the time Oxford was to be garrison-
ed for Cha. I. and became an episcopal man in Devonshire.
Afterwards taking the degree of M. A. he took orders from
the Presbytery, and became vicar of Frome Selwood. Nei-
ther Wood nor Calamy mention the place or time of his
death; but he was living when Dr. C. published his Account;
in the margin of which Mr. Stancliff wrote as follows:
Might that good man be prevailed with to write his own
life, he is a man of such parts, learning, piety, charity, in-
dustry and integrity, that it would make a useful volume of
itself." The Dr. applied to him for a list of his numerous
writings, when he wrote for answer : "That he desired no
more than to go to his grave with a sprig of rosemary,'
However, he sent an account of his publications, [with some
remarks on the occasions, and the different reception of them,
&c. among which were interspersed a few short anecdotes
concerning himself. From this letter of his, and from what he
says of himself in one of his pieces, the following account of
him is collected:]-Having been educated in Oxford, he went
thither to the King, from the parliament quarters. Having
taken
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taken his degrees in the university, he according to his educa-
tion applied to the ministry; and being in the country, and
not acquainted with any Bp. he took ordination of the Presby-
tery. In those days the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as
he thought, lay waste in most places; they that were for ga-
thered churches, administering it only to their own members,
and others to those only whom they selected, as visibly worthy,
by examination. This caused him to write for free admission
to the Lord's Supper. He was hereupon counted a man of the
old stamp, and no favourite of those times. As he never took
the covenant, so did he never join in the association with the
Presbytery. He was all along for bringing in the King; and .
one day openly alluded to that text of the prophet, I will
overturn, overturn, overturn, until He come whose right it
is, and I will give it him. Hereupon a warrant was sent
for him from Okey, as a seditious person. But his danger
blew over when the King returned, and episcopacy with him.
Soon after he wrote a piece to shew how persons, ordained
by Presbyters, might be re-ordained by a Bishop. Dr.
Wilkins, who saw the MS. highly approved it; and Dr.
Worth, an Irish Bp. afterwards told him, that he had con-
verted all Ireland (except two Scots) by that book. Some
persons were disposed to give him preferment. The Bp. of
[Bath and Wells] desired him to come and assist him at an
examination previous to an ordination, agreeably to the or-
der in K. Charles's Declaration, that the Bp. should call in
some rural Presbyters to his assistance, in examining, and lay-
ing hands on such as offered themselves for ordination, Mr.
Humfrey ingenuously told him that he had only been or-
dained by Presbyters, and thought that ordination to be valid
and sufficient. The Bp. hereupon had an amicable conference
with him, and pressed him to renew his ordination. Some
other friends also joined with him. He had but two days
to consider of the matter. He stipulated for some little vari-
ation in the words used, without any subscription, and then
was ordained by the bishop. But it was no sooner over than
he was uneasy. Tho' he thought re- ordination lawful, when
necessary to ministerial usefulness, he could not be satisfied,
with what he himself had done, taken in its circumstances;
and thereupon drew up a solemn recantation (of which Ca-
lamy has a copy). He then went privately to the Bishop's
Register, and read it to him; then took out his Deacon's or-.
ders and tore them, in confirmation of what he had read.
The Register fell into a passion, went away, and exclaimed
2
against
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Į
against him to some compay in another room. Mr. Humfrey
gave his reasons for what he had done; then taking the pieces
of paper he had torn, and bidding the company witness, threw
them into the fire. He afterwards published his more mature
thoughts on the subject of Re-ordination. The Act of uni-
formity came out soon after, when he was forced to quit his
living, and he declared he could not have lived if he had not
done so. [Wood says, He became a congregational man in
London, and pronounces him the most moderate Noncon-
formist of all the brethren]. Whether he had any stated
charge amongst them doth not appear. He had reserved
his Priest's orders, not knowing but they might be of use to
him in the exercise of his ministry; but at length he tore
them in the presence of a person to whom he had told his
grievance, and having thrown one part into the flames, he en-
closed the other in a letter to the Bp. (of which Dr. Calamy
has a copy) in which he expresses his sense of his Lordship's
intended kindness, but at the same time informs him of the
full conviction he now had of the impropriety of having sub-
mitted to be re-ordained, and with the method he had taken
to undo, as far as he could, what had been done, by destroy-
ing his orders. Mr. Humfrey was always for distinguishing
between imposition and submission in matters ecclesiastical,
and accordingly wrote upon the subject. His judgment was
for union of Protestants and toleration also, which he shews
in many of his pieces. When K. William first came over,
he printed several papers with regard to the Convention, and
put them into the hands of members of the H. of Commons
and he seldom missed a session of parliament but he came
out with something. For some or other of these papers he
was once committed to the Gate-house; and one of them was
voted to be burnt, (viz. on the Sacramental Test) and he was
forced to appear before a committee of parliament, but they
soon dismissed him. He shewed his moderation in several
things he wrote upon doctrinal matters, relating to the Ar-
minian controversy, and the middle way, which he adopted.
For this reason he was never on the rising side. He follow-
ed his own genius, and fell in with no party; some there-
fore of all sides slighted him, but some of all parties respect-
ed him. Liberty and peace, union and moderation, were the
things he all along pursued. And how small soever his suc-
cess was, this yielded him comfort in the close of his life.
He lived to a great age, and survived all the ejected ministers
in this county, and most in the kingdom.
;
WORKS.
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WORKS. A humble Vind. of free Admission to the Lord's
Supper.-A Rejoinder to Dr. Drake, (who wrote warmly against
it). A second Disciplinary Anti-Erastian Vindic. of it.-An Axe
laid to the Root of Separation,-The Question of Ordination;
Whether one ordained by Presb. may take Ordin. of a Bp.—A se-
cond Disc. about Re-ordination, with a long Latin Letter to his
Brethren §.-A Resolution of Conscience touching the present
Impositions. The healing Paper.-The peaceable Design.-A
Proposition for the Safety of the King and Kingdom. (This pleased
many, and Charles II. himself.)-A Defence of the same.- -Com-
prehension and Indulgence.-Comprehension promoted.-Consi-
derations moving to Liberty of Conscience.-Materials for Union.
-Union pursued.-A Draught for a national Church-Accommo-
dation.---A seasonable Suggestion to improve our Union.—Advice
before it be too late; being a Breviate for the Convention, (at the
Revolution),--Letters to Parliament-men. Moderation pursued.
-Seasonable Caution to Members of new Parliament.-The free
Estate of the People of England.-After-Consideration for Memb.
of Parl.-Three Speeches unspoken.-The Sacramental Test.—
The two Steps of a Nonconformist Minister.-Third ditto.-A
Case of Consc. Whether a Nonconf. Minister who has not taken
the Oxford-Oath might not live at London, or within five Miles
of a Corporation, and yet be a good Christian; ag. the Friendly
Debate. The obligation of human Laws.-Of the Magistrate's
Authority about Religion.-An Account of the Nonconf. Meet-
ings.-MEDIOCRIA; Papers relating to the middle Way (between.
the Arminians and the high Calvinists).-On the Differences
among the Dissenters after the Revolution, or Peace at Pinner's-
Hall. The peaceable Disquisition.-The Rigteousness of God
revealed in the Gospel; an impartial Enquiry into the Doct. of
St. Paul, on Justification; prefaced by the Bps. of Ely, Worcester,
and Chester.—A Sheet about the Difference among the united Bre-
thren. A Pacification touching the doctrinal Dissent among
them.-The Friendly Interposer.-Animadversions on the two
last Books of Mr. Williams.-Reflections on the Doctrine of Mr.
Baxter; or a Vindic. of Stillingfleet, Baxter, Humfrey, and Clark,
against Dr. Chauncey.-Another de Justificatione, approved by the
Bps. of Ely and Chichester, and Dr. Alix.—Letters between Mr.
Cradock and Mr. Humfrey.-De Baxteriana Justificatione Coronis.
-A Paper to Wm. Penn, upon his Departure to Pensylvania.-
A Letter to George Keith.-Veritas in sui Mente; or a moderate
Disc. on the Princip. and Pract. of the Quakers.-A Letter to
Mr. Lacy. An Account of the French Prophets, and their pre-
$ Wood says, he wrote this to satisfy posterity in what sense he allowed
himself to be re-ordained; viz. "Non ad ministerii officium, sed ad ejus
"officium particulare." This author gives a particular account of some of
his other works.
VOL. III,-NO. XXV.
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tended Inspirations.-Another Account of them to Sir R. Bulkley.
-A private Psalter.-Lord's-day Entertainment for Families.-
Wisdom to the Wicked. Several single Sermons.-A Daily
Morning Prayer.-Free thoughts upon 12 Points in Divinity; (the
last on Subjection to the higher Powers, of which the Bp. of Salis-
bury expressed his Approbation).-Free Thoughts upon seven
difficult Points more. Mr. H. told Dr. Calamy that he intended
that year to put them together, adding one sheet for the close
of all.
GLASTONBURY. Mr. SAMUEL WINNEY. He had
been a preacher in Gloucestershire. After his ejectment in
1662, he had a small congregation at Bristol, where also he
taught grammar-learning with good success. He died there
in 1700, and Mr. Isaac Noble preached his funeral sermon.
He was a serious preacher, and so noted a grammarian, that
when some were disposed to have dealt as severely with him
as with other Dissenters, even Hellyar himself, who was
commonly the ringleader, being disposed to skreen him, used
to ask them, whether they would have all their children
dunces? Declaring that he was the best schoolmaster they
had.
WORKS. Something on the Assembly's Catechism.---God a
Christian's Choice; on personal covenanting with God.
HETHFIELD [R.] Mr. THOMAS WILLIS, the son of Mr.
John Willis, minister of Pinner in the reigns of James and
Charles I. After his ejectment from Hethfield he removed
with his family to Stoke, and afterwards to Pitney in this
county, in both which places he preached as he had opportu-
nity, in his own house, to any who would come to hear him;
and had much civility and kindness from some of the gentry
in those parts, who were favourable to the Nonconformists.
Had it not been for this, it would have been very difficult for
him to have brought up his family; for intending, after he
was ejected, to employ what money he had in cattle, he lost
a good part of it in the first sheep which he bought, when
most of them died. In 1682 he was grievously afflicted with
pains in his breast, which carried him off at the age of 53.
He was interred in Pitney chapel, the incumbent there having
a great respect for him. His funeral sermon was preached
in private by one of his silenced brethren.
HIGHAM [R.] Mr. MATTHEW Randal.
HILL-BISHOP [Chap.] Mr. NATHANIEL CHARLTON.
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ILMISTER [V.] Mr. WILLIAM ALSOF. He lived and
died in or near London.
KILMERSDEN [V.] Mr. THOMAS GROve.
KINGSBURY [V.] Mr. PAIN.
LANGPORT [Chap. to Hewish]. Mr. JOHN BUSH. Of
Queen's Col. Oxf. He was born at Gillingham in Dorset-
shire, and had his grammar-learning under Dr. Frampton,
afterwards Bp. of Gloucester. At the university, he gave so
much satisfaction to his tutor, Dr. Tully, that he shewed him
peculiar favour in providing assistance for his continuance
there, which his father was become unable to afford him.
Having finished the usual course of philosophical studies, and
spent some time in divinity, he was employed by his tutor
as his curate. As he always gratefully confessed his obliga-
tion to him, so by this means he very chearfully endeavour-
ed to make him just returns for it. After he had served him
so long as to repay what he had expended upon him, he was
recommended to Col. Strode, who first brought him into this
county, and kept him for some considerable time in his own
family, which Mr. Bush often commended as the most re-
gular of any he had seen. Here he pursued those studies,
which afterwards made him useful and eminent.-He was
made vicar of Hewish with Langport, about three or four
years before he was dispossessed by the Act of uniformity;
after which he endeavoured to make provision for a growing.
family, by teaching a grammar-school, while his wife (a mer-
cer's daughter in the town) applied herself to the business she
had been used to under her father: and by a blessing on their
diligence and frugality, he was enabled to make a plentiful
distribution to his children, which he chearfully did as soon
as they were capable of employ, reserving only a little for
his own decent support.
He frequently preached in the neighbourhood, whenever
opportunity invited him. At one time information was made
of a conventicle at Captain B. -'s, when he was seen to
go into the house; and tho' he did not preach, but another
person who came in accidentally, a considerable fine was
levied upon him. After the Revolution he generally preach-
ed in the town. He had a peculiar faculty of speaking to
the meanest of his auditory, without making himself con-
temptible to any; and yet he saw less of the success of his
labours, in the place where he continued so long, than most
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men of equal abilities. Some time before his death he was
disabled, in a great measure, for the service of the public,
and retired to a relation's, where he endeavoured to make
himself useful by instructing the numerous little family, in
the very first parts of learning. His piety was exemplary,
and he gave continual testimony of it. He spent more time.
in devotion as he drew nearer the grave, and had less public
work. He had excellent ministerial abilities; and his con-
versation was so kind, prudent, and useful, as made it desired
by persons of the best fashion in his neighbourhood. He
possessed much good humour, and was very tender of his
friend's good name; being slow to credit, and yet slower to
report ill of him. This excellent virtue, he owned was
taught him in a great measure by a malicious slander cast
upon himself.
He was the most faithful friend, and the
most desirable enemy, (if the term may be allowed) that a
man could have. He had attained such a general mastery
over his passions, that he was hardly ever seen transported
with anger, sorrow, or joy. He was a man of great judg-
ment, and a good scholar; yet so modest, and so favourable
to other mens' understandings, that he would seldomer ad-
vise or reprove than could have been wished; for he cer-
tainly understood men so well, as to know when and how to
do both inoffensively. He was taken with a palsy in his
tongue some time before his death, which took place March
9, 1711, aged 80.
WORKS. An Association-Sermon at Exeter.—An Ordination-
Sermon at Bridgwater.
LIDIARD (Lawrence) [R. S. 250/.] Mr. JOHN WAKELY.
MARTOCK [V. 100/.] Mr. JAMES STEVENSON. Born in
North-Britain, and educated in the university of Glasgow,
where he took his degree. Going into Ireland in 1627, he
was ordained both deacon and priest by Dr. Downham Bp.
of Derry, and it seems without subscription. His ordination
letters (of which Dr. C. gives a copy) were exhibited in a
visitation, Aug. 29, 1627, held by the Bp. of Derry; and
in another held by the learned Dr. Richardson, Bp. of Ar-
dagh, July 26, 1629; but it is uncertain where he was em-
ployed, in the first years of his ministry. Bp. Richardson
made him his chaplain, notwithstanding his known dislike
of the ceremonies. And the vicarage of Hiltanhorke, which
was in his collation, becoming void by the resignation of
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Mr. E. Stanhope, he bestowed it upon him; as appears from
his institution, dated Oct. 31, 1635 The terms of admis-
sion therein set forth, are, His taking the oath of supremacy,
swearing to a perpetual residence, unless he had a dispensa-
tion, and yielding canonical obedience in all lawful and ho-
nest things. In a short time the Bp. augmented the vicar-
age, by the addition of four quarters of land, belonging to
the abbey of Boyle, as is set forth at large in a writing sign-
ed John Ardagh, dated July 26, 1637 Here he continued
till 1641, when the rebellion broke out in that kingdom. He
received the first news of the bloody design of the Papists
there, to put all the Protestants to the sword, when he was
near finishing a new house in this parish; and in order to
self-defence he took up arms, went with his wife and son
to a garrison, and burnt down his own new-built house, to
prevent its being garrisoned by the rebels. He continued.
in arms, till one of the insurgents shewed him a commission
under a great seal, said to be that of England. Whether
such an authority deserved any regard or not, it had such in-
fluence on Mr. Stevenson, that he laid down his arms, and
came for England. While he was in Ireland, he saw so
much of the true spirit of the Romish religion, as gave him
a rooted and lasting detestation of its principles, and distrust.
of its votaries. He would often pray to be delivered from
blood-thirsty Papists, of whose cruelties he had seen so many
affecting instances. Tho' he could have made oath that he
had left behind him in Ireland to the value of 2000l. and
might have recovered it, had he returned, he rather chose to
lose it than to live amongst such people. And that he did
not act herein without reason, may in part be seen by the
printed depositions concerning the Irish cruelties, where
there is one with Mr. Stevenson's name to it, to this effect:
That he saw one take the child of his sister, and dash its
brains out against a tree.
Coming to Bristol, he was first acquainted with the
worthy Mr. Henry Stubbes, and was invited to Stroud, but
settled at Tormarton in Gloucestershire. His name is to
The Testimony of the ministers of that county, in 1648, as
minister of that place. Here it most probably was, that his
worthy friend and patron, Bp. Richardson, when reduced to
straits, was for some time entertained by him. That excel-
lent person afterwards acknowledged, that he received more.
kindness from Mr. Stevenson than from all his Lady's rich
relations. He was ejected from hence for refusing the En-
gagement,
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gagement, which forced him not only from his people, and
his benefice, worth 300l per ann.) but being a foreigner,
from the kingdom too. He left his wife and son in Erg-
land, and retired to Holland, where he hoped for more li-
berty. But the states of the United Provinces were so ob-
sequious to the powers that then were in England, as not to
suffer him to preach in their country: so that he applied
himself to physic, which he studied there with good advan-
tage, for two years; and he found it of no small use to him
afterwards. On his return to England, he was presented to
this vicarage of Martock, by Thomas Owen, Clerk, the
patron; as appears by the approbation of the Triers, dated
Oct. 20, 1654.-The inhabitants of this place were an igno.
rant sort of people, tho' they had for seven years been under
the ministry of the worthy and pious Mr. Debank, who on
his death-bed lamented the little success he had met with
amongst them. Mr. Stevenson therefore took great pains.
with them, in preaching, catechizing their children in pub-
lic and in private, and other ministerial services. The pa-
rish being large, (for it is a Hundred of itself, containing
nine tithings) he was the more assiduous in his endeavours to
spread knowledge and piety amongst them; and his labours
were sufficiently rewarded by their success. After the death
of his son, who was a physician, he practised physic him-
self, and met with good encouragement. When he was
ejected by the Act of uniformity, he removed to an estate he
had in the parish; but he continued his ministry in private,
both before and after the Oxford-act. This obliging him to
leave Martock, he removed to Crewkern, where he preached
in his own hired house, and continued so doing, tho' he met
with many enemies, and some who threatened to burn his
house down.
After two years absence he returned to Martock, and
preached there in a licenced house, upon Charles's Indul-
gence, not having above 8/. a year from his people. At
length he, with some other ministers, was convicted of a
conventicle, upon the information of two women of ill fame.
The sum to be levied upon him was 40l. but such precau-
tions were taken, that the loss proved less than was expected.
His landlord once put him to an expence of gol. upon a de-
fect in his lease, as a piece of revenge, for entertaining the wor-
thy Mr. Hickman, to whom that gentleman had a particular
aversion. Being much employed as a physician, he was often
in the company of neighbouring gentlemen, who carried it
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very respectfully to him. He also kept on good terms with
several of the conforming clergy, whom he often entertained.
at his house. Sir. G. Horner made him an offer of what
was much more considerable than what he had left in the
church, if he would conform; but he could not satisfy his
conscience to do it. He was a man of great integrity, and
often said, that his heart should not reproach him as long as
he lived. Tho' he met with various difficulties he kept his
mind serene and even when storms arose without, he had
a sacred calm within, having a conscience void of offence.
And providence often remarkably appeared for his protection.
He was once under great concern about baptizing a child in
the church, when a number of soldiers were present, who
threatened to "insult him if he did not use the sign of the
cross. Tho' he was fully determined to go on in his com-
mon method, he thought it a favourable providence, that be-
fore he proceeded to the ordinance, the drums were beat,
and the soldiers were drawn out of the church. It was ob-
servable, that notwithstanding many great losses, his sub-
stance was so blessed and increased, that he was able to keep
a plentiful table, and exercise charity, as well as provide for
his own family.-He continued preaching after Charles's
Indulgence was withdrawn. And tho' he lived to be very
old, he was not so sensible of the infirmities of age as many
are. He could read a small print without spectacles; his
mind was vigorous, and his strength so little abated, that
he often rode to London in two days, tho' it was above a 100
miles. In his last illness he was apprehensive he should not
recover, but he appeared submissive and easy in leaving the
world. The last disturbance his enemies gave him was upon
his death-bed; when, on the defeat of the Duke of Mon-
mouth, a neighbouring justice came with some soldiers to
seize him; but on entering his chamber, and seeing him in
a very weak condition, he left him, after unjustly upbraid-
ing him with rebellion; for tho' some of his family were
concerned in that unhappy business, it was without his ap-
probation or knowledge. Tho' public affairs had then`a
very melancholy aspect, he often expressed his belief, that
they who survived him would see happy day's. He died
July 15, 1685, aged above 80. He was of a middle stature,
a fresh complexion, and a chearful temper.
MELLES [R.] RICHARD FAIRCLOUGH, M. A. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. Eldest son of the excellent Mr. Fairclough of
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pre-
Suffolk. He had all the advantages of education from his
childhood, which the pious care of an affectionate, prudent,
and learned father could give him; and no one could be
more receptive of the proper impressions. He continued 12
years in the college, of which he was for several years a
Fellow, and went out furnished with an unusual stock of
rational, substantial, and polite literature. His fixing in
Somersetshire was remarkable. Dr. Whichcote, who was
then Fellow of the same college, being presented by it, to a
living in that county, engaged Mr. Fairclough to bear him
company in a visit to the people. The Dr. being hastily
called away, engaged him to stay, and supply for him in his
absence. In this interval, the high-sheriff of the county ap-
plied to Mr. Fairclough to preach the assize sermon, in con-
sequence of some failure. There was very little time for
paration; but so great was the exigence, that he yielded to
the gentleman's importuni y, and so highly gratified him by
doing it, and by the excellence of his performance, that he
rewarded him by the gift of this living of Melles, which
shortly after became vacant. Mr. Fairclough accepted it,
and proved a burning and shining light. He was resorted
to from all the country round. His prayers, sermons, and
other performances, had such pungency, quickness and autho-
rity with them at some times; and such softness, sweetness
and gentleness at others, as was matter of great admiration.
His labours were almost incredible. Besides his usual exer-
cises on the Lord's-day, of praying, reading the scriptures,
preaching, catechizing, and administering the sacraments, he
usually delivered in public an expository lecture upon the
scriptures in course, early in the morning, five days in the
week, and always had a considerable congregation. Nor
did he produce any thing which was not apparently well
studied. Yet he found time for visiting, not the sick only,
but all the families under his charge, in rotation, and used
personally to converse with every one; endeavouring to un-
derstand the present state of their souls, and applying instruc-
tion, reproof, exhortation, and encouragement suitably
thereto. And he went thro' all with the greatest facility
and pleasure; for his whole heart was in his work. Every
day, for many years together, he used to be up at his devo
tions and studies by three o'clock in the morning. Few
men had ever less hindrance from the body, or more domi-
nion over it; for a better habited mind and body were rarely
united. No controversy arose among his neighbours, with-
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in his notice, which he made it not his business to get pre-
sently composed; and his advice was frequently sought by
persons of eminent rank, and in matters of difficulty, for that
purpose. His love of peace, and his great prudence rendered
him exceedingly useful in such cases. He also frequently
preached at lectures settled in other places, and was very
active and much respected in the Associations of the
Ministers.
When the Act of uniformity passed, he soon determined
upon Nonconformity; for he could in nothing prevaricate
with his once settled judgment, or in his practice depart from
it. Yet such was the candor of his spirit, that he passed no
hard censures upon those who received that satisfaction in
the disputed points which he could not. In the substantials
of religion, no man was more fervently zealous; about the
circumstantials, none more cool and temperate. After his
ejectment he was pastor to a congregation at Newman-street,
from whence he removed to Bristol, where he was useful to
many; but he continued to visit the people in Newman-street
ordinarily once a fortnight, to which some particular circum-
stances obliged him.-He died at London, July 4, 1682, aged
61. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Howe, who
gives him the following high encomium, which all that knew
him agree was but his desert, "He was a man of a clear.
distinct understanding; of a quick, discerning, and penetrat-
ing judgment, and would on a sudden strike thro' knotty dif-
ficulties, into the inward center of truth, with such a facility,
that things seemed to offer themselves to him, which are
wont to cost others a troublesome search. But his moral and
holy excellencies gave him his chief lustre. A man cannot
well be supposed more under the constant governing power
of religion than he was; which was the cause of his labour-
ing with so much earnestness, both to exercise and diffuse it
to his uttermost He was even made up of life and love.
Such was the clearness and sincerity of his spirit, so little
darkened by an evil conscience, that he seemed to live in the
constant sense of God's favour and acceptance, and had no-
thing to do but to serve him with his might; whence his
spirit was formed to an habitual chearfulness, and seemed to
feel within itself a continual calm. He was of a great soul,
comprehensive of the interests of God, the world, the church,
his country, his friends, and the souls of men; ready to his
uttermost to serve them all; of abundant compassion to-
wards the distressed; of delight in the good, and of general
benignity
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benignity towards all men. And it was his constant aim to
make the nearest approaches he could to the Pattern and
Fountain of all Goodness." &c. He was buried in Bunhill-
fields, where a monument was erected for him by T. Perci-
vall, of the Middle-Temple, Gent. "as a testimony of gra-
titude for many obligations."
WORKS. An Abridgment of some of his latter Sermons to his
beloved People at Melles.---A Serm. in the Morn. Lect. ag. Popery;
(from 2 Peter i, 10.) on the dangerous Tendency of denying the
Possibility of Assurance.
MILBORN-PORT ]V.] Mr. WILLIAM HOPKINS. Of
Magd. Col. Oxford. Born at Yeovilton, July 15, 1629.
Brought up under Mr. Warren, first at Puddimore, and af-
terwards at Sarum. In 1647 he went to Oxford, where he
continued six years. He preached frequently at a neigh-
bouring village before he left the university. In 1653 he
went from thence to Fifehead in Dorsetshire, where he
taught school two years. He afterwards spent a year in
assisting Mr. Allein at Dicheat, from whence he was invited
to Milborn-Port. He was ordained at Wrington, Nov. 12,
1656. He was very serious and diligent in his whole mini-
sterial service. His zeal induced him, among other things,
to oppose ringing the bells on the Lord's-day; upon which
a man vowed he would be the death of him; but killed ano-
ther in his stead, for which he was hanged. It much affect-
ed Mr. Hopkins, that his own life should providentially be
preserved, by another man's losing his.-After the Restora-
tion, one Mr. Napper pretended a title to this living from
the Bp. of Wells, and commenced a suit against Mr. Hop-
kins, but was cast at the assize at Chard, in March, 1661.
In October he was inducted into this church by Mr. Fox,
vicar of Poyntington. But Mr. Hopkins still kept his place,
till he was ejected by the act in August, 1662. He after-
wards frequently went to hear, where he used to officiate;
and preached also at his own house, and other places as he
had opportunity. His wife was niece to Bp. Mew; from
whom, if he could have conformed, he had a fair prospect of
preferment. Considerable offers were made him, but they
were no temptation to him to do violence to his conscience.
He set up a school, which might have flourished, but that he
was cited into the Bishop's court, and excommunicated; when
his Lordship, notwithstanding his relation to him, would
shew him no favour, but left him to the mercy of the court.
He
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He remained excommunicated till K. James's proclamation
of pardon. After the liberty, he preached at Wincaunton and
some other places, where he was much beloved. He was a
humble, chearful, courteous man, who delighted in doing
good. In controversial matters he was much of Mr. Baxter's
judgment, but had a great respect for all good men. He
was contented with his condition, and mortified to the world,
so as to be the same in all changes: a man of the primitive
stamp; of a plain, honest, sincere heart, and an unblamable
life. He died in March, 1700, in his 70th year,
MONKTON (West). Mr. ROBERT DRAKE. A very
considerable man, but there is no memorial of him.
MONTACUTE. Mr. OLIVER.
NORTON (under Hamden) [R.] BENJAMIN COLLINS.
PARRET (South) [R. 100l.] Mr. JEREMIAH FRENCH.
Of Camb. univ. Born in Suffolk. He spent a considerable
time in the university, where he was intimate with Dr.
Whichcote, who invited him with Mr. Fairclough, to bear
him company in a visit to his parish at Melles. He married
a person of some fortune at Clifton in Dorsetshire, and set-
tled at Newport in the isle of Wight, where his ministry was
acceptable and useful. The day Charles I. was hurried away
from Caresbrook castle near that town, Mr. French preach-
ed in the morning on Hos. v. 2. in the afternoon on Tit.
i. 16. and used great freedom of speech; for which he was
made a prisoner in the castle three months, and then was
carried by sea to London, and tried for his life. But he got
off, tho' not without much expence, on promising never to
preach at Newport any more. He afterwards had the vica-
rage of Yeovil, in Somerset; but the people complaining that
his preaching was too precise and sharp for them, made him
uneasy, and in a year and a half he removed to South Parret,
where he continued ten years to very good purpose. Upon
his ejectment from hence, in 1662, he lived upon his estate
at Bradford Abbis, and preached there and about the coun-
try, as he had opportunity, till the Indulgence in 1672;
when he kept a meeting in his house, and had a good audi-
tory. When the liberty expired, he had several warrants
out against him; but they could not be executed for want of
knowing his given name. He was once followed by a troop
of horse, and narrowly escaped; upon which he left his
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house, and durst not return even to see his wife upon her
death-bed. At length trouble so broke his spirits, that on
May 10 or 11, 1685, he fainted away and died, in the 60th
year of his
age.
PITMISTER [V.] Mr. THOMAS FORWARD. Of New-
Inn Hall, Oxford. Upon quitting the university, he was
for some time curate to Mr. Sedger of Broad Clift, and af-
terwards settled in this parish upon the death of Mr. Travers.
He much lamented K. Charles's death, and was against ob-
serving Cromwell's thanksgivings for his victories. He was
repeatedly offered his living again by the patron, upon the
death of several succeeding vicars; but he persisted in his.
Nonconformity, tho' he had but little to support himself and
a large family. He died in Dec. 1687. It was observed, that
his religious management of his family was attended with
wonderful success.
PUDDIMORE [R. S.] Mr. JOSIAH WYAT. A pious
man, and a laborious preacher.
PURLOCK [R.] Mr. ALEXANder Robinson.
RISTON [Chap.] TIMOTHY BATT, M. A. Of both
universities. He was a native of this county, and born Nov.
30, 1613. The eldest son of a Puritan, who designing him
for the ministry, trained him up in grammar-learning at the
best school within his reach, and then sent him to Wadham
Col. Oxf. from whence he removed to Eman. Col. Camb.
where he took his degrees, and having a good elocution, was
called Silver-tongu'd Batt. He was afterwards chaplain to
Sir Robert Pye, sen. whom he attended in the unfortunate
expedition, under the Earl of Essex, into Cornwall. He then
went to London, and during the war, exercised his ministry
at Mimms in Middlesex, where he gained the affections of
the people, and was afterwards kindly received by those of
them that were living, when he visited them in 1685. In
1689 he went to Ilminster, and after a short stay there re-
moved to Creech in this county, where he continued till the
Restoration. This being a sequestered living, he was then
forced to quit it, and was presented by a neighbouring gen-
tleman to the small living of Riston, where the Bartholo-
mew-act ejected him. He had good offers if he would have
conformed, but could not accept them. His delight was in
his Master's work, in which be continued as he had oppor-
tunity, till within a few months of his death, tho' he was
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blind above two years; and God owned him even to the last.
The following instance deserves to be recorded: He used
to preach once in five or six weeks near Columpton in De-
vonshire. A prophane and lewd young man came thither
one Lord's-day to hear him, on purpose to make a jest of
what he said. The sermon was upon these words, Fools
make a mock at sin; and it pleased God to make it the means
of his conversion: after which he became a serious Christian.
Mr. Batt died in July, 1692, with those words of St .Paul
in his mouth, I have fought a good fight, &c.
SHEPTON MALLET [R.] Mr. DAVID CALDERWOOD.
STAPLEGROVE [Chap.] Mr. JOHN GARDEner.
STOKE-TRUSTER. Mr. JOHN BATT. Of New-Inn
Hall, Of. Born in Wilts, at Kingston Deverill, Aug. 15,
1613. He was ordained by Dr. Pierce, Bp. of Bath and
Wells. He first entered upon the ministry as curate to Mr.
Swanton at Sutton, and afterwards was presented to this.
parsonage, which he held several years. After being silenced
in 1662, he lived privately, and seldom preached. He had a
good estate, and left charitable legacies to poor Noncon-
formist Ministers. He died in July, 1684, aged 71.
:
TAUNTON: St. Magdalen's. GEORGE NEWTON, M. A.
Of Exeter Col. Oxf. [entered in 1617, aged 16, took his de-
gree of M. A. 1624]. He was a minister's son, a native of
Devonshire born in 1602. He began his ministry at Hill-
Bishops, near Taunton, and in 1631 he was presented to
this living by Sir W. Portman and Mr. Robert Hill. In the
time of the civil war, when this town underwent a famous
siege, he spent a year or two at St. Albans, and preached in
the abbey; but when Taunton was reduced, he returned to
his place and his employment, with two or three other mini-
sters who had accompanied him in his absence. His preach-
ing was plain, profitable, and successful. He was eminent
for his meekness and prudence. He kept out of the town those
divisions that did so much mischief in other places. After he
was silenced, being convinced it was his duty to continue his
ministry, he took care to preach at those times when he might
be least exposed. He died June 12, 1681, aged 79. He was a
good scholar, much of a gentleman, and a very useful preacher.
&
Wood says, "He behaved himself conformably for a time,
but upon the breaking out of the rebellion, he sided with the
Presbyterians,
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Presbyterians, having been puritanically educated, preached
against the king, &c. In 1694 he was appointed assistant to
the Com. for ejecting insufficient ministers.-Afterwards
preaching in several conventicles very seditiously [which is
wholly destitute of proof] he was seized on and imprisoned
for several years. He was buried in the chancel of St. Magd.
church, Taunton. A monument with this inscription was
put over his grave: Hic jacet corpus Georgii Newton,
A. M. qui obiit 12 Junii, 1681, anno ætatis 79, postquam
officium evangelista in hoc oppido, per 50 annos fideliter
prestiterat.
Non fictis mœstam lachrymis conspergite tumbam,
Pastoris vestri nam tegit ossa pii.
Vestra salutifero planxit peccata flagello,
Delicti sensu corda gravata levans.
Absolvet pensum sancti et mercede recepta
Nunc cœli regno, ut stella corusca micat.
Thus translated.
Shed on this tomb no tear from faithless eyes,
For underneath your pious pastor lies;
Your sins he scourg'd with salutary rod,
And thro' meek penance rais'd your hearts to God.
Now he receives the fruit of all his love,
And glitters like a star in realms above.
WORKS. An Exposition with Notes on John xvii. Fol.-
Magna Charta; or the Christian's Charter epitomized;
a Serm.
on Psalm. xci. 16.—A Serm. at the Fun. of Mr. Joseph Alleine;
and an Account of his Life.-A Serm. at the Fun. of the Lady
Farewell.
Mr JOSEPH ALLEINE. Of Linc. and C, C. Col. Ox-
ford. The former account of him is here enlarged from
Wood's Athen. Oxon. and from Clark's last vol. of lives. The
former says, he was the son of Tobie Alleine, born at De-
vizes in 1633, and when a child, was forward to learn; that
he was educated in grammar there, which he in a short
time conquering, he was instructed by a minister of that
or a neighbouring place in logic, and at sixteen years of age
was sent to Linc. Col. well skilled in Latin and Greek. Nov.
8, 1651, he was admitted scholar of C. C. Col. and in 1653,
(in preference to a fellowship) was elected chaplain; for
which office he appears, even from this malignant author's
account, well qualified. Clark says, "None could have
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performed it better. He did not trouble them with a great
noise, vain tautologies, crude effusions, unintelligible sense,
or mysterious nonsense, instead of prayer: his spirit was se-
rious, his gesture reverent, his words few, but premeditated
and well weighed, pithy, solid, and fully expressive of his
humble and earnest desires," &c. While a student, so fru-
gal was he of time, that he commonly rose at four o'clock,
tho' not in bed till one, and he often gave away his com-
mons that he might not be hindered in study. Thus his
progress in literature was rapid. At length he was even
compelled to become a tutor, and had a great number of
pupils: some of them graduates in divinity.-In 1655, when
he was but about twenty-one years of age, he became assist-
ant to Mr. Geo. Newton of Taunton, who expressed the
highest opinion both of his talents and his piety, and in
whose house he resided some months before his marriage,
and near two years afterwards. Mrs. Alleine then set up a
school, and had fifty or sixty scholars, twenty or thirty of
whom were boarders, whom Mr. Alleine took great pains
to instruct, and to whom his endeavour were eminently
useful.
In his work as a minister, he was uucommonly labori-
ous. Tho' he preached but once on the Lord's-day at
Taunton, he was constantly employed the other part of the
day in assisting his brethren, or in supplying destitute con-
gregations. He did not confine his labours to the Sabbath,
but catechized once a week in public, and repeated his Lord's-
day sermon on the Tuesday evening. He also devoted seve-
ral afternoons in the week to the visiting his flock, of whom
he kept a list, both rich and poor. His custom was to give
them previous information when he should be with them,
that they might have their whole family together, and he
addressed himself to all according to their respective charac-
ters and circumstances. Herein he was exceedingly useful.
"He was full of holy projects (says Mr. Clark) by what
means he might most effectually promote the honour of
Christ, and the salvation of souls; and what he judged to
be conducing to those ends he prosecuted with wisdom and
vigour.'
Before the Act of uniformity passed, he was very earnest
with God to make his way plain, that he might not be de-
prived of his present advantages for usefulness, without any
scruple upon his conscience; and he was so doubtful, that his
friends thought he would have conformed rather than quit
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his ministry. But when he saw those clauses of assent and
consent, he was fully determined against it. Being persuaded,
however, that the ejection of the ministers from their places
did not oblige them to desist from preaching the gospel, he
resolved to go on with it till he should be imprisoned or ba-
nished. He now set himself to his work with greater vigour,
preaching ordinarily six or seven sermons a week; often ten,
and sometimes fourteen, in Taunton and the neighbouring
places; which he continued to do, peaceably and success-
fully, till May 26, 1663, when he was taken before the jus-
tices, by whom, after some rude affronts, he was committed
to Ilchesler jail. Aug. 24, he was indicted at the assizes,
for a riotous and seditious assembly. He pleaded modestly
for himself, but was brought in guilty, by the jury, and sen-
tenced to pav 100 marks, and to lie in prison till the pay-
ment. He declared in open court, "That he was glad it
had appeared before his country, that whatsoever he was
charged with, he was guilty of nothing but doing his duty;
and that all which appeared by the evidence was only, that
he had sung a psalm, and instructed his family, some others.
being present in his own house; and that if nothing which
had been urged would satisfy, he should, with all chearful-
ness and thankfulness, accept whatever sentence his Lordship
should pronounce upon him, for so good and righteous a
cause." He was then remanded to prison, where he found
Mr. Norman, late of Bridgwater, and five other ministers,
with fifty Quakers, who all had their lodging in the same
room, parted only with a mat, which they hung up for a little
more retirement. Soon after, Mr. Cover, Mr. Powel, and
eight more were brought into the same place, which was
rendered very offensive for want of fresh air, so that they
took out the glass, and some of the tiles from the roof. They
were also greatly molested with the noise and blasphemy of
other prisoners who were near them. Mt. Alleine, in this
situation endeavoured to improve his time to the greatest ad-
vantage, both for himself and his fellow prisoners, as well as
their friends who came to visit them in great numbers, and
administered to their relief. He wrote many excellent let-
He and his brethren preached in turn once, and some-
times twice a day; and after a time they were allowed a
larger room, where they had more hearers. They were
threatened to be made close prisoners or sent abroad, but pro-
vidence prevented, and their imprisonment turned out to the
furtherance of the gospel. Mr. Alleine upon his release,
ters.
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after a whole year's imprisonment all but three days, was
more zealous in his work than before, till it brought on him
such complaints as disabled him; which growing upon him,
hindered his going into Wales, for the spreading of the gospel,
as he intended to have done.
:
July 10, 1665, he was again apprehended for preaching,
and committed to the prison of Ilchester, with seven other
ministers, and forty private përsons. These imprisonments,
with his hard labours encreased his disorders and threatened
his life under these he languished some months; but mani-
fested the greatest degree of patience, chearfulness, and zeal
to be useful. Clark gives a particular account of his disòr-
ders, his wonderful revivals, the admirable frame of his mind,
and his pious conversation with those about him; particu-
larly while he was at Bath, where he appeared like a mere
skeleton. Here he was very useful to many poor people and
children, whom he sent for to relieve and instruct them; ás
also to the company who came for the benefit of the waters;
many of whom were deeply impressed with his pious yet
chearful and entertaining conversation. Tho' he experi-
enced a temporary revival, his disorders were incurable, and
terrible convulsions came on, so that his end seemed to be
fast approaching. Prayer being made for him that he might
yet utter his mind before his departure, the Lord was pleased
to return a gracious answer; for tho' he had not spoken
since the Tuesday night before, early on Friday morning he
called for his wife and spoke very intelligibly; which he
continued to do that day for sixteen hours, with little in-
termission, as also he did till Saturday evening, when he
expired. After some apparent conflict with temptation, bid-
ding the enemy be gone, he spent most of the time in pro-
fitable and heavenly discourse with his wife. He spoke much
of the place to which he was going and his desire to be gone.
When he looked upon his emaciated hands, he said, "These
"shall be changed: this vile body shall be made like Christ's
glorious body.-O what a glorious day will the day of the
"resurrection be! Methinks I see it by faith. How will the
"saints lift up their heads and rejoice! O come, let us make
"haste! Our Lord will come shortly; let us prepare for
"him.-O this vain foolish world! I wonder how reason-
"able creatures can so doat upon it. I care not to be in it
"longer than my master hath doing or suffering work for
<" me. Were that done, farewell to earth." He was often
speaking of the love of Christ, and from thence urging obe-
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dience. He was much affected with the three last chapters
of John, especially with Christ's parting words, and prayer
for his disciples. At the time of his death, in 1668, he was
not much above 35 years of age. Clark gives a very long
and minute account of his character. We have room only
for a brief abstract.
He gave evidence of uncommon seriousness from eleven
years of age. He was a person of fervent, unaffected,
piety, and exemplary in his whole deportment; of a most
sweet temper, and courteous converse. He was a man of
great courage, and feared no danger in the way of his duty;
but was of a very peaceable spirit. His learning was far be-
yond what could be expected from one that entered upon
the ministry at twenty-one years of age, and died at thirty-
five; especially considering his various labours and suffer-
ings. His intellects were good and solid; his memory strong,
his affections lively, and above all, his piety was eminent.
He spent much time in retirement, and when in health,
constantly rose at four o'clock, even in winter, and was
much troubled if he heard Smiths and other labourers at their
work before he had entered upon his. Till 8 o'clock he
was employed in reading, meditation, prayer, and singing of
psalms, in which he much delighted, alone as well as in com-
pany, He was eminent also for liberality, tho' his income
was not large; and he rode about to rich men to procure re-
lief for his poor nonconforming brethren. Humility was
conspicuous in his whole deportment. And tho' he was
distinguished by his zeal, he was equally so by his modera-
tion. His zeal was really for peace and quietness, for love
and all manner of good works. He was not used to inflame
men against parties, nor backbite those from whom he dif-
fered, nor make those odious who were willing enough to
have made him so; but he avoided one extream, with fear
and suspicion of another. His people had his heart, and
were blessed with his fruitful labours. He thought it sacri-
*There were few poor families in Taunton; especially pious ones, but he
knew their necessities, and either by himself or his friends relieved them.
He kept several children at school at his own expence, and distributed thon-
sands of books, catechisms and prayers. When he received any uncommon
mercy, he used to dedicate something to the Lord, as a Thank-offering, to be
employed in charitable and pious uses. When his wife would have restrain-
ed him in some of these expences, he answered, That he was laying out for
God, and God would repay him; which was found true: for at his death,
besides a comfortable provision for his widow, he had something to leave
his relations, and several of his poor brethren.
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lege for a minister to give over his work while he hath abi-
lity and opportunity for it, and therefore he chose a long
imprisonment, rather than cease from his ministry. But he
often attended the worship of the parish church, and encou-
raged his people to do the same. When he suffered for the
sake of a good conscience, he spoke not evil of dignities, nor
kindled seditious principles in the people's minds, nor aggra-
vated his own sufferings to exasperate them against his per-
secutors, but in patience he possessed his soul, rejoicing in the
honour conferred upon him, and in the good others received,
by his suffering as well as his preaching. It is to be la-
mented that this excellent man should, thro' the ardour of
his zeal, have attempted more than human nature is capable
of, and thereby have deprived the world of the benefit of his
labours at a premature period. Wood treats him with all ima-
ginable ridicule, but the disgrace falls upon himself. He
gives us however some particulars which we should not
otherwise have had, especially concerning his works. He
informs us that he died in November, 1668, and was buried
in the chancel of ut. Magd. Taunton, at which time Mr. G.
Newton preached a sermon, before a large auditory, in which
he said many things to his honour. Over his grave, he says,
was only this engraven on a stone:
Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies,
To God and you a Sacrifice.
He omits the Latin, of which this was only the translation :
Hic jacet Dominus Josephus Alleine
Holocaustum Tauntonense et Deo et Vobis.
Not long after was published his life, by R. Alleine, R. Fair-
clough, G. Newton, and his widow. Mr. Baxter wrote the
introduction, and two conforming ministers gave it their
sanction.
WORKS. A familiar Explic. of the Assembly's Catechism...
A Call to Archippus; urging the ejected Ministers to continue in
their Ministry...An Alarm to the Unconverted: a book for which
multitudes will have cause for ever to be thankful: 20,000 copies >
of it were sold under that title, and 50,000 under another: The
Sure Guide to Heaven (besides great numbers since]...Divers Cases
satisfactorily resolved.-His Remains; being a Collection of Sa-
cramental Speeches, Letters, &c. written in prison.-He left be-
hind him, A Body of Natural Theology, in a good Latin style.
He first laid down the Christian Doctrine, and then added, by way
of Annotations, the Testimonies of the ancient Philosophers.
§ WOOD says, he left several theological MSS. but most of them
imperfect
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imperfect, except this: Theologia Philos. sive Philosophie Theol. spe-
cimen: in quo æterni dei providentia, &c. written in 1661, and licensed
for the press, but none would be at the expence of printing it.
(D. Cal. has the whole title. Query; what became of this valuable
MS?) Wood mentions some other pieces which Dr. C. has not. v. g.
A soliloquy; representing a believer's trial... A form of covenant-
ing with God...Prayers for the use of his people... Besides some
small things printed with his Assem. Cat... Mr. Baxter says (in
the introd. to his life) that he also wrote the Synopsis of the cove
nant; being the 3d. part of Mr. R. Alleine's Vind. Pietatis.
Mr. JOHN GLANVIL. He was a worthy, pious and
laborious minister, who continued preaching in his own
house, in St. James's parish, Taunton, to his death, which
was about 1693. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr.
Warren.
TEMPLE-COMB, [C. or D.] Mr. JOHN DARBY. An
ancient, pious, able divine. His name is to the Attestation
as rector of Abbescomb.
He was ejected in
TRENT [R. S.] Mr. BROUNKER.
1660, when, as Dr. Walker says, Dr. Wrench, the seques-
tered minister, was restored.
UBLEIGH [R.] WILLIAM THOMAS, M. A. Of Braz.
Nose Col. Oxf. § Wood says, he was born at Whitchurch;
had his grammar learning at the freee-school there; went to
Oxford 1609, aged 16, compleated his degrees 1615, and
Jan. 4, 1616, was admitted rector of Ubley.-He was minis-
ter in this town above 40 years; preached twice every
Lord's-day, and catechized; and often visited the communi-
cants the week before the Lord's-supper, to assist them in
their preparation. He had many seals of his ministry in his
own and the neighbouring parishes. He was a man of great
gravity, sincerity, and humility; a good scholar, a useful
preacher, and much of God might be seen in his conversa-
tion. He was greatly respected in these parts, not only by
his brethren, but by many of the gentry. His constitution
could not endure much hardship, and he was apt to be deject-
ed with the appearances of danger which others could easily
surmount; and yet he would not decline appearing in any
thing, which he thought tended to public or private good.
He was very solitary and studious. His works shew that he
was methodical, and ready at reconciling texts that seemed
contradictory, and in resolving difficulties. He was a great
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observer of providential occurrences, and readily complied
with calls to humiliation or thankfulness, as there was occa-
sion. He was the only person in that diocese who refused
to read The Book of Sports, except Dr. Chambers, and he
met with trouble for it. Many friends and ministers wrote.
to him to satisfy him as to the lawfulness of what he scrupled,
yet his conscience could not allow him to comply. His cen-
sure was for a time delayed; but at length, on June 23,
1635, he was suspended ab officio, and on July 28, a benefi-
cio. And he recorded it, that while he was in the consistory,
and while sentence was pronounced, he found himself more
courageous than at other times. After three years suspension
he was restored, upon the intercession of some friends with
Abp. Laud; and he found that his ministry had a greater
effect upon his people afterwards than before.
He was very diligent in keeping up communion with God,
and acquaintance with his own heart. In order to which it
was his usual practice to set down such things as were most
affecting to him, which he reviewed once a year. He had
books, which he entitled Anniversaria, where he entered
memorable things under these heads; 1. Epáλuala or Faults.
2. Preces Audita; Prayers that had been heard. 3. Preces
pro futuro, Petitions for time to come. And, 4. Vota, or
Wishes *. He had other books also, appropriated to parti-
cular uses; v. g. Ægrotorum Visitationes, &c. in which he
noted down what was memorable in visiting the sick, and
other pastoral offices. After his Lord's-day's work was over,
he spent some time in penning serious meditations, which he
calls Meditationes Vespertine.-His deliberation about the
grand affair of Nonconformity was managed with great
seriousness and solemnity.-The time between the publish-
ing the Act of uniformity and Aug. 24, appears from his
papers as a very solicitous time; in which he read books,
conferred with other persons, and disputed with himself pro
and con in order to satisfaction. He still found himself fluc-
tuating and uneasy, which was much occasioned by the let-
ters of other ministers, some of whom urged him to comply,
*Dr. Calamy has given some specimens of each of these in the margin,
which are all in Latin. One written Aug. 24, 1662, begins thus: "Hic
nihil. Lugent plures. Ego stupesco. Morior ante Obitum. Minister non
Pastor. Clementissime Deus! Miserere miseri Peccatoris. Sapientissime
Deus! Descendat supernè sapientia tua ut recte judicem de luctuosâ hac in
quam meipsum conjeci (sed num sine te ?) et sine Omnipotentiâ, irreparabili
Ejectione."
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and others to forbear. His prayers to God for direction,
were repeated with greater earnestness, as the time fixed
drew near. On Aug. 21 he made extraordinary supplication
for guidance and establishment, which issued in a fixed de-
termination to forbear the declarations and subscriptions re-
quired by the Act, whatever consequences might ensue, and
he set down the reasons that prevailed with him. He was
not against Forms of prayer, nor even the injoining them, if
framed according to scripture, and suited to the concerns of
the church, provided they did not hinder preaching by their
prolixity, nor the exercise of ministers gifts in prayer, upon
emergent occasions, for which no liturgy could provide; and
he could use many things prescribed in the book of Common-
prayer. But to declare an unfeigned assent and consent to
all and every thing contained and prescribed in that book,
was what, he says, he could not do, and gives his reasons ‡.
-He considered the Ceremonies as unprofitable and mis-
chievous, casting many worthy men out of public employ-
ment, who could not close with them; as burdensome to
many that did; and as having been abused to superstition.
“I do not mention these things (says he) as delighting in de-
basing or drepraving the Common-prayer; I bless God it is
so good; but yet it might be better.—It is objected, That I
have read most of it and so might do it again. But it is one
thing to read a considerable part, and another to declare an
unfeigned assent and consent to EVERY THING.-I was fully
convinced that God would have been highly displeased, if all
ministers should have come in and subscribed a declarațion
so prejudicial to a reformation, and to have a hand in burying
all hopes of it. Also I conceived, that God would have
some to suffer, to witness the sincerity of their desire to have
all things ordered in his service, according to [his word].
And who knows what God may do at length for a greater
purity and spirituality of his worship among us, upon the
suffering of his servants in a quiet way? as the first reforma-
tion followed upon such a suffering."-He then relates what
passed between him and the bishop of the diocese, on Aug.
22, who gave him leave to preach on Aug. 24.
"But (says
he) thro' fear, sadness, and discomposure of mind, I became
a hearer elsewhere, with wonder and weeping. At night
there was, as usual, a meeting for repetition and prayer, and
+
These, which Dr. Calamy has transcribed, are much the same with those
of most other Nonconformists, and therefore are here omitted.
2
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of more hearers than ordinary. After the repetition, it pleas-
ed God much to enlarge my heart in prayer, besides speak-
ing several things according to the sad occasion, and that
with more tears than any other thing ever drew from my
eyes."
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Mr. Thomas, after his ejectment, continued at Ubleigh
among his people. He every Lord's-day attended the esta-
blished worship; and in private, as he had opportunity, was
helpful to the souls of those who were before his charge.
He died among them in 1667, full of days. [And was bu-
ried in the chancel of the church. Wood gives his epitaph
written in Latin by his son.] His funeral was attended by
many of the neighbouring gentry, and a sermon was preached
by an eminent Conformist, on John v. 35.-Mr. Nelson,
in his Life of Bp. Bull, says, "That great man spent two
years in his younger time, in this Mr. Thomas's family, from
the regularity of which he owns he had great advantage.
§ But adds, "He received little or no improvement or assis-
tance from him in the study of divinity."
ter of fact, it cannot justly be ascribed to any fault of Mr.
Thomas, who was a man not only of eminent piety, but of
good learning, as sufficiently appears from Dr. Calamy's ex-
tracts from his papers, which are correct and beautiful latin.
-This writer informs us [which Wood afterwards mentions]
that Mr. Thomas was presented to this living by the free, un-
solicited bounty of Lord Chancellor Egerton. He adds,
That he was in great reputation for his piety, and esteemed
one of the chief ministers of his time in that neighbourhood;
and that he was appointed an assistant to Oliver's commis-
sioners.
If this were mat-
WORKS. The Dead speaking; or the living Names of two
deceased Ministers, Mr. Sam. Oliver of Wells, and Mr. Sam. Croke.
-Railing rebuked; or a Defence of the Ministers ag. Thomas
Speed the Quaker.-The Protestant's Practice; or the compleat
Christian.-A Vindic. of Scripture &c. in a Rejoinder to Thomas
Speed. A Preservative of Piety. An Exposition on Ruth.-The
Country's Sense of London's Sufferings, in the late Fire.-Scrip-
tures opened, and sundry Cases of Conscience resolved, in plain
and practical Answers to several Questions upon the Proverbs,
Jerem. Lam. Ezek. and Daniel.-Christian Counsel applied to the
married State.
UPTON-NOBLE [Chap.] Mr. EMANUEL HARTFORD.
Of Oxf. University. His parents, tho' of a creditable fa
P 4
mily,
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mily, were not able to afford him that liberal education
which his promising abilities deserved; so that it was with
inuch difficulty that he got his learning. He was early ripe
for the university, and was maintained at Oxford some time
by a gentleman who was a stranger to him; and also by an
uncle of the same name with himself, a minister of great re-
putation for learning and piety. When he left the univer-
sity, he supported himself for a while by teaching a school,
and afterwards, upon the earnest solicitations of many emi-
nent persons, entered on the ministry at about 20 years of
age. Tho' some good judges reckoned him then well fur-
nished for it, he often afterwards complained of his being
thrust out so soon, and said he was ashamed to mention how
young he then was. He lived two years with Mr. R. Allein
at Batcomb. During his troubles for Nonconformity, which
were considerable, he applied himself afresh to the study of
that controversy, with a full resolution to conform, if he
could but tolerably satisfy himself as to the terms required;
for he would not expose himself to hardships for little or no-
thing: but after his maturest studies, he was rather more
dissatisfied than ever, and forced still to take his lot among
the poor Nonconformists, whose case was peculiarly hard,
they being, as he expressed it, "cast out, not for idleness,
not for heresy, not for insufficiency, not for scandal, not
"for rebellion; but because in conscience they could not
comply with some things, which their adversaries them-
selves acknowledged to be of an indifferent nature." Tho'
the world slighted him, he was never disowned or forsaken
by Providence, which in his greatest straits appeared for him
in a singular manner, and sometimes to his great astonish-
ment. When his subsistence has been so scanty that he has
not had wherewith to procure necessaries for the next day,
God has sent him relief by the hands of a mere stranger, or
some unexpected friend; and as his extremities returned upon
him, seasonable supplies were sent in. He never had much
of this world, nor did he desire it. [He for many years
served a poor congregation, where his salary was not more
than the wages of a day-labourer.] But he was always
contented and chearful; unwilling that any should be pres-
sed beyond their ability on his account.-After K. James's
Indulgence he was chosen pastor of the dissenting congrega-
tion at Taunton, in conjunction with Mr. Warren; and
there he studied hard, and preached acceptably. His com-
posures were elaborate and judicious, his method natural and
<<
easy,
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easy, his style grave and majestic; and he always comprized
a great deal of matter in a few words. He had a surprizing
faculty of adapting himself to the different states of his people,
and giving to all their proper food. [He was an impartial
monitor, who feared the faces of none; and his private con-
versation in general was serious and profitable.] His labours
were eminently successful, and his charity remarkable. He
died August 4, 1706, aged 66, within two months of his
fellow-labourer, Mr. Warren. His funeral sermon was
preached and printed by Mr. John Sprint, [from John xii.
40. at his own desire] and a character of him was added by
another hand. From these (now before the editor) the
above account is extracted, and now enlarged. The follow-
ing inscription is on an oval tablet, in Paul's meeting-house,
Taunton.
In memoriam Immanuelis Harford, viri admodum revdi.
pii. docti; annos circiter xx. Ecclesiæ hujus Pastoris: Qui
Jaboribus studiisque exhaustus. Obiit die Aug. 8. An.
Dom. MDCCVII. Ætat is suæ 66.
Monumentum hoc Amici posuere.
The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him
in the last day. John xii. 40
The editor is informed that a volume of his sermons was
printed after his death.
WELLS. St. Andrews. CORNELIUS BURGESS. D. D.
§ The account of him in the former edition being too brief,
for so distinguished, tho' mixed, a character, we shall here
substitute a larger, and shall aim at strict impartiality; first
transcribing the substance of what Wood relates in his Athen.
Ox. ii. 347. He was descended from the Burgesses of Bat-
comb, Somerset. In 1611 was entered at Oxford, but at
what Col. is uncertain. He translated himself to Wadham,
and afterwards to Linc. Col. When he took orders, he had
the rectory of St. Magnus, London, or the vicarage of Wat-
ford, Herts, or both. In the beginning of Cha. I's. reign
he became one of his chaplains in ordinary, and in 1627 took
both degrees in divinity, when he appeared, as Dr. Prideaux
told him, but a sorry disputant, tho' a good preacher. At
that time, and several years after, he shewed himself a zea-
lous man for the church of England. But not having that
preferment he expected, tho' he was a pluralist, and being
looked upon by the High Commission as guilty of adultery,
and a vexer of two parishes with continual law-suits [Calamy
1
says,
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}
says, being vexed in that court for opposing the Laudensian
faction] he became a schismatical lecturer, using many ex-
pressions in his sermons which moved people to sedition; for
which also being questioned, he became incensed against the
bishops, and was afterwards very busy to pick holes in the
coats of his brethren. In 1635, he preached a Latin sermon
to the London ministers, in St. Alphage church, near Sion
Col. pressing all to diligence in preaching, and spoke of the
connivance of the bishops at the growth of Arminianism and
Popery for which being summoned into the High Commis-
sion court, and put to charge, made him implacable against
them. Upon the approach of the troublesome times in
1640, he with S. Marshal, E. Calamy. &c. preached, That
for the cause of religion, it was lawful for subjects to take
up arms against their sovereign. (This author goes on to
represent him as having had great influence with the Lords,
as well as the common people in promoting rebellion.) In
the beginning of the Long Parliament, he was appointed by
the Lords one of the sub-committee to settle religion; who
meeting in the Jerusalem chamber, Burgess became speaker
for the presbyterians, making a vehement invective against.
deans and chapters: the unprofitableness of such corporations,
and the debauched lives of singing men. [Neale adds to
this account," He spoke against music in churches, as use-
less and hurtful. He made a distinct answer to the parti-
culars of Dr. Hacket's speech, on the other side, and in con-
clusion said, Tho' he apprehended it necessary to apply
those foundations to better purposes, it was by no means law-
ful to alienate them from public and pious uses, or to con-
vert them to any private person's pofit"-Hist. Purit. 1,
706, 4to.]
He was thought fit by the parliament to be one of their
preachers, a member of the sub-committee for the advance-
ment of money, to carry on the war against the king, and
with John White was chosen Assessor to the Assembly of
Divines. Gen. Essex had before made him chaplain to his
regiment of horse. In Dec. 1643, the Londoners sent
several of the common council to petition the H. of Com-
mons that St. Paul's Cathedral might be opened again, and
shat Dr. Burgess might be appointed as Lecturer there on
Sunday evening, and on a week-day, with a pension of 400%.
a year out of the revenues, and the dean's house to live in,
both which were soon after settled by act of parliament.
The Dr. thus growing rich, purchased lands, the manor of
Wells,
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Wells, belonging to the bishop, and the dean's house there,
which he almost rebuilt. Having so done, he wrote a book
in vindication of such purchases, pleading, that what he had
said against them was owing to his being suddenly called to
make that speech. But upon the Restoration he lost all,
tho' a year before he had been offered above 12,000l. for
his bargain. Upon this he retired to Watford, where he
exercised himself in penitence and the duties of the church;
but was at length reduced to such poverty and affliction,
(having a cancer in his neck and cheek) that he was obliged
to sell most of his library, and to solicit charity; which he
did particularly in a letter to Sir Rich. Brown; who told
him, that if he would preach a recantation sermon at St.
Paul's, he would take care that he should never want so
long as he lived. The Dr. replied, He was not then in a
capacity to do it. He had a curious collection of the differ-
ent editions of the Common-prayer, which, a few weeks
before his death, he presented to the public library at Ox-
ford. He was buried in the middle of Watford church,
June 9, 1665.
P.
Archdeacon Eachard having published some bitter invec
tives against Dr. Burgess (which Dr. Gray repeated) Dr.
Calamy wrote a Reply, which goes chiefly to shew the arch-
deacon's partiality, as some on the other side were open to
similar charges. * In his Account of Dr. Burgess, vol. ii.
P: 737, he says, The Dr. published a defence of his princi-
ples and practices, which deserves to be preserved to poste-
rity. He preached a sermon at Mercer's chapel, Jan. 14,
1648, in which he inveighed, with great freedom, against
the design of taking off the king, and feared not the conse-
quence. And about the same time he appeared at the head
of a number of ministers, who (to the exposing themselves)
subscribed a paper entitled, A vindication of the ministers
of the gospel, in and about London, from the unjust asper-
sions cast upon their former actings for the Parliament, as
they had promoted the bringing of the King to capital
punishment. This paper was drawn up by Dr. Burgess,
and Dr. Calamy has given it at length, with fifty-seven
names subscribed. They who would judge impartially
ought to peruse this paper, which we have not room to in-
sert. It may also be seen in Neal's History. If any enemy
2
+ Wood gives the copy of a curious Note written in a blank leaf.
* See Toulmin's edition of NEAL'S Hist. vol. 1. p. 419.
to
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F
2
•
to the Nonconformist's should still be disposed to upbraid
Dr. Burgess as actuated by mere avarice, it should be recol-
lected, that he was not originally one of their number, and
that according to Wood's own account, he brought this base
principle with him from the church, in which he had not the
preferment he wished, and with a view to greater joined the
then rising party.
**
*
WORKS. A Chain of Graces for Reformation of Manners,
1622.-A new Discovery of personal Tithes.-The Fire of the
Sanctuary; a Tract on Zeal, 1625.-The Baptismal Regeneration
of Elect Infants, 1629.-A Vindic. of the Reasons against Bishops
Votes in Parl. 1641.-A Vindic. of the Sion College Society,
against two Pamphlets. His case as Lecturer in Paul's.-No
Sacrilege or Sin to alien or purchase the Lands of Bishops and
Chapters, &c. 1659. § Wood mentions two other tracts on the
same subject, Also the titles and texts of eight single sermons
before the Parliament, and on other public occasions: one of which
was that at Mercer's chapel, referred to above, on Amos. v. 13. en-
titled, Prudent silence, and dedicated to K. Cha. II. and to the H.
of Com.-The necessity of Reformation in Doctrine, Discipline
and Worship, anonymous; but Mr. Baxter says it was his. It oc-
casioned a controversy with Dr. Pearson. Baxt, Life, P. ii. p. 265.
WEMBDEN [V.] Mr. TOBIAS ADAMS.
WESTON. Mr. JOHN'Devenish.
WHITSTANTON [R. 120/.] Mr. RICHARD SMITH. A
man of great repute as a gentleman, a physician, and a divine.
Tho' he had a legal title to this living, he was forced out of it
by the violence of a popish family, in April, before the Act
of uniformity took place. From hence he went to Dynning-
ton, where he had some estate of his own, but was obliged
to remove to Chard, to be out of the way of one who had
informed, that he had been stirring up the people to rebellion,
when in truth, he was two days abroad as a physician to seve-
Tal families; and the forger of the information let it drop.
When the Oxford-act came out, he could remove no where,
in his circumstances, but to his estate at Dynnington, where
he had not been many months, before his former enemies,
and some confederates, occasioned him great troubles; of
which one was a persecution in the ecclesiastical court at
Wells. He was obliged to remove a fourth time, when he
sold his estate, and went into the remote parts of Devonshire.
(Conformist's 4th Plea, p. 49.)
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WINESFORD. JOSEPH CHADWICK, M. A. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. He was a man of good natural talents, and a
bard student. He settled at Winesford thro' the persuasion
of his tutor, and on the presentation of his college. He con-
tinued there equally distinguished by his piety, charity and
good learning, till 1662. He lived and died well satisfied
with the reasons of his Nonconformity. He was a very
pleasant man, as well as strictly pious. This was a very
good living, out of which he was unhappily cast as soon as
he had repaired the vicarage-house, and built a large barn for
convenience. Many of his friends were earnest with him to
keep his benefice, for fear of poverty, as he had a family of
nine children; but they were provided for, tho' he had not
above gol. a year, with which he was easy and contented.
He died in 1691. Mr, Joseph Chadwick, the present
minister, of Oundle, is his great grandson, who has favoured
the editor with a small MS. of his, containing some excellent
advice to his son, when an apprentice. If our limits allow-
ed, the whole of it should be here inserted.—The following
abstract of it is given for the benefit of youth:
Besides the Bible, and the Assembly's Catechism, I would
have you buy-The Practice of piety-Baxter's Call-Allein
on Conversion-Gouge's Directions how to walk with God,
&c. &c.-Buy now and then one, as you can spare money;
and that not to lie by, but diligently to read, and to make
good use of. Practice is the life of reading. I would have
you task yourself to read over the Bible once a year, but not
as a task. This you may do if you read three chapters
every day; and as many Psalms for a chapter as are appoint-
ed to be read in the church at morning and evening prayer.-
When you begin to read any book, read it through, before
you take another in hand. Before you read the holy scrip-
tures earnestly beg the spirit of God to open the eyes of
your understanding-Neglect not to give God your morn-
ing and evening sacrifices alone, and take convenient times.
for them; if possible before family prayer. These and alf
other duties of piety, be sure to manage with all serious-
ness and reverence, as in the sight of God.
Strive to please your master and mistress in all things. Keep
in with your fellow-servants: labour to live in unity and
peace with them (and with all others) yet, if need be, ad-
monish them; especially of gross faults; but see you do it
seriously, mildly, and modestly.--Divulge not things said or
done in the family; especially those things which, if divulged,
may
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may tend to the disparagement of your master or mistress,
or of any in the house, or to your own prejudice if it should
come to be known; as 'tis seldom but Tale-bearers are found
out. Be true and faithful to your master, not only in ma-
naging his affairs, but also in concealing his secrets, and in
keeping your fingers from purloining any thing, be it worth
never so little. See Titus ii. 10. Do your master's business
with all care and diligence, and manifest your fidelity by
double diligence in his absence. Col. iii. 22. Think not
much to do any business whatsoever, that you are bid to do,
but do it chearfully, without grumbling; and do not look to
be bid or desired to do a thing, and be quick of dispatch.
How be it, make not more haste than good speed. When
you are sent on an errand, to any place or person, you must
not linger here and there, nor stay to chat with this boy and
t'other body, but make haste back again.-Labour to get a
nimble hand in writing and accompts; and beware of blots.
and mistakes, which may prejudice your master very much.
To know how to do any work belonging to your calling,
take notice how others do it, and if they shew you, observe
their directions and look not to be shewed again.
Rise early in the morning, and look not to be called; es-
pecially rise early on the Sabbath. Spend alone as much of
the morning of every day, as you can with convenience to
your master's occasions, in prayer and reading the scriptures.
So doing, God will bless you; in your body with health and
strength; in your soul with grace wisdom and understand-
ing; and in every thing you put your hand to, with good
success. 'Tis an old saying and a true one.
Sanat, sanctificat, ditat, quoq; surgere mane.
which may be englished thus:
For one in the morning early to rise,
Is healthy, and wealthy, and godly, and wise.
Another old saying is, The morning is the Muse's friend;
or a friend to learning. Be sure it will be a friend to your
soul.-A few wise Cautions are subjoined.
WINCAUNTON [C. or D.] Mr. JOHN SACHEVERELL.
Of St. John's Col. Orf. His father was minister of Stoke,
near the isle of Purbeck in Dorsetshire, who was a man of
great reputation, and had many children, two of whom were
ministers. Mr. Timothy Sacheverell, of Dorsetshire, was
one of them. This other was the eldest. He first had the
living of Rimpton, which he quitted before the restoration.
He
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He was a man of an exemplary conversation; and his labours
in this place, in the service of the souls committed to his
care, were very great. He also had considerable success, in
reforming many that were dissolute, and in the conversion
of several to the love of God and true goodness. He con-
stantly rose early, and spent the morning in his study, and
the afternoon in visiting his flock, discoursing with them
about religious matters. The Saturday was entirely spent
in preparing for his Lord's-day's work, which he conducted
as follows: He began public worship in the morning with a
short prayer, then read a psalm and a chapter, briefly ex-
pounding them. After singing a psalm, he prayed and
preached for an hour and a quarter. In the afternoon he be-
gan at one, with repeating his morning sermon, and examin-
ing young people as to what they had remembered. He
then prayed and preached about an hour and a half. In the
evening he repeated his afternoon sermon, and examined
young persons as before.-On the day of K. Charles II's.
Coronation, he preached on 1 Sam. xii. 24, 25.
But if ye
shall do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both you and your
King. The observation which he chiefly insisted on was:
"That wicked men continuing in their wicked actions, are
the greatest traitors to the King and state wherein they live."
Several persons went out of the church in the midst of ser-
mon, and the rabble got together, who in the market-house
impanelled a jury from amongst themselves, and represented
a formal trial of the preacher; they afterwards drew him in
effigy thro' the town upon a hurdle, with a book in his hand,
which they called his catechism, to the top of an hill, where
a great bonfire was prepared. The effigy
The effigy was hung upon a
pole, and was first shot at by several with great fury, and at
length burnt. Soon after this, Mr. Sacheverell was indicted
at the assizes, for not reading the Common-prayer. When
he was allowed to speak for himself, he declared, that if he
had been required by authority to read it, he either would
have done it, or immediately quitted the living. He behaved
himself so well, that the Judge asked those about him,
"Have you no other man than this in your county to single
out as the object of your severity ?" Upon hearing all mat-
ters, the jury brought him in. Not guilty, and he was acquit-
ted. After being silenced in 1662, he retired to Stalbridge,
where he had an estate in the right of his wife. Being after-
wards taken at a meeting in Shaftesbury, with Mr. Bampfield,
Mr. Hallet, Mr. Ince, and other ministers, he and they were
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sent together to Dorchester jail, where he remained three
years. In this imprisonment he and they took it by turns to
preach from a window to a considerable number of people, on
the other side the river. In this confinement he contracted
such an indisposition, that tho' he was a very chearful active.
person, he became very melancholy, and soon after ended his
days. He died in his chair, speaking to those about him
with great vehemence and affection, on the great work of re-
demption. He wrote in the title-page of all his books, To
me to live is Christ, and to die is gain; which was therefore
engraven upon his tomb-stone. Mr. Banger, who was a
fellow-sufferer with him, preached his funeral sermon, upon
Rom. viii. 22, 23. The famous Dr. Henry Sacheverell was
his grandson.
WINSHAM [V.] Mr. WILLIAM BALL. § Dr. Calamy
has no account of him. The following is extracted from à
funeral sermon, preached at Honiton, by John Walrond, on
the death of his son, Mr. John Ball, who died May 6, 1745,
in the 91st year of his age. "As to the genealogy of this
good man," (says Mr. Walrond, p. 22.) His grandfather
was an eminent minister and school-master in the town of
Ottery St. Mary, and was plucked down from the pulpit
there, by the rude soldiers, while he was in a sermon, plead-
ing for the liberties of his country, when the Army took
upon it the command of all.-His father [who was this Mr.
William Ball, tho' not mentioned by name] was one of the
noble number of confessors, the ejected ministers, who quit-
ted their preferments in the church for the sake of a good
conscience; and died in his forty-ninth year, leaving a large
family, of a widow and five children; of which this was the
eldest, at sixteen years old; who perfected his education in
academical studies under two very learned tutors, Mr. Hick-
man in Warwickshire, and Mr. Short in Dorsetshire,." As
the account of the father is so brief, it may not be unaccept-
able to the reader if the following anecdotes of the son be
here inserted. "He employed himself with remarkable
success in teaching grammar learning to a select number of
gentlemen's sons in those severe times, under K. Charles
and K. James II; and yet was spared by being greatly be-
loved by the men of power in his neighbourhood, many of
whose sons he instructed, tho' they themselves were of dif
ferent sentiments. But as the rage grew hotter, upon the
defeat of the Duke of Monmouth, he was constrained to re-
move
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move to Holland, as tutor to two young gentlemen; where
he studied physic and took his degree. He returned well ac-
complished for the practise of it, by which he might have.
greatly advanced his fortune. But upon a remarkable turn at
home, in favour of liberty, he preferred preaching the un-
searchable riches of Christ to all the advantages this world
could offer. Accordingly, after several years weakness con-
tracted by his severe studies at Utrecht, he was directed by
providence to this town, where he happily united two divid-
ed congregations, and laboured above half a century to his
dying day."-This Mr. Ball was doubtless the person men-
tioned vol. ii. p. 272, as having preached Mr. Hook's funeral
sermon.
WILTON [Chap.] Mr. GEORGE BINDON. A person of
this name subscribed the Attestation in 1648, as preacher at
Angarsleigh. He improved his knowledge in the Latin,
Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac tongues, to an uncom-
mon degree. He was an ingenious man, and taught school
at Staplegrove. He usually went with his family to church
on the Lord's-day morning, and preached in the afternoon.
His clear head and great integrity rendered him very useful
among his neighbours, in composing differences and drawing
writings. The education and fortunes of several persons were
committed to him, which trusts he discharged with a very
fair reputation. He was very fond of arithmetic, and the
mathematics.
WIVELSCOMB [V.] Mr. GEORGE DAY. After his
ejectment he went to London, and was pastor of a congre-
gation at Radcliff, where he died, Dec. 3, 1697. His funeral
sermon was preached by Mr. Slater. Dr. Bates and Mr.
Hammond, in a preface to a piece of his, speak of him as
a well-accomplished and approved minister of Jesus Christ;
very holy and exemplary in his conversation, and abundant
in his ministerial labours; in which his study, diligence, and
fidelity, were the more conspicuous, on account of the bodily
disorders he laboured under many years."
WORKS. The Communicant's Instructor; or a Sacramental
Catechism, and Persuasive to Communion, &c. Prefaced as above.
YEOVIL [V.] HENRY BUTLER, M. A. Of Cambridge
university. A native of Kent. When he was about thirty
years of age he took a voyage to New-England, with seve-
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ral
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ral others, for the free exercise of their religion, and continu-
ed there 11 or 12 years in the work of the ministry, and
teaching university learning. On his return to England, he
spent a year or two in Dorchester, and then settled at Yeovil,
where he continued public minister till Aug. 24, 1662. He
continued his ministry afterwards in that town, and in other
places, as he had opportunity; and was often convicted, ap-
prehended, and imprisoned. He suffered great losses by fines
and seizures of his goods, and was often forced to remove
from his habitation. At length he settled as pastor at Wi-
thamfrary, about five miles from Frome; and no danger
from enemies, weather, or indisposition of body, hindered him
from meeting his people, either in private houses, or in Sir
Edward Seymour's woods. And tho' it was with difficulty
and hazard that they met together, the congregation grew,
and he did much good. Tho' he had not 20l. per annum
to live upon, till about two years before his death, no offers
of worldly advantage would tempt him to leave his charge.
He was much afflicted with the stone in the latter part of his
life, and yet continued his labours among his people as his
strength would permit. He died April 24, 1696, aged 72.
His last words were, "A broken and a contrite heart, O
God, thou wilt not despise."
Ejected at uncertain places, or only silenced.
Mr. Braddow-Mr. Curl-Mr. Babb-Mr. Stephen Han-
cock-Mr. John Musgrove-Mr. Muxon-Mr. Thomas
Snead, Dr. Walker says he was an army-trumpeter. His
name is to the Attestation.—Mr. Wootton-Mr. John Dier
Mr. Booler-Mr. Knight-Mr. Mills-Mr. Willis, ju-
nior; a pious, modest, and commendable young man. It is
not certain that this is not the person mentioned at Hethfield.
Perhaps these might be candidates for the ministry, and not
fixed in 1662.
The following afterwards Conformed.
Mr. JAMES STRONG, of Ilmister.-Mr. JOHN More, of
Allard. Mr. JOHN CHETWIND, of Wells, (who died at
Bristol in 1690 or 1691).-Mr. CHARLES DARBY, of Moun-
tecute. Dr. MARTIN, of Yeovil or Yeovilton.-M. TOм-
KINS, of Crewkern.—Mr. OAK, of Northover, or Ilchester.
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STAFFORDSHIRE.
A
LDERWAS [V. 47l. 18s. 8d.] Mr. THOMAS BLADON.
A very valuable man for his piety and practical preach-
ing. He had a great aversion to disputes, but when he was
obliged to engage in them he did it to great advantage. He
lived many years in Birmingham, and preached at various
adjacent places. He died at Tamworth. There are two
farewell sermons of his in England's Remembrancer, or
Country Collection, on Acts xx. 32. § No. XIII. and XIV.
Tho' long, they are not tedious; but are judicious, practical,
and very appropriate. The first of them is thus introduced.-
"Every society shall have a separation, and every commu-
nion shall receive a dissolution. The dearest friends and
- sweetest relations, as of husband and wife, of parents and
children, of ministers and people, whom nature, providence
and election, hath joined together, and this strengthened
with the strongest cement of love and affection; shall sooner
or later, either by satan's rage, the malice of wicked men, or
the stroke of death, be parted asunder. God's people are
called strangers and pilgrims; they have no continued abid-
ing till they come to heaven, that place of durable uninter-
rupted rest. And God's ministers have no assurance of their
unchangeable residence among their beloved people. Of
Paul's many journeys from one nation and church to another.
we have abundant mention in this history of the Acts; and
in this chapter, of four. The last was to Miletus, from
whence he sends to Ephesus, and calls together the elders
of the church there, and takes his farewell of them." Hav-
ing descanted on the several parts of it, he says,
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words of the text are a part of Paul's farewell to the beloved
Ephesians, and must now be the subject of my valediction
to you. Paul spake them as a departing man, but a living
minister and apostle. I speak them as a living man, but a
dying minister." Having discussed the several points pro-
posed, he closes with some excellent directions to his people
respecting their conduct in his absence from them. The
following is selected as an answer to those who perpetually
stigmatize the Nonconformists of that day, as enemies to go-
vernment. "Live in subjection to the supreme power and
authority of the nation. We are branded for rebels, fomen-
ters of divisions, labouring to fire the nation with civil dis-
cord, and engage it in another war; but our practice and our
doctrine shall witness the contrary to the world. And there-
fore I charge you, before God's holy angels, and God him-
self, the great judge of the world, that ye be subject to the
higher powers. Be actively obedient, so far as you may
keep peace and a good conscience within; and when you
cannot obey actively, obey passively. Fear not Joseph's
prison, nor Jeremiah's dungeon, nor Daniel's Lion's-den,
for a good conscience: praying for all in authority, that un-
der them we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all god-
liness and honesty. Labour, I beseech you, by your quiet
and peaceable lives, to vindicate the innocency of your mi-
nisters, and their doctrine, from those black-mouthed blas-
phemies and reproaches which envy and malice and igno-
rance hath cast upon them. And doubtless God, in his due
time, will revenge this dishonour done to his servants, whilst
they have studied nothing else, and nothing more than the
gaining of souls, in a faithful discharge of their ministry."
ARMITAGE [Chap.] NATHANIEL MANSFIELD, M. A.
He lived some time after his ejectment at Wolverhampton,
and then at Walsall, where he died. At the beginning of
his Nonconformity he preached but seldom, but afterwards
more frequently. He was a fervent and affectionate preacher.
He had many crosses, the greatest of which was in his son,
who survived him. He had much passion in his natural
temper, which, if it had not been checked by grace, would
have produced sad effects; but he died in a very calm and
resigned frame.
*BARESTON. Mr. SAMUEL HALL. Of Jesus Col. Camb.
where Mr. Thomas Woodcock was his tutor. He was the
There is a BARSTON in Warwickshire, and BARLESTON in Leicesteashire.
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son of Mr. Ralph Hall of Mear, and was ordained with
Mr. Philip Henry. While he was in his living, he had an
augmentation of 50l. per ann. by the powers that then were.
He had the reputation of a very pious person, and an excel-
lent preacher, as well as of a good scholar. The latter ap-
pears from some MSS. which were in the hands of his son,
Mr. Samuel Hall, minister of a dissenting congregation at
Tiverton.
BARTON, Mr. BYAT.
BASWICK [Chap] Mr. RICHARD SOUTHWELL. After
he was ejected he lived at Doddington between Atherstone
and Leicester. He was a worthy divine, an excellent prac-
tical and judicious preacher, and one that laboured sincerely
in his Master's work, both before and after his ejectment.
Having no estate, he was obliged, in order to support him-
self and family, to apply himself to husbandry, and to fare
hard; in doing which he was humble, content and patient.
He frequently preached in his own house, and other places
in the country, though he exposed himself to danger by it.
He brought up a son to the ministry, and was uncle to Mr.
John Southwell, who died at Newbury.
BLOCKWICH [Chap.] Mr. TaoGOOD;
BROME [R. 39/.] Mr. HUMPHREY WALDRON. A man
of good learning, and of a good delivery. He was some
time assistant to Mr. Baxter at Kidderminster. [Mr. Baxter,
in his Life, p. 88, speaks very respectfully of him, and says,
he was much like Mr. R. Serjeant whom he succeeded, of
whom Mr. Baxter had given a very high character. He
afterwards speaks of him, p. 90, when settled at Broom, as
one among many other ministers who were associated, with
himself, for carrying on useful designs, without any party
views.
*** BROMLEY (King's). Mr. JOHN MOTT. After
Bartholomew-day, 1662, he took a farm of 60l. per ann. in
this parish, on which he lived handsomely four years. At
length he was threatened and sued by a gentleman in the
parish, and his landlord turned against him, saying, "It was
not fit for a rebel against the king to live so near the church;"
and tho' he had promised him a lease for sixteen years, he
granted it to another person, and turned out Mr. Mott and
his family, to their great loss, when he was forced to leave
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the place, where he was born and had relations, and where
he had been a laborious minister. He was accommodated
after this at his mother's at Stafford, but there he met with
much ill-usage, thro' the severity of the magistrates; and
when the Corporation-act came out, he was driven from his
family, whom he durst not visit but in a private manner for
many years. He was once brought before the Deputy-
lieutenant, being charged with a plot, but was dismissed,
upon promising to appear whenever required. His various
troubles, together with his cessation from his work, affected
his health and oppressed his spirits, and it was thought hasten-
ed his death. Conform. 4th Plea for Noncon. p. 56.
·
BROMWICH (West). Mr. RICHARD HILTON. Born near
Oxford, and brought up in that university. He conscienti-
ously discharged the duties of the ministry at this place till
1662, when he parted from a people who had a great re-
spect for him. He afterwards spent some time at Philip
Foley's, Esq; as chaplain, and then removed to Walsall,
where he lived many years, and died about 1706, aged 82.
He was a good scholar, a judicious divine, and all his days a
hard student; a man of great simplicity and plain-hearted-
ness, and a very substantial and useful preacher. His gene-
ral walk was regular and exemplary. He was frequent and
fervent in prayer, careful in the spending of his time, and
exact in all proceedings. He had drawn up a covenant with
God, which it was his custom to read over every Lord's-day
morning, to quicken him in his work. He was generally
respected even by the worst of men; being quiet and chari-
table, and inoffensive in his whole deportment. In the close.
of his days, being asked about his Nonconformity, he pro-
fessed an entire satisfaction in it, and hoped God would en-
able him, if there were the same occasion, to do the same
again. He lived in self-denial among a poor people, doing
good both to their souls and bodies; and, when dying, shew-
ed his great concern for their future provision and spiritual
welfare.
BURTON upon Trent [L.] Mr. THOMAS BAKEWELL.
He had episcopal ordination, and was first ejected, in 1661,
from the rectory of Rolleston; value 120l. per ann. The
stipend for this lecture at Burton (which was gol. per ann.)
was paid by the company of Cloth-workers in London.
Being silenced on Bartholomew-day, he rented a house in
the same parish, where he afterwards preached. In about
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th
half a year he was cited before Bp. Hacket; and this was
charged upon him as a thing highly criminal; for which
(tho' already ejected) the bishop in open court suspended him
ab afficio, and gave orders to one of the clerks to send a letter
of complaint to the justices and deputy-lieutenants. In a little
time a warrant was issued out from the magistrates, and sent
to the constable of Burton extra, by the Bp's apparitor, who
came with the constable upon the Lord's-day, while Mr.
Bakewell was preaching, to see the warrant executed. The
constable not only took him, but also Mr. Thomas Ford, (an
ejected minister, who sometimes preached in his own house at
Winsell, but was then only a hearer) and carried them be-
fore Sir Edward B, who told them that they must either
be bound to their good behaviour, or go to prison. Mr.
Bakewell desired to know, whether preaching in his own
house would be reckoned a breach of good behaviour. The
justice answered that it would: Upon which Mr. Bakewell
replied, He would give no bond to tie himself from preach-
ing; and Mr. Ford concurring with him, they were both
sent to jail, where they were detained ten weeks, before the
first act against conventicles was passed. They were then re-
leased, without having any thing imposed upon them. Mr.
Bakewell, on returning home, was not discouraged, but held
on preaching. When the Oxford-act came out, he was
forced to leave his wife and children, and go into a desert
place, twenty-five miles from his habitation; where he con-
tinued several months with a poor people who were glad to
have the gospel preached to them, tho' he was forced to live.
at his own expence, and at the same time maintain his
family out of the little he had of his own. At length he re-
turned home, and continued preaching in Burton till the
Indulgence in 1672. He was then earnestly invited to Lon-
don, and he went to preach to a people who had been great
sufferers, leaving Mr. Ford to preach at Burton. There he
continued as long as the Indulgence lasted; but afterwards
warrants were sent to the constables, to search the houses
where the people used to meet; upon which they assembled
in the fields and woods, that they might worship God with-
out molestation: but the informers followed them thither,
and executed upon them the act against conventicles; so that
he and his people suffered greatly. Among other instances
of cruelty, the huntsmen set their dogs upon them. (Conform.
4th Plea, p. 56)—He published a Justification of Infant
Baptism.
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CLENT [V.] Mr. THOMAS BALDWIN, junior. Some
time after his ejectment he exercised his ministry among the
Dissenters at Birmingham, where he died. His name
was long precious in both places, as a man, a christian, and
a minister. He was of a sanguine lively temper; of a sweet,
humble, affable behaviour, and of a very extensive charity;
ready to do good to the souls and bodies of all that came near
him, and to condescend to those of the lowest degree. He
was greatly mortified to the world, patiently suffering the
loss of his substance. Never did any hear a repining expres-
sion drop from him upon that account; neither was he the
more backward to relieve the poor, to the utmost of his
ability. He was a judicious, solid, establishing preacher.
CHEBSEY [V.] Mr. WOOLrich.
CLIFTON-CANVIL [R.] Mr. GEORGE CROSSE. Of
Christ-Church, Oxf. He was a considerable scholar, a
judicious divine, and a fervent preacher. He had a clear
head, a solid judgment, and a wonderful memory. In his
younger days he was chaplain to the religious Lady Scudi-
more, at Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire, where he had
the advantage of an acquaintance with Mr. Anthony Bur-
gesse, pastor of that place. He was forced to preach nine
years without ordination, because he could not find a bishop
in England or Ireland to ordain him without imposing oaths.
and subscriptions; but when the Presbyteries were set up
London by the Long Parliament, he was one of the first or-
dained there. He was always averse to appear from the
press, which made him not so well known to the world as
some others, not superior in abilities. At the Restoration
he was forced by a violent enemy, to shelter himself in the
house of Richard Hampden, Esq; till the raging sickness in
London caused him to remove into the country, where he
had some relations; but too late, for one of his children had
taken the infection, and died at the house of Mr. Samuel
Shaw in Leicestershire. He afterwards removed to Bassford,
near Nottingham, where both he and his wife died of the
plague, Aug. 8, 1665.
COLWICH [V. 47l. 18s.] Mr. JOHN GREEN.
DRAYTON [R.] Mr. TIMOTHY Fox. Of Christ Col.
Camb. when Dr. S. Bolton was Master. He was born in
Birmingham, in 1628, and had his school-learning there un-
der Mr. Billingsley. After some years spent at Cambridge,
he
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he was admitted by the Commissioners of the Great Seal to
the rectory of Drayton, in the room of Mr. John Buckbury,
deceased, and was ordained by Mr. Thomas Porter, at Whit
church in Shropshire. He was much beloved in his parish;
and tho' he refused the Engagement, he continued till he was
ejected by the Bartholomew act; after which, for the sake
of his wife and five small children, he was encouraged by
his friends to settle in a neighbouring corporation, where by
his pen, and the help of relations, he got a comfortable live-
lihood, till the Oxford act forced him to remove and rent a
farm in Derbyshire. But afterwards, he was imprisoned in
Derby jail upon that act, not for any exercise of religion,
but only for coming to see his son, an apprentice in that
town. He was apprehended immediately, before he sat down.
and committed in May, 1684, and continued a prisoner till
the November following. He was confined a second time,
when Monmouth was in the West, in Chester jail, with se-
veral other neighbouring ministers and gentlemen, without
any cause being assigned. After a month's confinement he
was discharged, he and his two sureties giving 600l. security
for his good behaviour. From the time of his ejectment he
preached in private, as he had opportunity; and after public
liberty was granted, he opened a meeting in his own house
at Caldwell in Derbyshire, where he preached twice a day
gratis, and catechised. He died in a good old age, in
May, 1710.
ELFORD [Chap. S.] RICHARD DOWLEY, B. D. Of
Mag. Col. Oxf. The civil war breaking out, and Oxford
being a garrison, his father (minister of Alveston, near Strat-
ford upon Avon) sent him to compleat his studies with Dr.
Bryan of Coventry. Upon leaving him, he was chaplain in
the family of Sir T. Rous in Worcestershire, where he be-
came acquainted with Mr. Baxter, for whom he always had
a very great respect. Thence he removed to Stoke near
Bromsgrove, where he was settled minister several years, and
was very successful. He was a member of the Worcester-
shire association. After the Restoration, the old incumbent
surviving, he resigned the living to him, and removed to
Elford, where he was assistant to his father's elder brother,
till 1662. Both his father and uncle confo med; but he
could not be satisfied, either to be re-ordained or to renounce
the Covenant. After being silenced, he lived some time
privately, went to church, and applied himself to country
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business for a subsistence. By the Oxford act he was forced
to quit his habitation. Upon K. Charles's Indulgence he
took out a licence for his own house, and kept a meeting once.
a day there, at a time when there was no preaching in the
parish church; and he had a good auditory from several towns
in the neighbourhood. When the Indulgence was recalled,
he preached more privately. About 1680 he removed to
London, where he taught school, and preached occasionally;
attending on Mr. Howe's ministry when he was not engaged
himself. Being once a hearer only, the meeting was disturb-
ed, and he and seven others were seized and carried to New-
gate. At night, they were brought before the Lord-Mayor,
and being indicted for a riot, were bound over to the next
sessions. He was also fined 10l. and bound to his good be-
haviour for 12 months; so that he was forced to leave his
school, lest that should be interpreted a breach of his beha-
viour. He lived very privately till K. James's liberty, except-
ing that he was once seized by a court-messenger, in his
lodging, and carried before the Lord-Mayor, who tendered
him the Orford oath; by taking which he escaped six months
imprisonment. After the legal toleration, he preached some
time at Godalming in Surry; but infirmities growing upon
him with age, he returned to London, and lived privately
with his children. There he died in 1702, aged 80.
FARLEY [C. or D.] or AVELEY in Shropshire. Mr.
THOMAS ORFORD.
HANBURY [V.] Mr. HENRY BEE. A good preacher:
Born at Staplehill, then happy in the ministry of the great
Mr. Bradshaw. He with other ministers, was cast into Staf-
ford jail for Nonconformity.
HINTES. Mr. WILLIAM BROOKS. After his ejectment
he was very poor, and had nothing to maintain his wife and
children, who were in danger of wanting bread. He removed
to Birmingham, from whence he went to preach at different
places, where help was wanted, sometimes continuing abroad
several weeks, and then returning home with supplies for his
family. He died about 1670. He was of a weak constitution,
and had nothing promising in his person or delivery, so that
he was not popular; but he was a very holy, humble, hea-
venly man. His preaching was solid and practical; his con-
versation serious and grave: his patience in sufferings, and
his dependance upon providence in necessities, exemplary:
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and his thankfulness great, both to God and man. He lived
by faith, and was most delightfully employed in preparing
himself and others for heaven.
KINVER. RICHARD MORETON, M. D. Of Mag. Hall,
Oxf. A man of great gravity and calmness, of sound prin-
ciples, and of no faction; an excellent preacher, and of an
upright life. There is some account of him in Wood's Athen.
Oxon. Vol. II. p. 990. § It is as follows. He was a mi-
nister's son: became a commoner in Magd. Hall 1652; af-
terwards one of the chaplains of New Col. and M. A. On
leaving the university he was chaplain in the family of Foley,
in Worcestershire. Afterwards shewing himself a Noncon-
formist when the act of uniformiy was published, he studied
physic and obtained the degree Ann. 1670, at which time the
Prince of Orange was entertained in Oxon, and when seve-
ral persons that were not well wishers to the church of Eng-
land had degrees conferred on them. Afterwards he lived
in the Grey Friars, London, practised his faculty, and became
Fellow of the Col, of Physicians.
WORKS. Phthisologia, seu exercitationes de Phithisi, tribuslibris,
&c. 8vo. 1689...A Translation of the same: a Treatise of Con-
sumptions in the Lungs (reckoned the best then extant).-Exerci
tationes de morbis univers. acutis, 1692, with his Portrait. Some
Account of this is in the Philos. Transact. No. 199, Ap. 1693..-
Exercitatio de Febribus in flam. 1694, with a different Portrait,
2 vols. 8vo.
LITCHFIELD. St. Chad's, [80/.] Mr. THOMAS MILES.
He suffered much by his Nonconformity. Besides his an-
nual income, he lost 40l. which should have been paid him
in the beginning of the year; and left his living in a very
low estate. He continued in the town till the Oxford act
came out, when he was forced to leave his family, tho' he
had a very dangerous cold upon him. He did not see his
wife and children for eleven weeks, nor durst he come to
them in eighteen months. Having no certain dwelling, he
travelled about from place to place, near 300 miles on foot.
If at any time he stole home by night, he durst not stir out
of his chamber; and when he went out, it was either very
late or very early, for fear of being taken. He was once
sent for by a magistrate who lay sick, and continued his night.
visists for a fortnight: the evening before his death, Mr.
Miles was sent for in haste by day-light, and being seen to
go into the house, was complained of to the chief magistrate
of
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of the town, by a curate, which made him hasten away the
next morning. This gentleman who had been twice applied
to for a warrant to apprehend him, was so kind as to send
notice to his wife [that he should be safely conveyed away].
He was afterwards cited into the ecclesiastical court for bap-
tizing his own child, and was often forced into the country,
in snow and rain, to preach before day, and to shift from
house to house, for fear of a certain magistrate, who said he
would have him dead or alive. He was sometimes constrain-
ed to retire into the fields and solitudes, to keep Sabbaths.
alone, and his life was often in danger from extreme heats
and colds. He lived entirely upon Providence, which took
care of him, and he was not forsaken, nor did his seed beg
their bread.
St. Mary's. JOHN BUTLER, M. A. Of Edmund
Hall, Oxford. Born at Oddington in Gloucestershire. Dr.
Walker represents a disagreement with this gentleman, as the
chief occasion of the sequestration of Mr. Wm. Langley,
his colleague, who (it should seem) discovered Mr. Butler
not to be in orders. The Dr. adds in the margin, "possibly
he had been thrust in upon Mr. Langley." But as Mr. But-
ler took his degrees at Oxford, he was very likely to be in
orders at the time of his settlement in Litchfield. Mr. Langley
was not his [immediate] predecessor there, but Mr. Harrison;
so that it was not possible for him to be thrust in upon Mr.
Langley there," how common soever such things were in
those times." Mr. Butler rarely preached after being silen-
ced, unless sometimes in his own house. A gentleman in
Litchfield, who was in good circumstances, was very kind
to him and his family; set up one of his sons in a trade, and
sent another to the university, where he was at the expence
of his education; and when he died, left him 127. a year.
Mr. Butler died about 1670, aged about 50. He was a good
and pious man. Dr. Lilly Butler of Aldermanbury, was his
son; who being applied to for a true account of his father,
declared Dr. Walker's account false, and added, "See the
effects of bigotry!" At his motion inquiry was made at
Litchfield, by which the above account was confirmed.
MARSTON [R. S. 100l.] RICHARD SWYNFEN, M. A.
Of Pemb. Hall, Camb. Younger son of John Swynfen, Esq;
and brother to the truly great and excellent John Swynfen,
of Swynfen, Esq. There he was born in 1630, and sent first
to Tamworth, then to Sutton-Coldfield, and afterwards to
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the Charter-house in London, for his grammar learning. He
went to Cambridge about 1646, where he continued six or
seven years under the tuition of Mr. William Moses, and was
chamber-fellow with Mr. T. Doolittle. He was ordained by
a classis of Presbyters in Derbyshire, and soon after called to
Sandyacre, a small donative near Nottingham, where he staid
only two years. In 1657, he was preferred to Marston;
which living he refused to accept, till he was informed that
the legal incumbent was not sequestered so much for his af-
fection to the church and king, as for very great immorali-
ties. He here married Eliz. daughter of John Clark, Esq;
of Moor-hall in Warwickshire. After he had expended near
30ol. in repairs, Mr. Shaw pretended a right to the living;
upon which a lawsuit commenced, and it appeared that Mr.
Swinfen's title was good; but before the matter was ended,
he was dispossessed by the act for restoring the sequestered
clergy. Soon after this he went to London, partly to converse
with the learned men of that time, on the subject of Con-
formity. Having occasion to wait upon the Lord Chancellor
Clarendon, who professed the highest esteem for his elder
brother, he made him the offer of the best preferment he had
in his gift, if he would conform. He acquainted his tutor
Mr. Moses with it, who earnestly dissuaded him from it. Mr.
Swynfen often mentioned the expression he used at their last
parting, viz." As Cæsar said to the mariners [Ne timeas,
"Cæsarem portas] so say I to thee, dear Swynfen, Ne
"timeas; Christum portas, & Fortunas Christi:" (fear
not, you carry Christ and his interest) which made a deeper
impression on him than any thing on the contrary side.
Upon his return into the country, tho' he had frequent
offers from the court, and from several relations and other
friends, of very good preferment, he would hearken to none
of them but, in order to maintain his family, took a farm
at Ripe-Ridware, in the next parish. From thence he was
soon driven, by the Oxford act, to his great loss; upon which
he removed to Burton under Neewood, where he lived about
two years, riding about from place to place, preaching as he
had opportunity.-Tho' he could not give his unfeigned as-
sent and consent, &c. he often said, that rather than break
off communion with an established church, he could submit
to the ceremonies and some other exceptionable things. Not
having any settled congregation of his own, he was often
disengaged from preaching, and at all such times he con-
stantly went with his whole family to the parish church at
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Burton, where he held a weekly lecture. He was some-
times disturbed, but escaped being fined. In 1685, upon
the Duke of Monmouth's invasion, he was taken out of his
bed, and with several other persons, was carried to Chester
castle, and kept close prisoner till that affair was ended.
After this, nothing of moment befel him on account of his
Nonconformity. He spent his last days with his youngest
son, a mercer in Burton upon Trent, where he died of a
dropsy in 1691, in the 61th year of his age. He was a man
who did good to all, as far as it lay in his power, and be-
haved himself so that he had a good character from the worst
of men. He was never known to be engaged in one per-
sonal difference in his life. He was a constant reprover of
prophane sinners, and in most companies would discourse on
spiritual and heavenly things. He was a man of great inte-
grity, zeal, and faith; in the worst of times keeping up his
courage and firmly expecting the salvation of God. In the
education of his children, he took all possible care, never
omitting a day, scarcely an hour, in which he did not give
them some pious advice. He often charged them not to dare
to meet him in an unregenerate state at the day of judgment;
and told them that if they did, he himself should be one of
the first evidences against them. A little before his death a
neighbouring clergyman, who had a kindness for him, came
to visit him; when Mr. Swinfen, among other things, told
him, that he was well satisfied he had not conformed, and
thanked God for it.
MEAR. Mr. RALPH HALL. He refused the Engagement,
and endeavoured to shew his people the unlawfulness of it,
on the Lord's-day before it was to be administered in his
parish, both in his exposition and in his sermons. After be-
ing cast out of this living he went to Chester, where he was
pastor of that congregation over which Mr. Mat. Henry
afterwards presided. He was committed to North-gate prison,
upon the Five-mile-act; where he was an instrument, in the
hand of God, for the conversion of a soldier, who had been
a very profligate man, and concerned in a drunken riot, in
which a poor man lost his life. Mr. Tong (who particularly
relates the story, in his Life of Mr. M. Henry, p. 238,) ob-
serves, "When the man came to die, he made such a decla-
ration of the manner of God's working upon his soul, and
of the benefit he had received from Mr. Hall's instructions
and prayers, as very much affected all that heard him, and
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filled the whole city with wonder. The good man thought
his six months imprisonment abundantly compensated by be-
ing an instrument of so much good to a precious soul, that
was in so much danger of perishing for ever."
MATHFIELD. Mr. WILLIAM ROCK.
NEWCASTLE under Line [C. or D.] GEORGE Long,
M. D. Fellow of Trin. Col. Camb. from whence he was
turned out, with several others, after 14 or 15 years standing,
upon Dr. Fern's coming in as Master, at the Restoration, for
refusing to promise Conformity, before they certainly knew
the terms that would be fixed. Redress was sought, by ap-
plication to members of parliament, and to Secretary Maurice,
but to no purpose. About this time Mr. Long, preaching
occasionally at Newcastle, on a journey, when the people
were destitute, they invited him to settle there, where he
staid till the Act of uniformity silenced him. After this, he
went to Leyden, and took his Doctor's degree in physic,
having spent some time in that study before. On his return,
'he applied to the practice of it, with good encouragement
and success; but still his conscience put him upon preaching,
as his chief work. After some time he settled again in New-
castle, and met with great difficulties. He was indicted at
the assizes for living in a corporation, and forced to remove
when he had seven children, not knowing whither to go.
He attempted to settle at Birmingham, but was prosecuted
there also, and at length was forced to leave the country.
He fled to Ireland, and continued there some years. After
the Revolution he returned to Newcastle, and continued his
labours there till his intellects failed. He died at Bristol,
Dec. 26, 1712, aged 84, in great peace and comfort. He had
a son in the ministry, among the Distenters, Mr. Nath. Long,
who died at Wrexham ; of whom there is an account in Mr.
Mat. Henry's Life, p. 283.
NEW-CHAPEL. Mr. DAVENPORT.
PELSHALL [Chap.] Mr. WILSON,
t
ROWLEY. WILLIAM TURTON, M. A. When he
had almost brought himself to the grave, by hard study and
labour in his ministerial work, his ejectment gave him some
ease, and was a means of his recovering his health and
strength. He afterwards preached frequently in churches.
and chapels, as he had opportunity, but chiefly in private
houses;
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houses; and at length became pastor to one of the dissenting
congregations at Birmingham, where he died in 1716. He
had a son in the ministry at Killingsworth.
RUSHALL [V.] Mr. ROBERT YORK. A religious,
active man, and a lively preacher. He died young, of a con-
sumption, in 1667.
SEDGELEY [V.] Mr. JOSEPH ECCLESHALL. He left
the university about 1654. On preaching a lecture at Dud-
ley, some of the people at Sedgeley heard him, and prevail-
ed with their vicar, Mr. Parkes, who was old and infirm, to
invite him to be his assistant. In a few years he succeeded
to the living, with the approbation of the parishioners. Be-
ing single, his father and mother lived with him. He re-
ceived what dues were willingly brought him, but sued for
none. He was of a strong constitution, and of an obliging,
facetious, pleasant temper, but very serious. Laying to heart
the worth of souls, and the great number in the parish, he
was unwearied in his labours to do them good. This parish
is very large and populous, containing nine villages, inhabit-
ed by a great number of men working in lime, coals and
iron. It had been a heathenish place, till Mr. IV. Fenner's
ministry there, during four years, was blessed with the con-
version of many. On his being forced away, and succeeded
by a weak vicar, prophaneness and ignorance abounded at
the time of Mr. Eccleshall's first coming hither. He there-
fore, laying aside all worldly concerns, set himself to his
ministerial work with zeal, prudence, and diligence, both in
public and private. He read and expounded the scriptures,
catechized the youth, and preached and prayed with great
fervency and affection. He had a voice that reached the far-
thest part of the church, which was generally filled, and was
soon enlarged by erecting a gallery. He also expounded at
the vicarage, and often at the people's houses. He was like-
wise frequent in personally instructing elder persons, espe-
cially before their admission to the Lord's supper, which
he managed in a most pleasing manner. A great alteration
soon appeared, both in the number of hearers, and in the
stop put to prophaneness. He preached week-day lectures
in the adjacent parishes, and engaged neighbouring minis-
ters to preach in his church. He did not bring controver-
sial matters into the pulpit, but preached and enforced
plain scripture truths, with a sole view to conversion, sancti-
fication,
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fication, and salvation. He rather chose to deal with opin-
ionists personally, and answer their objections in private.
When it became necessary he studied the terms of Con-
formity, and not being satisfied with them, preached his fare-
well seimon on Aug. 17, 1662, to a large congregation, all
in tears. On Aug. 24, no one coming to officiate, he went
into a pew, prayed, read the scripture, expounded and preach-
ed. Afterwards, tho' he lived a mile from the church, he
ordinarily attended public worship there, and gave his hear-
ers what personal help he could in private. The succeeding
vicar, for some years, was violent, and filled his sermons
with railing invectives against the nonconformists, which in-
duced many of the people to persuade Mr. Eccleshall to
preach to them; which he yielded to do, at times different
from the public service. The Oxford-act forced him to
Kinver, where he preached in private, and went afterwards.
with his hearers to church, to hear Mr. Jonathan Newey,
a worthy man, who succeeded Mr. Morton. He then came
secretly by night to his own people, (not daring to be seen.
by day) to do what service he could, and returned by night,
till the rigour of the times abated. He then appeared in pub-
lic, and continued his ministerial work among his old people,
with little allowance from them, living chiefly upon a small
estate of his own, with frugality and care. There were two
meetings kept up in the parish, because of its largeness, two
or three miles distant, and Mr. Eccleshall administered the
sacrament in both. Here he continued his service several
ycars, till he was silenced by death. His funeral sermon was
preached by Mr. Oasland.
SEIGHFORD [V. 41l. 2s. 8d.] RICHARD CLEYTON,
M. A. He subscribed the Testimony of the Ministers in Es-
sex, in 1648, as minister of Easton-Magna in that county,
from whence he removed to Showell, near Lutterworth, and
became one of the Assembly at Westminster. After some
time he removed to Seighford, where he was ejected in 1662;
after which he lived many years at Nuneaton in .Warwick-
shire. Dr. Wild being there at the same time, there was a
very intimate friendship between them. Mr. Cleyton was a
good scholar, a sound divine, and a man of strict piety. He
was very courteous and obliging in his behaviour, and at the
same time very sedate and grave. His whole life adorned re-
ligion, and his sacred character. He was that perfect and
upright man, of whom the Psalmist says, his end is peace.
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SHENSTON [V.] Mr. WILLIAM GRACE*. An aged
worthy minister. Upon his ejectment, having a wife and
eleven children, he was reduced to difficuities, and for a
maintenance took a farm of about 30l. per ann. preaching
in his own house, for which he was soon apprehended by
two justices, and with many of his hearers bound over,
which was very expensive to him. Not long after, he was
sent for, by a party of horse, called out of his bed, and sent
prisoner to Stafford, without knowing the cause. Being
unable to bear the expence of his imprisonment, he made ap-
plication to the deputy-lieutenant, and upon giving bonds of
100l. to appear when called, he was dismissed, after many
hard speeches, but no charge was laid against him. After
all this he was necessitated, by the Five-mile-act, to remove
to a place where he lived at great expence, separated from
his dear relations, and his farm was left to the management
of servants, to his unspeakable loss; yet this person was a
near relation of Abp. Sheldon.
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SHERIFF-HALES [V.] JOHN NOTT, M. A. Some
time Fellow of Trin. Col. Camb. Son of Mr. Charles Nott,
minister of Shelsey in Worcestershire. When he first came
from the university, he was assistant to Mr. Ambrose Sparry,
at Wolverhampton.
Thence he removed to this place,
where he was minister twelve years. After his ejectment he
preached publicly in a chapel near Hadly, as long as he
was suffered, which was three or four years, and then re-
moved into the family of Richard Hampden, Esq; where he
continued domestic chaplain till the act of Toleration, soon
after which he went to Thame in Oxfordshire, where he con-
tinued constantly preaching thirteen years, till his sickness
and death, which happened Dec. 28, 1702, aged 77. His
character is given by Mr. Troughton, of Bicester, in his
funeral sermon for him.
STAFFORD [C. or D.] Mr. NOAH BRYAN. Son to
Dr. Bryan, Fellow of Peter-House, Camb. When he left
Stafford he became chaplain to the Earl of Donegal, and
went with him into Ireland, where he died about 1667. He
was an excellent preacher, and a very pious man, as appears
by his diary.
*
This is evidently the person mentioned before at RERESBY in Leices-
tershire, of whom Dr. Calamy, gives this further account from the Conformist's
Fourth Plea, p. 61.
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STOWE [Chap.] Mr. ASHLY.
SWINERTON [Chap.] Mr. JOSEPH SOUND. An an-
cient divine, of great learning and judgment, moderation and
calmness of spirit, and of an upright and godly life.
TALK on the Hill [C. or D.] Mr. THOMAS POOL. His
father left him a little land, which he himself had occupied
twenty years, without finding that it contained a rich coal-
mine, which his son, after his Nonconformity, discovered
there, which (as Dr. Sampson relates) in the years 1674 and
1675 cleared him 800/.
TATENHALL [R.] Mr. THOMAS BUXTON.
TIPTON [C. or D.] Mr. RICHARD HINKS. A pious
preacher, and a moderate Independent. Before the Restora-
tion he offended the neighbouring ministers, and other good
people, by his rigorous notions, and by assisting in raising
soldiers for Lambert against Monk. He was also so unhappy
as to buy an estate which belonged to Col. Dudley, when
he absconded to serve the King. The Colonel on his return
with his majesty denyed that the writing produced was under
his hand and recovered his estate. Mr. Hinks, by raising
money for this purchase, had so involved himself in debt,
that when he was ejected he was utterly insolvent. He had
a wife and many children, but God provided for him. His
successor, Mr. John Taylor, suffered him to live in the par-
sonage-house, upon easy terms, tho' he preached there in the
time of public service. He was afterwards imprisoned for
preaching; and tho' before the change of the times he was
very hot, he then became cool and moderate. After Mr.
Taylor's death he removed to Old Swinford or Stourbridge,
and died in great amity with christians of various denomina-
tions.
WALSAL. THOMAS BYRDAL, M. A. He died a very
little before the Act of uniformity took place; but he had
so far declared his mind, that he may properly be numbered
with the silenced ministers. He was a very learned and godly
divine, of more than ordinary abilities.
WORKS. The Profitableness of Godliness, in 5 Sermons.-
The Unprofitableness of worldly Gain, in 4 Sermons.-The Para-
ble of the barren Fig-tree, in 7 Sermons.-Victorious Violence, in
2 Sermons. A Glimpse of God; or a Treatise proving that there
is a God. (All posthumous.)
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WEDNESBURY (commonly called Wedgebury). Mr.
WILLIAM FINCHER. Younger brother to Mr. R. Fincher,
ejected at Worcester. Born at Shell, near that city. Both
of them had a liberal education. There was a third brother,
who was a Conforming Minister. Mr. W. Fincher, after his
ejectment, preached frequently at Guarnal in Sedgeley parish,
and other places. At length he retired towards the place of
his nativity, and often preached in the troublesome times, at
old Mr. Mence's, near Worcester, who had married his sister.
He was a good and heavenly man; of a most sweet temper;
very humble, and never seen in a passion. He was also a
solid, close, awakening preacher. He died at Birmingham.
WEFORD [Chap.] Mr. RICHARD CHANTRYE. Of St.
John's Col, Camb. He and Mr. Samuel Shaw were inti-
mate friends, born in the same town, educated at the same
free-school, and occupied the same chamber at college. They
afterwards, for the most part, lived in the same neighbour-
hood. Mr. Chantrye on his first settlement was much es-
teemed, and his ministry much encouraged, by the pious and
judicious John Swynfen, Esq; with whom he often took
sweet counsel; and they edified one another. After he was
driven from Weford by the Oxford act, he took a small farm
in an obscure corner af Derbyshire, near the place of his na-
tivity, and embraced all opportunities of preaching; encounter-
ing many dangers and hardships, which he bore manfully,
like Jacob, who in feeding Laban's flock, endured droughts
by day, and frost by night, and sleep departed from his eyes:
tho' it can hardly be said that his wages were changed as often
as Jacob's, for Mr. Chantrye had many times none at all;
but, tho' he had an increasing family, he chearfully subsisted.
He was like the zealous and courageous builders of the walls
of Jerusalem, who with one hand wrought in the work, and
with the other held a weapon: For he would go in the twi-
light, to escape the informers, with a Bible in his pocket
and a fork on his shoulder. Having by his fortitude over-
come great opposition, in more settled times he preached as
long as he could stand, and indeed longer too; being at last
drawn in a chair into the room where his hearers met. Nor
did he take less pains with himself than with his people, for
he cultivated his own soul continually with pious meditations,
and the exercises of devotion. He kept his own vineyard
as carefully as that of which he was made keeper. He was
offered preferments to conform, but refused them. He was
a man
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my
a man of much candor, lenity, and humility. No one was
more ready to acknowledge his own unworthiness. His
great zeal in his Master's work was followed with this com-
plaint in his last illness, "Alas, how little have I done for
dearest Lord!" To those who visited him, he generally
recommended a fiducial trust in Christ, and sincerity of the
inward man. He was greatly supported under his last suffer-
ings, which he endured with an admirable patience He died
on a Lord's-day morning, July 22, 1694, at Hartshorn in
Derbyshire. Not long before his departure he said, “The
Sabbath is begun; I hope I may this day begin my eternal
Sabbath.”—Mr. Shaw preached his funeral sermon in which
he remarks, to the honour of divine grace, "That he knew
not any man less beholden to external advantages than Mr.
Chantrye, either domestic, scholastical, or academical."-He
left a son in the ministry among the Dissenters, who had
many years a small congregation at Staines in Middlesex.
WESTON, under Lizard [R. 417. 10s.] Mr. SAMPSON
NEWTON. He was ejected from Chebsey, in the parliament-
times, for praying for the King's children in exile; and from
Weston, because he could not entirely conform, tho' he wa
episcopal in his judgment, and approved a liturgy.
WHITMORE. Mr. GRACECOURT.
WILLENHALL (Chap.] Mr. THOMAS BALDWIN,
Junior. He was probably the son of Mr. Thomas Baldwin
ejected from Chaddesley, in Worcestershire. Though he
might have been expelled from Willenhall Chapel at the
restoration, the proper place of his ejectment seems to have
been CLENT, in this county, from the following account of
him given by Mr. Baxter, in his own Life, Part ii. p. 92.-
"At Clent was silenced Mr. Tho. Baldwin." In the Index
he is called Junior.] "A godly, calm, sober preacher, of a
in
Dr. Calamy has it, Mr. THOMAS BADLAND, whose funeral sermon was
preached by Mr. White, a conforming clergyman at Kidderminster. But that
could not be the same person with the above, as he died at Kidderminster,
and was buried there. Nor was his name Badland; nor indeed does it ap-
pear that there was an ejected minister of this name, tho' Mr. WHITE,
the above funeral sermon (now before the editor) has it BADLAND in the
title page: possibly owing to the name being commonly so pronounced, or
to the person's chusing to be so called, as it is known that some of the non-
conformists changed their names for the greater safety. See the account of
this Mr. BALDWIN, Senior, under the article CHADDESLEY in Worcester-
hire.
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blameless life."-He died pastor of a congregation at
Worcester, and was succeeded by Mr. Blackmore.
WOLVERHAMPTON [Col. Ch.] JOHN REYNOLDS,
M. D. He was ejected from hence in 1661, and afterwards.
preached in several parish churches, till Aug. 1662, when he
lived on his patrimony in King's-Norton parish. He after-
wards settled at Stourbridge, and preached in his own house,
and many other places, gratis. He practised physic, and
took the degree. He removed to London in August, 1683,
and died there the December following. He was a man of a
great genius; eminent for his skill in divinity, physic, law,
and other branches of knowledge. He was liberal in every
capacity, to all persons within his reach. He was solid,
ready and judicious, in handling controversial matters; and
in resolving scruples of conscience; well read in the Fathers;
exact in confuting the Popish and other errors; catholic, mo-
derate, and peaceable in principle; pleasant and facetious,
and yet grave and solid in conversation. He was copious in
prayer, admirable in preaching, and unwearied in acting for
God, and doing good, as he had opportunity, both with his
gifts and his estate which was about 150l. per ann. besides
what came from noble and rich patients. He was careful to
avoid waste of time, or any thing else; temperate in all
things; a great master of his passions of every sort; regular,
tho' free in his discourse, and very exact in timing his affairs
and actions. In short, he was an extraordinary man.— -When
endeavours were on foot for a comprehension and indulgence,
he was written to for his judgment, not only by Mr. Baxter,
but also by several members of parliament, and other greater
persons. He earnestly moved for a good and solid basis of
liberty, tho' in vain, He did much good in his public minis-
try, and more in his twenty-two years country service, after
he left Wolverhampton. Mr. John Reynolds of Shrewsbury,
and afterwards of London, was his son; the author of a
Poem upon Death. His life was written by his nephew.
He wrote the Compassionate Address to the christian world,
of which so many thousands have been sold.
WORKS. Answer to Mr. Humphreys about Re-ordination,
signed R. 1.—His Latin Oration at his taking the Degree of M. D.
dedicated to Edward Lord Ward. He was averse to authorship,
but he left some MSS. both in Physic and Divinity.
WOMBORN [R. 49/.] Mr. THOMAS WILSBY. While
he was in his living, besides his own constant labour in pub-
lic,
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lic, and from house to house, he set up a lecture in his church
every Tuesday, for neighbouring ministers to preach. After
he was forced from his beloved people, he sent them many
excellent letters, relating to their spiritual concerns, and par-
ticularly concerning matters of duty. He lived at or near
Birmingham, and had some trouble for preaching in those
parts, especially from Sir R. Holt. He afterwards removed
to Old Swinford, and preached in his own house, near the
church, between the times of public service, and from thence
led his hearers to attend the established worship. He also
sometimes joined in the Lord's-Supper. He was a judicious,
moderate, and peaceable divine: of a catholic spirit; and by
his preaching, practice, and conference, stirred up others to
moderation, holy walking, heavenly-mindedness, and the
practice of piety. He was sometimes a little melancholy, but
he lived by faith to a good old age; and when he died was
very generally lamented.
Mr. BENDY and Mr. RIDWATER were also ejected in this
county, but at what places is uncertain.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. BECKET, of Harlaston. Mr. DANSTAL, of Shen-
ston. Mr. JONES, of Lapley.-Mr. NATHANIEL MOTT,
of Abbots Bromley.-Mr. THOMAS BOLD and Mr. NEVIL.
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IN
SUFFOLK.
A
SH [R.] Mr. THOMAS WATERHOUSE. Of Camb. uni-
versity. He was a scholar at the Charter-house. When
he came from the university, he was zealous for the cere-
monies, but being curate to old Mr. Candler of Coddenham,
his zeal very much abated. He there married a gentlewo-
man of a very good family; and afterwards had a living (in
the gift of the Charter-house) near Bishop-Stortford. Upon
the breaking out of the civil war he went to New-England,
and had removed all his effects in order to his settling there.
But soon hearing of the death of his wife's brother, (upon
which a good estate fell to her and her sister) he returned
to his own country, and became master of the public school
in Colchester. He had not been there long before he had an
impulse upon his spirit that some remarkable judgment would
befall that place; upon which he determined to remove, and
no arguments could prevail upon him to stay. Accordingly,
in about half a year, that town was besieged, and the hard-
ships they went thro' were peculiar. He had removed into
High Suffolk, where his wife's estate lay. After being si-
lenced he lived at Ipswich, and sometimes preached there oc-
casionally but his principal employment was teaching a
school, for which he was peculiarly qualified, and he had
good success. He died at Creeting in 1679 or 1680, near 80
years of age. He was a very useful man, of a blameless con-
versation, and very firm in his Nonconformity.
:
ASSINGTON [V. 47l. 10s.] THOMAS WALKER, A. M.
Of Eman. Col. Camb. Born at Lynn, and brought up at the
grammar-
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grammar-school there. In the college he was very studious
and of an unblameable conversation. He diligently attended
the worship of the college, and the public ministry of Dr.
Preston, Dr. Sibbs, and Mr. Goodwin. His first stated mi-
nisterial employment was at Norwich, as assistant to Mr.
Bridge; after whose removal to Yarmouth he continued
preaching there with good success. About 1636 he was
presented to Assington, by the patron, where he exercised
his ministry till Bartholomew-day, 1662. He was much va-
lued as a preacher; his conversation was very pious, and his
governing aim was to advance the glory of God, in the con-
version of souls. He never sued any for his tithes for fear
of prejudicing them against his ministry. He could have
gone farther in Conformity than some others of his brethren,
but he durst not either give the assent and consent required,
or renounce the Covenant. In quitting his living, (when
he had a wife and nine children) he cast himself and family
upon the providence of God, and the charity of good Chris-
and they were very comfortably provided for. He
was of a peaceable, charitable, yielding spirit, and ready to
communicate to others in distress, to the utmost of his abi-
lity. None went from his door unrelieved while he was in
his living; and afterward, as he remained in the vicarage-
house, the poor continued their application, and still found
relief. When he died (which was in 1683) he left his wife
sufficient to maintain her comfortably for life. His children.
had 100l. a-piece. Two of his sons were in reputable ways
of living before his death, and his three daughters were well
disposed of in marriage. Tho' his youngest son, through
melancholy, was not fit for business, Providence gave him a
good inheritance for life, in the right of his wife; so that we
have here an eminent accomplishment of those words, He
• that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord;' and he that
* soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully.'
A
C
BARKING [R. 140/.] Mr. JOHN FAIRFAX. Of C. C. C.
Oxf. The son of an eminently pious, and faithful minister of
Jesus Christ. Dr. Walker says, he was cast out of C. C.
Col. for refusing the engagement. [Wood says nothing of
him, good or bad. While he was in his living, from whence
he was ejected in 1662, he was generally respected, by men
of moderation and candour, as he also was afterwards. § But
the history of his life is very defective. From the dedica-
tion of the sermon preached at his interment, we learn that
two
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two congregations, viz. of " Ipswich and Needham-marhet,
"lately attended on his ministry;" and from the Title, that
he was interred at Barking, where he died, Aug. 15, 1700.
This sermon was preached at his desire, by Mr. Samuel
Bury, of Bury St. Edmund's; and from one clause in it,
seems to have been preached in the parish church from whence
Mr. Fairfax was ejected. The text is Acts xx. 38. Dr.
Calamy's account of him is principally taken from this dis-
course; from whence the editor, being favoured with a
copy of it, will now insert a few additions.-He was very
happy in a religious and liberal education, and was blessed.
with an early conversion to God in the 11th
year of his
of his age.
That which brought him to his first serious thoughts was,
the (supposed) sudden death of his sister in the cradle. This
was such a surprizing providence, that he fell into great fear
and trembling; and (as the great Waldo of old, upon an occa-
sion much of the same nature) began to enquire of himself—
"What if my own death should be as sudden? What scrip-
tural hopes have I of my eternal welfare? How do I know
but I may perish for ever if I die now ?" Upon this, the
thoughts of eternity became so awful, that he resolved from
thenceforth, his principal care should be to secure his eternal
state. "I purposely wave (says Mr. Bury) to speak of his
family, relations, academical studies-and also of his perse-
cutions, sufferings, bonds and imprisonments; for the sake of
the gospel and a good conscience. [A strange omission !]
I shall only consider him in a few words. (1.) As to his per-
sonal endowments: He was a man of a clear head, deep
judgment, quick fancy, retentive memory, undaunted cou-
rage, and a natural acumen: An excellent scholar, a smart
disputant, and an elegant orator. None could deny his worth
but himself, tho' none could better express it.
(2) As to his christian endowments; he was a gracious
and holy man. He seemed always content with the allot-
ments of providence. He looked down upon wealth as much
as others admire it. He knew the use of an estate, but did not
covet it. He was always forward to every good word and
work. In time of affliction he was patient and submissive;
and in the presence of death not at all dismayed; but with an
humble and chearful confidence resigned up his soul into the
hands of his heavenly father.
(3.) As to his ministerial endowments; I appeal to all
who attended his preaching, whether he were not an able
minister of the new testament. It is not unknown, I believe,
to
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to any of you, that this was the Church wherein he dis-
charged his public ministry, so long as the laws allowed it:
and that it was not for any insufficiency for his work, or im-
morality in his life, that he was ejected hence and silenced;
but only for the tender regard he bore to the ease and quiet
of his conscience. His farewell sermon, eight and thirty
years ago, some of you may remember, was on John x. 41,
42.-He was an orthodox minister, who adhered to all the
doctrinal articles of the church of England. He was an elo-
quent minister: his very language melted the ear: he sought
out for acceptable words, and God made them powerful.-
He was a well-furnished minister, who had a body of divini-
ty in his head, and the power of it within his heart. His gift
in prayer was extraordinary, especially on peculiar occasions.
[He had a great aptress in speech, variety of words, perti-
nence of matter, and fervency of spirit. He had a most at-
tracting and captivating power in his preaching.]—He was
a laborious minister, who would spend and be spent in the
Lord's work. He preached, even to the last of his old age,
no less than seven times a fortnight, in a stated course, in
places at a considerable distance, besides many other occa-
sional services.—He was a prudent minister who knew when
to speak, what to speak, and to whom he spake. He made
not religion burdensome by prolixity; nor did he betray the
reputation of his office by indiscretion in his carriage.-He
was an exact minister. His sermons were all composed in
his mind by deliberate thought: he engraved them on his
own heart by meditation, and imprinted them on the memo-
ries of his hearers by an easy method. He ever disliked all
rude and undigested expressions in the pulpit, and advised
young ministers (as Demosthenes did the Athenians) to study
before they spake, and by no means to allow themselves in a
loose and careless way, as thereby they would neither dis-
cover a sufficient reverence for their Lord and Master, nor
an awful sense of the greatness of their work, nor a due
regard to the precious souls of their hearers.-He was a clear
and searching minister, who ransacked the heart, and laid
open the state of his hearers. He was an affectionate mini-
ster. He spoke not in a formal, frozen, sleepy manner, but
in such a pathetic moving way, as could not but convince
all of the fervency of his affection to them. What is recorded
of Bucholcer may be said of him, "that he seldom went into
the pulpit but he raised in his hearers almost what affections
he pleased, and none were weary of hearing him. He was
a minister
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a minister who delighted in his work. [He often ventured
into the pulpit when many of his hearers could scarcely ex-
pect him to be alive out of it, and ordinarily found relief by
it, as to his bodily disorder; he therefore called preaching his
remedy: yea, so much was his heart set upon this work, that
he was actually preaching to his family and friends about him
when dying, till his speech began to faulter].-Finally, he was
a successful minister; being the happy instrument of convert-
ing many souls.
He never courted preferment, nor was he tempted by it
from the people of his first love. As Gregory Nazianzen
made choice of his little village before the most populous
city, and would not leave his beloved flock, so this servant of
Christ had it always in his heart to live and die at Needham.
But providence determined it otherwise. When he left
this place, doth not appear from this discourse, nor is there
any account of any of his removals. But in another funeral
sermon, preached for him by Mr. Bury at Ipswich, Aug. 23,
(from which some passages above are extracted) it is said,
"He had various exercises; but the most tragical scene of
all was on that fatal Bartholomew, 1662, when he was re-
moved not only from his maintenance, but also from his
public service; to him much more desirable. After that fa-
tal blow, his life has been eminently useful. He remember-
ed that woe against him if he preached not the gospel, and
therefore tho' bonds and afflictions did every where abide him,
and persecutions and imprisonments were heavy upon him,
yet whenever he could have opportunity he never forsook
his work for fear of men; resolving that Christ should be
magnified in his body,' whether by doing or by suffering.
Having continued many years in the Lord's harvest, and
done great service there, he with much chearfulness resigned
up his soul to Christ, at his house in Barking, Aug. 11, 1700,
aged 77, with the apostle's words in his lips, 2 Tim. iv.7.
I have fought a good fight, &c. The text of this last ser-
mon at Ipswich, (where Mr. Fairfax held a lecture) is John
v. 35. He was a burning and shining light, &c.
The late Mr. Isaac Toms of Hadleigh, favoured the Editor
with a copy of a letter, which Mr. Fairfax wrote from
Bury Jail to his sister, Mrs. Priscilla Fairfax, who lived in
the family of the Bp. of Norwich, and who, it seems, had
urged him to conform. It is as follows:
"Dear Sister-Tho' it be long e're I return you answer
and thanks for your last letter, dated in Jan. yet believe it
5
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was very acceptable to me; and I cannot but read therein
very hearty respects and affection to me, with a sense of my
bonds. Know, dear sister, that tho' I be a prisoner shut up
close, now twenty-seven weeks together, and never set foot
over the threshold at which I entered, yet God hath graci-
ously preserved and provided for me, and made my bonds no
heavier than he hath given me strength to bear. If ever I
had communion with God, inward peace and satisfaction in
my spirit, and good hope for a better world, I have had it
here. My adversaries intended my hurt, but God hath done
me good, and I hope hath set me beyond the reach of earth
and hell, to do any thing against me that shall indeed hurt
me. Yet think not that I am attained to that measure of
self-denial and faith in God, as not to be sensible of
my bur-
den: No; God knows I have but too much self, and cor-
ruption, and unbelief in my heart, which clog me and aggra-
vate my bondage; but God's grace hath hitherto been suffi-
cient to support me, yea, many times to encourage me. Oh
happy life, to live by faith! O glorious and comfortable pri-
vilege of access to the throne of grace! God enlarge his
spirit in me, and help me to improve and answer the obliga-
tions of grace and mercy which he hath laid upon me! The
assizes are now approaching, and we are waiting what God
will do for us or with us. He hath so ordered by his Provi-
dence, that a sober Judge comes down this circuit, who we
hope will not entertain such prejudices against us as not to
do us right. But I desire to look further, and to commit
myself to him who, I am sure, will judge righteously, in
whose hands the hearts of all men are. I shall not dispute
my cause with you, and so return no answer to your solicita-
tion of me to Conformity. I take all your advice kinály.
My humble service to my Lord and his Lady. I crave your
prayers, and commend you to God; remaining your most
affectionate brother in bonds,
JOHN FAIRFAX.
Bury, March 18, 1670-1.
For Mrs. Priscilla Fairfax, at the
Bishop's Palace in Norwich.]
Dr. Sampson, having consulted Mr. Fairfax about the
ministers ejected in these parts, (he being as considerable as
most of them) received from him a letter, dated 1696, with
the accounts he sent, of which the following is a part:
"SIR,-As for the catalogue I here send you, I am of opi-
nion it is as perfect as any you have had, or are likely to get.
I had
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I had personal knowledge of above four-score of them, and
am persuaded of the truth of the rest. I have taken notice
of the characters you give to some particular persons, and
did set myself to do the like for some others, of whose worth
I had personal knowledge; but e're I had gone far, some
thoughts came into my mind, which put me upon serious
consideration of the whole thing. The more I considered,
the less I liked it; and apprehend it would be of ill conse-
quence. It is not to be imagined that every one should have
a particular commendation; and if among a hundred (for
instance, in Suffolk) twenty should have an honourable cha-
racter given them distinctly by name, and no notice taken of
the rest, it would at least imply a disparagement of the rest §,
especially if some of those twenty be men of weaker parts,
it is more than probable a very ill interpretation would be
made thereof, both by friends and adversaries, many of the
present generation being yet alive too, that knew both the
one and the other. I hereupon consulted other Bartholo-
means, and we all judged that it would be more prudent,
that a general good character be given to all, as persons of
sufficient ministerial abilities, of great integrity and faithful-
ness, industriously studying and designing the salvation of
souls, and commending religion to their people, by an exem-
plary practice and conversation, wherein many were very
eminent, and went beyond others. The greater was the
church's loss by their deprivation, which the sad effects.
thereof do undeniably demonstrate.-I have been lately in-
formed of what melancholy reflections some good men made
upon their Conformity at their death; and have observed
what severe providences have followed some others but for
the honour I have for them, I forbear; as also what provi-
dences have followed persecutors-I was well acquainted
with a very wise and observant minister, Mr. Candler, who
hath been dead many years, who I know did commit to
writing whatever he met with that was remarkable. His
eldest son was a Nonconformist also, and hath been dead
some years; but his son is a Conformist, and these Memoirs
are fallen into his hands. I engaged a near relation of his to
procure me a sight of them, but I had only two manuscripts
:
To obviate this natural objection, it may be proper to suggest, what
every reader should consider, that the brevity of some accounts arises not
from any defect in the characters and abilities of the men, but from want of
information concerning them; and that from the omission of those who
knew them to commit early memorials of them to writing.
ED.
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returned me, wherein I could find nothing pertinent to your
purpose," &c.
WORKS. The Life of Mr. Owen Stockton, with his Funeral
Sermon.-Primitiæ Synagoga: a Sermon at Ipswich, on the open-
ing of a new Meeting-house there.-A Serm. on the Death of Mr.
Newcomen. N. B. This Dr. Collinges printed without his con-
sent.
BATTISFORD. Mr. THOMAS HOLBOROUGH. A very
honest, plain, practical preacher. After his ejectment, in
times of restraint, he often attended the ministry of Mr. S.
Blackerby, incumbent at Stow-Market, to some of whose
printed sermons he wrote a recommendatory epistle.
BECCLES [R.] Mr. JOHN CLARK,
he got possession of this living in 1655.
Dr. Walker says
Mr. ROBERT OTTEE, He was kept at the Latin
school till he was old enough to be employed in his father's
trade, at which he worked several years; but being very re-
ligious and studious, he generally had his Bible before him
when he was at work. His inclination to learning was so
strong, that nothing but an apprehension that it was his duty
to comply with the will of his father could have made him
easy in following the business of his trade. When he was
come to years, going once to a place where some private
christians met, to spend some time together in prayer, and
other religious exercises, one whose assistance was mainly
depended on, being hindered from coming, Mr. Ottee, who
went merely to join with the rest, was prevailed on to pray
with them, and afterwards to expound a portion of scripture ;
in both which he acquitted himself so well, as to excite the
admiration of the most intelligent persons present. Here-
upon some of them applied to Mr. Bridge, desiring that he
would encourage this young man, to devote himself to the
ministry. But some who had not a learned education, hav-
ing been formerly encouraged by him in that way, and not
answering expectation, he would not yield to their importu-
nity, without the concurrence of Mr. Brinsley who several
times discoursed with the young man, and receiving full sa-
tisfaction as to his qualifications, thought fit to join in en-
couraging him to quit secular business, and apply to the mi-
nistry. He accordingly did so, and was soon called to Bec-
cles, [where he was ordained Nov. 12, 1653] and where he
met with good acceptance, and great success in bringing souls
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to Christ. He had a useful and edifying way of preaching,
which met with approbation, both from ministers and private.
christians of all denominations. After his ejectment he re-
mained with his people, and God continued to bless his la-
bours among them to the end of his days. If he preached
five or six sermons without hearing of any good effect upon
some or other of his hearers, he used to be greatly dejected,
He was
and was very fervent in prayer for greater success.
congregational in his judgment, and of such remarkable mo-
desty and moderation, as recommended him to the esteem
and affection of such as differed from him. Dr. Collinges in
particular was his intimate friend. He governed his people
with remarkable prudence. He died about 1690.
WORKS. Christ set forth; in several Sermons upon Heb. vii.
prefaced by Mr. Martin Fynch and Mr. Wm. Bidbank; and pub-
lished soon after his death.
BILDESTON [R.] Mr. SAMUEL WELD. He retired
hither in the time of the war, from Pickworth in Lincoln-
shire, being succeeded by Mr. Drake.
BLITHBOROUGH [C. or D.] Mr. ROBERT Smith.
BRADLEY (Great) [R.] Mr. BARTHOLOMEW ADRIAN.
BRAMPTON [V. 41l. 19s.] Mr. BATHOE.
BRANDESTON [V.] Mr. JOHN FORBEE. A man of
remarkable moderation.
BRIGHTWELL [R.] Mr. ROBERT MERCER.
BUNGAY [R.] Mr. SAMUEL MALBON. A man mighty
in the scriptures. Some time after he was silenced he became
pastor to a church in Amsterdam.
WORKS. Eight Sermons on Life and Death. Prefaced by
Mr. W. Greenhill, Mr. Joseph Caryl, and others.
BURY St. Edmund's. St. Mary's [L.] NICHOLAS
CLAGET, M. A. Of Mert. Col. and Magd. Hall, Oxford.
An able moderator in philosophy. Dr. E. Corbet was his
tutor. He was first vicar of Melbourne in Derbyshire. He
had been at Bury, when ejected, eighteen years, and had
given abundant testimony of his industry and fidelity in the
discharge of his ministry. Both by his doctrine and his life
he made it his business to win souls to righteousness, and was
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very successful herein. He died Sept. 12, 1663. Dr. Wm.
Claget was his son.
WORKS. Abuses of God's Grace, discovered in the Kinds,
Causes, &c. Proposed as a seasonable Check to the wanton Li-
bertinism of the Age. 4to.
SAMUEL SLATER, M. A. Son of Mr. Slater, of
St. Kath. Tower, London. He was first at Nayland, and
removed thence to Bury, where he and Mr. Claget were
troubled at the first assizes after the Restoration, for not read-
ing the Book of Common-prayer. Some time after, being
still vigorously opposed for Nonconformity, he removed to
London, and became pastor of a considerable congregation,
in Crosby Square, Bishopsgate street. There he died May
24, 1704, He was a grave, serious, useful preacher, and
always had a considerable stock of sermons before hand. A
funeral sermon was preached upon his death by Mr. Tong,
and another by Mr. Alexander, his assistant. He was suc-
ceeded by Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Benjamin Grosvenor. §
WORKS. Fun. Sermons for Mr. John Reynolds, Mr. Fincher,
Mr. T. Vincent, Mr. John Oaks, Mr. Day, Mr. Rathband, and
Mr. Gilson.-A Thanksgiving Serm. on the Discovery of the hor-
rid Plot.-A Disc. of Family Religion, in 18 Sermons.-Of Family
Prayer. Of Closet Prayer...A Disc. of the Preciousness of God's
Thoughts towards his People...Serm. bef. Ld. Mayor.-Sermon
to young Men, Dec. 25, 1688.
Mr. THOMAS TAYLOR. Of Gonvil and Caius Col.
Camb. Born at Scarnying in Norfolk, in Nov. 1625. He
had his grammar-learning at Wymondham. Cambridge, at
the time of his going thither, being puritannically inclined,
and the contrary party governed and awed by a part of the
parliament's forces, (Oliver Cromwell much influencing
those parts) his father, being a great Cavalier, and fearing his
son should turn Roundhead, took him away from Cambridge,
and got him into the family of one Mr. Ripps of Matshal,
where he taught his children. That gentleman allowing
him a convenient house near, he taught a larger school.
§ Mr. Slater married the widow of Mr. Hood, daughter to Mr. Harman
SHEAFE of London, son of Mr. HARMAN SHEAFE of CRANEBROOK in Kent,
mentioned under that article, p. 59. The late Mr. SHEAFE, of the Bank of
England, (a useful man, and one of the first members of the Society for pro-
moting religious knowledge) was of this family: from whose copy of Calamy
this article was taken.
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Upon forming an acquaintance with some persons who were
religious, he fell in with them, and wrote such a letter to his
father on the occasion, as a little mollified him, and drew
tears from his youngest brother's eyes. He was then receiv-
ed among the pious ministers at and about Norwich, and
preached here and there, as opportunity offered, with good
acceptance. He afterwards removed to Swaffham in Nor-
folk, where he taught the free-school and boarded some.
scholars in his house. Here he lived in good repute. After
his ejectment by the act of uniformity, he was above a year
in prison at Bury. When he was released by the Judge at
the assizes he went to London, and became a Tobacco-mer-
chant, but still preached occasionally, sometimes in the city
and sometimes at Croydon, till the Dissenters had liberty set-
tled by law; about which time, he went to Cambridge, and
succeded Mr. Holcroft at his meeting in Green-street, where
he preached till Nov. 1700, when he died at the age of 75,
and was buried in the meeting-house, in which Mr. Hussey
succeeded him.
WORKS. Jacob's Wrestling, &c. or the Necessity and Effi-
of Faith in Prayer.-The true Light shining in Darkness; or
a Treatise of Justification.
cacy
CHELMONDESTON [Chap.] Mr. JOHN SANDERS.
CLAYDON [R.] Mr. COLLet.
~
CODDENHAM [V.] Mr. MATTHIAS CANDLER, senior.
Of Camb. univ. He had supplied this place many years, to
the great advantage both of town and country; being an ex-
cellent preacher, full of useful matter, and very perspicuous.
He was bold in his delivery, but decent. His voice was easy
and natural. In his first years multitudes, far and near, flocked
after his ministry, which was uncommonly useful. Neither
was he less esteemed in those loose times, when men, having
itching ears, heaped up to themselves teachers, according to
their humours. He still taught them the good old savory
truths by which men may best get to heaven. He had one
peculiar study and diversion that rendered him acceptable to
gentlemen, which was Heraldry. He was a fit man to have
written the antiquities of his country. He was an early suf-
ferer for Nonconformity under Bp. Wren, but did not long
survive his ejectment. He died in the beginning of 1663.
COMBES [R.] Mr. RICHARD JENNINGS. Of Kath.
Hall, Camb. where he had Mr. 7. Knowles for his tutor:
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He was born at Ipswich. When he was very young, his
pious mother took him with her, to the house of a sick neigh-
bour, who had been a bad man, and was in great terror of
conscience, crying out, with vehemence, for an interest.
in Christ. This much affected him. He thought "If this
man should recover, he would certainly become very
religious." But tho' he did recover, he observed that he
grew more notoriously wicked than ever; which made a
great impression upon his own mind. But it proved to be
no more lasting than the sick man's goodness; for in a cata-
logue of some of the remarkable methods of God's provi-
dence towards him, he acknowledges, That in the two last.
years, of his abode in the university, he let the reins loose to
his youthful affections, and wasted his time and money pro-
fusely in riotous courses. [But divine grace remarkably ap-
peared to reclaim him; of which he gives the following ac-
count:"Walking in my father's garden at Ipswich in Ap-
ril, 1636, I had this sudden injection darted into my mind,
Wherefore didst thou come into the world? Conscience se-
cretly whispering, It was for the glory of God, I could not
but be amazed and confounded at the thoughts of my former
wicked life. Meditating with myself what course I should
take to cast off all wicked company, (without which I should
never turn to God) I had a strong impulse to go with Mr.
N. Rogers to New-England. The motion was certainly of
God, in mercy to my soul; for before, I abhorred New-Eng-
land above any place in the world. I communicated my
thoughts to my mother, who rejoiced much, but was not
without some fears I was not in earnest; whereas my desire
to go was so ardent, that nothing could take me off from the
undertaking. My voyage began June 1, 1636. While I
was in the ship I was sometimes affected to tears at Mr.
Rogers's sermons; but my love to sensual pleasures was so
great, that God called once and again, and yet my heart
could hardly be persuaded to part with all for Christ. A half
conversion I could easily assent to, but to be divorced from
ALL Sin I could not be free to, of a long time. In the voyage
we went thro' many storms and difficulties, and cast not an-
chor in Massachusets Bay till Nov. 16.
During my abode with Mr. Rogers in his family till Dec.
1638, many sweet heavenly [influences] fell upon my soul.
And in the spring, in 1637 (some previous work of convic-
tion having been before in the ship) God in infinite mercy
brought it, I hope, to a thorough conversion, and to the best
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of my remembrance, in this manner.-Upon some private
discourse with Mr. Rogers, as we were walking to hear a
lecture, when I came home and was retired, resolving to en-
ter upon a narrow search of my heart and ways, I had on a
sudden such a flash of joy darted in, as took me off from the
duty of self-searching, and possessed me with a strong confi-
dence there was a thorough work of grace already. But
when the flash was over, returning with more seriousness.
to the work intended, I began to think That joy might be
an illusion of satan. And when I a second time entered
upon serious reflections, there was a second flash of joy after
the former manner. But when it was over, I began to sus-
pect that both these were the delusions of the devil, because
they tended to take off from a necessary duty. O the depths
of satan's cunning, and his enmity to heart-searching! Thro'
God's infinite grace and mercy, returning to the work, and
examining my heart about the soundness of my conversion,
I could not satisfy myself, that in all the operations of the
Spirit I had experienced, either in the voyage, or in New-
England, I was effectually wrought upon sincerely to close
with Christ in the promise, and thereupon I passed sentence
upon myself as a Christless wretch. This was on a Saturday
evening. The night following was a night of the greatest
horror that ever I endured; but the next day God directed
Mr. Rogers to preach pertinently to my case, about the great-
ness of the sin of unbelief, and I was convinced that my im-
mediate duty was to believe, and not to stay in the condition
wherein I was. Hereupon, on the Monday morning, rising
early, and laying aside all private study, I spent several hours
in prayer, with the greatest fervency and flowing of tears that
I had either before or since. A little before noon, wrestling
exceedingly with God to give me faith, I found myself ena-
bled, by the grace of God, to throw my weary thirsty soul
into the arms of God's mercy in Christ: relying on the pro-
mise in the gospel, that He that believeth shall be saved;'
and had that peace in believing, which thro' the grace of God
I have not wholly lost to this day (1685), tho' more than 48
years since."
In his return from New-England he takes notice of a re-
markable deliverance, when thro' the infatuation of the sea-
men they got among the rocks at St. Michael's mount.
Upon his return home, 1639, he entered upon his ministry
in Northamptonshire, living with that excellent christian
Mrs. Elms. From thence he went into Huntingdonshire,
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and from thence to North Glenham in Suffolk, where his
ministry was acceptable and useful. He was ordained at
London, Sept. 18, 1645, and settled at Combe in 1647, where
he continued till 1662. At which time, says he, "I was in
debt 160l. and had but little coming in for myself, wife, and
children; and was also some years after unjustly forced to
discharge a bond of 50l. And the educating and disposing
of
iny
three sisters stood me in 200l. Yet, by God's merci-
ful providence, by degrees I discharged all my debts." He
continued in the parsonage-house till 1678, when he went to
London. He spent the latter part of his life with three
pious widows at Clapham, where he died Sept. 12, 1709;
He was a man of unaffected piety; a considerable scholar;
of a good invention, and a strong memory. He retained his
juvenile learning to an advanced age, and was able to preach
without notes at 92. He passed thro' the world without
noise and ostentation, and without ever appearing in print.
CRANESFORD [V.] Mr. HENRY KING. Dr. Walker
says, he came to this living in 1658, and lost it in 1662.
CRETING. St. Mary's [R. 46l. 145.] Mr. SAMUEL
SPRING. Mr. Fairfax, in his funeral sermon (on 1 Sam.
XXV. 1) gives this account of hiin: " His father was minister
in this town before him; and he was true heir, not only of
his father's considerable worldly estate, but also of his more
valuable endowments. His accomplishments for the minis-
try were far greater in the eyes of others than in his own.
His natural parts and acquired learning had their degree be-
twixt envy and contempt. His prudence in the government
of himself, his conversation, his advice and counsel to others,
commended him above most. His judgment in the interpre-
tation of scripture was solid, quick, and strong, His minis-
tration of the word was deliberate, plain, and familiar. His
excessive modesty was greatly prejudicial to him. His unble-
mished, sober, and righteous walking before men, was the
exemplification of his sound and holy doctrine. His bounty
in doing good to all as he had opportunity, but especially
to the houshold of faith,' and the suffering members of
Jesus Christ, was the commendation of his profession. In
his general and particular calling as a christian, and as a mi-
nister, he was a praying Samuel, in which spiritual exercise
he held a constant and daily communion with his God; and
so strictly did he bind himself to this, that he would not be
excused by any bodily weakness from performing that duty
"
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with his family, as long as he had a tongue to speak, tho' it
was with the greatest difficulty. In short, he constantly
breathed the sincerity, truth, power, spirit, and life, of pure
religion." He died desired, lamented and honoured, in 1673.
He was buried in the church of Creting.
DEBENHAM [V.] Mr. JOHN KING. He was in re-
gard to discipline, a Congregationalist. A man of a very
tender conscience. He was studious and thoughtful; as use-
ful in discourse as in the pulpit, continually dropping some-
thing worth hearing. He loved to speak of him whom he
loved most, his great Lord and Master Jesus Christ. When
he was thrown out of his living he knew not whither to go;
but his enemies presently found a place for him, viz. a Jail.
When he was out of that, he took a farm, the business of
which he attended diligently, in all weathers, in order to a
subsistence. He was chearful under all, chusing rather to
• suffer affliction with the people of God,' and keep a good
conscience, than in any other way to get a plentiful subsis-
tence. He died some time before 1670.
DUNWICH [R.] Mr. SPATCHER. See WALpole.
EYE [V.] Mr. EDWARD BARKER. Of Caius Col.
Camb. While he was there he was of high-church princi-
ples; but in going thro' one of the churches in Norwich,
while a sermon was preaching, he staid to hear it, and was
struck with such consternation, as never wore off till he was
brought to a serious repentance for an ill-spent life, and to a
thoro' reformation. Receiving assistance from some con-
gregational ministers in his spiritual trouble, he afterwards
fell in with them. One of his associates turning Papist, took
his name, which stands in red letters in the catalogue of
such Englishmen as had revolted to Rome, in the book called
Legenda Lignea. Dr. Sampson, in his papers, says of this
Mr. Barker, That his life and doctrine were commendable.
His preaching wrought a great reformation in the corporation,
till the flood came and swept them all away. He was very
humble in his behaviour, studious and thoughtful in his pre-
parations for his sermons, and earnest in pressing the necessity
of a holy life. He was much harassed with deputy-lieute-
nants, indictments, and prosecutions in all the courts, after
the Restoration. They would not let him be quiet upon his
ejectment; but he died not long after, viz. in 1665. His
loss was much lamented by his people, and the serious chris-
tians
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tians of those parts. He had a peculiar fondness for divine
poetry, and wrote a book of it, in imitation of Mr. Herbert.
GOSBECK [R.] Mr. THOMAS DAINES.
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HAVERIL [V.] STEPHEN SCANDERET, M. A. Of both
universities, and Conduct of Trin. Col. Camb. His father
was yeoman of the wardrobe to K. Charles I. After the
Restoration he was ordered by Dr. Duport, the Vice-Master,
(Dr. Wilkins, the Master, being absent) to read the Service-
book in the chapel. He desired the Dr. to stay and see whe-
ther the parliament required it; but he would allow of no
delay, and insisted on it that it should be done the next
morning. Mr. Scanderet refused. The Dr. told him that
he must provide another to do it; but he replied, that he
could not put another upon that, which he could not in con-
science do himself. Then the Dr. then said he himself
would do it. Mr. Scanderet answered, That it was his of
fice to pray, and he was as willing to discharge it now as
ever. While the bell was ringing the next morning for
prayers, the Dr. and Mr. S. walked backwards and forwards
in the outer chapel; and when the bell had done, Mr. S.
was for going in, and had some persons ready to bear him
company. The Dr. said, Hold, for my party is not
come.' Mr. S. began to pray, and the Dr. at the same time
began to read the Service book, when his party came in and
made their responses, and drowned Mr. Scanderet's voice;
upon which he went out of the chapel, and was by Dr. Fern
put out of this place. He was afterwards silenced at Haveril
in 1662. Soon after which he was put into the ecclesiastical
court, being charged with preaching for the old minister of
the parish, after being silenced, and contrary to the act, He
owned that he had assisted Mr. Eyers, who was very old.
But, said Mr. Coleman the Register, did you not preach? He
answered, that he had visited the sick; but would own no-
thing farther, that he might not condemn himself. Mr.
Coleman rode to Norwich, and acquainted the bishop, who
told him that he had never ordained Mr. Scanderet. Here-
upon he was summoned before Dr. King and Sir Gervase
Elwes. Sir Gervase told him, He had long borne with him,
but that now he was informed a multitude of people came to
hear him on horseback and on foot, it was no longer to be en-
dured, Mr. Scanderet answered, He hoped, by bearing
with him, he had done God good service, and he did not see
why he might not do so still. Sir Gervase replied, A cobler
s 4
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or tinker might preach as well as he. Mr. S. told him, that
he had gone thro' a course of studies, and was solemnly or-
dained to the ministry. Sir Gervase said, it was not fit that
any should preach but such as the bishops approved of. Mr.
S. replied, that he had submitted to the examination of several
worthy able divines, and was approved of by them, nor was
he unwilling to be examined over again; and if he was igno-
rant, or any way unfit to teach, he might be set by. Sir
Gervase said, He had broken the laws. Mr. S. told him,
he hoped it was not the design of the laws to deprive the poor
people of an edifying ministry. Mr. Eyers the minister of
the place being by, owned that he himself could not preach,
being 85 years old. Sir Gervase said, Be that as it would,
the law must take place. But, said he, the parliament hath
made an additional act, that persons ordained by bishops shall
continue preaching till Christmas, if they will conform then.
Mr. Scanderet desired the perusal of the act; and having
viewed it, desired he might have the benefit of it. He was
bid to produce his orders; but not being able to do that,
his mittimus was drawn up; constables were sent for, and
ordered to wait below. But he made a shift to get out of
the room, and for that time escaped, and continued preaching.
in his own house, which was in Essex, tho' the church was
in Suffolk, where also the constable lived. Upon this the
court excommunicated him, and Mr. Eyers read the excom-
munication publicly in the church.
Some time after, he was to preach a lecture at Walsham
le Willows, a sinecure, [or rather a Donative.] The liturgy
was read, and afterwards Mr. Scanderet came in and preach-
ed. In the midst of the sermon Sir Edm. Bacon, Sir Ger-
vase Elwes, Sir Algernon May, and two other justices,
came into the church, and asked him, what authority he had
to preach? They then forced him to come down; and he
was sent, with some other ministers to Bury jail. After a
while, they were all bound at the sessions, in a recognizance
of 20l. a man, to appear at the next assizes. Mr. Scanderet
was there, but did not answer when he was called; and,
when he saw his brethren remanded to jail, he withdrew.
Afterwards, in going home from Norwich, he met Sir Ed-
mund on the road. He was very severe upon him for not
appearing at the assizes, and attempted to take him prisoner,
but he rode away. Sir Edmund's servant pursued and stop-
ped him. When Sir Edmund came up to him, he first lashed
him with his whip, and then snatching his cane from him,
laid
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laid severely on his head and body with his own cane, and
sent him prisoner to Ipswich, rather than Bury; that, as he
said, "He might break the covey." From thence he sent
for and obtained a Habeas corpus for trial at the Common
Pleas; where having declared how he had been dealt with,
he was discharged.--He afterwards preached to the people
of Cambridge, at Waterbeach, a village about five miles dis-
tant; where he was apprehended by an officer, who com-
mitted him to two others; but he escaped from them. He
preached at Mr. Thurlow's house in Cambridge, where he
was disturbed by the mayor, and fined 10/. He also met
with a great many other sufferings for his Nonconformity.
He had two disputations with G. Whitehead, and other Qua-
kers, who opposed him. He died Dec. 8, 1706, aged 75.
§ Mr. Bury, at the end of his funeral sermon for Mr. Cra-
dock, mentions several other ejected ministers who died near
the same time, and among the rest, Mr. Scanderet of Hav-
erill; of whom he writes thus: "We have now an account
of the death of another ancient minister of Christ, in these
parts; a loss which will be felt by many, in as much as his
service was not confined to a little compass. He was a man
of primitive piety and good works: a holy, humble, zealous
and laborious servant of Christ. It was his honour in a
declining age, when others disputed away truths and duties,
to stand up in a vigorous defence of both. He preached not
himself, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and himself a servant for
Jesus sake. He never declined his work at home or abroad,
but with an unwearied diligence continued in it so long as he
lived. He had as little regard to this world as it deserved, be-
ing much above the ceremony and guise of it, and ordinarily
addressed himself to all, as a citizen of heaven, in a language
proper to his own country.-His life was a life of holiness,
faith, service and communion [with God] and as a reward
thereof, he had ordinarily the peace of God in his soul that
passed all understanding. His pains and infirmities, his
watchings and wearinesses, his persecutions and imprison-
ments, his bonds and his stripes for Jesus sake are all over.
WOKKS. An Antidote against Quakerism.-Doctrine and
Instructions; or a Catechism touching many weighty Points in
Divinity, 1674.
HEMINGSTON [R.] TOBIAS LEG, M. A. Of the
university of Glasgow, where he took his degrees. On re-
turning to England he was admitted ad idem at Cambridge,
where
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where he for some time resided. He had the general repu-
tation of a worthy ingenious man; and in a time of trial
kept his conscience void of offence towards God and towards.
man. In a divided nation he followed no party for humour,
or fear, or worldly advantage. When he was silenced in
1662, his people, who greatly lamented their loss, were wit-
nesses for him of his faithful preaching and holy life. He
was forced by the Corporation act to chuse another settle-
ment, where for above twenty years he preached in his own
house almost every Lord's-day, not receiving or desiring one
penny for his labour, tho' he had a large family of children.
He held occasional communion with the church of England,
to shew his charity, and lived in great friendship with the
minister of his parish. He met with such general love and
respect, that when other ministers suffered, he was connived
at, and the worst of men were ashamed to appear against him,
When Providence opened a wider door, he embraced all op-
portunities for preaching publicly, and was an instrument of
good to many. He had a great affliction in the latter part of
his life, which he bore with an invincible patience. At
length, after a long confinement by the gout, he died at Ips-
wich in 1700, aged 77. Mr. Fairfax preached his funeral
sermon. He had a clear head, a ready tongue, a holy heart,
and lived a very exemplary life. He was an excellent orator
at the throne of grace, and a substantial moving preacher.
HENSTED. Mr. SPURDANE. A useful preacher.
HEVENINGHAM [R.] Mr. JAMES VOTIER. He pub-
lished a Discourse on Effectual Calling.
HINERCLAY [R.] Mr. ROBERT HOWLET. After his
ejectment he lived at Colchester, and there kept a school.
HINTLESHAM [R.] (or Stratford). Mr. DANIEL
WALL.
HOLTON. Mr. SWAYNE.
HUNDON [V.] FRANCIS CROW, M. A. Educated
under the celebrated Du Moulin in France. He was of the
family of Hughhead in Scotland, within six miles of Ber-.
wick, and was usher to the famous Mr. Webb, schoolmaster
in that town. He had permission, after his ejectment, to live
in the parsonage, till he had time to provide himself with a
convenient house, which he did in the same town; but he
soon
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soon after removed to Owington in Essex, where he usually
preached twice every Lord's-day, once between the times of
worship in the public church, when the greatest part of that
auditory came to hear him. He afterwards preached in a
public meeting-house at Clare many years; and had many
seals of his ministry. Once a month he preached at Bury,
to a numerous auditory, where he sometimes administered the
sacrament to four tables, because of the great number of
communicants. He often preached about the country every
day in the week. Towards the latter end of Charles's reign
he was taken at Bury, at the time of the assizes, and com-
mitted to prison for ten days; but came off by a misnomer.
After this he was so way-laid and pursued, that he could not
get an opportunity of preaching without the utmost difficulty;
and therefore, in 1683, he went to Jamaica, where he preach-
ed to a large auditory, who were very kind to him; but he
could not persuade them to join in the Lord's Supper. At
length, in 1687, upon K. James's liberty, he returned to
England. He might have had a congregation in London,
but refused it, and went again to his old people in Clare,
with whom he continued till his death, which was in the
year 1692, aged 65.-He was very diligent in catechizing
both children and adult persons who were ignorant.-The
following extract of a letter of his from Port Royal in Ja-
maica, to Mr. G. Firmin, dated March 7, 1687, will discover
something of the spirit of the writer:
"Reverend and dear Sir,
“I was well satisfied with my call hither, (so were many
others wiser and better) tho' I see not yet, after one year's
service, what the sovereign disposer of all sent me for. The
severity of the times threaten much my personal safety, in
the place where the hand of the Most High had so sorely and
signally broken my family; upon which a retreat for a time
at least was judged not amiss; and in the interim, meeting
with a speaking providential call, I could not resist it, consi-
dering myself at liberty to serve the Lord in what quarter of
the world offered fairest, being under no terms or compact for
service, or for maintenance, with any people, since I was cast
out of my public ministry; tho' I still bear that poor people I
left, upon my heart, God not having left himself without a
witness among them.
them. The thing that carries it with me, is
Majus bonum ecclesiæ visibilis universalis (the greater good
of the universal visible church) unto which primo instanti
I was made a minister; and I am well assured Jamaica hath
more
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more need of me, and of many wiser and better, than any
part of England hath. But now, Sir, as to myself and place
here, I found sin very high, and religion very low. Here hath
been great want of fit means to lay a good foundation by an
ordained minister, both for the word and sacraments.-There
is nothing known here but a form of preaching on the Lord's-
day, and many that go on in the common road of the public
formality, may be said to be as dead and senseless here as almost
any where else; and the people, dissatisfied with this, have
turned Baptists and Quakers: so that the things of God and
salvation are at a miserable pass with us; how irrecoverable,
I must not determine. And yet the goodness of God waits so
far to be gracious to us, as to allow one open, free, peaceable,
and numerous meeting, on the growing hand.-The Gover-
nor himself, in two visits I made him, hath treated me with
greater civility and respect than I think fit to express. His
Secretary likewise I have good interest in, having been some
nights at his house. Our liberties are like to be as long-
liv'd as in any of the king's plantations; for indeed they can
hardly be taken away without apparent danger, if not ruin to
the island, considering the multitude of Jews upon the point,
and the many Quakers there are, both here and in the country
plantations. The better sort of merchants and mechanics.
adhere to us. And indeed I should be disingenuous if, upon
this head, I should conceal the kindness of our congregation,
in allowing me a liberal maintenance. That is but needful,
in that this is one of the most expensive places in the known
world, for all manner of provisions; and yet 'tis the most
proud and prodigal place that ever I beheld."-[Having given
some account of the country, he goes on]-" But what is this
to my purpose? you will say; Sed multa imo maxima desi-
derantur. How thrives the gospel in Jamaica? What have
you done for God at Port Royal? How many souls have you
converted by a year's preaching? Alas! Sir, what a hum-
bling Providence it is, that I can give you no better answer
to this great question! I can only say I have made it my busi-
ness to treat among them, of the great and necessary fun-
damental truths and vitals of Christianity; but that one soul
hath been yet converted is hid from me.-I confess my soul
thirsteth for the first ripe fruit of this blind and barren Indian
island, where Satan hath had so long, and so strong a throne,
and where Christ hath been so great a stranger. It is for a
lamentation, that as this is not a time of reformation, so this
should not be a place of conversion; and that as the things of
religion
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religion go backward almost every where, so at least they go
so little forward here, where liberty is more enjoyed than in
most protestant countries, all the world over. But when all
is done, not by might nor power of man, not by our spirit,
but by the spirit of the Lord,' the mountains must melt and
be made a plain. I lament it, that the preacher I found here (I
hope a good man) could by no means be persuaded, by me
and the people jointly, to continue and carry on the work of
God, in one place, with one shoulder, but would needs run
himself on a desperate adventure, to plant and possess the isle
of Providence, that had been twice depopulated and spoiled by
the Spaniards. So that I am left alone, having the heavy work
of the place on my weak shoulders, being to preach two ser-
mons every Lord's-day; and yet studying and preaching one
sermon here, is more spending than three in England, the con-
stant heat is so consuming night and day. Indeed the place is
so little desirable, either for company or climate, that without
some signal marks of God's blessing on a man's ministry, there
seems small encouragement for staying, if either England or
New-England were open. I am here deprived of converse
both with scholars and christians; few here, even of the bet-
ter sort, caring to see a minister qua talis, out of the pulpit;
having no time to spare for, nor spirit to entertain, any mu-
tual edification in a more private christian communion. As
the wicked here are more prophane than in England, so the
professors (the few that there are) are more lukewarm and
worldly. Most of them are Baptists and Independents whose
opinions I could willingly wave, to carry on the great work
of godliness, and edifying in Christ, in all his ordinances.
But most of them having been members of congregations in
London, and elsewhere in England, excuse themselves from
living under any pastoral charge or inspection here. And
for any thing I see, the thing sticks not so much at diversity
of principles one from another, or from me, or any tenaci-
ousness of their private opinions, as a wretched Laodicean
tepidity, and not caring that full proof should be made of any
ministry among them, in following them close, for reform-
ing loose lives and heathenish families.-And now I must
heartily beg your continued prayers for me, that, if it be his
holy will, I may do my God some service here, or at least
I may not lose the little heat I brought, if I be. not instru-
mental to increase it in others. It will greatly refresh ine to
hear from you all, how the Lord is pleased to deal with your-
selves and liberties. Now the good Lord that dwelt in the
bush
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bush dwell with you and yours, and be with you all. So
shall he still pray, who is, &c."
WORKS. Judicial Astrology arraigned and condemned..
Since his Death, Mensalia sacra; or Discourses used in celebrating
the Lord's Supper: with a brief Account of his Life prefixed.
HUNNINGTON [R.] (or HUNNINGHAM in Norfolk).
Mr. JOHN PAGE.
6
HUNSTON [C. or D.] Mr. JAMES WALLER. Of Cam-
bridge university. He was a very faithful, worthy, and in-
dustrious servant of Jesus Christ, who remembered God from
the days of his youth. He was dedicated betimes by his pa-.
rents to the ministry, and had a good education for it. After
four or five years labour at Hunston with good acceptance,
he fell with his brethren at the fatal Bartholomew. After
which time, tho' debarred of residence with his people he or-
dinarily visited them every week; and, as liberty was granted
exercised his ministry among them, as also in several other
places. Nor was he left of God without witness, being acknow-
ledged by many to be their spiritual father. He was well in-
⚫structed for the kingdom of God.' His judgment was solid;
his counsel wise and faithful; his language, full and signifi-
cant; his conversation, grave and serious. His reason reign-
ed, and kept the throne in his soul, subduing all his passions
to a due order. It was said, by an intimate brother in the
ministry, who had been acquainted with him more than forty
years, That he never saw him in any inordinate passion.
His charity was very large towards those who thought dif-
ferently from himself. He utterly abhorred the censorious
temper of many professors, and the impaling religion within
their own party. To the needy he was always kind; tho' it
was not much of his own that he had to distribute, he did
them many good offices as occasion offered. Humility was
his cloathing. He had a very low esteem of himself, and by
that was enabled to bear the low esteem of others. One thing
was to have been desired in this excellent person, and that
was, a free and familiar address to vulgar hearers, while he
gave abundant satisfaction to the more judicious. His name
is worthy of an honourable memorial as a man, a scholar, a
christian, and a minister. He left few more solid, substan-
tial, practical, pertinent, and soul-searching ministers behind
him in all these parts. He died at his house at Rattlesden in
Suffolk,
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Suffolk, in March, 1697. His funeral sermon was preached
at Hunston church by Mr. John Fairfax.
IPSWICH. Mr. ROBERT GOUGE. Of Christ's Col.
Camb. whither he was sent by Lord Fitzwaller, and where he
had Dr. Henry Moore for his tutor. He was born at Chelms-
ford. When he left the university, he went to Malden in
Essex, where he both preached and taught school. From
thence he removed to Ipswich, where he had continued about.
ten years when he was silenced. He afterwards succeeded
Mr. Samms at Coggeshall, and continued laborious in the
work of the ministry there, till a decay of his intellects thro'
age laid him aside. He published only a funeral sermon.
Mr. BENJAMIN BRUNNING, jun. Fellow of Jesus
Col. Camb. He had a general reputation in the university
for his wit and learning, and was very useful there. He was
a man of large and deep thought, and his province required
it, as he had the most judicious persons in the town and coun-
try, both ministers and people, for his auditors.
WORKS. Something against Impositions and Conformity.
from the 2d Commandment...A Sermon preached at an Election
of Parliament Men, in a critical Time, on James iii. 17.
Mr. BENJAMIN STONEHAM. Of Cambridge uni-
versity. Upon quitting it, he was chaplain to Sir Anthony
Erby in Lincolnshire. Some time after, he became pastor
to a gathered church at Ipswich; and being there silenced, he
went to London, and preached in his lodging to all that
would come and hear him: for which he was committed to
Newgate in the time of the plague. He died March 30,
1676, aged about 64. He was of an unblameable conversa-
tion, and zealous for the Millennium.
WORKS. The Voice of a Cry at Midnight; or an Alarum to
Churches and Professors, &c...The Parable of the Ten Virgins
opened... Saul and David compared.-He left several MSS.
Mr. JOHN LANGSTON. Of Pemb. Col. Oxf. He
was not ejected in this county, but he spent the last part of
his life at Ipswich. He was brought up at the free school
at Worcester, and was minister at Ash-Church, near Tewks-
bury, in Gloucestershire, at the Restoration, but gave way
to the old incumbent; who was still living. He afterwards
retired to London, and taught a private grammar-school near
Spitalfields; but meeting with opposition there, (when the Bar-
tholomew-
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tholomew-act took place) he went with Capt. Blackwell into
Ireland, partly as his chaplain, and partly as tutor to his eldest
son. In 1663 he returned to London, and kept school again.
He at length removed into Bedfordshire, where having
preached for some time, he had an invitation from a congre-
gation in Ipswich, which he accepted; but he met with great
sufferings there. He was forced from his own house, which
was broken up twice in one night. His enem ies soughtfor
him all over the town, so that he removed again to London.
They then maliciously raised and industriously spread a re-
port, that he was a Jesuit, which made no little impression
upon some minds, even to the stumbling of some sober peo-
ple: So that he was obliged to publish a vindication of him-
self, by which he effectually silenced the calumny. He re-
turned to Ipswich, and continued pastor to a congregational
church there about eighteen years, the duties of which he
discharged with great faithfulness. He shewed great sweet-
ness of spirit, not only towards his own people, but those
of different persuasions. He fell asleep Jan. 12, 1704.
WORKS. Lusus Poeticus Latino Anglicanus in Usum Scola-
rum, 1675...Poeseos Greca Medulla in 1679.
KEDDINGTON [R. 200.] SAMUEL FAIR CLOUGH,
sen. A. M. He was born April 29, 1594, at Haveril in
Suffolk, where his father was an able minister, descended
from an ancient and respectable family in Lancashire; one
of which was standard-bearer to the Earl of Derby, and ano-
ther was appointed, by commission from K. James, to be one
of the translators of the bible. Samuel was the youngest of
four sons, the rest of whom served with honour in the wars
in the Low-countries. From a child he was of a most in-
genuous temper, and discovered a strong propensity to learn-
ing; so that his father on his death-bed desired that he might
be bred a scholar, and put under the care of Mr. Robotham,
· a celebrated master, under whom he made such proficiency,
that before he was fourteen years of age he was sent to the
university, with this testimony from his tutor, that he was
the best scholar that he had educated in the course of thirty
years. He had early impressions of religion under the mi-
nistry of Mr. Samuel Ward, lecturer of Haveril, who had a
The former account of him is here very much enlarged from Clarke's
last volume of lives.
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hearty love for him. One remarkable instance of the early
effect of his ministry is worth recording. In preaching on the
conversion of Zaccheus, he observed that "No one who has
wronged another can expect pardon from God, who does not
make restitution, if in his power," This was like a dart di-
rected by the hand of God to the heart of young Fairclough,
who with one John Trigg (afterwards an eminent physi-
cian) had the preceding week robbed the orchard of one
Goodman Jude. This discourse drew forth many tears, and
he could get no sleep that night. Early the next morning
he went to his companion Trigg, and told him that he was
going to Jude's to carry him a shilling for the pears he had
stolen. Trigg fearing the old man would acquaint their ma-
ster, strove to dissuade Fairclough from his purpose, who
answered, that God would not pardon the sin without resti-
tution. Trigg replied, "You talk like a fool, Sam: God
will forgive us ten times, sooner than old Jude will once."
But Samuel persisted in his design, when Jude refused to
take his money, and forgave him the wrong. But he could get
no rest till he went to Mr. Ward and opened to him the state.
of his soul. Mr. Ward received him with tenderness, and
in consequence of this discourse he became a true convert,
and from this time devoted himself to the service of Christ.
Being designed for Cambridge, a friend recommended him
to Mr. Berry, a fellow of Queen's Col. He carried the
letter and gave a free, but modest account of himself, as the
son of a worthy minister who had been dead five years, and
whose other sons had the chief of what his father had left,
so that he had but little to support him in his studies. Mr.
Berry was pleased with his address, and upon examining him
in the classics, found him so good a scholar, that he at once
admitted him; and as there was not one chamber empty, put
up a bed for him in his own. He had not been above two
years in the college before he was recommended by Dr.
Tindal, the master, to the Earl of Northampton, as sub-tutor
to his son, Spencer Lord Compton, in which office he ac-
quired great honour.-About this time K. James made a
visit to the university, and promised a second, when the heads
of it proposed to entertain him with a play. Mr. Fairclough
was appointed to a female part, but told the vice-chancellor
that he could not in conscience put on a female dress. The
vice-chancellor at first laughed at him, and then argued the
case till he grew angry, when Lord Compton interposed and
took the part himself. Thus did our youth expose himself to
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ridicule, and to lose the smiles of the court, rather than suf-
fer the reproach of his own conscience, well understanding
that saying, Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo. While
some of the university envied him the honour to which he
had been appointed, others admired his self-denial in declin-
ing it. and several eminent men desired his acquaintance.
Mr. Preston had already introduced him to Mr. Davenant,
Mr. Hildersham, and Mr. Perkins. Others eminent for
learning and piety came to visit him. Bp. Towers hereupon
foretold his being a Nonconformist. But he himself declar-
ed, That it was the reading of the books written in defence
of the ceremonies that begat his first scruples, and what he
saw in the different tempers of men on both sides, made him
study the controversy. He could and did use the Liturgy,
tho' it was not matter of choice. He was of the same opi-
nion with Bp. Taylor, who says, "One prays conceiving,
"another reading: the one flames his words to his mind;
"the other, his mind to the words, which is not so easy.
"Yet both pray, and obtain, if they pray with understanding
"and godly affections."
One occasion of a more close investigation of these things
was the following: A fellow of Pemb. Hall, often came to
Lord Compton's lodgings to play with him at Tables. The
master of the college once coming in and spoiling the sport,
they agreed to meet the next morning. But the day proving
to be a festival, the fellow of Pembroke, who held a living
near Cambridge, told Lord Compton that he could not play
with him unless he would send his sub-tutor to do the duty
for him. Fairclough replied, that he was not ordained. The
incumbent (who was afterwards made a bishop) answered,
That he would ordain him immediately, by putting upon
him his cap and canonical coat, which no doubt would in-
spire him for the work. Fairclough went at Lord C.'s re-
quest, but found only the clerk and one old woman in the
church. As the Liturgy supposes a greater number present,
be prayed extemporè. The following Sunday, the clerk
told the clergyman, that he had sent a substitute who prayed
without-book. The next day he complained to Lord Com-
ton that his tutor had broke the orders of the church;
who silenced him by saying that he had first broken them.
himself.
When his pupil was going on his travels, the Earl of
Northampton made handsome proposals to Mr. Fairclough
to accompany him. But consulting his mother on the sub-
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ject, she who had lost several sons abroad, objected, as Jacob
did to part with Benjamin. Upon which, falling on his knees,
he said, "Dear mother, tho' my inclination is strong to tra-
vel with such company, since I know your pleasure, I feel
already far greater satisfaction in denying my own will for
yours, than I can in any way find in the journey." On go-
ing the next day to make his apology to his Lordship, one
Mr. Herbert, who was present, asked him whether he were
related to Mr. Hugh Fairclough, citizen of London; and
finding that he was, told him that if he would accept this ap-
pointment, he would have an opportunity of visiting Italy,
where he would meet with Alexander Fairclough, son of
the above, who was secretary to Cardinal Barberino, at the
court of Rome, from whom he might obtain very high pre-
ferment. But not wishing to have his portion in this life, he
was unmoved by such a flattering prospect.
Soon after this, Mr. Allington procured him a presenta-
tion to the living of Halson, in this county. But being too
young to receive Priest's orders, one Mr. Grouse, a fellow of
the college proposed to hold it for him, which he did for two
years; but tho' he was then very popular, he did not think
himself qualified for such a charge, and therefore resolved to
retire for a year or two, and pursue his studies under some
aged minister. Mr. Ward recommended him to Mr. Richard
Blackerby, of Ashen in Essex, an eminent divine well skilled
in Hebrew, and reputed one of the holiest men on earth.
With him Mr. Fairclough perfected his studies in all parts
of human literature, but particularly in divinity; and in the
mean time preached about occasionally, at the chief towns in
Essex and Suffolk, with great acceptance and success.
In the year 1619, the Mayor of Lynn in Norfolk, and nine
aldermen, sent him an invitation to be their lecturer. He
went and preached, upon which the magistrates offered him
50l. per ann. with a good dwelling-house, and the people
promised to make it up 100l. Having been before invited
to Clare, he hesitated, and consulted his friends, with whose
advice he accepted the invitation. But his popularity stirred
up the envy of the other ministers, and he was openly op-
posed by the keepers of public houses, &c. whose business
declined from the decrease of drunkenneess. Dr. Harsnett,
who held the living, was very angry with him for neglecting
to use the sign of the cross in baptism; upon which he was
cited into the bishop's court; and tho' Mr. Hare, a friend of
the bishop, told the chancellor that he knew it had been dis-
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pensed with for many years, he replied, "That this might
"be true, but Mr. F. was grown so popular that he must be
"nipt in the bud." Finding the opposition to him increase,
he desired the magistrates to accept his resignation, and re-
commending a pious man as a successor, he obtained their
consent, tho' not without much regret. He then retired to
Clare, where he had a much smaller income. Here he soon
married the eldest daughter of his friend Mr. Blackerby. By
his ministry here he quickly found the word of the Lord ran
and was glorified. But he had not been here long, before
Sir Nath. Barnardiston (that ornament of his country for
piety and integrity) who was his frequent auditor, sent him,
without his seeking it, the presentation to the living of Bur-
nardiston; with a promise under his hand, if he accepted
that for the present, he should have any one of the greater
livings he had in his gift, which he liked best, upon a va-
cancy. Mr. Fairclough at first declined the offer, as he did
not wish to leave Clare, and as another person who was des-
titute had been recommended. But after much importunity
he accepted it. Here he preached twice every Lord's-day,
once upon every festival, and once a month a preparation
sermon for the Lord's Supper. He catechized young and
old; visited all his parish every month, enquiring into the state
of their souls, counselling and directing them as there was oc-
casion. While he was thus employed in doing good, he here
also met with a troublesome opposition. Preaching one Lord's-
day at Sudbury, on occasion of the sickness of a minister
there, and in the evening repeating his sermons in the family
where he lodged, the minister of the other parish exhibited
articles against him in the Star-Chamber, as a factious man;
upon which he was convened before the Lords of the High
Commission, and forced to attend upon them at times for
two years together; so that his fees and journies together
swallowed up the whole profit of his living. At length the
matter being referred to his diocesan and ordinary at Nor-
wich, a good number of Jacobusses (K. James's guineas) en-
gaged a certain lady of that city to gain such a certificate:
from the bishop as obtained a full discharge.
Some time after, Dr. Gibson, the Rector of Keddington,
dying, Sir Nathaniel, the patron, sent Mr. Fairclough the
presentation of that living, and procured him institution into
it from the Bishop, without his personal attendance, taking
the oath of canonical obedience, or subscribing the three ex-
ceptionable articles. In this place he continued near thirty-
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five years, preaching four times a week, twice on the Lord's-
day, a Thursday lecture, and on the Saturday evening in his
own house, in preparation for the Sabbath. But the fre-
quency of his preaching did not hinder the elaborateness of
his discourses. He never preached any thing which he had
not duly considered, and writ down with great deliberation.
It is true, he never used any notes, for he had a stupendous
memory, but he never preached without them.-His Thurs-
day lectures (for which a licence was purchased at a great
rate) were Conciones ad clerum, all the ministers from many
miles round constantly attending them, and often ten or
twenty scholars and fellows of colleges from Cambridge.
These were composed with great accuracy.-His other ser-
mons were ad populum, to plain country people, who
flocked from all parts to hear him. In these he rarely intro-
duced nice speculations, or points of controversy; judging
with Mr. Preston, That he was the best preacher who de-
livered gospel truths in the plainest scriptural expressions.
And his labours were remarkably useful. When he first
came to this place, he found it ignorant and prophane, not
one family in twenty calling upon the name of the Lord;
but when he had been there some time, there was not a fa-
mily in twenty but professed godliness, and offered up to God
their morning and evening sacrifice He left in his Diary the
names of some hundreds who had owned him to be their
spiritual father; some of whom declared that their first serious.
impressions were excited by his prayer before sermon, in
which he introduced confessions and petitions suited to the
cases and characters of such hearers as he supposed to be
chargeable with particular 'sins. He and his patron acted in
concert, to advance true religion. Both joined together to
promote catechizing; both endeavoured to hinder the visibly
prophane from approaching the Lord's Table.
When the Book of Sports came out, and other innovations
were brought in, Mr. Fairclough, for his neglect, was often
cited to appear before the Archdeacon and Commissary at
Bury; but he was disabled from riding, by a weakness oc-
casioned by a fall, which was his excuse. for not appearing.
Whereupon the Commissary adjourned the court to the par-
sonage-house of Keddington, when it was feared he would.
have been suspended; but little more was done than taking
notice of his bodily weakness, and he had liberty to go on in
his work as before. He was nominated one of the Assem-
bly of Divines, but got himself excused from attending, and
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he absolutely refused taking the Engagement. He was of-
fered the Mastership of Trin. Col. Camb. but declined it
from his love of retirement, which induced him to avoid all
public trusts. When the times turned, he could not turn
with them. It was his fixed determination not to do what
he apprehended sinful, to gain ever so much good, or avoid
ever so much mischief. He was no enemy to Episcopacy,
but desirous of Archbishop Usher's Reduction. However,
he could not declare an assent and consent, where he knew
his heart would not go with his lips; and therefore left a va-
luable living, a pleasant parsonage-house, a fine glebe, a large
auditory, a loving people, and a kind neighbourhood. Dr.
Tillotson (afterwards Abp. Canterbury) was by the patron
presented to the living; and it was no small satisfaction to
him that a man of such worth succeeded him. Tho' he and
his family lost above a thousand pounds per ann. for their
nonconformity, he was always chearful. He complained of
nothing but the iniquity of the times, and the divisions of the
church of God; and he shewed his love to all who had any
thing of goodness in them. The Oxford-act, which forced
him from his people, grieved him more than the loss of his
living. But he had the comfort of residing some time in the
same house with two of his sons, and two of his sons-in-law,
who were ministers, and had left their livings; who, being
before scattered in five counties, were brought together in
the time of this storm, to a large house at Finchingfield,
called Sculpons, which now became a little college. Father
and sons preached by turns in the family, and the neighbours
came in. Here they continued four or five years, but the
badness of the air, and some other reasons, at length caused
them to disperse. The father went and lived with his
youngest son, who was a Conforming Minister at Kennet
in Cambridgeshire. Here he went every Lord's-day to
church, and preached in the evening to the family. After
some time, he removed to the habitations of his daughters,
at Heveningham and Stow-marhet successively, and spent
the remainder of his life in solitude and sacred exercises, pa-
tiently waiting for his change, which he at last chearfully
welcomed, when he was 84 years of age, Dec. 14, 1677.
Our limits do not admit of giving Mr. Fairclough's cha-
racter at large, as drawn in Clark's collection of lives; but a
few of its leading traits must be inserted. It was his busi-
ness to live to God's honour. He was full of designs for
Christ, and he endeavoured to copy the life of his Lord and
Master
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Master. He was eminently solicitous to discharge all rela-
tive as well as personal duties. In his family he walked with
a perfect heart, and took great pains to instruct every mem-
ber of it, causing them daily to read the scriptures, and cate-
chized both his children and servants, first by a shorter cate-
chism of his own composing. He used to tell his servants,
that he hired them first to be God's servants and then his;
and he was careful to take the children of godly parents.
When he had any of a weak capacity, he charged his chil-
dren to take the more pains with them and be patient to-
wards them. He was careful that no evil example should
be given to his children, and therefore commanded his ser-
vants to do or speak nothing before them which they would
not do or speak before himself, saying, that "great reverence
is due to children." He seldom used corporal punishment
with them, for they feared a frown in his face more than
many do a blow. He sent all his four sons to the university,
who proved able and useful ministers. He also encouraged
several others to undertake the sacred office, and maintained
some at his own expence. He once hired a young man of
about twenty, to wait on him and ride out with him, whom
he accidentally found reading a Greek Testament; and learn-
ing that his friends could not afford to send him to the uni-
versity, agreeably to his wish, after some examination,
sent him to his eldest son at Cambridge and provided for his
support.
Mr. Fairclough was in general an excellent orator; but
he shewed it most effectually in recommending charity,
which he often had occasion to do. Being called to preach
a funeral sermon for a worthy minister who had left a son in
the university destitute of support, he recommended it to his
hearers, as a proof of their value for the deceased father, to
contribute for the maintenance of the son; and having set a
good example himself, he procured a liberal subscription for
the youth, who proved a useful minister.-When the plague
was in Cambridge, the vice-chanceller applied to him, with
other ministers, to make a collection for the town, and in a
few days he sent in gol. which he was told was more than
was received from any six towns besides. He collected also
near as much for Hadleigh, on the like occasion; compel-
ling, as it were, many rich usurers to be bountiful, as the pro-
phet did, Neh. v. 13. When the house of a neighbouring
minister was burnt, and with it a valuable library, be raised
above 100l. towards repairing the loss, and engaged his son,
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then fellow of Gonv. and Caius Col. to take this minister's
eldest son as pupil, and bore part of the expence himself.
He was indeed charitable beyond comparison, both to the
souls and bodies of men. He ordered all the poor of his
parish to come weekly to his door for relief, and appointed
his daughters to be his almoners, to accustom them to works
of mercy. He put out many poor children to school, and
gave away bibles and other good books innumerable. He
was careful to furnish old people with such as were of a large
print, and supplied them with an incredible number of spec-
tacles; always speaking of the invention of them by Metius
with admiration of divine goodness.
He was remarkable for his love to divine institutions.
Preaching was his delight, prayer his joy, the administra-
tion of sacraments the pleasure of his soul. His preparation
for the sabbath was extraordinary, and he welcomed the re-
turn of it, as being what the Jews called it, the Queen of
days, and he assisted his whole family in the best improve-
ment of it. He was so dead to the world that he would
scarcely have any thing to do with it. After the death of
his first wife, and of a servant to whom he had intrusted the
whole management of his estate, he sold off his stock, let his
ground, and never encreased his income above 5l. for near
forty years together. He never sued a man in his life, nor
put out money to usury. He had great advantages for grow-
ing rich, but if he had died forty years before he did, he
would have been full as rich as he then was. He often used
to say,
"We don't read of any good man, in all the history
"of scripture, or the primitive times, who was covetous."
After the loss of his living, tho' he preached frequently, he
never would receive one penny for it.-As to sensual plea-
sure, he scarcely knew what it meant, and he used no sort
of recreation [except going about doing good]. In his youth,
he loved music and riding. But on the sad news of the death
of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden (the great defender
of protestantism) he hung his harp on the willows. He kept
as good horses as any man, and therefore a gentleman at his
death left him one of great value, "that he might ride him
"about to preach the gospel;" which he did as long as he
was able; but he never took a journey of mere pleasure.-
He was equally removed from ambition and pride. Being
once heartily thanked for a sermon which had been greatly
useful, he said to the person-Pray, friend, give God the
glory: no praise was due to the ram's horns, tho' the walls
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of Jericho fell at their blast." He wrote upon one of his
sermons preached at Cambridge, which might have tempted
him to vanity," Leaden pipes are full or empty according to
the measures they receive from their head-spring," &c. His
behaviour was meek and lowly. Tho' his countenance was
grave and severe, he was affable in conversation, and
easy
of access; yet bold in reproving the proudest sinners.
His charity was large for good men of all persuasions. He
knew that honest men often mean the same thing, when they
are apt to quarrel about the expression of it, and therefore he
was of a uniting spirit; and always discountenanced that
bitterness with which some are ready to treat others upon
small differences in religion, as what tends to extinguish the
life and power of godliness.-He much wondered that since
the Canons made in 1640, allowed liberty, as to bowing to-
wards the altar and at the name of Jesus, how it should come
to pass that the sign of the cross should be so strictly requir-
ed by the act of uniformity in 1662. But he seldom express-
ed this in public; as he studied the things that made for peace.
He often used to say, “That for a man to love another only
because he was of his own opinion or party, was only hug-
ging himself, and embracing his own shadow when it fell on
another's breast." He was not, however, deficient in zeal
for the main articles of the christian faith; but his prudence
would not suffer him to be rash; his sails and ballast were
proportioned to each other. He was a man of a public spirit,
who scorned to prefer his own private concerns to the gene-
ral good of the Church or State. He had wholly devoted
himself to the service of the public, and so long as he had
any strength left he chearfully improved every talent to the
honour of God who intrusted him with it.
He lived to old age, and his might properly be called a
good old age, It was a healthy old age. He never had but
one sick day for above threescore years. Several things con-
tributed to prolong his life, and bless him at last with the sana
senectus. He had ever made conscience of preserving his
health. His body being the temple of the Holy Ghost, he
did what he could to keep it pure and in good repair, he
was temperate in all things, and used a spare diet: he was
subject to no violent passions, but preserved great calmness.
of temper; and he at least thought himself the more healthy
for avoiding all unnecessary tampering with physic. He
loved kitchin-physic, but little else, and was never blooded
above once or twice in his life. When by reason of extreme
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age he could do nothing publicly for God and his church,
he gave himself wholly to prayer. He kept his bed but one
whole day before his departure: an event he had long wait-
ed and longed for. The day before his last on earth, he told
some visitors, what comfort he then took in considering that
his Saviour had tasted death for him, and that it was the duty
of believers to rejoice that death had lost its sting; and soon
after he broke out into a pious rapture, Oh the height, length,
breadth and depth of the love of God in Christ Jesus, &c.
He then told those about him, that he knew not how to re-
quite them for the love they had shewn him, better than by
exhorting them to redeem the time, especially the time of
youth and health in preparing for eternity.
As Mr. Fairclough loved good men of all persuasions, so
he was beloved by all, both Conformists and Nonconformists,
who jointly visited him as long as he lived, and equally la-
mented their loss in his death. A minister of the establish-
ment preached his funeral sermon, and gave him as high a
character as the preceding. And another eminent Confor-
mist (who by his means obtained his first preferment in the
church) drew up a letter to the writer of his life, in which
he bears his testimony to the various excellencies of this emi-
nent divine, from a long and intimate acquaintance with him,
in terms the most respectful and affectionate imaginable.
This letter, containing five folio pages, is subjoined to his
life in Clark's collection. If we had room for the whole it
would be edifying to the reader, but we must decline the
pleasure even of a short abstract, which, indeed, would do it
injustice.
KETTLEBOROUGH [R.] Mr. HENRY STEPHENS.
A man of great worth. Being ejected at the Restoration in
1660, upon the claim of the old incumbent, he would not
attempt to get another living, but retired to Woodbridge, and
preached there with Mr. Woodall, till both were silenced
and imprisoned.
LAYSTON. EDMUND WHINCOP, M. A. Of Caius
Col. Camb. Born at Middleton in 1616, whither he return-
ed when he left the university, and for some time kept a
school and practised physic, being in his judgment for Con-
formity. But afterwards upon hearing Mr. Manning at Yox-
ford, he became a Nonconformist. Having then deep im-
pressions of religion upon his heart, he had much conversa-
tion with some serious christians there, and was by them
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much confirmed in his apprehensions and inclinations. He
afterwards formed an acquaintance with some pious mini-
sters of the same sentiments, who persuaded him to enter
upon the ministry. A rigorous Conformity not being then
pressed as it had formerly been, he became minister of that
town, the former minister being dead. He afterwards re-
moved to other places, and at last to Layston, where he con-
tinued till 1662. Some time after his ejectment, he was im-
prisoned at Blithburgh, merely upon suspicion of keeping
private meetings (for there was no proof of it) and detained
above five months. He was at length called to be pastor to
a congregational church at IVatesfield in this county. [Mr.
Harmer, the late worthy pastor, writes, That this was not till
1678; that he did not reside in this part of the country any
considerable time before; and that (as a daughter of Mr.
Whincop informed him) he met with considerable trouble
here, notwithstanding the influence of Samuel Baker, Esq;
of IVatesfield-Hall, a person of consideration in the neigh-
bourhood, and a member of Mr. Whincop's church: who,
upon his death, inserted in the church-book the following
account of him:-1687, 5th month, upon the 10th day of
this month, being Lord's-day, the Rev. pastor of this church,
Mr. Edmund Whincop, finished his course, in the 71st year
of his age, having served the Lord in this church in the office
of a pastor nine years, wherein he approved himself a will-
ing, tender, faithful, and laborious minister of Christ, and
overseer of the flock, having served in humility of spirit, with
tears and temptations, at length entered into rest, and re-
ceives the crown from the Chief Shepherd. He died at
Blow Norton in Norfolk, whither he removed his dwell-
ing, to avoid persecution, having been often summoned to
assizes and sessions, and under the bond of the behaviour,
and exposed to other inconveniences, much prejudicial to his
health and free exercise of his ministry, he retired into ano-
ther county, about four miles distant, in Norton aforenamed,
where he resided about four years, for the better safety of his
person, yet failed not by night and day to attend the work
of his ministry, wherein he spent his strength and ended his
days, beloved and respected of all, endeared to his church,
whose loss is so much the greater, as the harvest is great,
and the labourers few, especially that will take upon them
the office of a pastor; yet is the care and kindness of God
to his church remarkable, in providing one of ourselves
(Mr.
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(Mr. Moor*) to succeed in preaching work, and thereby
serve the large opportunity, occasioned by the present li
berty, to general satisfaction, and as may be hoped to great
advantage.]
LIDGATE [R.] Mr. WARD. He died in 1679, aged
near a hundred years.
St. MARGARET's. Mr. JOHN STROUGHIER,
MELFORD [R.] Mr. JOHN WOOD.
MIDDLETON [C.] Mr. WILLIAM MANNING. A man
of great abilities and learning; but he fell into the Socinian
principles, to which he adhered to his death, which was in
February, 1711.
WORKS. Catholic Religion...Also some Discourses upon
Acts x. 35, 36.
MONKS-ELY. Mr. SAMUEL MAIL.
NEEDHAM. Mr. THOMAS JAMES. A very pious good
man, of the congregational persuasion. After his ejectment
he had a pretty numerous society.
NEWTON. Mr. JOHN WILKINSON.
OWSDEN [R.] JOHN MEADOWS, M. A. Of both uni-
versities, and Fellow of Christ's Col. Camb. eight years.
He was a person holy in all manner of conversation; con-
stantly careful to please God, and preserve the peace of his
own conscience; always jealous of his own heart, and on
every occasion willing to try it. He served God while in his
public ministry, with great labour and comfortable success.
He was very cautious in admitting persons to commu
nion, and equally so in refusing. A diligent visitor and in-
structor of his flock, and a practical and moving preacher.
He ever maintained a catholic charity for all Protestants,
and greatly bewailed the divisions of the church, and the in-
temperate heats of men of all persuasions. He held occa-
sional communion with the church of England, but could not
desert the duty of his office. Such was the integrity of his
life, such was his humility, gospel sincerity and quiet deport-
ment, such his moderation as to the circumstantials of reli-
gion, and so well did he fill up all his relations in life, that
*This Mr. Moor was chaplain to Mr. Baker, and tutor to his children.
He was afterwards Tutor to an Academy at Tiverton, in Devonshire.
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his enemies could only object his Nonconformity as his
crime. He was really a pattern of true religion. He preach-
ed freely, he lived exemplarily, he died comfortably, in the
75th year of his age, and was buried honourably.
PARHAM [C. or D.] Mr. JOHN WENBURN.
After his
ejectment, he lived at Hackeston, and was a very affectionate
preacher.
PESNALL [C.] Mr. JOHN MANNING. A great sufferer
for Nonconformity. Tho' he was a very meek and inno-
cent man; he was often reckoned among malefactors, and
punished as such. He was several times imprisoned, viz. at
Bury, Ipswich, Blithburgh, &c. Indeed there was scarcely
a Jail in Suffolk which he had not, at some time or other,
been in. The latter part of his life was chiefly spent in con-
finement. When he was released it was by acts of pardon,
which the courtiers wanted for what they had irregularly and
unjustly done. Tho' he was scrupulous of taking oaths, he
gave no just occasion for suspicion of disloyalty or unpeace-
ableness; but behaved himself in such a manner as to pro-
cure favour from his jailors, who sometimes trusted him to go
out to visit his family and his people. He died in 1694.
§ He published Mr. John Tillinghurst's Remains.
RENDHAM [C.] Mr. DAVIS.
ROMBOROUGH. Mr. BENJAMIN FAIRFAX. He was
father to Mr. John Fairfax of Barking, and Mr. Nath.
Fairfax of Willisham. He was a very lively preacher, and
had great success in converting souls to the love of God and
true goodness.
ROYDON and COVEHITH. Mr. MAYHEW.
SANDCROFT [R.] Mr, SAMUEL PEYTO. Of Kath,
Hall. Camb. some time after his ejectment he was pastor
of a congregation at Sudbury, where he continued till his
death, in a good old age. [He was highly esteemed not
only in his own but other churches, and was frequently call-
ed to preach abroad. He preached the funeral sermon for
the famous S. Baker, Esq; of Watesfield. He appears not
to have confined his attention to theology; but to have had
a taste for philosophical studies. He drew up a very pretty
account of a Parhelion seen by him at Sudbury in Aug. 1698,
which was inserted in the Philosophical Transactions. (See
Abridgment, Vol. II. Chap. 1.) On account of his advanced
Agea
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age, in 1707, Mr. Josiah Maultby was chosen joint pastor
with him. Mr. Henry Peyto, late minister of Coggeshall
in Essex, was a grandson of his.]
WORKS. The Difference between the Old and New Cove-
nant, Prefaced by Dr. Owen.-The Voice of the Spirit, with Roses
from Sharon.-Infant Baptism of Christ's Appointment.-Revela-
tion unveiled.-Two Scripture Catechisms; the one long, the'
other short.-Narrative of the wonderful Fits of Thomas Spatcher.
-He had a hand in a tract, entitled, The Preacher sent; or a
Vindication of public Preaching by some unordained Men.-He
also joined in a Preface to Tillinghurst's Remains.
SAXMUNDHAM [R. 487. 13s. 8d.] Mr. THOMAS
NUTTAL.
SEYLAM. Mr. SAMUEL HABERGHAM. Of Eman. Col.
Camb. At the university he was a zealous young man.
When he afterwards came into a country where he saw
most professors of religion inclined to the congregational
way, (fifteen churches at least upon the coast of Suffolk and
Norfolk receiving their direction and encouragement from
Mr. Bridge of Yarmouth, and Mr. Armitage of Norwich)
Mr. Habergham fell in with them. His preaching was with
great life and power. He had a full congregation, which
provoked many to envy, and created him trouble after the
Restoration. He had a singular affection for the people to
whom he was related, and died amongst them of an apoplexy
in 1665. He joined with Mr. Peyto in a Preface to Tilling-
hurst's Remains.
SIBSTON [V. 457.] THOMAS DANSON, M. A. Some time
Fellow of Magd. Col. Oxford. § Instead of the former
brief account of him, the following is substituted from Wood's
Athen. Or. II. 1016. Thomas Danson, a noted Noncon-
formist, born in the parish of St. Mary le Bow, Cheapside,
London. Educated first in St. Thomas Apostle's, under
T. Wise, in Latin and Greek; afterwards under Christian
Ravis, a German, professor of the Oriental tongues in Lon-
don-house, who initiated him in the Hebrew, Chaldean,
Syriac and Arabic. Thence he was sent to Oxon, after the
surrender of the garrison; entered a student in New Inn,
made chaplain of Č. C. Col. by the visitors in 1648, took
one degree in Arts, in 1649, and then became Fellow of
Magd. Col. by the same authority. Being admitted M. A.
by a dispensation, thro' some indisposition, he became a
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zealous preacher. For a time he preached at Berwick upon
Tweed, and afterwards had a living at Sandwich in Kent,
where he was ejected in 1660, tho' he came in upon the
death of the former incumbent, having been presented by
Oliver, an illegal patron, which Mr. Danson could not help.
(The proper patron was the Dean of Canterbury, who was
dead or silenced)-He was soon after settled at Sibton in
Suffolk, but refusing afterwards to conform, he was ejected
at Bartholomew day 1662. He then retired to London,
where he preached for a time, and afterwards at Abingdon
in Berks, on the death of Dr. H. Langley, having married
the daughter of Dr. Garbrand, a dissenting physician of that
town; where he continued preaching and administering in
private-houses, and sometimes in the Town-hall, not without
some disturbances, (especially when the fanatical plot broke
out in 1683, when he absconded) till about the beginning of
December 1692, when he was dismissed by the brethren,
[for what cause is not said].-An author of his persuasion
(Wm. Jenkyns, in admon. ante lib. cui tit. est Celeusma, &c.)
Stiles him, Fir doctissimus, totus rei Domus Zelo ardens,
&c. "A most learned man, who burnt with zeal for every
thing belonging to the house of God." And all that were
acquainted with him knew him so to be; and many have
said, That if his juvenile education had been among ortho-
dox persons [i. e. High-church-men] and his principles con-
sequent to it, he might have done more service for the church
of England than for the Nonconformists.
WORKS. Several pieces against the Quakers, with accounts.
of Disputations held with some of their leaders, (of which Wood
gives a minute account not worth transcribing)—The Saint's per-
severance assisted and vindicated against Ives, an Arminian Bap-
tist-A friendly Debate between Satan and Sherlock: occasioned
by Sherlock's book of the knowledge of Christ-A Defence of the
same-De causa Dei: a Vind. of the Doct. of Predestination, from
the consequences with which it is burdened in Mr. John Howe's
piece upon Prescience.-A friendly Conference between a Paulist
and a Galation, on Justification.- From this specimen of his
writings, it seems that Mr. Danson had a stronger taste for Con-
troversial than for Practical Divinity.
SOMERLEY [R.] Mr. EDMUND BARBER.
§
SOUTHWOLD, (or SOUTHOLD) Mr. WOODWARD.
SPROWTON [R.] Mr. JOSEPH WAITE. In 1662,
he was chosen elder of Mr. Holcroft's church, with Mr.
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Corbin and Mr. Beare (See Vol. I. p. 260). The next year
he was imprisoned at Cambridge, and on his release, was
excluded, with Mr. Beare, for forsaking the congregation.
He was, however, admitted a member of the church at Bed-
ford, from whence he went to preach (among other places)
at Hitchin, where it appears, before the year 1669, his mi-
nistry had been successful (Vol. I. p. 108). In 1681, he
was a preacher in London. He was well acquainted with
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. But he held some peculiar and
and rigid opinions: e. g. That the Sabbath ought to com-
mence on Saturday evening; that smoaking Tobacco was a
grievous national sin; that the wearing of Periwigs, espe-
cially by ministers, was an abomination, &c.
WORKS. The Parent's Primmer and Mother's Looking-
glass.-A Dialogue of the Decalogue-A Dialogue concerning the
Sabbath-day.
STRATFORD, Mr. ROBERT ASTY. A letter from Dr.
Owen to him may be seen in the Collection of the Dr.'s Ser-
mons and Tracts. From the superscription of this letter it
appears that Mr. Asty was then at Norwich. But it has no
date excepting the month, March 16. Most probably as it
precedes one dated 1683, it was in that year. It was in an-
swer to one from Mr. Asty, in which he requests his advice
respecting an invitation to some other place, but what that
place was doth not appear. The Dr. writes to him in a man-
ner which affords proof of his friendship, and of Mr. Asty's
respectable character and abilities. "I shall always be ready,
says he, to give you my thoughts in the way of brotherly
advice. At present, as things are, I do not see how you can
decline the call.-All things concurring; the providence of
God in bringing you to that place; the judgment of the
church on your gifts and grace for their edification and ex-
ample; the joint concurrence of the congregation in your
call; with present circumstances of a singular opportunity
for preaching the word, [may be considered as manifest indi-
cations of the divine pleasure].-I pray God guide you in
this
great affair, and I beg your prayers for myself in my
weak infirm condition. I am your affectionate friend and
brother."-Mr. Asty had a grandson who was pastor to a
Dissenting Congregation in Rope-maker's Alley, Moorfields,
London.
STOKE
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STOKE (near Ipswich) [R.] Mr. EDWARD SHERMAN.
A judicious, able preacher, but exceedingly modest. After
his ejectment he became schoolmaster at Dedham, and so
continued till he died.
STOKE (near Nayland) [V.] Mr. THOMAS MOTт. A
very valuable man.
STONEHAM (Earls) [R.] Mr. HENRY COOPER.
STOW-MARKET [C. S. 300l.] JOHN STORER, M. A.
Of Eman. Col. Camb. Born in Northamptonshire, about
1611, and well inclined from his youth. He was brought up
in the free-school at Northampton, and had episcopal ordi-
nation. On preaching once occasionally in London, he was
chosen lecturer at St. Giles, Cripplegate, whence, after seven
years continuance, he removed to Beckenham in Kent, where
he spent eleven years, and was well beloved, tho' he some-
times met with rudeness from such persons as despised the
ministerial office. Upon the death of the former incumbent,
who had been sequestered, the patron presented a friend of
his own, so that Mr. Storer returned to London, and settled
in the parish of St. Martin's Vintry, where he continued till
the Restoration. He was then presented by Mr. Blackerby
to the living of Stow-Market, which he received upon con-
dition, that he might resign it in time, if the terms of Con-
formity, settled by authority, should be such as he could not
consent to. Accordingly, when among other things, he
found it was required that he should renounce the Covenant,
he resigned his living to his patron, before the Bartholomew-
act took place. Having purchased an estate at Highgate,
called Sherrick, held by the King at a small rent paid to the
church, worth 70l. per ann. he took up his abode there.
But by the deceitful practices of a cunning courtier, Sir
Henry Wood, he was deprived of it, and left without any
means to support himself and family. Upon this he set up
a school, but was prosecuted in the spiritual court, till he
was forced to desist. The Five-mile-act drove him from
his home, and he was exposed to several hardships. He lived
only upon the goodness of God, and the bounty of others;
but he lived contentedly, and died in peace. [§ He drew up
a short Catechism, consisting of only four questions and
answers, of which the following is a copy :—
Q. 1. How did God make man? Ans. Holy and happy.
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Q. 2. How did man make himself? Ans. Sinful and mi-
serable.
Q. 3. Who is the deliverer of man from sin and misery?
Ans. Jesus Christ.
Q. 4. Who are those that Christ will save? Ans. Those
that repent of their sins, that believe in him and obey him.-
Scripture proofs are added.
He was
STRADBROOK [V.] Mr. JOHN STARKE. Of Camb.
university. Dr. Walker calls him Starkey, and says he was
presented to this living in 1654. After his ejectment, tho'
he had but little of his own, he never wanted.
often in trouble, especially in 1685, when great search was
made for him; as it was reported, tho' without foundation,
that he collected money for the duke of Monmouth. He
continued preaching as opportunity offered, so long as his
strength would permit him. He died Jan. 17, 1701, aged
about 70.
SUDBURY. Mr. WILLIAM FOLKES. After his eject-
ment he lived at Wenham in this county, where he had a small
estate. He succeeded Mr. Owen Stockton at Colchester,
where he offered to preach without receiving any thing more
from the people than 10l. a year, to bear the expence of
his horse-hire. He was a worthy gospel preacher, and a
holy liver.
THRANDESTON.
Mr. RICHARD PROUD.
WALDERSWICK. Mr. SIMONDS.
WALDRINGFIELD Parva [R.] Mr. DEERSLEY.
WALPOLE. Mr. SAMUEL MANNING. [This church
was first settled in 1647, as appears from a confession of
their faith, bearing that date.] Mr. Manning, it is supposed,
was the first pastor. A man of a sweet engaging temper,
and of a very edifying and useful conversation. He suffered
six months imprisonment, but his health was not injured by
it, tho' he was of so tender a constitution as not to be able to
stand while he preached. It was commonly reported that
he and Mr. Spatcher of Dunwich (with whom he was very
intimate) were both of them bewitched by a woman in the
neighbourhood. [Many strange stories were related and
credited concerning this affair in these parts, long afterwards.
Whatever was the ground of them] a certain justice of the
peace
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peace shewed his disposition towards these good men: for,
on being urged to punish the woman, he said, "If she be-
witches only Manning and Spatcher, we will let her alone.
[Mr. John Walker, the present minister of IValpole, informs
the Editor that, Mr. Manning founded the dissenting interest
in this place, and that he wrote something to assist persons
in judging of their spiritual state. It is supposed that it
was from this piece that the late Mr. Harmer made several
extracts in a publication designed to encourage christians in
a more general attendance on the Lord's Supper.
WAYBRED, [V.] Mr. BAYES.
**WESTHALL [V.] Mr. ROBERT FRANKLYN. Of
Jesus Col. Camb. He left a MS. entitled, "Memorable
Occurrences of my Life." Some parts of it are scarcely le-
gible; but the Editor has, with great difficulty, made out of
it the following account of him. He was born in London,
July 16, 1630. This being about the time of Charles II.'s
birth, application was made to his mother to become wet
nurse to that prince; so that, as he observes, he might have
been in the way of preferment, had not his father refused the
offer. But, says he, I have been better preferred by the
King of kings." He takes notice of several remarkable de-
liverances, in the time of his youth, in such a manner as dis-
covers great devotion of temper. In the 9th year of his age
he went into Suffolk, at the desire of Mrs. Browning, his
aunt, and after a time went to a grammar-school at Food-
bridge, where he made a good proficiency. He had great
advantages under the care of his pious aunt, with whom he
appears to have boarded. But he laments his being given too
much to youthful sports, his great violence of temper in re-
fusing to submit to correction, and his proneness to lying in
his own vindication, when charged with a fault; as also, his
vanity on hearing any thing said in commendation of him:
His school-master falling ill, he was taken off from gram-
mar-learning, and put to writing and accounts, to fit him for
being an apprentice at London. His master expressed his
concern at this, and his wishes that he might be made a scho-
lar. Accordingly he was put under another master, who fit-
ted many for the university, and at the age of fifteen he was
admitted at Cambridge, when Dr. Browning was master,
and he had Mr. S. Bantoft for his tutor, whom in a little
time he succeeded. Soon after he was called to preach as
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candidate for a living at Kirton in Suffolk, near Ipswich.
He preached there in the morning, on 2 Cor. v. 17. and Dr.
Brooks in the afternoon, when he had the preference. He
speaks of himself as being thrust out into the harvest, when
he was very raw and unprepared; having the general choice
of the people, and the approbation of the committee for
plundered ministers; this being a sequestration or non-resi
dence, and the incumbent being thought to be killed in the
Rump-army.
In August, 1651, he was settled here, but the living was
only 50l. per ann. and having compounded with the people,
who being most of them poor, did not pay him, he was forced
to set up a school for his support. They expressed great sa-
tisfaction in his care of their children, but they got so much.
in his debt, that he met with great difficulties, and was glad
of an opportunity to remove. By means of his worthy friend
Mr. Allerton, he got a much better living in regard to situa-
tion, income, and the disposition of the people, upon whose
choice he settled among them, viz. at Bramfield. But the
former incumbent, tho' he promised resignation, did not ac-
tually resign, and the Governor of Languard-fort dismissed
him from his place; so that he returned to Bramfield, and
desired Mr. Franklyn to let him enjoy the living, as he had
a wife and children, and Mr. F. was single. He had how-
ever many and potent adversaries hereabouts, whereas Mr. F.
was generally beloved. Tho' loth to remove, he consented,
and satisfied his worthy and honoured friend Mr. Nich. Ves-
sey, with his reasons for so doing; who bid him not to be
troubled, promising to get him another living. He accord-
ingly soon applied to Lady Brooks, who said, If she had
known of Mr. Franklyn's situation a little sooner, she would
have received him into her family; and desired him not to
engage himself till he had heard from her. Soon after,
Blithburgh being destitute, the people applied to her Lady-
ship, who was the patroness, desiring to have Mr. F. for
their minister. She told them, she had thought of the same
person. He accordingly went thither, where he staid some
years, not without some fruit of his labours.
But Lady
Brooks being old, and Mr. F. fearing her son would turn
him out after her death, he accepted the presentation to ano-
ther living, which had passed the broad seal, viz. Westhall,
where there was a prospect of continuing to his death. But
here he met with difficulties in regard to the resignation of
the incumbent, who was very old, and rendered speechless
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by the palsey. He paid him 10s, a week, and his wife 41.
per ann. At length he resigned, and Mr. Franklyn's right
was confirmed in 1658, under the broad seal. About a year
after the old incumbent died, and Mr. F. preached a funeral
sermon for him. He had the general love and esteern of the
people, and was at great expence in repairing the parsonage,
&c. which were very ruinous, and was settled (as he says) in
a very comfortable and thriving condition. But black Bar-
tholomew-day came soon after, "when (says he) I left my
living, rather than defile my conscience by the then Confor-
mity.' He continued in the town some time, and mentions
considerable favours received from his honest friend Arthur
Simonds; but not having sufficient maintenance, in 1663 he
became chaplain to Sir S. Barnardiston's family for half a
year; but he breaking up house at Brightwell-Hall, Mr.
Franklyn came to London, where he was in considerable
straits, tho' in the family of his relations. But God found
out a way for him. One Mr. Eastland gave him lodging.
He used to pray in this family, and preached occasionally at
several places; and at length, to a society of young men, who
had several others to assist. Being once assembled at Lime-
street, the meeting was broke up, and several persons were
imprisoned; but Mr. Franklyn in a wonderful manner es-
caped. (Thus far his own Narrative.)
Afterwards he had his share of imprisonment, of which
Dr. Calamy gives the following brief account: The first
time he was seized was for preaching at Colebrook, for which
he was carried to Aylesbury jail, and warrants were sent out
to seize his goods. In 1648 he was taken in his own house,
[where he had appointed a meeting for a religious exercise]
and carried to New Prison for refusing the Corporation oath,
and his goods were sold, [the officers behaving in a most in-
solent and cruel manner, to the great terror of the family.]
Some time after he was apprehended when preaching in
Glover's hall, carried before the Lord Mayor, and for again
refusing the Corporation oath, was committed to Newgate for
six months, where he met with eight other ministers imprison-
ed on the same account. He was afterwards seized in his own
house in Bunhill-fields, at 10 o'clock at night, and commit-
ted to New Prison. When he was released, he was forced to
appear at every session and give bail. Thus he was almost
perpetually harassed till the time of K. James's liberty. [His
wife, Mrs. Mary Franklyn, in a MS. account of her own ex-
periences, now in the Editor's hands, gives a more particular
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and very shocking account of the baseness and cruelty of of-
ficers in breaking open their house, pulling down their goods,
eating their provisions, and putting them in bodily fear. Dr.
Grosvenor, in a printed sermon on the death of this pious
woman, (1713) makes some extracts from this MS.]
Mr. Franklyn was a man of great gravity and integrity,
and a plain serious preacher. He was never known to baulk
any thing that he thought himself called to do or suffer.
Several original letters of his, written to his wife from pri-
son, are in the possession of Mrs. Hannah Burton, of Lon-
don, a grand-daughter of his, who has the other MSS. above
referred to; as also a short Catechism, and a letter to Charles
II. soon after the Restoration, congratulating him on that
event, and urging him to improve it by promoting a reforma-
tion of religion. The Catechism is remarkably plain and
easy. The title of it is, Two and fifty Questions, for the
benefit of little children, to prepare them for the use of the
Assembly's Catechism: composed principally for the bene-
fit of his own children, or for others, if thought worthy :
by a lover of truth and holiness, desiring his children to
be trained up in the way they should go, that when they
are old they may not depart from it.-The following is a
copy of The Epistle dedicatory to his children, whom he
hath dedicated to God.
My dear children, whom I love in the truth, God hath
made you mine in the mere bonds of nature, and I would
have you nearer to me in the bonds of grace, or spiritual
union; that you may not only be my children, but my
sisters in Christ. I would fain travail for your new birth,
not only by prayer, but also by early instruction. To that
end I have composed for your use this short catechism. It
is not likely I shall leave you much in the world, but I shall
leave you much in God. I take you to be my confederates
with God. My blessing upon you, yea I bless you in the
name of the Lord. Amen!"-It doth not appear that the
author ever printed this, or any thing else.
WHATFIELD [R.] SAMUEL BACKLAR, M. A. He
was a popular and useful man. He preached frequently in
the public churches after bis Nonconformity, and was con-
nived at, but never took any thing for his labours after he
was ejected. He died at Dedham, and was buried at What-
field. Mr. J. Fairfax preached his funeral sermon on
2 Sam. xxiii. 5.
WILLISHAM
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WILLISHAM [C.] Mr. NATHANIEL FAIRFAX. Young-
er brother to Mr. John Fairfax of Barking. An ingenious
man, a good scholar, and a popular preacher. He was com-
monly called Dr. Fairfax, as he practised physic, in which he
had great encouragement and success.
WORKS. The Selvidge of the World; containing some Re-
marks on Dr. S. Parker's Tentamina de Deo.
Mr. JOHN FENWICK. Chaplain to Lady Brooks.
A man of great humility, and of a good conversation, but in
low circumstances.
WINGFIELD [C.] Mr. JOHN PINDAR. A pious, af-
fable man. After his ejectment he lived at Ousden, where
he had a good estate. He constantly attended his parish
church, and seldom preached. He died in 1682.
WOODBRIDGE [C. or D.] Mr. FREDERICK Wood-
ALL. A man of learning, ability, and piety; a strict Inde-
pendent, zealous for the fifth monarchy, and a considerable
sufferer after his ejectment. He died at this town, But
Mr. Lowell (late minister at Woodbridge) says, "He was
not ejected from this church, nor was he ever minister of this
parish. He was, however the first pastor of the dissenting
congregation here, as appears from writings still in the pos-
session of the people. The probability is, that he was eject-
ed from some parish in this neighbourhood. He was a very
considerable man, and was appointed one of the Triers in this
county."-Mr. Henry Stevens, ejected from Kettleborough,
was his colleague. Mr. Foodall in conjunction with Mr.
Martin of Edgefield, published The preacher sent; a vindi-
cation of public preaching by some unordained men, 1658.
Mr. CADE was ejected here.
WORLINGTON [R. above 100/.] Mr. JOHN SALKELD.
Some time Fellow of Queen's Col. Camb. He was a person
of great piety, and a solid judgment; of ready abilities, good
learning, and facetious conversation. After he was ejected
he sometimes exercised his ministry in private, and for some
years, by connivance, in a public church, till some seditious
words were sworn against him by one E. S. Tho' many
hundreds of his hearers could testify that what he said was
not said as his own language, but that of the Parliament, viz.
That Popery was coming into our nation a great pace,
and no care taken to prevent it." However, he was pre-
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sently fined 100l. and committed to the common prison in
Bury till the fine should be paid, where he suffered three
years imprisonment, and then, by the intercession of Lord
Dover with K. James, was discharged, 1686; and his fine
was afterwards remitted by K. William. During his long
and close imprisonment, he was very helpful to his fellow
prisoners, both as a minister and as a chearful christian. His
table was daily furnished by his Bury friends, but his estate
was much injured, and his healthful constitution almost
ruined by his confinement. After he obtained his liberty,
he continued his ministry at Walsham in the Willows many
years, tho' under great bodily infirmities, and there finished
his course, Dec. 26, 1699, aged 77. He printed a sermon
on the resurrection of Lazarus, John xi. 24, upon the King's
Declaration for liberty, 1672.
WRATTING (Magna). Mr. MARK MOTT.
WRENTHAM. Mr. JOHN PHILLIP. Dr. Calamy in
his Contin. p. 797, says, that he has, since his first account,
been informed that it was He who was ejected here in 1662,
He was then however incapable of preaching thro' age and
infirmities, tho' he kept the living in which he had been 55
years. He was chased out of Old into New England for his
nonconformity. Bp. Wren would let none that way inclined
live in his diocese. He was a very useful preacher. His
sufferings made him study the points in controversy the more.
He married the sister of Dr, Wm. Ames, who much assisted
him in his studies. He was one of the Assembly of Divines.
Dr. Calamy adds, He died in 1663, aged about 77. And yet
the editor is informed, that in the church-book belonging to
the dissenting congregation at this place, it is said, that Mr.
Phillip (as his name is there spelt) died Feb. 2, 1660. If
this is not a mistake he does not properly belong to our list.
Mr. THOMAS KING. After Mr. Phillip became in-
firm, he supplied his place at Wrentham. [It is probable.
therefore, that the first account of him as being ejected at
this place is true.]
WILLIAM AMES, M. A. Son of the famous Dr.
William Ames, who had been pastor at Franequer, and pro-
fessor at Rotterdam, and who died in 1633. This his son,
when a child, went with his mother to New-England,
where
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where he had his education at Harvard College, and became
a graduate in 1645. He returned to England and came to
Wrentham in 1646, where, in 1648, he was settled co-pastor
with Mr. Phillip, who was with his uncle, preaching one part
of the day at Frostenton, from whence also he was ejected in
1662. He died at Wrentham in 1689, aged 66. He was a
very pious and excellent man in all respects, of the Indepen-
dent denomination. He printed a sermon on 1 John ii. 20.
preached at St. Paul's, before the Lord Mayor, &c. Novem-
ber 5, 1651.
Mr. AUGUSTINE PLUMSTED. He was not ejected at
Wrentham, but was afterwards pastor of the congregational
church in this town. For this reason, as the place of his
ejectment is uncertain, his name is placed here. At the Re-
storation he was Fellow of Trin. Col. Camb, whither he
came from Westminster school, as King's scholar, chosen by
Dr. Arrowsmith, at that time master of the college. He was
forced to quit his Fellowship on account of his Nonconfor-
mity, before the Bartholomew-act passed, soon after the re-
moval of Dr. Wilkins from the Mastership. Upon the com-
ing of a new Master, he endeavoured to pass his degree of
M. A. but for the same reason could not obtain it. Here-
upon he left the university, and lived a private life upon his
patrimony, which he spent for want of constant employment.
in preaching. He employed himself in drawing up a Double
Concordance to the Bible, taking in the English translation,
and the original Hebrew and Greek. He published his pro-
posals at large for printing it by subscription, with a specimen
of the work, [of which Dr. Calamy gives a very minute ac-
count] together with a recommendation of it, signed Wil-
liam Lord Abp. of Cant. William Lord Bp. of Bangor, J.
Tillotson, Dean of Cant. T. Blomer, D. D. T. Sprat, D. Ď.
Thomas Gale, D. D. G. Burnet, D. D. J. Williams, Wil-
liam Hopkins.-In this work Mr. Plumsted spent many years
labour, and spared no cost to perfect it, tho' he was always
of a weakly constitution, and had but a small income to sup-
port his expences. But it doth not appear that it was ever
published. He was ever esteemed a man of great integrity,
and primitive simplicity; and a person much mortified to the
world.
YOXFORD [V. 357. 158.] Mr. SAMUEL CHAPMAN
He appears to have been succeeded by Nath. Parkhurst,
M. A.
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M. A. A man of a puritanical cast, who is mentioned
below.
Ejected at uncertain Places.
Mr. ZEPHANIAH SMITH. He published A Guide to weak
Christians in these distracted Times; in a Sermon at Wick-
ham Market, where he at that time was minister.-The
Doom of Heretics; on Jude 5. A Sermon on Psalm xxxv.
11. —And another, on Psalm li. 13. entitled the Skilful
Teacher.
Mr. HOWEL Mr. ELLIS-Mr. WHITING—Mr. HAR-
ROLD-Mr. VOICE. Dr. Walker says, that one RICHARD
VOICE was Dr. Croft's successor.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. CROSSMAN, of Sudbury.-Dr. ISAAC HARRISON, of
Hadleigh.-Mr. JOHN SIMSON, of Trimley.-Mr. ROGER
YOUNG, of Ipswich.-Mr. SAMUEL HUDSON, of Capel,
(author of two good discourses on the Essence and Unity of
the Catholic Church.)-Mr. HAVIL, of W. Creting-Mr.
RAY, of Stansfield.-Mr. JOHN FAIRCLOUGH, youngest son
of Mr. F. of Keddington.-Mr. T. LUPTON, of IValdring-
ham.-Mr. W. SPARROW, of Naughton.—Mr. JER. CAT-
LIN, of Barham.-Mr. T. HOLBROUGH, jun. of Akenham.
§ It may not be amiss here to mention Mr. George Jones,
who died rector of Heveningham in this county, after having
been some years a Nonconformist. A funeral sermon for
him, preached by Mr. N. Parkhurst, vicar of Yoxford, has
lately fallen into the editor's hands, which contains a pleas-
ing account of him, of which the following is an abstract:
He was the eldest son of Mr. Geo. Jones, Gent. of Melles in
Somerset, and was early admitted fel. com. in Trinity-hall,
from whence he removed to a vicarage in Hampshire, of
above a 100l. per. ann. where he continued some years in
good repute, and was eminent in his charities to the souls
and bodies of his people. Thus happy were his people in
him, till black Bartholomew, when hundreds of livings were
made void, and his among the rest; not being yet fully sa-
tisfied to comply with all things required by the Act of uni-
formity. In London he acquainted himself with divers emi-
nent Nonconformists, particularly Mr. Baxter and Mr. Howe.
And then and there he received such satisfaction as war-
ranted his after Conformity, and brought him to Hevening-
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ham. The great Mr. Baxter did him the honour to say of
his book of Progressive Knowledge in the future State,
"This is a book according to my own heart." Amongst
other charities, he gave away hundreds of books; as Bibles,
Baxter's family-books, Gouge's principles, &c. His mi-
nisterial labours were very considerable: his candour was
great, particularly to his dissenting people; and his learning
uncommon. He died July 22, 1704.-The reader is recom-
mended to make a reference to the above account, at the end
of HAMPSHIRE.
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IN
SURREY.
SHTED [R.] Mr. KING.
BYFLEET [R.] Mr. SCUDAMORE.
CHARLWOOD [R. S.] Mr. WRIGHT. He was eject-
ed soon after the Restoration. He afterwards lived privately
at Dorking, but did not long survive.
CHIPSTED [R. S.] Mr. CALEB TRENCHFIELD. The
former incumbent returned to this living in 1660. Mr.
Trenchfield having an estate at Eltham in Kent, went and
lived there, and kept a school, and there he died.
WORKS. Christian Chymistry; being eleven Observations,
Historical, &c. with suitable Applications.-A Cap of Grey Hairs
for a green Head.
CLAPHAM [R. 300l.] JOHN ARTHUR, D. D. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. A very considerable man; who lived and died
a moderate Nonconformist. Wood's account of him, to
which Dr. Calamy refers, is as follows: A noted theolo-
gist, was diplomated Oct. 10, 1660, by virtue of the King's
letters, written to the university in his behalf, and unknown
to him. This Diploma was to pass because Mr. Arthur's
great age would not permit him to take a journey to Oxon,
to be presented there in person. He was son (if I mistake
not) of Laurence Arthur, of Springfield in Essex, and had
been mostly educated in Eman. Col. Camb. but ejected from
his living at Clapham in Surrey, for Nonconformity, An.
1662." It is observable that no reflection upon him is added.
COLSDON
IN SURREY.
301
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COLSDON [R.] Mr. RICHARD ROBERTS. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. Brother to Sir W. Roberts, of Wilsden in Mid-
dlesex, commonly called Lord Roberts, the greatest and most
ancient freeholder in that county. He was educated under
Dr. Preston, and married the eldest daughter of Dr. W.
Gouge, of Black-fryars. In his ministry he was very fervent
and convincing, and was blessed with great success. He was
a man of uncommon industry, and was richly furnished with
all good learning. Being turned out of Colsdon, he placed
himself and family at Watford in Hertfordshire, where he la-
boured constantly, and was greatly honoured and beloved by
the conforming clergy, and even the Baptists and Quakers,
for his prudence, exemplary piety, and abundant charity. He
was one of the Triers for this county.
says,
DITTON (Long) [R.] RICHARD BYFIELD, M. A. Of
Queen's Col. Oxf. A man of great piety and zeal. §Wood
"he was half brother to Nich. Byfield, was born in
Worcestershire, and at 16 was entered at the university, on
leaving which he had the curacy or lectureship of Isleworth.
At Long Ditton he became a reformer of the church of super-
stition (as he called it) by plucking up the steps leading to
the altar, and denying the sacrament to his parishioners, and
to his patron, unless they would take it in any way except
kneeling. He was one of the Assembly, a great covenanter,
and an eager preacher against bishops, ceremonies &c. In
1654, he was assistant to the Com. for ejecting, &c."
There once happened a great difference between him and
his patron, Sir J. Evelyn, about repairing the church. Mr.
Byfield complained to Oliver Cromwell, then Protector, who
got them both together, to reconcile them. Sir John said,
that Mr. B. reflected upon him in his sermons. Mr. B. most
solemnly declared he never intended any reflection upon him.
Oliver thereupon, turning to Sir John, said, "Sir, I doubt
there is something indeed amiss; the word of God is pene-
trating, and finds you out: search your ways." This he
spake so pathetically, even with tears, that Sir John, Mr. By-
field, and others present, wept also. The Protector, before
he dismissed them, made them good friends. To bind the
friendship the faster, he ordered his Secretary Malin to pay
Sir John Evelyn 100l. towards the repair of the church.
Mr. Byfield when he was ejected, was the oldest minister in
that county. He retired afterwards to Mortlake, where he
spent his time in preparing for his approaching dissolution.
He
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He preached usually twice every Lord's day in his own family,
and he did so the very last before his death. The next day
he signified to those about him that his departure was at hand.
He gave many serious exhortations and admonitions to his
wife and children, and particularly charged the latter to live
in love, that the God of love and peace might be with them.
On the Tuesday a friend desired his thoughts on Rev. viii. 1
to which he spake with great freedom for a considerable
time, and then rising from his seat, fell into an apoplectic fit,
and only saying that he desired to rest his head, he slept in
the Lord, in Dec. 1664, aged 67. § He was buried in Mort-
lake church.
WORKS. Sermons before the Parliament.-The Light of
Faith, and Way of Holiness.-The Doct. of the Sabbath vindic.
ag. his Brother Mr. N. Byfield.-The Power of the Christ of
God.-The Gospel's Glory without Prejudice to the Law.-The
real Way to good Works.-A Treatise of Charity.—[The Be-
ginning of the Doctrine of Christ, was Mr. N. Byfield's.]
DORKING [R.] Mr. SAMUEL NABBS. After his eject-
ment he lived in the neighbourhood of London, where he
died very old and infirm.
EGHAM [V. 6ol.] WILLIAM REYNER, B. D. Of Camb.
university. An eminent divine, and a member of the Assem-
bly. He had very considerable success in his ministry, in his
younger days, among the gentry. In the Parliament times he
was offered the Presidentship of Magd. Col. Oxf. or a Fellow-
ship at Eaton, but he refused, because he had preached against
pluralities, and was resolved to act consistently. He was mi-
nister of this place 46 years. He had no visible prospect of
a future subsistence when he quitted, but lived chearfully af-
terwards, and thro' the care of divine providence was in no
want, but died worth little or nothing. He continued in his
parish till his death in 1666, and left the world with a general
reputation. He preached privately after his ejectment, as far
as his strength would serve him, and never was disturbed.
He was terribly exercised with the stone for many years, but
after his ejectment he never had any acute pains. A stone
was taken out of his bladder after his death, weighing ten
ounces, and measuring nine inches and a half, in circumfer-
ence, in the form of a heart. He was a man of general learn-
ing, and particularly eminent in church history. He was in-
timate with Abp. Usher, and highly valued by him.
printed nothing but a Sermon before the Parliament.
He
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303
EWEL [R.] Mr. BATHO.
FARNHAM [V.] Mr. SAMUEL STILEMAN. A man
held in good estimation for his great learning. He was also
eminent for his holy and heavenly conversation, his contempt
of the world, and his serious awakening preaching. His
faithfulness sometimes exposed him to difficulties. A gentle-
man in the neighbourhood having broke his neck by a fall
from his horse, as he was returning with some others from a
drinking-bout, Mr. Stileman thought it his duty sharply to
rebuke the sin of drunkenness in the pulpit, and to improve
that awful providence, in order to deter others from this
odious vice. At this several gentlemen were much enraged.
Some time before Bartholomew-day a justice of peace came
into the church, and commanded Mr. Stileman in the King's
name, to come down out of the pulpit ; which for that time he
did quietly, to prevent disturbance. Another time the same
justice came and did the same again; but upon the advice of
his friends, Mr. Stileman refused. The justice repeated his com.
mand, without effect. He then ordered some persons in the
church to go and pull him down. They not complying, the
justice himself went into the pulpit, thrust him down with
great violence, and committed him to prison. But he soon
got bail, and by the advice of his friends, sued his worship,
and recovered considerable damages. He continued preach-
ing till Aug. 24, 1662, and afterwards in his own house,
which he would still have done, but he died the following
year.
FETCHAM [R. S. 1407.] Mr. JAMES FISHER. Of Eman.
Col. Camb. After his ejectment he kept a school, and
preached in his own house at Dorking, where he died 1691,
aged 86. Dr. Walker says, “He was a man of a very mean
character." But some who knew him well assured the au-
thor, that he was an honest upright person, and a very useful
preacher. That writer relates an instance of his great inhu-
manity to his predecessor. Dr. Turner's lady, at his taking
possession of the living. But it seems most likely the Dr.
was misinformed, both from Mr. Fisher's general character,
which was very remarkable for humanity and tenderness,
while he was in possession of the living; and also from what
was said by a successor of his to his daughter, who was well
known at Dorking, viz. that her father's memory was then
precious at Fetcham, and would never die there.
GUILFORD
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GUILFORD [R.] Mr. JOHN MANSHIP.
silenced he practised physic.
After being
HORSLEY (East) [R.] Mr. SAMPSON CARYL.
HORSLEY (West) [R.] Mr. JOHN PLOT. He was
appointed one of the Triers of this county.
KINGSTON [V.] Mr. RICHARD MAYO. A man of
sincere godliness, whose ministerial labours here were
crowned with abundant success. He had afterwards a large
and flourishing congregation in London, where for many
years he continued an affectionate and useful preacher. He
was a great lover of peace and union; was of a sweet na-
tural temper, and in all his conduct manifested great sincerity
and prudence. In his last sickness he had much inward
peace and serenity: his end was like an evening without
clouds. He said to his worthy fellow-labourer," I have.
had my infirmities and failings, but my heart hath been right.
with God as to the main; and I look for the mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life." He died Sept 8, 1695.
His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. N. Taylor, who
succeeded him. He had two sons in the ministry: the one
a Conformist, at St. Thomas's, Southwark; the other, a
Nonconformist at Kingston upon Thames [afterwards (in
part) at Hackney, on the division which took place on Mr.
Barker's being chosen as Mr. Henry's successor.]
WORKS. A plain Answer to this Q. What Course may a
Christian take to have his Heart quickened and enlarged in secret
Prayer. Three Sermons in Morn. Ex...The Life of Dr. Staunton.
..Two Conferences; one betwixt a Papist and a Jew; the other
between a Protestant and a Jew...A Letter from Leghorn.-A
Comment on Romans, in the Contin. of Poole.-A Sermon on the
Cause and Cure of Strife and Divisions.
He was
LAMBETH [R.] Mr. JOHN RAWLINSON.
one who signed the address of thanks to K. Charles, for his
Declaration in 1661; also one of the Commissioners at the
Savoy conference. He was a most friendly, humble, and
obliging person, who was much respected for his prudence
and piety, as also for his ministerial abilities. Mr. Baxter
speaks of him as a grave divine, of great ability." He
died at Wantage, Berkshire.
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MEESTHAM [R. 2001.] WILLIAM ANGEL, M. A. Of
Christ Col. Oxf. The younger son of a gentleman in Wor-
cestershire.
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305
When he first came to his living he found many of his pa-
rishioners very prophane; but by his endeavours and good
conversation some reformation was produced. It was his
usual custom on the Sabbath evening after service, to go
about the parish with the churchwardens and constables, to
prevent the evil practices which had been common on that
day. But, when another minister succeeded in his room,
these loose people returned to their old ways. The ringing
of bells was so offensive to Mr. Angel, that he requested his
successor to give public notice to refrain from that practice;
after which it was never once done all the time he staid
there. He was generally beloved by the people, the chief of
whom very earnestly pressed him to stay amongst them, and
offered to get a person to officiate for him, in what he scru-
pled. But he told them, He could not like another should
do that for him, which he himself did not approve; and that
he was forced to leave them to preserve peace within. After
his ejectment he became a school-master, in which office he
took much pains, and educated a number of good scholars of
several ranks and professions. He was a very practical
preacher; very facetious in conversation; of a public spirit,
and of great moderation and charity. He had a peculiar ta-
lent in reconciling persons who were at variance. Through
life he discovered great uprightness, and his end was peace.
One of his last works, on his death-bed, was, giving excel-
lent advice to a young man then beginning the world.
He died in March, 1685, aged 55, and was buried in Old
Bethlehem.
MORTLAKE [C. or D.] DAVID CLARKSON, B. D.
Some time Fellow of Clare Hall, Camb. Dr. Walker says,
he succeeded Mr. Peter Gunning, when dispossessed of this
Fellowship, as his pupil Tillotson did him, and seems to
blame both; but unjustly, as the succession was not immedi-
ate in either case. Mr. Clarkson was the son of Mr. Robert
Clarkson, of Bradford in Yorkshire, and born there Feb.
1622. When deprived of his public ministry, he gave him-
self wholly to reading and meditation, whereby he obtained
an eminent degree of sacred knowledge, and was conversant
in the recondite branches of learning. [He shifted about
(says Mr. Neal) from one place of obscurity to another, till
the times suffered him to appear openly; he was then chosen
successor to Dr. Owen." Dr. Savage says, "He was chosen
co-pastor with Dr. Owen in July, 1682, a year before the
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"He
Dr.'s death." Mr. Clarkson died in 1687.] Dr. Bates, in
his funeral sermon for him, gives him this character :
was a man of sincere godliness and true holiness, which is
the divine part of a minister. He was a conscientious im-
prover of his time for acquiring useful knowledge, that he
might be thoroughly furnished for the work of his divine
calling. Humility and modesty were his distinctive charac-
ters, wherein he excelled. He was well satisfied to serve the
church, and illustrate the truth, and to remain in his beloved
secrecy. In his conversation, a comely gravity, mixed with
an innocent pleasantness, were attractive of respect and love.
He was of a calm temper, nor ruffled with passions, but
gentie and kind and good; his breast was the temple of
peace. In the discharge of his sacred work, his intellectual
alilities and holy affections were very evident. Great was his
solemnity and reverence in prayer, and his preaching was very
instructive and persuasive. The matter of his sermons was
clear and deep, and always judiciously derived from the text.
The language was neither gaudy and vain, nor rude and neg-
lected, but suitable to the oracles of God. His death was un-
expected, yet, as he declared, no surprize to him, for he
was entirely resigned to the will of God, and he desired to
live no longer than to be serviceable. With holy Simeon
he had Christ in his arms, and departed in peace to see
the salvation of God above." Mr. Baxter says,
"He was
a divine of extraordinary worth for solid judgment, healing
moderate principles, acquaintance with the fathers, great
ministerial abilities, and a godly upright life." Mr. Clark-
son thought it a great honour to him, to have had a hand
in the education of so excellent a person as Dr. John Til-
lotson, Abp. of Canterbury, who bore a singular respect to
him as long as he lived.
WORKS. The Practical Divinity of the Papists destructive
to Christianity and Mens Souls.-No Evidence for Diocesan
Episcopacy in Primitive Times; in Ans. to Stillingfleet. A
Defence of ditto.-Two Serm. in Morn. Ex.-Funeral Sermon
for Dr. Owen; which may be seen in the Collect. of the Dr.'s
Serm. and Tracts --Since his death, a Discourse on Free Grace;
another on Episcopacy; a third on Liturgies; and a Vol. of Ser-
mons in Folio.
MOULSEY (East and West.) Mr. JOIN JACKSON. Of
Queen's Col. Camb. Son of Mr. Arthur Jackson.
He was
noted as an orator, a philosopher, and a moderator in the
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schools. He was a diligent and useful preacher, well skilled
in the scriptures, a pious liver, and a sincere friend. He was
first ejected from St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf, London, and
was afterwards sometimes supported by correcting the press.
He corrected the first impression (which is the best) of
Poole's Annotations.
WORKS. A Serm. in Morn. Ex. at Cripplegate-A Concord-
ance to the Bible.—An Account of his Father's Life prefixed to his
Annotat. on Isaiah,&c. (of which an abstract has been given in this
work)-Part of the Contin. of Poole's Annotations.
OCKLEY [R.] Mr. NowELL.
PURBRIGHT [Chap.] Mr. WICKHAM.
WALTON (upon Thames) [V.] Mr. DAVID ANDERSON.
Being apprehensive of a return of Popery, soon after his eject-
ment he went to Zealand, with his wife and five small chil-
dren, and settled at Middleburgh. Having no employment
there, he soon consumed the little money he had, owed a
year's rent for his house, and was reduced so low as to want
bread. Such was his modesty that he knew not how to make
his case known in a strange country. In this condition, after
he had been one morning at prayer with his family, his chil-
dren asked for their breakfast; but having none, nor money
to buy any, they all burst into tears. In this sorrowful case,
the bell rung. Mrs. Anderson went to the door in a mean
and mournful habit. A person asked for the mistress, and
on her telling him she was Mrs. Anderson, gave her a paper,
saying, “ Here, a gentleman has sent you this paper, and will
send you in some provisions presently." On opening the
paper, they found 40 pieces of gold in it. The messenger
went away, without telling his name or whence he came.
Soon after a countryman came with a hoise-load of provi-
sions of all kinds, but did not tell them, nor did they ever
know, who it was that so seasonably relieved them. But Mr.
John Quick (from whose Memoirs this account is taken)
being, in 1681, pastor of the English church at Middle-
burgh, came accidentally to the knowledge of the whole mat-
ter. Being at the country house of one Myn Heer de Koning,
a magistrate of that city, and happening to mention this
story, he told him that he was the person that carried the gold
from Myn Heer de Hoste, a pious merchant of that place,
with whom he was then an apprentice. He added, that M. de
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Hoste observing a grave English minister frequently walk
the streets, with a dejected countenance, enquired privately
into his circumstances, and apprehending be might he in want,
sent him the gold and the provision, saying, with a very
christian tenderness, “God forbid that any of Christ's em
bassadors should be strangers and we not visit them; or in
distress, and we not assist them." But he expressly charged
both his servants to conceal his name.-This relief, besides
present provision, enabled Mr. Anderson to pay his debts.
He could not help communicating this instance of the great
goodness of God to his friends and acquaintance in that city.
This coming to the ear of M. de Hoste, he afterwards found
a secret way of paying Mr. Anderson's rent yearly, and of
conveying to him 10l. every quarter; which he managed so
as that he never could discover his benefactor. M. de Koning
kept the whole matter secret, as long as his master lived, but
thought himself at liberty to give this account of it after his
death.
Upon the decease of Mr. Spang, minister of the English
church at Middleburgh, Mr. Anderson was unexpectedly
chosen in his stead. When the messenger came to acquaint
him with it, his wife was so overcome with joy at the goodness
of God, in providing them a fixed and honourable mainte-
nance, that it threw her into a fever, of which she died. Mr.
Anderson after some time grew sickly, and died also in
March, 1677. He was a man of good ministerial talents.
None of all the ministers, in that city, equalled him in the
gift of prayer, in which he had a peculiar fulness and fluency,
animated with very melting affections.-The magistrates of
the city became guardians to the five orphans whom he left.
behind him. The famous Anna Maria Scurmon took one of
his daughters, and two other Dutch ladies the two others,
and became mothers to them. The unknown benefactor
continued his kind offices to them all. M. de Hoste took
the two sons under his own charge, and by his last will be-
queathed a good portion to each of the daughters. He or-
dered that the eldest son, who was very hopeful and pious,
should be brought up a scholar, and settled a liberal provi-
sion upon him of 60l. per ann. for his education at one of
their universities, where he died of a consumption; and ap-
pointed the youngest son to be bound apprentice, and when he
should be out of his time to receive 60l. to begin the world
with: so wonderfully did Providence attend this pious con-
fessor, and his children after him.
WORPLESDON,
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309
WORPLESDON, [R.] Mr. GEORGE FARROLL. The
father of Mr. John Farroll, ejected at Shelburn in Hamp-
shire. He was appointed one of the Triers of this county.
Ejected at uncertain places:
Mr. GLYDEMr. BEAUMONT---Mr. SMITH---Mr.
STORY.
ADDENDUM.
Those who are possessed of the MORNING EXERCISES at
Cripplegate, will be gratified by the perusal of Mr. JOHN
JACKSON's sermon, mentioned page 307. It is on a singu-
lar and important subject, being an answer to the Question:
"How shall those merchants keep up the Life of Religion.
"who, while at home, enjoyed the Gospel-ordinances, and
"when abroad, are not only destitute of them, but exposed
"to persecution?" The text is Psalm cxx. 5. It is a ju-
dicious and useful discourse, which confirms the account
given of the author.
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SUSSEX.
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LISTON [V. 217. 118.] Mr. THOMAS MALTHUS.
ARUNDEL [V. 38/. 198. 9d.] Mr. JOHN GOLD-
WIRE. After his ejectment he was very useful as a school-
master, having his son to assist him, first at Broadlands near
Rumsey, and afterwards at Baddesley. From his grave-stone.
in Rumsey church, it appears that he died May 22, 1690,
aged 88. He was a pious man, and an excellent scholar.
BARLAVINGTON [R. or Haylshott]. Mr. RICHARD
GARRET. He continued to live and preach in the place
where he was ejected. He was a very serious preacher, but
among his neighbours who continued hearing him, were se-
veral who were strangers to that life of religion and power
of godliness, which this good man studied to his utmost to
promote. As he usually walked to Petworth every Monday,
in one of those walks, a country fellow, who had been his
hearer the day before, and had been cut to the heart by some-
what he had delivered, came up to him with his scythe upon
his shoulder, and in a mighty rage threatened that he would
be the death of him, for he had told him the day before what
no one in the world knew of him, but God and the devil;
and therefore he most certainly dealt with the devil. Mr.
Garret was greatly terrified, but by soft answers and serious
discourse, he at length so far turned away the fellow's wrath,
that he retired without doing him any hurt:
BIGNOR [R.] Mr. THOMAS REEVES.
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BILLINGHURST. WILLIAM WILSON, M. A.
Cambridge university. His father was a strict Conformist
minister. He was sent into Wales, for grammar-learning,
and while he was a school-boy there, stood god-father to a
child, which created him much uneasiness afterwards. Hav-
ing taken his degrees, he was invited to this parish, where
with great diligence, faithfulness, and importunity, he la-
boured to win souls to Christ, and promote serious religion,
about ten years. He invited persons to be in earnest about
practical godliness by his own exemplary conversation out of
the pulpit, as well as by his warm discourses in it. Safely
could he say with the apostle, 2 Cor. xii. 14. I will not be
• burthensome unto you, for I seek not yours, but you.'
Such as were in mean circumstances he excused from paying
their tithes, though he could as ill afford it as many others
that insist upon them. But he had not so learned Christ as
to do any thing that might prejudice persons against the mi-
nistry, or tempt them to charge those who officiated in it
with covetousness or cruelty. He thus acquired the love and
good-will of his parishioners. When he was ejected, both
he and his wife were young; they had four small children.
and but little to subsist on: he therefore taught school in his
own parish, where he had good encouragement. He also
continued preaching privately; but met with opposition.
A friend wrote him an expostulatory letter on the subject, to
which he returned an answer, of which the following is an
extract:
"Honoured Sir,-That the late act hath ousted me from
being minister of this place, I acknowledge; and also that it
denieth me the public exercise of my office: but that I am
still a minister of the gospel, I think will be granted by all.
So that should I execute the office in any part of the church I
could not be said to invade another man's calling. You will
say the laws of the kingdom disallow it, and therefore I can-
not here lawfully do it. I acknowledge that I am bound to
the laws of the kingdom, so far as they are agreeable to the
laws of God; but if the laws of men seem, at least to me, to
thwart the laws of God, I must then keep close to the laws
of God, and expose myself to the penalties of the laws of men.
That any practice of mine hath bred any division in the pa-
rish I may safely deny, except it be my example in not con-
forming; which is more than I know, and more than I can
help. Mr. Oram hath not had at any time the less auditory
for me, since he had the place. Yea, I have been instru-
mental
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mental to keep some to the church, who else would have ab-
sented themselves wholly. Those that come not to hear Mr.
Oram, or to communicate with him now, would not do it
were I 1000 miles off. The ground for their noncommu-
nion is not in me, but himself, as I suppose. Sir, I will as-
sure you, my Nonconformity hath not been out of any pri-
vate humour, (whatever men may judge of me) but purely
to satisfy my own breast. To me it seems strange, and very
hard, that those that are but supposed to be Presbyterians, and
but suspected to have private meetings, should be more taken
notice of and sentenced than the Quakers and Baptists, I had
almost said the Papists too. I will assure you that I shall (the
Lord assisting me) endeavour to walk unblameably, and be-
ware of offences; and in all I do, seek to satisfy my own
conscience, in walking by rule, whatever comes of it; that
if I do suffer, it may be for well-doing, and not as an evil-
doer. It is far better for me to have all the world about my
ears than have God an enemy, and conscience an accuser. In
that you have been pleased to plead my cause and vindicate
me behind my back, I acknowledge myself much obliged, and
shall manifest it, (seeing no other opportunity offers itself) in
praying for you and yours; and shall remain still yours, &c.
WIL. WILSON."
Billinghurst, Jan. 16, 1663.
At length he was prosecuted for teaching school and preach-
ing. His two greatest enemies were, a neighbouring justice,
and the parson that succeeded him in the parish. The justice
threatened to have him dead or alive, and make him rot in a
jail; but he himself went first to rot in the grave. The
parson was so violent, that he directed the officers how to
apprehend him; and vented his malice upon Mr. Wilson's
family after his death, tho' it was well known that his in-
terest helped to bring him into the parish. But tho' several
warrants were issued out against him, and several attempts
made to take him, God so preserved him that he escaped, tho'
often very narrowly. His usual refuge was the house of Dr.
Banks, a neighbouring conformist minister, where he was
uususpected. At length he was forced to lay down his school,
when he purchased a small farm, which his wife and servants
managed; but he held on preaching, when he could get an
auditory, at his own house or elsewhere. His heart was so
set upon ministerial service, that in his last illness nothing
was more grievous to him than his being thereby taken off
from it. When another ejected minister, Mr. M. Wood-
man, who came to visit him, asked him, What he would
have
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have him pray for? He answered, That God would either
be pleased to restore him speedily to his ministerial labours,
or else receive him to glory; the latter of which requests was
answered about 1670, when he was but about 40 years of
age. In the latter part of his life he discovered great satis-
faction in his Nonconformity, and a firm dependance on the
promises of God for those whom he was to leave behind him,
who found those promises abundantly made good to them.
Sir Harry Goring, among other gentlemen, had a great
esteem for this good man, which he manifested upon all oc-
casions. And the parson's zeal at length abated, and falling
into melancholy, it occasioned him dreadful horror to think
he had been so troublesome to Mr. Wilson and his family,
to which he afterwards grew more favourable; and then the
pious Dissenters became his most delightful companions for
inany years.
BRIGHTHELMSTONE [V.] Mr. ROBERT Everden.
BRIGHTLING [R.] Mr. JOSEPH BENNET. Of St. John's
Col. Camb. He was the son of a minister who died young.
Falling to the care of his uncle, T. English, Esq; he educated
him at the free-school at Tunbridge, from whence he went at
about 14 years of age to Cambridge, with a particular re-
commendation from his master. Mr. Goodwin was his tutor,
whom he often commended. His uncle designed him for
the living of Brightling, of which he was the patron, which
became vacant before he had finished his studies. Another
person therefore was presented, upon a private agreement.
that he should have the whole profit till Mr. Bennet was fit
for it, and then should resign. But when his promise
was claimed, he refused; and so Mr. Bennet was forced to
wait for his death. In the mean time he lived in the family of
Sir J. Woolaston at Highgate, where he had leisure for study,
and opportunity of hearing and conversing with the London
ministers; particularly of attending on the ministry of Abp.
Usher at Gray's-Inn. On returning into his own country,
he preached at a place called Hoo, near the sea-side, and
afterwards at Burwash. At length the incumbent dying, he
was presented to Brightling living, in 1658, when he set
himself to do all the good he could, in preaching, chatechiz-
ing, visiting, and faithfully admonishing, as he saw occasion.
His zcal was not laid out in little matters, but in promoting
practical religion. He laid his main stress upon a credible
christian profession, in the administration of the sacraments,
and
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and was much against extremes. While he kept his bene-
fice, he lived hospitably, and was very charitable. When the
Act of uniformity came out, the neighbouring ministers who
complied were very earnest in pressing him to concur with
them; but he could not be satisfied to do it; thinking him-
self obliged to adhere to the cause of reformation, tho' he
and his peopfe could not part without mutual sorrow.
He lived in the parish twenty years afterwards, where he
set up a school, which began to flourish, but was dispersed
by the plague in 1665. The minister of the place then with-
drawing for his own safety, Mr. Bennet visited the people,
who died in great numbers. He resigned himself and his fa-
mily to the care of divine providence, but none of them were
visited with the distemper, tho' he went daily among those
that were. This greatly endeared him to sober persons of all
ranks, so that when the Five-mile-act took place, none would
execute it upon him, and he remained unmolested. His motto
was, God's good Providence be mine inheritance; which
was answered to him; for when his family increased, he was
surprizingly provided for; so that tho' he never abounded,
he was never in any distressing want. He generally had a
few borders, which was both a help and a diversion to him.
He had some trouble from the spiritual courts, but the inter-
position of friends kept things from running to extremity. He
much delighted in his ministerial employment. The people
to whom he had been related as their minister, having their
meeting at Hellingley, several miles distant, and he being
thro' age disabled from going thither, he removed to Hast-
ings, where there was a church raised by Mr. Bernard of
Lewes. There he spent the remainder of his days with his
family. Tho' the people could do very little for his support,
he was pleased and thankful to divine providence, that he
was not wholly laid aside as useless. By his peaceable and
pious conversation, he conciliated the favour and friendship of
nany who were greatly prejudiced against the Dissenters.
Before his removal, some malicious people, without the least
foundation, had formed a design of accusing him of high
treason; but a testimonial was procured for him by E. P. of
Barwash, Esq; from a neighbour of his, who was as high as
any man, which brought him off, and his enemies were
ashamed of their conduct. His sufferings did not exasperate
him, nor was he so much against the church as to be averse
to occasional communion with it. He heartily embraced all
who appeared lovers of serious religion, and was himself a
lively
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lively pattern of it. He prevented his people's addressing in
K. James's time, for which Sir T. Dyke thanked him, pro-
mising it should be remembered in his favour. He had a
great tenderness towards vagabonds, often relieving them,
and entered into discourse with them; which he used to say
he did because they were generally treated as persons outlaw-
ed, and regarded by none. Though he was often imposed
upon, it is to be hoped he sometimes did good this way.
He was blind for some time before his death, and his me-
mory decayed. Being asked in the latter part of his life,
about his sentiments respecting his Nonconformity, he said,
That they had for substance been always the same; that he
had great satisfaction in considering, That worldly motives.
had not influenced him, but only a regard to the word of
God, and an unbiassed conscience: and were it to do again,
he must do as he had done. He passed thro' the world with
a character as unblemished as most men, and died in a good
old age, in 1707. A son of his was assistant to Mr. Shower.
BURWASH [V.] Mr. THOMAS GOLDAM. A man
of good attainments in polite learning, and an acceptable
preacher. Soon after his entrance on the ministry, he was
disturbed by a Quaker, who came to his church, and walking
towards the pulpit like a ghost, said to him, "I am sent with
a message from God to thee." Mr. Goldham, who was a
quick and ready man, asked, "What! to me?" Yea, said
the Quaker, to thee." Mr. Goldham then asked him, “Dost
thou know my name?" Nay, said the Quaker, I know
it not." Mr. Goldham replied,
"If God had sent thee to
me, he could have told thee my name," and argued that he
might be mistaken in the person he was sent to. At this
the man was confounded, and the people were satisfied, with-
out any dispute.
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BUXTED. Mr. STEPHEN STREET. Ugfield or Marsh-
field, was joined to this living, and he had an assistant. He
took great pains in preaching and catechizing the youth, and
was very charitable to the poor. When ejected, he had a
wife and six children. He died at London soon after. § See
Vol. II. p. 340,)
* CARDFORD. Mr. JOHN BEATON, His father had been
minister of Rye. Upon his ejectment, he and his family
were received into the house of Sir John Fagge of Wiston,
who shewed them great kindness, which was continued to
Mr.
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Mr. Beaton's family after his death, and Sir John received
considerable spiritual benefits in return. Mr. Beaton was a
witty man, and even by his facetiousness, promoted serious-
ness instead of checking it. His liberal soul devised liberal
things; and in that wealthy and worthy family where he
lived, he found suitable minds to work upon. His last days
were his best, as to his improvements, both as a christian
and as a minister. Throughout his last lingering sickness
he was much in the exercise of repentance, which has by
many been counted a safer passage out of the world than
that of exstacy. He died Dec. 7, 1680, and was buried in
Wiston church. He was a true friend, and took for his
motto, Prov. xxvii. 10.
CHICHESTER. St. Pancras [V.] Mr. WILLIAM
SPEED. A very good man. He had been some time lecturer
at Uxbridge. While he was there, a family next door to him
was sorely visited with the small-pox, and there being but a
slender partition between the two houses, when Mr. Speed
went to family duty, the woman in the sick family adjoining
used to listen as well as she could, and made a hole that she
might hear the more easily. And it pleased God, that by
what she in this manner heard from Mr. Speed, in read-
ing and praying, she was so wrought upon as to be-
come a serious Christian. This account Mr. Humphrey
Phillips relates in his own memoirs, as what he had from
Mr. Speed.
St. Peter's [R.] WILLIAM MARTIN, M. A. Some-
time Fellow of Merton Col. Oxf. The only account we
have of him is from the following inscription on his Tomb-
stone in Whitney church-yard, in Oxfordshire; for Wood
does not mention him, tho' he has an account of another
person of the same name.
GULIELMUS MARTIN, A. M.
Agro hoc Oppidoque Parentibus Honestis oriundus. Col.
Merton Annos complures Socius; cujus Profunda Eru-
ditio, Humilitas sincera, intemerata Sanctitas, exundans
Charitas, indefessa felixque in munere Pastorali Opera,
Evo ipsum suo, Memoriam posteris commendarunt Se-
culis. Oinnigenæ Rivulis Gratiæ, Oceanó immersis
Gloriæ, Mensis Augusti die tertio. Anno Salutis 1686,
Etatis 66to.
Thus
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Thus translated.
He was a native of this county and of this town: was
born of reputable parents, and many years fellow of Merton
College. His profound learning, his sincere humility, his
unspotted sanctity, his unbounded charity, his unwearied and
successful labours in the pastoral office, procured him the
esteem of his own age, and will convey his memory to the
latest posterity. The manifold streams of grace were swal-
lowed up in the ocean of glory, on the third day of August, in
the year of our salvation 1686, and the 66th of his age.
WORKS. A Letter of Advice from an aged Pastor to his Peo-
ple; with the right Way of dying well, and a Map of the Hea-
venly Canaan.
CLAPHAM [R.] Mr. SAMUEL WILMER. A person of
a strong constitution of body, and great presence of mind.
He was unjustly imprisoned by one justice, and bailed out
by another; upon which, to avoid the danger of the Five-
mile-act, he removed to Havant in Hampshire, where he
died Oct. 7, 1671, aged 46. It was thought that his troubles.
shortened his days.
DEAN (East) [R.] Mr. WILLIAM WALLACE. Born
near Aberdeen in Scotland. He was a bold, faithful, and la-
borious man, but spoke English very ill. After his eject-
ment, he preached at several places remote from his habita-
tion, so that his fatigues in journeying were the greater, but
his other sufferings the fewer. He often escaped fines and
imprisonment by being far from home. Once at Bright-
helmstone, when the officer broke in upon the meeting, and
made search for the minister, several women with children
stood about him, and the officers not attempting to remove
any of them, Mr. Wallace escaped. At another time, at
the same house, the officers set a guard, and kept the people
prisoners, while they sent to Lewes (six miles) for a justice's
warrant. In the mean time they that were within, took
effectual care to secure Mr. Wallace; nor was any fine laid
upon him. But, among others, 20l. was laid on the house,
for which they took from the heap 65 bushel sacks crowded
with malt, which was sold to one of their crew at 12s. per
quarter, when it was worth 20s. Mr. Wallace died in 1678.
DENTON [R. 44/. 18s.] Mr. THOMAS GRUNDY. He
was a thinking man, and well skilled in several branches of
learning,
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learning, especially in the mathematics, but disposed to me-
lancholy.
DICHLING [V. 47l. 6d.] Mr. EDWARD LULHAM.
DOWNTON [V.] Mr. WILLIAM CORDEROY. Of Ox-
ford university. A native of Berkshire. Soon after his
ejectment, he removed to Steyning, where he kept a boarding-
school, and had a good number of scholars, several of whom
were gentlemen's sons, for he was reckoned a man of good
learning, tho' not popular in his preaching. He had many
friends, but was not without his enemies, one of whom was
a neighbouring justice. Upon the Five-mile-act, he was
forced to quit his school, and retire to Thackham, where he
died about 1668, aged 48 or 49. When he lay on his dying
bed, he told his wife, That had he conformed, he should
have been in a like condition with Francis Spira; for he
must have acted against his conscience. Mr. John Beaton (his
fellow-sufferer and intimate friend) preached his funeral ser-
mon. He was a man of a singular sincerity, very mortified
and self-denying. He lived much above the world, and took
delight in being useful to others. He left a good name be-
hind him, and his wife and children found the good effects.
of it, in the kindness which they received from several, after
his decease; and, among others, from the forementioned jus-
tice and his widow.
EARTHAM [V. S.] Mr. GEORGE FREEMAN. Dr.
Walker says, He had the character of an active busy k-e
in those times, without specifying any particulars. If he
really deserved that character, he ought to have been ejected
before he surrendered to Mr. Glyd.
FELPHAM. Mr. JOHN GOLDWIRE, jun. A man of his
father's spirit, with whom he was concerned in training up
youth, with good success. After his ejectment he lived at
Rumsey in Hants, where he preached 18 years, and died
Dec. 9, 1713, aged 83.
FISHBORNE [R.] Mr. JOHN ABBOT.
FOUNDINGTON [C.] Mr. JOHN RIDGE. He conti-
nued in these parts after his ejectment. In 1669 he had a
small society, in the house of Mr. Le Gay, at West-Stoke, and
continued there during the life of that gentleman, and of his
wife, who survived him many years. He was a laborious
and
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and learned man; a considerable linguist, philosopher and
divine; a great critic and textuary, but not popular as a
preacher. He left a MS. entitled, Certamina Ecclesiastica
Anglicana; seu colluctationes Nonconformistarum,&c. cum
Supplemento Auth. J. Corbetto. He brings down the his-
tory of Nonconformity below the year 1670. What became
of this work doth not appear.
FRAMFIELD [V. 41. 115.] Mr. JOHN BUSHNELL. He
was not only a good preacher, but had a very mechanical
head, and was more than ordinarily skilled in mathematics.
GLYNDE [V. 43l. 14s. 6d.] Mr. ZACHARY SMITH.
He was one of those ministers who removed from the West
of England, in the time of Charles I. About four months
after the Bartholomew ejection, taking the advantage of a
clause in the act, he preached again publicly in Glynde
church. His first sermon was on Luke i. 64. concerning
Zachariah's tongue being loosed. But this good Zachary
was soon struck dumb again. Some magistrates sent for him,
to whose serious consideration he recommended the charac-
ter given of the Jews, 1 Thess. ii. 15. 16. Being in hist
younger days episcopally ordained, and having some degrees
of latitude towards Conformity beyond several of his bre-
thren, he served some time as curate at Lingfield in Surrey;
but was soon ousted from thence for not wearing the sur-
plice. Returning to Glynde, he was chaplain in the family
of the worthy W. Morley, Esq;-Mr. Smith was a person
who abounded in humility and courtesy. In his last sickness
he discovered great indifference as to life or death, leaving
it entirely to his heavenly Father to chuse for him. He died
about 77 years of age, and was interred in Glynde church.
He published only a funeral Sermon for Mrs. M. Morley, on
Prov. iv. 34. entitled Life in Death.
GREEN [V. 45/.] Mr. ZACHARY CLIFTON.
GRINSTED (East) [V.] Mr. CHRISTOPHER SNELL.
GRINSTED (West) [R.] Mr. JOHN TREDCRoft.
HAYLSHAM [V.] Mr. JOHN LOVER. He was presented
at the Bishop's court, and was indicted and convicted at the
quarter-sessions, on the statute, of 20l. a month, for not go-
ing to church, till submission and Conformity. This con-
viction, with many others, was returned to the Exchequer,
in order to the estreating the respective forfeitures. When
the
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the plague was in London, he and some others, being met
for fasting and prayer at a house in Cranbrook parish in
Kent, a justice (who was afterwards more moderate) came in
upon them, and insisted upon Mr. Lover's going on foot by
his horse's side to the town, (three miles off) in a deep and
dirty way, till a person engaged for his appearance. Mr.
Lover and some others were committed to Maidstone jail,
where they underwent two months imprisonment.
+
HELLINGLEY [V.] Mr. JOHN Stone.
HOADLEY (East) Mr. WILLIAM ATTERSOl.
HOADLEY (West) [V. 467. 125.] Mr. THOMAS BLAKE.
HORSTED (Little) [R.] Mr. NEHEMIAH BEATON.
Brother to Mr. John Beaton. He was ejected first from Lug-
gershall, and then from this place. He was decoyed into
re-ordination, under the idea of its being only a recognition.
of his former ordination; but afterward found his mistake.
Had the Bishop's visitation in Sussex been before the fatal
Bartholomew, he resolved for the ease of his conscience, to
have delivered up to him his new orders publicly; but the
ejection coming first, he laid down his living, and not long
after his life; carrying his wounds to the grave, unless they
may rather be said to have carried him thither. He was of
an excellent spirit, which discovered itself in his private con-
versation, as well as his public sermons; one of which (on
Prov. xxi. i.) he was necessitated to print, on account of
causeless exceptions made against it. After his ejectment he
was kindly received into the family of the worthy Col. Her-
bert Morley of Glynde, where he died, and was buried in
Glynde church, in Jan. 1663.
IPING [R.] Mr. JOSEPH HEYHURST.
KINGSTON [V.] Mr. EDWARD BEECHER.
LEVANT (East) [R.] Mr. ROBERT PARK. Some time
minister at Mortlake in Surrey. He was congregational in his
judgment, but a lover of peace.
LEWES. St. Ann's. EDWARD NEWTON, M. A. Of
Baliol Col.Oxf. of which he was afterwards Fellow. He was
born at Maidstone, and ordained by the Presbytery of Sarum,
in St. Thomas's church in that city, 1652. He began his mi-
nistry at Kingston by the sea, and there continued four or five
years. His parish had only three houses in it, but so many
people
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people came from neighbouring parishes that he had a good
auditory. He afterwards succeeded his father-in-law, Mr.
Benj. Pickering, in Lewes and Southover, preaching one part
of the day at each place, with general acceptance, till after
the Restoration, being attended even by the Royalists. In
1662 he took a sorrowful leave of his people, in a sermon on
2 Tim. ii. 7. He preached to them afterwards privately, and
had a number adhered to him, among whom his chief endea-
vour was to promote practical religion. The congregation at
Maidstone would willingly have received him, but he chose
to continue where he had been useful. He many ways shared
in the hardships of Protestant Dissenters. After the Five-
mile-act he was forced to be a stranger to his own house and
family. Warrants were frequently 'out against him; but Pro-
vidence so far hid him that he was never taken, tho' his
own house, and the houses of his friends, were often searched
for him. Once he was cited to the spiritual court for not com-
ing to church, when not appearing, he was excommunicated;
and the excommunication was ordered to be published against
him in the church, at the very same time that two infamous
women received the like sentence. A writ was afterwards out
against him, de excommunicato capiendo; but he kept out
of the way till means were found to supersede it. He
had a licence for a private house, in 1672; and upon K.
James's Indulgence, he publicly exercised his ministry in a
house fitted up for that purpose, and continued to officiate
alone till 1696, when Mr. T. Bernard was chosen joint pas-
tor with him. A difference afterwards unhappily arising
about a new place of worship, they parted in 1707, and had
two distinct congregations. He continued his ministerial ser-
vice till 1709, when age and infirmities obliged him to re-
sign. He died Jan. 1712, aged 84 or 85. He was a plain,
serious, practical preacher. He studied to be as inoffensive
to all, as he could with a good conscience, and had the ge-
neral good opinion both of the ministers and people of the
established church.
S. Michael's. Mr. GUALTER POSTLETHWAYT. He
was congregational in his judgment: a sound preacher, a
holy liver, and a strict governor of his flock. It appeared
from something which he printed, that he was in the fifth
monarchy notion; but his private opinions did not affect his
ordinary preaching. He had many seals of his ministry, and
some of his society were extraordinary christians, the fruits
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of whose strict and pious family government, appeared in
many of their descendants. Upon the return of Charles II.
some attempted to ensnare him with the oaths to the
govern-
ment, but he took them without scruple. He died 1671, and
was succeeded by Mr. Joseph Whiston.
LINFIELD [Chap.] Mr. JOHN STONESTREET. An emi-
nently gracious and holy man. He was one of those con-
gregational ministers who met at the Savoy in 1658, when
their Confession of Faith and Order was drawn up. He ob-
served that no man appeared there with a greater shew of
seriousness and zeal than Mr. Vinter of Covewald in this
county, who afterwards proved a most remarkable apostate,
and always turned with the times. Mr. Stonestreet after his
ejectment, continued at Lindfield for some time, preaching
in private. Once a violent justice, upon some information,
came to a house where he expected to take him as he was
preaching, but found neither minister nor people there, when,
on seeing a Bible upon the table, he swore there must needs
be a meeting intended. Mr. Stonestreet afterwards removed
to Lewes, a town that was blessed with more than an equal
share of these good ministers. There he died, 1669, and was
buried in St. Ann's church.
MAYFIELD [V.] JOHN MAYNARD, M. A. The fol-
lowing account of him is given by Wood, in his Athen. Oxon.
II. 462.- Esteemed by those of his persuasion an eminent,
and judicious divine; was born of a genteel family, in Sus-
sex, at or near Riverfield; became a Commoner at Queen's
Col. 1616, compounded for the degree of B. A. as member
of that house, and afterwards translated himself to Magd.
Hall. In 1622, he took the degree of M. A. as a com-
pounder, entered into holy orders, and at length became
vicar of Mayfield. But when the rebellion broke out, he
shewed himself more of a Puritan, and preached with more
liberty than he did before; whereupon being appointed one
of the Assembly of Divines, he took the Covenant, held forth
several times before the members of the Long Parliament,
had other preferments, I presume, bestowed upon him; and
in 1654, he was appointed one of the assistants to the Com.
of Sussex for the ejection of such whom they called scanda-
lous, &c.-About the year 1670 he became a benefactor to
Magd. Hall, and his library was exposed to sale by way of
auction, several years after his death, 13 June, 1687.”—Mr.
Peck, who succeeded him in this living, was fixed on by the
patron
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patron with his approbation. He was buried in Mayfield
church-yard, where he has a tomb-stone, with this inscrip-
tion:
M. S.
R. R JOHN MAYNARD. Coll. Regin. Oxon. Art. Mag.
Ingenio Sagaci, Re Historica periti, Equis Moribus &
Verendâ Gravitate Theologi, pariter & Concionatoris
summè pii & Eruditi, qui per Annos XL Mayfieldensi
Gregi (eô felici aut infelici magis) Lumen & Decus af-
fulsit: Tandem seculi pertasus, Cœlo Maturus, Christo
Æternum fruiturus hinc migravit, Jun. 7, 1665.-Hic
quod Mortale erat exuendum deponi voluit.
Thus translated.
Sacred to the memory of the very Reverend JOHN May-
NARD, of Queen's Col. Oxford, M. A. He was endowed
with a penetrating genius; was a great master of history; a
divine of irreproachable manners, and the most venerable
gravity. A preacher of the first eminence for piety and learn-
ing. He shone for forty years the light and glory of his
flock at Mayfield (by so much the more happy or unhappy).
At length weary of the world and ripe for heaven, he depart-
ed hence to the eternal enjoyment of Christ, June 7, 1665,
having fixed on this spot as the depository of his mortal
part.
WORKS. Fast Serm. bef. H. of Com. Feb. 26, 1644, on Prov.
xxiii. 23.-A Shadow of the Victory of Christ, on Phil. iii. 21.—
On the like Occasion, 28 Oct. 1646, (Wood).-The young Man's
Remembrancer and old Man's Monitor.-The Law of God rati-
fied by the Gospel, wherein many of the Types, &c. are unfolded
in several Sermons, 1660.-The Beauty and Order of the Creation
displayed in the six Days Work.
Mr. ELIAS PAUL D'ARANDA. His first settlement
in this county was under Dr. Cheynel, at Petworth, from
whence he removed to Patcham, and thence to Mayfield,
where he was assistant to Mr. Maynard, who allowed him
all the tithes, reserving to himself the parsonage-house only,
and the glebe. After he was ejected from hence, by the Bar.
tholomew-act, he was minister of the French church at Can-
terbury. He was a man of considerable accomplishments, a
valuable preacher, and of an agreeable conversation.
NORTH-CHAPEL [R. S.] Mr. JOHN WOOD. After
being cast out here, he lived upon a small estate which he had
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at Westgate, near Dorking in Surrey, where he afterwards
had a congregation. He died, 1695, aged 78. He was a
grave, solid, and judicious divine, who brought forth fruit
in old age.'
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NUTHURST (R.] Mr. ROBERT FISH. He entered upon
the ministry very young. When he was ejected, he had a
wife and four or five young children, and his whole estate
amounted but to 18l. per ann. He afterwards settled at Ockley
in Surrey, and sometimes taught school. He continued his
ministry in all the rigors of K. Charles's reign, without fear,
though he was often much exposed, by warrants out against
him. He was sometimes reduced to great straits, but Provi-
dence appeared for him, particularly in one instance, when
in answer to his prayers, he received the exact sum he wanted
by an unknown hand. He was of a sickly constitution, but
used to speak in the pulpit with vehemence. Some friends
attempting to dissuade him from it, he replied,
"If persons
cry, Fire, fire, in an unconcerned manner, who will take
notice of it?" He died about his 70th year. His funeral
sermon was preached by Mr. Peter Lob, on Phil. i. 21. He
was a pious man, of good learning, and great probity; of a
most courteous and affable temper; an affectionate, popular,
and useful preacher; and a man of great self-denial, who
would not leave a poor people when considerable offers
were made him, particularly to succeed Mr. Mat. Mead at
Stepney.
PAGHAM [R.] Mr. THOMAS WILMER.
PETT [R.] Mr. JOHN EASON.
PETWORTH [R. S. 700l.] FRANCIS CHEYNEL, D. D.
A noted member of the university of Oxford, where his fa-
ther Dr. John Cheynel, was a celebrated physician. § Wood
says, that he was born in that city, in St. Mary's Parish, 1608,
and that when B. A. of two years standing, he was, by the
intercession of his mother (then widow of Dr. Abbot, Bp. of
Salisbury) made to Dr. Brent, Warden of Merton Col. elect-
ed probationer fellow thereof, 1629. After he had proceeded.
in arts, he entered the sacred function, and was a curate in or
near Oxon for a time; but when the face of things began to
alter in 1640 and 41, he manifestly shewed himself a Presby-
terian, and an enemy to the bishops and ceremonies of the
church; so that closing with the men of the predominant
party, he took the Covenant, became one of the Assembly of
Divines,"
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Divines," &c. This author speaks of him as a man held in
high repute as a disputant and a preacher, tho' somewhat dis-
ordered in his head; and refers for a larger account of him,
to his History of Oxford.
He was invited by Mr. Holman to accept of a living
near Banbury, of several hundreds a year, where he lived a
short time, and had a contest with Abp. Laud while in his
height. He had the valuable living of Petworth by an ordi-
nance of parliament. [Wood says, on the ejection of an ho-
nest and loyal Doctor]. In the beginning of the war he was
mostly with the Earl of Essex in Cornwall, when he disco-
vered great strength and undaunted courage; his commands
were as readily obeyed by the Colonels in that army as the
General's own. He was one of the divines sent down by the
parliament to the treaty of Uxbridge, and one of the visitors
of the university of Oxford, where he was made President of
St. John's, and Margaret Professor; both of which he quitted
because he would not take the Engagement, Afterwards re-
tiring to Petworth, he diligently attended his charge there,
and God gave great success to his ministry. He lived hos-
pitably and charitably, and never increased his estate by any
of his preferments. This living he lost for the sake of his
conscience, after the Restoration.-He was a man of a pub-
lic spirit, a true lover of his country, and had great in-
terest in it. His heart was as much enlarged for promoting
the gospel as that of any man of his age. Tho' he had been
somewhat deranged, he was perfectly recovered before he left
Petworth.
[Some particulars in the life of this extraordinary man ap-
peared in the Gentleman's Magazine for March and April,
1775, by Dr. Samuel Johnson, drawn up in such a manner
as might be expected from a writer of his avowed principles
in religion and politics. The narrative is indeed a satire both
upon Dr. Cheynel and the times. From the writer's conces-
sions, however, the reader will conceive of Dr. Cheynel as a
truly great character, tho' from undeniable facts he will be
constrained to own it was not without its blemishes. Among
other things, he says of him, "That he was indeed eminent
among his own party, and had qualities, which, employed
in a good cause, woold have given him a claim to some dis-
tinction. Whatever he believed, he thought himself obliged
to professs, and what he professed he was ready to defend.
Having spent much of his life in a college, it cannot be doubt-
ed that he had a considerable knowledge of books, which the
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vehemence of his temper enabled him often to display where
a more timorous man would have been silent. When he
found Mr. Chillingworth in the hands of the Parliament's
troops he appears to have preserved, amidst all his detesta-
tion of the opinions he imputed to him, a great kindness to
his person, and veneration for his capacity. The same kind-
ness which made him desirous to convert him, inclined him
to provide him a commodious lodging when the castle was
given up, and to engage the physician, as his symptoms grew
worse, to renew his visits; and after his death procured him
the rites of burial, which some would have denied him." It
is observable, this writer does not hint at any instance of his
unkindness to that great man, for which Dr. Calamy urges
his insanity as an apology. Speaking of his attending the
Earl of Essex, he says, "He added the praise of valour to
that of learning. He seems indeed to have been born a soldier,
for he had an intrepidity which was never to be shaken by
any danger, and a spirit of enterprize not to be discouraged by
difficulty, which were supported by an unusual degree of
bodily strength." The account concludes thus ; "After his
deprivation he lived upon a paternal estate, not augmented
by the preferments wasted upon him in the triumphs of hist
party, having been remarkable throughout his life for hospi-
tality and contempt of money. He died near Brighthelm-
stone, in Sept. 1665.
WORKS. Several Serm. bef. the Lords and Com. and on pub-
lic Occasions.—The Rise, Growth, and Danger of Socinianism.—
Chillingworthi Novissima.-Divers Letters to Dr. Jasper Mayne,
concerning false Prophets.-A Copy of some Letters which passed
at Oxford between him and Dr. Hammond.-A Relation of a Dis-
putation in St. Mary's church, Oxf. between Mr. Cheynel and Mr.
Erburg, a Socinian.-The Divine Trinunity.-A Discussion of Mr.
Fry's Tenents, &c.-Socinianism proved to be an unchristian Doc-
trine. § Wood says, He was looked upon as the Goliah of his party,
who put him upon answering several Socinian publications, and
gives a particular account of all his works.
RICHARD STRETTON, M. A. Of New Col. Oxford.
Assistant to Dr. Cheynel, from the beginning of 1658, to
Michaelmas, 1660. He was born at Claybrook, in Leices-
tershire, about 1632, and was descended from the Strettons
of Stretton in that county. He was chaplain of his college,
as Bp. Gunning had been some time before. He was ordain-
ed to the ministry by the Presbytery at Arundel, Oct. 26,
1658. When Dr. Cheynel was ejected from Petworth, at
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Michaelmas, 1660, to make room for Dr. King, Bp. of Chi-
chester, Mr. Stretton staid and preached till November, hav-
ing two friends, who were intimate with the Bishop, and
prevented his sending down any other person. By them, his
lordship offered Mr. Stretton 100l. per ann. and the choice
of any vacant prebend he had, if he would be his curate there;
but not being satisfied to conform, he declined it: and ano-
ther person being sent to the place, he quitted it. On com-
ing to London, he providentially met Mr. James Nalton the
very next day, who took him to Lord Fairfax, then in great
want of a chaplain. His Lordship took him to his seat in
Yorkshire, and treated him with great kindness, [on account
of his piety, prudence, and excellent behaviour], as did all
the family; and, upon his marriage, settled a handsome an-
nuity upon him, for his and his wife's life. He continued
in the family till his Lordship's death, and had a child or
two born there. He had here an opportunity of being ac-
quainted with many worthy persons in those parts, and
among the rest with Judge Rokeby, who continued ever after
his firm friend. [He was intimate with several eminent
episcopal divines, particularly Dr. Tillotson, who once in-
sisted upon his preaching for him at St. Lawrence's church,
for which, however, the Dr. was reproved by the Bishop of
London]. Upon Lord Fairfax's death, he removed to Leeds,
and exercised his ministry among Dissenters there about
seventeen years. He then removed to London, where he
gathered a congregation. In 1683 he suffered six months
imprisonment in Newgate, for refusing the Oxford oath;
being the first of ten ministers imprisoned there on the same
account. Tho' he had not been at his own house for ten
weeks, the very next morning after his return to it, (so very
vigilant were the spies and informers) that he was seized by
the City-Marshal at five o'clock in the morning, his papers
were secured, and he was carried before the King and Coun-
cil. Some would have had his papers looked into, but the
King said, He believed there was no treason there. He was
soon dismissed, and carried before the Lord Mayor, who
treated him very civilly, and would have persuaded him to
take the Oxford oath, but not being satisfied to do it, he was
committed. While he was in Newgate, Mr. Smith, the Or-
dinary, carried it respectfully to him, and desired his assist-
ance in the chapel, in preparing the condemned criminals for
their death. Captain Richardson, the keeper, was also civil
to him, at which some were offended. Sir Roger L'Estrange,
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who was the mouth of the fiery party, in one of his papers
published about that time, reflected on the Keeper for ad-
mitting Stretton the Jesuit to visit Captain Walcot, who lay
. under the sentence of condemnation.. [During this impri-
sonment he had a son died, who earnestly desired to see his
father in his sickness, but no interest that he could make was
sufficient to procure him such liberty].
Upon his release, he preached privately to his congrega-
tion; and when K. James granted public liberty, he made
use of it, but he never joined in any address of thanks upon
that occasion.—He was very thankful for the liberty by act
of parliament, after the Revolution, which he made the best
use of he could. After Dr. Annesley's death, he took care
of the morning lecture. When there were doctrinal and per-
sonal differences among the Dissenters, he was active in his
endeavours for peace. He delighted in doing good, and was
a zealous promoter of works of charity. He was very helpful
to his poor country brethren, and was a principal man in set-
ting up and supporting the fund for assisting them, and poor
country congregations. He also greatly encouraged pious
youths whom he saw or heard to be ingenious and disposed
for the ministry, and was at much labour and expence in sup-
plying them with proper books; as also furnishing libraries
in Scotland, and private academies in England. He was like-
wise active in encouraging useful publications, several of
which he sent abroad. [A letter was found among his papers
from Professor Frank, of Hall, in Saxony, thanking him for
the Polyglot Bible, which he had sent as a present to the li-
brary there. He continued doing good to the last: It was a
frequent petition in his family prayers, "Lord grant that we
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may be useful while we are here, and that we may not be
"wanted when we are gone."] One of his last works was,
stirring himself up when he was so weak as to be scarcely
fit for any thing, to give advice and direction in an affair of
charity, in which his assistance had been much depended
upon. In his last illness he expressed a chearful resignation
to the will of God, an entire dependance on the grace of
Christ, and a believing, comfortable expectation of future
glory. He finished his course July 3, 1712, aged 80, and
was buried at Bunhill. Mr. M. Henry preached his funeral
sermon, at Haberdashers-hall. The text is 2 Cor. viii.
16. Thanks be to God, who put the same earnest care into
the heart of Titus for you: from which Mr. Henry takes
occasion to insist largelyon Mr. Stretton's earnest care for his
§
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flock, and for promoting benevolent designs in general. At the
end of the sermon is some account of his life, from which
principally the above is extracted. He left a son, who was
many years useful in the ministry.
WORKS. The Protestant Conformist; or a Plea for Modera-
tion, contained in a Letter from one Conforming Minister to ano-
ther, with his answer to it.-[The Case of the Prot. Dissenters re-
presented, in 1689, reprinted in Cal. Life of Baxt. p. 429, &c. 2d.
Edit.-Preface to the 5th Vol. of Manton's Works.]
PLAISTOW [C.] Mr. STEPHEN HUGHES.
PRESTON [V.] (near Brighthelmstone). Mr. RICHARD
TURNER. Of Oxford university. He was born at Fletching.
and had his grammar-learning at the free-school at Lewes.
Upon his ejectment he removed from the Downs to a house
of his own in the Weald, where he for a time taught school,
and took boarders. He sometimes preached there, and at
other times at several distant places. He was an excellent
preacher; and was so much esteemed for the meekness of
his temper, that when at a parish-meeting he was nominated
for church-warden, the chief gentleman in the parish, tho'
far from being a Dissenter, said, It would be a snare to Mr.
Turner, and he would rather serve it himself. Tho' meekness
was inlaid in his temper, and improved by grace, yet he could
reprove, where it was necessary, with great severity and au-
thority. The people, whom he had faithfully served in a
storm, deserted him in a calm; this went very near to him,
and like Joseph's irons entered his soul. He died of the small-
pox, and welcomed the approach of death. He had waited
for the salvation of God, and when it drew near, said, "Now
I have but a few steps to my father's house." He fell asleep
in the Lord Nov. 20, 1680, aged about 60, and was buried
at Preston. After his death it appeared that it was his cus-
tom to take a yearly account of his temporal estate, and ac-
cording as he found God had been liberal to him, he was cha-
ritable to others.
He was
RADMIL [R. S. 300l.] HENRY GODMAN, M. A. Of
Peter-house, Cumb. He usually received but 200l. and yet
paid the former incumbent his fifth of the whole.
turned out by the Bishop in 1660, tho' the former incumbent
was dead. In 1670 he took a journey from London to Lewes,
his native place, and there, at the request of friends, on May
29, preached to a numerous auditory. Great caution was
used
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used to prevent danger, but some informers mixed slyly with
the auditory. Mr. Godman preached on Eph. v. 16. • Re-
deeming the time;' whereas they fastened on the words fol-
lowing, because the days are evil.' Mr. Godman, living at
a distance, escaped the fine; but unconscionable fines were
laid on many of the hearers, and they were levied yet more
unconscionably. The justice, who unmercifully harassed
his neighbours, some time after, grew moderate, and became
their protector, of which the following is one instance: Bp.
Gunning, who had long disturbed the meetings at Chichester
in person, once sat as justice on the bench, at the quarter-
sessions at Lewes. He thought himself sure of Sir T. N.'s
assistance, but he plainly told his Lordship, "He found that
they who would have good neighbours, must be such them-
selves." Mr. Godman was afterwards pastor to a congrega-
tion at Deptford, where he died Jan. 29, 1702, aged 72, and
was succeeded by Mr. Beamont. He printed a sermon preach-
ed at Deptford, at the funeral of Mrs. E. Kilbury.
RINGMIRE [V.] Mr. ELIAS Arnold.
RYE [V. 49/. 10s. 6d.] Mr. THOMAS ALLEN.
SALSEY [R.] Mr. JOHN HAMPER.
SHEPLEY [C.] Mr. JOHN BULKLY. After his ejectment.
he was a sort of itinerant, going about from the house of one
friend and minister to another, staying a short time with each.
SIDLEHAM [V.] Mr. WILLIAM VOWSDEN. After he
was ejected, he lived many years at Chichester. He had a suit-
able yoke-fellow, who, tho' a gentlewoman by birth and edu-
cation, suited herself to the narrow circumstances her hus-
band was in, doing her utmost for the support of their six
children. But not withstanding all, Mr. Vowsden could not
always support his family without getting in debt. He once
owed 37 or 38s. and was not able to pay any part of it. His
creditor having often demanded and long expected his money,
threatened to arrest him if he did not bring it by the next
Friday at farthest, This gave the good man very great un-
easiness, and put him upon visiting several of his friends;
but so excessive was his modesty, that he could not make
known his case. On the Friday morning he walked to West
Stoke, to Mr. Le Gay, at whose house the ejected ministers
used to meet with kind entertainment, and who was reckon-
ed amongst the most generous of their friends in that part of
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the country; but Mr. Vowsden could not get courage enough
to tell him his case, and so took his leave, without saying
any thing of his necessity. But Mr. Le Gay, accompanied
him part of the way, and at parting from him, put some mʊ-
ney into his hand, which he most thankfully received, ad-
miring the Providence of God towards him; for upon telling
the money, he found it to be the very sum that he was oblig-
ed to pay that day, to prevent his being arrested.—He con-
tinued in Sussex till 1684, when his wife's son, by a former
husband, being then a widower, and his children disposed of,
invited him to his house in London. But he had not been
many months in the city before he was seized with the small-
pox, and died.
SIDLESCOMBE [R.1 EDMUND THORPE, M. A. Of
Christ's Col. Camb. Born at Westram in Kent, of religious
parents, and trained up in school-learning under the eminent
Mr. Walter in that town. He made such proficiency, that
at fourteen he was admitted to the university, where for some
time he had Dr. H. More for his tutor. He was first fixed as
pastor at Laburn in Kent, a sequestration; but the incum-
bent being restored, he removed to Pembery in the Weald,
an obscure village, and soon after to Sidlescombe, where he
discharged his ministry to general satisfaction, and was at-
tended by many from neighbouring parishes. He took his
leave of his people, in 1662, with a sermon on 2 Cor. i. 12.
He was at that time very destitute, having five children un-
able to shift for themselves, and only 19l. per ann. to sub-
sist them; but God took care of him and them. He was ge-
nerally beloved by persons of all descriptions, and the first
year after his ejectment had 50l. in presents. He afterwards
taught school, and had many boarders, so that he lived com-
fortably, and was connived at. Many gentlemen in Kent
and Sussex sent their children to him, as also did three con-
forming ministers; one of whom, on his death-bed, desired
Mr. Thorpe to be the guardian of his two sons; which trust
he discharged with great faithfulness. One of his scholars
was Dr. Oates, who discovered the Popish Plot in 1678. He
so thrived in a few years, that he maintained two of his sons
at the university, who studied physic. He never had any
settled meeting, but preached in his own family, and occa-
sionally elsewhere. After some time he removed to Brenchly
in Kent, where he had an agreeable neighbourhood, and a
friendly correspondence with Mr. Moncton, the rector of
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the parish, on whose ministry he attended both parts of the
Lord's-day, preaching at home between the sermons. He
was a man of a most sweet obliging temper, and of great mo-
deration; a considerable scholar, a good poet, no contemp-
tible orator, well skilled both in polemical and practical divi-
nity, and much applied to by his pious and learned friends,
for his opinion in difficult points. He was very intimate with
the pious and learned Mr. Polhill. He died at Brenchley,
March 17, 1678, aged 57. His funeral sermon was preached
by Mr. Moncton, who gave him a handsome character.
WORKS. Animadversions on Truman's Natural and Moral
Impotency, &c... Some Thoughts on Toleration...Defence of Pee-
dobaptism.
Mr. THOMAS THORPE, the eldest son of the former
(afterwards physician at Ashford in Kent) may be said to
have been, in effect, silenced by the Bartholomew-act, be-
cause he had studied divinity, and was designed for the mini-
stry; but the terms of Conformity fixed by that act diverted
him from the pursuit of it.
SINGLETON [R. 50l.] Mr. JOHN SIMMONDS.
Some
SLINFORD [R. 300l.] MATTHEW WOODMAN, M. A.
Of Magd. Hall. Oxf. His father was a minister, and his
grandfather suffered martyrdom at Lewes in Sussex, in the
reign of Q. Mary. His piety was remarkable while he was at
the university. At the time he was ejected he had nine chil-
dren, and afterwards lived upon what he had of his own.
He was a meek man, and of moderate principles.
time before he quitted the church, Dr. King, who con-
formed and was made Bp. of Chichester, was importunate
with him to do the same, and promised him his utmost inte-
rest for the deanry of that diocese. His aged mother, be-
ing warm against Conformity, and thinking that this son of
hers would comply with the times, dying before the act took
place, left 1000l. to a younger brother, which she otherwise
would have left to him. On the other hand, his wife's fa-
ther, who was a counsellor and justice of peace, and had a
considerable estate, would never see him, nor give him any
thing, because he did not conform. However he remained
steadfast, and continued preaching after the law silenced him;
and he fared much better than many of his brethren. His
carriage was so inoffensive that he was universally beloved.
The Corporation-act drove him to Horsham, where he conti-
nued
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nued to his death, preaching always gratis. Here he was
often in troubles, and once imprisoned, and was under bail a
considerable time. Yet he resolved never to leave his people.
He was a man of great worth, and his memory was long fra-
grant in these parts. He died March 1683, in his 63d year,
and was buried in Horsham church.
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STOKE (South) Mr. HENRY STAPLES. Some time after
his ejectment he removed to Ireland, where he was a diligent,
constant and faithful preacher. His ordinary discourses were
short sermons, and his holy life was the application of them.
With whomsoever he conversed, his lips dropped as the ho-
ney-comb. Once observing a person of quality, who had
many children, very subject to excessive passions, he reprov-
ed him thus: “ Sir, if you don't learn meekness of the Lord
Jesus Christ, you may fear lest your children should learn
"madness of you." He used to converse, not only with the
heads of the families which he visited, but even with the
meanest servants, about their spiritual concerns; and even
with strangers on the road, so as sometimes to hinder him-
self in his journey. When he had any companion who re-
proved him for staying behind, he used to say, "I was in
my
Master's business." Once at an inn, which he often used in
Ireland, a sturdy butcher had his stall under the window of
his room. Mr. Staples hearing him curse and swear, opened
the casement, and having given him a reproof, shut it again;
but the butcher continuing to multiply his oaths, he set the
casement open, that he might the more readily continue his
reproofs, which the man received with all imaginable con-
tempt both in words and gestures. However Mr. Staples
persisted, and he did it to good purpose; for the man not
only desisted for the present, but was led into close reflection
on his ways, and a change was produced in him. When
Mr. Staples afterwards came to the same place, the butcher
used to treat him with great respect, often acknowledged his
past folly, thanked him for his kind reproof, and told ano-
ther person; "This good man has saved my soul from hell."
Mr. Staples in his last visit to England, came to the house of
his good friend the worthy John Lee, Esq; of Plaistow,
where he spent his last Sabbath on earth. The next morn-
ing his horse, soon after he was mounted, rearing up, threw
his rider backward, fell upon him, and killed him, Aug. 1.
1686. He was buried at Green.
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STOKE (West) [R. 487. 19s.] Mr. THOMAS JACKSON.
A smart disputant, an excellent Grecian, and a man of great
skill in the Oriental languages. After his ejectment he had
several young persons boarding in his house, whom he in-
structed; among whom was Mr. John Oliffe, [Dr. Calamy's
antagonist]. He was a man of greater latitude than most of
his brethren in those parts. On taking the Oxford oath, he
continued to live in the parish, but died soon afterwards,
about 1666.
STREET [R.] Mr. THOMAS HALLET. After being si-
lenced he preached in many distant places, so that he had
much riding, and often by night as well as by day. A pro-
phane and ignorant informer, once intending the conviction
of a meeting, where he himself was not present, went to a
justice, and offered to make oath that Mr. T. Barnard was
the preacher. The justice being indisposed, declined the in-
formation. The informer, having afterwards heard that it
was Mr. Hallet who preached, went to another justice, and
swore it upon Mr. Hallet. A conviction passed, and an ap-
peal was made to the quarter-sessions; and tho' the whole
was laid before the court, and the justice first applied to, sent
a certificate under his own hand, that the informer, upon
coming to him, offered to swear against one Barnard as the
preacher, never mentioning Hallet; and tho' other material
things were produced to invalidate the informer's testimony,
yet it went against the appellants. Warrants were issued
out to make seizure for Mr. Hallet's fine, but by his courage
and prudence he avoided the penalty. He was many years
pastor of a church at Petworth. Under his last sickness,
which was long and lingering, he frequently testified his sa-
tisfaction as to his Nonconformity. He died at Lewes Feb. 1,
1707, aged 80.
TANGMERE [R.] Mr. ELDRIDGE.
TERRING (East) [V.] Mr. JOHN EARL. The son of
a worthy minister, and a relation of the Bp. of Salisbury.
His beginning was very small, but his latter end exceedingly
great. His necessary expences kept him in debt till he was
ejected; upon which he would sometimes pleasantly say,
He could never get out of debt till he was out of his living.
His concern was more for work than maintenance: saying,
if God provided the former, he would trust him as to the
latter. When he was ejected, he removed with an increasing
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Family to Lewes, where he exercised his ministry, and was a
great instrument in bringing meetings to be public. He had a
good memory as well as a sound judgment, and was a very
useful preacher and expositor; but neither his voice nor ges-
ture gave any advantage to his matter. He was in labours
abundant, going about doing good. He frequently travelled
on foot to Maidstone, Chichester, London, &c. and where-
ever he came, and had an opportunity, he preached the word
of God. As his courage was great, so his sufferings were
many. He was prosecuted in the Bishop's court, and in-
dicted at sessions and assizes. His house was often beset, and
searched for meetings. The officers once entered every room
in it, except that to which Mr. Earl was withdrawn, which
was as easy to be discovered as any of the rest, and they more
than once passed by the chamber-door. At another time, a
justice and other officers came into a room filled with peo-
ple who were met to hear Mr. Earl, who was then present;
but while some persons designedly held the justice in conver-
sation, a crowd went out, and Mr. Earl stooping down,
passed with them, and retiring to some private part of the
house, was ready to preach in the afternoon; but a renewed
disturbance hindered him. Warrants were often out against
him, and he once suffered imprisonment, which he under-
went joyfully. No part of his sufferings went nearer his
heart than those occasioned by the Five-mile-act, which
obliged ministers to hide themselves like the worst of crimi-
nals. But afterwards he said, He knew some who, had it
not been for that act, would have wanted bread for their fa-
milies. Being scattered about, they fed many, who fed them
and theirs thus, according to Sampson's riddle, the eater
yielded meat and sweetness. Mr. Earl acknowledged he
gained much spiritual experience from the inward troubles
and temptations of his wife, who was a woman of great grace,
but of a sorrowful spirit. He frequently discovered much sa-
tisfaction in his Nonconformity, and at his death signified his
firm belief that God would provide for his family, as he ac-
cordingly did. He died March 20, 1669, aged about 35. He
lived much, tho' not long. Mr. Newton preached his funeral
sermon. He left an only son of the same name, very young,
who was afterwards pastor of a church at Chichester.
TERRING (West) [R.] Mr. WILLIAM PIXE.
WALBERTON [V.] 49l. 5s. 10d.] Mr. HENRY JORDAN.
WARTLING
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WARTLING [V.] Mr. JOHN MOORE. He met with a
very heavy trial in regard to his only son, about 22 years of
age, who was an apprentice to a draper in Lewes, and had an
estate of 70l. per ann. He was very intimate with another
young man, a cutler, who was newly set up for himself. After
a quarrel, and a seeming reconciliation, the cutler bore secret
malice against him, and poisoned him. Being detected, he
dispatched himself. An account of this sad event was pub-
lished, 1680, entitled, warning to young Men &c. in a
Relation of the horrid Murder acted by Robert Bringhurst
on his Friend and himself, at Lewes in Sussex, 1679.
WESTMISTON [R.] Mr NATHANIEL JONES. Ejected
in 1660. A true Nathaniel, in whom was no guile. Yet a
maid-servant, instigated by her master, charged him with
speaking treasonable words in his farewell sermon, for which
he was committed prisoner to the county jail, tho' the words
charged were not spoken, and if they had been, they were not
treason. But no prosecutor appearing, he was cleared by
proclamation. He died in 1662,
WILSFORD [C.] Mr. JOHN OLIVE.
WISTON [R.] Mr. SAMUEL BRICKNAL.
WOLLAVINGTON [R.] Mr. GEORGE MILLS. At the
same place, or somewhere in this neighbourhood.
Mr. JOHN WILLIS, son of Mr. John Willis, of Pin-
ner. His wife dying a little before he was ejected, he some
time after married a daughter of the eminently religious Mr.
Peter Le Gay *. He lived with his father-in-law, and preach-
ed in his house, to a number beside the family. But this
wife dying also, and he marrying again, he went to Chiches-
ter, where he preached for a while very privately, and died at
about 40 years of age.
The following persons were candidates in 1662.
JOHN BRETT, of Lewes, M. A. Of Camb. university. He
was a good scholar, and of a sweet temper.
He had several
*This worthy person left France when Leruis XIII. oppressed his protes-
tant subjects, and besieged and took Rochelle, bringing little or nothing with
him. After he had been a while in England, he was greatly surprized to meet
a young lady in the street at Southampton, whom he had courted in France.
They renewed their acquaintance, and married; and by an extraordinary
blessing of God upon his industry in merchandize, he in a few years so in-
creased his substance, that he bought the estate of West-Stoke, where he lived
in great credit to the day of his death.
young
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young gentlemen under his care, and preached occasionally,
as well as practised physic, with good acceptance and success.
Living at Mayfield, he was often at Tunbridge Wells in the
summer season, and died in August, 1678.
Mr. JOHN CROUCH, of Lewes. Of Oxf. university. He
never was pastor to any congregation, but sometimes preached
occasionally in the country, and sometimes resided at London.
HENRY FOWLES, A. B. Of Magd. Hall, Oxf. He had
several good livings offered him if he would conform, but
conscientiously refused. He was cast out of a school in this
county, where he had 40l. per ann. He afterwards settled
with a congregation at Deal in 1691, and was living there
in 1713.
JOHN PANTON, M. A. (See Vol. I. p. 214.) His bro-
ther, Mr. Henry Panton, practised physic at Lewes, but never
preached.
Mr. WILLAM STANDINE, of Lewes. Mr. EDWARD
SOND. WILLIAM STANINOUGH.
Mr. JOHN WALWIN, of Fittleworth, afterwards conform-
ed. Dr. Walker says, He was a fellow of a profligate life,
and had gone about the country, riding into the churches to
disturb the service, &c. But such stories could not answer
the Dr.'s end, while such men were allowed still to preach
upon conforming, when other excellent persons were silen-
ced, for not complying with things which the imposers them-
selves owned to be indifferent.
VOL. III.NO XXVIII.
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LCESTER [V. 50l.] Mr. SAMUEL TICKNER. A very
pious, self-denying, peaceable man; a hard student,
and of a tender spirit. He continued with his people, who
were some of the most wealthy in the parish, after he was
turned out in 1662, preaching constantly to them, but rarely
in time of public service. His moderation however did not
secure him from the spite of invidious neighbours, who in-
formed against him. This forced him to confine himself,
and to preach more privately; upon which, tho' he was of a
strong constitution, he quickly fell into a consumption. An
eminent physician pronounced this confinement to be the
cause. The old informers represented him to the magistrates
as only pretending illness; but an officer who came to ap-
prehend him found him under the arrest of death.
AULSLEY [V. 100l.] Mr. SAMUEL BRYAN. Of Peter-
house Camb. of which he became Fellow, having been first
educated under his worthy father Dr. Bryan. When he was
ejected he was in the flower of his age. Being first driven
from his own house, and then from Coventry, he fixed at
Birmingham. He was taken up for preaching the gospel,
and hurried to Warwick jail, where he remained six months
with much patience and chearfulness, not fearing to commit
the same fault again, as soon as his great Master gave him
opportunity. He was very obliging, chearful, and commu-
nicative; but it pleased God to visit him with trouble of
mind, under which he died.
BEDWORTH.
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BEDWORTH [R. 2001.] Mr. DUDLEY RIDER. Of
Magd. Col. Camb. He settled at Marston near Bedworth, a
place famous for the birth of Mr. William Perkins*. [The
late Sir Dudley Rider the judge, and the late Abp. of Tuam,
were of the same family.] Mr. Rider had a remarkable ap-
pearance of Providence while he continued here. A heavy
sign in Atherstone fell upon him and fractured his skull, so
that for a while he seemed to be dead; but he recovered to
be a monument of God's mercy. After he left his living, he
fixed with his family at Weddington, where he continued till
the Five-mile-act obliged him to remove. After several
other removes, he fixed at Lynn Regis in Norfolk, where he
preached with good acceptance for some time, but at length
met with uneasiness. The iniquity of the times forced him
at last to live retired. He was afterwards invited into Sir
Samuel Clark's family, and there continued till it pleased
God to remove him to another life, about 1683. He died in
full assurance of happiness, praising God that he had nothing
to do but to die, and in a firm dependance on divine provi-
dence with respect to his family. He was a man of an ad-
mirable good temper, affable, kind, and humble; of exem-
plary piety and zeal; a close, serious, affectionate preacher,
and in all respects qualified for more public service than his
modesty would allow him to undertake. Besides his living,
he lost a very good estate, for the sake of a good conscience.
His uncle, who had made him his heir, was so incensed
against him for Nonconformity, that he resolved never to
take notice of him. But by the good providence of God,
the loss of this estate was made up to one of his children,
who was married to a gentleman of a considerable fortune in
the place where his uncle lived. His other daughter married
Mr. Billio, who died minister at Hackney. His son was
well known in London.
BIRMINGHAM. Mr. SAMUEL WILLS. Of Christ's
Col. Camb. He was born at Coventry, and first called to be
minister at Croxal in Staffordshire. Being driven from
thence in the time of the civil war, he removed to London,
and was chosen at Great St. Helen's, where he spent a con-
siderable time, to the great satisfaction of his hearers. The
* Mr. Perkins, as Mr. Orton says, (whose mother was great great niece to
him) had no ministerial charge here, as Dr. Calamy intimates, but spent all
his days at Cambridge. His works are not usually valued according to their
real worth,
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people of Birmingham being destitue, Mr. Simeon Ashe, re-
commended Mr. Wills to them. Here he had a large con-
gregation, many of whom were very intelligent and pious
people, and very diligent in searching the scriptures. He con-
tinued with them near twenty years, in great reputation for
his probity, wisdom, and seriousness, till the year 1660 or
1661, when one Mr. Slater, an apothecary, encouraged by
the alterations expected from the Restoration, pretended a
claim under the widow of the former incumbent. Tho' the
court of arches had declared themselves in favour of Mr.
Wills's title, yet partly by fraud, and more by force, this apo-
thecary got possession of the church, and became preacher
there. Mr. Wills, being of a calm and peaceable temper,
thought not fit to contend any more, but contented himself
to preach in Deritend chapel, at one end of the town. Some
time after, a process was instituted against him at Litchfield
court, and he was cited thither for not reading the Common
Prayer, tho' it was not yet enjoined. To avoid this prosecu-
tion, he removed a little way into Worcester diocese. He
afterwards had many removals, particularly by the Corpora-
tion-act. For some time he was in Coventry, where he was
chosen by the people who had belonged to Dr. Bryan, and
there preached till some unquiet people drove him away.
His last remove was to his son's house in Shropshire, a pious
worthy Conformist*. He died May 14, 1684, aged 73. He
was a sedate, quiet, peaceable, able divine.
BRINKLOW [R.] Mr. GILPIN. At the time of his
ejectment he was an Emeritus, who had borne the brunt of
persecution in former days, for his Nonconformity, but
preached sometimes as his strength would bear. Afte his
ejectment, he lived privately at Knoll in low circumstances,
but not long. A letter from one who knew him well, says,
That he had great acquaintance with those eminent men
Mr. Arthur Hildersham, Mr. John Ball, Mr. John Dod,
Mr. Lancaster, and others of that stamp, and he loved dearly
to relate anecdotes of them, which made his company very
pleasant. He was a picture of an old Puritan, and preached
in his ruff to the very last. Some used to compare him to
* To him Mr. Baxter presented his 1st folio volume, (which was in Mr.
Orton's possession) in which there is written, in his own hand, “As an ex-
pression of my love to his worthy father, and to the place of my father's
burial, I crave the acceptance of this book, of the Rev. Mr. Wills, vicar of
Leighton. R. Baxter.
Father
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Father Latimer. He was generally beloved by good people
in that part of the country for his great piety, humility, calm
and peaceable temper, contentedness in a mean condition, and
the faithful discharge of his office. He was very affectionate
in prayer, and generally melted into tears.
BROME (King's) Mr. JOHN MOтт.
CALDECOT [R. 120l.] Mr. EVANS. Of Kath. Hall.
Camb. and Fellow of Magd. Col. He succeeded Mr. Vines
in this living and another half a mile off, worth 80l. per ann.
He had religion in his conversation as well as in his sermons,
and was very fit to deal with wounded consciences, having
been melancholy himself. At the Restoration, among many
of his fears, this was one, That the world would charge his
disorder upon the loss of his living. But it pleased God,
before the day came, wonderfully to restore him; so that he
and his wife (whose discontent he also much feared) left the
place very chearfully tho' they had a numerous family.
Some time after his ejectment he was imprisoned in Warwick
jail; but he told a friend that he never was more chearful in
all his life.
--Mr. JONATHAN GREW. Of Pemb. Hall, Camb.
Born at Atherston in 1626. Being the eldest son, he might
have had a good estate, but that his grandfather and his father
(tho' not ministers) were crushed by the High-Commission-
Court and Star-Chamber for Nonconformity. He was for
some years united with Dr. Sampson, in the living of Fram-
lingham, and afterwards became tutor to Sir John Hales,
Baronet, of Coventry, and to his brother. Lady Hales re-
moving with her family to Caldecot Hall, he was there when
the Act of uniformity took place, and was very instrumental
to the refreshment, comfort, and establishment of the worthy
Mr. Evans. But the livings which Mr. Evans left, were
offered to Mr. Grew; and Dr. Hacket, the Bp. of the diocese,
added the offer of a prebend of Coventry and Litchfield: but
(as he himself told the author) they were no temptation to
him to hazard the peace of his conscience. When his tutor-
ship was finished, he left the family and went to London, to
seek a post of service for a subsistence. He at length en-
gaged for some time in a school at Newington-Green. Upon
an invitation to St. Albans, he fixed there as pastor of a con-
gregation, where he died, and was succeeded by Mr. (after-
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wards Dr.) Samuel Clark, great-grandson to Mr. Clark of
Bennet Fink.
COPSTON. Mr. LOSEBY. He continued ten years silent
because he could not conform; but when K. Charles granted
his licences to the Nonconformists, he preached again in his
chapel, no one else being put in, and was connived at by the
Earl of Denbigh, who was Lord of the manor; and his mi-
nistry was very useful. He was a man much crucified to
the world; of which this was one proof: being invited in
Oliver's time, to a place of 60l. per ann. he refused it, rather
chusing to stay at Copston, where he had but 20l. raised
chiefly by the contribution of the people.
COVENTRY. Trinity Church [V.] JOHN BRYAN,
D. D. An aged and learned divine, of a quick and active
temper; very humble and faithful; of a godly, and upright
life. There was scarcely a town of any note in this or the
neighbouring counties in which he was not known and
esteemed, and which, if there was a pious gentleman in it,
had not enjoyed his labours. He was admirably qualified
for his office of educating youth, and sent forth a great num-
ber of worthy ministers. He was an unwearied student, well
versed in the Popish Controversy, which he preached over to
his people; and was very ready in others. He was so great
a textuary as to be able to discourse largely upon most pas-
sages of scripture, extempore. He did not forget his juve-
nile learning in his advanced years. After his ejectment he
practised Lay-conformity, but said there were ten steps in
ministerial Conformity which he could not get over. His dis-
course was a continual sermon. He was very liberal and
charitable, constantly giving a tenth part of his yearly income
to the poor. To prevent vain thoughts in the night-season,
when he could not sleep, he would run over a Greek cate-
chism, Herbert's poems, or some other useful thing that he
was master of. In his last sickness he discovered remarkable
patience, and a comfortable assurance of his everlasting hap-
piness; saying, "He doubted not but that as he was in a
state of grace, he was within a step of glory," He died
March 4, 1675. More may be seen of him in his funeral
sermon, by Mr. Nath. Wanley, his successor. He had three
sons ejected ministers.
WORKS. A Discourse of dwelling with God; on Ps. xci. 9..-
A Sermon intitled The Virtuous Daughter.-A Discovery of the
probable
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probable Sin causing the great Judgment of Rain; a Sermon at
Coventry, Dec. 23, 1617.
St. Michael's. OBADIAH GREW, D. D. A calm,
grave, sedate divine; more retired and less active than Dr.
Bryan; but godly, able and faithful in his ministry. He
was invited to succeed the famous Mr. R. Vines, by the
Mayor, Aldermen, and principal citizens in this great parish,
where the soundness of his doctrine, the sanctity and prudence
of his conversation, and the vigilance and tenderness of his
care, were such as to obtain their love, and to answer his ends
for their good. Two instances of his integrity and courage
were very remarkable. The first was his free remonstrance
with lieut. general Cromwell, when he was at Coventry,
against the design, then visibly on foot, for taking off Charles,
who promised his endeavour to prevent it; of which he put
him in mind by a letter sent to London after him, which he
took care should be conveyed into his own hands. The other
related to the rising in Cheshire. He was at that time re-
quired to read in the church, the proclamation against Sir
G. Booth, and threatened by Lambert's soldiers, then in Co-
ventry, with the loss of his place if he refused; yet he was
resolved not to read it. He was a man of great generosity,
of which he gave this instance among many others: When
Mr. Panton, a minister of the Cavalier party, was necessi-
tated to sell his library, the Dr. bought some of the books,
and being afterwards desired to return them, with an offer of
the money paid for them, he returned the books, but re-
fused the money, knowing Mr. Panton had more need of
it than himself. When the Uniformity-act took place, Bp.
Hacket was particularly urgent with him and Dr. Bryan to
conform, and gave them leave to preach a month longer;
but he then preached his farewell sermon. He was after-
wards driven from place to place, for no evil but praying and
preaching, tho' his prudence made him restrict the number
of his hearers.
In 1665, when the plague alarmed the city, he began to
keep open meetings there, but was forced by the Oxford-act
to remove. During the liberty in 1672, he took a licence,
and returned to his people, who, as they parted from him
with many tears, now received him with joy; and he held
public meetings till 1682, when the liberty was recalled. Tho'
there was not then a man in Coventry who opposed him,
one Mr. H——, an indigent gentleman in the neighbour-
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hood, undertook the business, hoping to get 100l. from the
magistrates for neglecting their duty, in not suppressing his
meeting; but he failed in his design, and they defended them-
selves well enough. Yet some time after, some of the same
men, when they understood how it would gratify those in
power to fall upon such men, sent for him, even when he
was blind thro' age, and demanded why he lived in a corpo-
ration? Some persons offered to pay the penalty, but nothing
would satisfy them without sending the old gentleman to jail,
where he endured six months imprisonment in a filthy cham-
ber, tho' the best that jail afforded. He was the better re-
conciled to the place, as Mr. Glover, Mr. Sanders, and
others had lain in it before, in Q. Mary's days. A city officer
came to visit him, who told him, he durst not but do it, re-
membering Matt. xxv. 43.-After his release he was forced
a third time to leave the city, but his heart remained with
his beloved people; and therefore as he had lost his eye-sight,
he kept an amanuensis, and dictated to him a sermon every
week, which he sent to be read to four or more writers in
short-hand, every one of whom read it to four others, who
also transcribed it. By this means it was read at twenty
different meetings. This practice he continued till the Re-
volution, when he returned to the city, and preached as long
as his voice could be heard, viz. till a month before his death,
which was on Oct. 22, 1689.
Dr. Grew was a man of regular piety, familiar in conver-
sation, courteous to the mean, and fit to associate with the
greatest. There were few gentlemen in the country but what
had a veneration for him. He had indeed the love of all par-
ties, who had any value for real worth. Having in his younger
days drank deep in spiritual trouble, he earnestly sought a
stedfast faith in Christ's satisfaction, and endeavoured to pro-
mote the same in others. But he did not teach faith without
repentance, nor encourage trust in God's mercy, without re-
gard to his commandments. He was far from being an An-
tinomian, either in doctrine or practice. Mr. Hotchkins, in
his book on Imputed Righteousness, censures some passages in
the Dr.'s sermons on that subject. And yet, in the substance
of the doctrine, there is no difference between them. They
differ (like Paul and James) in terms, and modes of expres-
sion, rather than in sentiment. The Dr. was a man of great
candour and moderation, so that he was not (like some
others) forward to censure those who did not express them-
selves just as he did, or they whom he most esteemed and
followed.
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followed. Mr. Baxter had been his acquaintance, and he
used to speak of him with great respect. While he thought
with Davenant and others, that fides justificans est fiducia
in Christum mediatorem, he loved all that feared the Lord.
He was very studious when he was blind, and not idle in
prison. The eminent Dr. Nehem. Grew was his son, by Mr.
Sampson's widow, who was the mother of Dr. Henry Samp-
son. A daughter of his married Mr. Willis, a Nonconformist
Minister, who was ordained, but would never preach.
WORKS. A Sinner's Justification by Christ; or the Lord Jesus
Christ our Righteousness, Sermons on Jer. xxiii. 6...Meditations on
the Parable of the Prodigal Son; being Sermons on Luke xv.
Mr. SAMUEL BASSNET. Of both universities. He
was a native of Coventry, and his father had been Mayor of
that city. He studied hard, and made considerable improve-
ments. When Dr. Bryan and Dr. Grew were settled here,
a small number of Congregationalists chose him for their
pastor. He administered the Lord's Supper to them sepa-
rate from the rest, but preached as lecturer once on the
Lord's-day at St. Michael's, and on a week-day at Trinity
church, and lived with the other worthy ministers in much
amity and peace. He was a weighty judicious preacher,
perfectly concordant with his brethren as to all doctrinal
points. A man of great piety, a comely person, and of a
pleasant temper. He was chased from Coventry by the Cor-
poration-act, and was a short time at Atherston, where he
got a quartan ague, of which he died. He expressed more
than ordinary fear of dying, tho' not of death itself; but his
last agonies were very short.
DASSET (Burton) [V. 130.] Mr. MANSELL,
ELMEDON [R. 30l.] Mr. ROBERT EATON.
EXHALL [C.] Mr. JOSIAH BASSET. Having nothing
to depend upon for a subsistence but Providence, when the
Act of uniformity deprived him of his living, he went to Lon-
don to seek a livelihood, which he got by teaching school.
The eye of the spiritual court being upon him, he was forced
to blind it by fees. He kept but a few scholars, that he might
draw upon him the less envy and observation. He continued
long in that course of life, and brought up several citizens,
who gratefully acknowledged that what learning and pious
education they had was from him. After the legal tolera-
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tion he was pastor of a congregation at Woolwich, where he
died in 1695. He had a son, a Nonconformist Minister, at
Birmingham.
FILONGLEY [V. 30l.] Mr. WILLIAM BROOKS. A
serious and honest man, who said he would rather beg his
bread than conform against his conscience, and his wife was
of the same mind, tho' they had seven young children. How-
ever, Providence took care of them, so that they brought up
their family well.
FOKESHILL. Mr. TRISTRAM DIAMOND. He was eject-
ed after he had been minister here fifty years. He was a pro-
fessed Arminian, but his sentiments about ceremonies were
puritanical, and so also was his life.
HAMPTON [C.] Mr. PACKWOOD.
HATTON [V.] Mr. THOMAS FOWNES. He had not
an academical education, but was very useful, and his preach-
ing was valued by serious people in the neighbouring pa-
rishes, who constantly filled his little church. After his eject-
ment, he rented a small farm of Sir Roger Burgoyne at
Wraval. When Mr. Hawes left Hunniley, a mile off, he
preached in the church, and continued to do it without epis-
copal ordination or conformity, only reading some part of the
liturgy; that place being exempt from episcopal jurisdiction,
and destitute of legal maintenance.
DOCKS.
KENELWORTH [V. 34. 10s.] Mr. WILLiam Mad-
He was young when he came to this living, and
when he left it; but when he was older, he never repented
of his choice to suffer affliction with so many of the servants
of Christ. When the country was too hot for him, he hid
himself in a wood, and afterwards went to London, where he
was presently noticed for his useful preaching, and chosen
pastor to a congregation in Southwark, where the two Whi-
takers, father and son, had laboured before him. He conti-
nued here in very good esteem, till death ended his labours.
A small piece of his, in answer to Penn,is annexed to Vincent's
Defence of the Trinity.
KERBY (Monk's) Mr. RICHARD MARTYN. After his
ejectment he was entertained by the Earl of Denbigh.
POLESWORTH [V. 30l.] Mr. BELL. His zeal and loy-
alty raised him up enemies, among men of unsteady princi
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pless. He was formerly of Stafford, but Col. D-- could
not rest till he had driven him away, for not taking the En-
gagement. Sir F. Nethersole got him to be pastor of Poles-
worth, where he himself resided. Mr. Baxter says of Mr.
Bell, "That he needed no other testimonial of his loyalty,
than that he was pastor to Sir Francis; and this is equally a
proof of his learning also." After this last ejectinent he re-
mained silent, and spent much of his time in profitable con-
versation with Mr. S. Hildersham, who, with others, found
a refuge at Erdington, near Birmingham.
RITON [R.] Mr. HERRING.
SHUTTINGTON [C.] THOMAS HILL, B. A. Of Bennet
Col. Camb. He had his grammar-learning at Repton school
in Derbyshire. When he had been four years at the univer-
sity he left it, because he could not approve the Engagement,
and became chaplain to the Countess of Chesterfield at Tam-
worth Castle, having been some time a domestic to the Earl
before he went there. He was afterwards a preacher at El-
vaston in Derbyshire, and from thence was called to Orton
on the Hill, in Leicestershire, where he paid fifths to the se-
questered minister, who, tho' ejected for immorality, respect-
ed him, and his widow after his death. He was ordained by
the classical Presbytery of Wirksworth in 1652, and conti-
tinued at Orton till the Restoration, when by an order of the
House of Lords, he was removed, and had this small place
given him, where the minister was deceased, and there he
staid till the Act of uniformity passed. After this he removed.
to a house of his own at Lea-Grange near Orton, and was
for some time doubtful what to do; but considering he had
engaged to make the work of the ministry the business of his
life, he preached to the number which the law allowed, some-
times thrice, and sometimes four times on a Lord's-Day.
When the Five-mile-act came out, he left his family here,
and was entertained at a friend's house, from whence he went
to a gentleman's house about a mile off, where, upon a little
notice, he had a considerable auditory to preach to; and by
using prudence, he had an opportunity of exercising his mi-
nistry without disturbance, when some others were molested.
The patron of Shuttington, who was son to the Countess,
continued to him, several years, both the corn-tithes and other
profits, which belong to himself. But because the Five-mile
and other acts, rendered him incapable of supplying the place,
he
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he procured a worthy Worcestershire minister to supply it,
who did it without any notice taken of his Nonconformity.
gene-
Mr. Hill was a man of profound judgment, and eminent
for general learning. When he first went to the university,
he was so expert in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, that he was
owned to be superior to most of the tutors; and afterwards
made answerable proficiency in academical studies. The
errors both of ancient and modern philosophers did not escape
his observation, as was evident by a dispute, part of which
was afterwards printed by one of the disputants. Nor was
he unacquainted with the mathematical sciences. He was
well skilled in music, and much conversant in metaphysical
contemplations.-He was also well versed in history in
ral, and ecclesiastical antiquity in particular, as several books
in his library witnessed, in which he had made many notes
in the margin, and citations from a great variety of authors,
ancient and modern, together with references (sometimes very
numerous) to fathers, councils, and ecclesiastical writers in
several ages. His pocket Greek Testament had his notes
almost on every page. He was an excellent textuary, and
was observed in his sermons to have a mighty felicity in un-
folding the more obscure parts of scripture, to the great en-
tertainment and edification of his auditors. He had great
knowledge of human as well as divine laws, and was well
skilled in polemical and casuistical theology; and perhaps
was more concerned in conferences on these points than any
minister in the country, particularly about ordination and
discipline; so that he was the means of altering the opinions
of several considerable preachers, who had been against any
but popular ordinations.-There were found amongst Mr.
Hill's papers many respectful letters, from eminent and
learned men of different persuasions, particularly Dr. Spencer,
Head of C. C. Col. Camb, who had commenced an intimate
friendship with him while he was a student, and then often
shewed him great kindness. In one or more of these letters
the Dr. expressed his affection and esteem, as not at all di-
minished by his own conformity, and Mr. Hill's Nonconfor-
mity. He also made kind and generous offers to him when-
ever he might have a son to send to the university. The
eminent Mr. Samuel Shaw, who was Mr. Hill's school-
fellow, and afterwards his neighbour, gave him the character
of an excellently learned, judicious, and holy man; adding,
that he was niger, sed eximiè candidus.
He
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He was not to be prevailed on to appear in print, but he
was thought fit to examine the writings of other learned men
before they were published, particularly those of Mr. Blake
of Tamworth, on the subjects of contoversy betwixt him and
Mr. Baxter; upon whose decease Mr. Hall was unanimously
invited (according to Mr. Blake's declared opinion) to suc-
ceed him at Tamworth, but did not accept it.—As to his
preaching, it appears from his sermon notes, that there was
in it such a conjunction of serious piety, various learning,
judgment, argument, and natural masculine unaffected elo-
quence, that it is no wonder it should be commonly said of
him, That he never brought into the pulpit what was ordi-
nary, and had always something new. He had also the ad-
vantage of a clear and pleasing voice, of which he had a great
command. As he had a devout and heavenly mind, so he
discovered great contempt of the world, both its emoluments
and applause: and therefore it is no wonder that when he was
solicited to preach before Oliver Cromwell, and offers were
made to recommend him to his favour, he refused. His ar-
dent piety towards God was attended with an extensive cha-
rity to man, both in opinion and practice, and both as to
spirituals and temporals. He valued Mr. Baxter's works the
more because he found so much of a catholic spirit in them.
He was indefatigable not only in his studies, but in the per-
sonal inspection and instruction of his flock; in conferences
to promote learning, religion, reformation, and moderation,
as also in the pulpit; frequently preaching three times on the
Lord's-day, besides many week-day lectures. His labours
after his ejectment were supposed to hasten his death, which
was immediately occasioned by a cold caught after preach-
ing; so that he died about the 50th year of his age. Mr.
Thomas Hill, who was so useful in educating young men in
academical learning, was his son.
STONEY [V.] Mr. HENRY Cooper.
STRATFORD upon Avon [V.] Mr. BEAN. A studious
man, and a solid preacher; who at home and abroad was
highly esteemed for his judicious useful sermons.
He was
indeed one of the most celebrated preachers in the county.
His labours in this place had been so great and successful,
that he could ill be spared. Soon after his ejectment, in
1662, he preached privately, and was disturbed; when, en-
deavouring to secure himself by flight, he took a surfeit, and
quickly died.
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SUTTON, under Brailes [V.] Mr. THOMAS WHATELY,
Son of Mr. William Whately, baptized Sept. 10, 1620. After
his ejectment he preached sometimes at Milton near Banbury,
sometimes at Woodstock, and sometimes at Long Combe near
that place. He was buried Jan. 27, 1698.
SUTTON COLFIELD [R. 300/.1 ANTHONY BUR-
GESS, M. A. Of St. John's Col. Camb. and Fellow of Eman.
The son of a learned school-master at Watford in Hertford-
shire, where Dr. Cornelius Burgess was minister, and in this
living succeeded Dr. John Burgess; but was not a-kin to
either of them He was chosen to a Fellowship merely for
his scholarship and worth. He continued the conscientious.
and diligent exercise of his ministry, till plundering and other
terrors of the soldiers made him take sanctuary at Coventry.
The garrison there was full of such men at that time, so that
they had a lecture every morning, in which Mr. Burgess
had a frequent course. From hence he was called to sit in
the Westminster Assembly, where he was generally respect-
ed. He was a man of eminent learning and piety. He con-
formed before the wars, but was so far from the new Con-
formity, as settled at the Restoration, that upon his death-
bed he professed great satisfaction at his having refused it.
After his ejectment, he lived at Tamworth, in a very chear-
ful and pious manner, frequenting and encouraging the mi-
nistry of the conforming clergyman, who was his fast friend.
Before he left his living, the new Bp. of Litchfield and Co-
ventry sent for him, as he did for several other worthy, dis-
satisfied ministers in his diocese, hoping to gain them over.
His design failed, but he passed encomiums on several of
them. He said of Mr. Burgess, "That he was fit for a Pro-
“fessor's place in the university." Dr. John Wallis, a mem-
ber of the Assembly, was his pupil, who speaks of him in
very high terms as a scholar, a tutor, and a divine.
WORKS. Spiritual Refinings; or a Treatise of Grace and
Assurance. Fol...An Exposition on John xvii. Fol...The Doc-
trine of original Sin asserted, &c. Fol...A practical Commentary
on 1 and 2 of Corinthians. 2 Vol. Fol.--The true Doct. of Justi-
fication asserted...Vindicæ Legis, against the Errors of Papists,
Socinians, and Antinomians.-A small Disc. on the Sacrament.-
A Treatise of Self-judging, with a Sermon of the Gen. Judgment.'
-Several Sermons before the Long Parliament, &c.
TACHBROKE [V.] Mr. HENRY BALLARD.
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WARWICK. St. Nicholas. Mr. HENRY BUTLER.
WHITACRE (Lower) Mr. COLLIER. While he was in
his living he kept a school. On leaving it he went to Lon-
don, and applied himself to secular business.
WILNCOTE [Chap. to Tamworth.] Mr. SoUTHWELL,
Probably Mr. Richard Southwell, mentioned at Baswich in
Staffordshire.
WITTON [C.] JAMES WRIGHT, M. A. Of King's
Col. Camb. His father and elder brother went to New-Eng-
land. After his ejectment, he continued at Whitton till he
was forced away by the Five-mile-act. Being then at a loss
where to go, Mr. St. Nicholas, of Knoll, kindly invited him
to his house, and he accepted the invitation. Mr. Gilpin
then lived there, with his son-in-law Mr. Stokes, but died
soon after. Mr. Wright continued here till his death, but
after some time, preached in his own house, where he had
as many hearers as two rooms would hold (some of whom
came several miles) and he did much good. He also taught
school, and kept several boarders. In 1685, tho' 70 years
of age, he was imprisoned. Mr. Wilkinson of Ansly, who
after some years conformed, and was minister at Knoll, and
chaplain to Lord Brooke, was always very friendly to Mr.
Wright, and to his family after his decease, which took place
in 1692, when he was aged 81, or 82.
WROXHAL. LUKE MILBURN, M. A. Of Eman. Col.
Camb. Born at Loughborough in Leicestershire. His first
settlement was at Lynn in Norfolk, either as school-master-
or curate. He was ordained by the Bp. of Ely in the time
of the civil war, preached at Hunniley, and had a retreat at
Kenelworth castle from the insolence of the soldiers, by
whom he had suffered almost to the loss of his life. He was
several times threatened with imprisonment, and was taken
before the General, for speaking his thoughts too freely con-
cerning their dealing with the King, which he heartily ab-
horred. He was indeed more deeply concerned at his death
than many who drank his health; for he kept an annual fast
upon the day as long as he lived. When things were a lit-
tle quiet, he was called to Wroxhal, in the room of Mr.
Ephraim Huit, who went to America. Here God blessed
his ministry for much good, and he was generally beloved;
on which account he would not by any means be drawn
from hence, tho' he had the offer of some good livings, and
tho'
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tho' he had so poor an allowance here, that he was often
told, he did not do well by his numerous family: To which
his answer was, When he could not subsist where he was,
he would remove, but not before. And it pleased God so to
bless his little, that his children appeared as well, and were
as well brought up, as those of most country ministers.-He
could not take the Engagement, and when it was imposed,
was contriving a retreat; but God so ordered it, that he was
overlooked. However, he took the Covenant, and from
thence afterwards drew an argument for his Nonconformi-
ty. When he was turned out by the Act of uniformity, he
owed nothing to any man; which, all things considered, was
truly surprising. An aged clergyman, who was acquainted
with him, says,
"He might have kept in by a little Con-
formity, at least till a metropolitan visitation, as his prede-
cessors Mr. Huit and Mr. Cook did; for Wroxhal is exempt
from episcopal jurisdiction, and hath no legal maintenance,
but 6l. 13s. 4d. per ann. tho' Sir R. Burgoyne and bis tenants
used to make it up 40l. but Mr. Milbourn would not com
ply in the least." He retired with his family to Coventry,
where he was many ways unmolested. He was not suffered to
teach a school, nor to board young gentlemen who went to
the free-school there. He was banished from home by the
Five-mile-act, and removed to Newington-Green, where his
ingenious wife taught school, which was their only visible
maintenance. He died in this exile, in 1667, aged 45, and
was buried in St. Michael's church-yard Coventry, though
Mr. Freak, the minister, offered to lay him in the chancel
gratis, saying, He would have him buried like himself. The
famous Luke Milburn, of London, was his son, whom he
excelled, if not in learning, yet (as the above clergyman ex-
presses it) ""
very much in more amiable qualities, viz. inte-
grity, humility, peaceableness, and self-denial; for which,
and the exemplariness of his life, he was highly esteemed by
religious people in this parish and neighbourhood."
WITHERBROOK [V.] Mr. WILLIAM SWAIN. He
was apprentice to a trade in Coventry, and afterwards set up
for himself. He was there in the time of the civil war, when
so many worthy ministers took shelter in that city, and was
very conversant with them, v. g. Mr. Vines. Mr. Baxter,
Mr. Stephens, Mr. Cradock, &c. They finding him a man
of more than ordinary knowledge and piety, persuaded him
to apply himself to the ministry, in which they apprehended
he
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he might be very useful. He accordingly did so, and was
in due time fixed at Witherbrook near Coventry. He was
tried and approved by the Presbytery at Kenelworth, and or-
dained by Dr. Grew, Dr. Bryan, &c. in this parish church;
when he gave such an account of his religious experience as
affected many, and was the means of conversion to a very
wicked woman, who afterwards became a very serious, hum-
ble christian. Witherbrook not being used to preaching, the
people were generally very ignorant and loose; but it pleased
God to bless his ministry to the conversion of many souls,
both in the town and neighbourhood; and he had in six or
seven years, a set of as judicious, godly, and peaceable chris-
tians about him, as could easily be met with.-After he was
silenced, in 1662, he seldom preached publicly, unless in
the time of Charles's Indulgence, once a day, when he
went to church constantly in the afternoon. He continued
in that neighbourhood till his death, about 1690, except for
some time upon the passing of the Oxford-act. He then often
preached on Lord's-day mornings to a few of his people at a
time, when none knew of it but such as were sent to. He
spent much of his time in visiting them at their houses, and
was very useful to the last. He was a very modest and hum-
ble man, who did not despise, but highly valued other mens'
excellencies and attainments. He was sensible of his defects
in regard to learning, and therefore could not be persuaded
to preach at Coventry. He was respected by all that knew
him, and among the rest, by several of good quality, as much
as if he had been the most accomplished scholar. He wrote
the four last pages of Mr. N. Steven's Precept for Baptism, in
defence of himself against Everard.
The following were candidates in this county and frequent
preachers:
Mr. HUTCHINSON.-Mr. SMITH.-Mr. WILSON.
Mr. SAMUEL FOWNES, elder brother to Mr. Thomas
Fownes. A man of excellent parts, and a good scholar; on
which accounts Dr. (afterwards Bp.) Stillingfleet had a great
respect for him.
Mr. SHILTON He was designed for the parsonage of
Sutton Colfield, when it should become vacant, by his father
who was the patron; but he would not conform for the sake
of it. He lived afterwards at Tamworth.
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The following afterwards Conformed:
Mr. LANGLEY, of Tamworth.-Mr. PERKINS, of Max-
toke. Mr. WILKINSON, of Ansty.-Mr. SAMUEL HAWES,
toke.—Mr.
of Hunniley, who had a living near Warwick.-Mr. GILBERT
WALDEN, of Lemington Hastings.-He died at a living near
Coventry. Dr. Walker says, He was cast out of Lemington
for having defended the King's murder. but it seems his
Conformity expiated his crime.
MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED.
IN
WESTMORELAND.
SKHAM [V. 317. 165.] Mr. CHRIST. LANGHORne.
BARTON [V. 317. 6s. 8d.] Mr. TIMOTHY ROBERTS.
A native of Wales: a man of considerable learning, particu-
larly famous for his skill in Hebrew; of great humility and
self-denial, a close student, and a useful preacher. He suc-
ceeded here in 1653, and was turned out in 1660. He was im-
prisoned at Appleby for preaching contrary to the act. Mr.
Baxter says he died of the plague, between Shrewsbury and
Oswestry, upon a little straw, none daring to come near him.
CROSSBY on the Hill. Mr. CHRISTOPHER JACKSON.
Of Magd. Col. Camb. He was born at Leeds. Being de-
signed for trade, he was put out an apprentice; but his friends
observing his bookishness, took him from his business, and
sent him to Cambridge, where he studied under Mr. Joseph
Hill. He was a very pious man, of a holy life, and compe-
tent learning. He was first turned out somewhere in York-
shire, and afterward at Crosby. He lived meanly upon a
little estate in the parish of Ravistondale, preaching occa-
sionally. Some ministers who had conformed, once telling
him that he had a bare coat, he made this answer,
"If his
coat was bare, it was not turned.”
HATTON Chapel, in Kendal parish. Mr. GREENWOOD.
He was much liked as a preacher, but was accused of some
things that were scandalous, by which his memory is blackened.
Mr. John Wallis, who preached some time in Kendal
church, was a man of the same description. These accounts,
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and a few others of the same kind, are inserted to avoid the
charge of partiality.
*** STAVELY Chapel (on the borders of Lancashire).
GABRIEL CAMELFORD. After his ejectment he was a use-
ful preacher in the parts adjacent, and was an instrument of
converting many, particularly in Furness-fells beyond the
Sands, who afterwards formed themselves into a Dissenting
Church, upon the plan of mixed communion, (being partly
Independents and partly Baptists) on this remarkably catho-
lic principle: "We declare ourselves willing and ready to
"receive into our communion all who love our Lord Jesus
"Christ in sincerity and truth," &c. Of this church Mr.
Sedgfield was pastor upwards of forty years, and it continued
upon the same catholic plan. This account was communi-
cated by a son of the latter, Mr. John Sedgfield of Frome,
who was himself a member of this church, and personally
knew some of the aged persons converted by Mr. Camelford's
ministry.-N. B. This is the person whom Dr. Calamy
calls Cammerford, and mentions as ejected from Clavely, or
some place near it. He died in 1676.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. JAMES DODGSON, of Ravistondale.-Mr. Francis
HIGGINSON of Kirkby Steven - Mr. JOHN DALTON, of
Shapp.-Mr. GEORGE FOTHERGILL, of Örton, afterwards of
Worksop in Northamptonshire.
§ It may not be amiss to subjoin to this short account of
the ejected in Westmoreland, the following additions, lately
communicated, to the neighbouring county of CUMBER-
LAND.
CALDBECK [R.] "In 1657, RICHARD HUTTON was
rector, who probably was deprived by the Bartholomew-act,
for in 1663, Arthur Savage, M. A. was collated by Bishop
Sterne." Nicolson and Burn's Hist. and Antiq. of Westm.
and Cumb. II. 137.
BROMFIELD [V.] "During the usurpation of O. Crom-
well, WILLIAM GRAINGER, vicar of Bromfield was ejected.
and his successor [who is not named] seems to have been de-
prived after the Restoration, by the Bartholomew-act; for
in 1663, Rich. Garth, M. A. was collated to this vicarage."
Ibid. II. 170.
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ALTON. OBADIAH WILLS, M. A.
LTON. OBADIAH WILLS, M. A. Dr. Walker says
He was the bad, tho' godly neighbour of Mr. Gregson,
in the living of Alton Priors; that he got him cited before
the Commissioners for reading the Common Prayer, and
dispossessed of that poor place, the profits of which were
given to Mr. Wills, as the reward of his informing. [This
cannot now be contradicted, but it doth not follow that it is
true. Mr. Baxter's writing a preface to one of his books,
is a presumptive argument in his favour.]
WORKS. Infant Baptism asserted &c. ag. Danvers; with a
Pref. by R. Baxter.-Vindiciæ Vindiciarum; a defence of ditto.-
Censura Censuræ; or a just Censure of the unjust Sentence of the
Baptists.
BARWICK. St. John's [R. 200l.] COMPTON SOUTH,
B. D. Of Oxford university. A branch of a very ancient
and genteel family: Educated at the free-school at Salisbury.
He first exercised his ministry at Odyham in Hampshire,
where he had a numerous auditory. But he had scarcely
been there a year, before he was presented to this rectory,
by the Earl of Pembroke, where he continued till 1662,
After this, his life was a constant scene of sufferings, as he
was seldom free from presentments and indictments in the
civil courts, or citations and excommunications from the
spiritual courts; especially in Bp. Ward's time, who, tho'
he had been his fellow collegiate and acquaintance, left him
to suffer the utmost. He was many times obliged to leave
his
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his house and numerous family, to preserve his liberty, and
could have no quiet till the Indulgence in 1672, when he
exercised his ministry among an intelligent and unanimous
people at Ringwood, who adorned the gospel by a suitable
conversation. He went thither every week (ho' 18 miles
distant) and was constantly entertained at Moyles Court, the
seat of the pious, tho' unhappy, Lady Lisle, till by the severe
sentence of Judge Jefferies she was condemned, for harbour-
ing Mr. Hickes, a Nonconforming Minister, supposed to have
been in Monmouth's army, and beheaded at Winchester.
Mr. South was afterwards invited by a numerous people at
Warminster, to undertake half the service of that large con-
gregation. He accordingly removed thither; but infir-
mities growing upon him, he retired to his house at Upper
Dunhead, where he died July 22, 1705. He was a good
scholar, and a useful preacher.
BARWICK and MONKTON FRANCIS HUBBARD,
M. A. Of Baliol Col. Oxf. The son of Edward Hubbard,
Esq; formerly of Essex, and afterwards of London; brought
up in Westminster school. He was a sober youth, and loved
learning from the first, but was hindered in his improvement
by sore eyes; which however had this good effect, that it
helped to divert him from worldly vanity, After he began
to preach, he never forbore altogether any one Lord's-day in
his life, tho' he laboured under much weakness. These two
villages being but a mile distant, he preached in the morning
at one, and in the afternoon at the other, the people usually
attending him at both places. In 1662, he removed to Ox-
ford, to his wife's relations, with whom he continued till the
Five-mile-act was in force. He then retired to Witney where
he lived peaceably till the day of his death, excepting that he
was imprisoned at Oxford in Bocardo, six months, being
taken when preaching in a private house. He bore that im-
prisonment very chearfully, rejoicing that he was counted
worthy to suffer in the cause of Christ. At Witney he preach-
ed privately till Charles's Indulgence, when he had a place
licensed. In his last sickness, he told the physician, that he
sent for him because he thought it his duty to use means;
not because he was fond of life, or fearful of death: For,
says he, thro' grace I can say, 'tis no more to me to die, than
to undress and go to bed." He died Oct. 20, 1676, aged 49.
He was a man of wonderful patience under worldly crosses
and trials, of which he had a considerable share. He had a
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right to an advowson of 100l. per ann. which was left in the
hands of a friend, in special trust for him; but as he did not
conform, it was sold. He was satisfied however that God
would provide for him and his, and he was not disappointed.
BISHOPSTROW. Mr. THOMAS PASEY.
BOX [V. S.] Mr. JOHN STERN. He was at Chilmark
in this county, before he came hither. He told Mr. Bushnel,
the sequestered minister, that he was 500l. the worse for su-
ing after and accepting this living.
BRAMBLE [V.] Mr. JAMES CRUMP. He continued to
live here after his ejectment.
BRINKWORTH [R.] JOHN HARDING, D. D. A learn-
ed man, who was much courted to conform.
BRIDFORD. Mr. EDWARD FALCONER. He was not
satisfied with sprinkling in baptism, and the people being un-
willing to have their children dipped, some neighbouring mi-
nisters sometimes came and baptized the children in his parish.
Upon leaving this place, in 1662, he retired to Salisbury,
and there spent the little remainder of his life.
WORKS. The Burden of England (a copy of which he pre-
sented to K. Charles )---The Watchman's Alarm.
BROUGHTON [R.] Mr. JOHN BARCROFT. Of Camb.
university. Born in Lancashire. He was a warm Inde-
pendent, who was not for baptizing any children but those
whose parents (one of them at least) were communicants
with him at the Lord's Table. He not only preached twice
every Lord's-day, but expounded and catechized, and kept
up a lecture once a fortnight. He was very charitable to
the poor. He died single, three years after his ejectment.
and had great peace in his last hours.
BURBICH [V. S.] Mr. THOMAS TAYLOR. Born about
1612, at Broughton in Oxfordshire, of which place his fa-
ther was rector. When he came to Burbich, he was under
a necessity of laying out a considerable sum in repairing the
vicarage-house, for which the incumbent, who was rein-
stated at the Restoration, made him no allowance. The peo-
ple being generally very ignorant, and many of them addict-
ed to drunkenness, Mr. Taylor set himself to preach to them
with great seriousness, and to press things home upon their
consciences,
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consciences, for which they were much enraged at him, and
openly expressed their ill-will. After his ejectment, the Bp.
of Salisbury offered him a living of 400l. per ann. if he would
conform; but he refused, tho' he had eight children, and
his wife was pregnant. He removed to Salisbury, where he
lived for some time comfortably, by means of his wife's
teaching children to read, and the kindness he received from
the good people in and about that city. He continued seven
years in peace, for neither Bp. Hinchman, nor his successors,
Hide and Earl, nor their courts, gave him or the other Non-
conformists in Salisbury, any trouble. But Dr. Seth Ward,
who had been so zealous for the Commonwealth as to take
the Engagement, was no less zealous for Conformity. In
1667 Mr. Taylor was cited to appear in the Spiritual Court
the next court-day, which he accordingly did; and his ap-
pearance being recorded, he was ordered to appear the next,
which he likewise did; and so for several days. At last,
being a very studious man, he forgot to go. Not answering
when he was called, they decreed to excommunicate him for
contempt of the court, and the writ de excom. capiendo was
sent for to London, and brought down to Salisbury with all
expedition. But providence so ordered it, that a person who
was in the secret told a friend of Mr. Taylor's, who went to
a near neighbour of his, and tho' it was very late, and all the
family in bed and asleep, they contrived to awake one of
them, without alarining the neighbourhood, who let them
into the house, and they persuaded the good man to remove
immediately. Early the next morning the officers came to
seize him, and were not a little mortified and enraged to find
him gone. He was the next night conveyed to Stockbridge,
which is out of the diocese of Sarum; and the day after, ano-
ther friend conducted him towards London, where he conti-
nued some time. He afterward returned privately to Salis-
bury, where he was entertained by a religious gentlewoman,
and concealed some years. In 1671, the excommunication
was taken off, when he returned to his family, and conti-
nued at Salisbury till the death of his wife in 1676; after
which he removed to London (his children being in or near
the city) and died soon after. He was the father of Mr. Na-
thaniel Taylor, of Salter's-Hall, whom he named after Na-
thaniel Fiennes, Esq; of Newton-Tony, who had been very
kind to him, and several Nonconformists in this county.
CALNE. Mr. THOMAS JONES.
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CASTLECOMB [R.] Mr. BENJAMIN FLOWER, senior.
He died soon after his ejectment.
J
Mr. BENJAMIN FLOWER, junior, son of the former,
and assistant to him here in 1662, after having been ejected
from Cardiff, in Glamorganshire. He was a man of great
piety and good ministerial abilities. He here preached a fare-
well sermon, and then set up a school, in which Mr. Seal
was his usher. He was afterwards pastor of a congrega-
tion at Chippenham, where he died in August, 1709, aged
about 86 §.
CHILTERN, [V.] Mr. DOSITHEUS WYAR. He was or-
dained by Bp. Goodman, who, from his name, took him for
a puritan; but when he told his lordship that his father took
his name out of the Apocrypha, he was very well pleased.
If the reading of the Liturgy, without declaring unfeigned
assent and consent, would have satisfied the law, Mr. Wyar
might have continued vicar of Chiltern; for, some years
after his ejectment, a certain church being vacant by the
death of the incumbent, he officiated for some time, at the
request of the patron, who was his very good friend.-As he
was once burying a corpse, he was taken with some disorder,
which prevented his going thro' the service, and tho' he lived
some time after, he never recovered. He was visited by his ne-
phew, Mr. Samuel Sprint, who found him unable to speak
above two or three words at a time; so that those about him
could only guess at his meaning, but apprehended by his ges-
tures that he was not entirely satisfied in what he was about
when his disorder seized him. He had closely studied the
book of Revelations, and, like some others, wrought himself
up to an assurance, that Antichrist would fall in 1666; but
he lived to see himself mistaken.
§ Mr. James writes, that from a MS. Diary, by Mr. Thomas Webb, of De-
vizes, it appears that Mr. Flower had a church there, as well as at Chippen-
ham, in 1693, and that Mr. Nath. Chauncey was his assistant at Devizes in
1708, where he succeeded him, upon his resignation the following year.
Mr. Webb says, that on April 10, 1709, Mr. Flower desired that might he
the last day of his administering the Lord's-Supper, as his great age (which
was then 82) did not admit of his taking the journey (from Chippenham],
or continuing so hard a work, and that therefore he wished the whole might
be left to Mr. Chauncey. "According, says Mr. Webb, after sacrament,
he took his leave of us, which made tears run from the eyes of almost all the
congregation. He told us that he was supperannuated, and knew not one
alive but himself," of all the ejected ministers.
CHILTON
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CHILTON [R.] Mr. JAMES HOUNSEL. A man of con-
siderable learning and great courage. After his ejectinent he
went to the East Indies, where he died, much lamented by
all that knew him.
CHISLETON [V.] Mr. JOHN BAKER. A man of very
warm affections, who had been the means of awakening many
a secure sinner. After his Nonconformity he went to Lon-
don, where he was well known.
CLEVE-PEPPER. Mr. HENRY BLAKE. A hard student,
and a sententious, elegant preacher.
COLLINGBORN (Dukes) [R. 350l.] DANIEL BURGESS,
M. A. Of Mag. Col. Oxf. But Wood takes no notice of
him. He was first minister of Staines in Middlesex, whence
he removed to Veny-Sutton in this county, when Mr. Swad-
don was turned out for immorality. Here he lived about
fourteen years, and then, upon the death of Mr. Adoniram
Byfield, minister of Collingbourn, was presented to that liv-
ing by the Duke of Somerset; but not thro' the interest of
Dr. Cornelius Burgess, as Dr. Walker affirms, supposing
him to be his brother, whereas he was no relation. The
truth is, He got the presentation to this living by virtue of
his own endowments, as well as by the interest of his only
brother, Mr. Isaac Burgess, who was intimate with the
Duke, and a person of considerable note, having been twice
High Sheriff of the county, and many years a Justice of the
Peace. Here Mr. Burgess laboured among his people, with
great diligence and success, till the Bartholomew-act took
place. When (says Mr. Henry) "he chose rather to quit
than to wrong his conscience; and with what little he had
of his own, made a shift to maintain and educate a nume-
rous family."] Dr. Walker says, he was very unwilling to
part with this living. Nor is it any wonder he should. How-
ever, he might have kept it, if he would have complied with
the terms as others did; for the sequestered minister, Dr.
Prior, was dead. He broke thro' uncommon difficulties to
preserve his integrity. He had seven children to provide for;
and the Duke and Duchess of Somerset used all the argu-
ments they could to persuade him to conform. His people
also with many cries and tears, importuned him to continue
with them. But he broke thro' all these obstacles, and said,
He could not go against his conscience for all the world.
The Duchess and some other persons, wished him to tell
them
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them freely how far he could comply, and wherein he could
not, offering to make interest with the Bishop to alleviate
some things that were most grievous to him; but he thank-
fully refused, plainly declaring, That would be a snare to
him, and a stumbling-block to his brethren, and therefore he
could not hearken to such a proposal. Nay, so loth were
the Duke and Dutchess to part with him, that they would
have him keep the instrument of his presentation, so that, if
he could, upon further consideration comply, he might be
restored before any other could be put in. But tho' he did
so, it was no temptation to him to change his mind; and he
chearfully resigned himself to the conduct of divine provi-
dence; nor did he ever repent of it.-From Collingbourn
he retired to Marlborough, where he had some estate, and
sometimes preached there for Mr. John Hughes, and at other
places about the country, till he was driven away by the
Corporation-act. He died in June, 1679. He was a learn-
ed and judicious, a faithful and laborious minister, greatly
esteemed by his brethren, and exceedingly beloved by his
people, who were in the utmost distress when he left them.-
Mr. Daniel Burgess, a son of his, was a celebrated preacher
among the Dissenters, for many years, near Covent-Garden,
whose funeral sermon was preached by Mr. M. Henry, at
the end of which is some account of his life and writings,
and a brief mention of his father.
COMPTON. Mr. JOHN FRAYLING. Born at Hedding-
ton. After his ejectment he preached at Devizes every other
Lord's-day, with Mr. Ob. Wills. He was blind some years
before he died, but preached as long as he was able to ride,
having a person to guide his horse. He died in Jan. 1688,
aged about 80. Mr. Gough preached his funeral sermon,
on Job. xiv. 2. and therein represented him "as a Moses
“for meekness, a Nathaniel for uprightness, and one of Eli-
phaz's happy men, who came to his grave in a full age."
He served God in his generation, as a faithful steward in his
house, and was a painful labourer in word and doctrine, ac-
cording to the talent God had given him; and he had good
''
success.
DEVERIL KINGSTON. Mr. JAMES EBURNe.
DUNHEAD [R.] Mr. PETER INCE. Of Brazen Nose
Col. Oxford. A good scholar, well skilled in the languages,
especially in the Hebrew, and an excellent practical preacher.
He
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He had an admirable gift in prayer, and on public occasions,
would pour forth his soul with such spirituality, variety,
fluency, and affection, that he was called Praying Ince. After
being silenced he lived with Mr. Grove, that ornament of his
country for learning, piety, and public spiritedness. ]The
following remarkable story is related concerning him, which
was communicated by the Rev. Josiah Tompson, who re-
ceived it from an intimate friend of Mr. Bates, the late aged
minister of Warminster, as he had often heard it from Mr.
Bates himself, who had spent much time and labour in col-
lecting authentic accounts of the most remarkable provi-
dences relating to the church, but who unhappily and unac-
countably, burnt them a little before his death.
Not long after the year 1662, Mr. Grove, a gentleman of
great opulence, whose seat was near Birdbush, upon his
wife's lying dangerously ill, sent to the parish minister to
pray with her. When the messenger came, he was just go-
ing out with the hounds, and sent word he would come when
the hunt was over. Mr. Grove expressing much resentment
against the minister, for chusing rather to follow his diver-
sions than attend one of his flock in such circumstances, one
of the servants took the liberty to say, "Sir, our shepherd, if
you will send for him. can pray very well; we have often
heard him at prayer in the field." Upon this he was imme-
diately sent for; and Mr. Grove asking him whether he ever
did or could pray, the shepherd fixing his eyes upon him
with peculiar seriousness in his countenance, replied,
"God
forbid, Sir, I should live one day without prayer."
He was
then desired to pray with the sick lady; which he did so
pertinently to her case, with such fluency and fervency of
devotion, as greatly to astonish the husband, and all the family
who were present. When they arose from their knees, the
gentleman addressed him to this effect: "Your language and
manner discover you to be a very different person from what
your present appearance indicates. I conjure you to inform
me who and what you are, and what were your views and
situation in life before you came into my service." Upon
which he told him, that he was one of the ministers who had
been lately ejected from the church, and that having nothing
of his own left, he was content for a livelihood to submit to
the honest and peaceful employment of tending sheep. On
hearing this, Mr. Grove said to him, "Then you shall be
my shepherd," and immediately erected a meeting-house on
his
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his own estate, in which Mr. Ince gathered a congregation
of Dissenters, which continues to subsist to this day].
After the Restoration were published two books of Pro-
digies, in the second of which are some dreadful examples of
the vindictive justice of God, upon the prosecutors of this
worthy man. Tho' some derided them, Mr. T. Rosewell,
who then lived in those parts, was able to attest the truth of
them, and could have added more examples in the neighbour-
ing parishes, of which he was an eye-witness. (See his Life,
p. 24.) This Mr. Ince, Mr. Sacheverel, Mr. Hallet, and Mr.
Bampfield, were all imprisoned together at Dorchester, for
the crime of preaching. But Judge Archer, going the western
circuit, was very favourable to them. He laid upon them a
fine of only forty marks a-piece, which he afterwards reduced
to twenty; and even this was compounded for at 15. in the
pound. But there remained another difficulty: they were
to be upon their good behaviour after their release. After
they had been imprisoned a year and a half, a friend came to
the town, by whose interest with the Judges, they were of
fered to be released, if they would give bond on the Monday.
for their behaviour till Thursday. Mr. Bamfield and Mr.
Hallet utterly refused, thinking this would amount to an ac-
knowledgment of guilt. Mr. Ince and Mr. Sacheverel (tho'
unwilling to leave their fellow-prisoners in bonds) thro' the
persuasion of friends, yielded and were set at liberty; as the
others told them that it would add to their trouble, for them
to continue still in hold, only out of deference to their judg-
ment.- Wood casually mentions Mr. Peter Ince, with
two other Presbyterian Ministers, who were concerned
with Mr. Humphrey Chambers, in writing An Apology
for the Ministers in the County of Wilts, in answer to a
Letter, &c. 1654.
EASTON-GREY [R. 40/.] Mr. BENJAMIN Jones.
ELSENHAM. Mr. GEORGE WILSON.
EVERLEY. Mr. WILLIAM EASTMAN. He had been
deprived, at the Restoration, of a living somewhere in Hamp-
shire, worth 200l. per ann. given him by Oliver Cromwell.
It does not appear when he came to Everley, or when he
left it. He afterwards removed to Salisbury, and from
thence to Shaftsbury, where he died, after continuing his
ministry
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ministry many years.
Mr. Clark the first Dissenting * Mi-
nister of Wareham in Dorset) married his daughter, and had
all his papers after his death.
FIFIELD. Mr. THOMAS CRAPON.
KNOYLE (East) [R.] SAMUEL CLIFFORD, B. A. Of
Magd. Hall, Oxf. The son of Mr. Wm. Clifford, an emi-
nent minister; born at Farlington in Somerset, 1630. He
was at school first at Frampton in Dorsetshire, and after-
wards at Salisbury, where he was noted for his extraordinary
memory, and for his great proficiency in grammar-learning.
The rectory of Knoyle becoming vacant by his father's death,
in 1655, it was conferred upon him. Upon the Restoration,
the gift of the benefice belonging to the bishopric of IVin-
chester, he resigned it to Dr. Hawles, and on Bartholow-
mew-day was silenced. He had then no visible prospect of
a maintenance for himself and family, but he chose rather to
trust to the providence of God for a livelihood, in the way of
his duty (as far as he could understand it) than seek to better
his circumstances, by venturing upon what he apprehended to
be sinful. He was reduced to great straits and hardships,
but having the testimony of his conscience that he acted up-
rightly, he was easy and contented. He was a practical,
lively, affecting preacher, and had a good delivery. He was
also of a pious and unblameable life and conversation, which
rendered him generally beloved by those that knew him, and
savoured of the things of God. His ministry also was very
acceptable, wherever he had a call to exercise it. After a
life of great labour and suffering, which he went through
with great patience and self-denial, he died in peace, Oct.
29, 1699.
LANGFORD. Mr. GYLES. Dr. Walker says, He was a pro-
verb for litigiousness, but gives no-proof.
LAVINGTON. Mr. NATHANIEL WHITE.
LUDGERSHALL [R.] Hr. HENRY CUSSE.
MALMSBURY [V.] Mr. SIMON GAWEN.
MARLBOROUGH. St. Mary's. WILLIAM HUGHEs.
M. A. Of New-Inn Hall, Oxf. Born at Broomham near
* Dr. Calamy calls Mr. Clark the Conforming Minister. This was certainly
a mistake. The above account is confirmed by his grandaughter who was
living when the Noncon. Mem. was first published.
Devizes.
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ga-
Devizes. After he had taken his degrees, he settled here, and
remained till Aug. 24, 1662, when he preached his farewell
sermon to an endearing and loving people. Having a wife
and six young children, he purchased a house in the town,
where he taught school; and notwithstanding the rigor of
the times, several gentlemen round the country sent their
children to him; as also did several in London; so that he
soon had a large school which he maintained several years,
tho' not without many interruptions from persons of the esta-
blishment. But that which most provoked them was, his
thering a church there after his ejectment, among whom he
continued his ministry to his death; tho' he had considera-
ble offers if he would have conformed. He was unwearied
and successful in his work, holy and unblameable in his con-
versation; and tho' his life after his ejectment was one conti-
nued scene of trouble, by reason of citations from the bishop's
courts, &c. he still chearfully bore up, resigning himself to
the divine will, knowing whom he served. He was of so
sweet and engaging a temper, that his very enemies had a
great esteem for him, and several among them privately gave
him notice when mischief was designed against him; so that
he often escaped the snare. He was for several years a pri-
soner in his own house, not daring to be known to be at
home. When the storm grew so violent that the meetings
at the usual place of worship were wholly suppressed, he
often preached to such as would follow him, in the woods
and fields. His strong and healthful constitution was at
length much broke by hard study and labour. But all the
time he was declining, he was full of heavenly discourse,
waiting for his approaching change, which happened Feb.
14, 1687. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. William
Gough. § Wood barely mentions him.
[The following account of his family will not be unac-
ceptable: His son John was clerk of the Hand-in-Hand
fire-office on Snow-Hill, and died in 1715, leaving by his wife
Anne, daughter of Isaac Burges, Esq; of an ancient family
in Wiltshire, two sons, John and Jabez, and a daughter
Elizabeth, who all conformed to the church of England.
(1.) John, born at Marlborough, Jan. 29, 1677, but edu-
cated at London in private schools, distinguished himself in
the reign of Q. Anne and K. George, by his taste aud profi-
ciency in the three sisters arts, and had a large share in the
Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, being intimately connected
with Mr. Addison, Sir Richard Steele, and most of the other
writers
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writers of that Augustan age. He had a place in the office
of ordnance, was Secretary to the Commission of Peace un-
der Lord Chancellors Cowper and Macclesfield, and died
Feb. 17. 1720, a few hours after his tragedy of The Siege of
Damascus had been first acted with applause. Mr. John
Hughes was not only a polite scholar, but distinguished him-
self also as a friend to religious toleration, by "A Review
"of the Case of Ephraim and Judah, and its Application to
"the Church of England and the Dissenters," occasioned
by a Thanksgiving Sermon preached before the Queen at
St. Paul's, in Aug. 1705, by Dr. Willis, Dean of Lincoln.
His Poems were collected and published in 2 vol. 12mo. in
1735, by William Duncombe, Esq; his brother-in-law; as
were his Letters, in 3 vol. in 1773, by his nephew, the Rev.
John Duncombe, [the writer of this account].-(2.) Jabez,
born in 1686, like his brother, a votary of the muses and an
excellent scholar, had a place in the Stamp-office, and died
Jan. 17, 1731, leaving a widow, who accompanied the lady
of Governor Byng to Barbadoes, and died there in 1740;
and a daughter, who died without issue. A vol. of his
• Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose," was published in 1737.
-(3.) Elizabeth, born in 1692, was married in 1726 to the
late William Duncombe, Esq; and died in 1736, leaving an
only son, John, now rector of St. Andrew's and St. Mary
Breadman's in the city, and one of the six preachers in the
cathedral of Canterbury;" to whom the Editor is indebted
for this account. § This ingenious and candid gentleman is
since deceased.
MARTYN (Hill) [C.] Mr. ROBERT ROWSWELL. He
lived here after his ejectment, and used to preach sometimes
at Calne.
MELKSHAM [V.] Mr. JOHN HARDING. Son to Dr.
Harding of Brenkworth.
MILDENHALL [R. S.] THOMAS BAYLIE, B. D. §In-
stead of the former short account of him, the following is
substituted from Wood's Athen. Oxon. ii. 323.-" A Wilt-
shire man born; was entered of St. Alban's Hall in Mich.
term, 1600, aged 18 years, elected Demy of Magd, Col. in
1602, and perpetual fellow of that house, 1611, being then
M. A. Afterwards he became rector of Maningford Crucis,
near Marlborough, and in 1621 was admitted to the reading
of the sentences, at which time and after, he was zealously
inclined
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inclined to the puritanical party. At length, upon the
change of the times in 1641, siding openly with them, he
took the Covenant, was made one of the Assembly of Di-
vines, and soon after had, for the love he bore to the righteous.
cause, the rich rectory of Mildenhall (then belonging to Dr.
George Morley, a royalist) conferred upon him. Where,
being settled, he preached up the tenents held by the Fifth-
monarchy-men, being by that time one himself, and after-
wards became a busy man in ejecting such that were then
called ignorant and scandalous, &c. After the Restoration,
he was turned out from Mildenhall, and dying at Marlborough
in 1663, was buried in the church of St. Peter's there, 27th
March, whereupon his conventicle in that place was carried
on by another brother as zealous as himself."
.WORKS. De Merito Mortis Christi ; et Modo Conversionis,
Diatribæ duo Oxon. 1626.-Concio ad Clerum habita in Templo
B. Mariæ Oxon. July 5, 1662, in Jude, ver. 11. § Wood says he
printed some occasional sermons in English.
MILTON. Mr. THOMAS RUTTY. After his ejectment
he lived at Melksham.
NEWTON [C.] Mr. JOHN OLDHAM. The son of Mr.
John Oldham, some time rector of Nun-Eaton, near Tet-
bury in Gloucestershire. He had been minister of Shipton...
in that county, before he came to this place, where he was
silenced in 1662. Mr. John Oldham, the celebrated poet in
K. Charles's reign, was his son; who, notwithstanding his
wit and smartness, was a heart-breaking grief to his pious
father. In one of his pieces he shewed himself such a mon-
ster of ingratitude, as to spit his venom against the person to
whom, under God, he owed his being. The son died at 30,
but the father lived to a good old age, and continued preach-
ing to a small congregation of Dissenters at Wotton under
Edge in Gloucestershire, and died in that neighbourhood,
leaving a good name among all that knew him.
Of
NEWTON TONEY, [R.] Mr. JOHN WATTS,
ODSTOKE [R. 120l.] Mr. JOHN SWAFFIELD.
Christ Col. Camb. Born at Dorchester, in Nov. 1625.
The ill state of his health forced him to leave the university
before he had taken his degrees. His friends designed to re-
move him to Oxford, but having followed his studies very
closely, he was persuaded to engage in the ministry, as assist-
4
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f
tant to Mr. Alleine, of Batcomb in Somerset. But that
church being very large, and Mr. Swaffield being very weak-
ly, the physicians told him, it would be very prejudicial to
him, to strain his voice so as to be heard; and therefore leav-
ing Batcomb, he lived for some time as chaplain at Sir T.
Trenchard's in Dorsetshire. In 1649 he went to Odstoke,
where the Act of uniformity ejected him; upon which he
removed with his family to Sarum; but the Oxford-act forc-
ed him from them into an obscure village in Dorsetshire. The
pestilence raging at Salisbury in 1666, he removed his family
to Burgat in Hampshire, where he set up a meeting, and had a
numerous auditory, to whom he continued preaching some
years. Returning to Salisbury, he preached privately in the
town, till K. Charles's declaration of Indulgence; after
which he held a week-day lecture publicly. In 1674 he was
taken as he was preaching in his own house, and examined
by the Mayor, who did not commit him for the conventicle,
but for saying, upon his examination, That he had heard
that the king had promised to abide by his declaration of In-
dulgence. At the assizes he refused to tell his author, and
was therefore committed to the county jail, by Mr. Baron
Turner, as a spreader of false news. He continued almost a
year under confinement; but upon petitioning his Majesty,
the Lord Chief Justice North, who went the summer circuit
in 1675, was ordered by the King to discharge him; which
he did upon paying a fine of 40s.-Mr. Swaffield had several
invitations to London, and some encouraging offers; but he
refused them, apprehending that it would have been very
difficult to get a minister at Salisbury, where there was then
much heat and fury against the Dissenters. He therefore
continued there till his death, in Sept. 1681, aged 56. He
had a great and generous soul, in a little sickly body. The
narrowness of his circumstances, and the largeness of his
family, did not hinder his contributing towards any charita-
ble design that he recommended to others. He was very
courageous and constant in preaching, as he had opportunity,
in the most difficult seasons. His sermons were judicious,
and remarkable for their fulness.-Mr. Haddesley, his col-
league, preached his funeral sermon.
WORKS. Some Scr.nons on the Body of Death; or the Saints
Failings and Infirmities; on Rom. vi. 23, 24.
OGBORN. St. Andrew's. Mr. BARTHOLOMEW WEBB.
PATNEY
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PATNEY [R. S.] Mr. JOHN MASSY. He continued in
this living till 1662, when upon the Bartholomew-act he
gave it up. But he had a son of a different stamp, who not
only conformed, and was made Dean of Christ Church, Ox-
ford, by James II. but, as IVood relates, renounced his re-
ligion for that of Rome, which he was required to do before.
he could be settled in the deanry. He received the patent
for it on his bended knees from his majesty, 19 Dec. and
was installed the 29, 1686. He afterwards set up a Roman-
Catholic chapel in Canterbury Quadrangle, within the pre-
cincts of Christ Church, and was put in the commission of
the peace for the county of Oxford. On the Revolution he
withdrew privately, and went to France. Fasti Oxon. ii. 198.
PEWSEY [R. 400l.] HUMPHREY CHAMBERS, D. D. Of
University Col. Oxf. He was first rector of Claverton, So-
merset, from whence he was called to sit in the Assembly,
after which the Earl of Pembroke gave him the rich rectory
of Pewsey. When the Act of uniformity took place, he
preached his farewell sermon on Ps. cxxvi. 6. shewing that
this life is a seed-time for eternity. Soon after which he was
taken ill, and died Sept. 8. He had been silenced by Bishop
Pierce, his diocesan, for maintaining the morality of the
Sabbath, which created him two years trouble, imprison-
ment, and sequestration, by Abp. Laud's taking the cause
into his own hands. § Wood gives this further account of
him. He was a gentleman's son, born in Somerset, became
a commoner of Univer. Col. 1614, aged 15,, stood for a fel-
lowship in Mert. Col. 1619, but put aside as insufficient, tho'
a little before he had displayed his oratory in a speech on the
death of a student, in the middle of the Quadrangle. In 1641,
he sided with the Presbyterians, took the Covenant, was
made one of the Assembly, and maintained a horse and man
in actual service against the king. He was minister of
Stretchley, in Shropshire, 1648. After the Restoration he
was suffered to keep his parsonage, [at Pewsey] because no-
body laid claim to it. He was one of the three that preached
before the house of Lords 22 Oct. 1644, on the uniting of
the army; was an assistant to the commissioners for eject-
ing, &c. and he carried himself very severe against the mi-
nisters. He was buried in the church of Pewsey, Sept. 8,
1662, with no other ceremony than we would use to a
dog.
WORKS.
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WORKS. Sermons before the Parliament [One on Zech. vii,
5. 7. intit. Divine Ballance to weigh religious Fasts in.]-Paul's
sad farewell, Fun. Serm. for Mr. J. Grayle, Minister of Tidworth,
1655 — Motives to Peace and Love. —Ánimadversions on a book
of Mr. W. Dell, entit. The Crucified and Quickened Christian-
An Apology for the Ministers of the County of Wilts.-Answer to
Mr. W. Bushnel, about the Proceedings of the Commissioners
&c. 1660.
POLSHOT [R.] Mr. WILLIAM SPINNAGE. Fellow of
Exeter Col. Oxf. A good divine, a great philosopher and dis-
putant; a man of much integrity and zcal. He died at St.
Mary Axe, London.
RAMSBURY [V.] HENRY DENT, M. A. Of Wadham
Col. Oxf. Born in Wales, and brought up under Mr. Hunt
of Sarum, who sent him to Oxford, where he continued ten
years, tho' Wood takes no notice of him. He was first as-
sistant to Mr. Strickland of Sarum, and afterwards to Mr.
Wild of Ramsbury, who conformed in 1662. Mr. Dent
still continued his assistant, and taught school in the church,
but was excused from reading prayers, which Mr. Wild took
wholly upon himself. At length, not being suffered to con-
tinue in this course, he preached and taught school in his own
house, and his wife also teaching English, he got a tolerable
subsistence, tho' he had not above 57. a year from his people.
He was as much harrassed for his Nonconformity as any mi-
nister in this county. He was three times excommunicated,
but at length got his absolution for a sum of money, that he
might not be wholly incapacitated to continue his school,
which was his main support. Three neighbouring clergy-
men were his bitter enemies; one of them (Mr. Wilson of
Ramsbury) when at church, called on the constable and
churchwardens to go and disturb Mr. Dent's seditious con-
venticle, and declared he would not begin the service till that
was done. He himself went with them; and being denied
entrance, they broke open the doors, aud found a great num-
ber of auditors, but Mr. Dent was gone. They took the
names of the people, and extorted money from several of
them. Mr. Dent was often worried by baliffs, who had war-
rants against him; and once narrowly escaped being taken,
thro' the great civility of Sir Seymour Pile, who lodged in
another part of the house in which he lived. The same
gentleman often gave him private information when warrants
were out against him, that he might stand upon his guard.
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But tho' he was often eagerly pursued, he was never in pri-
son. He often preached in woods and fields, placing scouts
to watch the avenues. He for some time walked every week,
winter and summer, to Lambourn Woodlands, above four
miles, to preach to about twenty poor people. He had very
little for all his labours, and used to say, "He that sets me
to work will pay me my wages." When Mr. Maverly came
to be the public minister at Ramsbury, he enjoyed more
quiet, and had a friendly correspondence with him. Mr
Dent then generally preached in the morning, and went in
the afternoon to the parish church with his family. He died
in March, 1695 or 1696, aged 63. He was a man of mo-
derate principles, and of an unblameable life and conversation.
His last words were, "An interest in Christ is worth ten
thousand worlds."
"
SARUM (New) St. Edmund's. JOHN STRICKLAND, B. D.
Of Queen's Col, Oxf. He was of an ancient genteel family
in Westmoreland. His first preferment was being chaplain
to the Earl of Hertford. In 1632, Sir John Horner presented
him to the rectory of Pudimore Milton in Somerset. He
was one of the Assembly, and often preached before the
long Parliament. Wood says, [on the authority of Sir W.
Dugdale] that he prayed several times blasphemously.
But this would not have been credited by those who knew
the man. He was really a great divine, and generally esteem-
ed. He was eminent for expounding the scriptures, and an
excellent casuist. After he was turned out of his living, on
the fatal Bartholomew, he continued among the people,
preaching to them as he had opportunity, and suffered many
ways for his Nonconformity. [Wood says, he was several
times imprisoned in Salisbury.] He died suddenly on a
Lord's-day evening, after preaching twice on 2 Pet. i. 11.
and administering the Lord's Supper, and was buried in St.
Edmund's church-yard, 25 Oct. 1670.
WORKS. Several Sermons before the Parliament.—§. Wood
mentions four, with the titles at length, in the Dedication of one of
which to the H. of Com. he desired them to plant the towns in
Cumberland and Northumb. with able preachers, and to reform
the Universities.-This Author says, he has other sermons which
be had not seen; and that he was stiled, by one of his opinion,
Præco fidelissimus.
WILLIAM EYRE. Of Magd. Hall, Oxf. The fol-
lowing account of him is from Wood's Athen. Oxon. He
5
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was a son of Giles Eyre, of White, in Wiltshire, born in
that county, and went to Oxford 1629. aged 16, where con-
tinuing under severe discipline till he took the degrees in arts,
he was appointed tutor. Being always schismatically in-
clined, he sided with the factious party in the rebellion, be-
came a rigid Calvinist [improperly so called, for according
to Calamy he held the notion of eternal justification, &c.]
an enemy of tithes, and a purchaser of church revenues. He
was made minister of St. Edmund's church in Salisbury, in
1654, assistant to the Com. for ejecting scandalous, &c.
some of whom were his acquaintance in Oxon. After the
Restoration he proceeded in his usual preaching, but in 1662,
was silenced for Nonconformity, and lived for a time at or
near Salisbury. But finding that place uneasy, he retired to
Milksham, where he had purchased an estate, and was buried
in that church, Jan. 30, 1670.
WORKS. An Assize Sermon at Salisbury, 1652, on Ps. xlv.
6.-Vindicia Justificationis gratuita: Justification without con-
ditions, &c. against Mr. B. Woodbridge, Mr. Ja. Cranford, and
Mr. R. Baxter; who wrote an Answer to it. As did Mr. War-
ren (See Houghton, Hampshire).-A Sermon on Acts xx. 9.
Mr. THOMAS RASHLEY. He lived after his eject-
ment, at Abrey, a few miles from Marlborough.
St. Martin's. Mr. WILLIAM TROUGHTON. § The
account of him in Wood's Athen. Oxon. to which Dr. Cala-
my refers the reader, is in substance as follows: He was
born in Westmoreland. and bred a scholar in Oxford, though
in what Col. is uncertain. After he left the university he
became chaplain to Col. Rob. Hammond, Gov. of the Isle
of Wight, 1647. Having occasion to be in the presence-
chamber while K. Charles I. was a prisoner in Carisbrook
castle, the king would enter into disputation with him, and
he also with great confidence would answer his majesty (as
is elsewhere related). In 1651, he was minister of Wanlip
†
("
In
+ Ath. Ox. V. I. p. 688. The author there says, Among others, one
TROUGHTON, Chaplain to Col. Hammond, and preacher to the soldiers of
the garrison, would many times be in the presence-chamber when his ma-
jesty was at dinner. And tho' he was a young man, he was a scholar, had
a good education, and would argue notably in defence of some tenets he
held in opposition to certain ceremonies and discipline in the episcopacy.
The king usually after meals would walk for near an hour, and take many
turns in the presence chamber; and when he found the chaplain there, he
would pleasurably enter into disputation with him, and the chaplain would
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in Leicestershire, and soon after of St. Martin's in Salisbury.
[Here follow some Reflections in Mr. Wood's usual style.]
After the restoration he was silenced and put to trouble by
some of the generous Royalists of Salisbury, and after Bar-
tholomew-day 1662, he retired to Bristol, where he gathered
a conventicle, and after some years, removed to London.
Broad-mead records have the date 1674, and speaks of his
adherents as chiefly a few honourable women.
WORKS. Saints in England under a Cloud, 1648.-Scripture
Redemption limited, 1652.-The Mystery of the Marriage Song,
&c. an Expos. on Psalm xiv. with Notes, 1656.-Cause and
Cure of disconsolate Thoughts, 1676.
米
​SEMLY [R.] Mr. MATTHEW TOWGOOD. He had his
grammar-learning at a considerable school at Gillingham.
Before he entered on the ministry he was master of a school
at Shaftsbury, and educated two of his own sons, who were
both of them men of considerable learning, the 'one a mini-
ster, the other a physician. These circumstances shew the
utter improbability and falsity of Dr. Walker's account of him,
as a low and illiterate mechanic. He was some time mini-
ster of Hilperton, but was not (as Dr. Calamy says) ejected
from thence, having removed to Semly some time before the
Uniformity-act took place. After his ejectment he taught
school, and preached privately in his own house at Semly
about seven years. A neighbouring justice of peace, who
had grievously harrassed and reviled him, and peremptorily
commanded the constable to bring him for examination and
commitment, tho' informed of his confinement to his bed
by a most painful rheumatism, afterwards so repented of his
severity as to shew him great favour, and sent his son to him
for education. He lies buried in Semly church, by the wall
- between the chancel and the south door. Two of his grand-
sons were dissenting ministers at Exeter. The one Mr. Mi-
caiah Towgood, son of the physician, well known in the
world by his exellent writings in favour of religious liberty,
and particularly by The Dissenting Gentleman's Answer to
Mr. White's Letters. The other, Mr. Stephen Towgood,
colleague with him, whose father was a minister. The for-
-
be very carnest in defence of his opinion. The king never checked him
for his confidence, but allowed him his liberty, and would be very pleasant
and merry, with him.". -N. B. This author takes care to let us know,
"that the king would be his own chaplain, not thinking it fit to accept of
any of the presbyter an ministers, tho' he thanked and was civil to them,
when they offered their service.”
mer
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mer of these gentlemen, who communicated the above ac-
count, closes his letter to the Editor as follows: "I esteem
"it a greater honour to descend from one of those noble con-
❝fessors than to have had a coronet or a garter in the line of
"my ancestry. I look forward with joy to the approaching
"happy day when that glorious list of heroes will shine with
distinguished honours, and mount to thrones of power,
"while their titled and enribboned persecutors will sink
"into shame, and be glad to hide their faces in the deepest
obscurity."
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** SUTTON MANDEVIL (R.] THOMAS ROSEWELL,
M. A. Of Pemb. Col. Oxf. He was born at Dunkerton
near Bath, May 3, 1630. His father died when he was not
above ten years old, and left him a plentiful fortune, much of
which was wasted in his minority. His uncle, who was his
guardian, sent him to school at Bath, where he continued,
making good progress till the civil war began to rage, but
when the King's amy took that garrison, the school was
broke up. As he was one day going a little way from home,
he saw Charles I. sitting at dinner in the field under a tree,
with a few persons about him; which made such an impres-
sion on his mind as disposed him to the greater compassion
and loyalty towards that unhappy monarch. He continued
with his uncle till 1645, who then sent him to London, to be
put to some trade. Here providence cast him under the mini-
stry of the excellent Mr. Mat. Haviland, which was blessed
for his conversion at the age of 16. He was placed with a
silkman in Cheapside, but having a weakness in his
occasioned by a blow, the colours of the silk were so of-
fensive to them, that he was taken from this business. This
circumstance issued in his determination for the ministry, for
which his father had designed him; and he thankfully ac
knowledged the over ruling providence of God in it. His
sight was recovered, and continued strong to his death.
improved his time in study, and in hearing sermons, till his
uncle came to London, when he was put under the care of
Mr. Singleton, who fitted him for the university. There he
applied closely to his studies, under the part cular inspection
of the pious and learned Dr. Langley, till 1652, when he
was invited by Counsellor Doddridge to become tutor to his
nephew, the son of J. Lovering, Esq; of Exeter, then at
Ware in Devonshire. The next spring he was presented to
the rectory of Rhode in Somerset, by Lady Hungerford, of
Bb 4
He
Corshan
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Corsham in Wilts, the former incumbent being dead. He
here met with great encouragement, and was ordained at
St. Edmund's in New Sarum, July 20. 1654, when Mr.
Peter Ince preached, and Mr. Strickland prayed over him,
whose daughter he afterwards married. In 1657 he re-
moved to Sutton Mandeville, a more considerable living,
which Mr. Gabriel Sangar resigned to him. But he had
reason to repent of this removal, on account of the ill treat-
ment of some of his parishioners, especially for his loyalty.
Upon this occasion, he said, "I would never wish ministers
to remove from their people for temporal interest only. Let
them look to a just and clear call in all their motions, other-
wise they may taste by bitter experience the fruit of their
doings.'
Upon his ejectment, in 1662, he travelled into several
counties, and visited several friends; and among the rest,
the good old Lady Hungerford, who invited him into her fa-
mily, where he continued above seven years, much respected
and very useful. Having observed something in her Lady-
ship's conduct which he thought needed reproof, he men-
tioned it to her in so humble and prudent a manner, that,
having retired some time into her closet, she brought him a
bag containing 100l. half of it for his own use, and the rest
to be disposed of in charity as he should see fit. He here
studied close, and became tutor to Sir E. Hungerford's son.
After leaving this family, he was invited, in 1672, into that
of Mr. Grove at Fern, where Mr. Ince lived. Here he spent
some months, much to his comfort, and was recovered from
a melancholy, with which he had been seized, by the blessing
of God, on the prescriptions of Dr. Luke Rugely, who took
him into his own house. In the beginning of March, 1673,
at Lord Wharton's request, he went to live in his family,
from whence he removed the next year, being called to suc-
ceed Mr. James Janeway at Rotherhithe, (commonly called
Redriff.) Here he was for a time, very happy and useful.
He preached in the public meeting-house, till several officers
came in and commanded him in the King's name, to come
down. He begged leave to finish his message from the
greater King; but an uproar being made, he retired. After
this he began to preach in private houses, which he did twice
every Lord's-day, notwithstanding the Conventicle-act. Soon
after, his house was rifled when he was from home, many of
his goods were sold at the door, and the justice took what he
had a mind to for himself. This occasioned Mr. Rosewell
to
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$
to remove the best of his books, and the most valuable fur-
niture which was left, to a relation's house in the city, where
a fire soon happened, by which he lost them all. Still he
continued to preach privately, and constantly expounded two
chapters on a Lord's-day.
On the 14th of Sept. 1684, he expounded the 20th chapter
of Genesis, concerning Abraham and Abimelech king of
Gerar; when some words which he used being shamefully
wrested, he was accused of treason, by false witnesses, who
had got into the meeting by means of a weak man, among
the hearers, whom they had artfully made to believe that
they were very pious people, who had the best motives in
desiring admission.-Mr. Rosewell seemed to have had some
presages of his approaching trouble; for a little before, he
had largely insisted on Rev. ii. 10. and said, "The tail of the
storm, which had overtaken others, would fall on them."
The next Lord's-day he preached again as usual, but ap-
peared less chearful, and told one of his friends, who observed
this, that he was apprehensive he should soon be removed,
either by death or into a prison. Accordingly, early in the
morning, Sept. 23, he was apprehended in his own house,
and carried before the Lord Chief Justice Jefferies, by virtue
of his warrant, who, after asking him some other questions,
demanded of him where he preached Sept. 14? Mr. Rose-
well, on account of the other persons present, said in Latin,
"That he hoped his Lordship would not insist upon his an-
swering that question as he might thereby accuse himself."
Jefferies flew into a violent passion, and said, " He supposed
that he could not speak another sentence in Latin if it were
to save his neck.” Mr. Rosewell, thinking it more civil to
answer in another language, spoke in Greek. The judge
seemed thunder-struck, but presently, in a violent rage, or-
dered the messenger to take him away. After detaining
him in a public-house till past 11 o'clock at night, the Lord.
Chief Justice's order came for committing him to the Gate-
house for High-treason. A bill was found against him at the
next quarter-sessions at Kingston, upon which he was ar-
raigned Oct. 25, and tried Nov. 18, at the King's Bench bar,
by a Surrey jury. The treason, as laid in the indictment, and
sworn by the witnesses, was, That in a sermon preached by
him, Sept. 14, at Rothethithe, he had said these words :-
That the people made a flocking to our said Sovereign Lord
the King, upon pretence of healing the King's evil, which
he could not do; but that we are they to whom they ought
to
:
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We
to flock, because we are priests and prophets, that by our
prayers can heal the dolours and griefs of the people.
have had two wicked Kings together, who have permitted
Popery to enter in under their noses, whom we can resemble
to no other person but the most wicked Jeroboam; and that
if they would stand to their principles, he did not fear but
they would overcome their enemies, as in former times,
with rams horns, broken platters, and a stone in a sling."-
There were three women who swore severally to these par-
ticular words. The trial lasted seven hours.
The defence made by Mr. Rosewell was very clear, and
gave general satisfaction to all that were present. Some
gentlemen of the long robe reckon it the best that was made
by any man in those times. Among other things he said, It
was impossible that the witnesses should remember so long
a period, and yet be unable to tell any thing else in the ser-
mon, nor even the text. He offered his Notes to prove that
he said nothing like what was ascribed to him, and gave a
clear consistent account of the discourse, and of the perverted
passages. Several persons also who heard him, and wrote
short hand, declared that he delivered no such words. But
not the least regard was paid to the evidence in his favour.
Jefferies, with his usual vehemence urged the necessity of
convicting him, and the jury in half an hour, brought him in
guilty of High treason. The three women who were the
evidences, were common informers against conventicles; who
as Bp. Burnet observes, could not prove, by any one circum-
stance, that they were present at the meeting. It was well
known that they were persons of infamous characters, laden
with the guilt of many perjuries; which had easily been
proved before the trial, could justice have been had; but they
were screened by the Recorder. Some time afterwards,
however, in the reign of K. James, such of them as could be
met with were convicted of perjury, and the chief witness
was pillored before the Exchange.-Mr. Rose well being con-
victed, Sir John Talbot, who was present at the trial, was
pleased, of his own accord, to give an account of it, with his
opinion, to the king; plainly telling his majesty, "If such
evidence as had appeared against Mr. Rosewell was to be ad-
mitted, none of his subjects would be safe." Upon which the
king gave orders to the chief justice, that Mr. Rosewell should
have council assigned him, to plead to the insufficiency of the
indictment, in arrest of judgment. Accordingly, on Nov.
27, Mr. Wallop, Mr. Pollexfen, and Mr. Bampfield, argued
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upon the case, and the court took time till the next term to
consider of judgment. The king in the mean time granted
him a pardon, which he pleaded a few days after his majesty's
death, and was discharged. He outlived his trial seven years,
and died Feb. 14, 1692, in the 62d year of age. His fune-
ral sermon was preached by Mr. Matthew Mead. He was
buried at Burnhill-fields, where there is this inscription on
his tomb-stone:
H. S. E.
THOMAS ROSEWELL
Theologus Celeberrimus,
Dunkertoni in agro Somersettensi natus;
Collegii Pembrochiæ apud Oxonienses:
Qui primum Rode in agro jam dicto; deinde
In oppido Sutton Mandevile in Comitatu Wiltonensi
Usque ad diem S Bartholomæi A. MDCLXII sacra administaviť;
Ecclesiæ denique apud Nauticum Sinum juxta Londinum,
In agro Sudriensi, Pastor co-optatus fuit.
Vir haud minori
Pietatis ac Modestiæ, quam Doctrinæ laude clarus;
Concionator arte, facundia, studio eximius;
Sacri Codicis Interpres assiduus & Peritissimus.
Qui post multos labores
Multasque, Temporum iniquitate, Vexationes acerbissimas,
Quas Christi causa fortissimo animo sustinuerat,
Apud Sinum Nauticum antedictum, placide
Obiit 16 Kal. Mar. Anno ætatis suæ 62. Christi MDCXCII.*
TEFUNT. Mr. JOHN PHIPPE. He was a good scholar,
and led a holy exemplary life. He had a peculiar skill in
discharging the great duty of reproof, which he managed
with such prudence and delicacy, as to give no disgust to su-
periors, equals, or inferiors; and yet he discharged it impar-
tially, as to persons and matters reproveable, whether errors
* Thus translated.
Here lieth the body of that celebrated divine THOMAS ROSEWELL, M. A.
He was born, &c. a man not more eminent for his learning than for his piety
and modesty a preacher distinguished for judgment, eloquence and study:
a most diligent and skilful interpreter of the sacred volume. Who after
many labours, and through the iniquities of the times, many bitter sufferings,
which for the sake of Christ he bore with the greatest fortitude, calmly de-
parted this life at Rotherhithe, Feb. 15, in the 62d year of his age, and of
Christ, 1692.
He left a son in the ministry who was assistant to Mr. Spademan. He was a
man of considerable ability, as his works testify. He died at Hackney, about 40
years of age. His daughter, Mrs. Girle, was living there till the present year,
1802.-Mr. Rosewell's life was published with his trial annexed; au ab-
stract of which appeared in the Protestant Dissenter's Magazine.
in
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in opinion, or irregularities of life. He had some estate, but
no children. He and his wife continued at Tefunt till his
death.
UPTON LOVEL [R. S.] Mr. CURL. [Dr. Walker's
modesty prevents his relating a story of his predecessor, with
whom we have here no concern.]
WESTBURY [V. 40.] PHILIP HUNTON, M. A. Of
Wadham Col. Oxf. Son of Ph. Hunton of Andover, in Hamp-
shire. He was at first a school-master at Abury, then mi-
nister of Devizes, afterwards of Hatchbury, and lastly of
Westbury. In 1657 he was appointed first Provost of the
new college erected by Oliver Cromwell at Durham, and had
the rich living of Sedgefield in this bisopric, worth 700l.
a year, though he did not enjoy all the profits of it. He
had upwards of 200l. per ann. assigned him out of it, as Ma-
ster of the college, which he lost upon the return of the old
incumbent, Dr. Nailor, in the year 1660. Upon the dis-
solution of this college, he returned to his living at West-
bury, where he continued till Bartholomew-day, 1662. He
afterwards preached privately, as he had opportunity, and
died in July, 1682. He was a man of good learning and
abilities.
WORKS. A Treatise of Monarchy in general, and the Eng-
lish Monarchy in particular, (answered by Dr. Fern and Sir R, Fil-
mer).-A Vindication of ditto--Wood says, "That forasmuch as
Mr. Hunton asserts in this treatise, That the Sovereignty of England is
in the three estates, viz. King, Lords, and Commons, that proposition was
condemned by the judgment and decree of the university of Oxon
in their convocation, held July 21, 1683; and the book itself was
publicly burnt in the school quadrangle.
WINTERBORN Mr. HUBBART.
WINTERBORN (Stoke) [V. 40/.] Mr. DANIEL KING.
A very worthy good man. He published a piece entitled,
Self the grand Enemy of Jesus Christ, and mortal Disease
of Man.
WOODBOROUGH [R.] ISAAC CHAUNCEY, M. A.
He was the eldest son of Charles Chauncey, Minister of
Ware in Hertfordshire, who after suffering much for Noncon-
formity in his own county, went to New-England, where he
was made president of Harvard Col. and died Feb. 2, 1671,
leaving
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+
leaving behind him six sons, there brought up to the mini-
stry. [All or most of whom, (says Mather. in his Hist.
N. Eng.) like their excellent father, had an eminent skill in
physic added to their other accomplishments.] This his
eldest son, [whom Mr. Neal, in his Hist. New Eng, stiles
M. D.] after his ejectment in 1662, was some time pastor to
a congregational church at Andover, who met in the same
place with the people that were under the pastoral care of
Mr. Samuel Sprint, who attempted a coalition between the
two churches, and had brought Mr. Chauncey to consent to
it, but some of his people opposed and frustrated the design.
Having quitted Andover, some time after the recalling of
Charles's Indulgence, he came to London with a design to
act chiefly as a physician. But after the death of [Mr. Clark-
son, Dr. Owen's successor, the people chusing him, viz. in
Oct. 1687] he accepted their call, and continued among
them 14 years. At length, finding the society decline, he
resolved wholly to quit the ministry, and no entreaties could
prevail with him to the contrary. He was a learned man,
though not a popular preacher, [and became divinity tutor to
the Dissenting academy in London, immediately before Dr.
Ridgley and Mr. Eames. He died Feb. 28, 1712, and was
succeeded by Mr. Isaac Watts, (afterwards D. D.) who had
been his assistant above two years; who declared his accept-
ance of the office March 8, 1701, the day on which King
William died: of which discouraging event to Protestant
Dissenters he took proper notice. The excellent Mr. Price
ought to be mentioned, as Dr. Watts's colleague and suc-
cessor in this church, (afterwards under the care of Dr.
Savage, who communicated some of the above particulars):
a church remarkable for the number of ejected ministers.
related to it, viz. Caryl, Owen, Loeffs Clarkson, and
Chauncey.]
WORKS. The Divine Institution of Congregational Churches,
&c.. An Essay to the Interpretation of the Angel Gabriel's Pro-
phecy, Daniel ix. 24..Christ's Ascension to fill all Things; a Serm.
at Horsleydown, &c.-[The Doctrine according to Godliness, in
the way of Catechism. 12mo. 1737.]
WOTTON Rivers [R.] Mr. TOMBES.
YATESBURY [R.] Mr. NATHANIEL WEBB. After
his ejectment he retired to Bromham, where he had some
estate. He there lived in his own house, kept a school, and
took
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}
took boarders. He sometimes preached at Caln, and other
places, as opportunity offered.
Mr. SIMMS was ejected some where in this county.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. THOMAS MASTERS, near Marlborough.-Mr. MAT-
THEW HIND, of Fittleton.—Mr. RICHARD FRANKLYN, of
Bromhall.-Mr. JOHN WILMER, of Ham.-Mr. FOSSET,
of Cheriton Mr. JOHN LEG, of Dunhead, St. Andrew.-
Mr. JOHN NORRIS, of Collingburn. Mr. WILLIAM THOMP-
SON, at Corsham; who often complained afterwards to Mr.
Rosewell of the burden of ceremonies, and told him he was
drawn into Conformity unawares, by a mere wheedle of
Dr. Pierce, the Bp. of Bath and Wells.
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LVECHURCH [R. S. 300l.] Mr. RICHARD MOORE.
Dr. Walker says, He gave up this living to Mr. Hol-
lington in 1661. He afterwards preached privately at We-
therock-hill in this parish, where he was living in 1682.
WORKS. A Pearl in an Oyster-shell, or Precious Treasure in
perishing Vessels; Several Sermons.-An Account of the holy
Life and Death of Mr. Thomas Hall.-Paul's Prayer for Israel.
BEWDLEY [Chap. to Ribsford. 40l.] HENRY OAS-
LAND, M. A. of Trin. Col. Camb. He was born of sober
and reputable parents in the parish of Rock. From his child-
hood he was strongly inclined to learning, and bent upon the
ministry. He was educated under the curate of the parish,
in the free-school at Bewdley. While he was at the college,
Dr. Hill was master; of whom he says (in some memoirs
of his life) “that he learnt more of Christ in one year, from
his plain preaching, and almost daily expositions in the cha-
pel, than he had all his time before." After spending four
years in the University, he went to see his friends, intending
to return to his studies. But Mr. Tombes, after his dispute
with Mr. Baxter in Bewdley-Chapel, leaving the town, the
magistrates prevailed with Mr. Oasland to succeed him, in
1650. The next year he went to London, and was ordained
in Bartholomew Exchange, by Mr. S. Clarke, Mr. Simeon
Ashe, &c. In the printed testimonial of his ordination (then
usual) the words relating to the taking the Covenant were
rased out, as he had not taken it, nor was it then insisted on.
When he was of a Master's standing, he went to Cambridge,
and
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and took that degree. He was unwilling to remove from Bewd-
ley tho' he had considerable offers; because there were so
many
excellent christians in the town, and he had both here
and in the places adjacent, surprizing success. On Thursday,
after his return from the lecture at Kidderminster, he cate-
chized the children; who were so fond of him, that if he hap-
pened to be later than usual, they would go out into the fields
to meet him, and run along by his horse's side. When he
was ejected, Aug. 24, 1662, he and his family, of five chil-
dren, were supported only by a jointure his wife had from her
former husband; but he was contented aud easy. In the very
hottest part of K. Charles's reign, he preached in Leicester-
shire, Northamptonshire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire,
Worcestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire; but as much
as he could out of church hours, and when he was abroad, his
family went to church. When the Indulgence was granted,
he confined himself to the four latter counties, in which
there were many who loved his memory, and who could
with pleasure tell the time and the place wherein his mini-
stry was useful to them, and the text he preached upon, which
first occasioned their minding religion in earnest.
He was
in labours more abundant, and ventured more than many of
his brethren when the times were troublesome, and yet came
off as well as most of them. He was for a time confined
for Packington's plot, after which he removed with his fa-
mily into Staffordshire, where he preached to any that in-
vited him without molestation. About the beginning of
James's reign he was cited into the court of Litchfield, but
was soon discharged, without expence or trouble, by the
Declaration for liberty.
He had many remarkable deliverances, which he noted
with great thankfulness. When he was preaching the fune-
ral sermon of Mr. Eccleshall at Cosely, the floor of the
room, where he had a crowded congregation, sunk into the
cellar; but neither he nor any of his hearers received any
hurt. He finished his discourse in an orchard, where he
often preached to great numbers of Nailors and Colliers.
As he was once preaching in Herefordshire, an informer
came in, and took the names of the people present, without
being much observed; till being offended at something in
the sermon, he drew his sword, swore he would kill the
minister, and advanced towards him with that design; but a
young man in the place, threw up his heels, and disarmed
him. The soldiers who took his brethren to prison came
several
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several times to apprehend him, but could not find him at
home, as he was often abroad preaching lectures. They
once came late at night, in hopes of finding him; searched
his house, and several houses in the neighbourhood, but mis-
sed that where he was prevailed upon to lodge that night,
and so he again escaped. He was so generally esteemed by
his neighbours, tho' most of them were of the established
church, that when he met with any difficulty, they express-
ed their concern, and some of them would intercede with
the officers for him, telling them how good a man, and how
good a neighbour he was, and how much good he did among
them. Hardly any of them would have refused to conceal
him when he was sought for; and once when he was preach-
ing half a mile from home, none of the neighbours would
give information to the officers who were in search after him.
A guard of soldiers, therefore, was set in the way in which
he was expected to come; who when he came up (not know-
ing his person) demanded his name before he could pass. He
told them with great boldness, that "his name was Henry
Oasland, and he cared not who knew it." Upon which
they let him pass, till he was out of their reach before they
were apprehensive that he was that person they were to have
secured.
He was a man éminent for justice and charity; of a ca-
tholic and healing spirit, of great moderation, and one who
appeared to all that knew him, to be set upon doing good;
on which account he was much respected by several who
had no great affection for the Nonconformists. The follow-
ing is one instance of his public-spiritedness :-As he was
one day walking by a narrow road where two waggons had
met, and there was not room to pass each other, the drivers
fell to fighting for the way. He persuaded them to be quiet,
and do as well as they could for that time, assuring them
they should never have occasion to differ upon that account
any more. Accordingly he purchased a piece of ground ad-
joining to enlarge the road, and gave it to the public; which
is no small convenience to this day. He had a strong con-
stitution, and a great share of health; so as to be scarcely
ever hindered from preaching by illness.-When he was in
the pulpit, he seemed to be in his element. He generally be-
gan with something that tended to excite in his auditory a
serious attention, both in prayer and preaching. All his dis-
courses were serious, lively and moving. His subjects were
generally adapted to the circumstances of the people he preach-
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ed to, or to the different seasons of the year, or the special
occurrences of divine providence, with respect to the nation
in general, or the place where he preached; and he was very
particular in his application, so as often to occasion strangers
to wonder how he came to be acquainted with their cases.
He taught with authority, and convinced his hearers that he
did not come to trifle with them, or gratify itching ears, with
the inticing words of man's wisdom, but to demand of them
in the name of the great God, and Jesus Christ whom he
had sent, obedience to the everlasting gospel. In this part of
his discourse, he used to look about his congregation with an
uncommonly piercing eye, that made every hearer think he
spoke to him in particular. Once as he was preaching in
Pen church in Staffordshire, to a crowded congregation,
having recommended Christ Jesus as worthy to be accepted
by all of them, and having with great authority demanded,
and with great fervency pressed their acceptance of him, he
charged all present who made light of the offer, and refused
to comply, immediately to withdraw. Upon this he sat
down, and for some time continued silent. Perceiving that
they all stayed, he rose up as one in an exstasy of joy, and
said, "Now I hope every one of you is espoused to Jesus
Christ." He would often steadily fix his eye upon some
particular hearer, and with authority ask, "Will you obey
this Word? Or will you avoid this or that sin? O for God's
sake, or for Christ's sake do! &c." which has had such an
influence upon some, that they have cried out in the congre-
gation, "I will sir, I will sir." A sleepy hearer was seldom
seen under his ministry: more might have been seen in tears.
He had a very rousing delivery, and a strong manly voice,
as agreeable as it was audible.
He was zealous for the cause of Nonconformity, and de-
fended it with such boldness and resolution, that some called
his discretion in question: but he feared none in the matters
of his God. When the soldiers came to take him up for the
above mentioned pretended plot, he was reading a chapter to
his family. His servant-maid told him, a troop of horse stood
at the door. He was advised to secure himself, which he did
so artfully in his own house, that they could not find him.
But considering with himself that, being charged with high
treason, tho' he was innocent, his absconding would by many
be reckoned an evidence of his guilt, he came forth, and pla-
cing himself before the soldiers, asked them who it was they
wanted? They said, Mr. Oasland. Then says he, "I am
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the man, and am ready to answer to what any man has to
say against me." He spoke with such spirit as struck a vi-
sible terror into the inen, who for some time did not speak,
nor offer to lay hold of him.-After the Toleration, he preach-
ed twice every Lord's-day, and several lectures some miles.
from home, which he continued till Oct. 3, 1703, when he
was so ill that he was unable; and on the 19th he died, aged
about 80. The parish minister preached a sermon at his in-
terment, on Rev. xiv. 13. There was a general lamenta-
tion, and in most places where he used to preach, there was a
funeral sermon for him. The poor greatly lamented his loss,
as he was a great benefactor to them. He much encouraged
young men devoted to the ministry. If they were poor, and
had good abilities, he was ready to help them, and stirred
up his friends who were able, to contribute to their assist-
ance. He left two sons among the Nonconformists. Edward
the elder was pastor at Bewdley, Henry the younger died in
Cambridgeshire.
WORKS. The Dead Pastor yet Speaking; Two Sermons
printed without his knowledge, taken in Short-hand.-The Chris-
tian's daily Walk, in one Sheet.
BREDON [R.] RICHARD BEESTON. § Nash has it
Buston.
BROADWAY [V.] Mr. WALL.
BROMSGROVE [V.] JOHN SPILSBURY, M. A. Se-
veral years fellow of Magd. Col. Oxford. Thro' the great
importunity of the people, he took upon him the pastoral
care of this congregation, which he held till the Restoration;
when, being dissatisfied with conformity, he was forced to
quit the living; but continued preaching privately to the
people as long as he lived. His ministerial performances
were generally acceptable, and he was much followed. His
preaching was ordinarily plain and familiar; filled with a va-
riety of clear well-digested thoughts; serious, methodical,
and judicious. He had, both in preaching and conversation,
a happy way of explaining difficulties, and reconciling seem-
ing differences in scripture, to the great satisfaction of those
that heard him. He was esteemed a man of great wisdom,
and therefore was much consulted in difficult cases. He had
learnt of his Master to be meek and lowly, and to abstain
from sinful anger, and rash words. His moderation to per-
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sons who differed from him was great. Being of a healing
spirit, he much rejoiced at the union of the Presbyterian and
Independent ministers in London, expressed by the heads of
agreement printed after the Revolution. His catholic spirit
induced many of the conforming clergy to shew him great
respect, and to offer him shelter in their houses when he was
exposed to danger. He was for several years either confined
to his own house, or forced to keep out of the county, for
fear of the writ De excom. cap. which was long kept in force
against him, and two or three others in the town. In those
times of danger he frequently preached privately, both at
home and abroad, being earnestly desirous to be useful; but
he never would receive any allowance from his people after
his ejection. After he had been imprisoned some time in the
county jail, and was released, he said in the hearing of some
particular friends, for their encouragement, "I shall not
henceforward fear a prison as formerly, because I had so
much of my heavenly Father's company as made it a palace
to me."
The want of air and exercise was thought the oc-
casion of that illness which brought him to the grave. He
was confined to his chamber eleven months before his death,
and not able to move without the help of two persons; yet
not one impatient word was heard from hiin. Those who
visited him admired his patience and chearful submission un-
der so severe an affliction, and several persons who had not
much acquaintance with him, went on purpose to witness
his behaviour; which they acknowledged with tears, ex-
ceeded the report they had heard. To the last, he expressed
his affection to his people, taking his leave of them as they
visited him, with suitable advice and prayer. He chearfully
resigned up his spirit into the hands of his Redeemer,
June 10, 1699, at the age of 71 years. He would not have
had a funeral sermon; but upon much persuasion, he con-
sented to it, and appointed Luke xvii. fo. for the text, pro-
hibiting all encomiums on himself. His humility always
prevailed against the importunity of his friends, to print some
of his sermons, and his love to his people made him deaf to
all invitations to larger places. Mr. Baxter gives him the
character of “a man of extraordinary worth, for modera-
tion, peaceableness, ability, ministerial diligence, and an
upright life." He was exceedingly esteemed by Dr. Hall,
the Bp. of Bristol, whose sister he married. The Bp. ordi-
narily, once a year, spent some weeks at his house, and when
he died, made his only child his heir; viz. Mr. John Spils-
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bury, who was for several years pastor of a congregation of
Dissenters at Kidderminster; the father of the late worthy
Mr. Francis Spilsbury, minister of Salter's-Hall.
CHADDESLY (Corbet) [V.] Mr. THOMAS BALDWIN,
senior, of Camb. university. After his ejectment in 1662 *
he settled with the Dissenters of Kidderminster. [Mr. Baxter
in his life (P. iii. p. 92) speaks thus: "He had been our
school-master, sent to me by Mr. Vines from Cambridge.
A good scholar, a sober, calm, grave, moderate, peaceable
minister: whom I never heard one person blame for any one
word or deed: an extraordinary preacher. Wherefore I de-
sired, when I was driven from Kidderminster, that the peo-
ple would be ruled by him, and Mr. Sergeant. He was with
me when I had a conference with Bp. Morley, when be si-
lenced me, &c.]" He ordinarily preached without notes,
and yet with much exactness. His delivery was forcible,
and very affecting. He was much troubled both with gout
and stone, and often preached with those pains upon him;
which some of his auditors thought excited the greater ear-
nestness, and made his expressions the more affecting. His
sermons were frequently repeated after his death, amongst
his people, by those who wrote after him. He was not only
careful of his flock, but was a good bishop of his family also.
He was driven by the Oxford-act, to Dudley, [but he re-
turned to Kidderminster, and died there.] As he lay on his
death-bed, he much lamented that he had not been more in-
defatigable in the service of his great Master. When death
was near, he spake with much pleasure of the upper world,
and expressed a good hope with regard to the happiness of
it. He died in Feb. 1693. Mr. White, the vicar, whom
Mr. Baxter calls a godly conforming minister, who had a
great friendship for Mr. Baldwin, and whom he often heard,
preached his funeral sermon t. Dr. Całamy has a short quo-
tation from it. The following larger extract will not be
unacceptable. The text is James i. 12. Blessed is the man
}
* Walker says, Mr. Lee the sequestered minister was restored in 1661.
+ This sermon, presented to the editor by a worthy clergyman, is evidently
the same that Dr. Calamy had mentioned as preached for Mr. Badland of
Willenhall, Staffordshire. That the Dr. should not have discovered the mis -
take, when he made the extract from it, is surprising. That this person's
name was BALDWIN (tho' printed BADLAND in the title page) is plain from
Mr. Baxter's repeatedly writing it so. If there was an ejected minister of
the name of BADLAND, he must have been the person mentioned at Willen-
hall, who died at Worcester.--See page 232, and 245.
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that endureth temptation (or trial) for when he is tried, &c.
"I have chosen these words (says the preacher) because they
bear an especial suitableness to the case of that person, who
hath given occasion for this present solemnity!"-After ju-
diciously discussing the several particulars in the text, he
closes with the following account of Mr. Baldwin:-" He
was one that hath for many years been tutored by God in
the school of affliction; of late more frequently, by those
two severe diseases, the stone and the gout.-His last fit of
the stone, which brought on that weakness which ended in
death, was extended to the length of eleven days together,
and very acute. The gout at last, by piercing into his
bowels, put an end to his life. Let us consider, for our own
edification, as well as his honour, his behaviour under all.
Besides the known and exemplary holiness and regularity of
his life, for many years in this place, of which all of
you are
witnesses, and his constant attendance upon the ministry,
when free from these distempers (yea, and sometimes under
the sense and feeling of those pains, in some lesser degree)
that which I would especially recommend to your consider-
ation and imitation is, his signal patience under all his great
dolours, and keeping them in a great measure to himself.
When he had any lucid intervals, he was apt presently to
shew a readiness for profitable discourse, as if what was past
was forgotten; not out of a principle of stoical apathy, but
of faith and heavenly mindedness. He endured as seeing him
who is invisible: he had cast anchor within the veil. This
eminency of patience and submission to the divine will, ap-
peared particularly two days before his death. How did he,
before several witnesses, lay out that little strength that re-
mained, in speaking of God and Christ, and heavenly things,
with a kind of transport, and more than ordinary earnest-
ness and vigour of spirit. And when he was put in mind to
favour himself, because of great weakness, his answer was
quick, "Can I speak too much for God?" The night be-
fore his death, when his speech had failed for some hours,
and when by signs he declared his sense of great pains, he
was perceived, when he could utter nothing else, twice to
repeat the word "Heaven."
As for his behaviour for that long time he was witheld
from the public exercise of his ministry, because he could
not, with clearness of judgment, comply in every thing, with
the demands of the government, it was, for the good temper
and moderation of it, as exemplary as his patience. He was
no
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no friend to that Αμετρεια ανθολκης, that running into ex-
tremes, which is so common amongst us; but tho' he had as
good ministerial abilities as most others, yet he contented
himself with that narrow scene of action wherein he was
placed, and endeavoured rather to be a healer of breaches,
than to cause them to grow wider by exasperation. One in-
stance of which was, that in the matter of Re-ordination,
which did prove as much a hinderance to his conformity as
any thing, yet he did in my hearing, urge something consi-
derable by way of apology for those that submitted to it.
Another instance was, his constant owning and favouring of
the public ministry; and that not only by his own constant
presence at it, when in a capacity, but by engaging others to a
constant attendance upon it; and by recommending what
had been spoken in public to the consideration of his hearers;
which I the rather mention, that it may serve as a standing
and grateful acknowledgment of that encouragement which
he gave to my ministry.-Lastly, another instance was, a
passage which he uttered to some that watched with him,
not many days before his death; that in the choice of a suc-
cessor to him in his ministry, they should labour to fix upon
one of a quiet temper and moderate principles, that would
rather be a healer than an enlarger of our breaches." To
inforce this advice, the preacher adds a quotation which Mr.
Baldwin made, from "that reverend person, under whose
conduct he was, when he came first to be an inhabitant of
this town:" (meaning Mr. Baxter) and refers to a passage in
his writings as an apology for the conformists.
CHURCHILL [R.] Mr. EDWARD BOUCHER. A young
man born in Kidderminster parish, of great humility, since-
rity, peaceableness, and good ministerial parts. He lived at
Kidderminster after his ejectment, in 1661, when Mr. Du-
rant was inducted. [Mr. Baxter adds, he was brother to
James Boucher, a husbandman, who can but write his name,
and is of as good understanding in divinity as many divines.
of good account, and more able in prayer than most mini-
sters that I ever heard."]
CROPTHORN [V. 80l.] Mr. WILLIAM WESTMACOT.
He had nine or ten children when ejected, and was after-
wards in very low circumstances.
DODERHILL [V.] or St. Augustin's in Droitwich.
Mr. THOMAS FRANCIS.
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ECKINGTGN [V.] Mr. TIMOTHY JORDAN.
EVESHAM. All Saints. GEORGE HOPKINS, M. A. Of
New Inn, Oxford. The son of Mr. Wm. Hopkins, a mem-
ber of the Long-parliament. § Wood says, he was born at
Bewdley April 15, 1620, and was educated partly there and
partly at Kinfare, Staffordshire. Having taken one degree
in 1641, he left the university, being puritanically affected.
Afterwards he sided with the Presbyterians, took the cove-
nant, retired to Oxford, submitted to the visitors appointed
by parliament, took the degree of M. A. and soon after be-
came minister of Eversham. In 1654, was an assistant to
the Com. for ejecting scandalous, &c.-After his ejectment.
he retired to Dumbleton in Gloucestershire. When the Ox-
ford oath came out, he was over-persuaded to take it in his
own sense, that he might not be forced five miles from the
people; but died just at the time when he should have had.
the benefit of it, March 25, 1666, [and was buried in the
chancel of the parish church]. He was a very judicious,
godly, peaceable, upright man; and a useful preacher. Even
Wood thinks fit to own, that "besides his knowledge in
divinity, he was a very good mathematician, and an example
of great candour and moderation." §"He constantly (says
this author) frequented the parish church, with his family,
received the holy communion, and did all things required of
a lay-member of the church of England."
WORKS. Salvation from Sin by Jesus Christ; or the Doct. of
Sanctification founded upon Christ, &c. in seven sermons on Matt.
i. 21. levelled at the Antinomians.
St. Laurence's.
Mr. THOMAS MATTHEWS.
HAMPTON (Lovet.) [R. S.] Mr. JOHN FREESTON.
He had a legal title to the living, by the act in 1660, as
Dr. Walker owns the sequestered minister died before the
Restoration.
HARVINGTON [140/.] Mr. STEPHEN BAXTER. [A
son of Mr. George Baxter, pastor at Wenlock, and] brother
to Mr. Benj. Baxter of Upton. Mr. Richard Baxter says,
"He was one of a solid understanding, and a calm and peace-
able spirit. After he was silenced he practised physic."—
§ Wood says, he was of New Inn, Oxford.
HARRINGTON [Chap.] Mr. JOHN WARD.
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KEMSEY [V. 41/. 3s. 4d.] Mr. THOMAS BROMWICH.
Mr. Baxter stiles him an ancient, reverend, able minister, of
an upright life. When Bp. Morley came to the town, and
Mr. Collier of Blockley had conformed, he was over-per-
suaded to take the Declaration; but before he came to pro-
fess his assent and consent openly, and fully to conform, he
was thrown into great distress of conscience, and went no
farther. But he used the liberty of preaching, which he had
so procured.
KIDDERMINSTER, [V.] Mr. RICHARD BAXTER. He
was born Nov. 12, 1615, [at Rowton, a hamlet in the pa-
rish of high Ercol, at the house of his mother's father. His
father, Baxter, lived at Eaton Constantine, near Salop, where
he had a competent estate.] Mr. Richard Baxter had very
indifferent schoolmasters in his childhood, and when he grew
up had not the advantage of an academical education, tho'
he was extremely desirous of it. The chief assistance he had
in his studies was from some private ministers to whom he
applied; yet by the divine blessing upon his uncommon dili-
gence, his sacred knowledge was such as few in the univer-
sity ever attain *. He was serious betimes. [His father said,
with tears of joy to a friend, "I hope my son Richard was
sanctified from the womb." When he was a little boy in
coats, if he heard other children use prophane words in play,
he would reprove them to the wonder of many. And yet
he afterwards saw reason bitterly to lament the sins of his
childhood and youth; lying, robbing orchards, covetousness
in play, fondness for romances, &c.] At the age of 14, the
reading of Parsons, on Resolution, brought him under such
religious impressions, as never wore off. [When he was
18 he was persuaded to make trial of a court life, as the most
* Mr. Baxter's own account of his defective education, in a letter to An-
thony Wood, is worth being here inserted. Under the article, Writers of New
Inn Hall, Athen. Oxon. II. 1125, Wood says, "Whereas there hath been a
report that Mr. Richard Baxter, the pride of the Presbyterian party, was bred
at New Inn [a mistake occasioned by Stephen Baxter having been educated
there] I did therefore send a letter to him to know the truth of the matter:
upon the receipt of which he very civilly returned me this answer- As
to myself, my faults are no disgrace to any university, for I was of none;
and have little but what I had out of books, and inconsiderable helps of
country tutors. Weakness and pain helped me to study how to dye; that
'set me on studying how to live; aud that, on studying the doctrine from
← which I must fetch my motives and comforts: and beginning with neces
• sitics, I proceeded by degrees, and now am going to see that which I have
• lived and studied for." &c.
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likely way to rise in the world. In order to it, he was sent
up to Whitehall, to Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels,
who received him courteously, but could not persuade him
to continue, his inclinations being quite another way. He
returned into the country, and followed his studies with in-
defatigable eagerness.] He was afterwards a long while ex-
ercised with the apprehensions of approaching death, and the
questionings of a doubtful conscience; when he carefully
read all the practical treatises he could get for his direction
and satisfaction. From the age of 21 to 23, he was so weak
that he hardly thought it possible he should live above a year;
and yet, having a warm sense of religion, and being willing
to do some good before he left the world, he entered into the
ministry; being examined and ordained by Bp. Thorn-
borough of Worcester, before he had distinctly read over the
book of ordination, or the homilies, or examined with any
degree of exactness, the book of Common Prayer, or the 39
Articles. He first preached at Dudley, where for about nine.
months he had a numerous auditory. He went from thence
to Bridgenorth, where he was assistant to Mr. Madstard.
The et cætera oath put him upon closely studying the affair
of conformity; and the more he weighed it, the less he liked
it. Tho' he did not object to all kind of episcopacy, he
could not so approve that of the English church, as to think
it lawful to swear, he would never consent to have it altered.
And he observed, that the oath which was designed unal-
terably to subject the nation to diocesans, did but set many
the more against them. Upon the opening of the Long
Parliament, a committee was appointed to hear petitions and
complaints against such as were scandalous among the clergy.
The town of Kidderminster had drawn up a petition against
Mr. Danse their vicar, and his two curates, as insufficient.
The living was worth 200l. per ann. aud the vicar, in order
to the compounding matters, offered 60l. per ann. to an
agreeable preacher, to be chosen by 14 trustees. Upon hearing
Mr. Baxter, they chose him, and he accepted, tho' he had no
previous wish to settle there. Indeed he remarked, that in
all the changes he passed thro' he never went to any place he
had before desired or thought of. He spent two years at
Kidderminster before the civil war broke out, and about 14
years afterwards, but never occupied the vicarage-house,
tho' authorized by an order of parliament, but the old Vicar
lived without molestation. Mr. Baxter found the place like
a piece of dry and barren earth: ignorance and profaneness,
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as natives of the soil, grew very luxuriant. But by a divine
blessing upon his labour and cultivation, the face of para-
dise soon appeared in all the fruits of righteousness. Rage
and malice created him much opposition at first; but at
length, his unwearied pains were crowned with unexpected
success.
When he first came thither, there might perhaps be a fa-
mily in a street that worshipped God. But when he came
away, there was not above a family on the side of a street
that did not do it. He had 600 communicants; and there
were but few families in the whole town but what submitted
to his private catechizing, and personal conference.
In the heat of the war he retired to Coventry, and preach-
ed one part of the Lord's-day to the garrison, and the other
to the inhabitants. Here he had the agreeable society of
about thirty worthy ministers, who fled to the same place for
safety. He continued there two years, taking nothing for
his preaching but his diet. After Naseby fight, when the
cause remarkably changed on the side of the Parliamenta-
rians, and the king was left out of the new commissions,
understanding that plotting heads among the soldiers were
busily at work, in order to subvert church and state, he with
the encouragement of the ministers then at Coventry, went
into the army, and accepted an invitation to be chaplain to
Col. Whalley's regiment, with a design to do all that in
him lay to prevent the confusions that afterwards ensued.
But he was separated from the army, in a very critical junc-
ture, in Feb. 1647, the very day that they began their con-
spiracy against the parliament, in a meeting at Nottingham,
and just before the engagement at Triploe Heath; having
lost a gallon of blood at the nose. In this weakness he re-
tired to Sir T. Rouse's, and was in continual expectation of
death; but after some time he was surprisingly restored.
When Cromwell got the ascendency, and became Protector,
Mr. Baxter could not fall in with him, tho' he preached
once before him. Being sent for to hear him make a speech
of above an hour's length, about the providence of God in
changing the government, &c. he took the freedom to tell
him, That the honest people of the land thought their an-
cient Monarchy to be a blessing, and desired to know how
and to whom they had forfeited it. He came to London
just before the deposition of Richard Cromwell, and preach-
ed to the parliament the day previous to their voting the
restoration of the king. He preached also before the Lord
Mayor
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Mayor and Aldermen at St Paul's, on the day of thanks-
giving for Monk's success. When the king was restored, he
was made one of the chaplains in ordinary, and preached
once before him in that capacity. He often waited on his
majesty, with the rest of the ministers, in order to obtain
some terms of peace and union with the Bishops. He assisted
at the conference at the Savoy, as one of the commissioners,
and drew up a Reformed Liturgy, which some persons, not
much prejudiced in his favour, have thought to be the best
they ever saw. He was offered the bishopric of Hereford
by the Lord Chancellor Clarendon ; but could not be satisfied
to accept it, and gave his Lordship his reasons in a respect-
ful Letter. He wished no higher preferment than liberty to
continue his ministry in his beloved town of Kidderminster,
but could not obtain it. Tho' he went down thither after
the Restoration, he could not get leave to preach above two
or three times, and therefore he returned to London, where
he preached only occasionally; and sometimes for Dr. Bates
at St. Dunstan's in Fleet-street; having a licence from Bp.
Sheldon, upon subscribing a promise not to preach against
the doctrine or the ceremonies of the church, in his diocese.
Thus he went on till May 15, 1662, when he preached his
farewell sermon at Black Friars: which he did the sooner,
that none might suppose he intended to conform at the time
fixed by the act.
§ This sermon on Col. ii. 6, 7. is in the London Collec-
tion, and there dated Aug. 17. But it is so badly taken, that
Mr. Baxter says he could not own it, and therefore he print-
ed it himself. It may be seen in his works.
Being now at leisure, he entered into the matrimonial
state. It is rather singular, that in his Life he takes no notice
of this change of condition, and barely mentions his wife
two or three times in a casual manner; nor is his marriage.
noticed by Dr. Calamy. But Mr. Baxter in his preface to
Clark's last volume of lives, says of the author, "In 1662,
"on Sept. 10, he married me in Bennet Fink church, in
"the presence of Alderman Ashurst and Mrs. Ashurst."
After the death of Mrs. Margaret Baxter, he published her
Life, of which Clark has given the substance in the above
volume, concerning which Mr. Baxter says in the preface,
"I knew not of his epitomizing my wife's life, but the man-
ner of that tells me he is like to be faithful in the rest.”
She was the daughter of Francis Charleton, Esq; of Shrop-
shire, and appears to have been an excellent woman, in all
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respects suited to be the companion of such a man as Mr.
Baxter, as she concurred with him in all his plans for use-
fulness, and was a great help to him under his sufferings.
Before their marriage they agreed upon these articles: "1.
That he should have nothing that before marriage was hers;
that so he, who wanted no outward supplies, might not so
much as seem to marry her for covetousness. 2. That she
should so order her affairs that he might not be entangled in
any law-suits about the same. g. That she should expect
none of his time which his ministerial employment called
for." Many particulars in her life redounded as much to
his honour as hers. They lived together in uninterrupted
happiness nineteen years, but had no issue. She died June
14, 1681, and was buried in her mother's grave in Christ
Church, over which she had laid a large marble-stone, with
an inscription drawn up by him, which was broken to pieces
when that church was burnt.
Soon after [their marriage, they] retired to Acton in Mid-
dlesex, where [they] went every Lord's-day to the public
church. Mr. Baxter spent the rest of the day with his fa-
mily, and a few poor neighbours who came in.-§ Here he
contracted an intimate acquaintance with Sir Matthew Hale,
and much time they spent together in conversation on moral
and theological subjects. Some account was given of this
conversation in the life of Sir Matthew; who, as a token of
his esteem, left Mr. Baxter a small legacy, with which, he
says, he bought a large Bible, and inserted his picture as a
memorial of his friend *]. In 1665, when the plague began
to rage, he went to Richard Hampden's, Esq; in Bucking-
hamshire, and returned to Acton when it was over; where
he staid as long as the act against Conventicles remained in
force. When that was expired, he preached publicly, and
had so many auditors that he wanted room, upon this he
was apprehended by a warrant signed by two justices, and
committed for six months to New Prison; but was released
by a Habeas corpus, and then he removed to Totteridge near
Barnet.
After the Indulgence in 1672, he returned into the city,
and was one of the Tuesday lecturers at Pinners-hall ; he
also had a Friday lecture at Fetter-lane; but on the Lord's-
days he for some time preached only occasionally; and af-
* See an Edition of Bp. BURNET's Lives of Queen Mary, the Earl of Ro-
chester, and Sir Matthew Hale, in one volume 12mo. Also Baxter's own
Life by Sylvester.
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terwards more statedly in St. James's Market-house, where
in 1674 he had a most miraculous deliverance, [a main
beam under the floor being decayed.] He was again appre-
hended as he was preaching his lecture at Mr. Turner's; but
was soon released, because the warrant was not signed by
a city justice. In 1676 he built a Meeting-house in Oxen-
don-street, and when he had but once preached there, the
worship was disturbed, and Mr. Seddon, a Derbyshire mi-
nister, preaching for him (he being out of Town) was sent
to the Gate-house in his room, tho' the warrant had not his
name; and he continued there three months till he got a Ha-
beas corpus. Mr. Baxter then took another meeting-house
in St. Martin's parish, and was forcibly kept out of it by con-
stables and officers. On Mr. Wadsworth's death in South-
wark, upon the earnest invitation of the people, he preached
to them several months in peace. When Dr. Lloyd suc-
ceeded Dr. Lamplugh in St. Martin's, Mr. Baxter offered
him his chapel in Oxendon-street for public service, and he
accepted it. In 1682 he was suddenly surprized in his house,
by an informer with constables and officers, with a warrant
to seize his person for coming within five miles of a corpora-
tion; and five more in distrain for 195/. for five sermons.
Tho' he was exceedingly ill, he was going with them to a
justice, till meeting Dr. Cox, the physician, he forced him
back to his bed, and went and took his oath, before five jus-
tices, that he could not go to prison without danger of death.
The King being applied to, consented that his imprisonment
should for that time be forborn. But they executed the war-
rants on the books and goods in the house, notwithstanding
that he gave good proof that they were not legally his; and
they sold even the bed which he lay upon. Some friends
paid down the money at which they were appraised, and he
repaid them. Being afterwards in danger of new seizures,
he was forced to retire to private lodgings.-In 1684 he was
seized again, and carried to the sessions, at a time when he
was scarcely able to stand, and bound in a bond of 400l. to
his good behaviour, being told that this proceeding was only
to secure the government against suspected persons. He
was some time after carried again to the sessions-house, in
great pain, and forced to continue bound. He refused to
bind himself, not knowing what they might interpret a
breach of the peace. But his sureties would be bound, lest
he should die in a jail. He was also carried thither a third
time,
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time, and still bound; though for the most part he kept
his bed.
In the reign of James II. he was committed prisoner to the
King's Bench, by the warrant of the Lord Chief Justice Jef-
feries, for some exceptionable passages in his Paraphrase on
the New Testament. They were collected by Sir Roger
L'Estrange, who said, this was the wickedest book that ever
was written. [A certain eminent clergyman, (says Mr.
Neal) reported to be Dr. Shck, put into the hands of his
enemies some accusations from Rom. xiii. that might touch
his life; but no use was made of them].-On May 30 he
was brought to his trial. Being very much indisposed, he
moved, by his counsel, for further time; but the Judge
cried out in a passion, "I will not give him a minute's time
to save his life; we have had to deal with other sort of per-
sons, but now we have a saint to deal with. I know how
to deal with saints as well as sinners; yonder stands Oates in
the pillory, and he says he suffers for truth, and so says Bax-
ter; but if Baxter did but stand on the other side of the pil-
lory with him, I would say, two of the greatest rogues and
rascals in the kingdom stood there." The passages accused
were, his Paraphrase on Mat. v. 19. Mark ix. 39. xi. 31.
xii. 38-40. Luke x. 2.
John xi. 57. Acts xv. 2. The
main charge was, that in these passages he reflected on the
Prelates of the church of England, and so was guilty of sedi-
tion. His counsel were not suffered to proceed in the de-
fence of their client, but were brow-beaten and hectored by
the Judge, in a manner that suited Billingsgate much better
than a tribunal of justice. Mr. Baxter beginning to speak
for himself, Jefferies said to him, "Richard, Richard, dost
thou think we will hear thee poison the court? Richard,
thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books
enow to fill a cart, every one as full of sedition, I may say
treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipt
out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
I know thou hast a mighty party, and I see a great many of
thy brotherhood in corners, to see what will become of their
mighty Don; and a Doctor of the party (meaning Dr. Bates)
at your elbow; but, by the grace of Almighty God, I'll
crush them all."-After this scandalous insult, another of
Mr. Baxter's counsel, Mr. Atkinson, began to speak; and,
to clear Mr. Baxter, would have read some passages of the
book: but Jefferies cried out, "You sha'n't draw me into
a conventicle with your annotations, nor your sniveling par-
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son neither." He then proceeded to sum up the matter to
the jury thus: ""Tis notoriously known there has been a
design to ruin the King and nation; the old game has been
renewed, and this has been the main incendiary. He's as
modest now as can be; but the time was when no man was
so ready at Bind your kings in chains, and your nobles in
• fetters of iron; and To your tents, O Israel l' Gentlemen,
for God's sake, don't let us be gulled twice in an age.'
When he had done this harangue, Mr. Baxter presumed to
say, "Does your Lordship think any jury will pretend to
pass a verdict on me on such a trial ?" "I'll warrant you Mr.
Baxter, (says he) don't trouble your head about that." The
jury immediately laid their heads together at the bar, and
brought him in Guilty. On the 29th of June, judgment
was given against him to pay a fine of 500 marks, to lie in
prison till it was paid, and to be bound to his good behaviour
for seven years. The chief justice said upon the bench,
"He was sorry that the act of indemnity disabled him from
hanging him." Mr. Baxter continued in an expensive pri-
son, in pain and languor, two years. But at length, the King
changing his measures, he was pardoned. He then removed
to Charter-house Yard, where he assisted Mr. Sylvester
every Lord's-day morning, and every Thursday morning
preached a lecture. Thus he held on four years and a half,
and lived to rejoice in the glorious Revolution by King Wil-
liam, tho' he did not go much abroad afterward. He finish-
ed his course, Dec. 8, 1691, and was interred in Christ-
Church, Newgate-street, whither his corpse was attended by
a numerouse concourse of persons of different ranks, and
especially of ministers, some of them Conformists, who paid.
him this last office of respect §.
Mr. Baxter's last will and testament, dated July 7, 1689,
was introduced in this manner: "I Richard Baxter, of Lon-
don, Clerk, an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ, drawing
to the end of this transitory life, having thro' God's great
mercy the free use of my understanding, do make this my
last will and testament, revoking all other wills formerly
made by me. My spirit I commit, with trust and hope of
the heavenly felicity, into the hands of Jesus, my glorified
Redeemer and Intercessor; and by his mediation into the
§ Dr. Earl informed the editor, that he was one of the spectators, and that
the train of coaches reached from Merchant Taylor's Hall, from whence the
corpse was carried, to the place of burial.
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hands of God, my reconciled Father, the infinite eternal spirit,
light, life, and love, most great and good, the God of nature,
grace and glory; of whom, and thro' whom, and to whom
are all things; my absolute owner, ruler, and benefactor;
whose I am, and whom I (tho' imperfectly) serve, seek, and
trust; to whom be glory fever, Amen! To him I render
most humble thanks that he hath filled up my life with abun-
dant mercy, and pardoned my sin by the merits of Christ,
and vouchsafed by his Spirit to renew me, and seal me as his
own; and to moderate and bless to me my long-sufferings in
the flesh, and at last to sweeten them by his own interest,
and comforting approbation, who taketh the cause of love
and concord as his own," &c.-He ordered his books that he
had remaining to be distributed by Mr. Matthew Sylvester,
and Mr. Roger Morrice, among poor scholars. The remain-
der of his temporal estate, after a few legacies to his kindred,
he disposed of for the benefit of the souls and bodies of the
poor. And he left Sir Henry Ashurst, Bart. Rowland Hunt,
of Boraton, Esq; Mr. Thomas Hunt, merchant, Edward
Harley, Esq; Mr. Thomas Cooke, merchant, Mr. Thomas
Trench, merchant, and Mr. Robert Bird, gentleman, his
executors.
[Dr. Calamy concludes his account of Mr. Baxter, with
stating and answering a number of accusations which different
persons had brought against him. As these are known by few,
and credited by none, in the present day, a defence seems
to be now unnecessary §. The following view of this good
man's character and dying behaviour, taken from Dr. Bates's
funeral sermon for him, will be the best answer to the inju-
rious reflections of his enemies, as well as most edifying to
the reader. The Dr. having finished his discourse upon the
text, proceeds as follows: "I shall now apply myself to
speak of the Rev. Mr. Richard Baxter, that excellent in-
strument of divine grace, to recover and restore so many re-
volted souls to God, out of the empire of his enemy. I am
sensible that in speaking of him I shall be under a double
disadvantage, for those who perfectly knew him will be apt
to think my account of him short and defective; others will
$ One of the severest charges brought against Mr. Baxter is by the writer
of Dr. Owen's Life, respecting the affair at Wallingford-house, (See Vol. I.
p. 178). This Dr. Calamy has sufficiently answered, (p. 917--922). The
editor has lately met with a Defence of Mr. Baxter in MS, which is worthy
of being preserved, and which therefore he means to deposite in Dr. Wil-
liams's Library.
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from ignorauce or envy be inclined to think his just praises to
be undue and excessive. If love could make me eloquent, I
should use all the most lively colours of language to adorn his
memory. But this consideration relieves me in the conscious+
ness of my disability, that a plain narrative of what Mr. Bax-
ter was and did, will be a most noble eulogy, and that his
substantial piety no more needs tificial oratory to set it off,
than fine gold wants paint to add lustre to it." After some
account of the early part of his life, related at the beginning
of this article and his usefulness at Kidderminster, particu-
larly in the conversion of souls, the Dr. goes on-" This
was the reigning affection in his heart, and he was extraordi-
narily fitted to obtain his end. His prayers were an effusion
of the most lively, melting expressions, and his intimate ar-
dent affections to God. From the abundance of his heart
his lips spake. His soul took wing for heaven, and wrapt up
the souls of others with him. Never did I see or hear a holy
minister address himself to God with more reverence and hu-
mility; with more zeal and fervency; or with more filial
affiance in the Divine Mercy. In his sermons, there was a
rare union of arguments and motives, to convince the mind
and gain the heart. All the fountains of reason and persuasion
were open to his discerning eye. He had a marvellous felicity
and copiousness. There was a noble negligence in his style,
for his great mind could not stoop to the affected eloquence
of words. He despised flashy oratory, but his expressions
were clear and powerful; so convincing the understanding,
so entering into the soul, so engaging the affections, that those
were as deaf as adders who were not charmed by so wise a
charmer. He was animated with the Holy Spirit, and
breathed celestial fire to inspire heat and life into dead sinners,
and to melt the obdurate in their fozen tombs.— His won-
derful diligence in catechizing the particular families under
his charge, was exceeding useful to plant religion in them.
The idea of a faithful minister, delineated in his Reformed
Pastor, was a copy taken from the life; from his own zealous
example.—While at Kidderminster, his illustrious worth was
not shaded in a corner, but dispersed its beams and influence
round the country. By his counsel and excitation the mini-
sters in Worcestershire, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Congre-
gational, were united, that by their studies, labour, and ad-
vice, the doctrine and practice of religion might be preserved
in all their churches.-Mr. Baxter was not above his brethren,
but he was the soul of that happy society."- -The Dr. in
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relating some things concerning Mr. Baxter after he left
Kidderminster, mentions the following as an instance of his
faith and fortitude: "Preaching at St. Dunstan's church,
which was very old, something in the steeple fell down, and
the noise struck such a terror into the people, that,in wild
disorder they [began to] run out of the church. Their
eagerness to haste away put all into a tumult. Mr. Baxter,
without visible disturbance, sat down in the pulpit. After
the hurry was over, he resumed his discourse and said,-
"We are in the service of God, to prepare ourselves that
we may be fearless at the great noise of the dissolving
66 world, ' when the heavens shall pass away, and the ele-
ments melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works
• therein shall be burnt up."
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In the interval between his deprivation and his death, he
wrote and published most of his books, which for their
number and the variety of matter in them, make a library.
They contain a treasure of controversial, casuistical, positive,
and practical divinity. Indeed, he had such an amplitude in
his thoughts, such vivacity of imagination, and such solidity
and depth of judgment, as rarely meet together. His in-
quiring mind was freed from the servile dejection and bon-
dage of an implicit faith. He adhered to the Scripture, as
the perfect rule of faith, and searched whether the doctrines
received and taught were consonant to it.-In some points
of modern controversy he judiciously chose the middle way,
and advised young divines to follow it. His reverence of the
divine purity made him very shy and jealous of any doctrine
that seemed to reflect a blemish upon it. He was a clear
assertor of the sovereign freeness, and infallible efficacy of di-
vine grace in the conversion of souls. In a sermon, reciting
the words of the covenant of grace, I will put my fear into
their hearts, and they shall not depart from me;' he observ-
ed, "The tenor of it was, I will, and you shall.' Divine
grace makes the rebellious will obedient, but does not make
the will to be no will." He preached, that the death of
Christ was certainly effectual for all the elect, to make them
partakers of grace and glory, and that it was so far beneficial
to all men, that they are not left in the same desperate state
with the fallen angels, but are made capable of salvation by
the grace
grace of the gospel: not capable as efficients to convert
themselves, but as subjects to receive saving grace. He did
so honour the sincerity of God, as entirely to believe his will
declared in his word. He would not interpret the promises.
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of the gospel in a less gracious sense than God intended
them; therefore, if men finally perish, it is not for the want of
mercy in God, nor of merit in Christ, but for their wilful re-
fusing salvation.-His books of practical divinity have been
effectual for more numerous conversions of sinners to God,
than any printed in our time, and while the church remains
on earth, will [probably] be of continual efficacy to recover
lost souls. There is a vigorous pulse in them that keeps the
reader awake.
He that was solicitous for the salvation of other mens
souls was not negligent of his own, but, as regular love re-
quires, his first care was to prepare himself for heaven. In
him the virtues of the contemplative and active life were emi-
nently united His time was spent in communion with God,
and in charity to men. He lived above the sensible world,
and in solitude and silence conversed with God. The fre-
quent and serious meditation of eternal things was the power-
ful means to make his heart holy and heavenly, and from
thence his conversation. His life was a practical sermon, a
drawing example. There was an air of humility and sanctity
in his mortified countenance; and his deportment was be-
coming a stranger upon earth, and a citizen of heaven-Tho'
all divine graces, the fruits of the spirit, were visible in his
conversation, yet some were more eminent. There was a
rare union of sublime knowledge, and other spiritual excel-
lencies, with the lowest opinion of himself. He wrote to
one that sent a letter to him full of expressions of honour and
esteem, "You do admire one you do not know; know-
ledge will cure your error. The more we know God, the
more reason we see to admire him; but our knowledge of the
creature discovers its imperfections, and lessens our esteem.
To the same person, expressing his veneration of him for his
excellent gifts and graces, he replied with heat, "I have the
remainders of pride in me; how dare you blow up the sparks
of it?" He imitated St. Austin, both in penitential con-
fessions and retractions. In conjunction with humility, he
had great candour for others. He could willingly bear with
persons of differing sentiments. He would not prostitute his
own judgment, nor ravish another's. He did not over-esteem
himself, nor under-value any. He would give liberal en-
comiums of many conforming divines. He was severe to
himself, but candid in excusing the faults of others. Where-
as the busy inquirer and censurer of the faults of others is
usually the easy neglecter of his own.
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Self-denial and contempt of the world were shining graces
in him. I never knew any person less indulgent to himself,
and more indifferent to his temporal interest. The offer of
a bishopric was no temptation to him, for his exalted soul de-
spised the pleasures and profits which others so earnestly de-
sire. He valued not an empty title upon his tomb. [He was
tried by many afflictions, and particularly by slanderous re-
ports; but his patience was truly christian under all.] He was
so far from being moved at the unrighteous persecution for
his Paraphrase, that he joyfully said to a friend, "What
could I desire more of God, than after having served him to
the utmost of my power, I should now be called to suffer for
him." One who had been a fierce Dissenter, was afterward
rankled with an opposite heat, and very contumeliously in his
writings reflected upon Mr. Baxter, who calmly endured his
contempt; and when the same person published a learned
discourse in defence of Christianity, Mr. Baxter said, "I
forgive him all, for his writing that book."-The censures
and reproaches of those whom he esteemed and loved, touched
him in the tender part; but he, with the great apostle,
counted it a small thing to be judged by mens judginent.'
He was entire to his conscience, and independent upon the
opinion of others; but his patience was more eminently tried
by his continual pains and languishing. [He was dreadfully
afflicted with the stone.] His complaints were frequent, but
who ever heard an unsubmissive word drop from his lips? In
his sharp pains, he said, "I have a rational patience, and a
believing patience," tho' sense would recoil. His pacific
spirit was a clear character of his being a child of God. How
ardently he endeavoured to cement the breaches among us,
which others widen and keep open, is publicly known. He
said to a friend, "I can as willingly be a martyr for love, as
for any article of the creed." Love to the souls of men was
the peculiar character of Mr. Baxter's spirit. In this he imi-
tated and honoured our Saviour, who prayed, died, and lives,
for the salvation of souls. All his natural and supernatural
endowments were subservient to this blessed end. It was
his meat and drink, the life and joy of his life to do good to
souls. In his studies his industry was almost incredible. In
his usual conversation, his serious, frequent and delightful
discourse was of divine things, to inflame his friends with the
love of heaven. He received, with tender compassion and
condescending kindness, the meanest that came to him for
counsel and consolation. He gave in one year 100l. to buy
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Bibles for the poor. He continued to preach so long, not-
withstanding his wasted languishing body, that the last time
he almost died in the pulpit. It would have been his joy to
have been transfigured in the mount.
Not long after his last sermon he felt the approaches of death,
and was confined to his bed. § In this situation he wrote a
letter to Mr. Increase Mather, then in London, upon read-
ing his Son's Life of Mr. Eliot, which was probably the last
that ever came from his pen. It is presumed most readers
will be gratified with the perusal of it." Dear Brother, I
thought I had been near dying at 12 o'clock, in bed: but
your book revived me; I lay reading it until between one
and two. I knew much of Mr. Eliot's opinions, by many
letters which I had from him. There was no man on earth
whom I honoured above him. It is his Evangelical Work,
that is the apostolical succession that I plead for. I am now
dying, I hope as he did. It pleased me to read from him my
case. My understanding faileth, my memory faileth, (and
my hand and pen fail); but my Charity faileth not. That
word much comforted me. I am as zealous a lover of the
New England churches, as any man, according to Mr.
Noye's, Mr. Norton's, and Mr. Mitchael's, and the Synod's
model. I love your Father, upon the letters I received
from him. I love you better, for your learning, labours,
and peaceable moderation. I love your Son better than
either of you, for the excellent temper that appeareth in his
writings. O that godliness and wisdom may thus encrease
in all families. He hath honoured himself half as much as
Mr. Eliot. I say but half as much, for deeds excel words,
God preserve you and New England. Pray for,
Your fainting, languishing friend,
*
Aug. 3, 1691.
RI. BAXTER."
His last hours were spent in preparing others and himself
to appear before God. He said to his friends that visited
him, "You come hither to learn to die; I can assure you,
that your whole life, be it never so long, is little enough
to prepare for death. Have a care of this vain deceitful
world, and the lusts of the flesh. Be sure you chuse God
for your portion, heaven for your home, God's glory for
your end, his word for your rule, and then you need never
* Mr. Cotton Mather, the author of Mr. ELIOT's Life, first printed by
itself, and afterwards reprinted, with many other lives, in his Hist. of N.
England. The above Letter is found V. III. p. 210.
*
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fear but we shall meet with comfort."-Never was penitent
sinner more humble in debasing himself; never was a sin-
cere believer more calm and comfortable. He acknowledged
himself to be the vilest dunghill-worm (his usual expression)
that ever went to heaven. He adinired the divine conde-
scension to us, often saying, "Lord, what is man?, what
am I, a vile worm, to the great God?" Many times he prayed,
• God be merciful to me a sinner!' and blessed God that this
was left upon record in the gospel as an effectual prayer. He
said, "God may justly condemn me for the best duty I ever
did, and all my hopes are from the free mercy of God in
Christ; which he often prayed for.-After a slumber, he
waked and said, "I shall rest from my labour." A mini-
ster then present added, "And your works follow you.'
To whom he replied, "No works; I will leave out works §,
if God will grant me the other." When a friend was comfort-
ing him with the remembrance of the good many had received
by his preaching and writings, he said, "I was but a pen in
God's hand, and what praise is due to a pen?"-His resigned
submission to the will of God, in his sharp sickness, was emi-
nent. When extremity of pain constrained him earnestly to
pray to God for his release by death, he would check himself,
saying, "It is not fit for me to prescribe:-when thou wilt,
what thou wilt, and how thou wilt."-Being in great an-
guish, he said, "O how unsearchable are his ways, and his
paths past finding out! the reaches of his providence we can-
not fathom!" and to his friends, "Do not think the worse
of religion for what you see me suffer."-Being often asked,
how it was with his inward man? he replied, I bless God
I have a well-grounded assurance of my eternal happiness, and
great peace and comfort within;" but it was his trouble he
could not triumphantly express it, by reason of his extream
pains. He said, "Flesh must perish, and we must feel the
perishing of it; and though his judgment submitted, yet sense
would still make him groan."-Being asked by a person of
quality, whether he had not great joy from his believing ap-
prehensions of the invisible state, he replied, "What else
think you Christianity serves for?-The consideration of the
Deity (said he) in his glory and greatness, was too high for
6 Mr. Baxter certainly did not mean to contradict the language of the
Spirit in that passage, nor his own doctrine concerning the necessity of good
works, and their influence on the saint's future glory; but only to disclaim
all idea of MERIT. ED,
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our thoughts; but the consideration of the Son of God in our
nature, and of the saints in heaven, whom we knew and loved;
doth much sweeten and familiarize heaven to me." The de-
scription of heaven, in Heb. xii. 22. was most comfortable
to him. That scripture, he said, deserved a thousand thousand
thoughts. At another time he said, "He found great com-
fort and sweetness in repeating the words of the Lord's Prayer,
and was sorry that some good people were prejudiced against
the use of it; for there were all necessary petitions for soul
and body contained in it."-At other times he gave excellent
counsel to young ministers that visited him, and earnestly
prayed to God to bless their labours, and make them very
successful in converting many souls to Christ; and expressed
great joy in the hopes that God would do a great deal of good
by them, as they were of moderate peaceful spirits-He
often prayed that God would be merciful to this miserable
distracted world, and that he would preserve his church and
interest in it. He advised his friends to beware of self-con-
ceitedness. Being asked whether he had altered his mind in
controversial points, he said, "Those that please may know
my mind in my writings; what I have done was not for my
own reputation but the glory of God."-Dr. Bates goes on
to add, I went to him, with a very worthy friend, Mr. Ma-
ther of New-England, the day before he died, and speaking
some comforting words to him, he replied, "I have pain,
there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have
peace." I told him, "You are now approaching to your
long-desired home." He answered. "I believe, I believe."
-He expressed a great willingness to die, and during his
sickness, when the question was asked how he did, his usual
reply was, "Almost well:" (and sometimes as Mr. Sylvester
says) Better then I deserve to be, but not so well as I hope.
to be." His joy was most remarkable, when in his own appre-
hensions death was nearest.-I shall conclude this account
with my own deliberate wish: May I live the short remain-
der of my life as entirely to the glory of God as he lived:
and when I shall come to the period of it, may I die in the
same blessed peace wherein he died; may I be with him in
the kingdom of light and love for ever!"
Mr. M. Sylvester also published a sermon on Mr. Baxter's
death, which may be seen at the end of his Life and Times.
-Besides Dr. Calamy's Abridgment of that book in the first
of his four volumes, there is an account of Mr. Baxter's Life
1
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prefixed to his Practical Works, where may be seen several
testimonies from learned men to his character and writings.
Let the following here suffice: Dr. Bates quotes Bp. WIL-
KINS as saying, "Mr. Baxter had cultivated every subject he
had handled, and if he had lived in the primitive times, he
had been one of the Fathers of the church.-It was enough
for one age to produce such a person." Dr. MANTON de-
clared, in the hearing of several persons, "that he thought
Mr. Baxter came the nearest the apostolical inspired writers
of any man of the age."-The Hon. R. BOYLE, Esq; said,
"Mr. Baxter was the fittest man of the age for a casuist,
because he feared no man's displeasure, nor hoped for any
man's preferment." Mr. Sylvester quotes a learned man of
different sentiments from Mr. Baxter, as saying, after he had
some discourse with him, "that he could say what he would,
and could prove what he said.”—Sir MAT. HALE Spoke
highly of Mr. Baxter's piety and learning, before all the
judges at the table at Serjeant's Inn, at the time of his being
in prison, upon the Oxford-act; and (as Bp. Burnet relates)
he held great conversation with him when he was his neigh
bour at Acton, and looked upon him as a person of great de-
votion and piety, and of a very subtle and quick apprehen-
sion." And the great Dr. Barrow gives this as his judgment,
"that his practical writings were never mended, and his con-
troversial ones seldom confuted." Many foreign divines
wrote to him with great respect, and commended his writ-
ings, several of which were translated into Latin and other
languages. Living and dying he was as much respected by
some, and as much slighted and insulted by others, as any
man of the age. §Nash, in his Hist. of Worcestershire has
a portrait of him.
WORKS. They were in number above one hundred and
twenty. [A complete list of them may be seen, in the order in
which they were published, at the end of Dr. Calamy's Abridgment
of his Life. His practical works were collected and reprinted in
1707, in 4 vols. folio, with high recommendations of them
signed by 34 of the London ministers, among whom were many
whose attachment to the principles of Calvinism is sufficiently
known: A circumstance proper to be held up to the view of those
more knowing Dissenters in the present day, who cannot mention the
name of Baxter without a sneer, nor hear him quoted without the
suspicion of heresy. The chief, however, of his practical pieces
are well known and highly esteemed by the best judges. Some of
these
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these have been lately reprinted and abridged §, The principal of
his controversial works are]-Aphorisms of Justification and the
Covenants: The first he published, and as much written against
as any; but though he signified his wish that some things had been
otherwise expressed, and that he had let persons alone, he adhered
to the substance of this book to the last.-Some pieces upon Infant
Baptism, and upon Nonconformity.-Methodus Theologiæ, folio.
Such as will excuse the Latin will find more than ordinary accuracy
in it.-Catholic Theology, fol. designed to shew that there is no
considerable difference between Arminians and Calvinists. A book
never answered.-A Treatise of Universal Redemption, printed
since his death. His Paraphrase on the New Testament is not in-
cluded in his 4 vols. of his practical works. The most useful of all
his writings seems to have been, his Call to the Unconverted,
which is given away by the Society for promoting Religious Know-
ledge. Six brothers were once converted by reading it. 20,000
were dispersed in a little above a year. It was translated into the
French, Dutch, and other European languages; and Mr. Eliot
translated it into the Indian. Mr. Cotton Mather gives an account
of an Indian prince, who was so affected with this book, that he
sat reading it with tears till he died. He also wrote more Pre-
faces to the books of other authors than any person in his time.
LINDRIDGE [V.] Mr. JOHN GYLES. He may pro
perly be mentioned here, because before the act in 1662, by
which he was silenced, he often used to preach for his father,
who was an eminent minister here, and who died before the
Bartholomew-act came out, viz. in 1661. He was so zea-
lous, holy, laborious, and faithful in his place, that his ene-
mies would not suffer him to be buried in his own parish
church-yard; but his friends were forced to carry him to
Standford, about three or four miles off. Mr. John Gyles,
the son, was afterwards for several years pastor of the Dissen-
ters congregation at Henley upon Thames, and there he died.
He left three sons, who were all ministers among the Dis-
senters. The eldest, John Gyles, M. D. was pastor of a con-
gregation at Salop. The 2d, Jonathan, at Farnham in Sur-
rey, where he died suddenly. The youngest, James, was
chaplain to Sir T. Clark, in Cambridgeshire, Bart. and pro-
mised well, but became insane.
MARTLEY [R.] Mr. AMBROSE SPARRY. Before he
fixed here he was school-master at Stourbridge, as he also
The Saint's Rest, Dying Thoughts, &c. by Mr. Benj, Fawcett, and The
Reformed Pastor by the editor of this work.
秦
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was after his ejectment. The Chancellor connived at him, as
the chief persons in the place were his friends, he being a
sober, prudent, moderate, humble, learned, judicious, and
godly man. He was imprisoned for what was called Baxter's
plot, of which see an account, Vol. I. p. 31.
MOSELEY [Chap. to Kingsnorton] Mr. JOSEPH COOPER.
The son of Mr. Hugh Cooper, a worthy minister at Preston
in Shropshire. His childhood and youth were vanity. At
the 20th year of his age he began to live the life of a man
and of a Christian. He applied to his studies with unwea-
ried diligence, and in ten or twelve years acquired much use-
ful learning. By familiar converse with the best Roman au-
thors, he attained a good Latin style. He became well skil-
led in Greek also, but his chief excellency lay in the Hebrew.
He took great pains to compare oriental versions and the
Septuagint with the Hebrew text. He read the Masorah,
and other Jewish aud Rabbinical Commentaries, as if they
had been in Latin. He was no stranger to natural philoso-
phy and the mathematics, nor yet to medicine. He was a
solid, convincing preacher. Moseley was a poor place. The
inhabitants made up the salary to him 50l, a year, but the
legal income was but twenty nobles. On this account there
was nobody to supply his place after Bartholomew-day,
1662; so that he continued till December, when a troop of
horse came to apprehend him. He was taken out of the pul-
pit, and confined in Worcester jail six months. He had the
courage however to preach again the very day on which he
was released. He was a man of great modesty and humility,
who forbore to meddle with things which did not concern
him. He was instant in his work, in season and out of sea-
san,' and useful to many souls. He died in 1699 aged 64.
A worthy conforming minister preached at his funeral, and
gave him this character; "His life was a curious delineation
of religion and learning; his reputation was invulnerable as
the air, and his unexampled goodness might justly stile him
a match for antiquity, in its greatest purity and severity." An
intimate friend of his said, "His deportment was so graceful
and majestic, that "Here comes Mr. Cooper," hath often
charmed a rude society into civil order, and composed lewd
persons into a proper decorum."-A fuller account of him
was published, and prefixed to a posthumous piece of his,
containing a paper drawn up for his own use, which is wor-
thy
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thy the perusal of those, who desire to see spiritual matters
managed with seriousness and judgment.
WORKS. Domus Mosaicæ Clavis; sive Legis Sepimentum: a
book that gained the author reputation amongst judicious linguists.
-The Dead Witness still speaking to his Living Friends: the
substance of 8 sermons by way of farewell...Misboσxonia; or a
Prospect of Heavenly Glory, for the Comfort of Sion's Mourners.
NAUNTON Beauchamp [R.] THOMAS FRANKS.
NORTON, Kings [C. or D.] THOMAS HALL, B. D. Of
Oxford, under Dr. Lushington. Born at Worcester. He
here succeeded his brother Mr. John Hall, when he removed
to Bromsgrove, and applied himself in earnest to do good to
souls. His salary being small, he kept the free-school, and
continued single. As God owned his labours in the place,
he would not be persuaded to leave it, though solicited with.
a promise of far greater preferment. During the civil war,
he was often accused, cursed, threatened with death, plun-
dered, and five times imprisoned. He constantly preached.
twice on the Lord's-day, and held lectures abroad, besides
his exposition, catechizing, private admonition, &c. He was
a very hard student, and considerable scholar, a well-furnish-
ed divine, a man of a public spirit, and intent upon spread-
ing knowledge. He gave many valuable books to the library
at Birmingham, and persuaded his brethren to do the same.
He prevailed with the parish to build a public library, and
gave to it the books in his own study in his life-time. He
was of a free and liberal heart; and when his property was
gone, he lived by faith. In his last illness, his stock was re-
duced to sixpence; but he was easy, and said it was enough;
and so it proved, with providential additions; for before it
was gone, several sealed papers of money were sent him by
unknown friends.-He was of a holy and unblameable life;
very humble and easy of access to the meanest inhabitant of
his parish, whom he was as ready to serve, if in his power,
as the greatest. He was a great lover of peace, but would in
no case part with purity to purchase it. He was a plain, but
fervent and useful preacher; who taught by his life, as well
as by his doctrine. He was a man of a very lovely and active
spirit, never cast down with difficulties, and notwithstanding
all he met with, was to the last as ready for his duty, when
opportunity offered as ever. When he was near his end, he
thus expressed himself; "I am now going where I shall
have
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have rest from sin and Satan, from all fear, weariness and
watching; and from all the evils and errors of a wicked
world; even so come, Lord Jesus, for I long for thy com-
ing." And when the pangs of death were upon him, he said,
"All the joys of this life are nothing, nothing to the joys I
have in Jesus Christ." He died Ap, 13, 1665. His Life
was written by Mr. R. Moore. §Wood gives an account of
Mr. Hall, which on the whole is favourable, and quotes from
Moore's Pearl in an Oyster-shell, the following passage--
"He was a person of great integrity and single-heartedness
in his ministry; of a fine and liberal heart; just, and one
that lived much by faith; of a holy and unblameable life; of a
humble deportment; a great lover of peace; a plain and pro-
fitable preacher," &c.-He was buried in the church-yard of
King's-Norton.
WORKS, Apologia pro Ministerio Evang: Francof.-The Pul-
pit guarded..the Font guarded-the Schools guarded; a Defence
of H. L.-The Beauty of Holiness-A Treatise against long Hair,
painting, &c.-Wisdom's Conquest; a Translation of the 13th -
Book of Ovid's Metam.-Phæton's Folly; a Translat, of the 2d
Book of ditto.-Hometius Enervatus; or a Treatise against the
Millenaries.-Sal. Terræ; or a Guard to Ministers, and their
Maintenance...An Exposition by Way of Supp. on Amos, chap.
iv.—ix.....Samaria's Downfall: a Comment on Hosea xiii. 12,
16.....The Beauty of Magistracy: an Expos. of Psalm lxxxij...
A practical and polemical Comment, on 2 Tim. iii. & iv..... A
Treatise against May Poles...A Scrip. Disc. of the Apostacy of
Antichrist. § Wood mentions some others, of no great impor-
tance,
1
PIBLETON [R.] Mr. CORNELIUS WOOD. So Nash
§
enters his name, with this addition, “Cl. 21. Maii. 1661.”
RIDMERLEY [R.] Mr. WILLIAM KIMBERLEY. A
man of no contemptible learning, good ministerial abilities,
and a becoming conversation. He lived very privately after
his ejectment, and did not ordinarily preach, but contented
himself with teaching a school, in which some thought he
excelled most. He was the father of Dr. Kimberley of
Coventry, afterwards Dean of Bristol.
SALWARP [R.] Mr. RICHARD WOOLLEY. He was
the first who was indicted in this county for not reading the
Common Prayer, before the Act of uniformity came out,
and it cost him 4/. to get off. He was afterwards frequently
indicted
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indicted for not coming to church, and for keeping meetings,
which proved very expensive to him. In 1670, some who
pretended great respect for him, turned informers against
him; and a warrant was issued out to levy 20l. upon him.
All his cattle, to the value of 40l. were driven away, but
were bought by a friend for 157. and at that rate he had
them again. The constable was afterwards forced to levy 51.
more upon his goods, which he also paid. The informer
was afterwards generally hated, and died miserably poor.
Mr. GILES WOOLLEY. Brother to the former. He
was a Nonconformist, but it does not appear where he was
minister in 1662. [§ Nash mentions him as ejected at the
Restoration]. He went afterwards to London, and preached
somewhere about Hackney.
STONE [V. S.] Mr. RICHARD SERJEANT. He succeed-
ed Mr. Wm. Spicer, the sequestered incumbent of this liv-
ing, with his consent, and married his daughter. He was a
good while assistant to Mr. Baxter at Kidderminster, who in
his life speaks of him thus: "A man of such extraordinary
prudence, humility, sincerity, self-denial, patience, and blame-
lessness of life, that I know not, of all the years he assisted
me, any one person that was against him, or ever accused
him of saying or doing any thing amiss. Tho’
Tho' many ex-
celled him in learning and utterance, none, that ever I knew,
in innocence and sincerity." [He never preached statedly
after his ejectment, but lived upon his estate at Hagley,
where he was buried. He was employed with some of his
nonconforming brethren in supporting several week-day lec-
tures in adjacent villages. He was greatly respected by his
neighbours, and very useful among them, as a friend and ad-
viser in all their affairs. Being once called to preach where
Mr. Baxter was expected, he observed some of the people
leaving the church as soon as he appeared in the pulpit;
upon which he addressed them as follows: " My friends if
you come to hear Mr. Baxter, you will be disappointed, for
he is ill; but if you are come to hear the WORD OF GOD, I
am come to preach it." They took the rebuke, and retired
again to their places. He left, by his two daughters, a nu-
merous posterity. Mr. Thomas Tayler, minister of Carter-
lane, is a great-grandson of his, and inherits his distinguish-
ing virtues.]
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SWINFORD (Old) [R.] Mr. JARVIS BRYAN. Brother
to Dr. Bryan of Coventry. A most humble, upright, faith-
ful minister, of a blameless life, and sound doctrine, whose
great design and business was to convert souls, and build
them up in faith and holiness, and in a catholic peaceable,
christian temper. It was his general character, that his
life was a continual sermon. He spent the latter part of
it among the Dissenters of Coventry, where he died about.
1690. He was succeeded in his living, in 1662, by Mr.
R. Pierson, who was very kind to him, but sorely distress-
ed at his own Conformity, for which he seemed to suffer pe-
culiar rebukes of Providence. (Cal. Acc. p. 771.) He often
said, "Were it to do again, I would not do it for all the
livings in England.”
UPTON upon Severn [R. 150l. or 200l.] Mr. BENJA-
MIN BAXTER. Son of Mr. George Baxter, minister of Little
Wenlock. [Mr. R. Baxter says of him] "He was a preacher'
of extraordinary skill, especially in matter and method, so
that few that ever I heard excelled him. He lived upright-
ly to near 57 years of age, and suffered much, after his
ejection, by the lowness of his estate." [The same great
divine, in a preface to one of his books, says, "I have
often heard him, and scarce ever heard a sermon from him
which I thought not worthy to be published, even when
he began to preach 26 years ago.]" He continued at Upton
till his death, and left his children in a low condition. [It
appears from the dedication of the above work to Mrs. Pe-
nelope Lechmere, that excellent lady "ministered to him in
his necessities."]
WORKS. A Posing Question put by the Wise Man, &c. or
the Ignorance of Man in what is good for him, &c. [being Sermons
on Eccl. vi. 12. It was to this book that Mr. R. Baxter wrote
the above preface.] The Doctrine of Self-posing-Noncon-
formity without Controversy; [an excellent practical piece on
Rom, xii. 2.]
WHITELADY ASTON [R. S.] Mr. ROBERT Brown.
He was a fifth-monarchy man, and wrote against hearing
the parish minister. Dr. Stillingfleet remarked of his Jerub-
baal, that it contained the substance of all that had been
said by the Old Brownists. He was generally esteemed a
good scholar. He died at Plymouth in consequence of ex-
cessive preaching. He appears to have been of the Baptist
denomi-
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denomination. Crosby mentions him, but adds nothing to
the above account. Mr. James says, There was a Baptist
minister of this name, and doubtless the same person, who
in 1670 resided in London, and in 1678 at Worcester. He
was that year invited to succeed Mr. Hardcastle at Broad-
mead, Bristol; but in April 1679, he was settled at West-
mancot in Worcestershire.
WHITLEY (Magna). Mr. JOSEPH READ. He was born
in Kidderminster, and sent to Cambridge by Mr. Baxter,
who, when he had finished his studies, took him into his
house, and had him for his assistant about a year at Kidder-
minster. After spending some time in the country, upon his
ejectment at Witley, in 1662, he went to London, and as-
sisted Mr. Baxter there also. He used to read the scripture.
sentences, the xcvth Psalm, the Psalms and Lessons for the
day; sung the Psalms appointed for Hymns, and recited the
Lord's Prayer and Creed, and the Ten Commandments,
when Mr. Baxter preached. He fixed in the parish of St.
Giles's, where there were thought to be 30,000 souls more
than could come within the church, and who had no public
worship or instruction. He built a chapel in his own house,
with the help of friends, and was much flocked after by poor
ignorant people, among whom God owned his labours, for
promoting knowledge and piety. As he was preaching there,
Ap. 30, 1676, he was taken out of the pulpit and sent to pri-
son. He met also with much trouble on account of his Non-
conformity afterwards, and yet he was reflected on by some
Dissenters, as advancing too far towards Conformity. In
1682 he published His Case, which satisfied some and dis-
pleased others. Upon K. James's liberty he continued his
ministry at the chapel at Bloomsbury, and also after the
Revolution. At length age growing upon him, he retired
to Hampstead, where he died in 1713; and his funeral ser-
mon was preached by Dr. Williams. He was a very serious
and affectionate preacher, and many had cause to bless God
for him.
WORCESTER. St. Andrew's. Mr. JOSEPH BAKER.
A learned man, of a blameless life; who preached constantly,
catechized the people, and conferred with families personally,
especially before he first admitted them to the Lord's Supper.
He was a man of extraordinary prudence, calmness, pati-
ence, gravity, and soundness of judgment. He was neither
for Prelacy, Presbytery, nor Independency, as formed into par-
ties,
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ties, but for that which was sound in all parties, and for con-
cord upon catholic terms. This parish had but about 67, a
year endowment, of which he took nothing, but gave it to a
woman to teach poor children to read, and lived upon his
own fortune and some small augmentation granted by the
Parliament. [Mr. Baxter, (who gives the above account) at
the end of his funeral sermon for Mrs. Baker, says, Mr.
Baker had a living in Kent, of 100l. per ann. but that being
desired by this congregation to help them to an able minister,
he prevailed on Mr. Baker to accept of this great charge, upon
two persons promising to make up the income sol. per ann.
without giving any security. Tho' he met with some dis-
couragements, and his salary appeared very precarious, when
he might have removed to his advantage, he said he had
enough.] When Mr. Joseph Read asked him, upon his death-
bed, what thoughts he then had of his Nonconformity, he
answered, "That he would gladly have continued his mini-
stry, if he could have had liberty for it without sinning against
God; but when it came to that, there was no remedy.'
Cathedral. Mr. SIMON MOOR. [Mr. Baxter says,
he was an old Independent.] After Bartholowew-day, thro'
the fury of the justices and people he was forced to leave
Worcester; after which he retired to London.
St. Nicholas. [R.] Mr. RICHARD FINCHER. He
first taught school for his support, and afterwards became
pastor of a congregation in London. He died Feb. 10, 1692,
Mr. S. Slater preached his funeral sermon, [from which the
following account of him is extracted: "He was a very gra-
cious and holy man, greatly set for the interest and honour
of God, and much in communion with him. He had received
a plentiful unction from the Holy One,' and was rich in
spirituals; of a sweet affable, and loving temper. He had
good natural abilities, which were cultivated and improved
by learning. He had found Mercy to be faithful-standing
his ground like a rock in the days of violent temptation; nor
would he touch (tho' he saw others swallow down) those
things which his conscience told him would prove defiling to
himself, or stumbling-blocks to others. Yet he was a man of
peace, so far as ever he could go without forsaking truth and
holiness. While he was true to his principles he was no in-
cendiary. He was a very modest person, cloathed with hu-
mility;' an industrious, painful labourer in God's vineyard;
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in his conversation, a singular ornament to the gospel, and
an excellent pattern to them that knew him."]
Mr. THOMAS JUICE. A sober, grave, serious, peace-
able, blameless, able minister. He lost 100l. per ann. by his
ejection. Afterwards for a livelihood for himself, his wife
and three children, he taught a little school, till the Corpo-
ration-act took place, when he was forced to abscond. He
was afterwards pastor of a congregation at Reading in Berks,
and there he died.
The following were also silenced:
Mr. JOHN WOWEN. Of Trin. Col. Camb. He was chap-
lain to Lord Ward, and was offered a good living, but could
not satisfy himself to conform. He died at the age of 78 or
upwards, about 1715.
Mr. RICHARD COOK. Of Trin. Col. Camb. Born at
Kinver. He was at the university, and prepared for the mi-
nistry, before the Act of uniformity passed. Not being satis-
fied to conform, he was a little time chaplain at Prestwood,
in the family of Philip Foley, Esq; He afterwards lived a
batchelor in the house in which he was born, and did some
service there, preaching occasionally in several places, with-
out being fixed. He studied hard, and died in his prime.
The following afterwards conformed:
When
Mr. THOMAS WRIGHT, of Hartlebury.-Mr. HYATT, of
Grafton, (doubtful).—Mr. THOMAS SOLEY, of Mitton, a
chapel of ease to Kidderminster.-Mг. SIMON Potter, of
Wolverley, who was sent by Mr. Baxter, with Mr. Read,
to the same college, and ordained at the same time.
Mr. Read told him what he heard the terms of Conformity
would be, he answered, "That he would be hanged up at
his door rather than conform." However when he came to the
trial, he yielded; but, some time after, freely told his friend
Mr. Read, that God had never blessed his ministry since.
Mr. JOSEPH TREBLE conformed at Church-Lench, (thro'
the importunity of his wife) and removed into Warwick-
shire. He was an able and serious preacher, and much fol-
lowed before his conformity; but was heard to complain, that
his labours afterwards met with but little success. He lived
many years after, and never lifted up his hand against his bre-
thren, but continued pious, moderate, and peaceable to his
death.
Mr.
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Mr JOHN DERHAM, [so Atkins has it from Wood] who
left the living of Tredington, worth 700l. per ann. A per-
son of great eminence, who probably conformed thro' the
influence of the Bp. of London, his intimate, being often at
Compton-House in Warwickshire. The rectory of St. Mil-
dred, Bread-srteet, was given him, ( scarcely worth a quarter
of what he quitted) and here he died.-Dr. CROWTHER SUC-
ceeded him at Tredington, and preached two or three Lord's-
days at one end of the church, while Mr. Derham preached
at the other. Tho' he had such preferment as, with this,
amounted to 130ol, a year, he died in debt in the Fleet.
§ It appears from NASH, that from the year 1660 to 1663,
there were above three score inductions to livings in this
county, besides the preceding thirty-five; from whence it
seems highly probable that the number of ejected ministers
here, as well as in other places, was much greater than we
have any account of. Mr. James has made out a list of those
inductions, of which some proper use will probably be here-
after made.
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WEST RIDING.
was
CKWORTH [R. S.] Mr. THOMAS BURBECK. He
A Α
had been here many years, when he was silenced in
1662, [probably 1660]. Upon Dr. Bradley's being restored,
he frequently preached in his own house at Sheffield, and did
much good. He died in 1674, aged about 60. He was a very
worthy divine, a solid, substantial preacher, and a man of a
chearful spirit, but much afflicted with the stone. Dr. Walker
calls him a stiff-rump'd Presbyterian."
ADDLE [C. or D.] THOMAS SHARP, M.A. Of Clare
Hall, Camb. Cousin to Abp. Sharp. Born at Little Horton,
near Bradford, of religious parents, who seeing his inclina-
tion to learning, and hopefulness for religion, dedicated him
to God in the work of the ministry, tho' as their eldest son,
he was likely to have a considerable estate. He was sent to
Camb. in 1649, under the tuition of Mr. D. Clarkson (his
mother's brother) who, on quitting the university, committed
him to the care of Mr. (afterwards Abp.) Tillotson. He was
very studious, and having excellent natural abilities and great
advantages, he became a universal scholar. Having been
episcopally ordained, he first entered on public work at Peter-
borough, from whence he removed into his native country
about the year 1660. On the death of his uncle, Mr. Wm.
Clarkson, minister of Addle, he was presented to that par-
sonage by
Arthington, Esq; the patron. He en-
joyed
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joyed it but a little while, for upon the Restoration, Dr. Hich
of Guiseley challenged it as his. Mr. Sharp was willing to
resign, tho' Mr. Arthington was for trying his title to pre-
sent by law; and the rather, as he foresaw a storm. He had
easily gotten other preferment, but for the Act of uniformity,
whereby he was silenced. Afterwards he lived privately in
his father's house, and followed his studies very closely. In
1672 he took out a licence, and preached in his own house,
whither great numbers resorted; and afterwards at Morley.
When Mr. Stretton removed to London, he succeeded him
in the congregation at Leeds, where he died Aug. 27, 1693,
aged 59.
He was every way a great man, and yet cloathed
with humility. He was very laborious in his work, full of
self-denial, exceedingly temperate, mortified to all earthly
enjoyments, and of a peaceable, catholic spirit. He was ex-
cellent in prayer, and a fluent preacher. His sermons were ela-
borate and accurate; and all his performances were exceed-
ingly polite and scholar-like. He made a very comfortable
exit, as may be seen in the printed account of him.
WORKS. Divine Comforts antidoting inward Perplexities-
Verses upon Sleep; printed under the name of Cleveland.. He left
several MSS. Tracts, and Poems.—One Mr. Smith, having extra-
vagantly commended the Liturgy, as if it had been compiled by a
synod of archangels, and was superior even to the divinely inspired
oracles, Mr. Sharp drew up this short account of it: "It is defec-
tive in necessaries, redundant in superfluities, dangerous in some
things, disputable in many, disorderly in all:" and then gave in-
stances of each. Calamy has preserved a copy.
ARDESLEY Chapel, near Wakefield. Mr. JEREMIAH
MARSDEN. Of Christ Ch. Col. Camb. He left a MS. en-
titled Contemplatio Vita Miserabilis. By this it appears.
that his whole life was a scene of afflictions. He was born
in 1626. He was sent to Manchester school, but having
too rigid a master, and troublesome times coming soon after,
he improved but little. He was then assisted in his learning
by his father, who was a minister; and who about 1647, be-
stowed the small portion that he had for him, in his support
at the university, where he continued about two years, but
was often ill. His father died at Neeston, June 30, 1648,
where his brother Samuel was minister; and there for a time,
he taught school for a subsistance. At length he became
an occasional preacher, and assisted other ministers. On May
24, 1654, he set out for London with Mr. Jollie, to apply to
the
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the Triers for their approbation for the service of the gospel.
Besides a certificate which he took with him, he had drawn
up what he thought might be sufficient for their satisfaction.
But when he appeared before them, his utterance and cou-
rage much failed him. They were however so indulgent as
to appoint Mr. Tombes to confer with him in private, who
had such satisfaction, that upon his making a report to the
rest, he had their common approbation. He lived for some
time at Wyrral in Cheshire, at Blackbourn, Heapy, North-
Alerton, Thornton, Halifax, and Warley; and he every
where found that God prospered his labours, for conviction
and conversion. Afterwards he went into Ireland, and was
for some time a preacher there. Soon after his return to
England he had a second invitation to Ireland, to a place
called Carloe; but being invited to Kendal, in 1658, he ac-
cepted, and obtained an augmentation of 6ol. for the first
year, as lecturer; but meeting with opposition he staid only
nine months, and removed to Hull, where he and his family
were planted in a garrison of safety, and a harbour of plenty,
and amongst a number of serious christians, with whom he
was well accepted. After about fifteen months residence
here as chaplain, he was driven by the violence of the times
(after some personal restraints) to Hague Hall, with H. J.
and W. and Mr. M. He had good help from the society of
Christians there, till a sad difference arose about the oath of
allegiance. Feb. 13, 1661, he was committed to York castle,
which he says, God made gain to him every way. While at
Hague, he had a call to preach at Ardesley, which he did till
Bartholomew-day, 1662.
His whole life afterwards was a perfect peregrination.
About 1674, he mentions his twenty-second remove, and ex-
claims, "O my soul, what a sojourning state hath thy life
been! now here, then there, and in no abiding posture! If
ever soul had, thou hast cause to seek and look after a better
inheritance, in the city that hath foundations of God's lay-
ing!" Afterwards, on reckoning up the mercies of his life,
he mentions this, as one, Never to be silenced for Christ, but
by human law, or external force. He blesses God, that tho'
he was often pursued, and hunted from place to place, from
the year 1662 to 1670, his pursuers, tho' sometimes near him,
failed of apprehending him. In his flight out of the country,
he was stopped at Coventry by a constable, and brought before
the mayor, who found no cause of detaining either him or
his. When he went to London, he met with friends, par-
ticularly
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ticularly a good widow, with whom he and his family lived
for some time. Provision was made for him by strangers,
without his seeking for it; and once he had 57. sent him, by
an unknown friend. After some time, he went to Henley,
where for about a year he preached in a barn, till July 13,
1675. Tho' he was found only reading the scriptures, he was
taken up and sent prisoner to Oxford. On his release, over-
tures were made for his succeeding Mr. Hardcastle at Bristol.
After many removes, and fourteen years continuance in or
near London, he was called to succeed Mr. Alexander Car-
michael in Lothbury. Sometimes he held his meetings at
Founders Hall, and afterwards, by Mr. Lye's permission, at
Dyers-Hall. In 1682 he appears troubled to hear of the re-
straint of Mr. Lawrence Wise, Mr. Francis Bampfield, Mr.
Gryffith, and other good men in Newgate, but yet would
not desist from taking all opportunities of preaching, till at
length he himself was seized, and committed to the same pri-
son, from whence he and Mr. Bampfield, about the same
time, were translated to a better world, in the 58th year of
his age. He outlived his three brothers, of whom he says,
that they all obtained mercy to be faithful.-He was known
about London by the name of Ralphson, (Ralph being the
name of his father) which he took on escaping hither when
charged with the Yorkshire plot. Under this name he was
written against by Mr. Baxter in 1684, on account of his
rigorous separating principles, which went so far as to decry
parish worship as idolatry. He was inclined to the notions
of the fifth-monarchists. He wrote several treatises.
ARMTHORP. Mr. HOLMES.
BARLEY Chapel (near Selbey.) ROBERT PICKERING.
M. A. Of Sidney Col. Camb. Born at Kippax. A modest,
humble, pious man; a good scholar, and a useful preacher.
When ejected, he maintained his integrity. He was some
time chaplain to Robert Dinely, Esq; at Bramhope, whence
he removed to Morley, and continued his labours there till
a few days before he died, Oct. 11, 1680. aged about 44.
Upon his tomb-stone in Morley chapel-yard, it is said, "He
accounted himself the meanest servant in the work of Jesus
Christ."
BEESTON [C.] Mr. CUDWORTH. He was an old man
when he was ejected in 1662. He was so intent upon preach-
ing as often to forget himself, and to hold out so long as to
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need some item to leave off. He died about the time that
the Corporation-act passed.
Mr. LEONARD SCURR. Of Sidney Col. Camb. Born
in Pontefract. He had a good estate in this neighbourhood.
Some time after being silenced here (where he assisted Mr.
Cudwortb) he and his mother, with a maid servant, lived re-
tired at a house in the park, where thieves broke in, rob-
bed and murdered them, set the house on fire, Jan. 22, 1680,
and then fled into Ireland, whither they were pursued. Two
of them were taken aud condemned; one was hanged in
chains, on Holbeck Green; the other was reprieved, in hopes
of a further discovery, which he could never be brought to
make. A narrative of this tragedy was printed. It was said
that Mr. Scurr, though a good preacher, was a man of a
bad character, and a scandal to his profession.
BILTON [V. Augm. 60l.] Mr. CORNELIUS Todd. Of
Clare Hall. Camb. Eldest son to Mr. Rob. Todd of Leeds.
He was born when his father was minister of Ledsham, and
baptized July 28, 1631. He had his school-learning at
Leeds, and at Cambridge was under the tuition of Mr. D.
Clarkson. After taking his degrees he became chaplain to
the religious and charitable Mrs. Leighton, and afterwards to
Lord Fairfax. He was ordained at Addle, Oct, 31, 16.55.
Lord Fairfax gave him the living of Bilborough, and in about
four years, he was preferred to Bilton, where he continued
till Aug. 24, 1662. He afterwards held on his ministry in
private, under many discouragements. But through the kind-
ness of Lord Wharton he lived at Heaugh manor near Tad-
caster, and received 81. per ann. during life. Upon the In-
dulgence in 1672, he was chosen one of the four ministers
who preached to a numerous congregation in a new meet-
ing-house at Leeds; where as he was preaching, Aug. 16,
1674, the officers, upon the information of two perjured
wretches, were sent by the mayor to discharge the assembly,
when he mildly addressed them to this effect: "That he
could not but lament it, that since, even in Rome and under
Nero, Paul could for two years be permitted to preach in hist
own hired house, he should not be allowed to preach in a
christian church and state." Tho' he was a very plain man,
and no fluent orator, what he said had such an effect, that
he went on quietly, without any farther disturbance that
day, and the officers behaved with much civility. But being
afterwards
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afterwards obliged to retire, he lived very privately at Heaugh
manor, preaching as he had opportunity, till he had a call to
Ellenthorpe, where the benevolent Lady Brook had given
500l. the interest of which was to be applied to the support
of a preaching minister. Mr. Todd had built a new vicarage-
house at Bilton, which cost him 100/.; but not being quite
finished at the time of his ejection, he was compelled to finish
it, at the expence of 10l. more, tho' he never lived in it, nor
was the old one habitable when he entered upon the living.
As he was preaching afterwards at the house of John Disney,
Esq; he was taken and sent prisoner to Pontefract, where
he was kept so close, that he was seized with a fever and
pleurisy, and narrowly escaped with his life. He died very
suddenly, June 29, 1696, aged 65, and was buried at Alne.
He was a pious man, an Israelite indeed. Mr. James
Taylor succeeded him, and copied his good example. Mr.
Todd, it is said, wrote the Confession of Faith, sometimes
bound up with the Assembly's Catechism.
BIRKIN, [R.] Mr. DAVID BARNS.
BOLTON, upon Dearn. Mr. NATHAN DENTON §. Of
Univ. Col. Oxf. Born in Bradfield parish in 1634, and
brought up in Worsborough grammar-school. He went to
Oxford in 1652, and was under Mr. T. Jones. When he be-
came graduate, he went to Cawthorne, where he taught a
free-school for some time, and preached for the minister of
the parish, and at High Hoyland, once a fortnight alternate-
ly. He was ordained at Hemsworth by the presbytery of the
West Riding, in order to serve High Hoyland parish. From
thence he removed to Darwent chapel in Derbyshire, where
he was useful, and from thence to Bolton, upon Dearn,
about 1660. He preached for a year after he was ejected
from hence, in 1662, at the parish church of Heckleton, by
the encouragement of Lady Jackson, sister to Sir G. Booth.
After that he preached occasionally, in this county and in
Derbyshire, continuing to live at Bolton: except for two
years, when the Five-mile-act removed him. He was living
in 1713, when he some times prenched at Great Haughton.
He was a picture of an old purican: A man of an unblame-
able life, who maintained his integrity to the last. He had
§ Dr. Calamy had mentioned a Mr. DENTON, as ejected from this place. But
it is supposed that he is the person placed among the Conformists in this
county, at Oswaldkirk and Stonegrave, whose name was JoнN.
several
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several good offers in the church, and T. Vincent, Esq;
would have given him a living of 100l. per ann. but he re-
fused, and declared that he never repented of his Noncon-
formity. He had a son, a Dissenting Minister in this county.
BRADFIELD [C.] Mr. RowLAND HANCOCK. He was
first ejected from Ecclesfield [R.S.] in 1660. Upon theOxford-
act he was entertained by Mr. Sylvanus Rich, of Bullhouse.
When that the storm was over, he returned to Shertliff
Hall, near Sheffield, where he had before lived and preached,
maintaining a weekly lecture at Bradfield. As he was preach-
ing an occasional sermon at Alverthorp, he was taken and
committed prisoner by two justices to York castle. In the
latter part of his life he was seized with the palsy, and lan-
guished under other painful disorders, which he bore with
invincible patience, and died April 14, 1685. He was a very
pious man, of excellent natural abilities, and considerable
learning, tho' he had not a university education. His sermons
were succinct, methodical, and elaborate.
BRADFORD [C. or D.] JONAS WATERHOUSE, M. A.
Sometime Fellow of St. John's Col. Camb. A learned man,
a lover of peace, and greatly esteemed for his works-sake.
After his ejectment he lived privately, and frequented the
established worship; but usually preached on the Lord's-day
evening in his own house.
BRAMHAM [V.] Mr. THOMAS HARDCASTLE. Born
at Barwick upon Holm, and trained up there under Mr. Jack-
son, a learned divine. He was but a young preacher when
the Act of uniformity came out; after which he preached at
Shadwell chapel and other places. He was a man of good
abilities and a bold spirit, fearing no danger; but of great mo-
deration and catholicism. He was several times a prisoner
at York, Leeds, and Chester. He became pastor to a society
of moderate Baptists at Bristol, where he was sent to the
house of correction. He died in that city, in 1679. § The
following account of him is extracted from the Church-book
of Broadmead meeting. "He was a Champion for the
Lord, very courageous in his work and sufferings. His zeal
provoked many before he came to Bristol, after he had thrown
off conformity. He suffered about eight months imprison-
ment in York castle, and there because he would not give
bond to preach no more, as some ministers his fellow pri-
soners did to get free, he was carried thence out of his coun-
ty
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ty eighty miles, to Chester Castle, and there he was kept
fifteen months more, close prisoner, and there by an order
from the King he was released without bonds, and came to
London, and there he was baptized. After that he was taken
up for preaching, and by the Conventicle-act was six months
prisoner in London. Then being called by this Church to
be their pastor; for the defence of the gospel was twice im-
prisoned at Bristol, two six months, still preaching as soon
as ever he came forth, and so continued till his death, hav-
ing been our Pastor about seven years and a quarter. He
was seven times imprisoned for Christ and a good con-
science, after he left off Conformity."
WORKS. A Treatise upon Matt. vi. 34. called Christian
Geography and Arithmetic. He printed some excellent Discourses
of Mr. Garbutt's, entitled, One come from the Dead to awaken
Drunkards.
BRAMHOPE [C.] Mr. ZECHARIAH CROSSLY. He en-
joyed liberty by connivance as long as he lived, (which was
only two years after his ejectment) by means of his patron,
Robert Dinely, Esq; whose house was a common receptacle
for Nonconformist Ministers, where he maintained lectures
to the time of his death, 1689, § aged 83. Mr. Oliver Hey-
wood, in his diary, confirms this accounr of Mr. Dinely, and
records some of his losses and sufferings.
BROADSWORTH [V.] Mr. WILLIAM HAWDEN.
Born near Leeds. Upon the Five. mile-act he went to Sher-
born, and afterwards removed to Wakefield. He preached
both at home and abroad, when opportunity offered, as long
as his sight continued; but for the last eight or nine years of
his life he was blind. However, he still had frequent meet-
ings in his own house. He was an orthodox divine, a great
enemy to all vice, a zealous promoter of what was good, and
a man of great magnanimity and resolution. In 1685, when
the Duke of Monmouth landed, he was sent prisoner to Hull,
and thence conveyed to York castle, where the commis-
sioners required him to be bound to his good behaviour,
which he peremptorily refused, knowing no occasion for it;
but the matter was compromised, upon a friend's passing his
word for him. He died Aug. 26, 1699, aged 88.
CAWOOD [C. or D.] ROBERT SHERBORNE, M. A.
Of Sidney Col. Camb. His father was vicar of Brayton, near
Selby,
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Selby. His birth was premature, and so were his after im-
provements; for he was a man, a christian and a scholar,
earlier than most others. He was put to Coxwold school, under
the famous Mr. Smelt, where he became fit for the univer-
sity at thirteen, and at fourteen was admitted, having Mr.
Parrot for his tutor. He afterwards lived some time with
Mr. Maskill of Sherborn, by whom he was assisted in the
Hebrew, at the same time advancing in his other studies.
His first ministerial labours were at Kellington, and in 1659,
he removed to Cawood, where he was a pious and laborious
preacher, joining with the neighbouring ministers in their
public lectures and private exercises. He found so much
sweetness in divine ordinances, that he earnestly recommend-
ed a constant attendance on them to others, and even to such
as pleaded deafness in excuse, and related an instauce of a
good man in his parish at Kellington, who tho' totally deaf,
attended constantly, and thought he enjoyed more communion
with God, and had more comfort then, than at other times.
He also urged the influence of example. Having laboured
in the word and doctrine about three years, the Uniformity-
act disabled him. His father conformed, and kept his living
at Brayton, and the son went to live with him, and by con-
nivance assisted him. The father read the prayers, and ad-
ministered the sacraments, according to the usage of the
church of England, preaching now and then, but the son
more constantly; and he was generally beloved by the hearers,
among whom his labours were greatly successful. The
Abp.'s connivance engaged the hearts of many good people
to pray for him. Thus he held on for several years; but his
constitution not bearing hard labour, and that ardour of spirit
which he discovered in all, he sunk under his burden, fell
into a consumption, and in a few weeks died, 1670 or 1671.
His loss was much lamented in all those parts. His fune-
ral sermon was preached by Mr. Ralph Ward, in Brayton
church.
CHAPPLETON [C.] Mr. STABLES.
COLEY, [a Chapelry] OLIVER HEYWOOD, B. D.
Of Trin. Col. Camb. He was born of parents distinguish-
ed for piety and worth, at Little Leaver, near Bolton, in Lan-
Instead of the former account of Mr. Heywood, the following more per-
fect one is substituted, drawn up by the Editor's friend, the Rev. P. Smith,
intor of Homerton academy.
cashire,

اد
Rev Oliver Heywood
From an original Painting in the possession of
Wifa Heywood, Mansfield.
Published June 30.1801, by Button & Son, Pater Noster Row.
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cashire, March, 1629. He set a special remark on the day
of his being baptized, using on its annual returns to renew his
baptismal covenant, and dedicated himself afresh to God.
He gave very early signs of great tenderness of conscience and
delight in divine things, with an earnest desire to be, as he
used to express it when a mere child, a good minister."
This encouraged his parents to think of devoting him to the
work of the sanctuary. After being trained up in grammar-
learning at home, he went to Cambridge in 1647, and, on
the recommendation of Dr. Hill, then master of Trin. Col.
was put under the tuition of Mr. Akhurst, who was esteem-
ed a man of religion and learning, tho' he too much affected
singularity in his notions, and afterwards fell into the wild
excesses of the first Quakers; from which, however, he was
recovered before his death. Mr. Heywood's good father,
on settling him at Cambridge, left with him a paper con-
taining these sensible and serious injunctions.
"My Son, labour above all things to make your peace
with God, by humbling your soul evening and morning and
oftener before him, that you may know that God hath be-
gun a good work of grace in your heart.-Be very frequent
in reading the Scriptures, with knowledge and understand-
ing, that you may be a good scribe, armed against tempta-
tions, and able to convince gainsayers.-Labour to get every
day some sanctified thoughts and spiritual meditations, which
will be a heavenly life and walking with God; and write
them in a book, and title it, The Meditations of my Youth.
-Take short notes of every sermon you hear, and write
some fair over for your loving mother.-Often remember
how short and precious your time is, and that upon it depends
eternity.-[as to society] Keep a mean: neither too solitary,
lest you be melancholy; nor too much desire company, lest
you be drawn aside; and above all take heed of bad compa-
ny, and seek out for good."
Mr. Heywood was greatly benefited by attending the reli-
gious meetings of the serious scholars of his college, and
often heartily blessed God for the profit and pleasure which
he derived from the ministry of Dr. Hill and Mr. Hammond,
who were then the most celebrated preachers in the univer-
sity. He pursued his studies most industriously; but he af-
terwards declared that he blamed himself for not applying
more to philosophical and other human learning, and said,-
"I prize learning above all sublunary excellencies, and I
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might have been more useful had I inproved my time better
therein."
When he had taken his Bachelor's degree, he returned to
his father's house, where he lived about half a year in close
retirement. At length, by the advice and solicitation of se
veral ministers, he began to preach; and after some time,
in which his occasional services were greatly approved, he
was earnestly invited to Coley, where he settled in Nov.
1650. He was ordained by the ministers of the second classis
in Lancashire, at Bury Church, Aug. 4, 1652. In 1655 he
married Elizabeth the Daughter of the excellent Mr. Angier,
ejected from Denton, with whom he lived in the sweetest
affection and comfort about six years. She died in May
1661. His annual income from the chapelry never exceed-
ed 361. per ann. and after his ejectment he was sometimes
in distress; yet providence so seasonably and abundantly ap-
peared for him, that he was not only enabled to support the
heavy expences of fines, imprisonment, and much other hard
usage, but he maintained two sons in academical learning,
and completed their education at one of the Scotch universi-
ties, tho' his charitable donations to the poor generally ex-
ceeded his income from his people; and at his death he left a
decent property to his family. But he enjoyed the greatest
riches in the abundant success which it pleased God to give
to his labours, in the conversion and edification of multi-
tudes of souls.
It was even asserted by those who had the best means of
Information, that some thousands were indebted to his mi-
nistry for deep and abiding impressions of divine things. Yet
with all this amazing success, it was manifest that he habi-
tually considered himself as less than the least of all saints.
He was not, however, without painful difficulties. Some of
his people were exceedingly displeased with him for not ad-
initting all persons promiscuously to the Lord's Table, and
others because he would not countenance their unchari-
table rigidness in the opposite extreme. On account of his
quiet and peaceable attachment to the exiled royal family, he
suffered considerably. For his not returning God thanks
for the defeat of the Scots, and the suppression of Sir George
Booth's insurrection, he was cruelly treated by some of his
own people, was apprehended by a party of Col. Lilburne's
troops, and was fined by military authority. Notwithstand-
ing these molestations, and his presentation by Sir R. Hough-
ton to the vicarage of Preston, worth 100l per ann. he would
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not quit his humble and useful station. He greatly admired,
and zealously put in practice Mr. Baxter's admirable instruc-
tions in the Reformed Pastor.
After the Restoration, he was prosecuted with much ma-
lice and harassing vexations in the Consistorial Court at
York, for not reading the Common Prayer, though it was a
whole year before the Act of uniformity took place and in
a little time, he was by the Abp.'s chancellor suspended ab
officio. The suspension was published at Halifax, June 29,
1662. Upon this Mr. Heywood forbore preaching at Coley
for a short time, and did not attempt to get the suspension
taken off, as he knew the Act of uniformity would silence
him the following August. Yet he took a solemn farewell
of his flock, by preaching two or three Lord's days among
them before that fatal day. On the 2d. of November follow-
ing, an excommunication was published against him in Ha-
lifax church. Hereupon he applied to the chancellor at
York, but found that neither favour nor justice could be ob-
tained, unless he would violate his conscience by taking the
oath de parendo jure, &c. (to obey the authority and abide
by the commands of the church). Going afterwards to Coley
chapel, the church-warden (who at the same time declared
that he would levy the fines upon him for not coming to
church) ordered him to leave the place because he was excom-
municated; but he refused, and ventured to stay till the wor-
ship was over. He was again éxcommunicated in the follow-
ing year. In 1664, the writ came out to imprison him as an
excommunicated person; but he mostly kept himself in pri-
vacy, preaching to small parties in his own house; tho' he
several times ventured into the public churches of Holmfirth
and Penistone, at the request of the clergymen and church-
wardens; in which course he met with little molestation.-
He was once sent for by the parish minister of Honley, a pro-
fane young man, then in a fatal consumption; who, on Mr.
Heywood's arrival, confessed with agonies of conscience his
dreadful sin, in taking upon him the ministry while he knew
himself to be unconverted, begged him to pray with him,
and earnestly asked him what repentance was? Mr. Hey-
wood gave him the best advice, and was desired to come
again, but before he could go, this clergyman died, without
any evidence of his obtaining mercy. An awful warning
for ungodly ministers !-Upon the Five-mile-act, Mr. Hey-
wood left his family and retired into Lancashire and other
parts, coming home very privately and seldom. But after
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some time he took more liberty, and often preached publicly
in the chapels of Idle, Bramly, Farsly, Pudsey, Morley and
Hunslet. In 1667, he married a second wife, Abigail
Crompton, a godly and excellent woman, who survived him
five years.
In 1669, preaching occasionally in a private house near
Leeds, he was taken before the Mayor, who treated him in
the most outrageous manner, and threw him into a filthy pri-
son, called Capon-hall: but the next day, on the interposi-
tion of some persons of influence, he was released, and civilly
Treated by the Mayor. In July, the same year, for preach-
ing to his old people in Coley chapel, in the absence of the
minister, Mr. Hoole, and at the desire of many parishioners,
his goods were seized for the penalty of 10l. but nobody
would buy them, and those who took and detained them
were observably followed by troubles. Upon King Charles's
Indulgence, he had a licence sent him without seeking it. He
then preached constantly on the Lord's day to his own peo-
ple at Northouram, near Coley, and on the week days in
many neighbouring places. Mr. Hoole, mentioned above,
was the most respectable of Mr. Heywood's successors; but
there were several in a very short period after his ejectment,
in the lowest life, and of the most immoral characters.
Such in many other cases were they, for whose sakes the no-
ble army of Nonconformists were ejected!
On the calling in of the licences, Mr. Heywood was again
much persecuted, and in 1680, was cited into the Consistory
Court at York, together with his wife and several of his
neighbours, for not going to the sacrament at Halifax
church. For not appearing, they were all excommunicated;
but this storm soon blew over. The officers who were sent
to execute warrants, usually gave previous notice of their
coming, and so made no discoveries. In January 1685,
Mr. Heywood was indicted at Wakefield sessions for a riot-
ous assembly, in worshipping God in his own house, and had
a fine of 50l. imposed upon him; for non-payment of which,
and for not finding sureties that he should forbear preaching,
he was sent to York castle, where he had a very expensive
confinement for a whole year. On this and other occasions,
the excellent Lady Hewley was very kind to him. After
K. James's declaration for liberty of conscience, he preached
constantly to his congregation at Northouram, and built
(in a great measure at his own expence) a meeting-house,
which has continued to the present day, for the service of
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God. The unwearied diligence, humility, self-denial and
sweetness of temper which this holy man discovered, com-
manded the love of all that were not enemies to all righte-
ousness; and his memory is precious in those parts of York-
shire to this hour. It appears from his Diary, which he kept
till within five days of his death, that in one year, 1681,
(besides his stated work on the Lord's-day) he preached 150
times, kept fifty days of fasting and prayer, and nine of
thanksgiving; and travelled 1400 miles in service to Christ
and immortal souls. This was the greatest number of miles
travelled in any year; but several years exceed in the other
particulars. His last sermon was on the Sabbath but one
before his death, from 2 Tim. ii. 19. He died in great peace
and joy with little pain except debility, on May 4, 1702, aged
73. His publications are in high estimation for sound, lively,
practical, heart-affecting divinity.
He left two sons by his first wife, both of them in the mi-
nistry; John, who was pastor of a church at Rotherham, and
afterwards at Pontefract. Eliezer was minister at Drou-
field in Derbyshire, and died in 1730, at 73. His son, the
late Mr. Eliezer Heywood, was minister of the Presbyterian-
meeting at Mansfield for thiry-three years, and died in 1783;
where his respectable family yet continue.
§ To the above account it is proper to add, that a few years
ago The Life of the Rev. Oliver Heywood, with historical
sketches of the times in which he lived, &c. was published by
the Rev. J. Fawcett, A. M.
That author has recorded among others, the two following
remarkable interpositions of providence in favour of this man
of God, which the editor thinks deserving of a place here.-
Mr. Heywood being reduced to great straits, after the loss of
his income, so that his children began to be impatient for
want of food, called his servant Martha (who would not
desert the family in their distress) and said to her, "Martha,
take a basket and go to Halifax: call upon Mr. N. the shop-
keeper, and desire him to lend me five shillings. If he is
kind enough to do it, buy such things as you know we most
want. The Lord give you good speed, and in the mean
time we will offer up our requests to him who feedeth the
young ravens when they cry.' Martha went, but when she
came to the house, her heart failed her, and she passed by the
door again and again, without going in to tell her errand.
Mr. N. standing at the shop door, called her to him, and
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asked her if she was not Mr. Heywood's servant. When she
told him that she was, he said to her, "I am glad to see
you, as some friends have given me five guineas for your
master, and I was just thinking how I could send it." Úpon
this she burst into tears, and told him her errand. He was
much affected with the story, and bid her come to him if
the like necessity should return. Having procured the ne-
cessary provisions, she hastened back with them, when upon
her entering the house the children eagerly examined the
basket, and the father hearing the servant's narrative, smiled.
and said, "The Lord hath not forgotten to be gracious; his
word is true from the beginning: they that seek the Lord
shall not want any good thing."-The other anecdote is ast
follows:
When the spirit of persecution was so hot against this good
man that he was obliged to leave his family, he set off on
horseback one winter's morning, before it was light, like
Abraham, not knowing whither he went, and without a far-
thing in his pocket. Having committed himself to the care
of providence, he determined at length to leave his horse to
go which way he would. Having gone all day without any
refreshment, the horse towards the evening bent his course
to a farm-house, a little out of the road. Mr. Heywood call-
ing at the door, a decent woman came, of whom he request-
ed (after a suitable apology) that she would give him and his
horse shelter for the night, telling her that he only wished
for a little hay for the beast, and liberty for himself to sit by
her fire-side. Upon calling her husband, they both kindly in-
vited him in. The mistress soon prepared something for him
to eat, at which he expressed his concern, as he said he had
no money to make them any recompence, but hoped God
would reward them. They assured him that he was wel-
come, and begged him to make himself easy. After some
time, the master asked him what country-man he was. He
answered, that he was born in Lancashire, but had now a
wife and children near Halifax. “That is a town, said the
farmer, where I have been, and had some acquaintance.'
After inquiring about several of them, he asked if he knew
any thing of one Mr. O. Heywood, who had been a minister near
Halifax, but was now, on some account, forbid to preach.”
To which he replied, "There is a great deal of noise about
that man; some speak well, and some very ill of him: for
my own part I can say very little in his favour."—“I believe,
said the farmer, he is of that sect which is every where spoken
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against: but pray what makes you form such an indifferent
opinion of him?" Mr. H. answered, "I know something of
him, but as I do not chuse to propagate an ill report of any
one, let us talk on some other subject."—After keeping the
farmer and his wife some time in suspense, who were un-
easy at what he had said, he at length told them, "That he
was the poor out-cast after whom they made such kind in-
quiries. All was then surprise, joy and thankfulness, that
providence had brought him under their roof. The master of
the house then said to him, "I have a few neighbours who
love the gospel if you will give us a word of exhortation, I
will run and acquaint them. This is an obscure place, and
as your coming here is not known, I hope we shall have
no interruption." Mr. Heywood consented, and a small con-
gregation was gathered, to whom he preached with that fer-
vour, affection and enlargement, which the singular circum-
stances served to inspire. A small collection was then volun-
tarily made to help the poor traveller on his way *.
WORKS. Heart-Treasure.-Closet Prayer.-Sure Mercies:
of David.-Life in God's Favour.-Israel's Lamentation.—Mr.
Angier's Life. Baptismal Bonds.-Meetness for Heaven-Family
Altar.-The Best Entail.-A New Creature.-Job's Appeal.
Heavenly Converse.-The Two Worlds.-A Treatise of Christ's
Intercession. He also printed and prefaced several books of others,
§ And he left a number of volumes in MS, neatly written and
bound, some of which the editor has perused by favour of his de-
scendants at Mansfield, to whom the public is indebted for his
portrait.
CROFTON, near Wakefield [R.] EDWARD HILL, M. A.
Of Christ's Col. Camb. He had formerly been a Confor-1
mist, but could not fall in with the new settlement in 1662.
He was a pious, grave, and aged divine, of an excellent tem-
per. Upon the Five-mile-act he removed to Shibden near
Halifax. He and his wife, who lived together forty years,
died within two hours of each other, in Jan. 1669. It
* Mr. Fawcett, at the end of his book, has this note, with reference to
the above pleasing narrative. Mr. J. Hudson of Clayton, has been so kind
as to inform me, that fifty years ago, he conversed with an aged woman of
the name of Ann Shute, who was present on the occasion, and tho' then a
child, had a perfect recollection of the circumstances recorded. The Farm-
house was called Moneybents, three miles beyond Gisburn in Craven. This
interview providentially introduced Mr. Heywood to a new circle of ac-
quaintance, among whom he afterwards preached with great success.
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was he who first subscribed the Vindiciae Veritatis, &c. in
1648.- On a tombstone in Halifax church-yard, is this in-
scription: "In memory of Mr. EDWARD HILL, late Rector
"of Crofton, aged 79 years; and of Ann his wife, who hav-
"ing been married fifty-three years, died both on the same
day, Jan. 1668." The History of Halifax says, he had
been vicar of Huddersfield.
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DENBY Chapel (in Peniston parish) JOHN CROOK M. A.
Of Magd. Col. Camb. under Mr. Jos. Hill. He was born
at Sheffield, where his father, a hardware-man, was very re-
markable for charity, statedly giving the tenth of his income
to pious uses. And God so prospered him, that he left a
good estate to his son, who was a sober man, of strong na-
tural abilities both of body and mind; active and vigorous in
a good cause, and well able to defend the truth by argument:
but was said to be less generous than his father. After his
ejectment, he preached but seldom and privately. Tho' he
was very temperate, he was long afflicted with the gout,
which at last rose upwards and suffocated him. He died at
Wakefield, Jan. 9, 1687.
HALIFAX [V. 84/.] Mr. ELY BENTLEY. Some time
Fellow of Trin. Col. Camb. Born at Sowerby Ang. 1652,
he became assistant to Mr. Booth at Halifax, after whose
death he continued alone till Aug. 1662. The Five-mile-
act drove him away: but in 1672 he returned and preached.
in his own house. He died July 31, 1675, aged 49. He
was a man of good abilities, a solid, serious preacher, of a
very humble behaviour, very useful in his place, and much
respected.
*CHAPEL-LE-BREARS, near Halifax. Mr. GAMA-
LIEL MARSDEN. Of Trin. Col. Dublin, where he conti-
nued ten years, part of which time he was Fellow. He was
turned out with Dr. Winter upon the Restoration, and then
§ That event took place A. D. 1657.—In the history of Halifax it is said,
that "This Mr. Booth was a man of that worth and excellency in learning and
divinity, that he deserved the title of another Apollos, and seemed like
Jeremiah and the Baptist, to be separated from the womb to the ministerial
office. So temperate and healthful, so indefatigable in the labours of his
study, and so divinely contemplative in the exercises of his mind, that he
appeared to be made up of virtue; being a stranger to all things but the ser-
vice of heaven. When he spoke from the pulpit, it was with that power
of truth, and eloquence of style, that he charmed his hearers into love and
admiration."
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came into England. He had but 57. when he landed at Li-
verpool, and knowing nobody there, he resolved to go to
Coley, where his father had been minister long before. There
he found friends, and was soon fixed in this chapel, whence
he was ejected 1662. He afterwards went to Holland, and
on his return taught some young students philosophy, &c.
at Hague-hall. His brother Jeremy in a MS. of his says,
He was a man of much sound learning and skill in the lan-
guages, a very hard student, but no very pleasing preacher.
He was a moderate Congregationalist, a man of great piety
and integrity, and after the death of Mr. Chr. Marshal, pas-
tor of the church at Woodkirk. He died May 25, 1681,
aged 47.
HANSWORTH. Mr. WILLIAM CART. An eminent
scholar, and great divine. He resided here several years after
his ejectment in 1662. Major Taylor, of Wallingwells, near
Worksop, committed his only child to his tuition, when he
was sent by King Charles to fortify Tangier, and he was
faithful to his trust. His pupil proved a very worthy gentle-
man, and a useful magistrate. Mr. Cart died in 1674.
HEATON. Mr. LEA.
HEMSWORTH [C.] STEPHEN CHARMAN, M. A. A
good scholar, a very substantial divine, a pious, laborious and
faithful minister, but not so successful as some of his bre-
thren. He died in 1667.
HICKLETON [C.] Mr. HUGH EVERARD. An emi-
nent divine, a solid preacher, of excellent abilities. When
he was turned out, Sir JOHN JACKSON took him into his house.
as chaplain, and his wife as house-keeper. He was very
useful in the family, and died there in 1665.
HOLBECK [Chap. to Leeds]. Mr. ROBERT ARMYtage.
A pious man, and a plain, useful preacher. A man of spirit,
yet sober, solid, and peaceable; of great zeal for God, and
against sin. He had been a chaplain in the Parliamentary
army. When silenced, he lived privately in Holbeck, for a
time, but upon the Five-mile-act retired to a private corner
near Halifax. He afterwards returned and preached in his own
house. Tho' some watched for an advantage against him,
he was never imprisoned. So far was he from a party spirit,
that it was never known whether he was Presbyterian,
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Congregational, or Episcopal. He died April 20, 1689,
aged 78.
HONLEY [C.] Mr. DAVID DRURY. A native of Scot-
land. After his ejectment he returned thither, where he
fared much better than many of his brethren in the reign of
Charles II, but was continually changing his place. He died
at Edinburgh, about the time of the first General Assembly,
in the reign of K. William. He was eminent for piety, and
for his gift in prayer.
HOPTON [in Halifax parish]. Mr. RICHARD THOrp.
HOWORTH. Mr. ROBERT TOWN, senior. Formerly
minister at Ealand, in the vicarage of Halifax. He died in
1663, aged about 70. § It was said that he had imbibed some
unsound principles, but he was a man of good character.
HOYLAND, Mr. INMAN. After his ejectment, he
kept school at Clayton, and lived obscurely. He died in
March, 1689, aged 66. He was a good scholaṛ.
HUNSLETE [Chap. to Leeds.] THOS. HAWKSWORTH,
M. A. Of Magd. Col. Camb. Admitted curate here in 1636.
Upon the Five-mile-act he retired to Alverthorp Hall, near
Wakefield, where he died Nov. 23, 1667. He was an able,
judicious preacher, and an instrument of good to many; a
good scholar, an excellent Hebrician, a pious man, and of a
very peaceable temper.
IDLE [C.] Mr. THOMAS SMALLWOOD. Of Oxford
university. Born in Cheshire. Some time chaplain to Lord
Fairfax, and afterwards to Lambert in the army. He was turn-
ed out of Batly, a sequestered living, in 1660, and preached
in Idle chapel till 1662. He was a man of a noble, valiant,
active spirit. His great delight and excellency lay in preach-
ing for the conviction and awakening of sinners, in which
God wonderfully prospered him. He was a moderate Con-
gregationalist, ready to act in concert with his brethren.
Upon the Five-mile-act he removed to Flanshaw Hall near
Wakefield, where he died Nov. 24, 1667, aged 60.
KERBY-HALL [Q. Kirkby on the Hill, N. R.] Mr.
JOSHUA SMITH. Of Clare-hall, Camb. where he made good
proficiency in learning. He was born at Leeds. When he
settled here, he became a very zealous preacher, took much
pains in instructing his people, both in public and private;
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and the Lord greatly succeeded his endeavours. He did
much good in a little time, and quickly ended his race.
died in 1662.
He
KIRK-HEATON [R.] Mr. CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON.
After his ejectinent, he retired to his own house at Lassell-
Hall. Besides preaching on Lord's-days, he had a lecture
in his house once a month, in which several of his brethren
united. He afterwards went to Liverpool, where he preach-
ed once a fortnight, and the intervening day at Turtoth Park
chapel. His preaching was to the last, very neat and ac-
curate, tho' plain and popular. He had a healthful consti-
tution, which continued till old age. He died in December,
1698, aged about 80. He was mighty in the scriptures, be-
ing able on a sudden to analyze, expound, and improve any
chapter he read in the pious families which he visited. In
Yorkshire he was much followed. A neighbouring minister,
whose parishioners used to go to hear him, complaining once
to him, that he drew away his flock, Mr. Richardson an
swered, "Feed them better, and they will not stray §."
Toud,
LEEDS. ROBERT TOUD, M. A. Of Jesus Col. Camb.
Born in 1594, at South-Cave, in the East Riding of this county.
After taking his degrees, he became minister of Swinfleet
chapel, and afterwards of Whitgift church. He also lived
and preached in his younger days at Holderness, where his
memory was long esteemed. It appears from the Register
at York, that he was one of forty-five who were ordained
Sept. 2, 1621, by Abp. Matthews. In 1625 he was present-
ed by R. Harebred, Esq; to the vicarage of Ledsham. Upon
the death of Mr. Garbut he was called to be lecturer at the
old church in Leeds, which being too small for the inha-
bitants, Mr. Harrison built a new one, of which Mr. Todd
was the first incumbent. He was a faithful and laborious
minister there above thirty years, and for twenty of them.
preached twice every Lord's-day, besides many occasional
sermons. In the former part of his time he used to expound
the church catechism in the afternoon. When the church
was consecrated by Abp. Neile, Dr. Cosins (afterwards Bp.
of Durham) preached on 1 Cor. xiv. 40. Let all things be
§ Not a very kind or modest answer; nor was it founded on a general
truth. Sheep will sometimes stray from a good pasture, and many hearers
will rove abroad after other preachers, who have better at home, preferring
what is novel to what is useful.
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done decently and in order. Mr. Todd in the afternoon ex-
pounded these words in the catechism which fell in course,
Yes, verily, and by God's help so I will. Something that he
said, was supposed to reflect upon the hyperconformity re-
commended in the Dr.'s sermon; which was so resented that
he was silenced for twelve months. Sir Arthur Ingram and
Mr. Harrison procured his liberty. After this he so indus-
triously applied himself to promote the good of souls, that
even the danger of the plague, which followed soon after,
did not deter him. During that visitation which swept away
above 1300 persons, he preached on Hezekiah's boil, which
many have thought to be the plague; and his sermons were
made effectual to the conversion of many souls. He was a
great textuary, and a very scriptural preacher. He used to
hold a weekly conference with some of his people on some
passage of scripture, or some case of conscience, proposed
the week foregoing. He was an excellent scholar, a solid,
substantial, and agreeable preacher, tho' his voice was re-
markable loud. He was also a very holy and humble man.
When the Act of uniformity silenced him, he was deeply
affected with it as a severe providence; but tho' he mourned
in secret, he continued his attendance on public worship, and
afterwards preached privately in his own house, till his last
sickness; when R. Chomley, Esq; in gratitude for the good
he had received under his ministry, desired leave to send for
a physician: "No, says he, there is but one in England who
can do me good, and that is K. Charles, by giving me liberty
to preach." To a friend who enquired after the state of his
mind as to his assurance, he said, that he would not be too
confident, nor too diffident; that he would neither presume
nor despair. He died in a very pious frame, Jan. 16, 1664,
aged 67, and was interred in the chancel of the church in
which he had been so long a useful preacher, where is a very
modest inscription upon his tomb-stone. At Leeds his MS,
sermons were kept in many hands as a precious treasure.
Mr. JAMES SALES. Of Camb. university. A learn-
ed and pious man, of fine parts, and an excellent preacher.
He was born at Pudsey. When he left Cambridge, he spent.
some time with Mr. Reyner of Lincoln. He was some time
minister of Thorton chapel, and was called to be assistant to
Mr. Todd, 1647. When he was silenced, he lived at his
own house at Pudsey, and constantly preached there to the
neighbourhood, till God disabled him by a lingering disease,
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which issued in a palsey. He died in April 21, 1679. He
was a companion and great comfort to old Mr. Wales, with
whom he served as a son in the gospel.
Of St. John's Col.
CHRISTOPHER NESSE, M. A.
Camb. Son of Thomas Nesse, of North Cave, in the East
Riding of Yorkshire, where he was born Dec. 26, 1621, and
educated under Mr. Seaman in grammar-learning, till he was
sixteen. Having spent seven years at Cambridge, he retired
into the country in the time of the civil war, and preached
for a while at Cliffe chapel, under the inspection of his uncle
Bearcliff, an eminent divine, vicar of North-Cave. From
thence he received a call to Holderness, and after a few
years, to Beverley, where he taught school, and preached
occasionally. Dr. Winter being elected Provost of Trin.
Col. Dublin, resigned to Mr. Nesse his living at Cottingham
near Hull, where he was instrumental in the conversion of
many souls, particularly Thomas Raspin, one of the most
substantial persons in that town,
when grey
hairs were upon
him. After some years he was called to Leeds, where also
many had cause to bless God for him. From the year 1656
to 1660, he was lecturer to Mr. Stiles; and upon his death,
to Dr. Lake, afterwards Bp. of Chichester, with whom there
was very uncomfortable clashing; what was delivered in the
morning being confuted in the afternoon, till Aug. 1662, when
Mr. Nesse, being ejected for Nonconformity, preached in
private. The Duke of Buckingham would afterwards have
complimented him into Conformity, as related by himself in
his Divine Legacy, p. 203. Upon the Five-mile-act he re-
tired to Clayton, and from thence to Morley. When the
times grew more favourable, he had a house of his own at
Hunslet, where he instructed youth, and preached in private,
till 1672, when the main riding-house being converted to a
meeting-house, he there preached publicly to a numerous
auditory. Having been three times excommunicated, upon
the fourth there was issued out a writ de excom. cap. to avoid
which be removed to London, 1675, and preached to a pri-
vate congregation. He died Dec. 26, 1705, aged 84, and
was buried at Bunhill-fields.
WORKS. The Crown and Glory of a Christian,-The Chris-
tian's Walk and Work on Earth.-A Protestant Antidote against
the Poison of Popery.-The Chrystal Mirror; or Christian Look-
ing-glass-Discovery of the person and period of Antichrist.
The Devil's Patriarch; in the Life of Pope Innocent XI.-A Spiri-
tual
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tual Legacy for young Men.-Half a sheet on the Blazing-star.-
A Philosophical and divine Discourse on the Comet, 1681.-A
Whip for the Fool's Back.-A Key, with the Whip, to unfold the
Intrigues of Absalom and Achitophel.-A Church History from
Adam, and a Script. Prophecy to the end of the World,-A Token
or New-Year's Gift for Children.-Wonderful Signs of wonderful
Times.—Advice to the Painter upon the Earl of Shaftsbury's en-
largement from the Tower.-An Astrol. and Theol. Disc. upon
the great Conjunction.-A Triplicity of stupendous Prodigies,
v. g. Eclipse, Comet, and Conjunction.-History and Mystery of
the Old and New Test. in 4 vol.-Antidote ag. Arminianism.-
Divine Legacy.-A Confutation of Popery in MS.
LAUGHTON en le Morthen. Mr. RICHARD WHITE-
HURST. After his ejectment he had a congregation_near
Bradford, from whence he removed to a people near Brid-
lington, where he died September 4, 1697. § It appears from
Mr. O. Heywood's MSS. that he "was living quietly in his
old place, Nov. 4, 1666."-This village was the residence of
the ancient family of the Hatfeilds, greatly distinguished for
its piety and steady attachment to the principles of the Non-
conformists. The mansion was spacious, and contained a
large Hall, where worship was frequently performed, not-
withstanding the severity of the laws. The preacher usually
stood in a passage, leading to other rooms, having in times
of uncommon danger, a thin curtain before him, thro' which
he could see the audience, tho' he could not easily be seen.
Of
LONG-HOUGHTON. Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR.
Mag. Col. Camb. under Mr. Jos. Hill. From a MS. of his,
entitled, "A Thankful Remembrance of some remarkable
"Acts of the Lord's good Providence," it appears that he
was born at Sheffield, May 17, 1636; that after he had spent
some years in the university, he became chaplain in Mrs.
Dalton's family, at Fulburn near Cambridge, and instructed
her sons, preaching in several towns in that neighbourhood,
as there was occasion; that from thence he removed into his
own country, and fixed in this place, where the Bartholo-
mew-act silenced him. He afterwards became chaplain to
Sir E. Rhodes, and after that lived at Mr. Wadsworth's, at
Swath-hall, near Barnsley §. On removing to Sheffield, he
§ Mr. Wadsworth was of a very respectable family and a steady Noncon-
formist. The Hall stands in a retired situation, very convenient for private
meetings. Mr. O. Heywood in his diary, calls him, "a very useful man;
member of a society at Topcliffe, who maintained meetings in his house
many years, &c."
died
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died in March 1681, aged not much above forty. He was
a serious, zealous christian, and a plain, laborious preacher.
God owned his ministry in these parts for the good of many.
The above MS. discovers much of the true spirit of piety and
devotion.
MOOR-MONCKTON. [R.] Mr. JAMES CONSTANTINE.
A pious and discreet man, a good scholar, and a judicious
preacher; very laborious in his Master's work, while he had
opportunity, and very successful. He died in 1665.
NUN-MONKTON [C.] Mr. IzOTT. A sincere chris-
tian, a great scholar, and an excellent preacher; but a man
of few words, and of a weakly constitution. He was a stran-
ger upon earth all his days, and lived as if he was in heaven.
He died about his fifty-second year.
PENISTON [V.] Mr. HENRY SWIFT. [He came to
this living about 1649, and] continued preaching after Bar-
tholomew-day, till he was imprisoned. He was three
months in York castle, several Nonconformists supplying
for him all the while; and as soon as he was at liberty, he
began to preach again. Having been imprisoned a third
time, he was prevailed with to take the Oxford oath. He
read some few prayers, to keep his place, but neither declared
his assent and consent, nor made the subscription required in
the Act of uniformity; and this being but a small vicarage,
for which there was no striving, he held on preaching here
till death, Oct. 31, 1689, aged 68.
PONTEFRACT [V.477.] Mr. JOSHUA FARRET. A
constant, laborious preacher, of competent gifts and learning.
He was in great straits after his ejectment, but did not part
with his library, which was a very good one.
He died in
1663, aged about 64.
POPLETON (near York). Mr. JOSIAH HOLDSWOorth.
born at Rippendon near Halifax, He was for some years mini-
ster in Essex, where he was useful to many. After his eject-
ment, in 1662, he removed to Wakefield. He afterwards
preached, for a year, at Idle chapel. He died at Wake-
field, Oct. 18, 1677, aged 75. He was a very intelligent
and pious man, of a very venerable aspect, and had great judg-
ment in physic.
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PUDSEY [C.] ELKANAH WALES, M. A. Of Trin. Col.
Camb. He was the second of seven sons of Mr. John Wales
of Idle, and was born there in 1588. When he had finished
his studies, he accepted this poor chapelry, where, without
the least secular advantage, he laboured mightily in the word
and doctrine, in praying, catechizing, and expounding; tho'
after all, without that success among his own people which
he desired, and others expected. But his ministry was effec-
tual upon multitudes of others, who from all the country
round flocked to hear him. He was indeed an excellent
preacher, of a profound judgment, and had an admirable art
in pressing practical truths home upon the conscience, and
illustrating things by pertinent and familiar similitudes. He
was also a person of great piety and an unspotted life. He
had several offers of preferment, and was invited to New-
castle. He was courted by some great men, with whom
he might easily have made his own terms. Lord Thomas
Fairfax had a singular esteem for him, and offered him seve-
ral places of considerable profit. Mr. Isaac Ambrose also
invited him, in Col. Rigby's name, to Rufford in Lancashire,
promising him a good stipend. And the committee at Lon-
don, for the northern parts, fixed on him for the city of Car-
lisle, where, the sum of 150l. was annually granted by par-
liament to a preaching minister, and he was accordingly in-
vited thither. He was also earnestly solicited to a pastoral
charge in New-England. But nothing could prevail with
him to leave his people, for whose spiritual welfare he was
extremely solicitous. And the great success of his ministry
at Leeds, (where he often preached at the monthly lecture)
and other adjacent parts, as well as upon strangers who heard
him constantly at Pudsey, induced him to continue here,
which he did till the Bartholomew-act separated him from.
his beloved flock. He was now reviled as a person disaffected
to government, though he had suffered as a favourer of it.
After he had been a faithful labourer at Pudsey above fifty
years, an ill neighbour, taking the advantage of the Five-
mile-act, forced him to leave the place; but at length he set-
tled at Leeds, where he had many cordial friends. There he
preached privately as he had opportunity, especially on the
week-days; for on the Lord's-days he and Mr. Todd gene-
rally attended the public ministry, preaching at different
hours. Having on a special occasion preached at Bramley
chapel, he was taken before the justices, but he escaped im-
prisonment, as some of them had a respect for his years. The
infirmities
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infirmities of age however, excepting deafness, he scarcely
knew any thing of; to which his temperance, both as to diet
and passion, contributed much. He died at Mr. Hickson's
at Leeds, May 11, 1669, aged above 80. He was a tall man,
of a comely countenance, and an engaging behaviour, and
his excellent disposition was so improved by grace, as to ren-
der him exceedingly amiable. His motto was, Less than the
least of all saints.
WORKS. Mount Ebal levelled; an excellent treatise on Gal.
iii. 13.-A Writ of Error; or a Friendly Examin. of a Question
deeply concerning married Persons, or such as intend to marry.-
A short Catechism, in 34 Questions and Answers, designed for the
youngest sort of Catechumens.
RASTRICK [C.) Mr. WILLIAM ASHLEY *. Of Camb.
university. Born in Lancashire. He was a preacher, but
not fixed, when the Act of uniformity took place, and after-
wards was minister of a congregation at Hull. A very mo-
derate, pious man, of a pleasing disposition and behaviour;
generally beloved and honoured by those that knew him. He
was a very edifying practical preacher, and God succeeded hist
labours at Hull for converting many souls. By his prudence
and good temper he brought off the people from some extra-
vagancies, and from the rigid opinions which Mr. Cann, his
predecessor, had inculcated; composed their differences, and
kept them in peace as long as he lived. He was very labo-
rious in his ministerial work, and shunned no opportunity to
invite souls to Christ, and promote their eternal good. His
common discourse was pleasant and profitable, tending to the
same great end. His concern about the souls of his people
was so ardent, that it contributed to impair the vigour both
of his body and mind. He was mighty in the scriptures,
having an excellent memory, which was strengthened by
daily exercise. His preaching was scriptural and experimen-
tal, adapted to comfort the afflicted and raise the dejected; ast
that of his fellow labourer Mr. Charles, was to awaken the
He died April 4, 1695, having been declining some
months, during which time his patience and resignation were
very remarkable. He was buried in Drypole church.
secure.
RIPPON [C. or D. S.] EDWARD RICHARDSON, D. D.
* Dr. Calamy speaks of him as the same person who was ejected from
Blackrode in Lancashire. But various circumstances shew this to be a mis➡
fake.
He
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He left this living upon the Restoration, and soon after the
Act of uniformity passed went into Holland, where he suc-
ceeded Mr. Newcomen as pastor of the English church at
Leyden, and became very expert in the language of the
country. He died at Amsterdam about 1677. He was a
popular preacher.
WORKS. Anglo-Belgica; or the English and Dutch Acade-
my. (A book very useful for the learners of English and Dutch),
ROTHWELL (near Leeds). Mr: JEREMIAH MILNER.
Of St. John's Col. Camb. After his ejectment he removed
to a place near Felkirk. Upon the Indulgence in 1672, he
preached at Lady Rhodes's chapel at Houghton; and after-
wards was chaplain in that worthy family, where many of
his brethren found kind entertainment in the hardest times §.
He was a pious man, of good abilities and learning; zealous,
laborious, and very successful in his ministry. He died
March 7, 1681, aged 41.
ROTHERHAM [V.] Mr. LUKE CLAYTON. A prophet
who had unusual honour in his own country, on account of
his real worth and pious labours. He was an excellent dis-
putant, and very ready in every thing. For many years he
preached twice a day to a numerous congregation, and cate-
chized the youth in public. On Lord's-day evening about
five o'clock, he constantly repeated the substance of his ser-
mons. Having no successor provided, after Bartholomew-
day 1662, he continued his ministry to the great advantage
of this and the neighbouring places, till the January follow-
ing, rather than the people should be wholly left destitute of
sacred ministrations. He then chearfully suffered imprison-
ment, and was the first of the ministers who were sent to
York castle for Nonconformity. He was indeed a very bold
and resolute servant of Jesus Christ, baulking no opportunity
of preaching, which occasioned his being several times im-
prisoned for six months together. He had no sooner obtained
his liberty than he returned to his work. For several years
he preached at Graseborough chapel. He died of a con-
sumption, June 13, 1674, aged about 50.
SANDAL MAGNA (near Wakefield) [V. 481. 17s.]
TIMOTHY WOOD, M. A. A universal scholar, of a ready
§ The name is now lost, but the fine old Gothic mansion remains, toge-
ther with the chapel above-mentioned; the property of R. S. Milnes, Esq;
who engages a minister to perform divine service once a month.
1
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wit, a good elocution, and prodigious abilities; a diligent
student, of tenacious memory, an excellent preacher, and of
a peaceable spirit. He was as far from plotting as any man,
but thro' misinformation was imprisoned in York castle. He
lived some time in Sandal after being silenced, and after-
wards removed into Leicestershire, where he often preached
in public churches. He died at Belgrave near Leicester, in
1680, aged 63. He had framed a common-place book on
all the heads of divinity, containing the quintessence of the
choicest authors he had read, but printed nothing.
SANDAL PARVA (near Doncaster) [R. 45.] Mr.
JOHN HOBSON. After being silenced, he lived about three
miles East of York. He was a serious, pious man, anda
faithful minister; of a sweet engaging deportment and un-
blameable conversation, and yet he met with many dis-
couragements. He had little employment, but was comfort-
ably provided for. He died about the year 1671.
SELBY [C. or D.] Mr. BURSDALL. Of Trin. Col. Dub
lin. In the beginning of Dr. Winter's time he often acknow-
ledged the goodness of God in the many advantages he en-
joyed there, in public ordinances and godly society, After
being silenced, he became domestic chaplain to Mrs. Hutton
of Popleton, sister to Lord T. Fairfax. He was of great us.
in that honourable family, and to the neighbourhood, by his
prayers, preaching, and example. Mr. Hutton, son of that
Lady, continued his encouragement, and in his family he died
in 1686. He was of a blameless life and very temperate, tho'
his countenance indicated the contrary.
SETTRINGTON. Mr. MEKAL. Dr. Walker says, he
was a kinsman of President Bradshaw, and that he paid Dr.
Carter his predecessor his fifths.
Mr. BOON. Mr. Tong, in his funeral sermon for
'Mr. Joshua Merrel, mentions Mr. Boon of Finsham, as living
and preaching in these parts.
SHEFFIELD. Mr. JAMES FISHER. He was congrega-
tional in his judgment, a man of great piety and worth, an
excellent preacher, and an 'instrument of much good in this
populous town. In his younger days he had been minister in
London, in conjunction with another, who had great multi-
tudes to hear him, while Mr. Fisher had but very few. En-
quiring
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quiring the reason of one of the parish, he was answered,
"Sir, you only preach the old hum-drum doctrines of faith
and repentance, but the other preaches dispensation truths."
This much affected him. He afterwards succeeded worthy
Mr. Towler and Mr. Bright, at Sheffield, and walked in their
steps, preaching usefully and living exemplarily. Some time
after his ejectment, in 1662, he was in much trouble about
pretended plots. Being maliciously and falsely accused, he
was forced to appear at the sessions at Rotherham, Doncaster,
Wakefield and Pontefract, and at two assizes at York, where
he was several times afterwards sent prisoner, and once with-
out any reason given, or mittimus made, by order of the Dean
of York. At one time, one of his accusers being perjured,
ran away; and the other, a drunken clergyman, did not ap-
pear: so that Mr. Fisher was acquitted by proclamation in
open court. At another time a man of Attercliff, in York
castle, condemned for murdering his wife, was offered a par-
don and a sum of money, if he would swear treason against
Mr. Fisher; but he refused, saying, "That he knew no
harm of him, and he would be hanged before he would so
forswear himself:" and accordingly was hanged for the
murder. The last time Mr. Fisher was in prison, it was de-
signed to keep him there for life; but the Duke of Bucking-
ham coming to York, enquired into the state of prisoners in
the castle; and finding him and some others confined there
out of spite, he set them at liberty. But he could not go
home because of the Five-mile-act, and so staid at Hatfield,
being very ill with his long imprisonment, in which he was
sometimes denied pen, ink, and paper, as well as the sight of
his friends; nor could his own son speak to him but through
the windows. He continued at Hatfield four or five months
in a languishing condition, and then died, and was buried
there, in January 1666.-He wrote little besides The re-
markable History of Mr. Martha Hatfield.
Mr. MATTHEW BLOOM. Of Magd. Col. Camb.
Born at Brotherton. A man of good abilities and an excel-
lent preacher. He was first at Attercliff chapel, and after-
wards assistant at Sheffield. To procure a maintenance for
his family, after he was ejected, he became a maltster, but
preached in private as he had opportunity. He was some
time a prisoner in York castle. He died suddenly at Sir W.
Ellis's in Lincolnshire, April 13, 1686. Being taken ill
soon after he got up, he was carried to bed again, when he
cried
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cried out, "Oh what need is there to be always ready for
death?" and so breathed his last.
Mr. EDWARD PRIME.
Of Christ Col. Camb. un-
der Mr. Ball. Born at Weston in Derbyshire, and brought
up at Chesterfield school. When he left the university he
was some time in the family of Mr. Westby, of Ranfield,
whence he removed to Baslow in the Peak, and was soon
after, A. D. 1655, called to be one of the assistants at Shef-
field, where he was ejected in 1662. He was very clear
about the point of Nonconformity, and by his frequent con-
versation shewed that he had much satisfaction in it. After
his ejectment he fixed his residence in Sheffield, tho' advan-
tageous offers at other places were not wanting. The serious
gentry of those parts had a great value for him, and he fre-
quently exercised his ministry amongst them, particularly in
his native county; by which means he was a great instru
ment of promoting religion in families. He also kept up a
fortnight's lecture at Weston for 45 years (viz. from 1662 to
his death) where many neighbouring ministers were his
hearers. For the last ten years of his life he often preached
at Attercliff. His learning, piety and ministerial abilities,
were very conspicuous. He had a warm heart, and a clear,
methodical, casuistical head, by the help of which he went
farther into several points than most. He repeatedly pressed
some duties to which he conscientiously adhered, because he
judged them highly conducive to the honour of God and re-
ligion, and to the benefit of christian societies. He met with
a course of comfortable providences during his Nonconfor-
mity, particularly in being skreened from the persecutions that
some neighbouring ministers underwent, and in the supplies
that were sent him from the bountiful hand of God, by rais-
ing him up friends, and other means of support. He had a
great blessing in a wife, by whom he had a numerous family.
But this was attended with sharp family afflictions. He had
a latitude of judgment above many, so that he did not refuse
occasional communion with his conforming brethren. He
had a respect for all godly and pious ministers, whether of
one denomination or another, and kept up a loving corres-
pondence with them to the last. He continued his labours till
numerous infirmities disabled him. He always very solemnly
observed Bartholomew-day, and preached upon that occasion.
The last time was in 1707, on Josh. xiv. 10. And now be-
hold, the Lord has kept me alive these forty and five years !
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In the winter following he grew ill, and died April 26, 1708,
aged about 77, His funeral sermon was preached by Mr.
Robert Fern, on Heb. xii. 23 §.
SHERBURN [V.] Mr. THOMAS JOHNSON. After his
ejectment he preached at Sandal in this county.
SILKSTON [V.] Mr. JOHN SPAWFORD. Many years
vicar at this church; which, on account of its beautiful struc-
true, is called the Minster in the Moors. He was a pious
man, of competent abilities; very plain in his preaching,
holy in his life, facetious in his discourse, and a lover of all
good men. When he was ejected, Mr. Robert Cotton (a
worthy, pious gentleman in that parish) took him to his
house, and kept him as long as he lived. He died in 1668,
aged 80.
SMETON JOHN NOBLE, M. A. Of Christ Col. Camb.
Born at Asleby in Holden parish, 1611. Admitted at Cam-
bridge in 1630. In 1637 he was minister at Whitgift. In
1646 he removed to Smeton. He was an excellent, useful,
and solid divine; a man of an happy memory, a great pre-
sence of mind and readiness of wit; a mighty opposer of the
factions and tumults of the times. He had much trouble with
the Quakers, whom he often confuted in occasional and set
disputations. He was an excellent disputant, and never lost
or disparaged his cause or his reputation by ignorance or pas-
sion. In the latter part of his life he preached to a pri-
vate congregation at Pontefract. He died Feb. 11, 1679,
aged 68.
*
** SOWERBY Chapel. Mr. HENRY ROOT, senior.
Of Magd. Col. Camb. In early life he was a considerable
traveller. In 1645 be gathered a congregational church, of
which he was pastor till 1662. He preached in this chapel
after Bartholomew-day half a year, but was at length severely
dealt with. [In 1663 he was forcibly taken out of his own
house, by virtue of a mittimus upon a significavit, by three
The editor heing favoured with a copy of the above sermon, has inserted
a few additional passages from it. The preface to it is dated Crutched-
Friars, March 13, 1710, and signed John Billingsley; who says, “This ex-
cellent person was to me many years as a father, instructing, counselling and
comforting me; and his name and memory will always be most precious to
me."-Mr. Fern was a dissenting minister at Wirksworth, in Derbyshire,
who died June 6, 1727, at an advanced age: a man of great zeal, integrity,
and courage in reproving sin; and was very useful.
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bailiffs, who broke the inner door of a room where he was,
hurried him faster than his age could bear, not suffering him
to take so much as a coat or staff, or money in his purse, and
treated him with other instances of cruelty. He was twice
a prisoner in York castle for three months, but discharged by
the justices having discovered the commitment to be illegal.
He was a third time sent to the same prison, by Sir John Ar-
mitage, [a bitter enemy to the Nonconformists] shewing no
cause, till further order, where he was kept close in a small
room, and not suffered to have his wife come to him for a
considerable time, or even into the castle. At length he was re-
moved into the city prison. The whole of his confinement was
near 12 months. (Conform 4th Plea, p. 50.) He died Octc-
ber 20, 1669, aged about 80. [He had a son, Mr. Timothy
Root, who preached at the same chapel, and suffered greatly
for his Nonconformity, but saw fit afterwards to conform.
N. B. It was the son, and not the father, (as Dr. C. says) who
was dragged out of the chapel. This was not till 1670.
See more of his sufferings in Conform. Plea, p. 51.]
§ The following is the copy of a letter written to Mr. Root,
by Mr. Tillotson, (afterwards Abp. of Canterbury) when a
student at Clare-hall Cambridge, under Mr. David Clarkson.
It has no date, but from the contents it was evidently written
in the year 1649*.
"For his much respected friend Mr. Root, at Sorbey in
Yorkshire, are these:-
"SIR, -- I cannot but thankfully acknowledge
my engagements to you for your kindness shewn to me, both
when I was in the country, and at other times. I shall not
here let my pen run out into complimental lines; gratitude
(and that as much as may be) being all that I desire to ex-
press. As for our university affairs, they are as before I came
into the country, only we have less hopes of procuring Mr.
Thomas Goodwin for our master than we then had. We are
in expectation of the visitors every day; but what will be
done at their coming we cannot guess. The Engagement is
either coming down hither or, as I hear, already come; to
which how soon we shall be called upon to subscribe,
we
* Published in Watson's Hist. of Antiquities of Halifax, from the ori-
ginal, and communicated by a clergyman to the editor. Tillotson was a na-
tive of the township of Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, where Mr. Root
was minister.-Mr. Holbrooke, mentioned as then at Camb. was afterwards
ejected from SALFORD, Lincolnshire.
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know not. As for myself, I do not for the present, at all
scruple the taking of it. Yet because I dare not confide too
much to my own judgment or apprehension of things, and
because matters of such serious consequence require no little
caution and consideration; therefore I shall desire you, so
soon as with convenience you can, to return me your opi-
nion of it, in two or three lines. Mr. Richard Holbrooke,
desires me to present his respects to you and your wife.—No
more, but your prayers for him who remains your's,
"Whilst
JOHN TILLOTSON."
STANINGTON [near Sheffield] Mr. Darwent.
THORNHILL [R. 300l.] JOSHUA WHITTON, M. A. Of
Camb. university. Born at Sowerby. He had been chaplain
to Lord Ferdinando Fairfax. Being blessed with a plentiful
estate, and having a large acquaintance and great influence,
he was an excellent friend to his poor brethern, to whoin he
was purse-bearer and distributor of the contributions made for
them. When he heard that the Act of uniformity was passed,
he and two other ministers, hoped that they should have been
able to comply with the terms of it, so as to keep their livings,
and therefore rode to York (as one said)" with their cloak-
bags full of distinctions," but having read the act, tho' they
were all men of catholic principles, as well as prudence and
learning, they returned with a resolution to quit their places
rather than comply. Mr. Whitton afterwards removed to
York. He was a witty man, a good scholar, an able, judi-
cious preacher, a man of an excellent temper, of
great inte-
grity, and unusual sagacity. He was found dead in his bed,
June 1, 1674, aged 60. He was god-father to Archbishop
Tillotson.
THORNTON Chapel. Mr. JOSEPH DAWSON. He had
a venerable aspect, and a good report of all men.
After his
ejectment he lived near Halifax and preached near Burstall.
He was a very pious and learned man, greatly esteemed for
his integrity, prudence, humility and meekness. A hard
student, and an affectionate preacher, who natually cared
for the good of souls; unwearied and very successful in his
ministerial labours. Even in his advanced age he travelled
to a considerable distance, at all seasons of the year, to preach
to a poor people, whom he took as much care to serve as if
they could have given him a large salary. He suffered con-
siderably from the straitness of his circumstances, having a
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numerous family; yet he never repented of his Noncon-
formity, but was patient and submissive, being eminent for
faith and self-denial. [In the year 1688 he was chosen mi-
nister of the chapel at Morley, four miles from Leeds, which
has this peculiarity belonging to it, that it was for many years
the parochial church, but in the year 1650, the Lord of the
manor, who is also the Impropriator, (then the Earl of Sussex,
now the Earl of Dartmouth) granted a lease for 500 years, to
a number of feoffees, of the chapel, chapel-yard, parsonage-
house, and two small closes for the use of a preaching mini-
ster, paying for the same only 20s. per ann. On the death of
Mr. Dawson (June 1709 aged 73) the trustees chose Mr.
Aldred, and on his resignation in 1763, the late Mr. Thomas
Morgan. Mr. Dawson brought up four sons to the mini-
stry, three of whom survived him. The youngest of these,
Mr. Eli Dawson, had seven sons, of whom six were Dis-
senting Ministers, but all left that profession. Four of them
conformed. Dr. Benj. Dawson is well known in the world
by several learned publications, particularly in defence of re-
ligious liberty. Dr. Thomas Dawson was an eminent phy-
sician at Hackney.
THORNSCO [C.] Mr. WILLIAM BENTON. Born at
Whisket-hill in Burstall parish. He was a man of ability,
and courage. After his ejectment, in 1662, he took a farm
for the support of his family, and afterwards followed the
malt trade. He lived at Barnsley, where by his affability
and chearfulness, he maintained good correspondence with
the neighbouring gentry, by which he was kept much
out of trouble, but had not the same opportunities for preach-
ing as many of his brethren. He died Aug. 22, 1688.
THURSBY [V.] North-riding. Mr. JOHN CARMIT-
CHEL, who afterwards went into Scotland. This article is
now transposed from Cumberland.
TONG Chapel. RICHARD Coore, D. D. A sober
man, and a good scholar [but inclined to Antinomianism]
and his writings were much admired by people of that
stamp. He practised physic, and died at Leeds, Dec. 10,
1687, aged 71.
WORKS. A Practical Expositor of the Holy Bible, with the
Interpretation of the Dreams and Visions in Daniel; together with
the two mystical Books of the Canticles and Revelation.
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A per-
TREETON. [R.] Mr. CHRISTOPHER AMGILL. A
son of great abilities, and likely to have been very useful, but
he died soon after his ejectment, § viz. in 1663. This is a
valuable rectory.
WAKEFIELD. JOSHUA KIRBY, M. A. Born in Lon-
don, and educated in Oxford. He lost a good living for re-
fusing to take the Engagement. Lady Camden, about this
time, gave 100l. per ann. to maintain a lecture at Wakefield,
and appointed the company of mercers in London trustees,
who chose Mr. Kirby the first lecturer. He went thither
in 1650, and preached on Lord's-day afternoon. He called
his first child born there Camdena, out of respect to his be- "
nefactress. He was a solid, substantial preacher, and a great
scripturist. Some persons complaining of his citing too
many scriptures in his sermons, he answered, "That is like
complaining of flour being too fine to make bread of; can
we speak more properly than in God's language?" He had a
notable faculty in expounding scripture, on which he had
many pretty and unusual glosses. But his chief excellence
lay in prayer. A Conformist Minister once hearing him,
said, "Mr. Kirby prays apostolically." He was rather re-
served in discourse, but if engaged by questions, there was
much depth and significancy in his short answers. He had
something singular in his sentiments, and common behavi-
our, but both were innocent. His garb was wonderfully
plain, and he required the same of all under his roof. He was
a man of extraordinary sanctity, very strict in family disci-
pline, and faithful in instruction and admonition: of great
courage and resolution, and inflexible when he had once fixed
his principles. [He was a zealous Royalist] and was sent
to London, and there imprisoned for praying publicly for
Charles I. He was afterwards a prisoner at Lambeth in 1659,
for his concern in Sir G. Booth's business. Being turned
out by the Act of uniformity, he preached in his own house,
[till a lecturer was provided, and then he went to church,
preaching at home only in the evening, for which, Nov. 21,
1662] he was sent to York castle [as he also was again upon
the Conventicle act, Conform. 4th Plea, p. 46.] He was
not idle there, but improved his solitude in meditation and
prayer, and (when permitted) in preaching also. He some-
times diverted himself in making verses; many copies of
which were in the hands of his friends; but the sense of them
was far beyond the poetry. After travelling much about in
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the latter part of his life, he finished his course at Wakefield,
June 21 1676, aged 59, and being excommunicated, was
buried in his own garden. He printed only a little Protes-
tant Catechism in scripture phrase.-- He had a grandson
who died 1744, pastor of a congregation in Tucker street,
Bristol; a volume of whose sermons was published after his
death, by Dr. Lardner.
WHISTON. [A valuable rectory in the gift of the Duke
of Norfolk] Mr. THELWELL, [or Thetwell). He died in 1684,
aged about 60.
WHIDKIRK. Mr. CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL. Born in
Lincolnshire; educated partly in Cambridge, and partly un-
der Mr. Cotton at Boston in New-England. He was a Con-
gregationalist; a good scholar, of considerable abilities, and
of a serious spirit, but inclined to melancholy, on account of
many personal and domestic afflictions. Being ejected in
1662, he lived privately near his people, in a house of his
own. Upon the five-mile-act he went to live at Horbury.
but returned and preached privately. In 1672 he preached
at Topcliff-hall. He was accused and imprisoned on the ac-
count of a plot, with several of his brethren, but they came
off clear, nothing being proved against them. He was so
zealous against error, and so impartial, that he was a witness
against the famous Mrs. Hutchinson, and caused her to be
cast out of the church, for the disturbances she raised, tho'
he was related to her by marrying her niece. He had a sound
mind in an infirm body, from which it was released in Feb.
1673, aged 59.
WORSBOROUGH. Mr. SHAW. A pious man and a
good Scholar. After his ejectment he was tutor to Mr. Bos-
ville's two sons, whom he fitted for the university. He after-
wards preached at a place about six miles west of Hull. He
died of a consumption. Mr. O. Heywood says, he was
buried at Warsbro' Sept. 3, 1691.
§
YORK. EDWARD BOWLES, M. A. Son of Mr. Oliver
Bowles, of Sutton in Bedfordshire. Born in Feb. 1613. He
was for some time chaplain to the Earl of Manchester, but
upon the reduction of York was constituted one of the four
ministers maintained by the state in that city with honoura-
ble stipends. The work was equally divided amongst them:
two were at the Minster on Lord's day for a month, and
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two ar Alhallows on the Pavement for the other month
alternately. The Lord's Supper was constantly administered
by one of them at one of these places every month. Mr.
Bowles preached one part of the day, expounded the scrip-
tures the other, and took his share in expositions and lectures
on the week-days. He was indeed a great man, an excel-
lent scholar, and of unusual prudence. He had a clear head,
and a warm heart. His preaching was so acceptabie, even
to those of a contrary judgment, that the very sequestered
and decimated gentlemen were his hearers, among whom was
Sir Chr. Wyvel. They sometimes came to his house, where
in the evenings he used to repeat his sermons. He had a neat
and sententious way of expressing himself, and such a clear-
ness of conception, that he was intelligible to the meanest of
his hearers. He did not take up their time about mint and
cummin,' &c. but about the weightier things of the law and
gospel. Repentance and faith in Christ, with the other in-
dubitable truths of Christianity, were his constant themes.
And his prayers were much of a piece with his sermons.
There were four things which he particularly prayed for,
viz. sound doctrine, purity in worship, true christian liberty,
and the power of godliness.-In conversation he was rather
reserved to strangers, but open and familiar with his friends.
He had a strong bias for real goodness, and he endeavoured
to promote worthy designs upon all occasions. He had fre-
quent access to the magistrates, by whose means he pro-
moted a reformation of many disorders without appearing
himself. It was commonly said, that he was the spring that
moved all the wheels in this city §.
He was particularly active about the Restoration, in 1660,
when General Monk passed thro' Yorkshire, where most of
the gentry, with Lord Fairfax at their head, addressed him
for a free parliament. That address was printed, and wast
the pattern of all the rest that followed in the counties thro'
which he passed. Mr. Bowles, indeed, had a considerable
hand in the management of this business. He accompanied
Lord Fairfax to Breda, as one of the Commissioners from
A MS. Life of Barnes has this anecdote. "Mr. Bowles, son of Oliver
Bowles, a presbyterian divine, had been one evening visiting Sir Henry
Vane; at his taking leave, Sir Henry followed with a candle in his hand to
the head of the stairs. Mr. Bowles desired him not to give himself that
trouble. Nay, says Sir Henry, I will see you down.'- Indeed, Sir Henry,
(says Mr. Bowles) I believe you would see us down. Merrily intending,
that if Sir Henry Vane might hold the candle, all ordinances, orders, and
forms of worship should go down.”
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you
the Parliament to invite K. Charles back to England. But
he never sought after preferment in the new establishment,
tho' his merits might have recommended him to the best. He
was contented after all to suffer with his brethren, and deter-
mined to adhere to his old principles, whoever veered with
the wind and turned with tide. Among others of that cast,
there was one Mr. Hr, who, soon after his Conformity,
was met by Mr. Bowles, who being a very facetious man,
thus accosted him: "Well, brother H. how like the
Common Prayer ?" "Truly, said Mr. H. it's but dry stuff."
"I always thought so, said Mr. Bowles; and I suppose that
may be the reason why our vicars-choral run to the alehouse
as soon as they have done reading it." It was credibly re-
ported that the Deanry of York was offered him; but not
being satisfied with Conformity, he was presently excluded
the Minster, tho' he still kept his turn at the Wednesday
lecture, and continued preaching at Alhallows, and after-
wards at St. Martins. He was elected to the vicarage of
Leeds, April 1661, as appears from authentic documents;
but, thro' the favour of the times, Dr. John Lake (afterwards
Bp. of Chichester) was instituted into it. Mr. Bowles preach-
ed also once a month at Tadcaster, where he was often op-
posed by the Quakers. He likewise held a lecture every
Thursday morning at St. Peter's in York, where he went
through the Epistles to the Romans, the Corinthians, and
1 Peter, which were his last sermons, and well worthy the
light; but he was very backward to print.-He was always
the mouth of the city and country ministers at their quarterly
meetings. Mr. Matt. Poole once told a friend, that he never
undertook any business of importance to the public without
consulting Mr. Bowles, as he relied more upon his judgment.
than upon any one man's in England. He was held in high
esteem by Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Stilling fleet, who were
more desirous to bring him into the church than any one man
in the kingdom. For this purpose they spent a whole.
afternoon with him before the Uniformity-act took place, but
in vain. Being asked in his last illness, What of Confor-
mity he disliked? he answered, "The whole." He died
at the
age of 49, and was buried on the eve of Bartholomew-
day, 1662. His death was very generally lamented. Mr.
Hunter preached his funeral sermon, on Phil. i. 21. but gave
him no character, as he desired to be buried without ostenta-
tion. His person was tall and handsome; his deportment
modest and obliging.
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WORKS. The Mystery of Iniquity still working, 1633-A
Serm. at St. Paul's.-Another of Oaths.-A plain and short Cate-
chism, [which may be seen in Calamy.]-Manifest Truths; a Nar-
rative of the Proceedings of the Scotch Army, &c. 1646...Many
volumes of his sermons, taken from his mouth, were preserved in
York, and read in families after his death.
Mr. PETER WILLIAMS. Born at Salisbury. Hav-
ing been tutor to Sir John Brook, he resided at York, where
his father was Mayor. He was a sweet-tempered, meek-
spirited man, of great abilities and considerable learning, and
had a well-furnished library. He was an exact and curious.
preacher, very spiritual and sententious. He lived a holy,
retired life. After being silenced, he kept close to his study,
but preached a week-day lecture at Lady Lister's. Many
envied his liberty, but durst not disturb him, while under the
wing of such an honourable person, who was nearly related
to thirty knights and persons of the first rank. After her
death he held his lecture at Lady Watson's house, which she
gave to him by will. He died of the stone, attended with
a fever, March 26, 1680, aged 55.
αν
WORKS. λav@fwTia or the Transcendency of Christ's
Love to the Children of Men.
Alhallows, THOMAS CALVERT, M. A. Of Sidney
Col. Camb. under Mr. Bell, and cotemporary with the fa-
mous Mr. Cartwright: both natives of York. When he
left the university, he was chaplain to Sir T. Burdet in Der-
byshire, and afterwards went into his native country. He
was episcopally ordained, and was some time vicar of Trinity
in the King's court, York. He also preached at Christ's
Church, and was one of the four learned ministers whom the
state supported at the Minster, where he preached in his
course till the Restoration, and afterwards at Alhallows,
whence he was ejected in 1662. After that, he lived pri-
vately in the city, till the Oxford-act banished him, when he
withdrew to the good Lady Berwick's, near Tadcaster, but
after some time returned to York. He was a pious, devout
man, and a profound preacher. His matter was excellent,
but he was not very solicitous as to method. He read and
studied much, even to the last; and had great acquaintance
with the Jewish Rabbies. He had a peculiar talent in trans-
lating and expounding scripture. He was greatly hurt in
mind, body, and estate, by an extravagant son; but much
comforted
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comforted in his nephew, Mr. James Calvert. He corres-
ponded with Dr. Castel, Mr. Poole, and many other learned
He died in March 1679, aged 73.
men.
WORKS. Mel Cœli; Medulla Evangelii: an Expos. of
Isaiah, 53.-The Blessed Jew of Morocco; a Demonstration of
the true Messias, &c. by Rabbi Samuel, a converted Jew; written
in Arabic, translated first into Latin, and now englished: Mr.
Calvert added learned Annotations.-Mr. Fox's Christus Trium-
phans: Commoedia Apocalyptica: with a learned Epistle to
School-masters.-A Poetical Piece against the Papists.-A Trans-
lation of Gerard's Schola Conslatoria, with Additions.-Heart-
Salve for a wounded Soul.-Eye-Salve for a blinded World.-
The Wise Merchant, 2 Serm. on Mat. xiii. 45.-A Fun. Sermon
for Lady Burdet.-Also many Elegies.
✔
RICHARD PERROT, B. D. Of Sidney Col. Camb.
Fellow of Sir John Hart's foundation. He was the son of
Mr. Richard Perrot, vicar of Hesil-cum-hull, where he was
born, 1629, and was brought up at the noted school at Cox-
wold. When he left the university, in 1658, he was one of
the preachers in York Minster. He was a most learned, in-
genious man, and an incomparable preacher. After his eject-
ment for Nonconformity, he lived some time with Dr. Ro-
binson of Barniston, where he studied and practised physic
with good success. He died at York, 1671, aged 41. He
wrote an elegy and epitaph on his friend Mr. Ed. Bright.
NORTH AND EAST RIDING.
AYTON Magna, Mr. GEORGE EVANKE. (From his
farewell sermon in the London Collection, preached at
this place, it appears that he was "Chaplain to the Right
Worshipful Sir George Narwood, Bart. at Cleveland,”
which is all the account we have of him. [From this ser-
mon on Matt. xxvi. 39. he appears to have been a man of
considerable abilities; a judicious as well as serious and
pular preacher.] Towards the close of the discourse (which
abounds with pertinent anecdotes) he thus addresses his
hearers: Beloved, I have not many words to speak to you,
for the hour of my departure hasteneth; therefore I will com-
prise what I have to say into this dying request. You and
I, like Elijah and Elisha, are at the point of parting: I do
"
po-
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therefore require of you, and in the name of God conjure
you, so to improve this hour's discourse, that we may take
comfort at our next meeting, and rejoice to see one another's
faces at the judgment day; which we shall never do, if we
appear there in a sinful and unsanctified state. O that the
Lord would make me a happy instrument to convey convert-
ing grace into your souls this day! That as Sampson slew
more at his death than he did all his life before, so I may
save more with this dying speech than ever I did with all
that's gone before! I have read of a rich Florentine who,
being about to die, called his sons together and thus bespoke
them :-" It much rejoiceth me, now upon my death-bed,
to think that I shall leave you all wealthy. But Oh! my
friends, it would rejoice me more if now, at my departure, I
could leave you all gracious; and if before I die, I could see
Jesus Christ live in you."—In recommending resignation to
the divine will, he closes the discourse thus :-" In a word,
how much soever God takes from you, its less than you
owe him; and how little soever he leaves you, its less than
he owes you: therefore instead of murmuring that your con-
dition is so ill, bless God that it is no worse.
BEDAL [R. 500l.] JOHN GUNTER, LL. B. A native
of Berkshire: educated first at London, and afterwards at
Eaton; from whence he went to Queen's Col. Camb. and
afterwards removed to St. John's Oxf. where in 1646, Wood
says, he took the degree of LL. B. and was soon after made
Fellow of New College, by the Committee of Parliament,
and the Visitors for the reformation of the university. Here
he was chamber-fellow with the learned Stephen Charnock,
and was burser to the college two years. The Resident at
Hamburgh writing to Dr. Goodwin, for a chaplain to the
company of Merchant-Adventurers, Mr. Gunter was sent
thither; but not having his health, he staid only two years,
and then returned to his Fellowship at New-College, where
he remained till Lord Wharton presented him to Wadesden
in Bucks. Oliver the Protector, hearing of his name, (which
he said he respected for his uncle Major Gunter's sake) sent
for him to preach before him, made him his chaplain, and
afterwards preferred him to this rich living of Bedal, which
he enjoyed till 1660, when Charles II. presented Dr. Sam-
waies. He then removed to Whittlebury in Northampton-
shire, where he was a preacher in 1652, [and therefore
should have been mentioned at that place]. Upon the Uni-
formity-
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formity-act be retired to Helaugh in Yorkshire, where he
managed Lord Wharton's concerns, which required frequent
journies. But when he was at home, he preached constantly
to the poor neighbourhood (except occasionally at Leeds)
which he did gratis as long as he lived. He died Nov. 27,
1688, aged 63, and was buried in Lord Wharton's vault at
Helaugh. He was a person of great learning and worth, and
of fine abilities; eminent for piety, prudence, and tempe-
rance; constant and serious in the devotions of the closet
and family. He was a great blessing in the several places
where he successively lived and laboured. His faith was
sound, his preaching warm, his conversation exemplary, and
his death comfortable.-He was well acquainted with the
memorable John Earl of Rochester; [and once, after having
dispatched some business with him, being urged to stay with
some dreadfully prophane company, excused himself, and at
the same time took the liberty to tell his Lordship of his
condition; who then made light of the admonition; but, upon
his death-bed it came fresh into his mind, and he expressed
to Mr. Gunter, who came to visit him, the deepest remorse:
and when Mr. Gunter remarked to a Fellow of a College,
then present," that he thought there had not been so much
wickedness on this side hell, as he found when the Earl and
his company were blaspheming," the Earl replied,
"that
he himself was Belzebub amongst them*."]
WORKS. The Just Man's Fall and Recovery: on David's Sin,
&c.---Memoirs of Mr. Steph. Charnock.-The broken Heart: or
Grand Sacrifice... Britain's Remembrancer.-A Sov. Remedy for
a Sick Commonwealth,-The Princess Royal: on Ps. xv. 15.
BEVERLY. Mr. JOSEPH WILSON. After his ejectment
(tho' he once attempted to preach here when the doors were
locked against him) he lived privately till 1672, when he took
out a licence and preached at Hull. He was a very worthy
man, a bold, rouzing preacher, and very zealous against ce-
remonies. Once when he was preaching upon the brazen
serpent's being beat to powder, cast into the river, and called
Nehushtan, he said, "I durst tell the proudest prelate of
them all, that if they bring up any thing into the worship
of God, without the authority of his word, it is no better
*The above is the best meaning the Editor can make of this perplexed
passage in the original account.
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than Nehushtan, a piece of dead brass."-He died suddenly,
in Feb. 1678.
BISHOPTHORP.
Mr. ELLWOOD.
BOYNTON [V.] Mr. LAUGhthorn.
BRAMLEY. Mr. BoVEL. The report before men-
tioned of his Conformity is confirmed by the MSS. of Mr. O.
Heywood, his near neighbour, who says, He was ejected
from Monk-Fryston, and lived two years a nonconformist at
Bramley; he then conformed, and was curate at Sowerby,
and afterwards vicar of Rotherham.
BRANSBY [R.] Mr. POMROY. He was about 70 years
of age at the Restoration, and died at Beverley soon after his
ejectment. Some say he preached at the Minster at Beverley
every Lord's-day Morning, as Mr. Hill did in the afternoon;
a man of considerable abilities, and an exemplary conversa-
tion, who was afterwards chaplain to Sir William Strickland.
Probably this was the Mr. Stephen Hill said to be ejected
from Serraby, there being no such place. [Perhaps the place
intended was Sowerby or Ferryby].
BRIDLINGTON [C. or D.] Mr. Lucks.
BUGTHORP [V.] Mr. CRAN ford.
BURSTWICK [C.] Mr. HILL. A very laborious and
useful minister, who often preached at Outthorn, six miles
from Burstwick, for Mr. Samuel Picard, who died there
in 1659.
BUSBY [C.] Mr. EUBANK.
THWAIT.
CHERRY-BURTON [C.] Mr. THOMAS MICKLE-
One of the Westminster Assembly, and no less
famous in the country for his piety, gravity, prudence, and
learning, in his profession of divinity, than his son Sir John
Micklethwait was in London, for his skill in medicine.
COTTINGHAM. Mr. ROBINSON.
Mr. ROBINSON. He was a man of
great piety, but was clouded with melancholy, and died soon
after his ejectment.
COWSCOTTS (near Hull). Mr. LUDDINGTON. He
lived at Hull. Being much afflicted with the stone, he was
at length unable to go to Cowscotts, and therefore used to
preach
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preach at his own house, where he died, in 1667, aged 77.
Mr. Ashley succeeded him.
EASINGWOLD [V.] Mr. GEORGE WILSON. He con-
tinued here till his death, Sept. 22, 1671. His motto was,
Ut vivas vigila. Mr. Thomas Calvert of York, his bro-
ther-in-law, printed a sheet of English and Latin verses to
his memory.
ELLINGTON [R.] Mr. HULSTON.
ESSINGTON. Mr. Fox. A man of a holy life, and a
good preacher.
FARNLEY (near Leeds) Mr. LLOYD, He had a small
estate, which he lived upon after his ejectment.
FERRYBY [V.] Mr. JOHN RYTHER. Of Sidney Col.
Camb. The son of a noted Quaker at York He had been
minister of Frodlingham and Bromby in Lincolnshire *, from
whence he was ejected [probably at the Restoration]: He
afterwards removed to York, and staid there some time. [At
length he settled at Ferryby]. At the time of his [second]
ejectment he lived at Brough, (a noted ferry in the London
road over the river Humber) two miles and a half from
Ferryby. In his own house there he preached his farewell
sermon, on Ps. cxxxvii. 1. By the rivers of Babylon there
we sat down we wept when we rembered Zion.' His
discourse was very affecting both to himself and auditory.
He continued here some years, and preached as often as the
times would allow. He went afterwards to Allerton near
Bradford. About the year 1668 or 1669 he assisted in ga-
thering a church in Bradford-dale, where his useful labours
were much valued, and the serious impressions made by his
affectionate preaching were long retained. He had a very
particular way of adapting his discourses to remarkable sea-
sons and circumstances. Upon occasion of the plague, and
the fire of London, he preached several sermons which were
very affecting, and shewed his true sympathy with the suf-
ferers at that distance. He was at length taken up for preach-
ing, and imprisoned six monshs in York castle; and ven-
turing again upon the same crime, he was again committed,
and continued in the same place 15 months more. Upon the
* The short account there given of him is hereby superseded, and should
have been cancelled.
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Five-mile-act he was forced to remove, when his wife was
near her time. They were in great straits, and she in much
danger for want of help. About 1669, not finding the coun-
try like to grow more hospitable, he and Mr. Hardcastle took
their leave of a people by whom they were greatly beloved.
He came to London for shelter, and some time after built a
meeting-house in Broad-street, Wapping, where he conti-
nued preaching to the last, with great acceptance and success,
though not without trouble. Warrants were often issued out
against him, but he was never apprehended, tho' the officers
and their attendants were many times vexatious to his wife.
They came once and again to search for him at midnight,
and not finding him, they rifled his study. One time, when
he was preaching in his meeting, the officers came to seize
him; but the sailors (of whom he usually had a good num-
ber in his auditory) made a lane for him, which he passed.
through and escaped. He died in June, 1681, aged 49. He
was a man of strict piety, and a very affectionate preacher;
whom God wonderfully prospered in his work. The seamen
so delighted to hear him, that he used to be called The sea-
mans preacher. Sir John Gayer, Governor of Bombay, left
100l. a-piece to his daughter's four children.
WORKS. The Morning Seeker; or the Benefit of being good
betimes. Sermons on Prov. viii. 17.-The best Friend standing
at the Door; Sermons on Rev. iii. 20.-A plat for Mariners; or
the Seaman's Preacher, in several Sermons upon Jonah's Voyage †.
Sermon on Eccles. viii. 11.-A Looking-Glass for the Wise and
Foolish.-A Discourse of making a Mock at Sin.-The Hue and
Cry of Conscience after secure Sinners; on Gen.xlii. 21.-Sea
Dangers and Deliverances improved; on Acts xxvii. 18. at the end
of Mr. James Janeway's Legacy, &c.-Also a Pref. to a P. SS.
Piece of Mr. Janeway's...A Vol. of Sermons in MS. prepared for
the press, were in the hands of Mr. J. D. He had a son, who hav-
ing gone as chaplain with merchant ships to both the Indies, to
avoid persecution, settled on the Revolution at Nottingham.
§ It is supposed this was he who wrote against Mr. Barrett in
the Neonomian Controversy.
GANTON. Mr. COLEWHONE.
HEMMINGBURGH [C.] Mr. ANTHONY FIDO. Of
Trin. Col. Camb. Younger brother of Mr. John Fido.
Born Aug. 20, 1640. At his first admission at Camb, he
+ This will shortly be republished, with a Recommendation to Seamen,
by the Rev. JOHN NEW10N, of London.
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was examined by Mr. Ray, then steward of the college.
Mr. Valentine was his tutor. He was thrown out at the
Restoration, when he was under-graduate, but ready to take
his degrees. [His tomb-stone says he resigned a Fellowship
in Trin. Col. and a considerable living in Cambridgeshire.]
Upon his ejectinent frorn Hemmingburgh, in 1662, he be-
came chaplain and steward in a gentleman's family, and af-
terwards preached in several parts of England. He at length
went to London, about 1685, where he had a small congre-
gation. He continued there, a batchelor, till his death,
which was in Jan. 1715, aged 75, having been some time
disabled by weakness. He was buried in Bunhill-fields.
HESSLE [C.] Mr. WILSON.
Of Peter-
* HOLDEN. STEPHEN ARLUSH, M. A.
House, Camb. A man of singular abilities, an excellent
preacher, and of a very public spirit. He had a good estate,
and did good to many with it. He spent the latter part of
his life at York, where he died in 1680, aged about 57.
HOLLAM [V.] Mr. JOHN BLUNT. A man of a holy
conversation, and a good preacher. He was but young
when ejected.
HULL [V.] JOHN SHAWE, M. A. Of Christ's Col.
Camb. He left a MS. account of his life and times, of
which the following is an abstract:-He was born at Sicke-
house, in the parish of Ecclesfield, in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, June 23, 1608. Part of the family estate here
was, upon his father's death, taken from him by the parish;
and he, for peace sake, never contested the matter. Being
an only child, he had his school-learning near home; and
when between 14 and 15 years of age, at his own earnest
desire, was sent to Cambridge, and admitted pensioner into
Christ's Col. under the tuition of Mr. W. Chappel, after-
wards Bp. of Cork. He had at that time little sense of reli-
gion, but as Providence ordered it, he had some good cham-
ber-fellows, who kept him from bad company. When he
was about two years standing, Mr. Weld (who afterwards
went to New-England) preaching one Lord's-day at a church
about three miles from Cambridge, Mr. Shawe, with some
of his fellow students, walked to hear him; and from that
day he dated his first fixed serious impressions. He was af
terwards taken notice of in the college, and opposed as a
Puritan, but continued there till he commenced M. A. in
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1630, when a raging pestilence drove him from the univer-
sity. The first place he accepted was Brampton in Derby-
shire, where he was lecturer three years. Dr. Morton,
(then Bp. of Coventry and Litchfield) to whom he applied
for a licence to preach in his diocese, was strict in his exa-
mination; and when he had done, gave him his hand full
of money, and laying his hand upon his head, without de-
manding any subscription, said, "Your licence shall be this:
you shall preach in part of my diocese, when and where you
will." God gave a blessing to his endeavours there for the
good of many. On the intreaty of some friends, he went
to London and preached there; when some merchants from
Devonshire heard him, who resolved (as they afterwards told
him) that if they could prevail with him, they would send
him to preach at Chimleigh in that county, and maintain him
themselves. But he went away before they could speak to
him, and not knowing his name, nor where to meet with
him, they were disappointed. About a year afterwards how-
ever, some of the same persons heard him there again; and
following him to his lodging, told him their desire; and add-
ed, that it was their custom to maintain a minister for three
years at one place; and if his ministry proved so acceptable
that the people would maintain him afterwards, he still con-
tinued; if not, they supported him in another place. They
pressed him much, and he complied, and God blessed his la-
bours with great success. When his three years were al-
most expired, a complaint was made to K. Charles, by At-
torney-General Noy and Abp. Laud, that the city merchants
maintained in the several counties Puritanical and Noncon-
forming Preachers; whereupon the feoffees were prosecuted,
(Fuller's Church Hist. Book II. p. 136.) and he was forced
to leave the place.
In 1636, his father being dead, he returned to Sikehouse.
his own estate, and was soon called to be lecturer at Alhal-
lows on the Pavement in York, where Mr. Ascough was then
pastor; and there he continued with much comfort and good
success for three years more. When he had preached his
first sermon there, Abp. Neile sent for him by his Apparitor,
and at first began to deal roughly with him; but when he
heard that he was chaplain to Philip Earl of Pembroke,
then Lord Chamberlain, he told him that he had nothing
against him, but that he heard he was a rich man, and was
brought in by Vaux, the Mayor of York, to head the Puri-
tans against him. "But (said he) I tell you, I will break
Vaux
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Vaur and the whole Puritan party.' However Mr. Shawe
continued without disturbance. He afterwards accompanied
the Earl of Pembroke as chaplain, when he attended the King
to Berwick, at the time. of the pacification with the Scots.
On his teturn, that noble Lord gave him the vicarage of
Rotherham, where God signally owned his ministry. During
the treaty at Rippon, between the English and Scots, 1640,
he was chaplain to the Lords Commissioners, who treated
him with great respect. Afterwards the Earl of Holland
being appointed to disband that army, Mr. Shawe attended
upon him at Doncaster, and the King came one day and dined
there at Lady Carlingford's. At dinner, the King asked Sir
T. Glenham, (who had lately been Governor of Hull)
"Whether he could not starve that town? I am told (said
he) that I can take their fresh water from them." Sir Thomas
answered, "Your Majesty is misinformed; for tho' you
may cut off from them the fresh spring that runs to Hull, yet
the very haven is fresh at low-water, and every man can dig
water at his door." This Mr. Shawe relates as what he
heard before any war was begun.-When the King set up
his standard at Nottingham, and the Earl of Essex came
after him with an army, Mr. Shawe fled by night from Ro-
therham to Hull; but when he had preached one sermon there,
Sir John Hotham, the Governor for the Parliament, would
not suffer him to stay, for fear he should oppose him. He
returned therefore to Rotherham, and was in the town when
it was taken by the Earl of Newcastle, May 4, 1643. He
then, with three others, had a fine of 1000 marks set upon his
head. The rest were taken and imprisoned, but he absconded
in the steeple for some time; and tho' they plundered his
house, he fled by night, with his man servant, and got safe
to Manchester. Upon his arrival there, Sir W. Brereton,
Commander in those parts for the Parliament, offered him
the living of Lyme in Cheshire, which he accepted. He liv-
ed in Manchester, where he preached every Friday gratis.
Upon an earnest invitation, he went from thence to Furness-
fells, and the parts in and about Cartmel, where they had
had no preaching of a long time, and was extremely laborious
and amazingly successful, among a people grossly ignorant
and stupid. But was forced to fly from thence (not without
great difficulty) into Yorkshire, upon the coming up of Prince
Rupert's forces.
After York was surrendered, and Lord Fairfax was well
settled there,a standing committee of the gentlemen of York-
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shire was appointed in the city of York, for the better order.
ing the affairs of the county, and advising Lord Fairfax. Mr.
Shawe was chaplain to this committee. There was also an
assembly of ministers of that county, appointed to sit every
week in the chapter-house, to assist Lord Fairfax in casting
out ignorant and scandalous ministers, &c. Mr. Shawe act-
ed as secretary; but upon the turn of the times, burnt all the
papers. At this time Lord Fairfax gave him the living of
Sherringham, seven miles from York, where he preached
a while, and then was invited to Hull, which he accepted of
as a place of visible quiet. He preached at first in the Low-
church there, and upon Mr. Wait's removal, at the High-
church; and there continued 17 years, preaching every Wed-
nesday, and on Lord's-days once at least: for some time at
both churches, and often to the soldiers at the castle, besides
other occasional labours. He was promised by the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Burgesses, 150l. per ann. and a good house;
but when he left them they were about 1000l. in arrears.
While here, he went frequently to the Committee and
Assembly at York, as occassions required; and preached at
the Minster, Sept. 20, 1644, on the taking of the Solemn league
and covenant.-He had much success at Hull, and yet much
opposition; especially upon attempting to set up a regular
church discipline. "But (says he) I never repented of it, tho'
I suffered much from men thereby; which I well knew how
to have prevented, if I had looked at my own advantage and
mens friendship above God's glory.-In 1646 he attended
the Six Commissioners from the Parliament to the King,
who was then with the Scots at Newcastle.
In 1653 he was made Master of the Charter-house or hos-
pital near Kingston upon Hull, by the Mayor and Aldermen
of Hull; which place was promised him at his first coming
among them. He found the house 100/. in debt; no money
to begin with, and but twelve poor people belonging to it;
whereas there ought to have been twenty-six. There was
but 10l. per ann. and a house for the Master, by the laws
of the foundation; but former Masters had taken all the fines
upon leases to themselves. Mr. Shawe, instead of this, gave
away to the poor of the house most part of his own 10l. and
in seven years time paid the 100l. debt; enlarged the num-
ber of the poor to forty, increased the weekly pay of each,
and added to their occasional allowance. He also laid
out бool. upon the buildings of the house, and when he
came
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came away, he left with the Mayor and Aldermen for the use
of the poor, above 253/. for which he had their receipt.
In the time of the Protectorship, he was sometimes called.
to preach before Oliver at Whitehall, and sometimes at
Hampton-court, which he did with the freedom and plain-
ness of Latimer. Oliver and his council gave him an aug-
mentation of 100l. per ann. which was duly paid. He usu-
ally attended also on the Judges in their circuits, and preach
ed before them; and he once preached at Whitehall before
Richard Cromwell while he was Protector.-Soon after the
Restoration, July 25, 1660, Mr. Shawe was sworn chaplain
to the King; but before the end of that year, some of the
officers and soldiers of the garrison of Hull complained against
him to Bp. Sheldon, and by him to his Majesty, tho' he could
never hear what was the ground of it; and some time after,
June 1, 1661, an order was sent down in the king's name,
signed by Mr. Secretary Nicholas, to the Mayor and Alder-
men, to remove three of the Aldermen from their places, and
to inhibit Mr. John Shawe from preaching any more at
Trinity-church. Upon this he went to London, and was in-
troduced by the Earl of Manchester, to his majesty, who
told him, He should continue Master of the Charter-house,
and promised to take care of him as his chaplain; but desired
him to submit to his order of not preaching any more at
Trinity-church. Mr. Shawe then waited on Bp. Sheldon,
who said, that he heard he was a leading man among the
clergy in the North, but was no great friend to Episcopacy
or the Common Prayer. He answered, "That in all those
times, when there was liberty enough for it, he had never
said a word against either of them; tho' he owned that, if
they had never come in, he would never have fetched them."
But his Lordship would give him no account of the matter
for which he had complained to his Majesty against him.
Mr. Shawe then returned to the Charter-house, and preach-
ed to the poor every Lord's-day, when the people of Hull
flocked thither to hear him; so that the churches were
empty. The officers sent some soldiers to beset the house
and hinder the town's-people from entering; yet by some
means they got in; and one day they confined 300 of them
in the house till the next morning. On account of these
difficulties, and being forbid to go into the town to converse
with the people there, Mr. Shawe thought himself not capa-
ble of much farther good, and therefore, after making up his
accounts, he removed with his family (June 20, 1662) to
Rotherham,
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Rotherham, where he had formerly been vicar. There he
preached one part of the Lord's-day, as Mr. Clayton did the
other, and sometimes on the week-day, till Aug. 24. He had
not then any living, but declares in his Narrative, he would
refuse neither living nor work, upon any terms that would
satisfy his conscience. He afterwards continued preaching
to his family, and often to other persons, without any great
trouble. He died April 19, 1672, aged 65, and was buried
in Rotherham church; where, upon a brass plate there is
this epitaph:
JOHANNES SHAWE, M. A. e Col. Cti. Cantab.
oriundus, quondam hujus Ecclesiæ Vicarius, ob insig-
nem Eruditionem Pietatem, et ΚΟΠΟΝ ΕΝ ΛΟΓΩ
inter præcipuos Theologos piis Doctisq; constanternu-
meratus, ac tam Barnabas quam Boanerges rité habi-
tus, in Mansiones cœlestes translatus, Anno, &c.
WOKKS. Single Sermons, v. g. Two clean Birds, on Levit.
xiv. 4, 8. at Selby, before Lord Fairfax and his Army, 1642.-
A Broken Heart: on Psalm li. 16, 17.-On a Fast-day at Bever-
ley.-The Three Kingdoms Case: on Isa. xlii. 24, 25.—Britain's
Remembrancer: at York Minster, Sept. 20, 1644, at the taking the
Covenant.-Britannia Rediviva: an Assize Sermon on Prov. xiv.
34.-The Princess Royal (another, do.) on Psalm xlv. 16.—Some
Memorials of the holy Life and happy Death of his Wife.
KIRBY-MALL. Mr. WALTON.
KIRKBY Underdale. [V.] PETER CLARK. M. A. Fellow
of St. John's Col. Camb. Born at Beverley, of pious pa-
rents, and noted for his early proficiency at the school there.
When he left the university, he settled at Carnaby, where
he was useful in his ministry till the civil war, when he was
forced to London, and was chosen Member of the Assembly.
After the troubles, he returned into Yorkshire, where he
was beneficed at Kirkby, and there continued till the Unifor-
mity-act displaced him. He then retired with his wife and
four children to Walkington near Hull, where he had a good
estate which descended to him from his father. There he
continued as long as he lived, teaching a private school, and
boarding young gentlemen, some of whom were great orna-
ments and blessings to their country.
KIRKLINGTON [R. 2001.] Mr. PHILIP ANISBIT. A
gentleman of distinguished abilities, great learning and a
public
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public spirit, who went about doing good. He mach ho-
noured his office and doctrine, by a very prudent and en-
gaging conversation, and especially by his charity and ca-
tholicism.
LESTINGHAM [V.] Mr. PECKET.
OSMOTHERLY. Mr. Shemhold.
ROSS [R. 150l.] Mr. ANTHONY STEVENSON. This liv
ing was in the gift of the Countess of Exeter. Mr. Stevenson
had good ministerial furniture, and was also well skilled in
physic, which he administered to the poor gratis. He was
an old man when ejected, but in good circumstances, and
continued at Ross till his death.
SAND-HUTTON [C.] Mr. DUNKINSON.
SIGELSTHORP [C.] Mr. Law.
SKIRRINGTON [R.] Mr. PLACKSTONE. An active,
judicious, grave old man. After his ejectment he lived at
York, and there died, 1686, aged 84.
SLINGSBY [R.] Mr. SINCLERE. He had the character
of a godly man, and a good preacher.
STILLINGFLEET [V.] Mr. THOMAS.
STILLINGTON [V.] Mr. ALEXANDER MEDCAlf.
SUTTON [C.] Mr. JOSIAH HOLDSWORTH. Of Camb.
university. Afterwards chaplain to Sir Richard Houghton,
of Houghton Tower in Lancashire. In 1672 he set up a
meeting at Heckmondwyke. He died in 1685, under fifty
years of age. A man of great piety, sincerity, strictness, and
industry for the good of souls, and blessed with abundance
of success. § He was much beloved, and it is said, is still
spoken of with great respect. His successors at Heckmond-
wyke were, Mr. David Noble, Mr. Kirby, and the late Mr.
James Scott, who was for near thirty years the tutor of a
flourishing academy, now under the care of Dr. Williams,
at Rotherham.
THIRSK [C.] MATTHEW HILL, M. A. Of Magd.
Col. Camb. under Mr. S. Hammond. Born at l'ork. He
made good progress in learning, and when he left the uni-
versity, improved himself inuch in Hebrew, under the di-
rection of Mr. Sherwood of Popleton. He preached first at
Helaugh
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Helaugh near York, where he settled, after having been
solemnly ordained. Dr. Calamy has a copy of his testimo-
nials. He met with much opposition from the Quakers,
but gained upon many of them by degrees. From hence he
removed to Thirsk, where he was ejected in 1662, and was
wholly destitute of a subsistence. He preached for a while
privately at York, but in great danger. He could not bear
being burdensome to his relations, and therefore casting him-
self wholly upon divine providence, he travelled to London
in search of some employment. There he obtained a chap-
lainship at Gatten in Surrey, where he had 20l. per annum.
Some time after removing thence, he lost his little all in a
fire at London, upon which he subscribed a letter thus:
"Your brother, sine re, sine spe, tantum non sine se, M.
H." He had several relations, who from the first pressed
him to Conformity; but no necessities could tempt him to
think of offering violence to his conscience. At last, though
he had a very tender constitution, he determined upon a voy-
age to the West-Indies. He embarked with little besides
a few cloaths, a Bible, a Concordance, and a small parcel
of MSS. He fixed at Charles county in Maryland, in 1669,
where a brighter scene began to open, and he had a pros-
pect of considerable usefulness in the ministry, and of a
good advantage by his labours in temporal respects. But
new troubles afterwards arose, which greatly disappointed
his hopes; so that it may be said as truly of him, as of most
in modern times, that "thro' many tribulations he entered
into the kingdom of God." He was a man of ready abili-
ties, a good scholar, a serious, warm, and lively preacher,
and of a free and generous spirit.
TOPCLIFF. Mr. JAMES CALVERT. A graduate of Clare
Hall, Camb. Son of Robert Calvert, a grocer and sheriff
of York. At Cambridge he was cotemporary with Abp.
Tillotson, under Mr. David Clarkson. He had been several
years at Topcliff when he was silenced by the Act of uni-
formity. He afterwards retired to York, and lived private-
ly, but not idly; for he studied hard. He was an ingeni-
ous and pious man, of a meek and quiet temper. When
he could not conform, he peaceably submitted. He had
several interviews with the Arminian party, and the church-
men, many of whom, by his learning and moderation, he
kept from extremes, and brought to fall in with Mr. Bax-
ter in the middle way. Many pious Conformists, as Mr.
Chr.
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Chr. Jackson, Mr. Ratcliff, &c. loved and honoured him,
and would fain have won him over to the church, but they
could not remove his objections; so that, with all his mo-
deration, he was a true Nonconformist. Having dedicated
a learned work to Bp. Wilkins, he waited on him at Scar-
borough with Mr. Williams of York. The Bishop receiv-
ed them with much respect, and encouraged them to live
in hope of a comprehension. About 1675 he became chap-
lain to Sir W. Strickland of Boynton, where he continued
several years, preaching and educating his son, till both he
and his Lady died. Then he removed to Hull, and thence
into Northumberland, as chaplain to Sir W. Middleton,
where he preached constantly in the chapel, and educated
his only son, to whom he was left tutor when the father
died; and he was very careful in his education, both at
home and in Cambridge. He was a man of great reading,
and a good disputant. He died in Dec. 1698. He left his
books and a good collection of MSS. to his cousin, Mr.
Harrison, Fellow of Sidney Col. Camb.
WORKS. Napthali; seu Colluctat. Theolog. de reditu
10. Tribum, Conversione Judæorum, & Mens. Ezekielis. Lond.
4to. 1672.
WALTON [C.] Mr. HAINES.
He con-
WETWANG [V.] Mr. WAIT. He was diligent in his
work, but seemed not to have any great success.
tinued here after his ejectment, and preached in his own
house publickly, His wife taught school, and he assisted
her. Having three children, he kept several cows, and in
the winter looked after them himself, and he hired the til-
ling of a piece of land which he had purchased, the crop
of which he used himself to thresh out. He kept also a flock
of sheep, which, in winter, he foddered commonly in his own
yard. Being well esteemed by Lady Norcliff, she allowed
him 57, a year.
He was sometimes disturbed by the con-
stable when preaching in his house, where he would have
all his wife's scholars attend; but he continued doing it
without fear, and with his doors open. He was a man of
singular piety, whose way of living was so different from
that of his neighbours, that he seemed like a man of another
country.
WELL [V.] Mr. PROCTOR.
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WHELDRAKE [R.] Mr. BOYARD.
Mr. ROBINSON, it is believed, was ejected somewhere
in the West Riding. He died at Rastrick.
The following persons were not fixed when the Act of
uniformity took place.
Mr. JENNISON. Mr. WHEARAM.—Mr. JAMES BAYOCK.
He had a university education, and many years preached at
South Cave, where he trained up several for the ministry.
Mr. NOAH WARD; a student. Born at Derby. A se-
rious disposition was observed in him betimes, and he early
devoted himself to God in the ministry, whose service he
afterwards pursued as the great end of his being. But after
he had been two years at the university, he met with a sud-
den check to his improvements in literature, by the Act of
uniformity; so that he returned to his native place. Hav.
ing a good genius, and a serious spirit; being fervent in
prayer, and zealous to serve God in the gospel, with the
divine blessing he acquired an ability for usefulness. He
had good assistance from Mr. Beresford, who had been
minister of St. Werburgh's at Derby. The people there
consulted about some provision for this young man, and
got him to be usher to the school-master in that town. But
this not answering his purpose, he quitted the place, and
went to a gentleman's house to teach his children, where he
was seized with a fever, which forced him to return home.
After his recovery he taught school at Asheby, but some
trouble there drove him home again. He was ordained at Shef-
field, and was some time chaplain to Sir John Wentworth,
in whose family he married. He continued here till Sir
John's death, and till his Lady married the Lord Winchel-
sea, who dismissed him. He then went to Askam, about
three miles from York, where he lived eleven years. He
preached in several other places, and was an itinerant
preacher all his life. He was reduced to many straits, but
never thro' his own fault. He managed all his domestic
affairs with great frugality, so that neither he nor his want-
ed food or raiment; and contentment made their little enough
for them. He often acknowledged his great obligations to
Mr. Ralph Ward, who, tho' a stranger, employed him;
and who, after K. James's Declaration for liberty, finding
himself decline, desired his assistance every third sabbath
and
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and week-day lecture. So that at length his itinerancy was
confined to York, Selby, and Ellinthorp. A little before
his death, he left Selby, and bestowed one of his days at
Helaugh, but continued at the two other places to his death.
Had he not lived by faith, he had died by his discourage-
ments. He had a deep sense of the sins of the times, and
of the general decay of piety. This made the terrors of
the Lord usually fill up the greatest part of his sermons. He
studied not language, but plain, convincing truths.-He
used to say
"There were two sorts of professors that he
did not like: those that were all for heaven, and nothing for
the earth; and those that were all for earth, and nothing
for heaven: the one makes himself all spirit, and the other
all body; whereas man is a compound of both, and Chris-
tianty divides our cares between them, with a due prefer-
ence of our more excellent part."-A person of consider-
able note for wealth, who had a place in the bishop's court,
and was much prejudiced against the Dissenters, had pro-
cured a writ de excom. cap. against Mr. Ward. Upon this
some private christians met at his house to pray with him,
for his deliverance. The very next Lord's-day this angry
gentleman was killed in a duel, with an intimate friend,
who was very unwilling to accept the challenge. By this
unexpected and undesired means Mr. Ward was, for a good
while, free from disturbance. The fear of losing a daugh-
ter seized on his spirits, and it was thought, hastened his
death; which however was serene and joyful. A few mni-
nutes before he departed he said, "That he had given him-
self up to God when he was young, and served him with sin
cerity, tho' with much weakness; and he humbly hoped that
God, for Christ's sake, would pardon and accept him." "God
(said he) will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,
for he shall receive me." These words he desired might be
his funeral text. He died May 22, 1669, aged 59.
'
Mr. JOSIAH MARSDEN should probably be somewhere
inserted. He was the youngest son of Mr. Ralph Marsden,
who had four sons ministers. Jeremy, the second of them,
(mentioned p. 421.) says of his three brethren, that " they all
obtained mercy to be faithful:" which expression seems to
imitate, that they all suffered for the same cause. This Mr.
Josiah Marsden signed the testimony of Mr. Ed. Veal, in
the capacity of Fellow of Trin. Col. Dublin. But nothing
further can be certainly said concerning him.
Mr.
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Mr. INGHAM and Mr. PEEBLES were ejected somewhere
in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The following afterwards conformed.
Mr. JOHN HOOL, of Bradfield.-Mr. JOHN HIDE, at
Slawhwait.-Mr. KENION, of Riponden-Mr. JOHN HEP-
WORTH, of Lotwel.-Mr. LISTER, of Giggleswick.-Mr.
RALPH WOOD, of Saddleworth. § He was for a time re-
markably peremptory against conformity. After he con-
formed he became a vain and debauched character.-Mr.
SCARGIL, of Chapleworth.-Mr. MOORHOUSE, of Castle-
ford.-Mr. ETHERINGTON, of Morley. He succeeded
Mr. Bovel at Bromley.-Mr. Moor, of Bayldon.-Mr.
OBADIAH LEE.-Mr. BUCKLEY, of Horsford.-Mr. LAMB,
of York. Mr. SAMPSON, of Rawcliff.-Mr. DENTON,
near York. He was afterwards at Oswaldkirk and Stone-
grave.-Mr. TIMOTHY ROOT, of Sowerby Bridge. He
had a good reputation for piety, and had been a great suf-
ferer for Nonconformity, in the year 1683. (Conformist's
4th. Plea, p. 51.) yet just at that time, when K. James
granted liberty of conscience, he conformed, but had little
satisfaction afterwards. Mr. Tricket, and others thought
his complying, after such sufferings, so extraordinary, that
they wanted to know whether he saw with clearer eyes than
they, and desired he would give them an account of the
reasons of his proceedings; but this he declined. He brought
up his son for the ministry, who was then about 19 years of
age. He and his mother were greatly troubled at his father's
Conformity, and died soon after. The son had 241. per
ann. settled upon him by a relation, for life, on account of
his being designed for the ministry. This of course was
lost at his death, and his father did not long survive.
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CARNARVONSHIRE.
R. JOHN WILLIAMS. He was silenced, though not
ejected here. He was an ingenious and learned man,
and a good preacher. He afterwards preached gratis, as he
had opportunity, and died about the year 1674.
DENBIGHSHIRE.
DENBIGH, [R. and V. 48.] Mr. WILLIAM JONES.
Born in Merionethshire. After an advantageous education,
he was settled at a school at Ruthin, from whence he re-
moved to this place, where he was chosen by the Governor,
Col. Twisleton, to be preacher in the castle, and about 1648
became minister of the parish. He took a journey to Lon-
don, to confer with Mr. Baxter and others, before the Uni-
formity-act passed, and returned fully bent for Nonconfor-
inity, to which he was most inclined before. When the
Five-mile-act forced him from the town, he found a com-
fortable retreat in Plas Tég in Flintshire, a seat belonging to
the ancient family of the Trevors, where some land was ge-
nerously allowed him by Mr. Trevor, to the value cf 201.
per ann. Having lived there for several years, he removed
to Hope, where he died in a good old age, in Feb. 1679, and
there he was buried. Dr. Maurice, of Abergeley, a Con-
forming Minister, preached his funeral sermon, and gave him
his due character. He also penned this inscription, which is
on
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on his grave-stone: "Hic exuvias reliquit mortales Gulielmus
Jones, assiduus verbi divini præco, felici concionum fructu
" & pio exemplo adhuc loquitur."-He was a person of a
sweet and pleasant countenance, of an unquestionable learn-
ing, prudence, moderation, and piety. He suffered three
months imprisonment for performing family duty in a gen-
tleman's house, after he was silenced. He could not think
himself discharged from preaching, by the laws of men, and
therefore continued his ministry in private as he had oppor-
tunity. Being solicited by his wife and relations to conform,
on account of his family, he answered, "God will provide
None of you will go with me to judgment." He had a
good report of all men, and of the truth itself. He translated
into Welch Mr. Gouge's Word to Sinners and Saints, and
his Principles of the Christian Religion.
HOLT [C. to Gresford, 32l. 13s. 4d.] Mr. RICHARD
TAYLOR. Of Oxford university, under Mr. Samuel Jones,
who was afterwards a noted tutor in a private academy. He
settled at this place in 1659 when he was very young. After
being silenced, he continued preaching twelve months in the
church gratis, by connivance. He then removed to London,
and at length was pastor of a congregation at Barking in
Essex, where he died about 1697.
LLANVAIER [V.] JONATHAN ROBERTS, M. A. Of
Oxford university. He was one who, in 1681, assisted at
the conference concerning Nonconformity, in the town-hall
at Oswestry, before Dr. Lloyd, Bp. of St. Asaph, with Mr.
Henry, and Mr. James Owen. Mr. Henry describes him as
a learned man, an Israelite indeed, for plainness and in-
tegrity; a silent sufferer for his Nonconformity, for which he
quitted a good living; and died with comfort in the review,
Sept. 26, 1684." The summer before, he had visited Ox-
ford, Cambridge, and London, where he heard and saw what
much confirmed him in his dissent.
RUTHIN [Wardenship, C.] Mr. ELLIS ROWLands.
At the time of ejectment he was occasionally in Carnarvon-
shire, and was there hauled out of the pulpit as he was preach-
ing. He was a laborious, worthy man; but after being si-
lenced, he was reduced to extreme necessities, and a collec-
tion was made for him at Denbigh. His wife kept school
in Carnarvonshire for a livelihood, and he drew patterns for
the girls to work by. He could not be permitted a quiet
abode,
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abode, but was forced to flee into Cheshire. He died a Non-
conformist about the year 1683.
WREXHAM [V. S.] Mr. AMBROSE MOSTYN. Son of
Dr. Mostyn, of an ancient and honourable family at Green-
field in Flintshire. When he came from the university, he
preached for some time at Redcastle in Montgomeryshire,
in connexion with Mr. Powel. At length he fixed his usual
residence in this county. Holt had some time the benefit of
his labours, till about 1659, when he removed to Wrexham,
and was the stated preacher there, till the restoration, when he
gave way to the sequestered minister. Having no children,
he and his wife were entertained by Lord Say and Seal,
§ who was converted by old Mr. Dodd] as his domestic
chaplain, at his seat in Oxfordshire, and were treated with
much respect. On his Lordship's death, he preached his fu-
neral sermon, and soon after removed to London, where he
lived with Mr. Johnson, a Nonconformist Minister, and
there he died, about 1664. He was generally esteemed a
good scholar, and remarkably humble, mortified, and pious;
but was inclined to melancholy. In his younger days, when
he was assistant to another minister, some good people in his
hearing, ascribing their conversion, under God, to that mini-
ster's preaching, he seemed dejected, as if he was of no use;
when a sensible countryman present, who had a particular
value for his ministry, made this observation for his encou-
ragement: "An ordinary workman may hue down timber,
but it must be an accomplished artist that shall frame it for
the building." Mr. Mostyn upon this rose up, and chearfully
replied, "If I am of any use, I am satisfied." Indeed his
preaching was always solid and judicious, and highly esteem-
ed by all but himself; but was especially useful to grown
Christians. He was noted for a happy way of explaining
and improving difficult texts, and was much against unpre-
meditated sermons. He shewed a very tender spirit to any
in distress. His last wife, (daughter of Sir E. Broughton,
Bart.) tho' eminent for piety, was exercised with great trou-
ble of mind, in which he was a successful comforter. He
was inclined to heat in his temper, but was the first to cen-
sure himself for it. He had but a small income of his own,
and yet was very charitable. In those times, when so many
worthy men were in lower circumstances than himself, he
was unwilling to receive the bounty of his friends, and said,
he would not eat the bread our of poor men's mouths. He
had
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had an agreeable address, which, with his great abilities, re-
commended him to persons of rank who were no friends to
Nonconformity; yet he delighted to converse with poor
christians, and had a very happy turn for profitable conver-
sation with them. He used a familiar way of starting prac-
tical questions, that would either set people a thinking them-
selves, or make them eagerly attentive to his own instruc-
tions. He was sorely afflicted with the stone many years.
The Lord's-day before his last long illness he preached on
these words; I bear in my body the dying of the Lord
"Jesus.' He died at London soon after the fire.
Mr. JENKINS, of Gresford, afterwards conformed.
FLINTSHIRE.
BANGOR + [R. S. 300l.] Mr. ROBERT FOGG. sen. He
succeeded Mr. H. Bridgeman, and was ejected at the Resto-
ration. He was a strong man, of a stern countenance, of
warm passions, and of a bold and zealous spirit. He had
some particular fancies, but his piety was very eminent. He
had been a very active man in the parliament times. When
Prince Rupert took Bolton, and put so many to the sword,
he had a narrow escape. Having set his man to wait with
two horses at a certain place, he determined, if the town
was taken, to ride for his life; but when he came to the place,
his man and horses were gone. He happened however to
meet with another horse, or else he had been killed, for the
Prince had a particular aim at him. In the time of the war,
he married his second wife, who proved a Papist. Her sons
were in the King's army, and much enraged against their fa-
ther-in-law. One of them sent him a challenge. He took his
sword under his coat and met him, and so humbled the
young man that he was glad to be reconciled. When his
wife was afterwards acquainted with it, she expressed the
highest approbation of his conduct. About the year 1660,
a person came to him to have his child baptized, and would
have it crossed; upon which he pleasantly said to the man,
"I will not cross it, but if you will go to my son Rowland,
he will cross it, and cross thee, and cross me too."
+ Or BANCHOR, Monachorum; a small village, which is famous for a large
monastry of British christians, who were all Presbyterians, and who were
murdered at the instigation of Austin the Monk-In the Index Vil. the city
BANGER, this village, and another in Cardiganshire, are spelt all alike.
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Mr. Fogg went constantly to church at Namptwich or Ac-
ton, and preached after sermon on the Lord's-days, and also on
week-days. In the latter part of his time he lived alone, and
kept his coffin by him. He ordered a friend, if he should not
be seen after a certain time, to break open his door. [How-
ever he did not die alone]. On his death-bed he spoke
much of the evil of sin, wishing he could persuade all that
visited him to have the same thoughts of it as he had, and to
forsake it. He was large and affectionate in his penitential
confessions; very earnest in prayer for pardon, and disco-
vered a peculiar sense of God's pardoning love and mercy,
to his great joy and the refreshment of others. Once, after a
fainting fit, he said "I had like to have got to heaven too
easily." He often spoke to this effect; "The will of my
Heavenly Father be done. Let him lay upon me what he
pleases. I am in his hand, who waited on me a great while;
and why should not I wait? God's time is the best for all
things." When one asked him how we might know our in-
terest in Christ? he answered, "By the working of his
Spirit in us, as a guiding and ruling Spirit." As he drew near
his end, he was sometimes insensible for some hours, and
then coming to himself again, and finding his christian friends
about him, he said, "O what has my dear Father done for
me, unworthy me, to let me have the company and prayers
of his dear children at such a time as this!" He was lively in
his spirit to admiration, rejoicing when he spoke of death, and
discovered his longing to be at rest, tho' he was content to
wait God's time. The day before he died, Mr. Philip Henry
coming to see him, he begged him to pray with him, and was
much revived by his prayer, said Amen several times with re-
joicing; and when he had done, thanked him and blessed
God for him. When Mr. Henry asked him about his Non-
conformity, he said, "I have conformed too far;-thank
Mr. Henry for it." He died at Namptwich, in April, 1676,
aged 80, and was buried at Acton.
+
Mr. ROWLAND FOGG of Harding-Castle, (afterwards.
Dr.) son of the former, was a sufferer by the Act of uni-
formity, and stood out some time; but he at length came in.
He was displeased that in the first edition of this work he
was mentioned as conforming; and therefore this account of
him is taken from his own letters to the Author." His case
was in some respects singular, for tho' he was conformable
in worship, ceremonies, and other matters ecclesiastical, (be-
ing
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ing among the first who restored the public use of the liturgy
in 1660, and continuing the use of it till Aug. 1662) yet he
could not satisfy his conscience to keep in his living, when
not only assent and consent was required, but a subscription
to a second declaration, in which some clauses relating to
matters of state, seemed to him ambiguous. Not being per-
mitted to subscribe in any other acceptation than what was
commonly accounted the sense of the imposors, he chose
rather to quit his livelihood than his inward peace, and resign-
ed his benefice before the act took place. And yet, in obe-
dience to the law, he neither joined with any separate con-
gregation, nor officiated in the church, till his sentiments of
the Declaration were justified in Wesminster-Hall in 1665,
by persons sufficiently authorized to interpret an ambiguity
in a law, so long as the law-makers forbore by an explana-
tory act to do it themselves. He then subscribed the said
Declaration, as Dr. Bates and others did at London. The
bar being (as he said, by divine Providence) thus removed,
he returned to his ministerial employment, having for se-
veral years only a curacy; but he was at length made Dean
of Chester."
HANMERE, [V.] RICHARD STEEL, M. A. Of St.
John's Col. Camb. A very valuable and useful man; a good
sholar, a hard student, and an excellent preacher. He met
with much trouble on the account of his Nonconformity,
particularly in 1665, when just as he was setting out for
London, by a warrant from the neighbouring justices, under
colour of the report of a plot, he was stopped and searched;
and finding nothing to accuse him of, they seized his alma-
nack, in which he hept his diary for that year: it not being
written very legibly, they made what malicious readings and
comments they pleased, to his great reproach and injury;
tho' to all sober people it only discovered him to be a man
who kept a strict watch over his own heart, and was a great
husband of his time. Fixing afterwards at London, he became
pastor of a congregation there, and died Nov. 16, 1692,
aged 64. [Mr. P. Henry speaks of him thus: " My old and
dear friend and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom
and patience of Jesus Christ—a man that had been greatly
useful in his generation, both in the country and at London."
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It is observable that he joined in the ordination both of Mr.
P. Henry and of Matthew Henry, his son.] His funeral ser-
mon was preached by Mr. George Hammond, on 2 Tim. ii. 15.
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[entitled A good Minister of Christ. Of which see the high
character given, in the account of Mr. Hammond, Vol. II.
page 129.]
WORKS. The Husbandman's Calling-A Discourse of Up-
rightness-An Antidote against Distractions in the worship of
God-The Tradesman's Calling. [One of the books given away
by the Society for promoting Religious Knowledge]-A Discourse
of Old-Age-Four Sermons in the Morning Exercises-A Preface
to the Life of Mr. T. Froysel.
WORTHENBURY [C. now R.] PHILIP HENRY, M. A.
Of Christ Church Oxf. Born at Whitehall, Westminster,
Aug. 24, 1631. His father, Mr. John Henry, was gentleman
to the Earl of Pembroke, who being made Lord Chamber-
lain, preferred him to the King's service: and he lived and
died a courtier. This son, being born in the court, Philip
Earl of Pembroke, James Earl of Carlisle, and the Countess
of Salisbury were his sponsors in baptism. Prince Charles
and the Duke of York being about his age, he in his child-
hood often attended upon them in their play, and might have
expected future preferment. But the public changes that en-
sued separated him from court, and he was well satisfied in
his removal, not daring to think of a return, for fear of being
ensnared; otherwise he wanted not encouragement. How-
ever, the tincture of his first education so far continued, as to
leave the most sweet and obliging air of courtesy in his con-
versation, which made him universally beloved. He was
brought up in Westminster school under Dr. Busby, and be-
ing a great proficient, was particularly caressed by him. In
1645 he was admitted King's scholar, and was first of the
election, partly by his own merit and partly by the interest of
the Earl of Pembroke. While he was at school he constantly
attended on the Morning lecture in the Abbey church, carried
on by seven members of the Assembly, as also upon the
monthly fasts at St. Margaret's, and found such good effects
from it, that he often recommended it to parents to bring their
children betimes to public ordinances. He was one of the
scholars whom Dr. Busby employed in reading Greek au-
thors, to collect materials for his excellent Greek Grammar.
The Dr.'s care to assist him in his preparation for the Lord's
Supper, (which, according to the custom of the school, he
received before he went to the university) was very benefi-
cial to him, and he often thankfully acknowledged it. May,
1647, he was chosen from school to Christ Church, Oxon,
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jure loci, with four others, of whom he had the second place
In December following he was entered Commoner, Mr. Un-
derwood being his tutor. His godfather, the Earl of Pem-
broke, gave him 10l. to set out with. He applied himself
vigorously to his studies, and in the March following was
admitted student of the house by Dr. Hammond, then Sub-
dean. Upon the visitation of the university by order of Par-
liament, when this question was put to all, to be answered in
writing, "Will you submit to the power of the Parliament
in this present visitation!" Mr. Henry's answer was, "I
submit as far as I may with a safe conscience, and without
perjury," having taken the oath of allegiance and suprema-
cy. His answer was allowed, and he was continued in his
student's place. He made good improvement in his studies,
took his degrees at the usual time, and gained great applause
by several college exercises.
He preached his first sermon at South-Hinesey, Oxford-
shire, in Jan. 1653. Serjeant Puleston's Lady, of Eme-
rald in Worthenbury, writing to Mr. F. Palmer of Christ-
Church, to recommend to her a young man to take the care
of her sons, and preach at Worthenbury, he proposed it to
Mr. Henry; who was willing to make a trial for half a year,
and went in Sept. 1653. When the time was expired, he re-
turned to Oxford; but afterwards, upon the earnest invita-
tion of Judge Puleston, and all the people of the parish, he
fixed among them. For two or three years he kept his place in
Christ-Church, attending once a year, and disposed of most of
his income among poor scholars. The Judge settled 100l per
ann. upon him (in lieu of the tythe) free of all incumbrances.
He was ordained at Prees, Sept. 16, 1657. Being thus fixed, he
was abundant in his labours to win souls. Besides preaching
he expounded the scriptures, catechized, and explained the ca-
techism. He set up a monthly lecture, and had also a monthly
conference. He was very industrious in visiting the sick,
instructing and praying with them. He preached at the fu-
nerals of all whom he buried, thinking it a peculiar oppor-
tunity of doing good. He was very careful in admission to
the Lord's Supper, that the weak might not be discouraged,
nor yet the ordinance prophaned. His deportment towards
his parishioners was very exemplary, condescending to the
meanest, bearing with the infirmities of the weak, and be-
⚫ coming all things to all men'. For about eight years his mi-
nistry in this place was signally successful. He constantly
laid by the tenth of his income for the poor, which he faith-
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fully disposed of in the liberal things which he devised, espe-
cially the teaching of poor children. He had several offers
of more considerable places, but was not given to change;
and tho' the family of the Pulestons, after the death of the
Judge and his pious Lady, grew very unkind to him, he re-
solved to see his call clear, before he would leave a place
where God had owned and blessed him.-When at the Re-
storation, Dr. Bridgman, the sequestered rector of Bangor,
asserted his right to Worthenbury as a chapelry belonging to
it, Mr. Henry was but as his curate; however, he conti-
nued above a year in the enjoyment of his liberty under
him.
The grand question then on foot was about Conformity.
Mr. Henry used all means possible to satisfy himself, by
reading and conversation; particularly at Oxford with Dr.
Fell, afterwards bishop, but in vain. Being about that time
at Chester, he discoursed with the Dean and Chancellor
about the matter. The great argument they used to per-
suade him to conform was, that he would otherwise lose
his preferment. "Besides (said they) you are a young
man, and are you wiser than the King and the Bishops?"
Upon which he made this reflection in one of his papers :
"God grant I may never be left to consult with flesh and
blood in such matters!" He was repeatedly presented at
Flint assizes for not reading the Common prayer, before there
was any obligation, and it was not without some difficulty
that he got off. His annuity from the Emerald family was
withheld; but what troubled him most was, that he was hin-
dered from doing good in his former manner.
At length
Mr. Pulestone and Dr. Bridgeman, having had a dispute
about the tythe, came to an agreement, (by the mediation
of Sir T. Hanmer, Sept. 11, 1661) of which this was the
condition that before the first of Nov. following, he dis-
charged Mr. Henry from the chapel of Worthenbury, with-
out suffering him to officiate there any more. Upon this
Dr. Bridgeman discharged him by a writing under his hand,
which was published in the church by one of Mr. Puleston's
servants, Oct. 27. Thus Mr. Henry ceased to preach to
his people, but he ceased not to love and pray for them. He
afterwards preached occasionally, in neighbouring places, till
Bartholomew-day, 1662. "The day (says he) which our
sins have made one of the saddest days to England, since the
death of Edward VI. But even this is for good, tho' we
know not how."-The first time he visited Dr. Busby af-
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terwards, the Dr. asked him, " Prithee, child, what made
THEE a Nonconformist ?” "Truly, Sir (said he) YOU
made me one, for you taught me those things that hindered
me from conforming." He could not be satisfied to be reor-
dained; nor could he assent and consent to all and every
thing in a book which he found liable to many just excep-
tions. But tho' he was a conscientious Nonconformist, his
moderation was remarkable. He wished for Abp. Usher's
Reduction of Episcopacy. Thinking it lawful to join in the
Common prayer, he practised accordingly, and endeavoured
to satisfy others concerning it. He was much afraid of ex-
tremes, and more solicitous for nothing than to maintain
christian charity among professors.-At Michaelmas, 1662,
he removed from Worthenbury to Broad Oak, where he
had an estate which came to him by marriage, which not
only supported him, but enabled him to relieve many who
were in want. Here he constantly went with his family on
the Lord's-day, to Whitewell chapel, or Tylstock church,
preaching only occasionally. He used to say that he went
to bear his testimony to public ordinances.
In Oct. 1663, Mr. Steel and he were taken up and impri-
soned, on pretence of a Plot; upon which he wrote in one
of his papers,
"It is sweet being in any condition with a
clear conscience.” After some days, they were examined
by the deputy-lieutenants, charged with they knew not
what, and dismissed upon their verbal security to be forth
coming upon 24 hours notice. In 1665 they were made
sub-collectors of the royal aid. In Sept. the same year, Mr.
Henry was again taken prisoner to Hanmer; but after some
days confinement, he was discharged upon recognizance
of 201. with two sureties to be forth coming upon notice.
When the Five-mile-act took place, he left his family, but
soon returned in peace. In 1667 he removed to Whit-
church, where he attended constantly on the public ministry,
and in the evening instructed his family, when some of hist
neighbours were admitted in. Here
Here it was that he first ad-
ministered the Lord's Supper, after his ejectment. [For
which see his modest Apology in his Life, p. 153.]-In
Feb. 1668, Mr. Lawrence and he being at Betley in Staf-
fordshire, ventured one Lord's-day, with the consent of all
concerned, to preach in the parish church. This was soon
reported in the House of Commons, with these additions:
that they tore the Common-prayer-book, trampled the sur-
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plice under their feet, pulled the minister of the place out
of the pulpit, &c. These and other such like falsehoods,
produced an address from the House to the King to issue out
a proclamation, for putting the law in execution against
Papists and Nonconformists.-In 1668 Mr. Henry returned
with his family to Broad Oak, being desirous to be useful
to those among whom God had given him an estate, and by
whom he was generally loved and honoured. In the com-
mon concerns of the township and country he was a prudent
counsellor; and in private differences, he was the common
arbitrator of those parts, and a successful peace-maker. Re-
ferences were sometimes made to him by rule of court, at the
assizes, with consent of parties. He was given to hospi-
tality, and very compassionate towards poor strangers and
travellers; and all that he had and did evidently prospered.
Upon the Conventicle act, in 1670, he kept private,
being loth to offend those in power. Obtaining a licence in
1672, he preached with open doors, gratis. He also held
many lectures abroad in Shropshire, Cheshire, and 'Den-
bighshire, laying himself out for the good of souls, for se-
veral years. In 1681, he and Mr. Bury of Bolas keeping
a day of fasting and prayer, at a private house, on occasi-
on of extreme drought, were disturbed by the justices, who
took the names of 150 persons. By the oath of two wit-
nesses; they signed and sealed two records; by one of
which they convicted the master of the house, and fined
him 207. and 5l. more as constable that year; and all the
persons whose names they had taken 5s. each. By another
they convicted Mr. Bury 20l. and Mr. Henry 40l. for
which they distrained upon Mr. Henry, and carried away
33 loads of corn which lay cut upon the ground, hay, coals,
&c. This he bore with his usual evenness of mind.-In
the same year there was a public conference between Dr.
IV. Lloyd, Bp. of St. Asaph, and some Nonconformist Mi-
nisters. The bishop, on coming into those parts, set him-
self with vigour to reduce Dissenters, and affected to do it
by reasoning. He publickly discoursed with the Quakers
at Llanvillin, and had often conversed privately with Mr.
Owen of Oswestry. At length he appointed to meet him
in the town-hall, Sept. 27, 1681, to shew by what right he
exercised the ministry, not having episcopal ordination.
He desired him also to procure what other ministers he could
to assist him, but gave him only four or five days notice.
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The bishop brought with him the learned Mr. Henry Dod.
well, and Mr. Owen was accompanied by Mr. Henry and
Mr. Jonathan Roberts of Denbighshire. Mr. Henry pressed
much for the management of the discourse in private be-
fore a select number, but could not prevail. However, his
Lordship promised, that nothing said by way of argument,
should be any way turned to the prejudice of the disputants.
There were present many of the clergy and gentry of the
country, with the magistrates of the town, and a great mul-
titude of people. The discourse began about two o'clock
in the afternoon, and continued till between seven and eight
at night. Much was said pro and con about the identity of
Bishops and Presbyters, the validity of presbyterian ordi-
nation, &c. but not under the strict laws of disputation.
The bishop managed his part with great gravity and calm-
ness, and Mr. Henry gained no small reputation. Even
they who were adversaries to his cause, were brought by
his meekness, humility, and truly christian spirit, appar-
ent in the whole management, to entertain a better opinion
of him and his way. The conference broke off abruptly.
Mr. Roberts whispering to Mr. Henry, " Pray let my Lord
have the last word." A Justice upon the bench over-hear-
ing him, replied, "You say my Lord shall have the last.
word, but he shall not; I will. We thank God we have
the sword of power in our hands, and by the grace of God
we'll keep it, and it shall not rust; and I hope every lawful
magistrate will do as I do; and look to yourselves, gentle-
men, by the grace of God I'll root you out of the coun-
try." To which a forward man in the crowd said, "Amen,
throw them down stairs." But the Mayor of the town gave
order for their safety. The bishop afterwards often cor-
responded with Mr. Henry by letter, and conversed with
him when he came into those parts, with great openness
and freedom, telling him that he did not look upon him as
sxioμàTIX, [a schismatic] but only as mapasuvaywy, [a
separatist; and said, that if he were in his diocese, he did
not question but he should find out some way to make him
useful.]
•
In 1612 Mr. Henry kept an open meeting, by the ma-
gistrate's connivance. In 1683 and 1684 he preached pri-
vately at home without disturbance. But in 1686, at the
time of Monmouth's rebellion, he was made a prisoner in
Chester castle, without the shadow of criminality. With
joy
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joy he accepted K. James's indulgence in 1687, tho' being
sensible of it's design, he could not but rejoice with trem-
bling. When the King came into that county, to court
the compliments of the people, he joined with several others
in an address, the purport of which was only to thank him
for the liberty given them, with a promise to demean them-
selves quietly in the use of it. When the Commissioners
came down to enquire what injury the Dissenters had sus-
tained by the penal laws, and how the money levied upon
them was disposed of, Mr. Henry being sent to, answered,
"That he had long since forgiven all the agents, instru-
ments, and occasions of his troubles, and had purposed never
to say any thing more about it."-In May, 1688, he was
nominated a Justice of Peace for the county; but he refused
to act, and vigorously applied himself to his ministerial
work, in which he persisted to the last. He died in peace
[tho' in dreadful agonies from the stone] June 24, 1696,
aged 66, When his son came in, who had been sent for
from Chester, he said to him, "O son, you are welcome
to a dying father! I am now ready to be offered, and the
time of my departure is at hand." His pain was very acute,
but he had peace within. "I am tormented (said he) but
blessed be God, not in this flame." When he found him-
self ready to depart, he said, "O Death, where is thy".
when his speech faltered, and he quietly breathed out his
soul into the hands of his Redeemer. Mr. Talents of Sa-
lop preached his funeral sermon on Rom. viii. 23.
Thro' his excess of modesty he would publish nothing.
But some Latin verses of his were among the Poems which
the University of Oxford, printed upon the peace with
Holland in 1654, which shew him to have been no less a
poet than an orator.] Wood says not a word about him,
tho' he was a noted Oxonian. [Few readers need be in-
formed that Mr. Matthew Henry was his son, and that he
wrote his father's life, from which the foregoing account
is extracted. The Editor could with pleasure enlarge, much
to the Reader's edification; but our limits will not admit.
This is the less to be regretted, as that excellent life may
easily be procured, Mr. Job Orton having re-published it.
It will be acceptable to most readers to close this article
with a few extracts from Mr. Henry's Diary, which have
never before been printed.
1
A solemn
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A solemn covenant with God. (No date.)
"Forasmuch as I have, by often experience, found the
treachery and deceitfulness of my own heart, and being taught
that it is my duty to engage my heart to approach unto God,
and that one way of doing it is by "subscribing with my
hand unto the Lord," therefore let this paper be witness,
that I do deliberately, of choice and unreservedly, take God
in Christ to be mine, and give myself to him to be his, to
love him, to fear him, to serve and obey him; and renounc-
ing all my sins, with hearty sorrow and detestation, I do
cast myself only upon free grace, thro' the merits of Christ,
for pardon and forgiveness; and do propose, God enabling
me, from this day forward more than ever, to exercise my-
self unto godliness, and to walk in all the ways of religion,
as much as ever I can, with delight and chearfulness, as
knowing that my labour shall not be vain in the Lord.
Feb. 1657.
"These following sins were in this month
set home with power upon my conscience. (1) Omissions
innumerable. I fall short of duty in every relation. (2)
Much forwardness upon every occasion, which fills my ways
with thorns and snares. (3) Pride; a vein of it runs thro'
all my conversation. (4) Self-seeking. Corrupt ends in all
I do. Applause of men oftentimes regarded more than the
glory of God. (5) My own iniquity. Many bubblings up
of heart-corruption, and breakings forth too. O Lord shame
hath covered my face! Pardon and purge for Jesus's sake!"
The following is a specimen of the addition that might
be made to the collection of his sayings in his life, Chap. x.
"Guilt in the soul is like a mote in the eye; not at ease till
wept out.-Let him be afraid to die that is afraid to go to
heaven. It were a good thought in a doubtful matter, What
would Jesus Christ do if he were here?—The evil of an af-
fliction is the wrath of God in it. (To encourage faith un-
der afflictions)—The pilot is wise, tho' the sea is rough.”—
Other extracts from his private papers have been commu-
nicated by the Rev. Mr. Stedman, who has been conversant
with Mr. Henry's family.
Mr. JOHN BROSTER, of Penley, afterwards conformed.
MERIONETHSHIRE,
Mr. HUGH OWEN, He was a candidate for the ministry
when the Bartholomew-act passed, and about that time re-
moved
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moved from Oxford to London. He soon after fixed in
this his native county, where he lived upon a little estate of
his own, and preached the gospel to the poor ignorant peo-
ple gratis. He was a burning and shining light in this ob-
scure corner; a bright star, that moved in a large orb. He
had five or six places where he used to preach in this coun-
ty, some of them 20 miles distant, and near as many in
Montgomeryshire, of which some were about 30 miles
from his habitation. He also sometimes preached in Car-
narvonshire, and other parts. He performed his circuit in
about three months, and then began again. His preaching
was very affectionate and moving. Great numbers of people
attended his ministry, and were much impressed by it. His
indefatigable labours much impaired his health, as he often
rode in the night, and in cold rains over the mountains,
scarcely allowing himself necessary food. He rarely ate
any flesh and avoided all strong liquors: his principal food
was milk, to which he had used himself by lodging in poor
houses, where they had nothing else, and only beds of straw.
He was a primitive apostolical christian; eminently meek
and humble, esteeming himself the least of all the ministers
of Jesus Christ. He used to say, he envied no man's gifts,
but desired faithfully to improve his own little talent for the
service of his Lord. He was tender of grieving any, and
tho' strict in his own opinions, was candid towards those
who differed from him. He often said "he valued no man
for his opinion, or his adherence to this or that party, but
for what he saw of the grace of God in him." His unble-
mished and exemplary deportment, procured him the esteem
of the gentlemen of the country, to several of whom he
was nearly allied.
He had many remarkable deliverances in answer to
prayer.
As he was once coming home, in a very dark night, he lost
his way, and found himself in a dangerous place. In this
extremity he alighted from his horse, and prayed to God
to direct him. Before he had done praying, the heavens
cleared over his head, so that he plainly perceived his
way,
and escaped the danger. Another time, going to preach in
a frosty, snowy season, he was benighted on the hills, and
a sudden storm arose, which drove the snow so violently in
his face, that the horse could not go forward. He there-
fore let him go as he would, till he perceived himself in dan-
ger of the bogs, so that it was not safe to ride
any farther.
After he had committed himself to God by prayer, he left
his
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his horse to shift for himself, and walked in his boots in a
deep snow till midnight, when he was so spent, and so af-
fected with the cold, that he dispaired of life. Providential-
ly, in a little time he came to a cow-house, into which he
attempted to enter; but when he got to the door, he found
it barred within. He scrambled about for above an hour,
trying to get in, but to no purpose. At length, when all
hope was gone, he discovered a hole at one end of the place,
and with much difficulty got in that way, and lay between
the cattle till morning; when he crept out again, and seeing
a house not far off, he went to it and knocked at the door.
The Master of the house arose, and let him in, when he
found his hair and beard frozen, his hands benumbed, his
cloaths stiff with frost and snow, and himself scarcely able
to speak. He made a good fire, gave him some hot milk,
and put him into a warm bed, where he lay some hours.
He then got up so well refreshed, that he went that morning
to the meeting-place, and preached without any sensible
prejudice. He died, anno 1669, aged 62. Mr. James Ow-
en (who was afterwards at Oswestry and Salop, and very
useful as a tutor) was for some time his assistant, and at his
desire preached his funeral sermon, but was forbid menti-
oning him in it. All who knew him esteemed him an Israelite
indeed, in whom was no guile. He had a son, Mr. John
Owen, a Dissenting Minister, who died at the age of 30.
+
The late Rev. Mr. Hugh Farmer, of Walthamstow,
who was his grandson by the female line, favoured the Edi-
tor with the following additional account of his venerable
ancestor: "His character was strongly marked by compas.
sion and charity. The numerous poor in his own neighbour-
hood, and under his extensive pastoral inspection, he con-
stantly visited and relieved. When in his travels he has
met with persons suffering greatly by the severity of the
weather, for want of proper cloathing, he has spared from
his own person (not without some hazard) what their pres-
ing necessities seemed to require. At a time when the sweat-
ing sickness carried off great numbers, and the infected were
in want of proper assistance, he diligently attended them,
and condescended to perform, even for the meanest, any ne-
* An account of his life and writings was published by his brother, Mr.
Charles Owen of Warrington. See also Mr. M. Henry's Life, p. 282, Mr.
Orton says " Mr. Owen, died at my father's house, and was buried at
"Shrewsbury. Dr. John Evans drew up his epitaph."
cessary
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cessary service. With respect to the impression which his
unaffected piety and goodness made upon others, the follow-
ing particulars are remarkable: When the Under-sheriff of
Merionethshire apprehended him at his own house, in the
reign of James II. he readily consented to go with him, and
only begged leave first to pray with his family. This he
was allowed to do. When he had done, the officer, being
deeply affected with his devotion, said, he would now have
nothing to say to him, and went away, leaving his prisoner
at liberty. He was once confined at Lord Powis's, at Pow-
is castle, but was treated with remarkable kindness during
his confinement. His Lordship, tho' a Papist, on hearing
him pray, said to his priest, "Surely this is a good Chris-
tian!" and on his discharge, engaged him to come to Pow-
is castle every Christmas.-He left behind him a letter of
advice to his people, which he styled his Last Legacy, of
which the following is the substance:
Set
"Beware of worldliness, for I fear lest the world, like
a canker, should eat up all the good that is in many, and
leave their souls like dry shells. Set yourselves against se-
cret pride, and take care to keep down every proud and high-
conceited thought of yourselves upon any account.
yourselves to practice the great duty of self-denial; yea, re-
joice in opportunities of humbling yourselves to the very
dust for the sake of Jesus; striving to be forward to forgive,
forget, and pass by, whatever any body may do against you:
yea, apply yourselves first for peace. Beware of the proud
and high temper that says, "It's they offended, and not I;
they should come to me, and not I to them." These are
but the effects of pride, and more of love to ourselves than
to the Lord Jesus Christ and his ways."-Having given the
officers and ancient members of the church a hint concern-
ing the prudence and moderation to be used by them, to pre-
vent disputes about baptism, he observes, That such disputes
had occasioned a great breach at Wrexham, to the disho-
nour of God and the contempt of religion; and that those
who had engaged in them had acknowledged to him, that
they had lost the presence of God which they had formerly
enjoyed, and that there was a stop put to the work of con-
version among them. "I press you to this, (says he) be-
cause it should be the desire and design of every member to
increase the kingdom of Christ, to have the image of Christ
and not their own opinion stamped upon the souls of men.
If I have the image of Christ stamped on my soul, I shall
be
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1
be sure to go to heaven; but I may enjoy both sorts of bap-
tism, and go to hell after all."-It is said, that Mr. Owen's
amiable character, especially for modesty and humility, is
spoken of in Wales to this day with great applause and ve-
neration, and that an ancient and worthy clergyman of the
church of England, yet living (A. D. 1775.) communi-
cated some of the above particulars to Mr. Farmer's cor-
respondent, in a letter now in the Editor's hands.
MONTGOMERYSHIRE.
BETTUS [V. 40/.] Mr. GABRIEL JONES:
LLANDRISSIL. Mr. MARTIN GRUNDMAN. Being at
London at the time of the Plague, he was so poor that he
was not able to remove his family, and was carried off by
it. He was a very holy, humble man, and an able minister.
NEWTON [R.] Mr. HUGH ROGERS. Mr. Matthew Hen-
ry describes him as a man of excellent converse, and whose
peculiar felicity lay in pleasant and edifying discourse. He
died in March, 1680.
WELSH-POOL [V. 467. 18s. 9d.] Mr. NATHANIEL RA-
VENS.
Mr. HENRY WILLIAMS. An itinerant preacher. Being
disabled from the public exercise of his ministry in 1662, he
continued to preach more privately in several parts of this
county, as he had opportunity. He was an upright man,
very active for God, and a lively preacher. He suffered
much for the sake of a good conscience, both by imprison-
ment and spoiling of his goods; but he endured all patiently,
and went on doing the work of the Lord in the most difficult
times. He subsisted on a small estate of his own, and preach-
ed the gospel freely to such as were willing to receive it. He
died about 1685, aged about 60. He was of the Baptist
persuasion. The enemy burnt his house and killed his fa-
ther. His daughter was mother to Mr. Davies of Rowell.
He became pastor of Vavasor Powell's church at Newtown,
in this county (Dr. Ryland.) Crosby has copied Calamy's
account, without any further anecdote.
Mr. MAURICE LLOYD, of Aberhafais, afterwards con-
formed.
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SOUTH WALES.
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BRECKNOCKSHIRE.
ATHEDINE [R. 401.] Mr. JON. EDWARDS. This
cannot be the person Walker speaks of as a shoe-
maker, since both his names, and the name of the place, are
different.
PATRICEO [Chap. to Llanbede R.] Mr. ELIAS HARVEY
(or Harry) Walker says he was a weaver.
Mr. DAVID WILLIAM PROBERT. Walker says he
was a ploughman. Whatever profession these or any others
had been in, they might have kept their livings if they would
have conformed. [And it is well known many of the parishes
in Wales are, at this day, no better supplied.]
To the ministers of this county should be added [Mr.
THOMAS EVANS, of Maesmynys, of the Baptist denomina-
tion.] He was grand-father to the late Hugh Evans, M. A.
and great grand-father to Caleb Evans. D. D. both of them
respectable ministers at Bristol, and eminently useful tutors
of the Baptist academy in that city-Crosby makes no men-
tion of this Mr. Evans.
CARDIGANSHIRE.
BANGOR, [R. 20/.] Mr. JOHN EVANS. A native of
this county. He was converted in a remarkable manner.
Having been prophaning the Sabbath in the morning, he
heard
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heard a sermon in the evening, which was the means of his
becoming a new creature. In process of time he was called
to the ministry, and ordained by Presbyters. Tho' his ac-
quired furniture was not remarkable, his zeal was great. He
was indefatigably diligent, and his labours were crowned
with success. He served the congregation at Kellan several
years. After the Restoration he was much tempted to con-
form. His great patron, David Lloyd Gwyn, offered him a
rich parsonage, but he durst not accept it. He died soon
after the Uniformity act took place. He was the father of
Dr. John Evans, Author of The Christian Temper: of whom
Dr. Erskine has given some memoirs, with a new edition of
those admirable discourses.
CARDIGAN [V.] Mr. CHARLES PRICE. A native of
Radnorshire. He preached some years in this county as an
itinerant. He was diligent in his public work, and edifying in
his private discourse. After the Restoration he went to Eng-
land, and lived and died at Hammersmith.
LLANBADAMVAWR [V. 271.] Mr. DAVID JONES.
Born in this county, and well educated. A man of good
learning; a plain and successful preacher, who was ordained
by Presbyters. When he was ejected, he maintained him-
self and his family by keeping a grammar-school, preaching
as he had opportunity, for which he was several times in
trouble. He died of a consumption, with a joyful hope and
steady trust in God.
LLANDEVRIOG [V. 137.] Mr. EVAN HUGHES. Born
in this county, and ordained by Presbyters. He was a very
plain and affectionate preacher, and was useful to many. He
had various trials and difficulties, but his patience was exem-
plary. Tho' he was low in the world, he was contented
and easy.
LLANYGNLLO [R. 267.] Mr. LEWIS PRICE.
PENBRIN [V.] Mr. RICHARD DAVIS.
TREGARON [R.] Mr. JOHN HARRIS. Dr. Walker men-
tions him and Mr. Honmer as Welsh itinerants, who received
a salary both in Brecon and Radnor.
Mr. JOHN HANMER. A native of Radnorshire. He
served the congregation of Kellan with great humility and
success several years. Meeting with troubles, he went into
his own country, but did not give over preaching to his dying
day. He lived to a good old age.
Mr.
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Mr. RODERICK THOMAS. He was designed and brought
up for the ministry in the church of England, but his thoughts
afterwards took another turn. He and Mr. Evan Hughes
were ordained together by Presbyters. For some years he
served the parish of Llanyhangel Croyddyn in this county.
He was once prevailed with by his friends to read the Eng-
lish liturgy, but was troubled for it ever after, and would
never do it any more.
A
Mr. MORGAN HOWEL.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. RICE POWEL, of Llanbeder.-Mr. RODERICK DAVIS,
of Llanllohayrne.-Mr. THOMAS EVANS, of Iscard.
CARMARTHENSHIRE.
§ CILMAENLLYD. Mr. WILLIAM JONES. He was im-
prisoned four years in Carmarthen-castle, where he altered his
opinion concerning baptism, in consequence of which he be-
came the founder of an Antipædobaptist church at Rhyd-
willim, which was the mother-church of the South-west
Association. It was formed by thirty-three members, in
1668, and at the Revolution it consisted of 113, among whom
were nine or ten ministers; one of them Mr. Jenkins, the
father of the present Dr. Jenkins of Walworth.
LLADNISSILIO [V. 177.] Mr. DAVID JONES. He
took great pains in printing and spreading Welch Bibles.
When Mr. Gouge's impression was out of print, he under-
took a new one, and distributed 10,000 of them. He also
printed the Assembly's Catechism, in Welch, twice; Mr.
Allein of Conversion, and Mr. Pritchard, the old Puritan's
Poem, which did much good in this country. He was gene-
rously assisted in these things by Lord Wharton, and many
other persons of quality, as also by the ministers and citizens
of London. But while he was labouring to do good to souls
he met with much difficulty and opposition. Once a writ
de excom cap. was out against him.
*LLANGYNDERUM. Mr. JOHN POWEL.
LLANGYNWR. Mr. DAVID PRICE.
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LLANNUM [C.] Mr. MERIDETH DAVIS.
MERTHYR [R. 471.] Mr. JAMES DAVIS. A native of
Radnorshire. A humble, modest man, who had a good share
of school-learning, and was regularly ordained. He left a
good living, tho' he had nothing to trust to but the provi-
dence of God for his livelihood. For some time he maintained
his family by keeping a grammar-school, and often preached
gratis up and down the country. He afterwards served the
flock allotted him in the lower part of Cardigan, and in the
uppermost part of Pembrokeshire, in the heat of persecution,
as well as in the time of liberty. He was a hard student,
ever intent upon improving himself, and was very kind and
respectful to all the sincere lovers of Christ. His sermons
were solid, clear and affectionate, and they were eminently,
attended with a blessing. He bore many afflictions patiently,
and at last died comfortably, much lamented by all that knew
him. Walker says he was a labourer. [If so, his attainments.
were the more extraordinary].
MYDRYM [V. 43.] Mr. STEPHEN HUGHES. Born
at Carmarthen. Some time after his ejectment he married
a pious woman in Swansey, whose portion, frugality, and
industry, contributed very much to his comfortable subsist-
ence and future usefulness. He was a plain, methodical,
affectionate preacher, and insisted much upon the great and
substantial things of religion. He seldom preached without
melting into tears, which often drew tears from his auditors.
It was his choice to go into the darkest corners, and into
places where the people had ignorant readers that could not
preach. His moderation and lively manner recommended
him to the esteem of the sober part of the gentry, by whose
connivance he often preached in the public churches, which
were much thronged with hearers from the neighbouring
parishes. He generally preached twice every Lord's-day in
distant places, and often rode eight or ten miles between the
sermons. He often used, in a very striking manner, to ex-
pose the sinful and dangerous nature of ignorance, and to
represent the usefulness, amiableness, and necessity of know-
ledge. He excited heads of families to teach their children
and servants, and one neighbour to teach another; and he
actually engaged many to learn to read at forty and fifty years
of age and upwards. He was of a very public spirit; and
though he had but a small income, he was very charitable,
and much given to hospitality. He printed several Welch
books
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books at his own expence, and among others, the excellent
Poems of Mr. Rees Pritchard, vicar of Llanymddfri, which
contain the summary of christian duties in British verse.
This book, of which he published several editions, has occa-
sioned many hundreds of the ignorent Welch people, who
delight in songs, to learn to read their own language. He
assisted in the correction of the Welch Bible, which Mr.
Gouge published; and was very instrumental in getting sub-
scriptions towards that edition, which is the best extant of
the old British Bible. He also published translations of The
Practice of Piety, Baxter's Call to the Unconverted; his
Now or Never; Alleine of Conversion; The Plain Man's
Path-Way to Heaven, &c. And at the end of most of them
he added the Welch alphabet, to direct people to read.
He was a great encourager of young ministers and chris-
tians. He was inoffensive and obliging in his conversation,
and generally beloved. But his ministry, which was mostly
itinerant, being much frequented, exposed him to the displea-
sure of the clergy, who considered themselves as the keepers
of the sacred keys; they passed the censures of the church
upon him, and delivered him to the secular power, which
confined him to a close prison in Carmarthen, to the preju-
dice of his health and hazard of his life. But it pleased God,
by a favourable and unexpected providence, to effect his en-
largement. He used upon all occasions to speak to the people
with great freedom about their souls, even those whom he oc-
casionally met with. When several persons were present, he
would apply himself to each particularly; and when he saw
them again, would ask them what they remembered of what
he spoke last to them. He had very encouraging seals to his
ministry, in the great numbers who were reclaimed by it
from their sinful ways, and became serious Christians. His
abundant labours impaired his health, and probably shortened
his days. He frequently expressed great concern lest on hist
death-bed he should fail in his intellects, so as to speak any
thing dishonourable to religion; and often prayed, "Lord,
remember us in our dying extremities, and leave us not to
ourselves to dishonour thee in our last minutes." It pleased
God to hear his prayers, for he finished his course with great
composure of mind, and inward peace, about the year 1687.
Having set his house in order, given directions about the
church of which he was pastor, and committed his family to
God, he turned his face towards the wall, and immediately
expired, aged about 65.
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Mr. RICE PRUTHERO. He was born, ordained, and died,
on St. Paul's day. A man of great worth, and of equal
modesty. He was the most eminent school-master in these
parts, and educated many good scholars, who were useful men
in church and state. He had considerable offers made him,
if he would have conformed, by Dr. Thomas, Bp. of St.
David's, who always carried it to him with great respect.-
He was an affectionate, awakening preacher; and his ministry
was eminently owned of God, for the conversion of souls.
He died in 1698. A little before his death, he told his friends.
that his life had been a life of wonder. The day that he fell
ill, he had a meeting in his own house; and after he had
finished the service, he took his leave of the people in a fa-
miliar way. He told one of them that he was not well, and
desired him to help him up stairs to his study, where his bed
was; upon which he laid himself down, and spoke no more.
Mr. PHILIP LEWIS.-and Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS, were
itinerant candidates. The latter, a Baptist, preached about
Carmarthen, and dying July 26, 1671, was buried at Llan-
trisaint, Monmouthshire.
MORRICE MEREDITH, afterwards conformed.
GLAMORGANSHIRE.
St. ANDREW's [R. S.] Mr. JOSHUA MILLER. He had
been a London bookseller, but was ejected merely because
he could not conform. Mr. Lewis, in his written observa-
tions, asks, "How could that be, if he was not in orders ?
Could a layman be minister of a parish?" It is answered,
If he could have conformed, as some others in the like cir-
cumstances did, he might have been ordained and continued
in his living. So that Nonconformity was properly the
cause of his ejectment.
CADOXTON [V. 20l.] Mr. JENKYN JONES. Of Ox-
ford university. He was a Catabaptist, [i. e. against all
baptism] and was a preacher before the wars. He took
great pains in several counties, and was for some time im-
prisoned.
CHERITON [R:] Mr. THOMAS PROUD. A Baptist.
St. FAGON's [R.] Mr. EDMUND ELLIS. A Skinner
from London.
GLYNCORRWG [C.] Mr. HOWELL THOMAS.
ILSTON [R. S.] Mr. JOHN MILES. A Baptist. He after-
wards went to New-England. § When he settled first at
Swansey
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Swansey and afterwards at Boston. MATHER in his Hist. of
New Eng. b. iii. p. 7. mentions him, with Hanserd Knollys,
among some godly Anabaptists." who went thither from
this country. "Both of these (says he) have a respectful
character in the churches of this wilderness."
*LANGEINWR, [Q. Llangyner] Mr. THOMAS
Joseph. A Baptist. He was an ingenious husbandman, but
was an ignorant preacher.
LLANGYNWYDD [V. 45l.] SAMUEL JONES, M. A.
Of Jesus Col. Oxf. Born near Chirk Castle in Denbigh-
shire. Fellow of his college, and a tutor there, for several
years. He was ordained at Taunton. Having from a prin-
ciple of conscience fallen in with the Nonconformists, in
1662, he afterwards taught academical learning in his own
house. Dr. Lloyd, Bp. of Llandaff, had a great respect for
him, and made him considerable offers; but the more he
thought of the terms of Conformity, the less he liked them.
He was a great philosopher, a considerable master of the
Latin and Greek languages, and a pretty good Orientalist;
an excellent casuist, well read in the modern controversies,
and a very useful preacher. He was a christian of the primi-
tive stamp, always meek and humble, loving and peaceable.
His conversation had a sweet air of gravity and pleasantness.
He was a man of uncommon prudence in his conduct; by
which he gained such an esteem among the gentry, that
many
of them put their sons under his tuition. Lord Mansel spent
several years in his family.
in his family. And some who were educated
under him proved good scholars and useful men.
He was a
great sufferer for Nonconformity in the time of Dr. Davies
[the Archdeacon] and was frequently imprisoned. But none
of these things moved him, nor did he ever complain. His
patience was also exemplary under severe bodily pains, espe-
cially from the stone, tormenting paroxysms of which gene-
rally seized him once in a fortnight, for several years before
his death, and continued some days. He usually went on in
his ministerial service, tho' his pains often extorted tears and
groans, which occasioned frequent and affecting pauses in
his sermons. He died in 1697, about the 70th year of his
age.--A report being spread, that he had renounced his Non-
conformity, he sent a letter to a friend, of which the follow-
ing is a part:
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"I was a little surprized by your last. But the father of
les is not yet dead. I account it a mercy that God hath thus
lengthened out my dying life, that I might vindicate not so
mucb my own little name, as the great name of the holy and
blessed God, and his good ways, wherein myself and christian
friends have walked with peace and concord, notwithstanding
all the reproaches and sufferings we meet with.-I declare
to you and all the world, as in the words of a dying man, that
I had not [at the time referred to] and have not since, the
least check from my own conscience for my non-submission
to those impositions that were then made the indispensable
terms of communion with the church of England. I confess
that I had then, and have still, a very honourable respect for
the able and conscientious ministers of it. But to declare an
unfeigned assent and consent, &c. to deny my former ordi-
nation, to swallow several oaths, and to crouch under the
burden of the other impositions, were such blocks which the
law had laid at the church-door, that upon mature conside-
ration I could not, durst not then, and dare not now leap over,
though to save my credit and livelihood, though to gain a
dignity and preferment, without odious hypocrisy, and the
overthrowing of my inward peace, which is and ought to be
dearer to me than my very life. To this choice I was then
led, not by the examples of other leading men, nor with any
design that others should be led by mine. This is the living
testimony of, Sir, your dying friend,
Brynllwarch, Feb. 16, 1696.
J. S.
With this letter he sent a copy of some Queries which he
drew up in 1665, when he was pressed hard by the Arch-
deacon, and the Bp. of Llandaff, to accept of a presentation
which they then offered him. He also enclosed the copy of
another letter, which he had sent with a view to confirm, a
worthy brother who, many years after his ejectment, was
wavering in regard to Conformity. [These shew him to
have been a man of excellent abilities, as well as great inte-
grity. See them at length in Calamy.]
*LLANMODOCK. Mr. MORGAN JONES. An honest
ploughman. He was a Baptist, and preached at Ilston
and Swansey.
LLANSTRISSANT [V.] Mr. HENRY WILLIAMS. An
honest man, but weak. He would take no tithes, and so re-
ceived 60l. per ann. out of the Exchequer.
St. LYTHAN's
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St. LYTHAN's [V. 42l.] JOHN POWELL, M. A. He
was turned out in the year 1660, for not burying a gentle-
man's son according to the liturgy. Dr. Lloyd afterwards
offered him his choice of two places, if he would have con-
formed, to which he could not be satisfied to yield. He con-
tinued to preach at Newport, and about the country, as he
had opportunity, and suffered much. He was a meek, self-
denying man, and a very affectionate preacher. He died
April 30, 1691. Some of his children inherited a blessing.
St. MARY CHURCH [R. 40/.] WILLIAM THOMAS,
M. A. Of Jesus Col. Oxf. A man of eminent piety and
learning. He afterwards kept a school at Swansey.
ROSSILLY [R. S.] DANIEL HIGGS, M. A.
Born at
Chadwitch in Worcestershire. Being ejected here in 1661 *,
and forced to leave his house, and wife, and seven children,
to avoid the fury of the mob, he retired to his father's in Wor-
cestershire. His father told him he must expect no assistance
or encouragement from him, unless he would conform, and
urged upon him the strongest arguments he could think of;
telling him how miserable and abject a life he must expect to
lead, and what contempt he would fall under if he did not,
&c. He replied, "That he would a thousand times rather
trust himself and his family with divine providence, than offer
to conform contrary to his conscience." He was once in
prison for Nonconformity. When the storm was blown
over, he became pastor to a dissenting congregation at Swan-
sey, who had a strong affection for him. He was a good
scholar, a judicious preacher, a vigilant pastor, and a strict
observer of church discipline. He was indefatigable in his
Master's work at Swansey, and the neighbouring parts. He
preached constantly once a month, at a place about ten
miles off. Once, as he was riding thither, having prepared
a discourse, his thoughts were so fixed on another subject,
that he could not get it out of his mind: upon which he re-
solved to preach upon it, and that proved one of the most
successful sermons, for doing good to souls, that he ever
preached. His hard study and labours at length brought on
Îim such disorders and weakness, as almost incapacitated him
for public service; so that he left his people and retired into
Worcestershire. But there, tho' his disorder confined him,
* He was cast out from some other living in 1662, which Dr. Całamy calls
PORTYNON; but no such place is to be found.
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so desirous was he of advancing the public welfare, that he
undertook to teach academical learning, in which he took
great delight, and had good success. His indisposition at
length wearing off, his people at Swansey earnestly desired
his return; and he, willing to serve God and them to the ut-
most of his ability, complied. Not being able to go by land
he went by sea.
But the return of his illness soon obliged
him to take his final leave of them. He again retired into
his own country, and preached as long as he could amongst
his neighbours, in his own house, and died in Sept. 1691.
A clergyman of the church of England gave this character
of him to one from whom the author received it: "That he
was one of the best scholars, philosophers, and divines, that
he ever had the happines to be acquainted with."
SWANSEY. St. JOHN's [V. 36/.] Mr. MARMADUKE
MATTHEWS. He had been in New-England. He left a
good living for conscience sake, tho' he had nothing else to
subsist upon. He afterwards preached, by connivance of the
magistrates, in a little chapel at the end of the town. He
was a very pious and zealous man, who went about to in-
struct people from house to house. Almost all his discourse
was about spiritual matters. He made no visits but such as
were properly ministerial, and received none but in a religi-
ous manner. When any came to visit him, after the com-
mon salutations, he would soon enter into some discourse
about divine things; and when any thing was brought to
drink, it was his custom to take the glass into his hand, give
solemn thanks to God, and drink to his friend, telling him
he was heartily welcome. He would often go out on market-
days to the country people, and speak to them about spiritual
concerns; some of whom received him with respect, and
others with contempt and scorn. He lived above the world,
and depended wholly upon providence for the support of him-
self and his family. He subsisted by the piety of his chil-
dren, (of whom two or three were sober Conformists) and
by the kindnesss of relations and friends; which made him
sometimes pleasantly say, "He was comfortably maintained
by the children of God, his own children, and the children
of this world." His way of preaching and catechizing had
some peculiarities, but such as became him, and were of ad-
vantage to many. He lived to a good old age, and continued
useful to the last. He died about 1683.
WENVO
IN SOUTH WALES.
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WENVO [R. 80l.] Mr. JOHN FRENCH. A native of
Cardiff. He was a good scholar, and a substantial preacher,
but very defective in his delivery. He afterwards practised
physic at Cardiff with good success. He always attended the
public worship of the church, and preached at his own house
afterwards. He died Feb. 28, 1691.
Mr. GEORGE SEAL was a preacher in this county before
the Uniformity-act took place, and a school- master at
Cardiff. Sometime after his ejectment he became pastor of
a congregation at Marsfield in Gloucestershire.
Mr. ROBERT THOMAS, of Baglan-Mr. JACOB CHRIS-
TOPHER, of Maudlins-Mr. DAVID DAVIS, of Neath, (a
Baptist) were public preachers, as candidates for the ministry,
in this county, in 1662, and continued Nonconformists.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. EVAN GRYFFITHS, of Orwiche. Dr. Walker says,
He afterwards became as violent a persecutor of the Dissen-
ters as he had been of the Royalists, which is very probable.
-Mr. PYE, of Bishopston-Mr. REES DAVIS, of St. Mary's
Hill.-Mr. HILLIAR, of Newton Nottage, and Mr. HENRY
NICOLLS of Coytchurch; Walker says he had an addition of
100l. a year to this good living.
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
ABERGAVENNY [V. 14/.] Mг. ABBOT.
A Baptist.
He was in the pulpit with Mr. Tombes, at the conference
here, on baptism, 1653.
CAERLION [V. 20/.] Mr. ROBINSON.
CAERWENT [V. 461.] Mr. ROGERS.
* LLANAFERING [R.] Mr. Owen Morgan.
LLANGATTOCK [V. 45] Mr. ROBINS.
LLANVAPLEY [R.] Mr. WILLIAMS.
MAGHOR [V.] Mr. THOMAS BARNES. He was sent
from some church called Alhallows, in London, to preach
the gospel in Wales, which he continued to do upon hard
terms; though, on Dr. Owen's death, he was tempted by
considerable offers in the city. When he was silenced for
his Nonconformity, he lived near Maghor in Caerlion, and
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was pastor of a church, which, for convenience, met in
different places thereabouts. He was much honoured by the
gentry and the clergy for refusing to petition K. James against
He was a man of good sense, of great integrity and
self-denial. He died about the year 1703.
the test.
MONMOUTH. Mr. NICHOLAS CARY. After his eject-
ment he went to London and gave himself up to the study
aud practice of physic. He had peculiar success in curing
disorders in the eye and ear. He died in Hatton-Garden.
NEWPORT [V. 20/.] Mr. HENRY WALTER. Walker
says, that in the time of the Welch itinerants, he received a
salary both in Glamorgan and Monmouthshires.
TREDONOCK [R] Mr. WALTER PROSSOR. See Ad-
denda.
TRELECH [V.] Mr. SIMMS.
Mr. MILMAN. Some years after his ejectment he settled
at Tintern, and there he died. See Addenda.
Mr. WATKIN JONES. A noted preacher, who had no
parish, but assisted Mr. Henry Walter, who had three; after
whose death he was chosen pastor of a dissenting congrega-
tion in these parts, and was succeeded by Mr. John Harris,
PEMBROKESHIRE.
*BILY. Mr. THOMAS HUGHES.
St. ISMAEL's [V.] Mr. ADAM Hawkins.
LLANGONE and FRESTHORP [R. 90l.] Mr. PERE-
GRINE PHILIPS. Of Oxford university. Born at Ambra in
this county, 1623, where his father was a good old Puritan
Minister, who suffered for not reading the Book of Sports.
He had his education first in the public school at Haverford-
west, next under Sir Ed. Harley's chaplain, at Brampton
Bryan in Herefordshire, and lastly under Dr. Thomas, after-
wards Bp. of St. David's. From him, he went to Oxford,
where he continued till he was forced away by the civil war.
He first officiated in the church, as curate to his uncle, Dr.
Collins, minister of Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, from
whence he removed to this living, which he enjoyed several
years. Some gentlemen of the county taking notice of his
abilites, were for advancing him to a place more equal to his
merit,
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merit. Accordingly, Sir Hugh Owen, Bart. Sir Roger Lort,
Bart. and Sir John Mayrick, preferred him to Mounton near
Pembroke, and afterwards to St. Mary's and Cosheston, which
were reckoned some of the best livings in that county. He
preached three times every Lord's-day, once in each of his
churches, and did much good. He was generally reputed
the best preacher in those parts.-At the time Oliver Crom-
well laid siege to Pembroke, Mr. Philips was much exposed,
but continued labouring among his people; and tho' he
sometimes had the balls flying about him, he was wonder-
fully preserved. Oliver, hearing of his fame, sent to him to
preach at one of his churches before the officers of his army,
which he did with general approbation, and was afterwards
much favoured by him. A number of men of war lying at
Milford, designed for the reduction of Ireland, Cromwell
got him on board to pray in each of the ships before they
sailed. He afterwards, as occasion offered, preached in al-
most every church in the county both in Welch and English;
and also before the Judges, at the assizes at Cardigan, Car-
marthen, and Haverfordwest. Being at that time one of the
Committee, he was an instrument of keeping several worthy
ministers in their places. But at the Restoration he himself
was ejected; when he retired to a farm called Dredgmanhill,
and became tenant to Sir Herbert Perrot, who was his great
friend in most of the troubles he afterwards met with. Seve-
ral other leading men of the county also discovered a great
regard for him.
There happened at Carmarthen, a dispute between him
and Dr. Reynolds, about ceremonies and discipline in the
church; and another between him and his old tutor Bishop
Thomas, which was afterwards printed by the bishop, con-
trary to Mr. Philips's design or knowledge. He was soon
after prosecuted on the Five-mile-act, and a number of his
cattle were taken away by the bailiff, by order of Mr. Howard
the High-sheriff, who on his death-bed asked him forgive-
ness, which was readily granted; but his cattle were never
restored. He was again taken up some time after, and made
close prisoner in the middle of harvest, none being left to
manage his farm but a wife, who had five small children, and
a very few servants. When he had been two months con-
fined, he fell sick, and was discharged by the commissioners ;
when Sir H. Perrot sent his coach to carry him to his own
house, where he lay a long time ill of a fever, and was given
over by his physicians. But a day of fasting and prayer be-
ing
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ing set apart by many serious christians in those parts, on his
account, God was pleased wonderfully to restore him. He
was imprisoned a second time for keeping a conventicle in
his house. When the Judges and Bp. Thomas came to the
assizes at Haverfordwest, they made him considerable offers
if he would conform; but not prevailing, they set him at
liberty. However, he was still troubled with fines and out-
lawries; his house was searched by the deputy-lieutenants,
bailiffs and constables; for he would not desist from preach-
ing there, nor from labouring among his people by night;
nay, he preached to a number of people who came to him,
even when he was in prison.-When liberty was granted
Dissenters by King James, he preached to two congrega-
tions every Lord's-day; in the morning at Dredgmanhill,
and in the afternoon at Haverfordwest; both places being
thronged with people.
A few years before his decease, he met with a very won-
derful deliverance which deserves to be recorded. ´As he
was riding homeward, late at night, over a place near Fres-
thorp, in which there were a great many coal-pits, he and
his horse fell into one of them, which was very deep and
half full of water. The mouth of the pit being narrower
about six yards deep than at the top, the horse there stuck
fast, with his rider upon him. An old woman who was deaf
providentially travelling with her grand-child that way, the
child heard a great noise, and with much difficulty persuaded
the woman to go out of her road, to find the cause of it. At last,
coming to the mouth of the pit, she found Mr. Philips's si-
tuation, and immediately went to Capt. Longman's, the pro-
prietor, who had been his intimate friend for many years,
and he presently brought proper assistance, so that Mr.
Philips was got up safe without any considerable burt-He
was a gracious and laborious servant of Jesus Christ, and was
useful to his whole neighbourhood. He took no small plea-
suré in reconciling differences, and continued his public ser-
vices to the very last, preaching twice the very Lord's-day
before his death, Sept. 17, 1691, aged 68.
*LLANPETER. Mr. CHRISTOPHER JACKSON. He died
in London.
LLANSTADWELL and NOULTON [V. R. 90l.] Mr.
JOHN LUNTLEY. He was after his ejectment assistant to Mr.
Philips, in his congregation at Haverfordwest, and his mi-
nistry was well approved. He died about the year 1672.
MARTHREY
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MARTHREY Mr. MORGAN THOMAS.
PEMBROKE. Mr. JOHN BYWATER.
TENBY [C.] Mr. JOHN CARVER.
The following afterwards conformed:
Mr. STEPHEN YOUNG, of Rosecrowther. Dr. Walker
says, he bore a partisan co guard the scaffold at the death of
K. Charles. Mr. DAVID WILLIAMS, of Llanvihangel Pen-
pedo.-Mr. THOMAS WARREN, of Narbeth.
RADNORSHIRE.
KNELL (near Radnor, 100l.) Mr. JOHN WEAVER,
Born in or near Ludlow, and educated at Oxford or Cam-
bridge. He was examined and approved by the Triers in
1653, and sent to Radnor, whence he was ejected in 1660;
upon which he removed to Knell, where he continued till
1662. He afterwards preached to a private congregation
in those parts. Upon the death of Mr. Primrose in Hereford,
that people invited him thither, and their motion was en-
couraged by many in London and elsewhere, who had a con-
cern for the society, and particularly by Sir Edward Harley.
However, he was several times uneasy there, and willing to
return to his old station, not seeing much good done; but he
was detained and encouraged by Sir Edward; after whose
death there were great feuds between him and the people;
yet he continued preaching to a small congregation till his
death, in 1712, when he was about 80 years of age. He was
a considerable man, but by many reckoned too severe.
was remarkable for a very strong memory. He met with
such difficulties that he was compelled to sell part of his
estate, to maintain his family; but Providence made it up to
him, by his daughter's marrying Mr. Jones, who was a man
of large property, and who declared he was the more willing
to marry her, that he might in the most respectable way con-
vey his wealth into Mr. Weaver's family. About the time
of his daughter's marriage, having been ejected thirty-three
years, he had lost 3300l. and that very sum God restored to
the family by this son-in-law. He had two daughters, one
of whom married a pupil of his, Mr. Jones, the famous tutor
at Tewksbury, under whom Bp. Benson, Abp. Secker, Dr.
Chandler, and other eminent divines were educated. She
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was after his death married to Mr. Godwin of St. Helens,
London.
0.
Mr. SwAINE, ejected somewhere in this county, died after-
wards in Salop.
Mr, DAVID JENKS, ejected at Bryngwin and New Church,
after being fifteen years a Dissenter, conformed; but lived
without any respect or honour.
It must be owned that several of these Welch preachers.
were unlearned itinerants; but that was not the reason of
their ejectment. If they would have conformed, most of
them might have kept their places, as well as persons of
greater respectability. Mr. Baxter mentions one of them
that did so, who came to him for advice, in 1663, with
whom it grieved him to converse. He examined him, and
found that he had not more learning than to read English,
and was grosly ignorant in divinity. He was ordained how-
ever by the Bishop of the diocese, upon his conformity, and
kept his living. Mr. Baxter expressing his wonder how he
passed his examination, he told him that he was asked no
questions about his learning or knowledge, but only whether
he would conform. (Catholic Communion, Part II. p. 28.)
So that Dr. Walker, who takes a pleasure in relating how
illiterate some of the ejected in Wales were, had no great
cause for triumph.
§ The late Mr. Thomas, a very respectable Baptist mini-
ster at Leominster, says, in a letter to the Editor, "Several
of the ministers ejected in Wales were Baptists †, who are not
so distinguished by Dr.Calamy. There are some places also
wrong spelt." [Several corrections are now made.] He
also justly remarks on a passage in the Introduction (page
17, of this edit.) in which it is said, (by Mr. Baxter) "That
Harrison, being authorized, at once put down all the parish
ministers," and as a proof that this is not accurate, refers to
Calamy's Answer to Walker. in his 4th vol. p. 49. where he
quotes the words of V. Powell, "In the county where I
lived, Montgomery, there were eleven or twelve never eject-
ed: so in all other counties, some more, some less." &c.
† A further account of several of these will be found in the ADDENDA.
SILENCED

from a so
James Janeway.
Print on the Fefession of Mr. James Bristol.
a scarce.
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SILENCED MINISTERS
NOT INCLUDED IN THE
FOREGOING LISTS.
MR
R. JOHN COLLINS. [The son of a good old man, who
was deacon of the church at Cambridge in New-Eng-
land. He and his brother Nathaniel were both graduates of
Harvard College.] When the Uniformity-act took place,
he was chaplain to Gen. Monk. He afterwards succeeded
Mr. Mallory, as pastor of a considerable Independent Church
in London, and was also one of the lecturers at Pinners-
Hall. He was mighty in the scriptures [of great eminence
as a preacher] and of a most amiable temper; very charita-
ble to all good men, without confining himself to a party.
He died in 1687, and was succeeded by Mr. N. Mather
[when Dr. Williams preached as a candidate, and had a con-
siderable number of votes.]-He had a son, Mr. John Col-
lins, who was chosen co-pastor with Mr. Robert Bragg,
upon Mr. Mather's death in 1698. A short account of him
may be seen, with his Latin epitaph, in Math. Hist. Eng.
B. iv, p. 200.
WORKS. A Sermon in the London Collection of Farewell
Sermons, on Jnde 3. Contend earnestly for the faith, &c. § A good
Discourse, which justifies the above Character of the Author-His
Acconnt of the Scriptures, as the only Rule of Faith, and of the
right Manner of conteading for the Truth, are excellent---Preface
to Venning's Remains, and Mitchel on Eternal Glory.
JAMES JANEWAY, M. A. Of Christ Ch. Oxf. His father
was a minister at Kershall in Hertfordshire. He lived pri-
vately,
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vately, after leaving the university; and when the times al-
lowed, he set up a meeting at Rotherhithe near London,
where he had a very numerous auditory, and a great refor-
mation was wrought amongst many. But this so enraged
the high party, that several of them threatened to shoot Mr.
Janeway, which accordingly was attempted; for as he was
once walking upon Rotherhithe wall, a fellow shot at him,
and the bullet went thro' his hat; but as Providence ordered
it, did him no hurt. The soldiers pulled down the place in
which he preached, which obliged his people to build another,
which was required to be larger, to receive the hearers.
Soon after it was built, a number of troopers came in, when
Mr. Janeway was preaching, and Mr. Kentish § sat behind
him in the pulpit; they got upon a bench, and cried out
aloud, "Down with him! down with him!" and at that
instant the bench broke, and they all fell down. In the con-
fusion which this occasioned, Mr. Janeway came out of the
pulpit, and some of the people having thrown a coloured
coat over him, and put a white hat on his head, he got out
unobserved. But they seized Mr. Kentish, and took him to
the Marshalsea, where he was sometime kept prisoner.
At another time, when Mr. Janeway was preaching at a
gardener's house, several troopers came to seize him there;
but he threw himself on the ground, and his friends covered
him with cabbage leaves, by which he escaped again. He
died March 16, 1674, and was succeeded by Mr. Rosewell.
He was a man of eminent piety, an affectionate preacher,
and very useful in his station. In his last illness his mind
was under a sort of a cloud, by reflecting on his aptness to
hurry over private duties. However, Mr. N. Vincent in his
funeral sermon, says, "It pleased God to dissipate the cloud,
and help him to discern the uprightness of his heart with
satisfaction;" and that not long before he died, he said,
"he could now as easily die as shut his eyes:" adding,
"Here am I, longing to be silent in the dust, and to enjoy
"Christ in glory."
WORKS. Heaven upon Earth: or the Best Friend in the
worst Times.-The Life of his Brorher Mr. John Janeway-The
Saint's Encouragement to Diligence,--A Token for Children: [a
Book well known]-The Murderer punished and pardoned; with
the Life and Death of T. Savage; and a Fun. Serm. for Mr. T.
This, it is presumed, was Mr. RICHARD KENTISH, who had been ejected
from St. KATHARINE'S, in the Tower. See Vol. I. p. 138.
Mousley,
BY THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY.
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Mousley, with a Narrative of his Life, &c.-Sermon in the Supp.
to Morn. Ex. on the Duties of Masters and Servants.-His Legacy
to his Friends. § Also a recommendatory Epistle to Mr. Ryther's
Seaman's-preacher.
Mr. ABRAHAM JANEWAY, younger brother to the former.
He was a preacher in London before the plague, but being
consumptive, retired with his wife to his mother at Bunting-
ford in Hertfordshire, where he was seized by Justice
Crouch, under a pretence of great friendship. But he made
his escape to London, and there died (but not of the plague)
in 1665. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. T. Vin-
cent, Sept. 18, who among other things, says of him, that
"He was a merciful man, and shewed great compassion to
souls. He spent himself, and hastened his own death, to
keep others from perishing everlastingly."-There were
five brothers, who were sons of Mr. W. Janeway, ejected
in Hertfordshire, who were all pious men ; but they were all
consumptive, and died under forty years of age.
Mr. JOHN FALDO. He had been a chaplain in the army, and
had no benefice when the Act of uniformity took place, but
was silenced by it. He was some time after pastor of a con-
gregation in London [at Plaisterer's-hall], and died Feb. 7,
1690, aged 57. He was of the congregational judgment in
the latter part of his life, and noted for his moderation. He
was buried at Bunhill-fields, where there is a Latin inscrip-
tion upon his tomb: Which is superseded by the follow-
ing character of him by Mr. Quick, in his funeral sermon, on
Zech. i. 5. now before the editor. "He was a man of sin-
gular moderation, and of a peaceable spirit. If the peace-
makers are blessed, and shall be called the children of God,
then blessed is Mr. Faldo, who had an especial hand in the
healing of our breaches, which (glory be unto God's holy
name) are, to the mutual joy of all the saints, now com-
posed, and those two divided parties in this nation, that had.
been so for above forty years, are now once again united and
become one, and we shall no more hear of those unhappy
terms of distinction and separation, Presbyterian and Inde-
pendent, but we shall be called, as the primitive church of
Antioch, by his name who hath redeemed us, and anointed
us with his holy spirit, even Christians. He was a stout as-
serter of ancient primitive truths in doctrine and worship.
His learned labours, polemical, practical and devotional, do
praise him in the gate. He was a constant labourer, and
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very painful in his Lord's vineyard; and the very first that
entered publicly upon it before the last Indulgence by King
James II. and his great master found him in his work There
the gripes and stone assaulted him, which at last killed him.'
After some advice to the people about chusing a successor,
he tells them," Such a pastor as Mr. Faldo, is forty years a
making."
WORKS. Quakerism no Christianity.-A Dialogue with a
Minister about the Lord's Supper, (bound with Dyke on the Sacra-
ment.)-The Gospel of Peace.
Mr. THOMAS BRAND. Of Merton Col. Oxf. Born at
Leaden Rooding in Essex, 1635. His father was a dignitary
of the church of England. He went from the university to
the Temple, being designed for the law; but afterwards ap-
plied himself to divinity, and became one of the brightest
mirrors of piety and charity, and one of the most fervent
useful preachers the age hath afforded. His zeal was neither
for nor against any party, but for the vigorous promoting of
the sound knowledge of those doctrines wherein we are all
agreed, and of that holiness which we all commend, but too
few practice. As he himself was apt to teach, so he urged
others to be swift to hear. He was a man of great modera-
tion, [and uncommon benevolence]. He never was without
some project for doing good, and could as soon cease to live,
as cease to attempt to be useful to souls. [Dr. Annesley,
who preached his funeral sermon, and wrote his Life, says,
"Besides his own weekly catechizing at home, and in all the
schools which he erected, he hired some persons in distant
places to catechize children, and others who were willing to
learn; and once a month, or oftener, he rode from place to
place to catechize them himself. And to encourage those
who did well, he gave some reward either in books or money.
He would often say, that he never experienced more of
the goodness of God in any duty than this." His chari-
ties were computed to amount to more than gool. per ann.]
He died Dec. 1, 1691, and was buried in Bunhill-fields.
§ It was intended here to have inserted an abstract of his
life, but it is found that our limits will not admit; which is
the less to be regretted, as it does not abound with a variety
of anecdotes.
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Mr. BRECKNOCK, chaplain to the Duke of Bedford at
Thorney.
Mr.
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Mr. FARNWORTH. He came hither from New-England,
and died (as all about him said) of mere poverty, in conse-
quence of his Nonconformity. (Baxter's World of Spirits,
Chap. v. Inst. 20). Probably this may be the person men-
tioned at Hockley in Essex.
Mr. LAMBERT. He was a celebrated preacher in South-
wark, where he succeeded Mr. Wadsworth, and had a con-
siderable congregation. He died on Aug. 9, 1689, and was
buried at Bunhill.
Mr. FRANCIS MENCE. Of Pembroke Col. Oxf. Born at
Himbleton near Worcester, where his father was a consider-
able farmer. He was apprenticed to a clothier in Worcester,
but his master soon found him so addicted to his book, that
he advised his father to make him a scholar. Having before
had sufficient grammar-learning, he was sent to Oxford,
where he continued till after the Restoration, and then re-
turned home. Some time after, he was chaplain to Mrs.
Pheasant at Birchmore-house, near Woburn in Bedford-
shire; from whence he went into Hampshire, where he was
preacher for several years at Fareham, till he was called to
that which had been Mr. Ryther's congregation in Wapping.
He was a pious, humble, patient man, who lived holily and
died comfortably, about 1696, aged 57. Mr. Robert Mence,
his elder brother, was a minister, but he conformed. § Wood
does not mention either of them.
WORKS. Vindicia Fœderis; or a Vindication of the Interest
that the Children of Believers, as such, have in the Covenant of
Grace, with their Parents: a Treatise on Acts xi. 39.-Deceit and
Falshood detected: in Answer to Mr. Hercules Collins, &c.
Mr. HENRY FIELD. Of Pemb. Col. Oxf. Born at King's
Norton in Worcestershire. Being removed to Christ's Col.
Camb. he became Fellow, and was preferred by the Earl of
Manchester to be minister of Uttington in Lincolnshire. He
was imprisoned soon after the Restoration, and died in the
Gatehouse. Mr. Baxter savs, that Mr. Parsons of Wem,
Dr. Bryan, and this Mr. Field, were accused for much the
the same thing. See WEM, Shropshire.
Mr. BEEBEE. He was a student at Oxford when Charles
I. was besieged there, and then left the university, travelled
on foot into the North to his father's house, and there ap-
plied himself close to his studies. After being ordained, he
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was sent into Scotland, as chaplain to the regiment of Col.
Knight, in Gen. Monk's army, where he continued severat
years. He was a strong man, and had a loud voice, a quick
invention, and a great memory; so that he was well fitted
for field-service. He was much employed in praying and
preaching in his own regiment, and sometimes before the Ge-
neral and the whole army, much to the satisfaction both of
the General and Col. Knight. With them he came into
England, and they brought in the King, who knighted the
Col. who was also Justice of Peace. Mr. Beebee used fre-
quently to preach at his house after the Restoration, but
whether he continued in his family till the Act of uniformity
passed, doth not appear.-Not being satisfied to conform, he
after some time, went into Shropshire, and lived with a re-
lation at Rowley Hall near Bridgnorth, and practised physic,
preaching occasionally in adjacent places, particularly at
Guarnal, in Sedgely parish, Staffordshire, where he took his
turn with some others. Afterwards he preached at Stour-
bridge, and from thence was called to be pastor of a con-
gregation a Cirencester, where, after some years, he died.
He used to take great pleasure in discoursing with his fami-
liar acquaintance, on the secret transactions in Gen. Monk's
army in Scotland, and the subtle contrivance of the General,
Col. Knight, Mr. Nic. Monk, a minister, his brother-in-
law Mr. T. Clarges, and a few more, in order to the Resto-
ration of Charles II. But the after disappointment made
such an impression upon him (as well as many others) that
he could not wear it off to his dying day.
George LawRENCE, M. A. § Wood's account of him
(to which Calamy refers) is in substance as follows: "Son
of George Laurance of Stepney; became a Com. of New
Inn, 1632, aged 17, took the degrees in arts, but whether
holy orders from a bishop I cannot tell. Sure it is, that
he being a most violent Puritan, and a great admirer of
the Scotch Covenant, preached seditiously, especially at
London in 1642, when he was Lecturer of St. George's in
Buttolph-Lane. Afterwards he was a preacher in another
church in London; became minister of the hospital of St.
Cross near Winchester, preaching there against the afflicted
king and royalists, and on all occasions applauded the men
and actions of those times. After the Restoration he was
silenced and ejected, lived sometime in those parts, carried
on the trade of conventicling, as he did afterwards at Lon-
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don to the time of his death." It is to be wished we could
furnish a better account.
WORKS. Laurentius Luthergous; his protestation ag. certain
calumniations. &c. for two sermons at St. Michael's. The de-
bauched Cavalier, or English Midianite: (assisted by Chr. Love)-
Three Sermons on the national protestation.—On the Death of O.
Cromwell, 2 Chron. xxv. 24.-Serm. in Morn. Ex. ag. Popery,
No. 21, 1 Cor. xi. 23-5. And some other Things. Cal. has
none of them. Wood seems doubtful about the last. In my Copy
of Morn. Ex. the Name put to the 21st. Serm. is in MS. Edward
Lawrence. ED.
** Mr. VAVASOR POWEL. Of Jesus Col. Oxf. Born
in Radnorshire. When he left the university, he preached
up and down in Wales. Being driven from thence for want
of presbyterial ordination, which he scrupled, he went to
London, and soon after settled at Dartford in Kent. In 1646
he obtained a testimonial to his character and ministerial abi-
lities, signed by Mr. Herle and seventeen of the Assembly
of Divines; upon which he returned to Wales, aud became a
most indefatigable instrument of propagating the gospel in
those parts. He preached in most of the churches and cha-
pels, and often in the mountains, at fairs and in market-places,
for which he had a stipend of 100l. a year, besides somę
small advantage from some sequestered livings. Mr. Powel
was a bold man, and of republican principles. He preached
against the Protectorship of Cromwell, and wrote letters to
him, for which he was imprisoned. At the dawn of the Re-
storation, being known to be a Fifth-monarchy-man, he was
confined first at Shrewsbury, and afterwards in Wales. In
1662 he was sent to South-Sea-Castle in Portsmouth, where
he continued five years. Venturing to preach again upon
his release, he was imprisoned at Cardiff, and, in 1669, sent
up to London and confined in the Fleet, where he died, Oct.
27, 1671, in the 53d year of his age, and the 11th of his im-
prisonment, and was buried at Bunhill. He was a man of
an unconquered resolution, and of a mind unshaken under
all his troubles. The inscription on his tomb (§ drawn up,
as Wood says, by his dear friend Ed. Bagshaw) describes
him as, "A successful teacher of the past, a sincere witness
of the present, and an useful example to the future age;
who, in the defection of many, found mercy to be faithful;
for which, being called to many prisons, he was there tried,
and would not accept deliverance, expecting a better resur-
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rection." (Neal's Hist. Purit. Vol. II. p. 686.) § Wood
gives a very infamous character of him, and Crosby as highly
extols him. But both accounts are too long to be here in-
serted; and perhaps he does not properly belong to our list.
Dr. Calamy has not his name. Crosby has all his Works.
Mr. Baxter stiles him, an honest injudicious zealot.
Mr. TOBIAS ELLIS.. Mr. Baxter mentions him among
those ejected for Nonconformity, and says, "He was a man
of great sincerity, zeal, and devotedness to God. Falling
into the life of a private school-master, he followed it with
almost inimitable diligence, living with very little sleep, less
food, great labour, and delighted in all; by which he was
saved, better than with physic, from a melancholy incli-
nation."
WORKS. A Discourse of the Kingdom of God, on Mat. vi.
33. dedicated to K. Charles II.- The English School; the Pre-
face to which (containing a warm Recommendation of learning
to read the Mother Tongue, in order to converse with the holy
scriptures) is dated 1684, which shews that Mr. Ellis lived at least
twenty two Years after his Ejectment.
DANIEL WILLIAMS, D. D. Born at Wrexham, 1643 or
1644. He had a great natural vigor of mind, which being
improved by an uncommon application, made a compensa-
tion for his want of such helps as many others have had in
their early years. He loved serious religion from his youth,
and entered upon the ministry about the time of the eject-
ment in 1662. He declares, in his Preface to his Defence
of Gospel Truth, that from five years old he had no employ-
ment besides his studies; and adds, that before 19, he was
regularly admitted a preacher.-When he had spent a few
years in preaching occasionally in several parts of England,
and found the Dissenters so discouraged, that he could have
no prospect of being able to pursue his ministry here, with-
out great hazard, Providence very seasonably opened him a
way for service in Ireland. Making an occasional visit to
the pious Lady Wilbraham, of Weston in Salop, he re-
ceived an unexpected invitation to be chaplain to the Coun-
tess of Meath and readily accepted it. There he found a re-
fuge from the storm, and was in no inconsiderable capacity
of service. After some time he was called to the pastoral
office in Wood-street, Dublin, where he had for near twenty
years an advantageous opportunity of being publicly useful,
by his labours in the pulpit, his prudent advice upon occa-
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sions that offered, his improving the interest he obtained in
persons of rank and figure, aud other prudential methods, in
which God was pleased to make him a general blessing. He
there married a Lady of distinguished piety, of an honoura-
ble family, and of considerable wealth, which he declares in
his last will," he used with moderation as to himself, that
he might be the more useful to others, both in his life and
after his death..-He filled his station at Dublin with unu-
sual acceptance and success, in great harmony with his bre-
thren, and was respected by most hearty Protestants, till he,
with many others, after escaping some threatening dangers (to
which he was exposed by his opposition to the Papists) was
driven from thence by the tyrannical and violent proceedings
of a Popish administration, in the reign of James II.-In
1687 he came to England, and made London the place of his
retreat, where he was of use to keep some among the Dis-
senters from being wheedled by K. James into an address,
approving of the dispensing power. In a conference, at one
of the meetings upon that occasion, in the presence of some
court agents, Mr. Williams bravely declared, that "As it
was with him past doubt, that the severity of the former
reign upon Protestant Dissenters, was rather because they
stood in the way of arbitrary power, than for their religious
dissent; so it were better for them to be reduced to their for-
mer hardships, than declare for measures destructive of the
liberties of their country." This he pursued with such clear-
ness and strength, that all present rejected the motion, and
the emissaries went away disappointed.-He was of great use
to such as came after him from Ireland, when things were
carried to the utmost extremity. After the Revolution in
1688, he was sometimes consulted by K. William on the Irish
affairs, with which he was well acquainted, and was often
regarded at court in his applications on the behalf of persons.
who fled from thence, and who were capable of doing service.
to the government.
After he had spent some time in preaching occasionally
about London, with general acceptance, upon the sudden
death of Mr. John Oaxes in 1688*, he was unanimously
*Previous to this, in the same year, he was invited by a large part of Mr.
Collins's (afterwards Mr Bragg's) church, to become their pastor. Some
original papers, relating to this affair, were in the hands of the Rev .Dr.
Savage, and by him given to the Editor, with other papers, a few days
belore his death.
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chosen to succeed him, in his numerous congregation at Hand-
alley in Bishopsgate-street.-From the time of his going to
London he had conversed with Mr. Baxter, by whom he was
greatly esteemed, and had sometimes preached for him at
Pinners-Hall lecture, when he was indisposed; and, upon
his decease in 1691, succeeded him in it, tho' not without
great opposition. The electors being equally divided, they
agreed to determine the matter by lot. It was not long be-
fore there were frequent clashings in the discourses of the
lecturers, and their supporters also were divided into parties.
At length a design was formed to exclude Mr. Williams, on
account of his handling the Antinomian controversy in a man-
ner which some men could not relish. Upon this, a great
number of the subscribers withdrew, and many other citizens
joined them, and set up another lecture at Salter's-Hall,
whither three of the old lecturers, Dr. Bates, Mr. Howe,
and Mr. Alsop, followed Mr. Williams; and two more
were added to them, viz. Dr. Annesley and Mr Richard
Mayo.--Mr. Williams (like Mr. Baxter before him) being
much set against any notions that he thought looked towards
Antinomianism, was greatly concerned at the printing some
of the works of Dr. Crisp, with an attestation prefixed, sub-
scribed with the names of some city ministers; he therefore
took up his pen and wrote against them, which engaged him
in a controversy that lasted several years, a large account of
which may be seen in Nelson's Life of Bp. Bull. In this
controversy he met with very ill treatment from some persons
from whom he expected better usage. A terrible assault was
made upon his moral character; upon which he threw him-
self on the body of the Dissenting Ministers in and about the
city, who chose a committee to examine into the matter; who,
after spending about eight weeks in the affair, made the re-
port to the other ministers, April 8, 1695, who, on a general
summons, met together, to the number of sixty, and de-
clared it to be their unanimous opinion, That Mr. Williams
was entirely innocent of all that was laid to his charge.-
His congregation stood firmly by him thro' the whole of his
trouble; and it was observed by many, that God gave him
such sedateness and presence of mind, beyond his natural tem-
per, under his eager prosecution, as effectually defeated the
design of his enemies: and he lived to soften the minds of
many who were most incensed against him.-He continued
in a constant course of useful practical preaching for many
years.-Though he was not much versed in the Belles Lettres,
he
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he had a remarkable depth of thought; and when he was en-
gaged in any debate, would directly fasten upon the main
hinge on which it turned, and manage his arguments to the
best advantage.--When in the reign of Q. Anne a bill was
depending in parliament against occasional Conformity, he
exerted himself to the utmost against it. He was very much
for the union with Scotland in 1707, and urged his friends
there to forward it with great earnestness.—
with great earnestness.-In 1709 he re-
ceived a deploma for the degree of D. D. from the university
of Edinburgh, and another from Glasgow. The latter, in-
closed in a silver box. Dr. Calamy (being then in Scotland)
and Dr. Joshua Oldfield, received theirs at the same time.
In the latter part of Q. Anne's reign, Dr. Williams having
very dark apprehensions of the state of things, dealt freely
with the great man then at the head of affairs, with whom
he had been long acquainted, and warned him of his danger,
whether he was embarked against liberty or not.
But the
freedom he took was not relished, and the Dr.'s free re-
marks on this great man's conduct (in a letter to some friends
in Ireland) being ungenerously carried to him, he was so incen-
sed as never to forgive him.-No man in the nation more
heartily rejoiced than Dr. Williams at the over-blowing of
the impending storm, by the accession of K. George to
the British throne; and on Sept. 28, 1714, he, at the head
of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers, in and about Lon-
don, presented to his Majesty an Address of congratula-
tion. About this time his constitution, naturally strong, be-
gan visibly to decay, but he held on in the exercise of his
ministry, till 1716, when after a short illness, with a firm
faith and steady hope, he committed himself to God, and
fell asleep in the Lord, Jan. 26, aged 73,-He was interred
in a new vault of his own, at Bunhill-fields; and his funeral
sermon was preached by Mr. John Evans, who had for
eleven years been his fellow-labourer, and was also his suc-
cessor.—On his tomb-stone is a long Latin inscription, of
which Calamy has given a copy, with a translation.
Dr. Williams gave the bulk of his estate, in his last will
to charitable uses; as excellent in their nature, as various in
their kinds, and as much calculated for the glory of God and
the good of mankind, as any that have ever been known.
Among other objects of it are, The relief of poor ministers.
and their widows: The education of students for the mini-
stry; The support of schools, especially in Wales: and the
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distribution of Bibles and other pious books among the poor.
He left his library for public use, and ordered a convenient
place to be purchased or built, in which the books might be
properly disposed of, and left an annuity for a librarian. [A
commodious house was afterwards erected by a subscription
among the opulent Dissenters, in Redcross-street, Cripple-
gate, where the Dr.'s collection of books is not only pro-
perly preserved, but has been gradually receiving large addi-
tions. This is also the place in which the body of Dissent-
ing Ministers meet to transact their business, and is made a
repository for paintings of Nonconformist Ministers, for
MSS. and other matters of curiosity or utility.] The sub-
stance of the Doctor's Will may be seen in Calamy. It
concludes as follows; "I beseech the blessed God, for Christ
Jesus' sake, the head of his church, (whose I am, and whom
I serve) that this my will may, by his blessing and power,
reach its end, and be faithfully executed. Obtesting, in the
name of this great and righteous God, all that be concerned,
that what I design for his glory and the good of mankind,
may be honestly, prudently, and diligently employed to those
ends, as I have to the best of my judgment directed."
WORKS. Gospel Truth stated and vindicated; against Dr.
Crisp.-A Defence of Gospel Truth; against Mr. Chauncey.-An
Answer to the Report, &c.-An End to Discord.-A Letter to the
Author of a Dic. of Free-thinking...Queries relating to the Bill
for preventing the Growth of Schism, 1714.-Two Sermons before
Sir J. Shorter, Lord-Mayor.-The vanity of Childhood and Youth;
some Sermons to young People.-Several occasional Sermons.-
Funeral Sermons for Dr. S. Annesley, Mr. John Woodhouse, Mr.
John Quick, Mr. Thomas Doolittle, Mr. Matt. Henry, Mrs. Mary
Gravenor, and other single Sermons. All the Dr.'s Works have
been collected in 5 vols. 8vo, and some of then translated into
Latin. They are printed according to his will, to be given away.
Mr. PETER ASPINWALL, Heaton in Lancashire. He had
been mentioned by Dr. Calamy as conforming; but he lived
in great usefulness at Warrington, and died a Noncon-
formist.
Mr. JOHN FOGG, Liverpool. Of Oxford university. Born
at Darcy Leaver, and first settled at Wigan. A man of fine
abilities and good learning, a serious Christian, and useful
preacher. Upon the Oxford-act, he and Mr. Glendal of
Chester, his father-in-law, lived together at Budworth in
Cheshire,
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Cheshire, in great amity and usefulness.
aged 48.
He died in 1670,
Mr. WILSON, of Peterborough. A man of excellent mi-
nisterial skill and ability; of signal piety and diligence in his
work, and extraordinary success.
Dr. Calamy adds to his list, Mr. WILLIAM LORIMER,
Mr. ROBERT TRAIL, Mr. JOHN SHOWER, and Mr. SAMUEL
POMFRET. But these are here omitted, because the two former
came hither from Scotland after the Uniformity-act passed,
and the two latter began their ministry many years after-
wards. Our Author also mentions about Thirty SCHOOL-
MASTERS, ejected by the Act of uniformity, who do not
appear to have preached before or after their ejectment, and
therefore may properly be dismissed. Those School-masters,
who were also Ministers, have been mentioned in the several
counties, except the three following:
Mr. JOHN EVANS. Of Baliol Col. Oxford. Born at
Great Sutton, near Ludlow. His father and grandfather
were both ministers, and successively rectors of Penegos in
Montgomeryshire. He left the university sooner than he
intended, because he was unwilling to submit to the parlia-
ment visitors. Returning to his father in Wales, he was
ordained presbyter, at Brecknock, by Dr. Manwaring,
Bp. of St. David's, Nov. 28, 1648. But soon after, he saw
reason to alter his thoughts about Conformity, upon which
some papers passed between him and his father, who was
very zealous for the hierarchy. He was admitted one of the
itinerant preachers of Wales, and was successively master
of the free-schools of Dolegelle and Oswestry; in which last
place the Act of uniformity found him. When he was eject-
ed, he and his family were reduced to low circumstances,
and his necessities were once so great, that he was forced to
sell a considerable part of a large library for present mainte-
nance. In Feb. 1668, he was chosen pastor of an Indepen-
dent Church at Wrexham, and kept private assemblies in his
house or neighbourhood, through most of the hottest times.
Some gentlemen of considerable rank (knowing his abilitics
in school-learning) sent their sons to board with him for se-
veral years, which was some relief to him under violent pro-
secutions. About the year 1681, he was earnestly pressed
to conform by the bishop of the diocese, who at first expressed
a particular regard to him, and offered him a very good living;
but
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but upon his positive refusal, he prosecuted him with seve-
rity; and, upon his personal soliciting against the bishop, in
open court, the magistrate imposed heavy fines from time to
time, and he was sued to an outlawry. But it was remark-
able, that though these measures obliged him to keep his
doors constantly locked for some years, he escaped better than
many who were not so eagerly pursued, the most officious.
informers not being able to gather one of the fines laid upon
him. Nor was his person ever seized, but once upon
the
road, (notwithstanding frequent warrants) and then he was
soon released, by the mediation of a person of honour, who
often generously took his part. There was reason to think
that his hardships, and the frequent journies he was forced to
take by night, impaired his health and brought on that weak-
ness under which he soon after laboured. He was a man of
good learning, great gravity and seriousness, of a most un-
Blameable coversation, and a laborious and judicious preacher.
He was laid aside some time before he died, which was July
16, 1700. [His son was Dr. John Evans, the author of the
sermons intitled The Christian Temper.]
WILLIAM HUNT, M. A. Of Wad. Col. Oxf. and of
Camb. Born at Dolish, near Ilminster in Somerset. He
was a general scholar, an extraordinary Grecian,' and well.
skilled in the Oriental languages. About 1641 he became
master of the free-school at Salisbury, which he held till
1662. He there continued with his family afterwards, and
in 1672 was chosen (in conjunction with Mr. Haddesley) by
the dissenting congregation in that city, where he exercised
his ministry, till the Indulgence was recalled. He removed
some time after to Ilminster, and there taught school for
some years, but was forced to desist before his death, which
was in 1684, aged 74. He was buried at his native place.
Mr. JOHN BENNET, Whitwich, Leicestershire. Born at
London, educated at Cambridge and episcopally ordained.
Before he was ejected here, in1662, he preached in Northamp-
tonshire, and other places. Afterwards he removed to Lon-
don, where he preached occasionally about ten years, and
then went to Littleover near Derby. He taught school, and
preached about in the darkest times, for which he met with
many troubles, and was excommunicated. It was once de-
signed to draw him into a plot, and he was actually impri-
soned as a suspicious person, without any reason alledged ;
but he so managed as to escape. (Conform. 4th Plea, p. 39.)
He
BY THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY.
525
He died on a journey to London, six miles from home, May.
1693. He was a man of considerable learning, lively and
pleasant in conversation, plain in his preaching, and was
much respected by several persons of distinction, with whom
he had an acquaintance.
Thus have we endeavoured to give posterity some account,
what were the spoils of UNIFORMITY, and what sort of men
they were, whose removal gave occasion to such mighty ec-
clesiastical triumphs. Nor is it to be doubted, but that
there were many others, whose names are not now to be
recovered.
May the God of heaven grant there may be no more
silencing and ejecting among us, of such as are desirous to
spread real Christianity. May they that have borne so hard
upon their brethren, never have any farther taste of the same
cup; or if they should fall into trying times, may they prove
as steady as those against whom they have so freely inveighed.
May they that act upon the same principle with the BARTHO-
LOMAAN Worthies, in opposition to UNSCRIPTURAL IMPO-
SITIONS, partake of the excellent spirit of those who went
before them in service and suffering; and may the God of
Peace and Love yet open a way, for uniting those in affec-
tion amongst themselves, who agree in loving the Lord Jesus
Christ in sincerity, and are desirous of the common salvation.
Amen."
ADDENDA.
VOL. I. p. 298. To the Works of Mr. ROLL, add, The
Burning of London.
P. 340. Mr. ROBERT BARTON. It should have been
BARLOW. He is mentioned by Dr. Walker, who says,
"He was an intruder here during the usurpation." But if he
had the choice of the parishioners he could not be justly so
called.
Vol. II. p. 45. After Littleham, near Exmouth, add,-
LITTLEHAM, near Bideford, Mr. JOHN BOWDEN. After
his ejectment he removed to Bideford, where he preached
to a dissenting congregation till his death, which was about
1700. He was a considerable man; eininent for his seri-
ousness and humility; an excellent preacher, and of an ad-
mirable temper.
1
P. 301
526.
ADDENDA.
1
P. 301. After the account of Mr. Haworth, add-
WORKS. The Quaker converted, &c.-Absolute Election,
not upon foreseen Conditions.
Vol. III. p. 23. Line 4. Add-Mr. LAW and Mr. PEARCH,
were ejected in this county, but the places are not ascer-
tained.
66
P. 426. Mr. THOMAS HARDCASTLE, Bristol. Since the
account of him was printed, I have accidentally found the
work of his there mentioned, in my possession, and can
pronounce it a very practical and useful performance. It
is said to be the substance of some sermons preached in
Bristol. The greater part of them are upon Psalm xc. 12.
From the dedication, preface, &c. I have collected the fol-
lowing additional anecdotes of this excellent man. Some
of the first years of his ministry were spent in Yorkshire,
his native county, where he mentions his having many
friends at Pontefract, Hull, Beverley, York, &c. to whom
his labours had been useful, and whose edification he wish-
ed in the perusal of this work, which was occasioned by
the providential escape of some particular friends from im-
minent danger of death when on a visit at Bristol. He
also mentions his having formerly enjoyed comforta-
ble communion with the eminent and honourable society
under Mr. Henry Jesse, now under the care of Mr. James
Fitten, his old friend and fellow sufferer, and Mr. Henry
Forte."-Having occasion to introduce an anecdote of a
worthy and religious lady, he subjoins the following note:
"The lady Barwich, of Toulsten in Yorkshire, to whom
I had the happiness to be chaplain for several years, and
must own myself to be much obliged; and no less to the
right honourable the Lord Henry Fairfax, her son-in-law,
and my constant and faithful friend in my sufferings for
Christ."-As a proof of the catholic spirit ascribed to him,
the following extract from his preface is worth transcrib-
ing:-
To conclude, this is no point of controversy, but
rather an effectual means to reconcile differences. Those
that cannot now join together in prayer, will in a little
while, if they be true saints, sit together praising God, re-
joicing in and loving one another, in a larger ineasure than
they ever loved their most dear relations or intimate friends
upon earth. The shortness of time there is to differ in, the
absolute necessity and incomparable excellence and sweet-
11658
:
ADDENDA.
527
ness of mutual love here, and full communion hereafter,
I desire may sway with me to watch over my own heart,
that I stand not at a distance in spirit from any saint of
God, upon the account either of apprehension or injury.
As for the former, I do not know that I was ever under
a temptation to love any one less for his true conscience,
tho' not of my size."-Crosby has nothing more concern-
ing him than what he quotes from Calamy, and he has
omitted one passage respecting his moderation, which for
that reason is the rather here inserted: "When he visited
"his own country, upon a relation's consulting him whom
"to join with, he persuaded him to hold communion
"with Mr. Christopher Marshall rather than with the
"Baptists," tho' he himself was of that denomination.
See the account of Mr. Marshall, vol. i. p. 455.
1
The following Additions to the accounts of ministers in
WALES, (all of them Baptists) are taken from a His-
tory of the Welch Baptist-Churches, by the late Mr.
Joshua Thomas, in which much more is related con-
cerning several of them, than could be here inserted.
Page 506. WALTER PROSSOR. He was eminent in the
ministry, and preached at Llantrisaint, Llangwn, Tredynog,
and Olchon. He is supposed to have died after the year
1672.
Ibid. Mr. MILMAN. His name was William. He was
assistant to Mr. Quarrel, at Llantrisaint and Llangwn.
Ibid. WATKIN JONES. Dr. Walker says, He was an
Anabaptist, tho' some Pædobaptists say, he was not.
Mr. MORGAN JONES, is supposed by Mr. Thomas, to
have been ejected from Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire. He
was preacher at Laleston, Tithogston, Newcastle, and Bet-
tus. Dr. Morgan Jones of Hammersmith, was descended
from him.
Mr. JENKIN JONES, was active, useful, respectable, and
much of the gentleman. He was called Captain Jones, hav-
ing been in the army. It is said, that as he was once going
to preach, a person way-laid him, with a resolution to kill
him; but on coming up to him, he was so struck with the
comeliness
5
}
528
ADDENDA.
comeliness, and majesty of his person, that his spirit failed
him, and that, instead of doing him any injury, he went to
hear him, and was much affected with the service. For
Cadoxton, read Cadagston, near Neath.
Mr. ELLIS ROWLAND had the rectory of Clynog, in 1657.
P. 497. Mr. RODERICK THOMAS. It is supposed that
this is the person who was colleague with Mr. Robert Mor-
gan, the Baptist minister at Carmarthen, as Mr. J. Thomas
observes that his name appears no where else.
*
**The above articles, and others from the same source,
inserted in the proper places, are communicated by Mr. Isaac
James of Bristol, who is in possession of much curious in-
formation concerning the Nonconformists, and who, by the
diligence of his researches, is peculiarly qualified for a work
which he proposes shortly to publish viz. A HISTORY of
the DISSENTERS in the city of BRISTOL; which tho' it will
more particularly relate to the Baptist Churches, (concerning
which he has the most ample materials) will comprehend all
the accounts he can procure of the other congregations in
that city, as well as many valuable anecdotes of the Non-
conformists in general. It will be published by subscription,
price 7s. 6d. The Editor of the work now closed, cordially
joins with the ministers in Bristol, and others, in recommend-
ing it, as what he thinks will be a valuable Supplement.
PROPOSALS at large, with a particular account of this Work,
may be had at Messrs. Button's, Paternoster-Row.
FINIS.
INDEX.
INDEX
TO THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS EJECTED.
N. B. § prefixed to a name denotes an ejected Minister newly discovered.-
after a name imports a new Account.-When the name is in Italic, it shews
that there is no account of the person.-+ affixed to the name signifies that there
is some mistake or typographical error, which is corrected in this Index.—
When the figures referring to the page are inclosed thus (123) it denotes that
the name of the person had been omitted, and should be inserted in that
place.
HN
Abbot
JOHN
Robert Abbot - 2. 218
Mr. Abbot, Monmouthsh. 3. 505
James Abdy
Mr. Ackworth
Richard Adams, London 1. 170
Richard Adams, Leicest. 2.
Thomas Adams
John Adams
388
1. 214
Vol. Page
3. 318
Mr. Allen, Oaford §
Robert Allen
Vol. Page
1. 254
3.
43
John Allen
3. 18
2. 427
John Allot
1
3. 90
2. 334
Vincent Alsop
3. 48
William Alsop
3. 195
Isaac Ambrose
2. 362
Nehemiah Ambrose
2. 367
3. 158
Mr. Ambrose, Hanwell
2. 456
Tobias Adams
William Adderley
Barthol. Adrian
John After
Benjamin Agus
Samuel Ainsworth
Mr. Aires
Henry Albin
John Alcock
Mr. Alden, Camb.
Edward Alexander
Samuel Alexander
Matthew Alflat
3. 220
William Ames
1
1
1
3. 296
1. 188
Christopher Amgill
3.454
1
3. 256
1. 83
1. 297
Christopher Amyraut
3. 2
Paul Amyraut
3.
7
David Anderson
3. 307
3. 36
Mr. Anderson, Boston
2. 413
2. 417
Philip Anderton
2. 206.
1
3. 189
Thomas Andrews
3. 47
1. 280
Mr. Angel, Essex
2. 219
1. 267
William Angel
1
3. 304
2. 338
John Angier
3. 14
Samuel Angier
1
2. 360
1. 220
3. 184
Philip Anisbit
3. 470
Mr. Alford
Richard Allein
William Alleine
2. 427
§ Anonymous, Bromfield 3. 355
3. 167
Dr. Samuel Annesley
1. 124
2. 119
William † Appleby
↑
2. 253
Joseph Alleine,§ Taunton 3. 206
Joseph Allen, Cornwall 1. 368
Thomas Allen, Norwich 3.
Thomas Allen, Sussex 3. 330
VOL. III.-No. XXXI.
11
Mr. Archer, Essex
2. 190
Edward Archer
3. 123
John Argor
2. 188
Stephen Arlush
3. 465
M m
Robert
INDEX.
Robert Armitage
Henry Arnold
Vol. Page
Vol. Page
3. 437
2. 321
Henry Ballard
Francis Bampfield
3. 350
2. 149
Mr. Arnold, Lincolnsh. 2. 427
Mr. Arnold. Paddington, 2. 461
Elias Arnold, Sussex
Dr. John Arthur
Simeon Ashe
James Ashhurst
Mr. Ashurst
Mr. Ashley
William Ashley
1
1
1
1
1
I
Josiah Banger
John Banister
3, 330
Nathaniel Bann
3. 300
Samuel Bantoft
1.
95
1. 245
Edmund Barber
John Barcroft
1.
281
3. 243
445
Arthur Barham
Matthew Barker
Edward Barker
Bartholomew Ashwood 2. 3
John Ashwood
William Aspinwall
Peter Aspinwall
Richard Astley
Robert Asty §
Robert Atkins
Samuel Atkins
1
1
1
1
1
3.
1. 367
Clement Barling
Robert Barlow †
3. 99
Thomas Barnes
3. 647
Joshua Barnet
2. 353
Andrew Barnet
3. 287
2.
32
2. 114
David Barns
James Baron
Simon Barret
1
1
1
1
1
1
2.
3.
•
12
1
3. 133
2. 219
3. 287
3.358
1. 125
1. 144
3. 262
2. 326
1. 340
3. 505
3. 150
3. 151
3. 425
1. 288
Peter Atkinson, sen.
2. 862
John Barret
1
1
1. 295
3. 103
Peter Atkinson, jun.
2. 92
Nathaniel Barry
2. 326
Simon Atkinson
1. 389
J. Barston
2. 289
William Attersal
3. 320
John Bartlet, Exon
2. 36
Richard Avery
Samuel Austin
Peter Austin
1. 296
John Bartlet, Fremington 2. 39
§ Bridgigin Avianen
2. 139
William Bartlet
-
2. 4
1. 356
Robert Bartlet
2. 142
1
3. 25
Nathaniel Barton
1. 395
B
Mr. Babb
Richard Babbington
Isaac Bacon
John Barton
2. 318
3. 226
Josiah Basset
3. 345
2. 69
Samuel Bassnet
3. 345
1. 393
Mr. Basnet (or Barnet)
3. 120
Henry Backaller 1.289. 2. 125
Mr. Bastwick
-
2. 211
Hen. Backaller, Somerset. 3.
184
Daniel Batchelor
-
1.
92
Samuel Backlar
3. 294
Richard Batchelor
I
William Bagshaw -
1. 405
John Batchiler
3. 181
1. 299
William Bagly
Edward Baggshaw §
& John Bailey
William Bailey
John Paker
-
S. 111
3. 143
Dr. William Bates
Robert Bath
1
1. 115
2.376
1. 321
Mr. Bathoe
3. 256. 303 ·
2. 73
Mr. Batloe (or Butler)
1. 270
3. 361
Timothy Batt
3. 204
John Baker, Norfolk
3. 16
John Batt
3. 205
John Baker, Somersetsh.
Joseph Baker
3. 186
Richard Batten
1. 368
P
3. 416
Francis Batty
Mr. Baker, Kent
2. 327
Richard Baxter
2. 182
3. 393-410
Mr. Baker, Cheshire
1. 336
Nathanael Baxter
2. 369
Thomas Bakewell
3. 230
Benjamin Baxter
3. 415
Thomas Baldwin 3. 245. § 389
Stephen Baxter
3. 392
Thomas Daldwin, jun.
2. 232
Thomas Bayes
་
3. 33
Reger Baldwin 2, 376. 1.
389
Samuel Bayes
3. 35
Nathaniel Ball
2. 909
Mr. Bayes, Suffolk
3. 291
William Ball § -
3. 224
Thomas Baylie §
3. 367
John
INDEX.
John Baynard
James Bayock
John Bazely
John Beadle.
Robert Beak
William Beal
Mr. Bean
Thomas Beard
John Beaton
Nehemiah Beaton
Mr. Beaumont
George Beck
Mr. Becket
Isaac Bedford
James Bedford
Henry Bee
i
1
1
}
I
Vol Page
3. 29
Robert Billio
3. 474
3. 28
2. 188
George Bindon
John Bingham
Richard Binmore
2. 324
Mr. Binshul
2. 254
Robert Birch
3. 349
Samuel Birch
188
2.
3. 315
3. 320
John Birket
John Biscoe
1
1
}
t
I
William Blackmore
1
3. 309
Wm. Blackwell §
I
Vol. Page
2. 225
3. 225
1. 415.
2.
97
1. 223
2.353
3. 114
2. 433
1. 135
1. 181
2. 245
2. 412
Thomas Bladon §
1
3. 227
2. 234
Wm. Blagrave
Wm. Blagrave 1. 285, 2. 229
2. 315
Henry Blake
I
3. 361
2. 316
Thomas Blake
1
3. 320
t
3. 234
Mr. Blakely
2. 211
Mr. Beebee
Richard Blinman
3. 177
John Beeby
1. 423
Samuel Blower
3. 125
Edward Beecher
3. 320
Matthew Bloom
3. 448
Rich. Beeston (or Bustan) 3. 387
Robert Blunt
3. 75
William Belcher
-
2. 338
John Blunt
1
1
William Bell
2. 365
Mr. Bodin
3. 465
2.256
Humphrey Bell
Mr. Bell Warwicksh.
Mr. Bendy, Staffordsh.
Mr. Benlows
William Benn S
3. SO
George Boheme
2. 429
-
3. 346
Mauritius Boheme
2. 387
3. 247
Dr. John Bond, Camb.
1. 208
3. 75
Sampson Bond
1. 355
1. 126
Thomas Bonner
2. 421
Robert Bennet
Edward Bennet
Philip Bennet
1. 308
Mr. Bonniman
1. 343
2. 139
Mr. Booler
[
2. 358
Mr. Boon, Finham
Joseph Bennet
John Bennet, Whitwick
John Benson, Essex
3. 313
3.
2. 205
George Benson §
1. 378
Ely Bently
3. 436
William Benton
3. 453
Thomas Benton, sen.
Thomas Benton, jun.
Nehemiah Benton
3. 13
13
Samuel Borfet
Thomas Bosse
Mr. Bosworth
Mr. Bote
Ephraim Bothel
Edward Boucher
Tobias Boucher
3. 226
3. 447
2. 205
1
2. 384
3. 99
3. 140.
I
1
1
1
2. 328
3. 391
1. 349
3.
15
1. 102
Mr. Bovel, (Conf.) §
Thomas Boult
3. 462
2. 176
William Bereman §
1. 191
George Bound
2. 217
Samuel Beresford
Benjamin Berry
John Berry
Henry Berry
Hugh Bethel
Richard Bickle
William Bicknell
William
Robert Bidbank
John Bigley
John Billingsley
Nic. Billingsley
}
1. 403 John Bowden
1
3.
2. 49
Mr. Bowen
3. 120
1
t
2. 25
3. 189
25
John Bowy
2. 181
Mr. Bowey
2. 182
1
1. 326
Edward Bowles
3. 455
1
2. 22
Mr. Bowyer, Dorsetsh.
2. 175
I
2.
276
Thomas Bowyer
3. 164
Bidbank
3.
14
Mr. Boyard
3. 474
3.
8
Mr. Boyle
2. 298
1
2. 224
Thomas Brace
1. 236
1. 400 Mr. Braddow
3. 226
2. 297,477
M m 2
Nathanael
INDEX.
+
Vol. Page
Vol. Page
Nathanael Bradshaw
James Bradshaw, Chesh. 1. 337
Jas. Bradshaw, Lancash. 2. 364
Thomas Brag
Robert Bragge
Thomas Brand
Mr. Brecknock
John Brereton
John Brett
-
John Brice, Berksh.
John Brice, Dorsetsh.
William Brice
Samuel Bricknall
William Bridge
Haslefoot Bridges
Samuel Bridges
Thomas Bridginan
Edward Bright
John Brinsley
Samuel Brinsley
Robert Brinsley
Michael Briscoe
Theophilus Brittain
Daniel Broadly
Edmund Brome
Patrick Bloomfield
Andrew Broomhall
1. 322
John Bulkley
2. 200
John Bulkly, Sussex
3. 330
Daniel Bull§
2. 458
2.277
Mr. Bullock
2. 363
1. 83
John Bunkley
1. 299
3.
Thomas Burbeck
3.420
3.
William Burchil
1. 321
1. 345
Mr. Burd, Dorsetsh. §
2. 125
1
3. 336
Jaines Burdwood
2. 14
1. 288
Richard Buress
1
2. 337
2. 139
Edward Burgall
1. 324
3. 122
Dr. Cornelius Burgess § 3. 217
3. 336
John Burgess
3. 19
Anthony Burgess
1
1.
75
་
2. 190
Benjamin Burgess
Daniel Burgess
t
2.
3
3. 350
2. 276
3. 361
2. 42
Miles Burkitt
1
2. 326
Mr. Burnaby
1
3.
17
17
Mr. Burnand
3. &
2. 211
1. 377
2. 185
Samuel Burnet
1
3.
122
1
1
1
1. 263
Sir John Burrow §
t
2. 388
2. 380
Mr. Burrough
3. 2
2. 413
1. 377
Thomas Burroughs
3. 13
-
3. 67
2. 142
-
Ish.Burroughs [not eject.] 2. 437
Mr. Bursdall
Jeremy Burwell
Edward Bury
3. 29
3. 447
2. 308
3. 140
Oliver Broomskill
2. 392
John Bush
3. 195
Thomas Brook
1. 336
John Bushnell
3. 319
Thomas Brooks §
1. 150
Hugh Butler
1. 297
Samuel Brooks
2. S17
John Butler, Litchfield
3. 236
Wm. Brooks, Warwick
3. 346
John Butler, Norfolk
3. 3
Wm. Brooks, Staffordsh. 3. 234
Mr. Butler, Northamp. 3. 36
Thomas Bromwich
3. 393
Henry Butler
3. 225
Mr. Brough
2. 182
Henry Butler, Warwick
3. 351
Mr. Brounker
Thomas Brown
Edward Brown
Mr. Brown, Lincolnsh.
Joseph Brown
Robert Brown
Thomas Browning
Mr. Bruce
Benjamin Brunning
Dr. John Bryan
John Bryan
Noah Bryan
Samuel Bryan
Jarvis Bryan
Edward Buckler
John Buchly
2. 414
3. 212
Mr. Buli
-
2. 254
2. 265
Ralph Button §
1. 215, 3. 126
2. 430
Mr. Byat
3. 229
Nathanael Byfield
2. 69
2. 209
Richard Byfield
3. 301
3. 415
Thomas Byrdall
3. 243
1
3. 31
John Bywater
3. 509
1. 338
Thomas Buxton
3. 243
}
3. 271
Mr. Buxton, Derbysh.
1. 425
3. 151
C
3. 342
Mr. Cade, Woodbridge 3. 295
3. 242
Edmund Calamy, sen.
1. 76
3. 338
Edmund Calamy, jun.
2. 208
1
3. 415
Lewis Calandrine
2. 218
David Calderwood
2.262
1. 337
Abrahain Caley-
1
2. 212
Thomas
3. 205
INDEX.
J
Thomas Calvert
James Calvert
Gabriel Camelford
Samuel Campion
Matthias Candler
Daniel Capel
Mr. Cardinal
Robert Carel
John Carmitchel
James Carr
Mr. Carr, Essex
William Carslake
Solomon Carswill
William Cart
Mr. Carter, London
Mr. Carter, Kent§
Thomas Carter
John Cartwright -
John Carver
Nicholas Cary
t
1
3, 258
2. 254
3. 355
3. 148
Joshua Churchill
Nicholas Clagget
Ambrose Clare
Vol. Page
Vol. Page
3. 458
Jacob Christopher
3. 505
3. 472
Joseph Church
1. 137
Josiah Church
2. 201
2. 129
3. 256
2. 67
}
2. 201
Samuel Clarke, sen.
-
1. 97
t
2.
96
1
3. 453
1. 388
2. 188
Samuel Clarke, jun.
Sabbath Clarke
John Clarke, Nottingh.
John Clarke, Berks
1. 301
1. 342
3.
92
1. 288
2.
96
John Clarke, Suffolk
3. 255
1
1. 350
John Clark, Essex
2. 195
3. 437
Thomas Clarke, Essex
2. 219
1. 167
2. 324
Thomas Clarke, Hampsh 2. 266
Matthew Clarke
2. 392
I
2. 324
Peter Clarke
3. 470
1. 337
Mr. Clark, Lyndsel, Essex 2. 206
3. 509
Mr. Clark, Chip. Norton § 3. 122
3. 506
David Clarkson
-
3. 304
Joseph Caryl's
1. 146
Luke Clayton
Sampson Caryl
3. 304
Benjamin Cleland
1
3. 446
2. 72
Thomas Case
1. 153
Richard Cleyton
John Castle, Camb.
1. 280
Abraham Clifford
Mr. Catch
2. 445
Isaac Clifford
1
3. 241
1. 272
2. 118
Andrew Cater §
2. 304
James Cave
Edward Cawthorn
1. 385
3. 45
Joseph Cawthorn
1
2.433
Samuel Clifford
Zachary Clifton
William Clopton
William Clyd
រ
1
Daniel Cawdrey
3.
27
Samuel Coates
Tho. Cawton § 1. 252, 3. 130
Robert Chadsley
2. 228
Richard Cardinal
Mr. Cobb, London
George Cokayn
Thomas Cole
-
1
t
3. 365
3. 319
2. 212
2. 42
3.
89
1.
191
Joseph Chadwick &
3. 221
John Cole
F
1
1. 175
1. 249
2. 223
Francis Chandler
Humphrey Chambers §
John Chandler [Conf.] 2. 229
Richard Chantrye
3. 370
Mr. Colewhone
1
3. 464
Mr. Collet
3. 258
2. 220
Mr. Collier, Warwicksh. 3. 351
3. 244
Anthony Collier
2. 252
Mr. Chaplyn, Dorset.
2. 159
Abel Collier (note)
2. 296
Mr. Chapman, C. C. C. 1
(280)
Dr. John Collinges
3.
9
Samuel Chapman §
3. 297
John Collins
∞o
Samuel Charles
1. 417
Benjamin Collins
3. 511
3. 203
Nathanael Charlton
3. 194
Robert Collins
2. 74
Stephen Charman
3. 437
John Collyer
t
1. 385
Stephen Charnock
1. 208
Richard Colston
1
3.
Isaac Chauncey
3. 380
Francis Comyng
1
25
2. 301
Ichabod Chauncey
3. 178
Richard Comyns
1. 287
Thomas Cheesman
1. 287
J. Conant, D. D. (Conf.) 1. 229
Mr. Cheshire
2. 410
Mr. Coney
3. 121
John Chester
2. 403
Tobias Conyers
1. C4
Francis Cheynel
3. 324
Mr. Constable
2. 199
John Chishul
2.
80
James Constantine
3. 443
Robert
INDEX.
Robert Constantine
Mr. Conway
George Cook
William Cooke
Vol. Page
2. 371 John Crook
+
1. 246
Mr. Croslyn ↑
+
3. 105
Dr. Joshua Cross
1. 326
William Cross
Richard Cook
3. 418
Francis Cross
Mr. Cook, Winchester
2. 287
George Cross-
I
Vol, Page
3. 436
2. 38
1. 241.
3. 88
3. 181
3. 232
Robert Cook
1. 422
Mr. Crossin
2. 265
William Cooper
1. 172
Mr. Crossland
1. 280
Richard Cooper
2. 254
Samuel Crossman
2. 203
Joseph Cooper
Henry Cooper, Suffolk
John Cooper
Mr. Cooper, Elton
Richard Coore
Joseph Cope
Edward Coppin
John Corbet
Edward Corbet
Samuel Corbyn
William Corderoy
Mr. Corker
Henry Cornish
John Cory
John Courtman
Stephen Coven
Thomas Courtney
John Cowbridge
George Cowper
Henry Coxe
Elias Crabtree
Samuel Cradock §
Mr. Cramlington
Thomas Crane
Mr. Crane §
Mr. Cranford
Luke Cranwell
Thomas Crapon
Thomas Crees
James Creswick
Thomas Crittendon
1
3. 411
Zechariah Crossley
3. 427
3. 289.
John Crouch
3. 337
Henry Cooper, Warwick. 3. 349
John Crow
2. 302
2. 232
Francis Crow
3. 266
2. 316
Henry Cruchlow
3. 158
1
3. 453
John Crump
2. 332
1. 341
James Crump
3. 358
2. 339
John Cudmore
1. 229
2. 259
Mr. Cudworth
3. 423
3. 14
Richard Culmer
2. 345
1
1. 276
Vincent Crupper §
3.
4.4
3. 318
Mr. Curl
3. 226
2. 324
Mr. Curl, Wilts
3. 380
1. 215 Henry Cusse
3. 365
3. 16
D
1
1
3. 45
68
1
2.
1. 388
1. 3-47
1. 245
2. 258
3. 3
3. 178
2. 427
2. 148
Thomas Daines
John Daliel
Mr. Damer
Thomas Dandy
Thomas Danson §
Paul D'Aranda
Mr. Darby
John Darby
Matthew Darby
John Darnton
3. 263
3. 15
I
t
2. 160
1
1
1
1
3. 31
Mr. Darwen +
3. 462
Mr. Davenport
James Davis
3. 498
1. 403
3. 365
John Davis, Northumb
·
3.
60
3.
43
3. 286
3. 323
2. 326
3. 212
2. 33+
3.
55
3. 452
3. 239
3. 184 John Davis, Camb.
2. 266
1. 246
John Davis, Dover
Mr. Davis, Suffolk
1. 279
2.326
3. 285
John Crodacot &
1. 182
Mr. Davis, Essex
2. 201
Zachary Crofton
John Crofts
T. Crompton, Torkscarth 2. 378
T. Crompton, Ashby chapel 2. 351
Willam Crompton -
John Crompton, Lancash. 2. 381
John Crompton, Notting. 3. 86
Mr. Cromwel, Lincolnsh.
John Cromwel, Notting. 3.
2. 435
90
Joseph Dawson
George Day
Mr. Day, Cambridge
Baldwin Deacon §
Richard Davis
3.
1: 103
Meredeth Davis
2. 275
3. 498
David Davis
3.
William Davison
2. 252
Thomas Dawkes
2. 13
1. 167
3. 452
3. 225
1. 263
2. 175
Mr.
INDEX.
Vol. Page
Vol Page
Mr. Deacon, Kent
Mr. Deersley, Suff.
John Deersley (Conf.)
William Dell
Henry Dent
2. 334
Samuel Dyer
1.
86
3. 290
William Dyer
1. 298
2. 188
Richard Dyer
1. 220
1. 258
Daniel Dyke
1
2. 304
3. 371
Mr. Dyman
2. 263
Nathan Denton §
1
3. 425
E
John Devenish
3. 220
John Earl
3. 334
Jonathan Devereux
2. 181
John Eason
3. 324
Tristram Diamond
3. 346
William Eastman
3. 364
Mr. Dickenson
2. 421
Robert Eaton, Warwick
3. 345
John Dier
3. 226
Robert Eaton, Chesh.
1. 336
William Disney
1. 210
Robert Eaton, Lancash.
2. 380
Thomas Dixon
2. 182
Samuel Eaton
2. 361
Mr. Dixy
2. 410
William Eaton
2, 119
Robert Dod
2. 204
James Eburne
3. 362
Timothy Dod
John Dod
3. 30
Joseph Eccleshal
3. 240
3. 123
John Eddleston
}
}
2. 381
Mr. Dod, Kent
John Doddridge
John Dominick
2. 321
Thomas Edge
2. 467
Mr. Edwards, Bucks
1. 336
1.308
3.
7
Jon. Edwards
3.
John Donne
1. 284
Richard Eeds
2. 231
Thomas Doolittle
1. 86
Nathanael Eeles
2. 306
Samuel Doughty
2. 401
Gawen Egglesfield
1. 389
Thomas Douglas
1, 171
Robert Ekins
1. 278
Mr. Dowel
2. 225
Mr. Eldridge
3. 334
Richard Dowley
3. 233
Thomas Elford
2. 445
Thomas Down
2. 37
Mr. Ellis, Suffolk
3. 298
Mark Down
2. 37
Edmund Ellis
3.500
Anthony Down
2. 55
Thomas Ellis, Essex
2. 203
Richard Down
2. 142
Thomas Ellis, Norfolk
3. 5
Dr. Roger Drake 1. 180 § 432
Tobias Ellis
3.
Robert Drake
3. 203
Matthew Elliston
2. 218
Michael Drake
2. 427
Mr. Ellyot
2. 13
William Draper
3. 134
Mr. Elwood
2. 413
Mr. Draper, Kent
Richard Drayton
Thomas Drinchal
Mr. Drye
Mr. Duke
·
I
2. 335
Mr. Ellwood, Yorksh
3. 462
2. 400
Samuel Ely
2. 203
2. 367
Francis English
3.
12
1
2. 253
Henry Erskine
3.
62
2. 335
Henry Esday
2. 211
John Dunce
2. 251
George Evanke §
3. 459
James Duncanson
3. 61
Mr. Evans, Warwick.
3. 341
George Duncombe
1. 267
John Evans, Wrexham
3.
Mr. Dunkinson
3. 471
John Evans, Bangor.
3.
Dunstan, Cheshire
1. 341
Daniel Evans
1. 263
Nathanael Durant
2. 12
Hugh Evans
3.
Robert Durant
2. 414
Mr. Eubank
3. 462
John Durant
William Durant
John Durrant
Mr. Drury, Lancashire
David Drury
2. 321
Hugh Everard
3. 437
3. 77
Robert Everenden t
3. 313
1
3.
15
15
Thomas Ewins
3. 175
2. 357 William Eyre §
3. 372
3. 438
土
​Lewis
INDEX.
3. 177
1
2. 203
2. 53
3. 443
Lewis Facy
F.
Samuel Fairclough, sen. 3. 272
Samuel Fairclough, jun. 1. 283
Vol. Page
Voľ. Page
2. 96
Mr. Fleetwood
1. 298
Edward Fletcher
2. 234
Benjamin Flower, sen.
3. 360
Richard Fairclough
3. 199
John Fairfax
3. 249
Benjamin Flower, jun. §
William Flood (See Lloyd)
3. 360
Benjamin Fairfax
3. 285
John Fogg, Liverpool
3.
Nathaniel Fairfax
3. 295
Robert Fogg
3. 480
Mr. Fairfield
3.
190
William Folkes
3. 290
Edward Falconer
John Faldo
James Farmer
Ralph Farmer
Mr. Farnworth
Richard Farrant
Joshua Farret
-
-
@
3. 358
Samuel Fones
3.
Daniel Foot
2.
97
1. 321
2. 391 John Forbee
Mr. Ford, Chesterfield
Mr. Ford, Cheshire
3. 256
James Forbes
2. 245
1. 402
1. 325
Thomas Ford, Derbyshire
1. 410
Mr. Farrington
John Farrol
George Ferrol
2. 289
Thomas Ford, Exeter
2. 26
2. 278
Stephen Ford §
3. 121
3. 307
John Foreside
3. 55
John Fathers
Joseph Farrow [not eject.]
Mr. Feak, Stanhope
2.
443
Mr. Forster
1. (198)
1. 371
Mr. Forth, Derbyshire
1. 425
3. 183
Thomas Forward
3. 204
Henry Featly
3. 106
Mr. Forward, Dorset. §
2. 139
Mr. Fenwick, Lynne
3. 7
Davis Foules
2. 210
John Fenwick, Suffolk
2. 295
George Fowler
1. 107
John Fenwick
-
3. 123
Richard Fowler
2. 254
Robert Ferguson
2. 327
John Fido
1
47
Anthony Fido
Henry Field
Mr. Finch, Derbyshire
Henry Finch
Zachary Finch
Edward Finch
Richard Fincher
William Fincher
Reginald Finlow
Mr. Finney, sen.
Giles Firmin
1.
3. 353
2. 378
1
1. 309
2. 217
2. 253
2. 251
Timothy Fox
3. 232
3. 417
Mr. Fox, Yorkshire
3. 463
8
2. 244
3. 158
Richard Frankland
2. 177
Gracious Franklyn
3. 386
2. 26
Robert Franklyn
3. 291
2. 214
Thomas Franks
3. 412
Robert Fish
Mr. Fisher, London
3. 324
John Frayling
3. 362
1. 75
Thomas Francis
#
1
Mr. Fisher, Asheldown 2. (186)
John Freeston
3. 391
3. 392
Mr. Fisher, Gloucest.
2. 256
James Fisher, Surrey
3. 303
Jeremiah French
Samuel French
•
James Fisher, Sheffield
Samuel Fisher
Henry Flammank
Roger Flammank
Richard Flavel
John Flavel -
Phineas Flavel
2, 18
John French
Daniel French
George Freeman
Thomas Friend
Paul Frewen
Thomas Froysell
2. 256 Thomas Froyte §
3. 447
·
1
1. 342
1. 353
1. 370
2. 255
3. 203
2. 333
3. 505
2. 338
3. 318
2.
4.4
2. 251
3. 143
2. 145
Mr.
3. 47
3. 464
3.
1. 425
Christopher Fowler
Stephen Fowler
Henry Fowles
Thomas Fownes
Samuel Fownes
George Fownes
John Fox
1. 294
1
1
3.
30
•
3. 337
3. 346
INDEX.
Mr. Fryar
John Fuller
Francis Fuller
Martin Fynch
t
Vol. Page
2. 189
1. 159
Philip Goodwin
John + Gosnold
3. 46
Mr. Goss
1
2. 434
Thomas Gouge
Robert Gouge
1
G.
William Gough
1
Vol. Page
2. 314
1. 196
2. 268
1. 184
3. 271
1. 289
Theophilus Gale 1. 243, 2. 287
Thomas Goulston
1
2. 447
Josiah Gale
2. 12
Alexander Gourdon
3.
80
John Galpin, Dorset. §
2. 129
William Grace 2. 400, 3. 242
John Galpine §
3. 166
Mr. Gracecourt
3. 245
Tho. Gardiner, Hertf. §
2. 303
Isaac Grandorge
2. 190
John Gardiner
3. 205
Jonathan Grant
2. 415
Thomas Gardiner
1. 300
Samuel Grasty
1. 345
Mr. Garnons
-
2. 290
Mr. Graves, Durham
2. 184
Richard Garret
3. 310
William Graves, Hertf. § 2. 309
John Garret
2. 94
Nicholas Greaves
2 215
John Gartside
Simon Gawen
John Gay
Robert Gaylard
Allen Geare
James Gedny
Mr. Gerrard
John Gibbon
-
1. 346
Alexander Green
1. 271
1
}
1
3.365
William Green, Bath
3. 168
1. 229
William Green, Camb.
1. 267
2. 26
John Green, sen. Norfolk 3.
15
-
2.
16
John Green, jun.
3. 15
3. 3
1. 297
1. 102
John Gibbs
1. 308
Mr. Gibson
2. 317
John Gidley
2. 109
Thomas Gilbert, Eling.
2. 446
John Green, Leicest.
John Green, Staffords. 3. 232
Mr. Green, Essex 2. 201, 220
William Greenhill §
John Greensmith †
Dr. Daniel Greenwood
2. 468 ·
3.233.
1. 214
Mr. Greenwood,Westmør.3. 354
2. 402
Thomas Gilbert, Bucks
1. 309
§ Tho. Gilbert, Edgmond 3.
145
Mr. Gregg, Essex
Thomas Gregge
-
2. 200
2. 364
William Gilbert
3. 125
Hicrom Gregory
John Gill
2. 69
Alexander Gregory
Dr. Richard Gilpin
1. 386
Mr. Gretorix
Mr. Gilpin, Warwick
Thomas Gilson
John Gipps
John Glanvil
-
3.340
2. 186
Dr. Obadiah Grew
1
Jonathan Grew
1
1. 308
2.232
2. 256
3. 343
3. 341
1. 246
George Griffith §
1. 107
3. 212
John Griffyth
1. 342
John Glendal
1. 321
Mr. Grimes, or Grismes 1. 210
Hugh Glover
2. 200
Mr. Grove, Devon. §
2. 56
Mr. Glyde, Surry
3. 309
Thomas Grove, Somerset. 3. 195
Jonathan Goddard
1. 253
Martin Grundman
3. 494
Mr. Godbolt
2. 470
Thomas Grundy
3. 317
Henry Godman
Thomas Godwine
Thomas Goldham†
John Goldwire, sen.
John Goldwire, jun.
3. 329
Peter Guilliam
2. 254
›
2.
96
Hugh Gundry †
2. 139, 477
3. 315
Randal Guest
1. 341
3. 310
Thomas Guns
2. 321
3. 318
Henry Goodeare
1. 303
Humphrey Gunter
John Gunter
1. 244
3. 460
Mr. Goodman
2. 447 Mr. Guncil
I
}
William Goodridge
2. 325
Richard Gyles
1
2. 434
2. 334
Dr. Thomas Goodwin
1. 236
John Gyles
3. 410
Richard Goodwin
2. 354
Thomas Gyles
1. 315
John Goodwin §
1. 196
Mr. Gyles, Wilts
VOL. 3. NO. XXXI.
N n
3. 365
Samuel
INDEX.
Vol. Page
H.
John Hasbart
Vol. Page
3. 13
Samuel Habergham
John Haddesley
James Hadderidge
James Haddock
Mr. Haddon
3. 286
Lewis Hatch
2.
68
2. 277
Mr. Hathway
3. 123
2. 40
40
Henry Havers
-
2. 218
Mr. Haine
1
}
2. 381
Matthew Haviland
1. 194
3. 80
William Hawden
3. 427
1
2. 254
Richard Hawes
2.290
Mr. Haines
Robert Hall
Thomas Hall
Ralph Hall
Samuel Hall
Mr. Hall, Shropshire
Mr. Haller
Mr. Hales
Joseph Hallet §
Mr. Hallet, Shaftsb.
Thomas Hallet
Cutbert Halsall
Mr. Halsell
Joseph Halsey
George Hammond
Samuel Hammond
Jahn Hamper
3. 473
George Hawes
2. 338
1
1
1
1.
298
Adam Hawkins
3. 506
3. 412
Mr. Hawks, Essex
2. 222
T
3. 238
John Hawks §
2. 339
1
3. 228
Thomas Hawksworth
3. 438
3. 158
William Haworth §
2. 300
2. 8
Mr. Hayes, Camb.
1. 280
2. 427
Mr. Hayward, Devon.
2. 100
3. 183.
Mathew Hazard.
-
3. 177
2. 148
Joshua Head
-
2. 256
J
1
1. 360
2. 127
3. 334
2. 381
1. 386
Thomas Hearne
Richard Heath
Camshaw Helmes
Henry Hean
2. 253
1. 371
3. 153
Mr. Heath, Huntingd.
2. 317
2.256
3. 76
Mr. Hemmings -
2. 331
3. 330
William Henderson
3. 66
Rowland Hancock
3. 426
Phillip Henry -
-
3. 483
Edward Hancock
3. 170
Hugh Henshaw
1. 326
Thomas Hancock
1. 376
William Herborne
3. 98
Stephen Hancock
3. 226
Sampson Herne
2. 325
Jonathan Hanmer
2.
6
Mr. Herring
3. 347
John Hanmer, Devon.
2. 111
John Herring
1. 106
John Hanmer, Wales
3. 496
John Herring, Devon.
2. 51
Thomas Hardcastle 3. 426 § 526
Richard Herring
2. 23
John Harding
3. 367
Mr. Hervey
2. 203
Dr. John Harding
3.
358
Joseph Heyhurst
3. 320
John Hardy
2. 156
Oliver Heywood §
3. 428
Samuel Hardy
2. 145
Nathanael Heywood §
2. 371
Emanuel Harford
-
3. 215
Gaspar Hickes
1. 352
John Harmar
2. 265
John Hickes
1. 368
Mr. Harris, Essex
2. 190
Henry Hickman 1. 245,
3. 130
John Harris
3. 496
William Hickocks
2. 329
Francis Harris
2. 234
John Hieron
1. 393
Dr. Thomas Harrison
1. 330
351
2. 222
John Harrison, Hamps. 2. 287
John Harrison, Lancashire 2.
John Harrison, Essex
Samuel Hieron, Derbysh. 1. 424
Samuel Hieron, Devon. 2. 38
James Hiet
2. 358
Mr. Higginson
1. 336
Thomas Harrison
2. 232
Daniel Higgs
3. 503
Joseph Harrison
Cuthbert Harrison
Mr. Harrold, Suffolk -
John Harvie, Cheshire
Elias Harvy
2. 377 Edward Hill
3.288
3. 288 Joseph Hill
1. 343 Ralph Hill
3. 495
2. 367
Samuel Hildersam
3. 147
3. 435
1. 267
2. 211
Matthew Hill
C?
3. 471
Thomas
INDEX.
Thomas Hill
John Hill
•
John Hill, Somerset.
Mr. Hill, Yorksh.
-
1
Vol Page
3. 347
2,
54
Thomas Horrockes
John Horseman
3. 190
Mr. Horsford
3. 462
John Horsham
Stephen Hill
3. 462
Richard Hilton
3. 230
•
Charles Hotham
1
Vol. Page.
2. 206
2. 66
2. 12
2. 72
2. 381
Edm. Hough (conform.) 1. 264
Mr. Hilton, Gloucest.
2. 244
James Hounsel
3. 361
Tristam Hinchfield
2. 417
John Howe
Mr. Hind, Devon.
William Hinton
Mr. Hitchcock
Leonard Hoar
-
។
Richard Hincks
John Hind, § Bedfordsh. 1. 283
Bedfordsh. 1. 283
Morgan Howel
Robert Howlet
Mr. Hubbard
Francis Hubbard
3. 243
Mr. Howel, Suffolk
1
Francis Howel
2.
48
3. 3
1. 236
1
·
1
2. 222
1
2. 81
3. 288
1. 234
3. 497
3. 266
2. 211
3. 357
John Hobson
3. 447
•
John Hubbard
Paul Hobson §
1. 300
Mr. Habbard
2. 211
3. 380
John Hodder
2. 130
Mr. Hudson
2.402
Mr. Hodges, Tower
1. 138
§ John Huddesley
2. 147
Alexander Hodges
2. 37
George Hughes
2. 56
William Hodges
2. 251
Obadiah Hughes
2, 60
Martin Holbitch
2. 198
William Hughes
3. 365
Thomas Holborough
3. 255
Evan Hughes
3. 496
Richard Holbrook
2. 377
Stephen Hughes, Wales
3. 498
Francis Holcroft
1. 259
Stephen Hughes, Susser
3. 329
Henry Holcroft
2. 325
Thomas Hughes
3. 506
Mr. Holdsworth, Durham 2.
181
Joseph Hull
1. 349
Josiah Holdsworth
3. 471
Dr. Edward Hulse
1. 263
Josiah Holdsworth, Sutton 3. 443
Thomas Holland
Edw.Hollingshead Ashford1.(425)
Mr. Hulston
3. 463
2. 358
Abraham Hume
3. 82
John Hume
3. 75
James Holm
2. 91
John Humphrey §
-
3. 190
Mr. Holmes
3. 423
Charles Humphreys, 1. 137 3. 144
Dr. Nathanael Homes
1. 149
William Hunt, Camb.
-
1. 316
Mr. Hoods
2. 252
William Hunt, Sarum.
3. 524
Richard Hook
1
3.
30
William Hook
John Hook &
John Hooker
1
<
1. 184
2. 271
271
Mr. Hunt, Devon.
John Hunt
Philip Hunton
1. 24
3. 186
3. 380
3. 5
Henry Hurst
1. 163
Mr. Hooper
1. 389
Mr. Hutchinson
3. 353
George Hopkins §
3. 392
John Hutchinsons
1. 277
Wm. Hopkins, Somerset.
3. 202
Wm. Hussey, Dorset. §
2. 175
WVm. Hopkins, Cumb. -
Richard Hopkins
1. 389
3. 147
Mr. Hopkins, Dorset.
2. (175)
Mr. Hutton
Richard Hutton
I.
2. 184
1
3. 355
John Hoppin
2. 108
Mr. Horn
James Illingworth
Peter Ince
1. 262
3. 362
Walter Hornby, sen.
Walter Hornby, jun.
John Horn
William Horner
2. 435
2. 391
3.
42
3. 5
2. 321
Mr. Ingham
Richard Inglet
Mr. Inman
Jaines Inues
N ng
་
3. 470
1. 228
3. 439
1. 349
Mr.
INDEX.
Mr. Ireland
Mr. Izott
1
Vol. Page
1. 296
Watkin Jones
3. 443
Vol. Page.
3. 506
David Jones, Carmarth. 3. 497
David Jones, Cardigansh. 3. 496
J.
Gabriel Jones
3. 494
§ Arthur Jackson
1. 120
Samuel Jones
3. 501
John Jackson, London
Mr. Jackson, Lincolnsh. 2. 435
John Jackson, Derbyshire 1.
John Jackson, Cumberland 1.
Thomas Jackson
1. 102
Morgan Jones
-
3.502
395
Thomas Jones, Wilts
Benjamin Jones
3. 359
3. 364
388
George Jones, § (con.)
3. 298
3. 334
John Jordon
2.
72
John Jackson, Nottingh. 3.
88
Thomas Jordan
2. 254
John Jackson, Surry
3. 306
Henry Jordan
3. 335
Peter Jackson
1. 389
Timothy Jordan
1
3. 392
Christopher Jackson
3. 354
Thomas Joseph
3. 501
Christopher Jackson, Vales3. 506
Thomas Juice -
3. 418
Nathan Jacob
2. 95
K.
William Jacob
2. 340
Thomas Kay
1
2. 381
Dr. Thomas Jacomb - 1. 160
John Keck
2. 254
John James, Berks
1. 288
Francis Keeling
3. 143
Thomas James
3. 284
John Kempster
2. 9
John James, Nottingh.
3.
97
George Kendal
2. 44
William Janeway, jun. §
2.
308
James Janeway
3. 511
Abraham Janeway
3. 513
Henry Jeanes
3. 182
Samuel Jefferson
2. 258
Christopher Jellinger
2.
70
Richard Kennet
Mr. Kentish, Oxford -
Richard Kentish 1. 138. 3. 512
Tho. Kentish, Middleton 2. 182
Thomas Kentish, Overton 2. 276
John Kerridge
1. 315
1. 246
2.138
William Jenkyn
1. 109
Mr. Jenkyns, Essex
2. 204
John Kerridge, sen. §
Nicholas Kestyn
2. 175
2. 387
Thomas Jennings
2. 231
Mr. Kightly §
-
2. 185
Richard Jennings
3. 258
William Kimberley
3. 413
John Jennings -
Mr. Jennison
Jonathan Jephcot
Henry Jessey
-
2. 267
Mr. King, London
1. 198
f
3. 474
Mr. King, Cambr.
1
1. 317
Simon King
1. 314
2. 316
1. 129
Isaac King
1. 312
Nath Jocelyn
3.
5
Mr. King, Dorset.
2. 175
Mr. Johnson, Wapping
1. 137
Mr. King, Surrey
3. 300
Francis Johnson
1. 257 § 433
Benjamin King §
3. 134
Peter Johnson
John Johnson
Thomas Johnson
3. 450
2. 345
1. 253
Daniel King
Daniel King, Wilts.
John King, Suffolk
1. 391
-
3. 380
3. 262
Thomas Jollie
2. 943
John King, Herts.
2. 309
John Jollie -
1. 340
Ezekiah King – 1.
315. 2. 326
Mr. Jones, Hampshire
2. 279
Thomas King
3. 295
John Jones -
1. 338
Heury King
1
Jenkyn Jones
3. 500
Mr. Kiplin, Durham
Edmund Jones
2. 362
Mr. Kippax
3. 261
2. 181
2. 371
Nathanael Jones
William Jones, Carmar. § 3. 497
William Jones, Denbigh 3. 477
John Kitchin
William Knapman
3. 336
Joshua Kirby
3. 454
1. 149
2.
9
John
INDEX.
Vol. Page
Vol. Page
John Knight
2. 40
John Leighton"-
3. 99
Isaac Knight
2. 447
Nicholas Leverton
1. 371
Mr. Knight, Somersets.
3. 226
Mr. Levesly †
1. 326
John Knowles
3. 173
John Levington
1
3.
Jeremiah Lewis
.
L.
Philip Lewis
3.
8
4-2
3.500
Philip Lamb
2. 115
Mr. Light, Dorsets.
2. 175
Mr. Lambert
3. 515
Edward Line
2. 324
Mr. Lamvet
Mr. Lancaster
Mr. Lane, Kent
Samuel Lane
John Langdale
Thomas Langden
Christopher Langhorne
Henry Langley 1. 254, § 3.
John Langsford
John Langston
Thomas Larkham
George Larkbam
Mr. Latham, Kent
Paul Lathum
John Lavender
2. 378
Thomas Lisle
2.
52
2. 258
George Lisle
2. 213
-
- 2. 334
Jerom Littlejohn
3. 169
3.
75
Thomas Lock
1. 280
3. 185
William Lock
2. 320
2. 384
Nicholas Lockyer
1. 102
3. 354
John Loder
1. 97
130
Mr. Loe † Lecturer
1. 80
1. 350
Isaac Loeffs
2, 312
3. 271
William Lloyd
3. 50
1
2.
78
Mr. Lloyd, Yorkshire
3. 463
1. 378
John Lomax
3.
83
2. 329
Dr. George Long
3. 239
2. 378
George Long
2. 211
John Lorkin
Mr. Laughthorne -
3. 462
Mr. Loseby
Mr. Law, Lancashire
2. 353
Mr. Lovel
Mr. Law, Lincolnshire
2. 435
John Lover
1
t
3. 168
2. 211
3. 342
3. 139
Mr. Law, Norfolk
3. (22)
John Lougher
Robert Law
2. 40
William Low
Mr. Law, Yorksh.
3. 471
Mr. Lowe
3. 319
3. 1
2. 289
2. 289
Christopher Lawrence
2. 123
Thomas Lowry
1
1
2. 387
Mr. Lawrence, Devon.
Richard Lawrence
Edward Lawrence 3. 139, 344
2. 98
Mr. Lucas, Essex
3. 15
John Lucas
1
George Lawrence
Mr. Lawson
2. 516
Humphrey Lucas
Mr. Lucks
1
2. 434
Mr. Luddington
Thomas Lawson
Mr. Lax
Mr. Lea, Yorkshire
Thomas Leadbeater
John Leaver
Robert Leaver
Henry Leaver
3.
3
Thomas Ludgutter
2. 222
3.
14
3.
$6
3. 462
3. 462
2. 227
2. 188
John Luff
1. 297
3. 437
Henry Lukin
2.228
2. 388
Edward Lulham
3. 318
2. 358
John Luntley
3. 50S
1
3. 58
John Lydston
1. 355
3: 78
Thomas Lye
1. 84
Robert Lecester
2.265
M.
Samuel Lee
1. 104 Mr. Mabison
1. 281
Peter Lee
Joseph Lee
1. 321 John Machin
1. 343
2. 384
William Maddocks
3. 346
Joseph Lee, Shropshire
Mr. Lee, Lincolnsh.
Tobias Legg
3. 164
John Maidwell
3.
36
2. 414
Samuel Mail
3. 284
3. 265
George Mainwaring
1. 338
William Leigh
Mr. Le Marsh
2. 363
Gabriel Major
3. 134
- 2. 267
Joseph Maisters §
1. 246
Samuel
INDEX.
Samuel Malbon
John Malden
Mr. Malkinson
Thomas Mall
John Mallinson
Samuel Maltby
Robert Malthus §
Thomas Maltus
John Man
Samuel Manning
Daniel Manning
John Manning
William Manning
Mr. Mansell
Nathaniel Mansfield
John Manship
1
Vol. Page
3. 256
3. 149
Vol. Page
Samuel May
1. 195
Mr. Mayhew
3. 285
3. 29
John Maynard
3. 322
2.
32
Mr. Maynard, N. Tauton
2.
77
2. 369
Richard Mayo
3. 304
Thomas Mallery 1. 167. 2. 326
Matthew Mead§
2.461
3. 1
John Meadows
3. 284.
2. 460
Alexander Medcalf
3. 471
3. 310
William Mene
3.
80
2. 195
Mr. Mekal
3. 447
3. 290
Moses Mells
2. 421
1
2. 447
Francis Mence
-
3. 285
Robert Mercer
3.515
3. 256
1
3. 284
3. 345
Thomas Merret, Chosedown 2. (363)
Thomas Micklethwait
3. 462
3. 228
Mr. Milburn, Bedfordsh.
1. 285
3. 304
Luke Milburn
3. 351
Dr. Tho. Manton§ 1.
175. 426
Thomas Miles
3. 235
George Manwaring
1.338
John Miles
3. 500
John Marigold
1. 343
Mr. Mills, Somerset.
3. 226
John Marriot
1. 297
Benjamin Mills
-
2. 124
Mr. Marryot, Hampshire
2. 28+
,
George Mills
3. 336
Samuel Marsden
1. 340
John Mills, Devonshire
2. 52
Jeremiah Marsden
3. 421
Joshua Miller
3. 500
Gamaliel Marsden
3. 436
Mr. Millington
1. 281
Josiah Marsden
3. 475
Mr. Milman
3. 506
Walter Marshal
2. 270
I'm. Milner, Lawford
2. (205)
Christopher Marshal
Dr. William Marshal
-
3. 455
2. 367
John Milward
Adam Marlendale
John Martin
George Martyn
1. 341
Jeremiah Milner
Nathaniel Mitchel
3. 446
-
1, 228
3. 16
2. 287
John Mitchel
2. 132
5. 47
Thomas Mocket
2.303
Tho. Martin, Northamp. § 3.
Thomas Martyn, Plymouth 2.
Samuel Martyn
35
John Mony
3. 17
65
Joseph Moore
1
1. 423
-
2. 66
Simon Moof
3. 417
William Martyn
Richard Martyn
3.316
Richard. Moor
3. 383
3..346
Archibald Moor
3. 82
Mr. Martyn, Dorset
John Massey
2. 175
John Moore, Sussex
3. 336
3. 370
John Moore, Dorset
2. 130
Dr. Increase Mather
Samuel Mather
2. 245
2. 355
Nathaniel Mather
Mr. Mathum, Camb.
Marmaduke Matthews
Edmund Matthews
2. 4
William Moore
John More, Essex
Robert More
Edmund More
Thomas More, Camb.
2. 190
1. 395
1. 276
2.381
1. 267
3. 504
1. 269
3. 50
Thomas More, Dorset.
-
2. 129
Thomas Matthews
3. 392
Richard More
3. 3
Richard Maudesley
John Mauduit
James Maulden
Henry Maurice
1. 401
Martin Moreland
2. 286
2. 1
Owen Magan
3. 505
2. 219
Mr. Morgan, Dorset
2. 175
1
3. 159
Roger Morrice
1. 404
§ John Mawdell
- 2. 331
George Mortimer
1.
40
John
INDEX.
1
Vol. Page.
Vol. Page.
John Mortimer
Charles Morton
Daniel Morton
Richard Morton §
James Morton
2. 71
William Nokes
2. 318
1
1. 347
Robert Norbury
1. 341
1
2.
2
John Norman
3. 169
3. 235
Richard Northam
2. 421
2. 413
Nathaniel Northcross
William Moses
1. 270
John Nosworthy
200
3. 17
2. 42
Ambrose Mostyn
3. 479
John Nott
3. 242
Thomas Mott
3. 289
Mr. Nowel
3. 307
John Mott. Staffordsh.
3. 229
Samuel Nowel
1. 395
John Mott, Warwicksh
3. 341
Thomas Nuttal
3. 286
Mark Mott
2. 190.
3. 296
Philip Nye
1
1. 96
Thomas Mount
2. 232
O.
James Mowbray
3. 106
William Oake
2. 126
George Moxon, Cheshire
George Moxon, Essex
1. 325
John Oakes
2. 188
2. 212
Urian Oakes
1
2. 280
John Murray
3.
67
Henry Oasland
3. 383
William Murrel
2. 252
Joseph Oddy
1. 275
Mr. Murrow
3.
60
Samuel Ogden
1. 412
Lawrence Musgrave
3. 166
Luke Ogle
3. 55
John Musgrave
3. 226
Thomas Ogle
3. 105
Obad. Musson
2. 391
Samuel Oldershaw
1
2. 384
Samuel Muston
2. 389
John Oldfield
1. 395
Francis Muttal, Dorset,
2. 175
John Oldham
3. 368
Mr. Muxon
2. 226
John Oliver, Cornwall
1. 354
N
William Oliver
3. 35
Samuel Nabbs
3. 302
Mr. Oliver, Somerset
3. 203
William Naden
1. 405
John Ollive
3. 336
James Nalton &
1. 142
Edward Ord, (or Ogle) 8.
75
Peter Naylour +
2. 367
Thomas Orford
5. 234
Benjamin Needler
1. 148
John Osborn
3. 119
Edward Negus
Strickland Negus
Christopher Nesse
1. 314
Joseph Osborn
2. 319
3. 29
Peter Osborn
2.
44
3. 441
Robert Ottee
1
3. 255
Rowland Nevet
3. 149
John Overhead
2. 222
Christopher Nevil
3. 121
Mr. Overton
2. 326
Henry Newcome
2. 367
Dr. John Owen 1. 198. § 3. 131
Matthew Newcomen
2. 195
Hugh Owen
3.490
Thomas Newman
3.
5
Thankful Owen 1. 235. 3. 128
Thomas Newnham
2. 284
John Owens
3. 80
Edward Newton
3. 320
Mr. Owesley
2. 45
George Newton
3. 205
John Oxenbridge §.
1. 299
Sampson Newton
3. 245
P.
Samuel Newton
2. 376 Mr. Pachwood
3. 346
John St. Nicholas
Ferdinando Nicholl
1
2. 392
John Page
1
3. 270
2.
36
Jonathan Pain §
2. 313
George Nicholson
1. 389
Mr. Pain, Somerset
3. 195
Mr. Nicolas
2. 458
Thomas Pakeman
2. 457
Charles Nichols
2. 318
Thomas Palk, Devon.
2. 97
Mr. Nicols &
2. 319
Walter Palmer
2. 326
John Noble
3. 450
Thomas Palmer
1. 392
Anthony
INDEX.
Vol. Page
Vol Page
Anthony Palmer
2.
8
William Pindar, Essex§ 2. 229
Anthony Palmer. Gloucest. 2. 231
John Pindar, Nottingh.
3. 92
John Panton
1. 214
John Pindar, Suffolk
3. 295
Robert Park, Lancashire
2. 355
Mr. Pinkney, Berks
1. 295
Robert Park, Sussex
3. 320
John Pinkney
2. 274
James Parker
2. 220
Robert Pinney
3. 181
William Parker
Richard Parr
Edward Parr
John Parr
Andrew Parsons
Thomas Parsons
Henry Parsons
Nathaniel Partridge
Tho. Pasey, Wilts
Edward Paston
3. 175
John Pinney
1
1. 314
Mr. Pittedate
•
2. 68
Nicholas Pitt
-
2. 382
Mr. Pitts, Devon.
•
3. 162
1. 167
William Pixe
1
1
2. 119
3. 3
2. 191
2. 66
3. 335
Mr. Plackstone
3. 471
2. 122
John Player
2. 321
2. 301
Robert Pleasance
2. 181
3. 358
Elias Pledger
1. 92
3. 148
John Plot
3. 304
Matthew Patchet
2. 402
Augustine Plumsted
3. 297
John Paul
3. 177
John Pointer
1. 216
Thomas Paxford
2. 233
Simon Pole
-
2. 263
Mr. Peachy, §
2. 214
Theophilus Polwheil
2. 79.
George Pearce †
3. 186
Mr. Pomroy
Mr. Pearch,
3. 23
Samuel Ponder
•
3. 462
1. 279.
Oliver Peard
2. 110
Matthew Poole +
1. 167
Edward Pearse
William Pearse
Thomas Peck
1. 149
Thomas Pool
3. 243
2.
24
Ferdinando Pool
3. 106
2. 211
리
​John Pope
2. 98
Mr. Pecket
3. 475
Thomas Porter
3. 183
Mr. Peebles
3. 476
Robert Porter
1. 422
William Pell
2. 182
George Porter
1. 217
Matthew Pemberton
2. 13
Gualter Postlethwait
3. 321
John Pen
3. 105
Thomas Powel
2. 35
Henry Pendlebury
2. 366
John Powel, Carmarth.
3. 497
Richard Penwarden
1. 299
John Powel, Glamorg.
3. 503
Richard Pepps
2. 186
John Powel, Essex
2. 223
Edward Perkins
2. 470
Daniel Poyntel
2. 335
Thomas Perkins
3. 133
Dr. John Pratt
1. 280
1. 297
Gabriel Price
•
2. 467
3. 459
Henry Price
I
1. 282 Lewis Price
2. 337
3. 496
Benjamin Perkins
Richard Perrot
Robert Perrot
Mr. Petit
John Petter
Samuel Peyto
Mr. Pew
Mr. Philips
Humphrey Philips
Peregrine Philips
John Phillip
John Phippe
Robert Pickering
Mr. Pinchback
1
1
1
2. 429
Charles Price
3. 496
2. 328
David Price
3. 497
3. 285 Nicholas Prigg
2. 318
3.
5
Edward Prime
3. 449
3. 164 George Primrose
2. 290
2. 153
James Prince
2. 458
3. 506
John Prince, Bromfield
3. (178)
3. 296
John Pringle
3. 67
3. 379
David William Probert
3. 495
3. 423
Mr. Procter
3. 473
1. 179
Walter Prosser
3. 506
Richard
INDEX.
Vol. Page.
Vol. Page.
Richard Proud
Thomas Proud
Rice Pruthero
George Purchas
Robert Purt
3. 290
John Ridge, Sussex
3. 318
3. 500
Mr. Ridwater, Staff.
3. 247
3. 500
Edward Riggs
2. 340
2. 211
Thomas Risley 1. 255. § 3. 131
3. 1
Mr. Roate
2.413
Robert Purt, Gorston
-
3. 5
Jonathan Roberts
3. 478
Thomas Pyke
2. 376
Timothy Roberts
3. 351
Q.
Richard Roberts
3. 301
Thomas Quarrel
3. 150
Mr. Robins
3. 505
1. 355
1
2.
9
Walter Quarum
John Quicke
Wm. Quipp [not ejected] 2. 439
Richard Rand
R.
Mr. Robinson §
Mr. Robinson, Monmouth. 3. 505
2. 220. Mr. Robinson, York. 3. 462 § 474
Alexander Robinson
3. 204
Nathaniel Robinson
2. 279'
3.474
John Rawlinson
3. 304
James Rawson
2. 130
Edward Rawson
2. 329
John Ray
1. 273
Daniel Ray
Mr. Raymond
Joseph Read
John Reeve
2. 213
3.
44
3. 416
Mr. Randal
2. 4
John Robothan
2. 222
§ William Randal
2. 159
Josiah + Rock
3. 105
Matthew Randall
3. 194
William Rock
3. 239
Nathaniel Ranew
2. 199
Mr. Rocket
2. 415
Thomas Rashley
3. 373
Dr. Christopher Rogers 1. 254
John Rastrick [not eject.] 2.
436
John Rogers §
1. 379
William Rathband
-
Nathaniel Ravens
John Ravenshaw
Mr. Rawlins
2: 217
3. 494
1. 335
1. 288.
Hugh Rogers
Edward Rogers
Mr. Rogers, Dean, Hamp. 2. (24)
Mr. Rogers, Monmouthsh. 3. 505
Robert Rogers
John Roll
Samuel Rolls
Onesiphorus Rood
Henry Roose
1
1
1
3. 123
2. 461
2. 327
1. 293
1. 284
1. 195
29
ཉ.
3. 494
2. 254
Mr. Rolles
Mr. Rolt
2. 217
Henry Root §
3, 450
William Reeves
1. 308
Thomas Rose
3.
89
1
1
Thomas Reeves
Richard Resbury
Stephen Revel
George Reves
Edward Reyner
John Reyner, Camb.
John Reyner, Norfolk
3. 145
John Rowel
2. 421 Ellis Rowlands
1. 263
14
3. 14
John Rowlet
Mr. Rowley
3. 310
Thomas Rosewall
3. 375
3. 43
Thomas Rowe
2, 132
1. 352
John Rowe
1. 180
2, 268
3.478
1
3.
4.4
1
Daniel Reyner§
1. 294
Robert Rowswell
3. 302
Job Royse
John Reynolds, Norfolk 3.
14
14
Dr. Gilbert Rule
246
Mr. Rusbitch
William Reynolds
Joshua Richardson
3. 101
Mr. Rutten
3. 149
Thomas Rutty
John Ryther
369
S.
William Reyner
John Reynolds, Staffordsh. 3.
Dr. Edward Richardson 3. 445
Mr. Richardson, Manches. 2.
Christopher Richardson 3. 439
John Richardson
2. 430
Dudley Rider
3. 339
John Ridge
2. 265
VOL. IIL. NO. XXXI.
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Timothy Sacheverel
Philologus Sacheverel
John Sacheverel
John Sadler
3. 145
3. 367
1. 196
3.
52
1
3. 164
1. 149
3. 368
3. 416. 463
<
2. 157
2. 199
3. 222
1. 269
Richard
INDEX.
Richard Sadler
Thomas Safford
Charles Sager
John Salaway §
James Sales
John Salkeld
1
Vol. Page
3. 148 Mr. Sheffield, Norfolk
Vol. Page
3. 5
3. 168
Wm. Sheffield, Leicest.2.389,474
1. 424
John Sheldreck
1. 323
2. 164
William Sheldreck
3. 13
3. 440
Thomas Shelmerdine
1. 417
3. 295
Daniel Shelmerdine
1. 392
John Samms
2. 191
Francis Shelmodine
1. 340
2.
-
1
2. 214
Dr. Henry Sampson
Mr. Sampson, Dorset §
John Sanders, Lincolnsh. 2. 413
John Sanders, Suffolk - 3. 258
Mr. Sandford, Lancash. 2. 364
Mr. Sandford, Essex
Mr. Sandford, Midd.
Gabriel Sangar
Humphrey Saunders
John Saunders
Richard Saunders
Thomas Sare
Giles Say
Mr. Sayer
John Saxton &
2. (461)
Mr. Shemhold
William Shepherd
Mr. Shepherd, Norfolk.
Robert Sherborn
Edward Sherman
Nicolas Sherwill
William Sherwin
1. 270
3. 471
119
+
1. 285
3.
5
3. 427
3. 289
2. 109
2. 302
1. 157
2. 40
Joseph Sherwood
Thomas Shewel
1
1. 350
2. 329
1. 303
Mr. Shewell, Woldham
2. 338
2. 45
Mr. Shilton
3. 353
2. 253
Israel Shipdam
-
3. S
2. 279
Mr. Shirley, Bucks
1. 299
1. 228
Ames Short
2. 136
1. 377
John Shuttlewood 2. 395. 477
Stephen Scanderet
3. 263
Mr. Simmons, London
1. 198
Jeremy Scoales
1. 417
John Simmonds
3. 332
W. Scoffin (not ejected)
2. 438
William Simms
2. 391
Jonathan Scolfield
2. 361
Mr. Simms, Monmouth
3. 506
George Scortwreth
2. 427
Mr. Simms, Wilts
3. 382
Christopher Scott
2. 222
Mr. Simons, † Suffolk
3. 290
Mr. Scott, Huntingd.
2. 317
Mr. Sinclere
3. 471.
Mr. Scudamore
3. 300
John Singleton
1. 218
Leonard Scurr
3. 424
Mr. Singleton, Kent - 2. 335
George Seal
3. 505
Daniel Škingle §
2. 305
Dr. Lazarus Seaman
1. 80
John Skinner
2. 298
Henry Searl
3. 29
§ Samuel Slater, sen.
1. 137
John Seaton, Northamp. 3.
46
Samuel Slater, jun.
3. 257
John Seaton, Northumb. 3.
67
Samuel Slater, Cheshire
1. 337
Robert Seddon
1. 411
Anthony Sleigh
1. 390
William Sedgwick
William Segary
Thomas Senior
Richard Serjeant
John Serle
Thomas Seyliard
Samuel Seyliard
Mr. Sharp, Kent
Thomas Sharp
Samuel Shaw
1
「 :
I
Robert Smith
3.438
2. 198
2.378
2. 367
3. 220
3. 256
2. 404
Jonathan Smith
2. 251
Mr. Shaw, Barnet
2. 303
Joshua Smith
3. 438
Mr. Shaw, Warsboro'
3. 455
Zephaniah Smith
3. 298
John Shawe, Hull
3. 465
Zachariah Smith 1
3. 319
John Sheffield, Iondon
1. 191
John Smith, Lancashire 2. 367
Edward Sheffield
GAD
1. 351
John Smith, Berks
- 1. 287
John
1. 314
1. 221
1. 276
3. 414
2. 66
2. 325
2. 32
2. 328
3. 420
Robert Smalley
George Smith
Nicholas Smith
Timothy Smith
Richard Smith
James Small
2. 227
3. 98
Mr. Smallwood, Berks
1. 287
Thomas Smallwood
1
INDEX.
Vol. Page
John Smith, Essex
John Smith, Norfolk
2: 203
Samuel Stancliff
Vol. Page
2. 467
3. 3
William Standine
3. 337
John Smith, Leicestersh.
§ Samuel Smith
2. 402
Nathaniel Staniford
3. 122
2. 387
Jonathan Staniforth
#
1. 392
Samuel Smith, Shropsh.
Samuel Smith, Essex
3. 144
Timothy Staniforth
1. 392
-
2. 214
William Staninough
3. 337
Sam. Smith, Lond. 1. 175, 2.
Tho. Smith, Licestersh.
Thomas Smith, Glouces.
190
Thomas Stanley
1. 404
2. 386
Edmund Staunton 1. 221, 3. 127
2. 245
Henry Staples
3. 333
William Smith, Leicester. 2. 395
William Smith, Oxfordsh. 3. 125
Mr. Smith, Cheshire
John Starke
3. 290
Mr. Starkey
2. 418
1. 326
Comfort Starr
1. 378
Mr. Smith, Warwicksh.
3. 353
Mr. Statham
2. 410
Mr. Smith, Surry
3. 309
Samuel Statham
1. 128
Thomas Snead
3. 226
Rowland Stedman
1. 294
Christopher Snell
3. 319
Mr. Steed, + Kent
2. 329
Robert Snow
2. 52
Richard Steel
3. 482
Benjamin Snowdon
3. 12
Philip Stephens 1. 236, 3:129
Edward Sond
3. 337
Anthony Stephens
3. 122
Francis Soreton
2.
41
Henry Stephens.
3. 282
Joseph Sound
3. 243
Nathaniel Stephens
2. 385
Compton South
3. 356
John Stephens
2. 55
Mr. Southwell
3. 351
James Stephenson
3. 196
Richard Southwell
3. 229
John † Stern
1. 198
Benjamin Southwood
2. 391
John Stern, Wilts
3. 358
Thomas Spademan
2. 412
Anthony Stevenson
3. 471
J. Spademan [not ejected]
2. 436
William Stidson
2.
51
William Sparrow
2. 201
Samuel Stileman
3. 303
Mr. Sparrowhawk
2. 211
Owen Stockton
2. 191
Ambrose Sparry
3. 410
Samuel Stoddon
3. 178
Mr. Spatcher
3. 262
Mr. Stone
3. 164
John Spawford
3. 450
John Stone
3. 319
William Speed
3. 315
Benjamin Stoneham
3. 271
Robert Speere
1. 236
John Stonestreet
3. 322
Mr. Spencer, Kent
2. 33+
John Storer
3. 289
John Spilsbury
3. 387
Mr. Story
3. 309
Mr. Spinage
1. 198
William Stoughton -
1. 254
William Spinnage
3. 371
Stephen Street
2. 340. 3. 315
+ Edmund Spinks
2. 317
Ralph Strethili
1. 137
Ralph Sprake
2. 98
Richard Stretton
1
3. 326
Samuel Spring
3. 261
John Strickland
-
Samuel Sprint
2. 282
Mr. Strong
4
John Sprint §
2.
148, 473
John Stroughier
3. 372
3. 52
3. 284
Mr. Sprint, Hampstead
2. 456
Henry Stubbs
2. 239
Mr. Sprint, Oxon.
1. 249
Lewis Stuckley
2. 31
Mr. Spurdane
3. 266
William Stuke
2.
41
Dr. William Spurstowe
2. 448
Charles Sumpter
3.
1
Mr. Squire
2. 182
Paul Sutton
1.308
Mr. Stables
Mr. Stafford
John Stalham
3. 428
1
1. 221
+ Joseph Swaffield -
William Swaine
2.
220
Mr. Swaine, Radnorsh.
202
2. 368
3.352
3. 510
John
INDEX.
John Swan
Mr. Swayne, Suffolk
Joseph Swetnam
Thomas Swetnam
1
Vol. Page
2. 329 W. Thomas, Carmarth
Zachariah Thomas
Vol. Page
3. 500
3. 266
3. 162
1. 403
Robert Thomas
3. 505
1. 424
Howel Thomas
3. 500
Richard Swift
2. 445
Morgan Thomas
3. 509
Henry Swift, Yorkshire
3. 443
Timothy Thomas
3. 149
George Swinho
1. 308
Titus Thomas
3. 139
George Swinnock
1. 303
Roderick Thomas
3. 497
Richard Swynfen
3. 236
George Thomasson
2. 364
Matthew Sylvester.
2. 419
John Thompson, Oxford 1. 219
John Syms
Edward Symmes
Richard Symmonds
Henry Symons
Martyn Sympson
§ Thomas Sympson
Thomas Tailor
2.
22
1
2. 189
John Thompson, Northum. 3. 60
Matthew Thompson
-
3. 86
2. 280
Joseph Thompson
2. 377
2. 335
Robert Thompson
2. 195
2. 219
George Thorn §
2. 161
-
2. 470
John Thornton
1. 285
T.
Andrew Thornton
2. 429
1. 386 Nicolas Thoroughgood 2. 340
James Talbot
2. 351
Edmund Thorp
3. 331
Francis Tallents
3. 153
Richard Thorpe
3. 27
Samuel Tapper
1. 356
Thomas Thorp
3. 332
Thomas Tarry
3.
45
Richard Thorp
3. 438
Robert Tatnall
1. 136
Samuel Tickner
-
3. 338
Philip Taverner
2.
458. 478
William Taylor, Berks 1. 293
William Taylor, Devons. 2. 213
Mr. Taylor, Hampshire 2. 258
Mr. Taylor, Northum. 3. 62
Mr. Taylor, Lancashire 2. 378
Thomas Taylor, Suffolk 3. 257
Thomas Taylor, Wiltsh. 3. $58
Samuel Taylor
Zachariah Taylor
3. 146
2. 377
Edmund Taylor, Essex 2. 229
Edmund Taylor, Middlesex 2.
Tobias Tidcomb
Mr. Tilden, Kent
John Tilsley +
John Tincomb
Theophilus Tincomb -
Nathaniel Tincomb
Robert Todd
Cornelius Todd
John Tombes
William Tombes
1
3. 186
2. 329
2. 359
1. 371
1. 376
1. 354
3. 439
3. 424
2. 293
1. 371
Mr. Tombes, Wilts
3. 381
458
Samuel Tomlyns
2. 263
Robert Taylor
2. 297
John Torner
3. 185
Francis Taylour
2. 323
Mr. Toogood, Staffordsh. 3. 229
Michael Taylor, Deton
2.
69
Matthew Towgood
-
3. 374
Richard Taylor
3. 442
Job Tookey
3. 20
Richard Taylor, IVales
3. 478
Robert Torey
1. 157
Faithful Teate
2. 287
Robert Town, Lancashire 2. 348
Marmaduke Tenant
2. 313
Robert Town, Yorkshire 3. 438
Edward Terry
James Terry
Mr. Thelwell
Mr. Thomas, London
2. 447
Henry Townley
1. 315
I
2. 275
Sampson Townsend
3. 13
3. 455
Thomas Travers
1. 349
1. 198
William Tray
2. 252
Mr. Thomas Yorksh
3. 471
John Tredcroft
3. 319
Edward Thomas &
2. 188
Thomas Tregoss
1. 361
William Thomas, Ubleigh 3.
212
William Treis
1. 355
William Thomas, Bristol 3. 177
W. Thomas, Glamorg. 3. 503
Edmund Trench
2. 449
Caleb Trenchfield
3. 300
Thomas
INDEX.
Vol Page
W
Thomas Trescot
William Trevithwick
2. 68
2. 55
Thomas Waddington
Mark Tricket
2. 417
Thomas Wadsworth
-
Vol. Page
2. 381
1. 138
William Trigg
1. 368
Mr. Wait, Yorksh.
3. 473
Andrew Tristram
3.
143
George Trosse
2. 100
Joseph Waite, §
Nicholas Wakely
3. 287
2.
79
Mr. Trottle, Spetsbury
2. (157)
John Wakely
3. 196
John Troughton: 1. 235§
3. 128
Mr. Wakely, Whitton
3. (85)
William Troughton §
-
3. 373
Humphrey Waldron
3. 229
Joseph Trueman
Elkanah Wales
3. 92
3. 444
William Walker
Thomas Trurant
3. 79
2. 371
Thomas Walker
Edmund Tucker
3. 248
2. 22
Daniel Wall
Mr. Tucker, Dorset
3. 266
2. 132
Anthony Tuckney
1. 264
Mr. Wall, Worcest.
3. 387
Jonathan Tuckney
1. 266
William Wallace
1
3. 317
Mr. Tuke
3. 106
James Waller
3. 270
John Wallis
John Turner
2. 470
3. 354
Mr. Turner, Nottingh.
Thomas Walrond
3. 99
2.
98
Richard Turner
3. 329
Henry Walter
3. 506
Tho. Turner, Cumb.
William Turton
John Tutchin
Robert Tutchin
Robert Tutchin, jun.
Samuel Tutchin
William Tutty
1. 389
Mr. Walton, Westham
2. 223
3. 239
James Walton
2. 363
t
1. 349
Mr. Walton, Yorkshire
3. 470
Nathanael Ward
•
2. 275
2. 219
4
2. 262
Mr. Ward, Suffolk
3. 284
1
2. 276
Dr. Ward
3. 122
1
2. 314
Ralph Ward
3. 67
Noah Ward
3. 471
John Ward, Worcest.
3. 392
V
Mr. Ward, Herts
2. 203
Thomas Valentine
1. 297
Francis Warham
1
2. 458
Tho. Vaughan, Kent
2. 335
John Warner
2. 263
Henry Vaughan
2. 417
Edward Warr
3. 182
Edward Veal
1. 210
Matthew Warren §
3. 186
Ralph Venning
1. 174
John Warren, Essex
2. 201
Thomas Ventress
2. 321
John Warren, Hampshire
2. 278
Richard Vin
3.
3
Thomas Warren
2. 268
Thomas Vincent
1. 155
John Warren, Thorley §
2. 313
Nathaniel Vincent &
1. 304
Mr. Warren, Roydon
2. (285)
William Vincent
1. 349
Edmund + Warren.
2. 195
Peter Vinke
1. 165
Mr. Waters, Essex
Mr. Vintress
3. 28
Jonas Waterhouse
1
2. 203
3. 426
Mr. Voice, Suffolk
3. 288
Thomas Waterhouse
3. 248
William Voyle
2. 289
Stephen Watkins
1. 182
Thomas Voisey
1. 295
Mr. Watts, London
1. 198
James Votier
3. 266
Mr. Watts, Cheshire
1. 343
William Vowsden
3. 330
Henry Watts
2. 401
John Watts
3. 368
U
Thomas Watson &
1. 18$
Mr. Watson, Essex
2. 217
Thomas Underwood
1. 92
Robert Watson
3. 1
Willam Upcot
1. 349
Richard Wavel
1. 211
Mr. Upjohn
2. 277
Benjamin Way
2. 186
Tho. Upton, Trin. Ch. 1. (231)
Mr. Way, jun. Dorset §
2. 176
John
INDEX.
John Weaver
Humphrey Weaver
Noah Webb
Robert Webb
Nathaniel Webb
Bartholomew Webb
Robert Webber
John Weekes
Henry Welch
1
1
Vol. Page
Vol. Page
3. 509 John Whitlock
3. 100
2. 264
George Whitmarsh
2. 277
2. 284
Joshua Whitton
3. 452
2. 264
John Whitwick
1. 236
3. 381
Mr. Wickham
3. 307
3. 369
Ralph Wickcliff
3. 80
2. 334
Mr. Wigan
2. 369
2.
120
William Wickins
1. 90
2.
358
Mr. Wilcox
1. 389
Samuel Weld
3. 256
Dr. Robert Wilde
2.
26
Thomas Weld
2. 181
Mr. Wildbore
1. 262
Thomas Wellman
2. 48
48
John Wilkins
2. 13
Mr. Wells
2. 203
Hen. Wilkinson 1. 241, § 3. 130
Samuel Wells
3. 120
Dr. Henry Wilkinson, jun. 241
John Welles, Tewksbury
2. 254
John Wilkinson
3. 284
John Wells, London
1. 171
Henry Willes
3. 41
Dr. Walter Wells
2. 222
James Willet
2. 190
Martin Wells
2. 287
Peter Williams
3. 458
John Wenbourn
3. 285
Henry Williams, Glamorg.3. 503
Edward West
1. 296
Henry Williams, Montg. 3. 494
Willoughby West
1. 280
Mr. Williams, Devon.
2. 66
Bartholomew Westley
2. 115
Mr. Williams, Moum.
3. 505
John Westley
2. 164
John Williams
3. 477
Mr. Westloc
3. 169
Dr. Daniel Williams
-
3. 518
William Westmacot
3. 391
Mr. Williamson
2. 184
Mr. Weston, Leicestersh. 2.
392
Thomas Willis
2. 470, 478
Mr. Weston, Lincolnsh,
2. 433
Thomas Willis, Somerset. 3. 194
Thomas Whalley
1. 149
Mr. Willis, jun.
3. 226
Thomas Whatley
3. 350
John Willis, Sussex
3. 336
Mr. Whearam
3. 474
John Willis, Essex
2. 203
Jeremy Wheat
Mr. Wheeler, Camb.
t
1. 424
Mr. Willows
1. 285
1. 262
Jonathan Wills
1. 354
Mr. Wheeler, Bedfordsh. 1. 282
Mr. Wills, Northamp. § 3.
3. 35
Francis Whiddon
2. 91
Obadiah Wills
3. 356
Edmund Whincop
3. 282
Samuel Wills
3. 339
Edward Whiston
2. 205
Samuel Wilmer
3. 317
Joseph Whiston
2. 331
Thomas Wilmer
3. 324
William Whitaker 1. 157, § 431
Nathaniel Wilmot
2. 326
Robert Whitaker
1. 270
Thomas Wilsby
3. 246
Thomas White
1. 106
Robert Wilson, Camb.
1. 316
Alexander White
3.
55
Thomas Wilson §
2.182
}
Jeremiah White
-
1. 211
Joseph Wilson
3. 461
John White §
2. 145
William Wilson
3. 311
Mr. White, Lancashire
3. 369
John Wilson, Cheshire
1. 325
Mr. White, Lincolnsh.
2. 429
John Wilson, Bucks
1. 303
Nathaniel White
3. 365
John Whitbourn
3. 186
Thomas Whitehead
2. 359
Otho Whitehorn
1. 368
Richard Whitehurst
Richard Whiteway
Mr. Waiting, Suffolk
Nathaniel Whiting
-
3. 442
1. 228
3. 298
Jolin Wilson, Hertfordsh. 2. 308
John Wilson, Leicestersh. 2. 386
George Wilson, Yorksh. 3. 463
George Wilson, Wilts 3. 364
Mr. Wilson, Staffordsh. 3. 239
Mr. Wilson, Peterboro. 3. 524
Mr. Wilson,
Mr. Wilson, Yorkshire
-
3. 456
Mr. Wilson, Warwicksh. 3. 353
. 3.
24
4
Mr.
INDEX.
Mr. Windress, Camb.
Vol. Page
4. 267
Mr. Wootton
Mr. Worth
Mr. Windress, Norwich 3. 12
Wm. Wingfield
Samuel Winney
Laurence Wise
Samuel Winter
Peter Witham
Mr. Wood, Gloucest. §
Seth Wood
Timothy Wood
1
1
1
1
2. 340
3. 194
2. 325
2. 231
Richard Worts
Thomas Worts
Mr. Wotton
Christopher Wragge
Nicholas Wressel
•
1
3. 134
John Wowen
}
1
1. 136
1
Vol. Page-
2. 298
3.
41
3. .3
3. 2
3. 226
3. 418
2. 186
3. 58
1. 144
Abraham Wright
1. 312
3. 446
Samuel Wright
1. 410
Cornelius Wood §
3. 413
John Wright, Lancash.
2. 353
Robert Wood §
1. 236
John Wright, Leicestersh. 2. 336
J. Wood, St. John's Cam.
1. 267
James Wright
3. 351
John Wood, Mag. Col.
1. 270
James Wright, Edal
3. 317
John Wood, Essex
2. 213
Mr. Wright, Surrey
3. 300
John Wood, Sussex
3. 323
George Wright.
1
2. 384
Frederick Woodall §
3. 295
Thomas Wright
1
3. 148
Benja in Woodbridge
1. 289
Dositheus Wyar
1
3. 360
John Woodbridge §
1. 292
James Wyar
1
3.
111
Thomas Woodcock
1. 91
Josiah Wyat
1
3. 204
John Woodhouse
Matthew Woodman
§ Thomas Woodruff
James Woods, sen.
James Woods, jun.
3. 107
Robert + Wyne
3. 332
-
2. 324
2. 352
Richard Wyne §
2.
2. 125
77
Y
2.358
John Woodst
3. 284
John Yardley
Enoch Woodward
3. 13
John Yates
2. 195
2. 258
Mr. Woodward, Suffolk
3. 287
Joseph Yates
Mr. l'oodward, Worcest. 2.
546
Robert Yates
1
t
Wm. Woodward 1. 221. 2. 298
William Yates
1. 198
2. 380
2. 303
Joseph Woodward
2. 234
Mr. Yawe. London
1. 198
Thomas Woodward
2. 226
John Yaxley §
2. 390, 474
Robert Woolcomb
Mr. Woolrich
Richard Woolley
Giles Woolley
James Woolsley
2. 52
1
3. 232
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}
3. 413
Bartholomew Yeo
Richard York
3. 414 Mr. Young, Ware
2.
45
Samuel Young
William Yeo
I
1
2. 49
2. 51
3. 240
2. 314
2. 99
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