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 CONTINUATION 
 
 
 
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 ACCOUNT 
 
 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 
 
 Minifters, Lecturers, Matters and 
 Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmafters, 
 who were Ejetied and Silenced after 
 . the Reftoration in 1660, by or before 
 the 
 
 
 
 Ad for Uniformity, 
 
 
 
 To which is added, 
 
 
 
 The Church and JDifTenters compared as 
 to Perfecution, id feme Remarks on Dr. 
 Walker's Attempt to recover the Names and Suf- 
 ferings of the Cltrgy that -were fequcft 'red ' 3 &c. 
 between 1640 and 1660. 
 
 
 
 And alfo 
 
 Some Free Remarks on the Twenty-eighth Chapter 
 of Dr. Bemiet's Efjj on the 39 Articles of Religion. 
 
 
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 ROM Fenny Drayton : Mr. NA- 
 THANAEL STEPHEN 5^ M. v^ 
 Add ; In his younger Days, he 
 was a very hard and clofe Student j often fpend- 
 ing fixteen Hours a Day in his Study : And his 
 Thoughts would be fometimes fo clofe and intent, 
 that he would ftrangely forget bimfelf. In his 
 old-Age, he was pleafant and chearful. One 
 that was then well acquainted with him, has gi- 
 ven me this Inftance of it among others ; that 
 when he came with his Friend, and knock'd at his 
 VOL. II. A a Door ;
 
 578 The Ejetted or Silenced Mimfters, 8rc. 
 
 Door, at Stoke near H/w^/e;, he call'd to them to 
 come in, and ask'd them, wheiher of the two, the 
 Blind or the Lame, he would have had open the 
 Door for them ? He being at that Time lame, and 
 not able to rife out of his Chair without Help ; 
 and his Wife blind j and none of the Family near 
 at hand. 
 
 Though he was a Man of a generous Catholick 
 Spirit, yet he had a great Averfion to *that Cere- 
 monioufnefs,, which was carried fo high by fome, 
 in the Reign of King Charles I. He would often 
 tell a Story of what happen'd in the Weft, where 
 he was', born, when he was young. A Clergy- 
 man coming into the Church, went up to the 
 Chancel to bow to the Altar. It fo happen'd, thac 
 there was no Altar there, but the Communion-Ta- 
 ble ftood againft the Eaft-Wall, and a Boy fate up- 
 on it. The Boy feeing the Prieft coming towards 
 him, flipt down, and ftood before the Table, upon 
 his Feet. At length the Prieft made a low Bow, 
 and the poor Boy thinking it was to him that the 
 Refpedt was paid, bow'd as low to him again j and 
 the Bows were repeated three times on each Side ; 
 the Boy being a little furpriz'd at the Prieft's won- 
 derful Civility. In this Cafe (he faid) the Boy 
 knew well enough who it was he bow'd to : But 
 whether or no it was fo as to the Prieft, is queftio- 
 nable. For the GOD whom Chriftians worfiiip, is 
 no;more in the Eaft, than in the Weft; no more in 
 the Chancel than in the Church ; nor no more 
 there, than in the Houfe or Field, unlefs when his 
 People are there worshipping him, in Spirit and in 
 Truth at which Times he is with them by his SPI- 
 RIT and Grace. Before the Coming of C H R i s T, 
 it was the Duty of the Jew in the Weftern Parts, 
 to worfhip towards the Eaft, becaufe Jerufalem and 
 the Temple ftood that Way, i flings viii. 48. Dan. 
 vl. 10. And this might be the Reafon why fome 
 Chriftians in the Primitive Times took up the Fa- 
 flilon of Praying towards the Eaft. They judaiz'd 
 in that, as well as in fome other Things. But now 
 Mount Slon is no more holy than Mount Gcri^im, 
 er the Mountains in Wales. Happy were it for the 
 
 World
 
 in the County of LEICESTER. 579 
 
 World if John iv. 20, to 24, were generally un- 
 derftood. 
 
 His Trearifes on the Revelation, I am informed 
 were after his Death in rhe Hand of Sir Charles 
 Woolfley. And Mr. Caldwell of Cambridge/hire, had 
 his Leave to copy out one of them, which was on 
 the Slaughter of the Witnefles, Rev. n. Of this 
 I fhafl give the Reader a fhort Account in Mr. 
 Caldvoefs own Words. 
 
 " It appears by his printed Book on Rev. xiii. 
 " 17, 1 8, that he reckoned the Roman Kingdom, 
 " fet forth by the Legs of Iron, and the Toes of 
 " Iron and Clay, Dan. ii. 33, 40, to 43, to begin 
 " fixty Years before the Birth of C H R i s T, when 
 " Pcmfey took Jerufafem and brought rhe Jevos the 
 " People of GOD under the Romans. From thence 
 " to A. D. 606 when Pbocas the Emperor made the 
 " Bifhop of Rome univerfal Bifnop, are fix hundred 
 " fixty. fix Years, which is the Number of the Name 
 " of the Beaft, . e. of his Authority and Power ; 
 " his univerfal Headfhip or Supremacy, when he 
 " began to be the Image of the C<efars, to reign 
 " over many Nations, and uphold Idolatry and Su- 
 " perftition as they had done. 
 
 *' But he did not make the one thoufand two 
 *' hundred and fixty Days or Years of the Witnef. 
 *' fes, Chap. xi. 3, and of the Woman in the Wil- 
 " dernefs, Chap. xii. 6, which is the fame Time 
 '* with the forty-two Months of the firit Beaft, 
 " Chap. xiii. 5, to begin at the Year 606, but at 
 " the Year 460, when the Empire was divided in- 
 " to ren Kingdoms. 
 
 " The two Witnefles, Chap. xi. 3. he thought to 
 " be the fame with the Remnant of the Woman's 
 " Seed, which keep the Commandments of GOD,' 
 " and have the Teftimony, udtf velar of JESUS 
 " CHRIST, Chap xii. 17, whom the Dragon went 
 '* to make War with, and fet up the Beaft as his 
 " Vicegerent to do it, Chap. xiii. i, a. 
 
 ' This Re-nnant of the Woman's Seed is call'd 
 
 ' fo with Refpe to a former Seed, the Primitive 
 
 " Martyrs, who overcame the Dragon and brought 
 
 A 3
 
 580 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, Sic. 
 
 " down Heathenifm by their patient Sufferings for 
 " the Truth, by the Blood of the Lamb, and by 
 " the Word of their Teftimony luSflveietf -, and they 
 " loved not their Lives unto the Death, Chap. xii. 
 
 " ii. 
 
 " So that C H R i s T'S two Wirneffes are all the 
 " Martyrs put to Death by the Beaft. CHRIST 
 " gives Power, or his Spirit to them, Chap. xi. 3. 
 " So that they being his Elect, do not worfhip the 
 " Beaft, as all that dwell on the Earth do, whofe 
 " Names are not written in the Lamb's Book of 
 " Life, Chap. xiii. 8 : But they prophefy, *. e. teftify 
 " by their ProfciTion and Practice, againft Antichri- 
 " ftian Idolatry and Superftition. This they do 
 " in a mournful manner, cloathed in Sackcloth, 
 " mourning for the Iniquities of the Times, for 
 " 1260 Years. 
 
 " They are compar'd to Haggai and ^ecbariah, 
 " Chap. xi. 4, by whofe Meair, the Temple was re- 
 " built after the Captivity of Babylon ; And to Eli- 
 " jnh and Eli/ha, and to Mofes and Aaron, becaufe 
 " of the Judgments which GOD from Time to 
 " Time would fend upon their Enemies and Perfe- 
 " Cucors, ver. 5, 6. 
 
 " But he did not think that the Slaughter of the 
 " Witnefles fpoken of, ver. 7, was to be after the 
 " End of the 1160 Years of their Prophefying : For 
 *' then the Beaft (hall be cleftroy'd ; nor in the laft 
 " three Years and half of them : But that it hath 
 " been, is, and will be, in all that Time, in one 
 " Place or other. For CHRIST would ftill raife 
 " up fuch, as fhould bear Wirnefs to his Truth ; 
 " and the Beaft would ftill perfecute and at laft 
 " kill them, when each of them in their feveral 
 " Times and Ages fhall have finilh'd his Tefti- 
 " mony. 
 
 *' And their dead Bodies (hould lie in the Street 
 ;< of the great City, which for its Cruelty to the 
 ' People of Gor> may be compar'd to Sodom and 
 " Egypt, and Jerufalem, in the worft Times of that 
 ' City, ver. 8. i.-e. this Slaughter of the Witnefles 
 ' fhouid be publick, in the feveial Countries under 
 " fyme. 
 
 " And
 
 in the County of LEICESTER. 581 
 
 " And the greateft Part of the People being car- 
 " nal and Idolaters, fhall rejoice in the Death of 
 " C H R i s T'S Witnefles, and not counr them wor- 
 "' thy of Chriftiar. Burial, nor of any Burial, becaufe 
 " they efteem them to be Hereticks, v. 9, 10. 
 
 " But then, ver. n, n ; afier the three Days and 
 " an half, i. e. the Time, and Times, and half 
 " Time, which is all one with rhe forty-two Months 
 " or one thoufand two hundred and (my Days or 
 " Years, (for in three Years and a half, reckoning 
 " thirty Days to the Month, there are forty-two 
 " Months or one thoufand two hundred and fixty 
 " Days) the Witneffes fliall be no more flain fo as 
 " they have been ; this is their rifing again, when 
 " their Caufe, which they fuffefd for fliall be fet up 
 " withMajefty in the Earth: And this is their afcend- 
 " ing into Heaven. 
 
 " At that Time there fliall be a great Earth- 
 " quake ; i. e. a Change of the State of Kingdoms, 
 " ver. 13, and tyme fliall fall in fome ccnfiderable 
 " Part of the Jurildidion which once flie had with- 
 '* in the Territories of the ten Kings, and a great 
 " Multitude of Men fliall perifli, and others fliall 
 " be converted. 
 
 Pag. 411. Loughborougb : Mr. OLIVER BRUM- 
 SKILI. Add ; He was a judicious folid Divine, 
 and excellent Preacher, and holy Liver. He liv'd 
 with that eminent Saint, the old Lady Bromley, Wi- 
 dow to Judge Bromley. His Deportment was grave 
 and ferious, his Temper mild, humble and peacea- 
 ble ; but he was a little refervM. This Living is 
 reckon'd worth 300 / per An. 
 
 ibid. Narborcugh: Mr. MATTHEW CLARKE, "M.A. 
 He was a younger Brother of a genteel Family. Born 
 about the Year 1630, in the County of Salop, in which 
 County his Father was a Minifter near Ludlow. I 
 have been alfo inform'd that his Grandfather was a 
 Minifter, and benefic'd in Cambridge/hire, not far 
 from Ely. 
 
 He was educated firft in Chartcr-houfe School in 
 
 London, and afterwards under Dr, Busby at Weft. 
 
 A 4 tninfter,
 
 582 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, Sec- 
 
 minftcr, and went from rhence to Trinity-College in 
 Cambridge, where Dr. Hill his Uncle that took care 
 of him, was the Mafter; and Dr.Tcmpler was his 
 Tutor. While he was in the College he aflociated 
 with feveral, who were remarkable for Religion, 
 and us'd to fpend Time together in fuch Exercifes 
 as were proper to further them in the principal 
 Part of their Preparation for that Work which they 
 mainly defign'd. He was an indefatigable Student 
 both before and after he was Fellow of his Col- 
 lege, and no'ed for one that was a good Gramma, 
 rian, well vers'd in the Claflicks, and eminent for 
 the Oriental Learning : But ever remarkable for his 
 Modefty. He was Moderator of his Year in the 
 Sophifters Schools, and came off with Credit. 
 
 He went into North Britain, as Chaplain to Co?. 
 Hacker's Regiment ; and afterwards wared upon 
 General Mcw/^, as he pals'd through Leicefter, in his 
 March from the North to London ; bur co<;id make 
 nothing of him, or at all judge of his Inren'lons. 
 
 He was prefented to the Living of Narhorough} 
 reckon'd worth above iao I -per An, by Mr. Stratford 
 the Patron. He came to it in 1657, and fo enjoy- 
 ed it about four or fi\e Years, being ejedted in 
 1662. He had a Comperitor for the Living, but 
 carried it from him. And it fo fell out that this 
 his Competitor, was arerv. ards his Succeflbr in the 
 Living : For he chang'd with the Times, and as 
 I am credibly informed, died mi'erably. Upon this 
 Occafion he appeared before the Triers Mr. George 
 Griffyth being in the ChaV. Mr. St atford rhe Pa- 
 tron much prefs'd Mr. Clarke to Conformity upon the 
 Reftoration: But he COL. u not by any Means bring 
 hi, Conscience to a Compliance with what the Law 
 requir'd in order to it. 
 
 Dr. iValkcr, Att, Part II. p. 203, mentions one 
 Mr. "Bendy as the Sequeftred Minifter of Karborough, 
 and fays that he was a very worthy Perlon j and 
 tha: he liv'd to be reftcr'd. 
 
 Mr. Clarkf had an Eftare of 50 / a Year in Shrop- 
 fhire, which he gave to his Sifter, never intending 
 to marry ; thourh' he afterwards faw Occafion to 
 <ha;:gc his Mind. He was no fconer married,
 
 in the Count} of LEICESTER. 583 
 
 than he gave Notice of it to his College, having no 
 Defire to defraud them of thofe Profits which were 
 no longer due to him : And they on the other Side 
 dealt as honourably by him, and voluntarily made 
 a Return to him, of lome considerable Arrears, which 
 he was fo far from expedling, that he did not know 
 that they were due. 
 
 After his Ejectment he continued preaching up and 
 down in Letccfterfhire and the neighbouring Parts, 
 readily embracing all Opportunities of Service that 
 ofter'd ; and tho' there were fome furious Juftices of 
 the Peace about the Country, that watch'd him 
 narrowly, yet he had the Happinefs for fome time 
 to efcape them : But at length it came to his Turn 
 as well as others to fuffcr for Nonconformity, and 
 I am informed he was three times imprifon'd in 
 Leicefter Jail, for the Crime of Preaching* 
 
 He liv'd at firft after his being filenc'd, in a very 
 lonefome Houfe in Leicefter Foreft ; but was driven 
 from thence by the Five Mile Aft, and went to Stol(e 
 Golding, where he had the agreeable Company of 
 Mr. Stephens, Mr. Sbuttlewood, and Mr. Souibwel in 
 his Neighbourhood. From thence he was invited to 
 Harborougb, where he fettled a Meeting about the 
 Year 1673, and had a large Congregation. At the 
 latter End of King Charles's Reign, he was excom- 
 municated, and profecuted upon the A6V. for 20 / a. 
 Month, and his Goods were feiz'd. When K. 3*mef 
 gave Liberty to the DifTenters, he (as well as others) 
 was much rrefs'd to fue for a Reparation of Da- 
 mages, and had a fair Profpect of fucceeding ; but 
 he forbore, for fear lead fuch an Attempt, (as 
 Circumftances then ftood) might do more Hurt 
 than Good. 
 
 H's Judgment was Congregational : But nothing 
 of Party could alienate his Affection from true Pie- 
 ty, in whomfoever he beheid it : Nor was it his Cu- 
 ftom to fpeak Evil of any Man, where there was 
 not a notorious Caufe for it. 
 
 He was very remarkable for his Humility, and the 
 low Thoughts he had of himfelf and his own Per- 
 formances, which made him very backward to cen- 
 iure the "Weakness of fuch as he happen'd to hear. 
 
 And
 
 584 TheEjettedor Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 And when fome have done it, and then ask'" 
 him his Opinion, he would readily reply, that h e 
 thought the Perfon cenfur'd, preach'd better than 
 he ufed to do himfelf. And if he at any Time by 
 Way of Diverfion, related the Infirmities of any 
 fuch, it was not to the Prejudice of the Perfons, 
 becaufe he carefully concealed their Names. Thus 
 he told one that he was very free with, (from 
 whom I had it) of a certain Perfon's preaching 
 upon a Text, which had the Word beheld in it : 
 And this Preacher, (without doubt with a Defign 
 to (hew his Learning) took Occafion to tell his 
 Audience, that the Word in the Hebrew was Hin- 
 neh, but in the Greel^ it was Ekfe ' By which (laid 
 the Old Gentleman very pleafantly) I perceiv'd he 
 underftood fon-e Hebrew, but no Greek., or Latin. 
 
 And as he was backward in cenfuring others, fo 
 was he very patient in bearing and forgiving Cen- 
 fures pafs'd upon himfelf: For he did not wholly 
 efcape thefe, efpecially during the Giddinefs that 
 was for fome time very obfervable in thofe Parts, 
 where his Lot was caft. But by his Meeknefs 
 and Forbearance he triumph'd over that Ufage ; 
 and fuch as fhew'd a Slight of him for fome Time, 
 did afterwards value him the more, when they 
 came to be better fettled. His Carriage was fo 
 inoffenfive, and his Charity fo large, that he was 
 generally belov'd, by thofe whofe Minds were not 
 rankled with an inveterate Malice againft true 
 Goodnefs. Hence he had the good Word of ma- 
 ny, with whofe Opinions he could not agree. Par- 
 ticularly when Mr. Richard Davis, made a Stir in 
 his Neighbourhood, and created him fome Diftur- 
 bance among his own Flock, yet many of his cen- 
 ibrious Followers, would fpeak with Refpect of Mr. 
 Clarke; apprehending probably that it would be a 
 Diflervice and Difcredit to their Party, to inveigh 
 againft a Perfon of fuch an eftablifli'd Character.- 
 He was much acquainted with Mr. Maidwell, and 
 Mr. Browning, two worthy Minifters not far from 
 him, and concurred in his peaceable and mild Way 
 with the former of them, in oppofing the turbu- 
 lent Proceedings of that ftrange Generation. 
 
 His
 
 in the Count} of LEICESTER. 
 
 His own Preaching was indeed very plain, as 
 GOD had fuited him to the Capacities of the Peo- 
 ple among whom he chiefly defign'd to employ him : 
 But he was an Inftrument of doing good to many 
 Souls : and the Country round about have Reafon 
 to blefs GOD for him, as a Promoter of true Pie- 
 ty; if that is an Advantage in any Place. 
 
 When he fettled at Harborcugh, he ufed every 
 Lords-Day Morning, (let the Weather be what it 
 would) to ride to Afoly,' three long Miles off; 
 and having preach'd there, and taken a fhort Din- 
 ner, to return and preach at Harborcugh in the 
 Afternoon, where his Auditory was numerous. This 
 was a Fatigue which younger Minifters tvonderM 
 how he was able to endure : But his natural Con- 
 ftitution was ftrong, and he went through it many 
 Years. 
 
 While he was thus engaged, he had Offers made 
 him that were more advantageous for this World : 
 But nothing could draw him from his People, as 
 long as he was capable of ferving them. 
 
 He was naturally generous, and ufed to be ve- 
 ry liberal to Strangers, who went about with plau- 
 fible Stories, in order to raife Compaffion : But 
 afterwards finding he had been frequently impo- 
 fed upon by fuch Creatures, he prudently retrenched 
 thofe Expences. 
 
 One Thing however, may deferve here to be re- 
 member'd of him, wherein he (hew'd his Regard 
 to the Liberty of the Subject. Some few Years 
 before he was difabled from Preaching, the AflcC- 
 fors were put upon rating him to the King's Tax, 
 for his Salary from his People, without the leaft 
 Warrant for it from the Ad of Parliament that 
 was then pafs'd for a Tax. A Relation of his 
 fuggcfted this to him, that if the Adi had not 
 tax'd him, for him to pay to his Afleff r,e;it would 
 be a betraying the Rights of the Subjects : Where- 
 upon he refolv'd to ftand it out. Some angry Ju- 
 fticcs threatea'd to fend him to Lekfjler Jail in a 
 Car:. But when they had thought a little on the 
 Matter, they became cooler, and fent ro requeit 
 him to pay it thar Time, and promis'J it fhould
 
 586 The Ejefled or Silenced Minifters, & c. 
 
 be repay'd him again. But he ftil! refufmg, they 
 who appear'd fo bent upon giving him Trouble, 
 thought it their fafeft Courfe ro make up the Sum, 
 among themfelves, without his being at all con- 
 cern'd in it. 
 
 His Inclination to the Oriental Languages, where- 
 in he was fo well skili'd, difcover'd irfelf in his 
 Learning the Modern Perfic, when he was fixty-fix 
 or fixty-feven Years of Age, about the Year 1696 
 or 1697. 
 
 He continu'd his painful Labours, till he was 
 feiz'd with the Dead Palfy on one Side : And then 
 thinking his Work done, he remov'd to Norwich, 
 to live with his Daughter Mrs. Allen, where her 
 Husband liv'd: And there he died about 1708, 
 little fhort of eighty .Years of Age. 
 
 He left behind him a Son of both his Names, 
 a Minifter among the D'.lTenters, who had a con- 
 fiderable Congregation in Miles Lane in Canon-ftreet 
 in London : Who died in 1716. 
 
 Pag. 411. /. 6, from the bottom, where Mr. Gates 
 the Anabaptift is fpoken of, this Note may be ad- 
 ded in the Margin j this Mr. Ontes was the Fa- 
 ther of Dr. Titus Gates, the Difcoverer of the Po- 
 pifh Plot in 1678. 
 '}' 
 
 Pag. 411. Gumley: Mr. KESTION. It fhould be," 1 
 Mr. NICOLAS KESTIN, M. A. He was brought up 
 at Cambridge. His Living was 110 /. fer An, and 
 he was one of eminent Piety. After his being Si- 
 lenc'd, he went to Leicefter, and was Paftor of a 
 Congregation there for feveral Years. He died at 
 about feventy-fix Years of Age. 
 
 Ibid. Kjbworth : Mr. JOHN YAXLEY. Add, He 
 was a plain hearted, fmcere, humble, pious, com- 
 municative Perlbn, a faithful Friend, and very zea- 
 lous in promoting Reformation, both in his own 
 Parifb, and in the whole County, while he was in 
 Publick. Dr. Walker Part II. p. 169, mentions this 
 Mr. Yaxley at Kjrkporth Eeauchamp in this Coun- 
 ty j which Living he fays he had in 1654.
 
 in the County of LEICESTER. 587 
 
 Pag. 423. Coif Orton: Mr. SAMUEL OLDERSHAW. 
 It appears from Dr. Walker, Pare II. p. 333, chat 
 this was the fequeftred Living of Mr. William PeflelL 
 The Dodor calls the filenc'd Nonconformift OLD- 
 ESHAM, I fuppofe by Miftake. He fays he gor 
 this Living in 1654. 
 
 Ibid, fyunfton and Hoofe : Mr. 
 His Name was JOHN. He was a very acceptable 
 and ufeful Preacher, and not only much valued 
 in the Place where he ftatedly laboured, but in 
 all the Country round about. But he could not 
 fee fuffer'd to live in quiet, and was forc'd out 
 of one County into another : And was one while 
 in Leiceftcrjhlre, and another while in Northampton- 
 fhire: And yet though he met with a great many 
 Troubles, and was forced to make frequent Removes, 
 he bred up fome few for the Miniftry, who prov- 
 ed valuable and ufeful Men, of which Mr. Wil- 
 liam Sheffcld was one. 
 
 Pag. 414. Congcrftone. Mr. GEORGE WRIGHT. 
 Add ; afcer his Ejectment, he took a Farm at 
 Xjngs Heath in the Parifh of Kjngs Norton, and 
 manag'd it with great Pains and Care to maintain 
 his Family. 
 
 / i"1 ' '. .4>:jr .;>. :V 
 
 ibid. Wither ley : Mr. JOHN CHESTER! Add ; 
 This was accounted the moft wicked Town in all 
 the County : So that it was faid by feveral Mi- 
 nifters, that they would not have accepted of the 
 Living (had it been cffer'd them) upon any Terms. 
 But in fome Time they were fo wrought upon, that 
 Mr. Chcfter had the general Love or the People, 
 both in the Town and Neighbourhood. One in- 
 deed being fome way difgufted, took up a Re- 
 folution, that he would hear him no more : 
 But coming once to Church, upon the R^eporc of 
 a Stranger's preaching, he faid he was afliam'd to 
 f,o out upon feeing Mr. Cbefter come in ; and fo 
 hcftay'd: And it pleafed GOD, he was fo con- 
 viuc'ti by that Sermon, that he ever after prov'd 
 
 as
 
 The EjetfedorSiknc'dMinifters, cVc. 
 
 as true a Friend to him as any in the Parifh' 
 There were alfo two others, the one an ordinary 
 Weaver, and the other a mean Farmer, who up- 
 on the Turn of the Times difcover'd their Ma- 
 lice. They took an Oath before a Bench of Jufti- 
 ces, that he pray'd againft the King, about the 
 Time of Worcefter Fight, on fuch a particular Lord's- 
 Day as they nam'd. But it fo happen'd, that Mr. 
 Chefter was at that Time at London- and Mr. 
 Doughty who fupply'd for him that very LorcCs-Day, 
 took an Oath that he did fo, upon Mr. Chefter's 
 Abfence, and all the reft of the Parifh confirm'd 
 their Depofition, and cry'd Shame on thofe who 
 fwore fo falfly. But fuch Things as thefe, were 
 very common in thofe Times. 
 
 The Name of the Parfon who treated Mr. Chefter 
 fo ill, after the Reftoration, I am inform'd was 
 Hucknall. When Mr. Cbefter was from home, he 
 demanded Entrance into the Parfonage Houfe, and 
 the Servants denying it, he fetch'd a Smith's Sledge, 
 and broke open the Door, and not only turn'd 
 them out, but threw out what Goods he pleafed 
 into the Street, and the reft he kept. Mr Chefter 
 demanding them of him, he told him if he went 
 to Law for them, he would fwear him out of 
 his Life. Upon this he went for London ; and 
 preach'd once every Lords-Day for Mr. William 
 Jenlyn, at Chrift Church till the filencing A& for 
 Uniformity took Place. 
 
 This Mr. Bucknall, was afterwards, (as I am in- 
 form'd) very Severe upon the poor People at Wi- 
 tberley ; and upon every little Occafion was for get- 
 ting them excommunicated. A Difference happen- 
 ing to arife, he (among others) excommunicated 
 the Lord of the Manner. The Lord's-Day after, 
 his Servants coming to Church, and the Parfon 
 feeing them as he was reading Prayers, order'd 
 the Clark to turn them out ; but they refufs'd to 
 ftir: Whereupon, he came himfelf in his Surplice, 
 and pull'd them out ; telling them he was refolv- 
 ed to be reveng'd on their Matter, for affronting 
 him. The Gentleman taking a Friend with h m, 
 who was one that he thought might have fome In- 
 fluence,
 
 in the County of LEICESTER. 
 
 fluence, vifited Mr.- Bucknall, and endeavoured 
 by reafoning to mitigate his Paflion. But he was 
 of an implacable Spirit, and would hear no Rea- 
 fon, and fwore he would be reveng'd ; wifhing 
 he might never fpeak more, if he were nor. 
 And very foon after (as I am credibly informed) 
 he was taken ill, and never did fpeak any more, 
 but died in three Days. 
 
 I know of nothing of this good Man's in Print, 
 but a Preface that he has prefix'd to a Practi- 
 cal Treatife of Mr. Oliver HeycvooJ's, intit. Heart's 
 Treafure. His only Son was bred for the Miniftry, 
 and preach'd one Sermon, which was afterwards 
 printed, and then turn'd his thoughts to Phyfick. 
 
 Pag. 425. Swepfton: Mr. HENRY WATTS." Add, 
 M. A. He was of S^n^-College in Cambridge. 
 He took the Degree of M. A, in 1651. He was 
 ejected from Swepfton, (a Living I am inform'd. 
 worth 200 / a Year) in 1662. It appears from Doc- 
 tor Walker in his Attempt, Part II. p' 366, that 
 this was a Sequeftranon : But Mr. Standijh that 
 was turn'd out in the Parliament Times, died be- 
 fore the Reftoration. Mr. Watts was fucceeded 
 by Dr. 'John Gery, and maintain'd a very friendly 
 Correfpondence with him to the Day of his Death : 
 And the Doctor alfo us'd upon all Occafions to 
 exprefs a great Efteem and Value for him. Mr. 
 Watts had feveral Children when he left Sveep- 
 Jion, from whence he remov'd to Weddington, a 
 little Village in Warwickshire, where he lived a- 
 bove twenty Years, having very friendly and 
 neighbourly Conversation with Mr. Armftcad the 
 publick Minifter. Their ufual Way was this ; that on 
 every Day, (excepting Lord's-Day] Mr. Watts went 
 in the Morning about eleven to vifit Mr. Armftead, 
 and he returned his Vifit in the Afternoon about 
 four, each Vifit being of about an Hour's Length. 
 Mr. Watts conftantly went to Church on Lon/VDdy 
 Morning, and in the Afternoon (when there was 
 no Sermon in Publick, Mr. Armjlead preaching ac 
 another Village in that Neighbourhood) he preach- 
 ed to his own Family, admitting a few Neigh- 
 bours,
 
 590 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mimflers, 8rc. 
 
 bours, but keeping within the Number allowed by 
 A& of Parliament. At length he remov'd Yrom 
 hence, to Barvpell in Leicefteifoire, and upon his Re- 
 moval Mr. Arm/lead us'd to fay, he had loft the 
 beft Friend and Neighbour that e--er Man had. A 
 . Legal Toleration being granted PilTen'eis, he at the 
 Requeft of many Inhabitants of the neighbouring 
 Towns, preach'd publickly atHzw^/y in Leicefterfhire, 
 two Miles from Barwell, on Lord's Day in the After- 
 noon; and he was well pleas'd with fuch an Opportu- 
 nity of exercifing his Miniftry. He had fome Hundreds 
 of Hearers, and he preach'd conftantly, and was 
 not hinder'd by Badnefs of Ways, or Weather, or 
 the Infirmities of Age, or any thing elfe but Sick- 
 nefs. He fettled a Congregation of fober ferious 
 Chriftians, among whom he fpent his Pains freely, 
 without any Allowance, or any Acknowledgment 
 from them, except a few inconfiderable Prefents, 
 and continu'd with them till he was remov'd by 
 Death, on Feb. 2. 1685, in the fixty-third Year of 
 his Age. And after his Deceafe, the People whom 
 he had preach'd to, chofe another to fucceed 
 him. 
 
 He was buried in the Church at Harwell, and 
 his Funeral Sermon was preach'd by Mr. Pagit, at 
 that Time Minifter of that Parifh, who gave his 
 Auditory a very handfome Character of him ; tell- 
 ing them of his obliging Temper, and gentleman- 
 ly Behaviour : His great Friendlinefs, and Ufeful- 
 nefs in reconciling Differences, to the faving great 
 Expences in Law : His Exemplarinefs in relative 
 Duties, and particularly in the Management of his 
 Family, which was attended with a remarkable 
 Blefling from Heaven : His great Moderation and 
 Charity, which recommended him to all the Gen- 
 tlemen in the Neighbourhood, who treated him with 
 great Refped: : Signifying withal, that he did not 
 know any one, who had more real Friends, and 
 fewer Enemies than he ; and that he was fuch a 
 religious, confciemious, ufeful Perfon, that not only 
 his numerous Family, but the Publick alfo, had a 
 great Lofs by his Deceafe. 
 
 He
 
 in tbe County of LEICESTER. 
 
 He was indeed as I am credibly inform'd a Man 
 of good Learning, of great Moderation and Chari- 
 ty, and of a very exemplary Life, and a generous 
 Gentleman like Carriage and Behaviour, and uni- 
 verfally lov'd and efteem'd by fuch as were ac- 
 quainted with him. He was one of a folid Judg- 
 ment, and had good Underftanding in the Law ; he 
 was often consulted in difficult Matters, and his 
 Advice was frequently taken and follow'd, and found 
 good and wife and fafe. Many wonder'd at his 
 Nonconformity, confidering his encreafing Family : 
 But that was not the leaft Temptation to him to ad: 
 againft the Senfe of his own Mind j and GOD re- 
 markably blefs'd and profper'd him. Ten of his 
 thirteen Children liv'd to be Men and Women ; 
 and he educated them well, and comfortably pro- 
 vided for their Subfiftence in the World. And in- 
 deed it is amazing, that leaving fuch a Living, 
 with fuch a Family as he had, and was like to 
 have, he fhould get through the World fo comfor- 
 tably, and leave any thing behind him : But he 
 trufted Providence, and GOD. blefs'd and fuccced- 
 ed his prudent Management. Tho' he was offer'd 
 fome good Preferments in the Church if he would 
 have conform'd, he never could be fatisfied .with 
 minifterial Conformity to the laft. 
 
 Pag. 425. Sibfton: Mr. SAMITE L DOUGHTY^ 
 Add ; Younger Brother to the Polite and Politick 
 Mr. Thoma* Doughty of Medburn, who conform'd. 
 He was exemplary in his Life, and of a meek, 
 humble, peaceable modeft Temper, and a good 
 Preacher. 
 
 Pag. 426. Lutterwdrth : Mr. JOHN ST NICO- 
 LAS. He died at Burbage in this County, May 17, 
 1698, in the ninety-fifth Year of his Age. 
 
 One of the Things he hath printed befides what 
 was mentioned before, is, An Help to Beginners in 
 the Faith, containing fome explicatory Queftions, 
 upon the Creed, Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandmentt, 
 and fome choice Scriptures: Which was firft publilh- 
 cd in 1663, and lately reprinted in 1719. Svo. 
 
 Vou II. B I
 
 592 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 I am told as to the Earl of J^ent whofe Daugh- 
 ter Mr. St Nicolas* married, that he was an old Pu- 
 ritan, and Incumbent of a Living, and met with 
 Trouble in the Eccleiiaftical Courts, on Account of 
 fome Failures in Point of Conformity : And when 
 the Honour came to him as Heir of that noble Fa- 
 mily, he was not to be prevailed with (tho* prefs'd 
 by many) to quit the Miniftry, but held on officia- 
 ting as before, and had no farther Moleftation or 
 Difturbance. 
 
 I obferve as to this Mr. St Nicolas, that he has 
 prefix'd to his Hiftory of Baptifm, (which he has dedi- 
 cated to Anthony Earl of I^ent) a fhort Addrefe to the 
 Governors and Minifters of the Colonies and Plan- 
 tations in New England, efpecially the Old Planters, 
 in which he ftiles himfelf, An Adventurer In the firft 
 Plantation, as well as a Sympathiser in their Joys, 
 Fears and Sorrows. 
 
 Pag. 416. tin. 16 : Inftead of Maftcr of, it fhould 
 be, Vjher in, &c. 
 
 Pag. 419. tin. 3 1 : Inftead of, the Archllpoop of 
 Canterbury, let it be, Arcbbijhop Sheldon. 
 
 Pag. 42.9. towards the Bottom, it is intimated 
 that the Bifhop of Lincoln gave Mr. Shaw a Licence, 
 upon fuch a Subfcription as his own Senfe dictated 
 and inferted. Hereupon Mr. Lewis in his written 
 Obfervations upon my Account, &c. feems afraid I 
 fhould fuppofe none of my Readers were capable 
 of underftanding the Form of the Licence in the 
 Margin, becaufe it is in Latin. Whenas nothing was 
 more remote from my Thoughts. He adds, that the 
 thirty-ninth Canon was to direct the Subfcription, 
 and not Mr. Shaw's Senfe. If he will be at the 
 Pains to confult Mr. Shaw of Derby (who is the Son 
 of this worthy Perfon) he may perhaps receive Sa- 
 tisfaction, that there was a greater Variation in 
 the Subfcription he made, than he feems to allow 
 for. 
 
 P "S' 435- t* n - 12> : I n ft ea d of little Stature, let ic 
 be, middle Stature. 
 
 And //. 13. let not very promifing, be chang'd 
 into not very penetrating.
 
 in tie Count} of LEICESTER. 593 
 
 Pag. 436. At the End of the Character of Mr. 
 SAMUEL SHAW, let this be a^ded : 
 
 The Originals of the PreTentations mentioned a- 
 bove, and the Licences, and the Biihop's J erter, are 
 in the Hands of his Son Mr. Ferdinando Shaw, M. A, 
 Paftorof the Congregation of Proteftai.t Diflen r ers in 
 Derby, who fuccceded Mr. William Crojfi, March 
 a5- 1699. 
 
 Mr. LevfK of Margate in his Obfervauons on my 
 Account of the Ejected, &c. finds great Fault with 
 Mr. Shaw's Licence to' teach School. He fays, it 
 is different from all the forms that he everfaw : And 
 that it feems a Jumble, of a Provincial Licence, and 
 the Licence of a Schoolmafter for a Free School toge- 
 ther. For this I am not refponfible. It is enough 
 that I have publifh'd it as it was tranfmitted to me ; 
 and now added where any one may get the Sight 
 of it, whofe Cuiiofuy may make him defirous of 
 it. 
 
 Ibid. Market Harborough : Mr. THOMAS 
 He was a Scotch Man, and in a Living in EJfcx, 
 before he came hither. 
 
 Ibid. Blaby : Mr. THOMAS BOSSE. He, and 
 Mr. Swayne, and Mr. Stephens of Fenny Dray ton, 
 were ingag'd in a Difpute for Infant Baptifm a- 
 gainft Mr. Hubert Everard and other Anabaptifts in 
 1650, as appears from Mr. Swayne's Anlwer to 
 Mr. Everard, at the End of Mr. Stephens Precepc 
 for the Baptifm of Infants, fag. 64. 
 
 Pag. 437. Caftlc Dunnington : Mr. THOMAS 
 SMITH. Add ; He was born at Kegworth in this 
 County, of good Parentage. He became the Mi- 
 nifter of this Parifl), about the Year 1657, and he 
 continu'd there till the fatal Bartholomew. His Life- 
 and Conversion was exemplary, and his Preach- 
 ing and Praying very affecYionare. His very Ene- 
 mies had nothing to fay againft him. He was well 
 beiov'd by his Parifh, and .much lamented when 
 filcnc'd. When King Charles gave a Toleration, he 
 B z preach'd
 
 594 - The Ejetied or Sile nc 'V Minifters, 8rc. 
 
 preach'd once a Month freely at Dunnington, and 
 liv'd not long afrer ; having fpent himfelf in the Ser- 
 vice of his Mafter. 
 
 Pag. 437. Edmuntkorp: Mr. JOHN WRIGHT." 
 Add ; After his Ejectment, he retir'd to LeJJlngam 
 near Sleeford in Lincoln/hire, where he had a fmall 
 Eftate. There he fpenc the Remainder of his Days, 
 and was lov'd and honour'd by his Neighbours ; 
 efpecially by Sir William Tork. and his Family, for 
 his Prudence, Moderation, and Ufefulnefs, in pro- 
 moting Knowledge and Piety amongft them. 
 
 lUd. Humberjlon : Mr. RICHARD ADAMS. He 
 was an Anabaptift : And fucceeded Mr. Daniel Dyk? 
 in the Care of the Congregation at Devon/hire 
 Square, and died a few Years fince. A Man of 
 great Piety and Integrity. 
 
 Ibid. %eresby : Mr. WILLIAM GRACE. He 
 was a ferious, humble, grave Perfon, well efteem- 
 ed of by his Parifh, but efpecially by Major Hub- 
 ban, and his Family, for the HolineCs of his Life, 
 and his edifying Preaching. He had a great many 
 Children, who with their Parents were reduc'd to 
 great Want j infomuch that Water was their com- 
 mon Drink. He was nearly related to Archbifhop 
 Sheldon, to whom Applications were made for his 
 poor diftrefs'd Family but no Relief could be ob- 
 tained there, unlefs Mr. Grace would conform ; 
 which if he would yield to, great Things were 
 promised : But this mov'd him no: to ad: againft 
 his Confcience. Some time after (I am inform'd) 
 the B'tftiop recover 'd fo much Humanity, as to take 
 fome Care of two of the Children. His Parfonagc 
 was reputed worth 130 or 140 I per An. 
 
 Pag. 438. Hal/aton : Mr. MAURITIUS BO- 
 HE M E. He was in good Efteem for his Learning 
 and Piety. ' After his Eje&menr, he retir'd into his 
 native Country Germany. Mr. George Boheme of 
 Sleeford in Lincolnshire was his younger Brother. 
 
 He
 
 in the County of LINCOLN. 595 
 
 He pubiifti'd, A Chriftians Delight, or Scripture 
 Meditations in one Century ; with an Appendix, a- 
 gainft promifcuous AdmiiTion to the Sacrament, and 
 a Latin Dedication to Sir Arthur Haflerig, 8-yo. 1654. 
 The Pearl of Peace and Concord ; a Treatife of Pa- 
 cification, beiween the Difienting Churches of Chrtft 
 written in high Dutch by Dr. Bergius (Chaplain to 
 the Elector of Brandenburg) Uncle to Mr. Scheme, 
 who tranflated it into Englifti. 
 
 Pag. 438. Kjmcote ; it fhould be Kjngcotte: Mr* 
 BENJAMIN SOUTHWOOD. Dr. Walker, Part II. 
 p. 380, fays he got himfelf poflefs'd of this Living 
 in 1655. -But for any Thing that appears, he both 
 got the Poffeflion of it honourably, and might have 
 kept it legally, if he could but have fatisfy'd his 
 Confcience with Conformity. 
 
 Ibid. 438. Laughton : Mr. RICH-ARD MUSSON. I 
 find in the Title of Harvejl-home, he is ftil'd Mr. 
 OB. MUSSON. 
 
 The EJECTED, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 County of LINCOLN*. 
 
 439- T IMCOLN City: Mr. EDWARD 
 *-' R E Y N E R, M. A. In the Account 
 given of him, Pag. 445, /, 19 ; Mr. Thomas f(tyner t 
 His Name was John. 
 
 Pag. 446. Authorfe : Mr. THOMAS SPADEMAN. 
 At the End of the Account of him, add, He died 
 in 1678 : And was Father to Mr. John Spademan, 
 firft of Rotterdam, and afterwards of London. 
 
 B 3 P*
 
 596 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Pag. 446. Grantham : Mr. HENRY VAUGHAN. 
 Add, He was an excellent Preacher, and had an 
 extraordinary Gift in Prayer, wherein few exceli'd 
 him. He was very zealous againft thofe in Pow- 
 er from 1648 to 1660, efpecially the Hump Parlia- 
 ment, and their Adherents. It was ordinary with 
 him to declare with the utmoft Abhorence againft 
 putting the King to Death, in the Prefence of the 
 Republican Officers of the Army. When Sir George 
 Sooth was up in Arms for the King's Reftora'ion. 
 in 1659, he got feveral Miniflers to fpend a Day 
 in Fading and Prayer, at his Houfe, for the Suc- 
 cefs of the Enterprize. When Lambert's Officers 
 afterwards in the fame Year, made a fiiort Stay 
 at Grantham in rhe:r March into the NI rth againit 
 Mow/-., he enrag'd them by his free Re r o f s ; and 
 they (efpeciaily Col. Ax til] ;e erely threoren'd to rout 
 him from Grantham, if they returned victorious. 
 Often did he expofe himfelf ro creat Danger, by 
 his being over hot in thofe Times. Once he very 
 narrowly efcap'd great Trouble. As he was reading 
 in a Bcokfeller's Shop in London, with his Back to- 
 ward the Door, a Purievanr cair.e in and told the 
 Bookfeller, that he and :h: ee more had fpent four 
 Days in fearchinj> for one Vnughttn , who the Lord's 
 Day before preached a f e6m< us' "sermon againft the 
 Government, at fome Church in the City which 
 he nam'd j but faid they o..>u,d not find him : And 
 he efcap'd. The Paiiiarr.ent's Vcdng in the King, 
 was not more joyful to any Man tha.i to him. Yet 
 notwithftand'ng ail rhis, foon after the K'ng's Re- 
 turn, he was committed to the Jail in Grantham , 
 call'd the Old Shop, for not reading the Common 
 Prayer. He did not continue there long then : 
 But he was long a Pri loner in Lincoln Caftle in 
 1661 for that OmiiTion. And as I formerly rela- 
 ted, went once and again to Bermudas, and was 
 much exposed. And I have fome Reafon to be- 
 lieve this was the Perfon pointed at by the Au- 
 thor of the Conformifts fourth Plea for the Noncon- 
 formifts, p. 41, when he fays he was well acquainted 
 wuh one of the Nonccnformifts, (and adds ; that he 
 
 never
 
 in the County of LINCOLN. 597 
 
 never was acquainted with a more loyal, fincere 
 honeft Man) who after many Difgraces and (harp 
 Trials, efpecially to a generous genteel Spirit, in 
 England, went beyond Sea, and in a terrible Storm 
 at "Sea, which broke into the Ship, ask'd his own 
 Soul if he could die in, and for that Caufe of 
 his Sufferings, and leaving his native Country to 
 preach in a ftrange Land ? And his Confcience gave 
 him a plain and full Anfwer, when ready as he 
 thought to leave his Body and dear Re'ations in 
 a deep Sea. And that Author adds, that after his 
 Return, he told him this and other Paflages, with 
 a moft fincere Profeifion, that he had nothing -to 
 do in this World but to ferve CHRIST; nor 
 any Thing to feek but CHRIST. And he inti- 
 mates his Belief that with him he then was, 
 and with him would appear, as one that fhould 
 judge the World. And upon Occafion of this Mr. 
 Vaughan and Mr. Starkly, who were Fellow Labour- 
 ers in this Town, it may not be amifs to take No- 
 tice, of the Benefaction of the Lady Cambden. 
 That Noble Perfon put a fufficient Sum into the 
 Hands .of the Mercers Company in London, for the 
 Founding and Endowing of two Lectures, in two 
 Market Towns, cne on the North Side of the Ri- 
 ver Trent, and the other on the South Side. Wakg- 
 field got one, as I have taken Notice in my Ac- 
 count of thofe Ejected in Torlyhire ; and Grantham 
 got the other, by Means of the Agency of that e- 
 irrinently p : ous, prudent, and zealous Gentleman, 
 Mr. (afterwards Sir William] Bury, who was an In- 
 habitant in Grantham and a JSiefling to it. Old 
 Mr. Angel who had been many Years a famous 
 Preacher in Leicejter, was the firft Lecturer upon, 
 this Foundation in Grantham, about the Year 1650. 
 After his Death in 16,5, Mr. Star key fucceeded. 
 He was recommended by worthy Dr Tuckpey the 
 Mafter of St. Johnj College in Cambridge, upon the 
 Town's Application to him. That good Judp.e of 
 Men, did the fame good Office for other Places, 
 upon Occalion. All ^Mr. Angel's and Mr. Starkfys 
 Time, this Lecture was preach'd on the Lord's- 
 in the Afternoon : But almoft ever fince on 
 B 4 &0
 
 5 98 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifte rj, & c- 
 
 the Wednefday. The Stipend till the Fire of Lon- 
 don was 90 / fer An, paid Quarterly. Afterwards 
 it was for fome Years reduc'd to 80 /, by Reafon 
 of the great Lofles of the Company : But fince I 
 have been inform'd it has been rais'd again to 90 /. 
 It is moft likely, that the Stipend ztWakffield, was 
 the fame with that of Grantham; and therefore 
 what I faid, f. 794, lin. 5, fhould be corrected, 
 and the 100 / there mention'd, fhould be 90 /. 
 
 So excellent were Mr. Starts minifterial Ac- 
 coinplifhmenrs, fo fwee: his Temper, fo prudent his 
 whole Conduct, and fo incftenfive his Life, that he 
 was universally beloved. The greareft Enemies to 
 the Nonconformists had not the leaft Word to ob- 
 ject againft him on any Account, but his not com- 
 plying with the Impofitions which the Law had fix- 
 ed : And his Memory is ftill exceeding precious 
 to all fober Perfons that knew him. He had a 
 charming Voice ; and no Man preach'd more 
 agreeably. 
 
 Pag. 448. Croule: Mr. DURA NT. Add, RO- 
 BERT, for that was his Name. He was a Gen- 
 rleman of an ancient Family ; the third Son of his 
 Father, an eminent Minifter near London. This 
 Ifybert was of quick Parts, and had a very liberal 
 and religious Education. The learned Languages 
 and the French Tongue, were very familiar to him. 
 He travell'd very young, and had feen many of 
 the American Iflands. After he had a Call to the 
 Miniftry, he fettled at Croule, where he was eject- 
 ed at Bartholomew, 1661. He retain'd a very dear 
 Affection ro the People there to his dying Day. 
 After his being filenc'd, he remov'd to %ednefs, 
 . where he buried his only Son. He preach'd here 
 .in privare till 1664, when being upon a Journey 
 with Mr. John fyther, (another ejected Minifter, 
 afterwards of tapping) they were both fe ; z'd on 
 in the Road, and lent to Tork Caftie, where he 
 was confin'd for fome time ; but nothing being laid 
 to his Charee, he was at length difcharg'd. Here-he 
 became acquainted with Mr/TAo. Woodhcufe of Glaf- 
 in Derbyjhire, (a great Supporter of godly Mi- 
 
 niilers,
 
 in the Comity of L I N C O L N. 599 
 
 ' 
 
 nifters, who was then alfo a Prifoner upon the Ac- 
 count of Religion) who upon the Death of Mr. 
 Fijher of Sheffield, recommended Mr. Durant to 
 that Congregation, which after Trial of his Abili- 
 ties gave him a Call, An. 1669 : And he longing 
 to be in his Matter's Vineyard thankfully accepted 
 it, leaving it to them to give him what they plea- 
 fed, whether 30, or 10, or 10 / per An ; though he 
 had left a Benefice of no fmall Value. His Beha- 
 ' viour was always very much like a Gentleman ; 
 and few could exceed him in a fweet Mixture of 
 Humility, and Courteoufnefs. He had excellent 
 minifterial Abilities. His Stile was fcriptural and 
 plain ; and his Delivery affectionate and clear. 
 He was fervent in Prayer; and ufually large in 
 Confeffion, and particular in Thankfgiving. His 
 Meeknefs and Patience were viflble to all ; his 
 Self-denial and Mortification of Sin td his neareft 
 Acquaintance. His Circumfpedtion was fuch, that 
 Envy itfelf could not charge him with any Thing 
 blameworthy. It was his common Method on the 
 Lord's Day, to fpend the Morning in expounding 
 the Scriptures, wherein he difcover'd great Skill 
 in Cafuiftical Divinity. In the Afternoon, he preach- 
 ed en the Dodrinals of the Chriftian Religion; 
 and once every Month he and his Congregation 
 kept a Faft. In his Vifits, he endeavour'd by apt 
 Queftions to found their Profiting under the Mini- 
 ftry ; and he often rook Leave with Prayer. He 
 could never endure Railing or Backbiting ; but 
 exhorted all to Love, Chriftian Unity and Forbear- 
 ance. He had an uncommon Skill in writing a- 
 greeable Letters, which are treafur'd up, being 
 full of Chriftian -Spirit. When the Times grew 
 more favourable, the Congregation encreas'd, and 
 ereded a convenient P.ace for Publick Worfliip. In 
 January 1678 he adminifter'd the LORD'S Supper 
 the la!t Thr.e : And he concluded the Exhonation 
 with thefe Words ; I fell yon this, and remember it 
 vohen I am dead and gone : The better any M*n is, 
 <//.' more humble he is ; and the better he will thinly of 
 ethers, and the IcvocrTh tights he will have cf him f elf. 
 A little before his Death, taking leave of a Friend, 
 
 he
 
 6 oo The Ejetted or Silenced Mtmfters, & c. 
 
 he menrion'd that of the Pfalmift, Pf. xci. 16, and 
 added, the LORD has made good this his Prornife 
 to me : He hath fatisfied me with Length of Life, 
 and he hath given me to fee his Salvation. He 
 died generally lamented, on Feb. 12. 1678, agd 
 feventy-one. When the Report of his Dea.h was 
 brought to Mr. Lobley die Vicar of the Town, he 
 faid, And is the good old Man dead ? I am forry 
 for it : He hath carried it fo very well, that I 
 wifh they may gen one than will tread in his 
 Steps. 
 
 Pag. 448. Pickporth : Mr. MICHAEL DRAKE. 
 'Add ; He was born in the ParUh of Bradford in 
 Yorkshire, and bred in Sr. Johns College in Cam- 
 bridge, where he fpent his Time to good Purpoie. 
 He was prefented to Pickyoorth by Sir William Ar- 
 myn, An. 1645, or 6, fucceeding Mr. Weld (a Per- 
 fon of great Note, who in the Time of the War 
 rerirM 5n r o rhe allocated Counties , and fix'd in 
 Suffolk.) There he moft faithfully difcharg'd all 
 the Parts of the Paftoral Office, and thereby kept 
 up that Piety which Mr. Weld left, and encreas'd 
 it. When he remov'd from Pickvoorth ibme Months 
 after he was filenc'J in 1662, he liv'd at Fulbeck. 
 ten Miles fa>m Lincoln , in a mean Habitation. 
 There Sir Francis Fane wa* his Neighbour : And 
 tho' he was an old Cavalier, and as high for the 
 Hierarchy and Ceremonies as any Man, ,yet he 
 treated good Mr. Drake with great Civility and 
 Refpetf and conversed r'-eey with him. Once he 
 told 'ri n. he thought ihe Clergy of the Church of 
 England had the worft Luck of any Clergy in the 
 W- r '.J : For in all other Countries and Religions 
 they were had in EPclrnation, but here they were 
 under Contempt. For feme confiderable Time Mr. 
 Drake went conftantly every Saturday in the Even- 
 ing to Lincoln, and preach'd to a few in Mr. Dif- 
 nefs Houfe. After the Liberty granted by K. James, 
 he remov'd thither with his Family, and preach'd 
 more publickly ; and yet his Congregation was fo 
 incontltierable, that they could not or would not 
 raife him 15 / fer An, which was all he defir'd of 
 
 them.
 
 in the County of LINCOLN. 601 
 
 them. I cannot hear he was ever imnrifon'd for 
 Preaching : But in the Time of Monmouth's Inva 
 fion he with many others was confm'd. 
 
 He was a truly excellent and amiab'e Perfon. 
 In his Friendfhip, he was moft hearty and fincere, 
 and conftant : In his Preaching and Praying, ex- 
 ceedingly affe<r.iona r e and fervent : In his Life very 
 holy and unb amcab.e : In his whole Conduct he 
 manifefted more than ordinary Simplicity and In- 
 tegrity. He was fo unexceptionable upon all Ac- 
 counts, that they who us'd to inveigh moft freely 
 againft the Diflenters, had not a Word to fay a- 
 gainft him. While he liv'd at Pkk&ortb, he was 
 one of the Folktngham Claifis ; and one of the Tuef- 
 day Lecturers at Grantham. Pickveorth Re&ory, is 
 about 90 / per An, in Money and Glebe. Mr. Drake 
 was always chearful. He hath a Son who is, or 
 lately was, Minifter of Swinderby. 
 
 Pag. 448. Totney : Mr. MARTIN FINCH. Add to 
 his Works, Animadverfions on Sir H Vanes retired 
 Man's Meditations, 8i>o. 1656.: In which he treats 
 Sir Harry as a Gentleman, and yet juftly expofes 
 his Enthufiafm, and Misinterpretation of Scrip* 
 ture. 
 
 ibid. G-ff Bur ten : Mr. MARK T R i c K E r tl 
 Add ; He was bred in M//<&/*n-Col!ege, Cam- 
 bridge, under the Tuition of Mr. Jojefh Hill. Hf 
 was of a brisk active Temper, and an holy Life ; 
 and his Pulpit Performances were i^uch applauded^. 
 He us*d to preach at the Lady l(hodcs's Chapel tt 
 Hougbtcn when he liv'd at Tburnfco He was af- 
 terwards a great while Prifoner in Tor^Caftle. 
 
 Ibid. "Bromby and Froddingham : Mr. JOHN R v- 
 T H E a. Add; Afrer his Eje&menr, he remov'd to 
 Tork,, and ftay'd there for fome time ; and he went 
 afterwards to Allerton near Bradford. About the 
 Year 1668 or 1669, he aHifted in gathering a 
 Church in Bradford Dale, where his ufeful Labours 
 were much valu'd. There are fome yet living, who 
 iccain the ImprcfTions made upon their Minds by 
 
 his
 
 6 02 The Ejected or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 his affectionate Preaching. A Volume of his Ser. 
 mons in Manufcript prepar'd for the Prefs, are in 
 the Hands of Mr. J. D. About the Year 1675 he 
 and Mr. Hardcaftle preach'd together at Shadwell 
 Chapel, and took their Farewel of a People that 
 dearly lov'd them in thofe Parts of Torkjhtre. He 
 had one Son Mr. John tyther, who after he had 
 been two Voyages in the Eaft- Indies, and had gone 
 as Chaplain with Merchant's Ships to moft of the 
 noted Places in both the Indies, (during the latter 
 Part of the Reign of King Charles II, and the whole 
 Reign of King James, that he might avoid Per- 
 fecution for the Sake of his Confcience) did in the 
 Reign of King William fettle at Nottingham, where 
 he fpent twelve Years, and there he died and he 
 hath left behind him in Print, a Treatife intit. A 
 Defence of the glorious Gofpel of the Blefled 
 G o D, attempted againft the new Law : With an 
 'Anfwer to thirteen Arguments of Mr. Barret for it, 
 8w. This is the fame Perfon I mention'd, p. 833 
 at Ferriby in Torksbire. 
 
 Pag. 449. Sleford : Mr. GEORGE BOHEME. 
 He was born in, the City of Colbelg in the Duke- 
 dom of Pomeren \r\Germany, A. D. 1628. His Fa- 
 mily came over into England when he was young : 
 Upon what Occafion I cannot learn. He was bred 
 in the Univerfity of Cambridge, and fettled as Mi- 
 ifcfter of this Town, where he continu'd, till ex- 
 eluded by the Bartholomew A&. Mr. Mauritius Bo- 
 Jyeme, who was ejected from Hallaton in Leicefter- 
 fhire was his elder Brother. This Mr. George when 
 he was filenc'd, partly that he might not be ufe- 
 lefs, and partly that he might the better be able to 
 maintain his Family, kept School at IValcot, a Place 
 within a Mile of Folkjngham, and continu'd doing 
 Ib many Years. He was much efteem'd by feveral 
 neighbouring Gentlemen and Clergymen, who 
 committed their Children to him, and had agreac 
 deal of Satisfaction in the Inftruction he gave them, 
 and recommended him to others as the beft Ma- 
 fter they knew. He for fome time preach'd pub- 
 lickly in the Church, after his being filenc'd, and 
 
 was
 
 in the County of LINCOLN. 
 
 was conniv'd at ; he reading fome of the Pray- 
 ers: But he was at length forbidden by Bifhop 
 Gardiner, becaufe not epifcopally ordain'd. That 
 pretty Country Church, one informs me, (and he 
 a very worthy Perfon) hath not had a fetled Mi- 
 nifter in it for fixty Years to his Knowledge : 
 And he adds, rhat he fuppofes, not of fixty more 
 before that : For it was altogether deftitute of any 
 Maintenance, till the late Sir John Brownlow (to 
 whofe Family belong all the Tithes bo:h great and 
 fmall) fettled 10 / a Year upon it, for which there 
 is a Sermon preach'd once a Fortnight. It was 
 hard to let the People rather be uninftru&ed, than 
 that fuch an one as Mr. Boheme fhould be fuffer'd 
 to preach to them. About feven Years before his 
 Dearh he remov'd to his Daughters at Follyngbam, 
 and there died Sept. 9, 1711: Aged Eighty-three. 
 
 His Alacrity in Adverfity, his Humility in Pro- 
 fperity, and his even, honeft and holy Deportment 
 throughout the whole Courfe of his Life, muft be 
 own'd by his very Enemies, and will (as I am 
 told) be ever remember'd by thofe who were c- 
 ducated by him. 
 
 Mr. Brocklesfy who left his Miniftry in the Church 
 of England after the Revolution, and was well known 
 in theie Parts, and who after a great many Years 
 Pains publifh'd his Go/pel Tbeifm, was his intimate 
 Friend. 
 
 Pag. 449. Munby : It fhould be Manfy. Mr." 
 CRAMLINGTOK. 
 
 Ibid. Gunnerby: Mr. MATTHEW SYLVESTER." At 
 the End of the Account of him, let it be added, 
 he was fucceeded by Mr. Samuel Wright. 
 
 ?* 455' Mr. JOSEPH CAWTHORN. Add; Af- 
 ter iome Time he came to London, and preach'd 
 there occafionally ; and at length fetled at Stoke 
 Newington, where he for feveral Years continu'd 
 faithful and fuccefsful in his minifterial Work and 
 Service, being generally beiov'd and refpected. He 
 and his Neighbour Mr. Jofepb Bcnnet (who was 
 
 then
 
 604 The Ejeffed or Siltnfd Minifters, &c. 
 
 then at Newington Green) were much concern'd to" 
 gather in their Work, with mutual Indearment and 
 Refpe&, and as intire Confidence as could have 
 been between Father and Son. And Mr. Sennet 
 did the laft friendly Office for him, in a Funeral 
 Difcourfe, from Pjnl. xxxvii. 37, on March 9. 1704. 
 And he reprefented his Text as exemplify 'd in the 
 Deceafed. He then gave fome Account of him to 
 his furviving Friends, and told them of his early 
 Piety, which had a conftant powerful Influence up- 
 on him through the whole Courfe of his Life. 
 He fignify'd w'uhal, his Education at Cambridge, 
 where he fpent feveral Years; his Settlement at 
 Stamford, in very good Circumftances ; his Non- 
 conformity in 1661, in which he had always great 
 Peace and Satisfaction, as he declar'd a few Days 
 before his Deceafe : His Temper, Moderation, and 
 Candour, which kept him from cenfuring others, 
 6f whom he would not fpeak in any Cafe, with 
 Harfhnefs or Bitternefs ; his Patience under a Va- 
 riety of Hardfhips, in which he firmly depended 
 on Divine Providence, which continually took Care 
 of him and afforded him feafonable Supplies, 
 which he would be jready to own, with great 
 Thankfulnefs ; The Nature of his preaching, which 
 was plain, practical, and methodical, fuited to the 
 great Ends of a Gofpel Miniftry ; The Manner of 
 his Life, which was holy and exemplary and un- 
 blameable ; and the Manner of his Exit, which was 
 fuch as became one that was neither weary of Life, 
 nor afraid of Death, but that had a firm Faith and 
 ftedfaft Hope in the Mercy of G o D through J E- 
 sus CHRIST. 
 
 He had a Son whom he defign'd for the Mi- 
 niftry, but he prov'd vitious, and died young. 
 
 Pag. 456. "Burton Pepperdine, it (hould be Ped- 
 tptrdin : Mr. LEE. Add ; He was an Intimate of 
 Col. Ring's who was the firft in the Houfe of 
 Commons, (as was commonly reported and belie- 
 ved) that mov'd for King Charles's Restoration. He 
 was fo far from owning the proceeding Powers, 
 that hs never paid any Tax for twelve Years to- 
 gether
 
 in the County of LI N COLN. 60? 
 
 gather till his Goods were diftrain'd by the Col- 
 lectors. Mr. Lee publiftit one Pamphlet or more, 
 againft the Ufwpation of the Protector Oliver. He 
 was in thofe Times commonly call'd the Colonel's 
 Confeflbr and Chaplain. 
 
 Pag. 457. Billingborovp : Mr. JAMES MORTON. 
 Add, He had Horblin alfo, a fmall Town hardly 
 a Mile diftant from Billingborow . He was another 
 of the Folktngbnm Clalfis and of the Grantbam Lec- 
 turers. He was a tall, grave, venerable Perfon, and 
 in great Efteem with good People in thole Parts. 
 
 Ibid. Donesby, or Dowsby : Mr. ROCKET. Add; 
 He was much applauded for his popular, plaufible 
 Preaching. 
 
 Ibid. Clayfole : Mr. REDMAN. I am inform'd 
 he afterwards conformed. 
 
 ibid. Harlaxton: Mr. RICHARD NOF.THAM. Add; 
 He was firft Minifter of Hather, four Miles from 
 Grantbnm and afterwards of Harlaxton. He was 
 an aged, grave, reverend Perfon. A folid judi- 
 cious Divine. His Preaching was plain and practi- 
 cal, and very atfe&ing and aweful : For he de- 
 li verM his Sermons wuh a thundering Voice. His 
 Life was unblameable. The Reclory of Harlax- 
 ton was always valu'd at 160 / fer An. He was- 
 one of thofe Country Minifters, that kept up a 
 Ledhire at Grantbam every Tuefday, from 1647 till 
 1661 or 1662. 
 
 Ibid. Allington; Mr. GEORGE BECK. Add, He 
 was Chaplain to the Earl of Manchefter for fome 
 Time, during the War. He particularly attended 
 him at the Battle of Wmtby near Horncaftle. And 
 this perhaps might be the chief Caufe of Dr. San- 
 demon's great Difpleafure acainft him. After the 
 War he was Minifter of I(ippingeil three Miles from 
 Folkinghtm, out of which Mr. Cranwel was feque- 
 ftred. He was another of the Follyngham ClafTis. 
 In 1655 or 1656 he was prefented to AlHngton, 
 
 by
 
 606 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mimftevs, 8cc. 
 
 by the. Lord Keeper Fiennes. That Rectory wkh 
 a Sine Cure then annex'd to it was worth 160 / per 
 Ann, At Allington he fucceeded Mr. Robert Clark. 
 an eminent old Puritan; and during his Time 
 there, was one of the Tucfday Lecturers at Gran- 
 tham. His Preaching was much applauded, and 
 his Life unblameable. 
 
 Pag. 457. Markham: Mr. ARNOLD: Add ; He 
 was well efteem'd of, both for his minifterial Abi- 
 lities and Fidelity, and alfo the Holinefs of his 
 Life, by the Chief of his Parifhioners , Major 
 Hart, and Major I^ard, Officers in the Parliament's 
 Army. 
 
 Ibid. Barrowby : Mr. JOHN EL WOOD. Dr. Wal- 
 fyr fays, he got this Living in 1654, Part II, p. 
 .170. He gave way in 1660 to Dr. Hurft, who had 
 been turn'd out for his Malignancy againft the Par- 
 liament and their Caute. The Doctor was a jolly 
 boon Companion, famous chiefly *br his witty Jefts 
 and Repartees, and had a good Eftate. Mr. Elvoood 
 after his Ejectment went to live in Norfolk^, where 
 it was generally faid he conform'd. And I am in- 
 form'd he is the fame Perfon I mention in my Ca- 
 talogue of thote who conform'd in that County, fag. 
 486, line iz from the Bottom. 
 
 > 
 
 Pag. 458. Litbingham j it fhould be 'Lcfmgham : 
 Mr. HALE s. 
 
 Ibid. Sveinderly : Mr. JOHN BIRKET. Add ; 
 He was rhe Head Matter of the Free School ac 
 Grantham one whole Year, vi%. 1649 ; after which 
 he was prefented to Swinderby by Mr. Dlfney of 
 Lincoln ; and fo he could be Minifter there but 
 thmeen Years. He was admir'd for his prudenr 
 Conduct and Forefight: And was eminently qua- 
 lified for training up Youth in Learning and Pie- 
 ty. 
 
 Ibid. lin. 16 : Inftead of three Sons, lee it be 
 two Sons. 
 
 **
 
 in the County of L I N C O L N. 607 
 
 Pag. 459. Glapthorne: Mr. WILLIAM OLIVER. 
 I am inform'd, that it was not this Mr. Oliver, 
 that wrote the Book for the Ufe of Teeming "Wo- 
 men, but Mr. John Oliver of Cornwal. ^ 
 
 Ibid. Mr. JOSEPH FARROW. Add, M. A ; 
 mention'd before very imperfe&Iy : But I have 
 fince receiv'd a fuller and more particular Account 
 of him, from an intimate Friend, as f6llows. 
 
 His Cafe was fomewhat particular. For he was 
 not ejected in i66z, nor did he profefledly quit 
 the Church, but was caft by Providence into a 
 Station, where he had Leifure to reflect on the 
 Terms of Conformity, which by Degrees became 
 more and more difagreeable to him ; fo that he 
 willingly conrinu'd in a private Capacity, tho' he 
 often preach'd in Publick occafionally, to the laft. 
 He was born at Bqfton of religious Parents, and 
 educated in the Free School of that Town. From 
 thence he went to Magdalen College in Cambridge, 
 where he took his Degrees. When he left the 
 TJniverfity, he for fome Years became Tutor to a 
 young Gentleman at Louth. He had the firft Offer 
 of a Free School newly erected at Brigge, but re- 
 fufed it, not liking the Employment. He was epi- 
 fcopally ordain'd ; and after he had been Chaplain 
 to the Lady Hujfey of Cathorp, and Sir Richard 
 Earl of Stragglethorp fucceiiively, he returned to 
 Bqfton, and was Curate there to Dr. Obadiah Howe 
 till his Death, Feb. 17. i68|. He fupplied the Doc- 
 tor's Place till a new Vicar fuccecded him, and 
 preach'd conftantly with great Applaufe, tho' in his 
 native Place. He remov'd from thence into the 
 Family of Sir William Ellys of Nofton, where he 
 continu'd Chaplain for nine Years, with great Sa- 
 tisfaction to himfelf and the whole Family. He 
 fometimes went along with the Family to London, 
 where he often preach'd publickly with good Ac- 
 ceptation. There he contracted a familiar Acquain- 
 tance with Dr. Fovler (afterwards Bifliop of Glece- 
 jler] the famous Mr. Locl^, the ingenious Dr. Bur- 
 tut, Mafterof the Churttr-houfe, and other Perfons of 
 
 VOL. IL C Learning
 
 608 The Ejected or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 Learning and Moderation. He had alfo a very 
 intimate Correfpondence by Lexers with Mr. John 
 Sfademan when he was in Holland, as well as a 
 Perfonal Acquaintance, and great Friendfhip with 
 him in England. He often preach'd at NoRon in 
 the Afternoon, either in the Church, or in a confe- 
 crared Chapel in the Houfe. He was violently 
 feiz'd with the Cold Palfy, about the Beginning of 
 June 1691, tho' he had fome Symptoms of it at 
 Times for about a Year before. It was fuppos'd 
 to be occafion'd, by his ftudious and fedentary 
 Life. He went to Newark, upon Trent for better 
 Advice, and there he lav about feven Weeks, and 
 died a Batchelour, July iz. 1691 ; aged about 
 fourty. He was there buried in the Chancel of the 
 Church, in the fame Grave with the laft Minifter of 
 the Place. 
 
 He was very fober and ftudious from his Youth 
 A litde referv'd in Converfation ; but when he 
 Ipake it was to the Purpofe. He was one of a 
 pious Life, and unfpotted Reputation. He had a 
 quick Fancy, a clear Head, and a ftrong Judgment. 
 He had a confiderable Stock of general Learning. 
 He was perfect Mafter of the Latin and Greek 
 Tongues, and bad a competent Skill in the Hebrew. 
 He was well vers'd in the new Philofophy, and all 
 Sorts of polite Learning. He was not unacquaint- 
 ed with the Fathers, and Councils, and Ecclefiaftl- 
 cal Hiftory : But his chief Talent was his Skill in 
 the old Greek, and tyman Hiftorians, moft of which 
 he had read in their own Language. He had a 
 political Head, and would give furprizing Conjec- 
 tures about Publick Affairs, by which he foretold 
 the feveral Steps of the glorious Revolution. He 
 penn'd all his Sermons at large : And took fo 
 much Time to digeft his Thoughts, contract his 
 Matter, and adapt his Expreflions, that he us'd to 
 fay, he never made a Sermon in lefs than four 
 Days in all his Life. Yet he feldom made ufe 
 of any Books in his Compofures ; but when he 
 was at Bofton would fit and write upon his Knee 
 by the Fire, in a publick Room, with only a Bible 
 and a Concordance. His firft Sermons were more 
 
 rhetorical,
 
 in the Count} of L I N C O L N. 609 
 
 rhetorical, and full of fynonymous Expreflions; but 
 he afterwards cut off fuch Excrefcences (as appears 
 by the many Words and Lines eras'd in his Notes) 
 and aim'd only at a Spirit of true Piety and good 
 Senfe, which runs through and animates all his later 
 Com^ofures. He was diflatisfied with fome of the 
 Terms of Conformity, and efpecially with the Oaths 
 and Subfcriptions requir'd ; infomuch that he once 
 told an intimate Friend very ferioufly, that he was 
 afraid Sir William Ellys fliould offer him a pretty 
 confiderable Living in his Gifr. that was then like 
 to fall, lead he fliould difoblige him by refufing ir. 
 He was fo pleas'd with 'hat religious and regular 
 Family wherein GOD had plac'd him, that it was 
 thought that if he had liv'd never fo lon^, he 
 would not have left it by his Good Will. And as 
 he had a great Love for that Family, fo they had 
 no lefs Regard for him ; as appears not only by 
 the frequent mentioning of his Name in it, but by 
 what was faid by a near Relation to it ; vi%, that 
 his Name would ever be re. peeked in that Fami- 
 ly, as long as any were living in it who knew 
 him. 
 
 He has left behind him feveral Setts of Sermons; 
 which are very accurate and fine ; and thought by 
 fome not much inferior to tho'e of the moft cele- 
 brated Preachers of the Age. He has left alfo feme 
 valuable Manufcripts. As, A Dtfcwfc of the I(ule 
 of Faith. Of the Obligation of fiilcwing the Dictates 
 of our oven Perfuafion. Liberty of Conscience flated 
 And defended. Short Notes concerning a Comfreben- 
 fion. Some Jhort Tranjlations out of Greek, Latin, 
 French, &c. 
 
 Pag. 460. Bafingham : Mr. CHRISTOPHER. 
 READ. Dr. Walker, Att. Part II. p. ill, fays, 
 that he was a Coh er's Son, who had been main- 
 tained a- Cambridge, about half a Year on Charity, 
 and then became an Army Chaplain (tho' without 
 any Orders, as is believ'd, either epifcoral or pref- 
 bytenan.) and by the Committee ot Lincoln was 
 fuhftuuted in the Room of Mr. St. afford a- . B/i/ing- 
 bam. But lee him have been what he would, it is 
 C z plaia
 
 6 1 o Tht Ejetted or Siknfd Minifters, 8r c. 
 
 plain their Church accepted him, and nothing but 
 his Dea T h, hinder'd his being fix'd in a Living, af- 
 ter he had for fome time ftood out. 
 
 Pag. 461. I'm. 4 from the Bottom ; Mr. BUR- 
 ROUGHS, fhould be, Mr. ISHMAEL BURROUGHS , 
 and Mr. S c o F F i N, fliould be, Mr. WILLIAM 
 S c o F F i N. 
 
 Pag. 461. I'm. ^. for Morton read "Marton. 
 Ibid. tin. 16, for Twisty, re-3.dTork.sey. 
 Pag. 466. I'm. 34, lee Northampton/hire, be chan- 
 ged into Nottingham/hire. 
 
 The EJECTED, #. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of MIDDLESEX. 
 
 Pag. 466. OfJEPy^TON; it fliould be S 
 
 ton > Mr. JOHN DODDERIDGE. 
 
 No Notice is taken of him among the Rectors of 
 this Parifh, in Nevpcourt's Rep. Eccl. Vol. I. p. 716 : 
 And yet I don't find this Living mendon'd by Dr. 
 as a Sequeftration. 
 
 Pag. 467. Afton : Mr. THOMAS ELFORD. He 
 was I fuppofe ejected out of this Re&ory in 1660 
 becaufe in the A& of Parliament which pafs'd that 
 Year, for confirming and reftoring of Minifters, Pro- 
 vifion is made, that no one fhouid be conftrm'd in 
 the Redlory of Afton, which it is declar'd his Ma- 
 jefty had before the twenty-fixth Day of Augufl 
 foregoing, granted under his Sign Manual to one of 
 his Chaplains, which was Dr. fyves, as appears 
 Nevpcourt, Vol. J. p. 571. But he makes no 
 
 Mention
 
 in the County of MIDDLESEX. 611 
 
 Mention of his Predeceflbr Mr. Elford; and yec it 
 cannot be denied but that he was as much filenc'd 
 by the Bartholomew A& in 1662, as if he had been 
 then ejected, 
 
 Pag. 467. Ellng : Mr. THOMAS GILBERT. No 
 Notice is taken of him among the Vicars here by 
 Newcourt, I{ep. Eccl. Vol. I. p. 764. 
 
 Ibid. North-Hall : Mr. MALTHURST.. fc fhould 
 be, Mr. ROBERT MALTHUS. This was the 
 Sequeftred Living of Mr. George Palmer. It ap- 
 pears from the Books of the CommifTioners for the 
 approving of Publick Preachers, that Mr. Malthw 
 was admitted here in 1654, Walker's Att. Part II. 
 p. 39 : But I do not find that either the one or the 
 other is mentioned in Nemccurt, Vol. I. p. 850. 
 
 Pag. 468. Enfield: Mr. DANIEL MANNING; 
 He is mentioned as the ejected Vicar of this Place, 
 in Ncvec. $ep. Eccl. Vol. I. p. 601. 
 
 Pag. 469. Staines : Mr. GABRIEL PRICED 
 This was the Sequeftred Liviilg of Dr. Soame. Dr, 
 Walkers Att. Part II. p. 94. There is a fmall 
 Piece of his in Print, intit. 'thoughts improved, or 
 a Chriftian directed in the Duty of Meditation, 8vo. 
 1705. 
 
 Hid. Hampftcad : Mr. JOHN SPRINT. Add, 
 In Nevpcouris %ep. Eccl. Vol. I. p. 615, he ftands 
 thus: Joh. Sprint, M. A. licentint. 17 Dec. 1633;. 
 So that he had been Incumbent here twenty-nine 
 Years when he was ejected and filenc'd. 
 
 Pag. 470. Stanmorc "Mag : Mr. SAMUEL STAN- 
 CLIFF, M. A. Inftead of there he died, let it be, 
 died at Hoxton, near London, Dec. \^. 1705, fooa 
 after his leaving them through his bodily Weak- 
 nefs and Indifpofition. He is mention'd as Redhxr. 
 of this Parifh, in Nevcourt's $p. EccL Vol. I.
 
 6 1 2 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mimfters, Sic. 
 
 Pag. 470. Edgwortb : Mr. RICHARD SWIFT. 
 He was the Son of Mr. Auguftinc Swift Attorney at 
 Law, and born at Norwich, An. 1616. His Father 
 dying while he was young, he had not the Advan- 
 tage of much Academick Learning, but he artain'd 
 to considerable Skill in the Languages. When he 
 firft entered on the Miniftry, he was Chaplain to 
 Sir Brocket S fencer, and preach'd fome time in Buc- 
 kinghamfoire, before he came to Edgworth, where 
 he was ejected for his Nonconformity. He remo- 
 ved afterwards to Mill Hill in Hendon Parifli, where 
 at firft, before he had Boarders, he was in great 
 Streights ; and afterwards, when all his Boarders 
 went away, becaufe the Small Pox was in his 
 Houfe : But he was always of a chearful Spirit, 
 and us'd to lay, why fhould he take Care, and 
 GOD too! Soon after, a confijerable Citizen's 
 Wife fen r him two of her Sons, and ftirr'd up o- 
 thers to help him, till he had a competent Num- 
 ber. He was a Man of great Charity, and ufeful 
 to many poor Families in che Parifli, and put out 
 feveral Children to Trades : So that fome tlrnk he 
 did as much Good, as moft Gentlemen of Eftates 
 in that Neighbourhood. He was more then once 
 imprifon'd in Newgate, for keeping Conventicles in 
 his Houfe; and the laft Time was in the Height 
 of the Plague. He was a pious Man, and daily 
 employ 'd in reading the Scriptures ; and ye' was led 
 away with the Fifth Monarchy Notions, as well as 
 fome others that were very peculiar. He died An. 
 ryoi, in the eighty-iixth Year of his Age. 
 
 Ibid. Hillingdon : Mr. PHILIP TAVERNER. Add, 
 he printed alib a Reply to Edward Burroughs the 
 Quaker. And afrer his Death was printed, The 
 Grandfather's Advice, directed in fpecial to his Chil- 
 dren. He died and was buried in this Parifli. He 
 was of .E.x-em--Coliere in Oxon. Befides the Account 
 of his Di'pute with the Quakers, he alfo pubiifh'd, 
 Truth's Agreement with it j elf, in the Spirit and- Let- 
 ter of the Word; or ajhort Catechifm 5 8vo. 1656: 
 
 And
 
 in the County of MIDDLESEX. 
 
 "~ "~ * 
 
 And, A Grandfathers Advice, directed in fpecial to 
 bis Children, &c. iamo. 1681. 
 
 470. Hendon : Mr. FRANCIS WARHAM^ 
 Add, M. A, for To I find be ftil'd himfelf in a 
 Sermon of his, preach'd at the Funeral of Mrs. Hel- 
 len Foot, Wife of Samuel Foot, Efq; in Alderman- 
 bury Church, in 1661, 8w : And alfo in a Sermon 
 preach'd in Paul's on Aug. 13, 1657, from Jam. i. 
 1 8 : And another preach'd at Aldermanbury , Oft. 14. 
 1657, from Job iv. 5. 
 
 Ibid. Twickenham : Mr. THOMAS WILLIS. Add, 
 M. A ; for fo he ftiles himfelf in a Tra& indt. A 
 Warning to England, or a Prophecy of ferilow Times, 
 open'd and apply'd, upon 2 Tim. iii. i. This was 
 another Sequeftred Living of Dr. Soame. See Dr. 
 Walkers Att. Part II. p. 94. 
 
 Pag. 471. Hackney: Dr. WILLIAM SpURSTOWE. 1 
 Add : See Fullers Hiftory of Cambridge, p. 170. 
 He went with the Commiffioners to the Treaty 
 with King Charles at Newport in the Ifle of Wight. 
 He is mention'd in Newc. %ep. Eccl. Vol. I. p. 610. 
 He died in January or February i66. There are 
 fome Alms-houfes near Hackney Church, that were 
 of his Gift : And there is a Stone before them that 
 has this Infcription : 
 
 WILLIAM SPURSTOWE, JD.D. Vicar of the 
 Parifh of Hackney, out of his Pious Intention, 
 ordered by his Will thefc fix Alms-hou/es, for 
 the Habitation and Dwelling of fix poor Wi- 
 dows of the f aid Parijh, of good Life and Con- 
 verfation : And Henry Spurftowe, /f ; and 
 Merchant, and Brother to the faid Dr. Wil- 
 liam Spurftowe, fulfil M his Will. ErecJed 
 and built, Anno 1666. 
 
 Ibid. Stepney : Mr. GREENHILL. His Name was 
 WILLIAM. 
 
 C 4
 
 1 4 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Pjig. 471. Mr. MATTHEW MEAT. Before his 
 coming to Stepney, he was in the Living of Great 
 JBrickkHl in Jiuckj. He was in fome Trouble abouc 
 that call'd the K^ye-houfe Plot, of which Dr. Thomas 
 Sprat, Bifhop of fychcfter has publifti'd a pompous 
 but fabulous Hiftory ; and was fummon'd to the 
 Council-Board before King Charles upon that Ac- 
 count ; but was prefently difcharg'd. See Mr. James 
 Piercers Vindication of the Dijfenters, Part I. p. 158. 
 
 Upon his Tomb-ftone there is the following In- 
 fcription : 
 
 H. S. E. 
 
 ^HiicGjuid Mortale fuit 
 
 Matthai Mead, V. D. M. 
 
 Hone ft a inter Cattleuclanos familla orti 
 
 AFietate y Do&rlna, Facundia praclari 
 
 gut 
 
 dffiduis & infigmbus Laborlbtts 
 
 Pro Patrla 3 Religione y Llbertate 3 
 
 Invifto ammo defunftus, 
 
 Vita tandem & Laudis fatur } 
 
 { Ad Calltum Dotnum quam diu o^ta f verat > 
 
 Lajjus & anbelns flacidljfijnc adfcendit, 
 
 'An. vZtat.pue 70 : 17 Kal. Novew. CfofyCXCIX 
 
 ET 
 
 font Clvls 
 AmantiJJlml Conjugls 
 
 Optlml Patrts 
 
 Theologi vere Chriftlani 
 
 Clarum reliyuit Pofteris Exempluin. 
 
 . 471. Greenford : Mr. EDWARD TERRY. Af- 
 ter thofe Words in my Account of him, Mr. Terry V 
 Living at Greenford, let this Parenthefis be added, 
 (to which it appears from Newc. ]%ep. Eccl. Vol. I. p. 
 615, he was admitted in the Room of his Father, 
 en Feb. 27. 1660.) 
 
 And
 
 in the County of MONMOUTH. 615 
 
 - _ ...._- T .. ii r - r J 
 
 And at the End of the fame Account, inftead of 
 he K yet living, lee there be this Addition and Alte- 
 ration : He loft his Sight for fome Years before his 
 Death, but took a great deal of Pieafure in having 
 others read to him. He was one of a very mild 
 Difpofition, and blamelels Life, and very charita- 
 ble. Afrer enjoying all his Days a greater Meafure 
 of Health than moft Men, he was fuddenly carried 
 off, a few Years ago. Being taken with a Lethar- 
 gick Fit about ten a-Clock at Night, he died about 
 two next Morn ing, March 8. 17 iy. 
 
 The EJECTED, jf<r. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of M o N M o u T m 
 
 473- A7E^POI(T: Mr. HENRY WALTBH! 
 " Dr. Walfa, Att, Part II. p, 158, 
 fays of this Mr. Walter, that in the Time of the 
 Welch Itinerants, he found he receiv'd a Salary 
 both in Glamorgan and Monmouthjhire. But me- 
 thinks this might have been eafily overlook'd, 
 when he had fo many Pluralijls among his own Suf- 
 ferers. 
 
 Ibid. Tyntarne ; Mr. M I L M A y E. It fliould 
 have been Tyntorn : Mr. M i L M A N. I have been 
 inform'd that he was ejected in this County, but 
 not from this Place ; nor can I hear with any 
 Certainty what Parifli he had. Some Years after 
 his Eje&mcnt he fettled at Tj/ntorn, and there he 
 
 ta.
 
 6 1 6 The Ejefted or Siltnfd Mimflers y &-C. 
 
 Pag. ,473. I have in this County omitted Mr. 
 WAT KIN JONES a noted Preacher, who had no 
 Parifli, but affifted the foremention'd Mr. Henry 
 Walter who had three Parifhes: And after Mr. 
 Walters Dea.h he was chofen Paftor of a Dilfent- 
 ing Congregation in thefe Parts, and was fucceed- 
 ed by Mr. John Harris, who had been a Scholar 
 of Mr. Samuel Jones. 
 
 The EJECTED, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 County of NORFOLK. 
 
 Pag. 473. 1\JOI(WICH: JOHN COLLINS, D. D. 
 " He wrote his Name COLLINGES, 
 (with an E.) Add ; He was the Son of a Minifter. 
 His Father, Mr. Edward Collinges, M. A, was one 
 whofe Faithfulnefs in the Miniftry, many both in 
 isfew England and Old could bear Witnefs to. The 
 Doctor gives an Account of feveral Particulars re- 
 lating to himfelf and his Family, in his Anfwer 
 to Mr. Brabourn, An. 1654. His Funeral Sermon 
 was preach'd by Mr. Fyncb, on Jan. 5. 1690, from 
 Acts. xiii. 36. 
 
 Pag. 474. lin. 8. after Sufferer, add, He was a 
 Sublcriber to the Atteftation of the Minifters of 
 the County of Norfolk in the City of Norwich, in 
 1648. 
 
 Ibid, in Marginal Note, lin. 24, for Lady How- 
 trd, read Lady Hobert. 
 
 Ibid. inMarg. lin.fenulf. after 1681, add, the 1m- 
 prwcfiblencfs of Water Baffifm ; tyo : And Vindici 
 Minifierii Evangclici, ^to. 165 ij In Aufwerio which
 
 in the County of NORFOLK. 617 
 
 there was publifh'd a Piece intir. The Preacher fent, 
 written by John Martin of Edgfield in Norfo/l^, (chough 
 Mr. Pool in his Quo PParranto, ftiles him a Mini- 
 fter in Suffolk.) And to this Dr. Collinges reply'd 
 in 1658, in a \to, intit. Vindicfa Minifterii Evan- 
 gelid revindicate. 
 
 The Dodor alfo anfwer'd Dr. Scott of Forms 
 of Prayer, and other of the London Cafes : And 
 the Part of the Englifh Annotations that go by the 
 Name of Poofs that were of his drawing up, were 
 the fix laft Chapters of Ifaiah, the Prophecy of 
 Jeremiah, and the Lamentations : The four Evan- 
 gelifts, the two Epiftles to the Corinthians, and that 
 to the Galatians : The Epiftles to Timothy, Titus, 
 Philemon, and the Book of the Revelation of St. John. 
 
 Pag. 475. lin. 6. for Tbeoligi*, read Theologize. 
 
 Pag. 476. Mr. THOMAS ALLEN. He was 
 JA. A ; Mr. Martin Fynch in a Preface to one of 
 his Books printed after his Death, gives him a 
 very great Character. 
 
 Pag. 477. Great Tarmouth: Mr. JOHN 
 M. A. Add, In 1641, he was Paftor of Somerlei- 
 ton ; and he wrote himfelf to in fome Things that 
 he printed. To his Works (which were numerous) 
 may be added among others, The Sovereign Church 
 Remedy or the Primitive Apoftolick^Way of compojing 
 Ecclcjiaftical Differences. $to, 1645. 
 
 Ibid. lin. 34, after thole Words, the Service of 
 their Souls, Add; He fubfcrib'd the Arteftation of 
 the Minifters in the County of Norfolk and City of 
 Norwich, in Vindication of the Ancient Truths of 
 JESUS CHRIST, C?c. in 1648. 
 
 Pag. 478. At the End of the Account of Mr.' 
 John Erin/ley, let this be added : At the fame Place 
 was alfo filenc'd Mr. John Allen, who had been 
 feveral Years Minifter at the great Church in Con- 
 junction with Mr. Brinjley ; he being the Paftor, and 
 Mr. Allen the Teacher; and he had a very good 
 Character. After his being filenc'd, he took an 
 Houfe at Goulftmc, which is a Place out of the 
 Jurifdi&ion of the Bifhop of Norwich, and often 
 
 prcach'd
 
 6 1 8 The Eje&ed or Silenced Minifter s, &c. 
 
 preach'd there. He died of the Sicknefs when ic 
 was at Yarmouth, An. 1655, being upwards of fifty 
 years of Age. 
 
 Pag. 480. Mr. JOB TOOKIE was alfo filenc'd at 
 Tarmouth. Add ; He was the Son of Mr. Job Tookte 
 who was Minifter of St. Ives in Huntingdon- 
 /hire, and was turn'd out: of rhat Living for not 
 reading the Bool^ of Sports. And he a!fo wa* the 
 Son of a Minifter ; a d there had ftill been tome 
 Minifters in the Family for fevera ! Generations. As 
 to Mr. Tootle the Barthnlomtan .uiferer, he was born 
 at St. Ives, Dec. n, 1616; ad ac about fourteen 
 Years of Ae was fent to Emanuel Collepe in Cam- 
 bridge ; wheic he was remarkable for his ferious 
 Piety, and diligent Application to his Studies. From 
 his firft entring the College, he feem'd to 'confe- 
 crate himfelf 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 allotted to his Retirement and Studies ten 
 Hours in a Day, and fometimes twelve. He had 
 eminent minifterial Gifts, and they were well ap- 
 prov'd of in the feveral Places in which Divine 
 Providence employ'd him ; as at St Ives in Hun- 
 tingdonjhire, St Martins Vintry in London, St Albans 
 in Hertford/hire, (where he gather'd and fettled 'a 
 Congregar'ona! Church) and laft of all in the Town 
 of Great Tarmouth, in all which Places he was high- 
 ly belov'd and efteem'd. 
 
 Upon his leaving the Univerfity, (not I fuppofe 
 without taking fome Degrees, (though as to that, 
 I have no certain Information) he was Chaplain to 
 the Lady Wcflmoreland, and Tutor to her Sons, 
 the Lord Tovonjhend, and Sir Horatio Tovonfhend. 
 The former highly refpeded him to his dying Day, 
 and was often pleas'd to advife with him in Af- 
 fairs of Moment : And the latter us'd often to fay, 
 he lov'd Mr. Tookje, becaufe he was true to his 
 Principles. 
 
 He was 6rft Minifter of St Martins Vintry in 
 London, where he made no long Stay, not being 
 iatisfy'd with their general Way of adminiftring the
 
 in the County of NORFOLK. 619 
 
 Sacrament. He went from thence to St Allans, 
 where he was Preacher at the Abbev : But rhe 
 Widenefs of the Place drown'd his Voice ; and af- 
 ter continuing there two or three Years, he re- 
 mov'd to Tatmcuth, where Mr. Bridge and he were 
 Paftor and Teacher in the Congregational Way, as 
 Mr. Brinfley and Mr. Allen were Minifters of a 
 Congregation of Presbyterians in the fame Place : 
 And there was a fweet Accord among them all, 
 and it continu'd till the fatal Bartholomew dimiffed 
 them out of publick Service. 
 
 Mr. Tookje continu'd at Tarmouth fome Time af- 
 ter his Ejection, and preach'd as he had Oppor- 
 tunity. He was once imprifon'd, but bail'd out the 
 next Day. At length he was excommunicated for 
 abfenting from the eftablifh'd Church, and a Writ 
 de Excommunicato capicndo being taken out againft 
 htm, he quitted the Town, and came to London 
 in 1655, and liv'd in Bunhill fields, where great 
 Numbers about him died of the Plague, but he 
 and his were prelerv'd : And he took all Oppor- 
 tunities that offer'd to preach till his Strength quicc 
 fail'd him. 
 
 He was eminent for an excellent Gift in Prayer; 
 and was fo happy in his Expreflions, and fo pathe- 
 tical in his Supplications, as warm'd the Hearts of 
 his Hearers, and ftirr'd up fuch Attention to his 
 Sermons, as contributed not a little to the Profita- 
 blenefs of his Labours, and was a great Advan- 
 tage in the whole of his Miniftry. When he found 
 Inlargement of Spirit, or met with Applaufe in his 
 Service, he was ever jealous of his own Heart, and 
 fearful of its being lifted up. Having heard that 
 fome of his Performances were much applauded, 
 and that by fome that had before difcover'd no 
 great RefpecT: for him, his Defire was, that GOD 
 would pardon the Weaknefs of his Servant, and 
 keep htm from fpirttual Pride ; and that the more 
 he was pleas'd to honour him, he might be fo much 
 the more humble, and watchful over his own Heart, 
 that GOD alone might be glorified. He was much 
 afflidled when any opposed cr flighted that graci- 
 ous Afiftance of the Blefled Sri* IT in Prayer of 
 
 which
 
 6 2 o The Ejebi ed or Silenced Minifltrs^ &c. 
 
 which he had himfelf fo often had Experience- 
 One Inftance of this is recorded by himleif in the 
 following Manner. 
 
 " July 3. 1641, being the LorcTs-Day, I was (fays 
 " he) much troubled at a Sermon preach'd by one 
 " Mr. Reynolds, who bitterly and fcornfully inveigh- 
 " ed againft extempore conceiv'd Prayer ; which (to 
 " fee the Difpoiitton of fuch Men againft the Ways 
 "of Grace) much perplex'd me, leaft in the De- 
 " livery of the Word this Day, I might any way 
 " mifcarry, whereby to maintain thar Prejudice ftill 
 " in carnal Hearts ; for which I fought the LORD, 
 " and he was found giving of me that Inlargement 
 " of Spirit I defir'd, which 1 begg'd not for my 
 ," own Vain-glory, but to protect the Word from 
 ;< Scandal and Reproach. I alfo covenanted this Day 
 ." between GOD and my own Heart, to labour 
 " after fome Preparations better than formerly, be- 
 " fore I enter upon the Duty of Prayer. Oh 
 " learn to live by Faith upon GOD, and be dai- 
 ," ly begging the Spirit of Prayer, or thy Hearc will 
 ' fall back into its wonted Straitnefs. 
 
 By his good Will he would not fpend an Hour 
 unprofirably ; and fuch he counted (bare NeceiTities 
 excepted) what was not fpent in his Studies, or in 
 Ibme of the Labour of his Calling, or in Chrifti- 
 an Conference, or Vifiting fuch as needed, as the 
 Sick, or Perfons that were in any Sort of Afflicti- 
 on : In which Cafe he diligently apply'd himfelf 
 to fuit his Advice to the Condition of the Patient, 
 whether needing Inftru&ion, Comfort, or Humbling ; 
 leaft the Promifes (faid he) fhould be caft away 
 upon hard Hearts, or broken Spirits not bound, 
 up. 
 
 " In vifiting others (fays he) I find it hard to 
 " walk profitably towards Company, to make my 
 *' Converfation favoury, feafon'd with Salt, towards 
 " thofe among whom I converfe. Labour there- 
 " fore after heavenly Mindednefs, that it may 
 ** bring on thofe that are Weak, and convince thofe 
 " that are Strangers to the Ways of Grace : And 
 " that I may always aim either at doing or re- 
 " ceiving Good.
 
 in the County of N O R F O L K. 621 
 
 He was a Man of Compaflion, and deeply con- 
 cern'd for the Calamities of the Church ; a fad 
 Lamenter of her Affli&ions, and a conftant Ora- 
 tor for her at the Throne cf Grace, both in pub- 
 lick and private. He us'd to fay, Prayer is the 
 Arrow, and Love rhe Bow that fends it forth j and 
 Faith rhe Hand that draws that Bow : But when 
 the Bow is not ftrong, or the Hand feeble that 
 draws the Bow, the Arrow muft needs fall fliorc 
 of the Mark. And to encourage himlelf in this 
 Duty, he diligently obferv'd and took care to re- 
 cord, the Inftances he had and knew of, of anfwers 
 of Prayer that had any thing in them particularly 
 remarkable.- 
 
 Though of himfelf he was of a very meek and 
 healing Spirit, yet in what he apprehended to be 
 the Caufe of GOD, he was ftill bold and courage- 
 ous, which fometimes expos'd him to the Rage of the 
 Enemies of Truth and Goodnefs. Auguft 31, 1641, 
 being a publick Faft, he was told, that one had 
 threaten'd to piftoi him, and was inclin'd to do it 
 in the Church that Day, while he was in the Pul- 
 pit. His Anfwer only was this ; The Lord kfep me 
 in his Way and Fear, and that will be my Prote&i- 
 on. He was very composed and eafy under Per- 
 fecution and Sufferings, to which (with many other 
 good Men) he was expos'd, upon the taking Place 
 of the Act for Uniformity ; by which, to preferve a 
 good Conference, he was fovc'd from his belov'd 
 Flock. After he had born the Brunt for a confi- 
 derable while, he was at laft oblig'd to retire, in 
 the Year 1665 to London, where he continu'd fome 
 Time exercifing his Miniftry, as Opportunity pf- 
 fer'd, with good Acceptance. And at length ic 
 pleas'd GOD to give him reft from his Labours, 
 on Nov. lo, 1670, ALtat. 54. 
 
 It was obferv'd of him, that as his outward Man 
 decay'd, his inward Man was renew'd Day by Day : 
 Though his Pain was extreme ; yet he took his 
 laft Leave of his Friends with great Meeknels and 
 Compofure of Mind, in the Words of St. Paftl, 
 Upm. xiii. n, Farcwel, be -perfett, be of good Comfort, 
 
 iff
 
 622 The Ejefted or Stknc'd Mivifters, & c. 
 
 be of one Mind, and the God of Love and Peace Jhall 
 be with you. 
 
 He wrote a Concordance to the Bible, according 
 to the Original Hebrew, but never publifh'd it. His 
 Widow parted with it, to Mr. Plumfted of Wren- 
 tham. 
 
 A Son of his was ufeful in the Miniftry among 
 the Diflenters in the Town of Tarmouth but died 
 there in 17x4, and his Death was much lament- 
 ed. 
 
 Pag. 480. Feltwl: Mr. JOHM BUTLER. I find 
 his Name alfo, to the Attestation of the Norfolk Mi- 
 nifters in 1 648 : But he was then Minifter of 
 Oldton. 
 
 Ibid. North Walfhtm : Mr. NATHANAEL MIT- 
 CHEL. His Name is alfo to the Atteftatlon fore- 
 mention'd : But it was as Minifter at Edcnthorpc. 
 He married the Sifter of Dr. Collingcs of Norwich. 
 He was an holy, lincere, good Man, but under 
 more than ordinary Melancholy for many Years. 
 He was refcu'd in a Battle wherein few efcape, 
 being under fore Temptations to deftroy himfelf. 
 He had feveral times told fome of his Relations, 
 and Dr. Collinges among others, that he muft put 
 an End to his Days, not being able to bear the 
 Trouble he was under. Many Prayers were put 
 up to GOD for him, and many made to G o D 
 with him, and he himfelf, when out of his Bed, 
 was almoft always alone upon his Knees. His 
 Friends durft not have trufted him the twentieth 
 Part of the Time he was alone, but as they found 
 him not alone while with GOD, and fafe in his 
 blefled Company. After his continuing fome Years in 
 this deep Affliction, it pleas'd GOD confiderably to 
 rebuke the Tempter, fo that tho' he had a remaining 
 bodily Diforder, yet- his Mind was much more free 
 from thefe impetuous Aflfaults. And at laft he died 
 the ordinary Death of Men, and quietly in his 
 Bed furrender'd up his Soul to GOD : And for fome 
 Years before he died, he did little elfe but read 
 and pray.
 
 in the County of NORFOLK. 625 
 
 Pag. 480. South fyffes Mr. EDMUND 
 BROOM E or BURROUGHS. I am fince inform'd 
 his Name was BROME. He fign'd the Arteftation 
 of the Minifters of this County in 1648. This Liv- 
 ing from which he was ejected was of confidera- 
 ble Value. He was much efteem'd for his Learn- 
 ing, Gravity, Piety, and Moderation, and ac- 
 counted an excellent Preacher. So much was he 
 addicted to his Studies, that he left the Manage- 
 ment of all his temporal Concerns to his Wife. 
 After he was ejected, he exercis'd his Miniftry in 
 private, as he had Opportunity among his old Pa- 
 rifhioners, till the Time of his Death, which was 
 about 1667. He was Father to Mr. Edmund Brome, 
 now (or late) Minifter of Woodbridge in Suffolk^'. And 
 Grandfather to Mr. Edward Brome, Fellow of St. 
 Johns College in Cambridge. 
 
 Ibid. North fyppes ; Mr. EDWARD CORBET. 
 One of his Name who was of Mmow-College in 
 Oxon, was a Member of the AJJembly of Divines at 
 Weftminfter ; And of him Mr. Wood gives an Ac- 
 count in his Athen. Oxon. Vol. II, Faft. 68. But that 
 was a different Perfon from thi?. That Edward, 
 Corbet took the Degree of D. D, was in the Living 
 of Great Hafeley in Oxford/hire, and died at London, 
 in 1657: But this Gentleman liv'd to be turn'd out 
 of this confiderable Living, and died in thefe Parts, 
 not long after. 
 
 Ibid. Hardingham Mr. NATHANAEL J 
 I find his Name to the Atteftaticn foremention'd : 
 But he writes his Name JOCELYN. 
 
 Ibid. I(pughton ; Mr. JOHN RENNOLDS. It mould 
 be REYNOLDS. He died Dec. 25. 1692. He was an 
 humble Chriftian, a profitable Preacher, an able Ca- 
 techift, and a faithful Friend. 
 
 Pag. 481. Dickjcboroi Mr. ELI AS CRABTREE. 
 This was the Sequeftrcd Living of Mr. Chriftopher 
 Bernard, of whom Dr. Fffe&V E' IVCS * S rea: ^ ha * 
 
 VOL. II. D racier,
 
 624 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 rader, Att. Part II. p. 204. I find the Name of 
 this Mr. Crabtree to the Atteftation of the Minifters 
 in this County, 1648. 
 
 Pag. 481. Alby : Mr. JOHN Lou CHER. Tho* 
 it appears from Dr. Walker, that Ally was a Seque- 
 ftred Living, Att. Part II. p. 331, yet I am inform- 
 ed this was not the Place of Mr. Laugher's Eje&- 
 ment. His Father Mr. Thomas Lougber was Mini- 
 fter of Lotheringefield near Holt in this County, in 
 which Living he was fucceeded by this Son of his, 
 who after fome time had the Living of Bcconthorp 
 near the fame Place, and from thence was ejecled. 
 However he could not have been long in it at the 
 Time of his Ejectment, becaufe he was ordain'd 
 by Bifhop Reynolds. He afterwards became Mini- 
 -fter of a Congregational Church at South ^epfes, 
 and Ally, but was a Man of great Moderation, and 
 of a catholick Spirit, and a diffufive Charity, and 
 much belov'd and refpedted by fober Perfbns of 
 all Denominations. He, with many others, was 
 imprifon'd, about the Time of Monmouth's Landing, 
 and then contracted an Illnefs of which he never 
 recover'd. In other Refpe&s he met with no Trou- 
 ble: For he had that Favour among his Neigh- 
 bours, that his Meetings were never broken up. 
 He died OElob. 14. 1686 : And Mr. Amyreiut was af- 
 terwards Paftor of his Church. 
 
 Ibid. Tunfted : Mr. JOHN GREEN. He came 
 to this Living in 1657: Dr. IValkfr, Att. Part II. 
 p. 380. He was moderately Congregational in his 
 Judgment; and continu'd in his Paftoral Relation 
 to, and Labours among his People, for above fifty 
 Years : And when the Severity of the Times drove 
 him for a while from his Habitation among them, 
 he yet vifited them frequently, and preach'd to 
 them privately, and was fometimes forc'd jto do 
 it in Difguife, to avoid being apprehended. Af- 
 terwards he return'd, and preach'd more publick- 
 ly and conftantly. And when the NeceflTities of a 
 neighbouring Congregation at Bradficld call'd for 
 fois Help, he preach'd to them in 1697, as wclj as
 
 in the County of NORFOLK. 625 
 
 at his own Place every Lord's Day, as long as his 
 Health and Strength would permit. 
 
 He was of a very pleafant Afpect, and chearful 
 Converfation, and an excellent and lively Preacher. 
 He had an amicable and free Correfpondence with 
 many that differ'd from him in Opinion : And one 
 remarkable Inftance of it was, the affectionate In- 
 timacy he contracted with the very worthy Mr. Jef- 
 fery, Minifter of Nortbvpalfham, in which Town he 
 fpent fome of his laft Years. His Acquaintance 
 with him was fo dear and pleafing to him while 
 he liv'd, that he defir'd to be buried in his Church, 
 and as near as conveniently he could be, to the 
 Place where he defign'd to be laid himfelf; which 
 was complied with. He underwent for fome time 
 with great Patience and Submiflion, the violent 
 Pains of the Gout, complicated with a fevere 
 Afthma ; comforting himfelf with the Hopes of be- 
 ing for ever with the LORD, which (at his Defire) 
 was the Subject of a Sermon, preach'd upon the 
 Qccafion of his Death, which was on Febr. 17, 
 1709. 
 
 Pag. 481. Foul/ham: Mr. RICHARD WORTS.' 
 I am informed that he was Minifter both of Foul- 
 /ham and Geftveickf, till he was ejected in \66^ j 
 and that it was he, and not Mr. Thomas Worts, his 
 Brother, that endur'd all thofe Sufferings which I a- 
 fcribed to Mr. Thomas Worts before ; the one Bro- 
 ther being miftaken for the other. 
 
 Ibid. Dis : Mr. RICHARD MOORE; or ra 
 ther MORE, for fo I find his Name in the Attefttt- 
 tion of the Minifters of this County, to the Truths 
 of JESUS CHRIST, in 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Burningham : Mr. THOMAS WORTS. 
 After his Ejectment here, he was a Paftor of ft 
 Congregation at Gucftwick. in this County. He died 
 about 1697. 
 
 Pag. 481. "Barford: Mr. MARK PURT." It 
 
 fhould be Mr. ROBERT PURT. Add; he loft 
 
 D a, two
 
 6 26 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, & c. 
 
 two Livings of Value, and fuflfer'd greatly by Im- 
 prifonment and lofs of Goods. 
 
 Pag. 483. Nettle/heard: Mr. BURKET, His Name 
 was MILES. He was M. A. of Edmund Hall in Ox- 
 on. He was ordain'd by the Bifhop of Oxford in 
 1630, and prefented to the Living of Pattefhul in 
 Nort hamft on/hire, by George Steward, Efq ; the Patron, 
 in 1633. And while he was there, he was for 
 fome Time very high for Conformity, and the Ce- 
 remonies of the Church : But afterwards he grew 
 more moderate, and upon that Account met with 
 much Trouble from the fpiritual Courts. From thence 
 he remov'd to Hltcham in Suffolk.^ but upon the 
 Reftoration of King Charles was turn'd out, by 
 Venue of the Broad Seal in Favour of another, the 
 former Incumbent, (who I find by Dr. Walker, in 
 his Att. Part II. p. 209, was Mr. Laurence Breton) 
 being dead. He was afterwards prefented by Bi- 
 fhop Reynolds, to the Livings of Neatijhead, and 
 Irflead in Conjunction, which were not far diftanr 
 in this County of Norfolk., but enjoy'd none of the 
 Profits of them, being turn'd out by the A& ofV- 
 niformity, before he had been in them three Months. 
 He liv'd afterwards privately at Monk/ Ely, where 
 he had purchas'd Land and built upon it, to the 
 Value of 2500 /. And I have feen a Petition of 
 his to King Charles, foon after the Reftoration in 
 j66c, in which he reprefented his compafiionable 
 Cafe in this Manner : vi%. that having in the Year 
 1650 unhappily purchas'd the Manner of Monk/ II- 
 leigh in Suffolk, belonging to the Dean and Chap- 
 ter of Canterbury, and paid to Mr. Richard Duke, 
 the immediate Tenant, 150 / for his Right, (ex- 
 cepting only his Leafe, and Term for fix Years, 
 determining Sept. 29. 1656) the faid Mr. Duke had 
 with the very Money which he had paid him, pur- 
 chas'd a new Leafe of the Dean and Chapter, 
 and fued the Petitioner, and obtain'd a Verdict to 
 caft him out of Poflefifion, without any Satisfacti- 
 on ; notwithstanding that he by purchafing, and 
 building, and planting and improving the Premifes, 
 had expended above 2500;, and run himfelf into 
 
 Debt:
 
 in the County of N O R F O L K. 627 
 
 Debt : Whereupon he humbly threw himfelf and 
 his Vight Children, at his Majefty's Peer, begging 
 that he might be reliev'd, either by means of Com- 
 miflioners, that he mov'd might be appointed to en- 
 quire into Particulars, or by his Majefty's recom- 
 mending his Cafe to the Houfe of Peers. 
 
 But he could get no Anfwer to his Petition, nor 
 
 find any way to obtain Relief. He would often 
 
 fay to thofe he was free with, tho I have loft a, 
 
 reat many Scores of Pounds by my Nonconformity, yet 
 
 Icffcd beGov I never wanted. Some People up- 
 
 on his being turn'd out, would fcoffingly fay, now 
 
 we fhall fee Surkft and his Family ftarve. But 
 
 he liv'd to relieve fome of thofe Families that had 
 
 faid it, at his own Door. 
 
 He had a Son Mr. William Burket who conform- 
 ed, and liv'd firft at Milden in Suffolk* and after- 
 wards at Dedham in EJfex, who was famous for 
 his Piety and Diligence in his Matter's Work, and 
 publifli'd a Folio upon the whole New Tejlament, which 
 he dedicated to the Bifhop of London : And I fup- 
 pofe it was this that fome how or other might 
 occafion the Miftake, of which I before was guil- 
 
 Pag. 483. Truncby Mr. RICHARD LAWRENCE. 
 Add ; M. A, of both Univerfities. He was the 
 Son of a Gentleman of fome Eftate in Cambridge- 
 fhirc, in which County he was born. From his 
 Childhood he was defign'd for the Miniftry, and 
 after his Grammar Learning he was fent to St. John's 
 College in Cambridge, and went from thence to 
 Oxford. When he was caft out of his Living, he 
 had a Wife and fix Children. He afterwards cro 
 ed the Seas, and was Paftor of a Church at Am- 
 Jlerdam. In the latter Part of his Life, he was Af- 
 fiftant to Mr. Matthew Mead at Stepney. Upon 
 Dr. Owen's Death, he was follicited to fupply'his 
 Place ; and had other Invitations : But he was un- 
 willing to go from Stepney. He was humble and 
 inoflenfive in his Carriage, and generally well fpo- 
 ken of. He never was imprifon'd for his Non- 
 C 3 conformity,
 
 628 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 conformity, but often fo expos'd, as in a manner 
 to be in the Hands of the Officers and Informers, 
 and feveral Times very providentially efcap'd them. 
 After this, being difabled from Work, he uis'd of- 
 ten to fay, that he long'd to know what Heaven 
 was. He could not preach for fix Years before 
 his Death ; which befell him on November 1 7, 
 1701 ; JEtat. 75. 
 
 The Day he expir'd, he faid to his Daughter, 
 now Child, Flefh and Heart fail, but (railing his 
 Voice confiderably) G o D is the Strength of my 
 Heart, and my Portion for ever. Mr. Galpln preach- 
 ed his Funeral Sermon, from i Pet. i. 4 : And re- 
 prefented the Deceafed as one of thofe in whom 
 his Text was verify'd and exemplify 'd. 
 
 This Mf. Lawrence, together with Mr. Greenhil, 
 Mr. C(iryl> &c. prefac'd Mr. Samuel Malbon's Dif- 
 courfe of Life and Death. 
 
 Pag. 483. Walcot ; Mr. JOHN CORY." He was an 
 humble ferious Perfon, but of weak Lungs and a low 
 Voice, upon which Account he rarely prcach'd un- 
 leis upon extraordinary Occafions. But being ex- 
 cellently well skill'd in the Latin and Greek,. Tongues, 
 he taught a private School at Norwich for many 
 Years before his Death, which happen'd in 1698, 
 when he was about the Age of fixty-feven. 
 
 ibid. Scotto : Mr. WILLIAM BIDBANCK. Add, 
 M. A ; "for fo he is ftil'd in a little Book of his 
 in \2rno, printed in 1685, intit. A Prefent for Chil- 
 dren. After his Ejectment, he was Paftor of a 
 Congregation at Denton for feveral Years, and there 
 with a fmall Eftate of his own, and a flender Al- 
 lowance from his People, he liv'd comfortably and 
 ufefally ; being greatly belov'd by all that knew 
 him, on the Account of his fweec Temper, oblig- 
 ing Deportment, and excellent Preaching. He died 
 much lamented, about 1693. He alfo wrote a Pre- 
 face to fome Sermons of Mr. Robert Ottees, intit. 
 Cbrift fee forth, &c.
 
 in the County of NORFOLK. 629 
 
 Pag. 483. Elmorton- Mr. JOHN SMITH. In the At- 
 teftation of the Minifters of this County, it is John 
 Smith, Minifter of GOD'S Word at Aylmerton. 
 
 Ibid. Denton : Mr. THOMAS LAWSON. Add,' 
 M. A. He was firft of Catherine Hall in C*m 
 bridge, and fo well efteem'd of, as to be chofen 
 afterwards to a Fellowfhip in St. John's. He was 
 a Man of Parts, but had no good Utterance. He 
 was the Father of the unhappy Mr. Deodate Law- 
 fon, who came hither from New England. 
 
 Ibid. Rjmlcsby ; Mr. JOHN REYNER. Addj He 
 had not it muft be own'd the Advantage of a 
 learned Education, but was a very ferious circum- 
 fpecl: Man, and very confcientious. After his E- 
 je&ment he went with his Family over to Holland, 
 and liv'd at Rotterdam, where he was employ'd by 
 his Acquaintance in England as their Fadtor, and 
 by that Means got a comfortable Subfiftence for 
 himfelf and Family. He was particularly taken no- 
 tice of for feis great Care in making a juft Entry 
 of all his Goods confign'd to him ; and upon a par- 
 ticular Occafion, he once declar'd to the Lords of 
 the Admiralty, with a great deal of Solemnity, 
 that he could appeal to the Judge of all the World, 
 that he had never defrauded the Country of one 
 Penny. He died at Rotterdam abouc 1697. 
 
 Ibid. T(epham ; Mr. WILLIAM SHELDRAKE. This 
 I am inform 'd was a Sequeftration, though Dr. iVal- 
 kfr takes no notice of it as fuch. The former In- 
 cumbent Mr. Gardiner being alive, return'd to his 
 Living foon after the Reftoration : And Mr. Shet. 
 drake finding the Church Doors (hut againft him, by 
 the Act for Uniformity, apply 'd himfelf for fome Time 
 to deal in Wool and Yarn, to get a Maintenance 
 for his Family. In the Opinion of fome who were 
 intimately acquainted with him, he was a Perfon 
 of uncommon Sagacity, and capable of managing 
 the greateft Bufinefs, or of being a confiderable States- 
 man. Upon the Death of Mr. Bridge, the Dif- 
 P 4 fenting
 
 6 3 o The E'jeBed or Silenced Minifters, 8t c. 
 
 fenring Congregation at Tarmouth gave Mr. Shel- 
 drake a Call to be their Paftor, and built him a 
 large Meeting-houfe ; at the Opening of which, 
 he preach'd upon E%ra vi. 6 &c., He died about 
 .1690. He was a very authoritative, and yet at the 
 fame Time a very agreeable acceptable Preacher. 
 Either he or his Brother Mr. John Sheldrake, who 
 was eje&ed at IVislich, publifh'd a Piece againft 
 Popery, intit. Popery a great Emmy to Truth, and 
 no Friend to Peace or Civil Government, fully made 
 good by difcovering the Ways and Methods whereby 
 Papifts f remote Popery in the iV^rld, 4:0. 1679. 
 
 Pag. 483. Bodham: Mr. ROBE ET WATSON.' 
 He was another of thofe who fign'd the Atteftation fo 
 oft beforernerition'd. At that Time he wrote himfelf 
 Minifter at Bakjngftroppe. He preach'd and pub- 
 Jifhed a Wedding Sermon from Luke xiv. zo, intit. 
 The Schooling of the untaught Bridegroom, in 12 wo. 
 It was preach'd at .Tarmouth , and dedicated to the 
 People of that Town. 
 
 Ibid. Billingford, or Stanfield: Mr. SAMUEL 
 ALEXANDER. It was the Living of Stanfield that 
 Mr. Alexander was in ; and Dr. Walker, gives us to 
 underftand that he came to it, in 1654. See Att. 
 Part II. p. 380. 
 
 Ibid. New Bockenham : Mr. CHRISTOPHER AMY- 
 *AUT. The Author of Sacramental Difcourfes upon 
 feveral Subjects : To which is added a Difcourfe 
 on the Life of Faith. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. N i c o L'A s P i T T. He was another 
 Signer of the Attejlation ; and he fubfcrib'd it as 
 Minifter of the Gofpel at Bunwell. 
 
 Ibid. "Munjley : Mr. PAUL AMYRAUT. Add ; 
 more of him may be known, from a little Piece 
 intit. Lutheri Poflhuma ; being prefatory to a large 
 Work, tranflated out of Dutch : In which it appears 
 that Mr. Amyraut was ancient when he was ejedled. 
 Sir Edward Deering in the Year 1644, fays of him, 
 
 " he
 
 in the County of NORFOLK. 631 
 
 " he was a learned Minifter, benefic'd in Effex : 
 " Had liv'd in England : But was born in High 
 " Germany, in the Palatinate. He was defir'd by a 
 " Committee of Parliament to compare the Origi- 
 " nal and Tranflation of the faid Work. And af- 
 " terwards there follows a Certificate of this Na- 
 " ture : 
 
 " A c COR DING to the Direction given unto 
 " " me, by this Honourable Aflembly, I have 
 " with Diligence compar'd the original printed 
 " Book in Dutch, intit. Luther s Divine Difcourfes, 
 *' with Capt. Henry Bell's Tranflation, (c. I find 
 '- the fame doth agree with the Original, &c. 
 
 Paul Amyrautl 
 
 Pag. 484. tyepham: Mr. SAMPSON TOWNSEND! 
 Dr. Walker fays, that he got the Living of Hack: 
 ford cum Whitwil, in 1655 : Att. Part II. p. 17 1. 
 He was Author of a Trad: intit. The Chriftians 
 daily PraBice ; or a Practical Difcourfe of Prayer : 
 But he was then Paftor of Hackjord and Whit, 
 veil. 
 
 -^v-w t xjW>i' *.V"^t ? 
 
 Ibid. Gorflon ; Dr. Walker fays Gaverflon : Mr.R<> 
 BERT PURT. The Dodtor owns he was presented 
 to this Living in 1654. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. PEW. I am informed he had a flou- 
 rifhing School for many Years near Beccles in Suf- 
 folk. ; and in the latter Part of his Life, he preach'd 
 
 occalionally in feveral publick Churches. 
 
 Ibid. Stradlrck? : Mr. JOHN STARKE. Dr. 
 Walker fays Starkey ; and adds, that he was pre- 
 fented to this Living in 1654. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. BREVITER. His Name was RI- 
 CHARD BR^VITER, and by that Name I find 
 he fubfcrib'd the Atteftation of the Minifters in this 
 
 County,
 
 6 j 2 The Ejetted or Silenced Minifter s, & c. 
 
 County, as Minifter at IVdcot. He was M. A, and 
 fo he writes himfelf in his printed Tract intit. "The 
 mighty Chrift, the Saints Help; 8vo. 1662; being 
 the Subftance of fome Sermons preach'd at NortJ}- 
 mal/ham in this County, upon Pfal. Ixxxix. 19. Dr. 
 Cellinges in his Plea for the Lord's Day, p. 75, fays, 
 . he was a good Scholar, and a Perfon of a fober 
 Life, and confcientious to his Principles, Cc. This 
 Mr. Breviter alfo fign'd the Atteftation as Minifter 
 at Wakot. 
 
 P. 484. Hullingbrook.: Mr. JOHN HOR.KE. To the 
 Account of him let it be added : Mr. Henry Hall, B.D, 
 and Fellow of Trinity- College in Cambridge, was his 
 Tutor: And Mr. Home himfelf intimates as much, 
 in his I$un from I(pme, a Tract of his that was be- 
 fore omitred, which conrains fome brief Notes up- 
 on the Beaft, his Image, Worfhip, &c. by way of 
 Paraphrafe upon the thirteenth Chapter of the Sfve' 
 lotion of St. John. 
 
 Ibid. I'm. 23 : for Lynn, read Bullingbroo!^ in 
 lAncohtfhire. 
 
 The Collectors and Compilers of a late great 
 Work, intit. Magna Britannia & Hibernia, Antiqutt 
 * tio- 39 & Nova, in 410, * when they come to this County 
 iMi&f' O f Norfolk, take particular Notice of ten Sufferers 
 for their Loyalty, in the late rebellious Times, and 
 then add, that thefe tire" A few Jnftanccs of the Suf- 
 ferings of the Clergy of the Church of England, who 
 fufferd in this County : And 1 can with a great 
 deal of Truth and Safery fay, that I am heartily 
 forry for their having been fo expos'd and treated, 
 and have nothing to offer in Juftification of thofe 
 under whom they futfer'd. But when they fay thac 
 thefe Perfons fuffer'd by the Party who fut in thofe 
 whom the Bartholomew Aft ejefted, they advance 
 what they would be hard put to it to prove. For 
 feveral of thpfe then ejected, were piefented by 
 the rightful Patrons, and chofen by the People in 
 the Places where they had a Right of Electing, 
 who had not the leaft Hand in mal-treating the 
 Epifcoprtlians. They intimate that the Sufferers on 
 the Church Side were more in Number, being ninety* 
 
 {even
 
 in the County of N O R T H AMPTON. 633 
 
 feven to feventy-two : Perhaps, if they count again, 
 (especially with the Addition I have now made,) 
 they will find no great Inequality. And as to the be- 
 ing morefevercly bandied, (if the Difference between 
 a Time of Confufion, and a Time of Peace, be but 
 allow'd for) I believe moft People upon a fair Com- 
 parifon, will allow the Difparity to be rather on 
 our Side : Or at leaft that the Difference is not 
 fuch, as leaves any great Room for Bo aft ing, on 
 theirs. 
 
 County of NORTHAMPTON. 
 
 Pag. 486. /JTNO: ROBERT WILDE, D. D.' 
 -*^ He was born at St Ives in the County 
 of Huntingdon, and when he died left the Poor of 
 the Parifh 6 / fer An for ever. He was a little 
 above feventy at the Time of his Deceafe. A little 
 before his Death, he preach'd on thofe Words,' 
 J$ev. xiv. ii. Here are they that l(eep the Command- 
 ments of God, and the Faith of Jefus : And faid, It K 
 but ajbort Time, and Ijhall be in Paradife. He had 
 two Sons that were Conforming Minifters. 
 
 Pag. 487. Wilbce ; Mr. VINCENT ALSO?, 
 M. A. At the End of the Account of him, let this 
 be added : I have been inform'd by a very worthy 
 Perfon, that he had it from Mr. Benjamin Kjng 
 of Okfham in Rutland, (who was Mr. Alfop's JFa- 
 ther in Law) that the faid Mr. Alfop was ordain'd 
 by a Bifhop ; and not being fatisfied with that Or- 
 dination, was afterwards ordain'd by Presbyters. 
 I cannot queftion the Trurh of this Paflage, when I 
 
 confider
 
 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mimfters, 
 
 confider the Way of its Conveyance : And therefore 
 I fuppofe the Reafon of it muft be this, that the 
 Bifhop only admitted him into Deacon's Order's. 
 And upon this Suppofition, he might think that Or- 
 dinarion defective, fo as to need fomethtng farther, 
 in order to his being capacitated for fome minifte- 
 rial Acts, which Deacons are not calPd to. And 
 yet at the fame Time I am very fenfible than fome 
 of the ejected Minifters had no other Ordination 
 than that, and thought it to be fufficient. Allow- 
 ance may very well be made for different Sentiments 
 in fuch Things as thefe, among Perfons of Worth 
 and Eminence. 
 
 Dr. Sherlock's affecting to treat the moft facred 
 Things of Religion in a jocular Way, was a Thing 
 that gave no fmall Offence to a Number of Per- 
 fons that were remarkable for their Piety and Pru- 
 dence, and was the very Inducement to Mr. Alfop 
 to draw his Pen againft him. And though in his 
 Management of the Controverfy with him, he treat- 
 ed ferious Matters with Abundance of Gravity, yet 
 where that Gentleman was up^on the merry Pin, he 
 being an ingenious and facetious Man, fo wittily 
 and fliarply turn'd the Edge upon him, that he beat 
 him at his own Weapon : So that that celebrated 
 Author never car 7 d to anfwer him, nor was he 
 ever fond of that Way of Writing afterward. And 
 tho' Mr. Wood endeavour'd to pour Contempt upon 
 him, yet Dr. South who was as famous for his Wit 
 and Drollery as any one of the Age, and as bitter 
 an Enemy of Diffenters as any one whatever, ac- 
 knowledges that Mr. Alfop obtain'd a compleat Vic- 
 tory. And I muft own, I never knew of any 
 Man befides Mr. Wood, that call'd Mr. Alfop's 
 Learning and general Worth in Queftion : And he, 
 by therein ftanding alone has expos'd himfelf. 
 
 And this I verily think, is no more than it be- 
 comes me to fay, confidering that I fucceeded Mr. 
 Alfop in his Congregation, upon their unanimous Call, 
 after his Deceafe. I may alfo add, that I was very 
 ftrictly examin'd by him, before my Ordination j an 
 which Time it falling to my Lot to make and de- 
 fend a Latin Tbsfis upon this Queftion (which he 
 
 himfelf
 
 ~in the County of NORTHAMPTON. 635 
 
 himfelf gave me) An Chriftut Officio Sacerdotalifun- 
 gatur in C<elis tantum ? He (for Argument fake as 
 is the Way of the Schools,) oppos'd me with all the 
 Vigor, Smartnefs, and Fluency of a young^Man, tho* 
 he was then confiderably advanc'd in Years. This 
 was irv the Year 1694., when Mr. Jofeph Bennet, 
 Mr. Tbomaf Reynolds, Mr. Jofeph Hill, Mr. Ebene^er 
 Brad/haw, Mr. Jojhua Bayes, Mr. King of tytmford, 
 and I, were pubiickly ordain'd, in the DiiTenting 
 Place of Worfhip by Little St Hellens : The Per- 
 fons who aflifted in and carried on the Solemnity, 
 being Dr. Samuel Anne/ley, Mr. Richard Stretton, 
 Mr. Vincent Alfop, Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Daniel Wil, 
 Hams, Mr. Matthew Sylvefter, and Mr. Tbom<a J^en- 
 tifh. And this was the firft publick Ordination a- 
 mong the Diflenters in the City, from the Time of 
 the taking Place of the Aft of "Uniformity. 
 
 Pag. 490. //. 10 j for EpiUdium, read Epicedi- 
 um. 
 
 Ibid- Burton Latimer Mr. JOHNBAYNARD. v 
 His Name is to the Atteftation of the Minifters of 
 this County to the Teftimony of the Minifters in 
 London, primed in 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Wccdon in the Street ; Mr. GEORGE MAR- 
 TYN. After his being (ilenc'd, he exercis'd his Mi- 
 niftry pretty much, among an Handful of honeft 
 People at Stony Stratford in this County, who have 
 to this Day a great Value for his Memory. 
 
 Ibid. Great or Little Houghton. Ic fhould be Litl 
 tie Houghton ; Mr. THOMAS MARTY N. I find 
 his Name to the Attejlation of the Minifters of this 
 County printed in 1648. After his Ejedment here, 
 he came to London, and liv'd retir'd. 
 
 Ibid. Caflle Ajbby ; Mr. PETER AUSTIN, (for 
 I am told his Name was PETER) this was a Se- 
 queftred Living, worth 100 / per An. Mr. Prefs 
 that was fequeftred here recciy'd conftamly from 
 Mr. Auflin 30 / per An ; and he befides made him 
 very welcome whenever he came to his Houfe, and 
 
 he
 
 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mimfters, 8rc. 
 
 he would have done fo, had it been every Day- 
 But this Dr. Walter takes no Notice of, though he 
 mentions him, Att. Part II. p. 316. While Mr. 
 Auflin was in the Living he was fo charitable, 
 that he would have but five Teeth in his Rake 
 in Harveft-time, that there might be the more 
 left for the Gleaners : So that a Bey has often 
 glean'd half a Bufhel of Barley in a Day in his 
 Field. He always fold his own Grain cheaper 
 to the Poor than the Market Price. He em- 
 ploy'd a great many poor 'People in planting the 
 Common Hedges with Plums and Cherries, and 
 other Fruit-trees, for the Supply of the Poor, and 
 of Travellers : And many of them remain to this 
 Day. He us'd to inftrucl fix Children in the Af- 
 femblys Catechifm on the Lord's Days after Evening 
 Sermon ; and when he had done, he would give 
 them a Shilling amongft them ; and the next Lord's 
 Day he would do the fame by fix more, and fo 
 continue going on, till he had paft through all his 
 young Ones ; and then begun again. At Cbriftmas 
 he gave every poor Parifhioner, of Ajhby and Chatf- 
 don, a Peck of Corn. He was refpe<5red as a 
 Preacher, and his Removal was much lamented. 
 He died at Ajhby fome time after his Ejection. 
 Among others he was treated very civilly, by the 
 Lord James Compton, Father to the Earl of Nor- 
 thampton. I cannot hear that he printed any thing 
 but a Treatife, intir. Scripture Manifeftatwn of the 
 Equality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, 8vo. 
 1650. 
 
 Pag. 490. Woodford; Mr. FLO YD E : It was Mr.' 
 WILLIAM FLOOD. There arc at this Place two Parifh 
 Churches, and two diftinct Livings, and Mr. Flood 
 had both given him by the Lord St John of Melch- 
 burn. He had a very fmiling Countenance, and was 
 much commended as a Preacher : Well belov'd by 
 his Neighbours, and reckon'd one of the greateft 
 Scholars in the County. After his being ejected 
 and leaving thefe Parrs, he would now and then go 
 and vifit, and preach for his old Neighbour Mr. 
 Whiting of Cranford,
 
 . 657 
 
 Pag. 491. longhead- Mr. RAYMOND. Ir flionld 
 be Hjngftead, which was his Living, and Dent ford 
 too, both together making about 40 or 5 o / a Year. 
 He was an able Preacher, and bold as a Lion. He 
 died not long after his Ejectment, in the feven- 
 tieth Year of his Age. I cannot hear of his preach- 
 ing after he was caft out of his Living : But he 
 liv'd privately in the Place where he was ejected 
 till he died, and his Family was well provided 
 for. He had two Sons whom he bred to the Mi' 
 niftry, that conformed. 
 
 ibid. Wellingborougk : Mr. THOMAS ANDREWS : 
 A Cantabrigian, but of what Houfe I cannot learn. 
 A Man of great Courage and Boldnefs. After his 
 Settlement in this Living, (which was given him 
 by the Lord or Lady Brook.) he often had Diftur- 
 bance from the Souldiers that quarter'd in the 
 Town, and once two of them had form'd a De- 
 fign to ftab him in his Bed ; but they were pre- 
 vented. He had Trouble here alfo from the Qua- 
 kers, who would come into the Church, and difturb 
 him as he was preaching : And he would not pro- 
 ceed, till the Officers carried them out of the Church. 
 When the Act of Vniformity took Place, he retir'd 
 to Meers Afoby, where he preach'd at Mr. Preftons 
 in the Night. He preach'd alfo often at the Lady 
 Tyrrels. He was one of an agreeable Behaviour, 
 and much belov'd by his Neighbours at Ajhby. 
 While he continu'd in his Living, he was general- 
 ly refpected by the Minifters in his Neighbour- 
 hood, and twelve of them took their Turn at his 
 weekly Lecture on Wednesdays. His Frugality while 
 he continu'd the Incumbent, fav'd him fome hun 
 dreds of Pounds againft his Ejectment: So that he 
 was better provided for than many of his Bre 
 thren. Archdeacon Palmer his Wife's Brother/ 
 much prefs'd him to conform, but he was not to 
 be prevail'd with : However he took the Oxford 
 Oath, and went fometimes to Church, and fo liv'd 
 quiecly at Ajhfy. I cannot hear that he left any 
 
 thing
 
 638 The Ejetfed or Silenced MimfteYs, 
 
 thing in Print. His Son John conformed, and was 
 Minifter of Taxley, near Peterborough. 
 
 Pag. 49 1. Meers djhby ; Mr. THOMAS COLESTON." 
 It fhould be Mr. RICHARD COLSTON, for that I am 
 inform'd was his true Name. He was born at IVool- 
 afton, and bred at Cambridge. When he came from 
 the Univerfity, he kept a School at the Place of 
 his Nativity, and preach'd about the Country with 
 good Acceptance. At length he fettled in this 
 Town, where he was well belov'd by his Parifho- 
 ners, but did not continue in the Living above two 
 or three Years. Mr. Holmes, who came to it at 
 the Reftoration, (Dr. Walker, Att. Part II. p. 106, 
 fays he was fettled here by Mr. George Lavpfon, 
 whole fequeftred Living this had been) offer'd to 
 continue him as his Curate : But he remrn'd to 
 his Parents at Woolafton, and not long after died of 
 a Confumption, being between thirty and forty 
 Years of Age. 
 
 Pag. 493. Rpthwel or Desborougb ; Mr. THOMAS 
 BROWNING. It fhould be Desborow, near Upvpel. 
 A remarkable Story in which this Mr. Browning 
 was concern'd, may be met with in the Conformifts 
 fourth Plea for the Nonconformifts, p. 83. In the 
 latter Part of his Life he had a great deal of Trou- 
 ble from his Neighbour Mr. Richard Davis, who 
 with his odd Notions and dividing Principles and 
 Practices, gave no fmall Difturbance to all the Mi- 
 nifters and Congregations round him, and even ma- 
 ny that liv'd at a Diftance, and in other Counties. 
 But Mr. Browning opposed him to his utmoft. And 
 after the Fits of Mr. Davit's Hearers and Admirers, 
 (which had fomewhat in them that was pretty fin- 
 gular) had made a Noife for fome Time, they at 
 length ceas'd and wore off by Degrees. And it 
 it to be hop'd that Mr. Da-vis with all his Faults, 
 was not deftitute of a real Spirit of Piety. 
 
 Ibi4, lin. 31, for Mr. Colewtt, read Mr. Co.ld- 
 veU. 
 
 Pag.
 
 the County of NORTHAMPTON. 639 
 
 Pag. 494. Qundlc ; Mr. RICHARD R 
 Ar the End of the Acount given of him. ; add, 
 He piinred alfo the Tabernacle of G:d with Men ; 
 or the vifible Church KC formed ; A Difcourfe of the 
 Matter and Difcipiine of the vifible Church, tend- 
 ing to Reformation, $to. 1649: And a Stop to the 
 Growth of Arminianifm. 
 
 Ibid. Creeki Mr. STEPHEN FOWLER. Add, He 
 was elner Brother to Dr. Edward Fowler, Bifhop 
 of Gtouccfler. He was eminent for the Holineis 
 of his Life, his zealous and conftant Preaching in 
 his Houfe in all Times, his great Moderation, and 
 many excellent Qualities. His Father was a wor- 
 thy Nonconformift in the County of Glcucrfter. 
 
 Pag. 495. Cottcrflock^; Mr. MALKINSON. Juftice 
 Norton was very much his Friend, both while he 
 was in his Living, and when he was out of it. 
 
 Ibid. KJXssby Mr. WORTH. Add ; He was born 
 in Wbolftane Parifh, near Coventry. After his Eject- 
 ment, he preacVd for a while at Daventy, and af- 
 terwards at Chipping Norton. He had three Sons 
 Minifters among the Diifenters : John (who took 
 his Degree in Phyfick) fertled at Marlborcugb j 
 iVilliam at ('or near) St Ives in Cornwnl ; and Ste- 
 phen a: Cirencefler in Glouceftcr/hire, where he fuc- 
 ceeded Mr. Eecby. /J t 
 
 Ibid. Norton ; Mr. ROBERT ALLEN. Add ; He 
 was one of an excellent, mild and loving Temper, a 
 popular Preacher, and one of the Le&urers at Da- 
 ventry. His Church was crowded, from Buckby, 
 Wcedon, Badby, and all the Neighbouring Parts. 
 After his Ejectment he remov'd to Adfon, fix or 
 feven Miles diftant, where Enquire Harvey enter- 
 tained both him and his Wife ; and there he died 
 many Years fince. I cannot hear that he prinred 
 anything. His Living was va'.u'd but ac about 60 / 
 per An : But thea he had no Children. 
 
 VOL. II. E Prff.
 
 640 The Ejetied or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Pag. 495. Aldwinkle : Mr. NATHANAEL 
 WHITING. Add, M. A ; for fo I find he ftiles 
 himfelf, in a Book he has printed, intir. The Saints 
 Triangle of Duties, Deliverances, and Dangers; 1659, 
 4.ro. He was ejeded from rhe Free School at Aid- 
 roinkje, as well as from the Living. He had no Por- 
 tion with his Wife, though her Parents were weal- 
 thy. She often complaining of this to her Husband, 
 he us'd to reply, we have no Need of it ; it will 
 come perhaps when we need it more. And it plea- 
 fed GOD in his Providence to order Matters fo, 
 that the old Folks died and left them all, much a- 
 bout the Time of his Ejectment. And he after- 
 wards dying without Children, was a considerable 
 Benefactor to the faid School, from which he had 
 ..been eje&ed. 
 
 Pag. 496. Lodington : Mr. HENRY WILLES.' 
 Add, M. A. 
 
 And juft at the End of the Account of him, let 
 it be added, he publifh'd, The Marriage Blcfling in 
 a Crown of Children, 1658. 
 
 Ibid. Daventry: Mr. TIMOTHY DOD. Son 
 of the famous Mr. John Dod of fawjley, which tho' 
 once noted for being the Place where his celebrated 
 Father refided, now fcarce affords a Brace of Houfes, 
 befides the Gentleman's Seat. This Son of his imi- 
 tated his excellent Father in Piety and Gravity. What 
 Univerfity he was of I cannot certainly fay; but 
 am informed he was publickly ordain'd in this 
 Town, fbirfe time after 1640, and fettled as a 
 Preacher there. Mr. Crafts had the Vicaridge, and 
 Mr. Dod was only Lecturer, and yet was fo well 
 belov'd, that the Town contributing to him 40 / 
 per An, made his Income almoft equal to the Vi- 
 ,caridge : But then Mr. Crafts had alfo rhe Free 
 School. Mr. Crafts preach'd in the Morning, and 
 Mr. Dod in the Afternoon. When the Burgefles 
 and chief Men of the Town came to Mr., Dod, 
 from Quarrer to Quarter, with his Allowance of 
 10 / which they took the Trouble of collecting _ for 
 
 him,
 
 in the County ofN O R T H A MP T O N. 641 
 
 him, he us'd to charge and beg them to receive 
 nothing from the Poor, leaft the Gofpel might be 
 made burdenfome to them. Juftice Farmer who 
 had liv'd fome time in the Town, dying under a 
 Cloud, Mr. Dod did not preach a Sermon, but 
 made a Funeral Oration at his Interment, which 
 was much applauded. He was a celebrated Preach- 
 er, but in the latter Part of his Time was fo very 
 corpulent, that he could not gee fo high a* the 
 Pulpit ; and therefore preach'd in a Pew, or in 
 the Desk. He was univerfally refpedted by the 
 Minifters who preach'd the tVednefday Ledture in. 
 this Town. He was of a fweet, humble, affable 
 Temper, but melancholy. After his being ejedted 
 and fiknc'd he liv'd privately, bur was extremely 
 afflicted with the Gout and other Illnefles. He re- 
 moved from Dnvcntry to Egerton, upon the OccaHon 
 of a great Sicknefs in Daventry, and his own great 
 Diforder : But foon after died there,' about the 
 Time of the Plague in 1665. I am inform'd it 
 was his conftant Cuftom to pray feven. Times a 
 Day ; vi%. twice with his whole Family, twice in 
 private with his Wife, and three times alone. I 
 cannot hear that he ever appear'd in Print. He 
 bred up his Son John to the Miniftry, and he con- 
 formed. 
 
 Pag. 496. Thrapfton : Mr. THOMAS T E R H. E \\ 
 His Name was T A R R E Y. He had a very large 
 Congregation, and was much belov'd by his Pa- 
 rifhioners, ' and greatly refpedted by all the neigh- 
 bouring Minifters. He was very charitable to the 
 Poor while he was in his Living : And yet after 
 his Ejedtment was reduc'd fo low, that his Wife 
 made Band-ftrings (much in Fafhion in thofe Days) 
 f&r a Livelihood. But after fome Time, he was 
 invited to the Free School at Higbam, the Salary of 
 which was 10 / fer An ; and he had a flourifhing 
 School, and many Gentlemen fending their Sons to 
 him for Inftruclion, he grew rich : But fome Diffe- 
 rence arifing between him and fome wealthy Per- 
 fons in the Town, he remov'd to fome Place near 
 a London,
 
 642 ' The Ejected or Silenced Mzvifiers, 8rc. 
 
 London, where he fpent the Remainder of his 
 Days. 
 
 Pag. 496. Over/ton : Mr. LIONEL GOODRICK. 
 This fhould be expung'd, becaufe the very fame 
 Perfon was mention'd as conforming, p. 498. 
 
 Ibid. Morten Pinkney: Mr. WARE. It fliould 
 be Mr. WARR, who came to this Place from be- 
 yond Bradley. This Town is large, and yet his 
 Income was but 3 5 / per An ; 5 o / a Year being 
 paid out of the Living to O/W-College in Oxford. 
 Mr. Wan was fufpended in \66^ for half a Year, 
 jtnd one Mr. Bet t preach'd in his Stead : But ac 
 length he conform'd, and the College reftor'd him, 
 and he continu'd preaching here to the eightieth 
 Year of his Age : So thai he fliould be here ex- 
 punged. 
 
 Ibid. Early : Mr. RICHARD THORPE. It 
 fliould be Barby for that is the Name of the Liv- 
 ing : A Parfonage worth 200 / per An ; and wheu 
 the Men of Onelj, (a Village that belongs to this 
 Parfonage) plowed much Ground it was worth 250 /. 
 None of the Minifters in thefe Parts were reckon-* 
 ed to go beyond Mr. Fowler of Crick, in Preaching, 
 and this Mr. Thorpe in Praying. He kept the Youth 
 of the Town in great Awe, and from prophaning 
 the Sabbath, as had been too ufbal and common. 
 He was fo much taken .up with fpirhual Things, 
 that he knew not his own Cattle, except the Horfe 
 he ufually rode on : And he lefc all his worldly 
 Concerns to the Care of a faithful Servant. After 
 his being ejeded and lilenc'd, he preach'd in his 
 own Houfe on Thurfdays, without Moleftation. He 
 went on Lord's Days to Church, to hear Mr. If am, 
 with whom he had a fair Correfpondence till his 
 Death, which was forty Years ago. 
 
 Ibtd. Chefier : Mr. STRICKLAND NECU.^ 
 An holy good Man and very ufeful Preacher. He 
 was one of the Tburfday Ledturers at Oundle. 
 
 Pag.
 
 in the County of NORTHAMPTON.* 643 
 
 Pag. 496. Proughton : Mr. JOHN B A z E L Y, 
 Jun. A Man of great Note in thefe Parrs. His 
 Name is to the Attcftation of the Minifters in this 
 County, to the Teftimony of the Minifters of Lon- 
 don, printed in 1648. He was put in by rhe Par. 
 liarr.entary Commiflioners, in the Room of Mr. Bfnt. 
 ham, who was fequeftred, of whom Dr. lValk$r gives 
 a particular Account, Att. Part II. p. 205, 106. 
 And at the Reftoration Mr. Bentham came again. 
 Mr. Barely, who was a Man of Subftance, after 
 his Ejectment bought a Houfe and Eftare at K^ette- 
 rlng, and liv'd there. He was generally refpe&ed 
 by the Minifters in the Neighbourhood, and liv'd 
 in good Repute. His only Daughter was married 
 to Efquire Morgan of Itjngflhorpe, near Northampton. 
 He was blind for fome time before he died ; buc 
 did not thereupon forbear Preaching. He was one 
 of the twelve Lecturers at lettering. 
 
 Dr. Walker fays, that when Mr. Barely came to 
 this Living of Broughton, he feiz'd the Corn in the 
 Ground, notwithftanding Mr. Bentham had by himfelf 
 or others of his procuring, ferv'd the Place, and paid 
 the Taxes to the Time of Harveft ; whereas Mr. 
 Barely did not preach one Sermon there, till about 
 Oftober following. This (if true) it muft be own'd 
 was hard : But there were a Number of the poor 
 Nonconformifts in 1661 that were in the fame Cafe, 
 that neither met wiih any Companion then, nor can 
 be mention'd now, by fuch as Dr. IValkgr, without 
 Contempt. 
 
 Ibid. Creighton, orCtcton: Mr. RICHARD HOOK. 
 He was pre tented to this Living by Mr. Marram. 
 He was not fo well lik'd by the Inhabitants at his 
 firft coming as he was afterwards. When he was 
 ejedted, he for fome time preach'd in his own 
 Houfe, and then went to Northampton, where he 
 had fome Eftate, and there he taught School, an.d 
 went to Church, but preached occafionally. 
 
 Ibid. Gryndon ; Mr. SAMUEL BAYES. He 
 
 wjs a Torkjhire Man, bred in Tn'mYj-College in 
 
 E 3 Cambridge.
 
 644 The EjeBed or Silenced Minifters^ &c. 
 
 Cambridge. After his being filenc'd , he Hv'd private- 
 ly at Manchefter , where he died many Years 
 fince. 
 
 Pag. 496. Cottesbrook^; Mr. THOMAS BURROUGHS! 
 Add, B. D, tor fo I find he wrote himfelf, in a. 
 Sermon of his that I have feen, preach'd at the 
 Funeral of Mr. John Langham, July 19, 1657. He 
 publifli'd alfo, Directions about preparing for Death, 
 %vo. 1675. 
 
 Ibid. Pottersbury ; Mr. COOPER^ Some of the 
 Ancient Inhabitants here being inquir'd of, have in- 
 form'd me, that it was Mr. Newel that was Incum- 
 bent here in 1661, and that he-conform'd, to keep 
 his poor Benefice of 30 / a Year, and taught School. 
 And therefore Mr. Cooper muft be here expung'd. 
 J3ut then at, 
 
 Ptiulfperry, which is not far diftant, there was 
 one Mr. VINCENT COOPER, (or rather CUPPER, 
 for. by that Name I find he fubfcrib'd the Attefta- 
 tion of the Minifters of this County, to the Tefti-. 
 mony of the Minifters of London in 1648) who 
 pray'd for King Charles before his Restoration, 
 and read the Creed, and ten Commandments, G?c. 
 This Living is worth 300 I per An, and "Mr. Cooper 
 when he was filenc'd, liv'd with his Son whom he 
 had bred up to the Miniftry, who conform'd. He 
 was reckon'd but a mean Preacher, but was an 
 honeft good Man, and employ'd many poor, and 
 , was very Charitable. 
 
 Ibid. Irlmgborcugh - t Mr. HUMPREY LUCAS. This 
 fliould be here expung'd, becaufe the fame Perfon 
 is mendon'd again, p. 497, 
 
 ibid. Panthersbury, or Paulfpury ; Mr. N E v i L 
 I am infonn'd his Name was N E w E L ; but 
 that he was neither Minifter of this Place, nor a 
 Nonconformift, but liv'd and died in the Church, 
 at Pottersbury. He had indeed a good Living at 
 Lcchnwjlead in Bucks, which lie loi: for fome Im- 
 moralities' ;
 
 in the County of NORTHAMPTON. 645 
 
 moralities ; and was afterwards Vicar of Pottersbu- 
 ry ; but I cannot hear that he ever had the leaft 
 Scruple with refped. to Conformity.- 
 
 Pag. 497. Barton, (chat is Earls Barton) Mr. NICOLAS 
 KENRICK. I am inform'd, he conform'd to keep 
 his Living, but never went up the Pulpit Stairs 
 with Comfort afterward. He had written againft 
 the Ceremonies, and was but an half Conformift. 
 For which he was cited into the Spiritual Court, but 
 fcreen'd by Archdeacon Palmer, under Pretence of 
 his bodily Infirmities. He freely futfer'd his Children 
 to go and hear the ejected Minifters, and carried 
 it with a brotherly Atfedion to them from firft to 
 laft. 
 
 Ibid. Horton ; Mr. HENRY How LET. His 
 Name I underftand was SAMUEL and not HENRY. 
 His Preaching was univerfally applauded. Both in 
 1661, and for fome time after, he refus'd Confor- 
 mity : But was at length prevail'd on by George 
 Montague, Efq; and his Lady, to ufe a little of the 
 Common Prayer ; and doing fo, he continu'd there 
 till the Reign of King William, and then died of 
 the Small-Pox, and was much lamented. 
 
 Ibid. Northampton; Mr. JEREMIAH LEWIS; for 
 that was his Name. Add, he preach' d in St Giles's 
 in this Town, and was much follow'd. This Liv- 
 ing was formerly in the Gift of the Earl of Nor- 
 thampton, who had beftow'd it on Mr. Bennet. He 
 being rich, and not needing it, gave leave to Mr. 
 Wbaley Mayor of the Town, to put in any one thar 
 he and the People liked beft, and he (with Mr. 
 Sennet's full Approbation, and the good Liking of 
 the Body of the People) gave it to Mr. Lewis, who 
 had enjoy'd it near twelve Years before his Ejecl- 
 ment in 1661, and was bclov'd univerfally. He 
 was a pretty referv'd Man, and I cannot hear that 
 he ever preach'd after he was ejected; nay he 
 feldom went abroad. All were united in their Re- 
 fpe& to him, except the Quakfrs, who would fome- 
 times arrrbnt him ; but he us'd to pafs them by, 
 E 4 without
 
 646 The Ejected or Silenced Mimfiers, &c- 
 
 without regarding them. He was one of great 
 Meeknefs, and (ingular Prudence -, much be'ov'd 
 by the Neighbouring Minifters ^ and an Intimate of 
 Mr. Daniel Cawdry of Billing. He died at Northamp- 
 ton, not long after his being filenc'd. 
 
 P. 497. Trcywell ; Mr. JOHN SEATON. Itfhould be 
 Tiviwell, which was the Name of the Living, worth 
 about 50 or 60 I per An, becaufe Slipton Living is 
 commonly join'd with it. Mr. Seaton was very fer- 
 vent in the Pulpit, but very mild out of it. After 
 his Ejectment, he taught School at I/lip, where le- 
 veral of the Neighbouring Gentlemen committed 
 their Children to his Care and Inftrudlion. He 
 remov'd from thence to Tbrs.pfton, where alfo he 
 continued to keep School. He died there many 
 Years (ince, about the fevenneth Year of his Age. 
 He ofren went to Church, and had no Congrega- 
 tion of his own, afrer his being filenc'd : Only he 
 preach'd now and then at Sir Gilbert Pickering's at 
 Tichmarcb ; and at Cranford for Mr. Wanting and 
 at fome few other Places. He met with no Trour 
 ble about the Corporation Aft, or any other Way 
 for his Nonconformity. 
 
 Ibid. Little Addington ; Mr. SANDERSON. Fie 
 ought to be here expung'd : For I am inform 'd, 
 that he was turn'd out in Olivers Time, and came 
 in again in 1661. 
 
 ibid. Drouvhtcto ; Mr. T R o T T. Though he turn- 
 ed out of this Living in or about 16^2, yet he 
 conform'd and bought the Living of Newton near 
 Higham^Ferries, and therefore fliould not be men- 
 tiou'd here. 
 
 Ibid. Marfton ; Mr. \V A L T E R Ho R N B Y. It 
 fhouid be Marjlon Trujfil, to diftinguiih it from. 
 ~Marfton St Laurence, which is the Name of ano- 
 ther Living in this County. I am alfo informed 
 . ' that there were two Waiter Hornby's, the Father 
 and the Son, who were both of them Minifters. 
 Both of them preach'd at tlarbenugb Lecture in 
 
 Olivers
 
 intheCwntyof NORTHAMPTON. 647 
 
 Oliver's Time, and were much refpe&ed. The Fa- 
 iher had this Living, worth i5o/ fer Annum, and 
 bought the Advowfon of it for his Son, after he 
 had been in it a preat many Years. He died juft 
 before the Aft of "Uniformity took Place, in 1662, 
 aged about eighty. Mr. Walter Hornby the Son, 
 was educated in Emanuel College in Cambridge. 
 When the Act of "Uniformity was in Force, he refus'd 
 to conform. His Mother earneftly prels'd him to 
 fall in with the Eftablifliment, but he gave her this 
 Anfwer : If I want Bread you can help me ; but if 
 I go againft my Oath, and have A guilty Confcience, 
 you cannot help me. He presented Mr. Blackerbj 
 to Marfton Living ; and upon his removing into 
 Suffolk., he prefented Mr. Bedington, and after him 
 Mr. P%; an d the Right of Prelentation is in his Fa- 
 mily to this Day. As to himfelf, he preach'd fome 
 time at Langton, under Mr. BLickerby, before the 
 coming out of the Aft of "Uniformity, and afterwards 
 kept up the Meeting at Shoveel near Lutterveortb, bur 
 was not Paftor of a Congregation. He communica- 
 ted with Mr. Clark^ of Harborough, and was a very 
 pious ferious Man, but ordinarily melancholy ; and 
 yet at Times very chearful. He died at Harbo- 
 rough aged iixty two. He us'd to go to hear moderate 
 Conformifts, (uch as he pretented to Marfton Liv- 
 ing : And fuch as they, would join with Mr. Clari^ 
 and Mr. Shuttle-wood and other DifTenting Minifters, 
 in keeping private Fafts. Mr. Hornby, though the 
 Patron of the Living, receiv'd nothing out of the 
 Profits of ir, unlefs Mr. Rlackfrby, and his Succet 
 fors might now and then lend him fome fmali 
 Prefent. 
 
 Pag. 497. Irtlingborough : Mr. HUM 
 L u c A 5. This Perfon through Miftake is men- 
 tion'd both p. 496 and 497 : But one of the two 
 ought to be expung'd. He remov'd from hence 
 about 1662, but whe: her ejected for Nonconformi- 
 ty is not fo certain. This Cure is but twenty Marks 
 a Year. Tho' the old Lord Nicl^ of Hanbury gave 
 40 / per Annum to fome married Men for a while, 
 yet his Steward coming to the Management of it, 
 
 paid
 
 648 'The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters^ 8rc. 
 
 paid twenty Marks and no more ; and put in none 
 but Batchelors ; and Mr. Lucat was one of that 
 Sort. I underftand they have had twenty Parfons 
 fince : For no one will ftay there longer than he is 
 neceffitated, for Want of a better Living. 
 
 Pag. 497. Tanfover: Mr. CAUTHORN. Add, ED- 
 WARD, for that I am told was his Name. I am al- 
 fo informed that he was depriv'd in 1660. 
 
 Ibid. Warcup : Mr. FRANCISFULLER. Add, 
 JA.A. And to his Works, add, A Treatife of Grace 
 and Duty, 8vo. 1688: And a Sermon intit. Peace 
 in War ; by C H R i s T the Prince of Peace : Preach- 
 ed on a Publick Faft, Jun. 16. 1696. 
 
 Ibid. Church Brampton : Mr. VINTRESS. Dr. 
 Walker, Att. Part II. p. 389, owns, that this Mr. 
 Ventris paid the fequeftred Minifter his Fifths, tho' 
 ctherwife, he fays, he behavd himfelf very indolently 
 towards him. As to which, no Judgment can be 
 pafs'd, without knowing all Circumftances. 
 
 Ibid. Since the Publication of my laft Edition, I 
 have been inform'd, of one Mr. R OWLET who 
 was a Preacher at Sudburough in this County of 
 Northampton. He preach'd in his Turn at the Lec- 
 ture at "Thrapfton, which was upheld by fix Perfons 
 of Eminence ; but if it fo happen'd that any of 
 them fail'd, Mr. tyvelet was always ready, and fup- 
 plied for them. After St Bartholomew's in i66xhe 
 remov'd to Nether Dean in Bedford/hire, where he 
 liv'd privately, but preach'd frequently, as he had 
 Opportunity, and was fupported. by a little Eftate 
 he had of his own, of about 10 / per An. He 
 went ordinarily to the Publick Church, and in the 
 Evening of the Lord's Day, would preach to fuch 
 honeft Neighbours as were willing to hear him 
 in his own Houfe. In the Time of King Charles's 
 Indulgence, there was a Meeting every Lord's Day 
 at Wcllingborow, upheld by Mr. Alfop, and this Mr. 
 Rovelet, who continu'd preaching there till Death 
 difabled him. Mr. Alfop fpeaking to one of Mr.
 
 in the County o/NORTHAMPTON. 649 
 
 Upwlet, faid, if this Man had but a Body to his 
 Soul, he would be incomparable. He is reprefent- 
 ed by fuch as attended on his Miniftry, and knew; 
 him well, as a moft agreeable Preacher, that us'd 
 to charm his Hearers. He died of a Confump-. 
 tion. 
 
 I am alfo informed of another that was filenc'd 
 in this County, -w^. at 
 
 Whittlebury : Mr. JOHN FIDO, M. A, whom I 
 before mention'd by Miftake as ejected from his 
 Fellowfhip in Trinity- College in Cambridge, which 
 he had before furrender'd. He was born at Stan- 
 ford upon Teeme in Worcefterjhire, and was the Son 
 of a Gentleman of a considerable Eftate there. Af- 
 ter fome Proficiency in Grammar Learning, he was 
 fent to Trt'mVy-Ccllege i n Cambridge, where he con- 
 tinu'd fourteen Years. He was firft Minifter of 
 
 ick^j three Miles Weft of Cambridge, and af- 
 terwards was by the Parliament prefented to this 
 Living of Wflnttlebury, worth 300 / a Year. At 
 the Reftoradon, Dr. Skinner laid Claim to it, tho* I 
 know not upon what Pretence. Mr. Fido ftood a 
 Trial with him at the AlTizes at Northamfton, and 
 caft him. The Judge declared that Mr. Fido had a 
 legal Title to the Living, and no one could difpoC- 
 fefs him of it: And told the Doctor, that were 
 Preachers were well provided for, and ftill coveted 
 more, it fliew'd they minded the Fleece more than 
 the Flock. But what could not be done this Way, 
 was effectually brought about by the Bartholomew 
 Act fome time after. He retir'd afterwards to Lon- 
 don, and there died in 1667 or 1668, about the 
 thirty.fevenrh Year of his Age. He was ftri&ly 
 Congregational in his Judgment. 
 
 I am alfo inform'd of one Mr. HENRY ROOSE, 
 who was in 1661 tnrn'd out of the Living of 
 Caflon, and that he was reclcon'd one of the beft 
 Preachers in England.
 
 6 5 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Pag. 498. Over againft Mr. Hedges of Hi/ham, 
 let there be this Note in the Margin : Dr. Walker 
 therefore might very well have fpar'd his Notice, 
 (Part II. p. 41 J^ I having mention'd the fame thing 
 before. 
 
 Ibid. lin. ZX. for Lancajhire, read Lincoln/hire. 
 
 When the Collectors and Compilers of the great 
 Work intit. Magna Britannia & Hibernia, Antiqua 
 & Nova, in 410, come to this County of Northampton, 
 they mention * feveral Inftances to prove the Patience 
 And Ccnftancy of the Loyal Sufferers in the late %e- 
 lelliouf Times : And that their Sufferings were in 
 many Cafes very fevere, I cannot deny. But when 
 they add, that they much outweigh the Hard/hips of 
 the Nonconformifts by the Bartholomew Aft, ( muft 
 beg leave to demur. Their being outcd of the Li- 
 vings they had, if they poffefs'd any belonging to 
 Epifcopal Men, was what I muft confefs they might 
 indeed expecl upon the Reftoracion : But tho' Kjng 
 and Bi/hops were reftord, yet might it have been for 
 the Benefit both of the Church and State, for them 
 to have been peaceably allow'd the Benefit of the 
 Royal Declaration for Ecclefiaftical Affairs, in Ofto- 
 l>er 1660, which the prefent Bifhop of this Diocefe of 
 Peterburough, has publickly own'd, t may ft and far 
 a Pattern to Pofterity, whenever they are heartily dif- 
 fofed to reft ore the Difcipline, and heal up the Breaches 
 of the Church : And of which another great Man of 
 the Church of England had fuch an Opinion, that he 
 has 4- declar'd he thought, that the united Judgment 
 of the whole Nation could not frame a better or more 
 unexceptionable Expedient for a firm and lofting Con- 
 cord of thefe diftratted Churches. 
 
 * No. 4.1. p. y8z, 583. 
 
 + See 3d Vol. of the Comp Hift. of England, p. 2zp. 
 
 | Preface to Protefttnt Reconciler, pag. 8.
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 651 
 
 ***********.********** 
 ********** ************* 
 
 The EJECTED, 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 COUNT Y 
 
 O F 
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND." 
 
 Pag. 498. NEWCASTLE upon Tyne: Mr. 1 
 
 ^ ^ S A M U E L H A M M O N D, B. D. He 
 
 and Mr. Thomat Weld, Mr. William Durant, and two 
 other Minifters in Newcaftle, publifh'd a Pamphlet 
 intit. The perfeft Pharifee, under Mcnkj/h Holinefs, of- 
 fofmg the Fundamental Principles of the DoBrine 
 and Worfhip of the Gofpel \>y the People called Qua- 
 kers ; qto. 1654. 
 
 Pag. 500. St John's : Mr. HENRY LEAVER. 
 Add ; His Grandfather Mr. Thomas Leaver was 
 Chaplain to Edward VI ; and one of the Refugees 
 at Frankford in Queen Mays Reign: And when he 
 left that City, upon the Disturbances among the 
 Exiles there, he remov'd to Arrau in Switzerland, 
 and was firft Minifter of the Englifh Congregation 
 there. A diftindr. Account of him may be met with, 
 in the Hiftory of the Troubles of Frankford, in Rale" 1 * 
 Centuries, and in Dr. Fullers Worthies. He was after 
 his Return into his own Country, Mafter of the Hof- 
 pital of Sherborn, about a Mile from Durham and a. 
 great Intimate of the famous Bernard Gilpin, Parfon 
 of llwgbtm. And tho' he came of a good Family ac 
 
 Little
 
 652 The Ejefled or Silentd Minifters, &c. 
 
 Little Leaver in Lancajhire, yet was the Occafion of 
 the Settlement of a Branch of the Family in that Coun- 
 ty. ^This Mr. Thomat Leaver, had a Son nam'd Sampfon 
 Leaver, from whom fprung Mr. Henry Leaver, who at 
 the Beginning of the Civil Wars was Parfon of Aln- 
 wicl^ in Northumberland. From thence he remov'd 
 to fucceed Dr. Co/jns in the Rectory of Branfpeth, 
 in the County of Durham, about the Year 1644. 
 When the Defign was fet on Foot, of erecting a 
 College at Durham, he was one of the Commif- 
 fioners to fettle that Foundation, and in that Ca- 
 pacity had an Opportunity both of fhewing his own 
 Candour and Moderation, and of doing a Piece of 
 Service to one of the fequeftred Gentlemen Dr. 
 Naylour, the late Parfon of the rich Living of Sedg- 
 field. The Doctor was informed, that the whole 
 of his quondam Parfonage, (as he calls it) excepting 
 Mr. Lapthorns Salary, who was then Incumbent, 
 was defign'd for the Indowment of this New Col- 
 lege, no Exception or Refervation being made for 
 his Wife's Fifths. Upon this he wrote to Mr. Lea- 
 ver, defiring him to ufe his Intereft with the Gen. 
 tlemen his Co-aiTeflbrs to fave his Family from fo 
 great a Lofs. The Reafon (as he fays in his Letter 
 to him) to be given for the intended difconrinuing 
 of his Wife's Fifths, was his being feiz'd of an 
 Eftate to or above the Value of 30 / fer An ; be- 
 caufe there was a late Act for excepting fuch from 
 receiving Fifths. The Doctor in his own Behalf 
 reprefents to Mr. Leaver, that the Act fays, where 
 the fequeftred Perfon is not feiz'd of an Eftare 
 worth 30 / -per An, Fifths (ball be paid : But he fays 
 that learn'd Councel had obferv'd to him, it does 
 not fay, that tho' he be feiz'd of fo much, or 
 more , they (hall not be paid : And that it was 
 not fo to be interpreted, till the Makers of the Act 
 fo interpreted it themfelves. But the Plea which 
 he laid the moft Strefs upon, and feem'd to hope 
 would be of great Confideradon with the Com- 
 miffioners, was that though it fhould be allow'd 
 he had an Eftate in the common Repute of others, 
 above 30 / for Annum, yet that there were many En- 
 gagements upon it, and fome new Debts contract- 
 ed,
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 65? 
 
 ed, in order to put his Sons to Trades, in London^ 
 So that (he fignify'd) he hop'd that Circumftances 
 being confider'd, they would not fee Reafon from 
 that Ad: to exclude his Wife from her Fifths. This 
 was his Cafe. And it fhould feem that Mr. Lea- 
 ver, not only heartily but effe&ually recommended 
 it. For he wrote him a long Latin Letter, (it may 
 well be cali'd long, for it is written in a very fmall 
 Character, and almoft fills up an whole Sheet) of 
 Thanks for the great Kindnefs he had therein done 
 him. And he gives this Reafon for writing it itt 
 Latin : Amorem tuum, tarn non Vulgarem, vulgari 
 modo agnofcere noluerim. A few Lines in the Be- 
 ginning of it, will exprefs the Nature of the Favour 
 receiv'd, his Senfe- of it, and Mr. Leaver's Part in 
 the obtaining of it : And therefore I think it not 
 improper to tranfcribe fome of them. 
 
 Dilede in Chrifto Frater, mulrifque certe mi- 
 hi nominibus eftimande. 
 
 ERTIOREM me reddidit tibi pariter ac 
 " mihi amiciffimus D. Baddelus, quam vere 
 " & fideliter, quam nervofe & efficaciter, Uxoris 
 " meae Caufam, ( pene dixeram Viduam, nifi 
 " Candorem mum inveniflet atfertorem ftrenuifli- 
 " mum) Literis tuis vere Tullianis, (hoc eft vi&ri- 
 " cibus ipfiufque fuadas Medulla exaratis) apud 
 " Tuos omnes, five Clericos, five Laicos conjunAi- 
 " flimos, non ita pridem Novi Caftri egifti. Qui- 
 " bus infuder Laudationibns 8c Encomiis me one- 
 rafti, non folum fupra merita mea, (quae probe 
 fcio quam fint exigua, quam penitus nulla) fed 
 8c quae amorem tuum, quantumvis maximum, 
 quantumvis flagrantimmum, pene fuperaverint. 
 Me tanto Amori tarn tempeftivo 8c Eximio tefti- 
 ficato, aliquando fore parem, aut pro merito re- 
 * penfaturum, nee fperare pofifum, nee optare au- 
 !< fim. Hancce igitur Gratiam penfandam relinquo, 
 " Magno illi & Munificentiflimo Remuneratori , 
 ^ Qui e?c. 
 
 Mr.
 
 654 The Ejected or Silent? d Mia tfters, &c. 
 
 Mr. Leaver continu'd at Branfpeth, in good Re- 
 pute, and great Ufefulnefs till 1659. I had before 
 faid, he was turn'd out from thence .- But I now 
 queftion it. I am inform'd he remov'd to New- 
 caftle before the Reftoration in 1660 : And my 
 Friend from whom Lhave this Account tells me he 
 has in his Hands a Letter to him before that Time, 
 written to him as reiiding and exercifing his Mi' 
 niftry at Nevrcaftle, before the King's Return. And 
 it was at Nevecaftle that the Act of 'Uniformity found 
 him, though it fufter'd him not long to continue 
 there. He was a Conformift at the Beginning of 
 the Civil War, and not altogether Puritanical nei- 
 ther : But he faw that Conformity had afterwards 
 much chang'd its Shape. 
 
 When he was ejected, he remov'd to Skjnkflif, 
 about a Mile from Durham, to the Houfe of his 
 late Wife's Son, Mr. Thomas Dixon j for he had 
 no Children, and was now a Widower. Here he con- 
 tinu'd till the Year 1665: But he afterwards re- 
 turn'd to Ncvtcaftle, and there marry'd again, and 
 fome Time after finifh'd his Courfe. I cannot learn 
 he had any fettled Congregation afrer his Eject- 
 ment. He had a Call to a People at Darlington 
 in the Biftioprick of Durham, in the Time of the In- 
 dulgence in 1671. They fignified to him by Let- 
 ter, that underftandtng he was willing to accept 
 of a Call to the publick Exercife of his Miniftry 
 again, they were encourag'd to defire his Help. But 
 his Work was now near finifh'd, and he had but a 
 little more Sand remaining in his Glafs. He died 
 the very next Year, fome time in the Summer. 
 The unskilful cutting of a Corn coft him his Life. 
 It was but a poor Caufe but it had a fad Effect 
 upon him. His Foot and Leg fwell'd prodigioufly, 
 and was exceeding painful : But he bore it with 
 a great deal of Patience, and obedient Refignati- 
 on to the Will of GOD. When his Pain encreafed, 
 upon him and grev-i threarning, he faid, if GOD 
 had no more for htm to Jo in the World, he could at 
 cbearfulfy lie down and die; as go to his Bed ts 
 rtfl. 
 
 He
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 655 
 
 He had a clofe Correfpondence for many Years, 
 with Philip Lord Wka.rton, by whom (together with 
 his Lady) he was much refpe&ed. He was one 
 of good Learning, moderate Principles, great Pie- 
 ty, and a fweec Temper. He had a large Heart, 
 and a liberal Hand ; was- much a Gentleman, af- 
 fable and courteous, and very agreeable in Con- 
 verfation. He was an affe&ionate Friend, and a 
 very ufeful Perfon. 
 
 Dr. Naylor reprefenting his Cafe to him, writes 
 thus: " Sir, this poor Piece of Paper has a feri- 
 " ous Errand unto you, the very Equity and Juftice 
 " whereof rightly underftood, I am very confident 
 " will be of more Power and Weight to a judi-. 
 " cious and confcientious Gentleman, (that is with 
 " your felf ) than any other Oratory, &c. And com- 
 plaining of the Confufion of the Times, and Severity 
 of fome, he adds, " which I would not have you 
 " to interpret with the leaft Reflection, as fpoken 
 " to yourfelf, whom I know to be far otherwife 
 " principled. And in the Conclufion he has thefe 
 " words : " Thus Sir, I have taken the Liberty 
 ' to unbofom myfelf unto you upon this Occafion, 
 " being very confident you will mifconftrue nothing 
 " I have written, nor make any Ufe of any of the 
 " Contents, but in order to the Good and Benefit 
 " of him and his, who is &c, " 
 
 And in his Latin Letter of Thanks, taking no- 
 tice of Mr. Leavers fpeaking fo honourably of him, 
 and reprefenting his Cafe fo movingly, he writes 
 thus: ** Verum enim vero (vir optime) quod pla- 
 " cuit Amori 8c Candori tuo, pro ea qua polles e- 
 " gregia Facultate, in Laudes tarn immenfas, (in 
 " rem fcilicet noftram) expatiari, 8c Encomiaften 
 " agere, perpulchre quidem edocuifti, quales ipfe 
 " & caeteri ejufdem Ordinis e(Te debuiifemus, licec 
 " paucis a Deo datum eft tarn altos Eruditionis, 
 " & Sandimoniae gradus feliciter attingere, &c. n 
 
 He was remarkable for his Generofity and Libe- 
 rality. Betides his Wife's Jointure, he had an E- 
 ftate of his own of about 100 I per Jn, and he had 
 no Children, and yet when he was ejected, he had 
 no Money before Hand. When Mr. Thomas Dix- 
 
 VOL. II. F m
 
 The Ejetted or Siknc'd Minifters, 8tc. 
 
 on his Wife's Son married, he refign'd his Mothers 
 Jointure to him. All, or moft of the Charge of his 
 Nephew Mr. Ralph Wictyft Education lay upon 
 him. He gave Portions to two of his Wife's Nieces. 
 One of them was married to Mr. Pell ; and there 
 was found a Note of 50 / paid to him among his 
 Papers. And when he died, he left Mr. Pell 20 / 
 in Books; and 50 / a piece in Books and Money, 
 to Mr. Wicklef, and Mr. Dixon. His Eftate, and 
 the reft of his Library, he left to Mr. Robert Lea- 
 ver. 
 
 And fince Dr. Walter fo feverely reflects on the 
 ejected Minifters that were in fequeftred Livings, 
 ~as not paying Fifths to their Predeceflbrs, &c. \ 
 (hall add, that Mr. Leaver cannot be charg'd in that 
 Refpect. My Friend from whom 1 have this Ac- 
 count, alfures me, he has feen Acquittances under 
 the Hand of Mrs. Mary Cofins, for fifths to Mr. 
 Leaver. He paid her 33 / per An ; and he paid it 
 Quarterly. And there is a Circumftance relating 
 to the Payment of fifths in this Cafe, that it may 
 not perhaps be amifs to take Notice of, becaufe 
 it will help to fhew, that they that had the Power 
 in their Hands in thofe Times, were not fo ex- 
 treamly hard and fevere, as Dr. Walker thought it 
 to his Purpofe to reprefent them. There happen- 
 ed to be fome Difagreement between Mr. Leaver 
 and Mrs Cofins, about this payment of fifths. The 
 Cafe was reprefented at Whitehall, and an Order 
 of Council was iflu'd out to regulate it. Certain 
 Juftices of Peace, of which the Mayor of Durham 
 was to be one, were to determine the Difference, 
 to the mutual Satisfaction of the Parties concern- 
 ed : And if they could not determine it, it was 
 to be fully clear'd at the Council-board. 
 
 Dr. Naylor alfp had his fifths duly paid him to 
 the laft. And this in Conjunction with feveral other 
 Things 1 have mention'd occafionally, as they came 
 in my Way, in my Account of the ejected Mini- 
 fters, helps to give me Satisfaction, (and I believe 
 it will do fo to many others) that Dr. Walkfr has 
 Carried Things too far in his Exclamations about thefe 
 Fifth, as well as in other Matters.
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 Pag. 505. Stannerton ; Mr. JOHN OWENS. He 
 preach'd frequently in his own Houfe, and at the 
 dwelling of Neighbouring Gentlemen. He had a 
 Fine laid upon him for preaching at Mr. George 
 Horfleys, and was carried Prifoner to Newcaftle up- 
 on that Account, and treated with Harfhnefs and In- 
 civility, but difcharg'd upon the Payment of the 
 Money by his Friends. The Duke of Lauderdale 
 made him kind Offers of a Settlement in Scot- 
 land, which he thought fit to refufe, but after- 
 wards accepted, through the Perfuafion of the lare 
 Lord Rutherford his Son in Law. 
 
 Ibid. Whattvn; Mr. RALPH WICKLIF. He was 
 the fober Son of an extravagant Father, who fpenc 
 an handfome Eftate. He was born in or near Stin- 
 derland by the Sea, in the Bifhoprick of Durham. 
 He was Sifter's Son to Mr. Henry Leaver, who had 
 the chief Care and Charge of his Education. Af- 
 ter his Ejedhnent he frequently preach'd in the fe- 
 vered of Times ; but more particularly to a Congre- 
 gation which was gather'd out of the neighbouring 
 Parifhes. He met with Difcouragements from the 
 Coldncfs of fome of his Hearers, and the bufy 
 Pradticings of fome of the Minifters of the other 
 Side of Tweed, of which fome others (I am inform- 
 ed) of the Minifters of the Northern Counties at 
 that Time complain'd. 
 
 In 1671 he was invited to Sunderland, where he 
 preach'd dur'rng the fhort Continuance of King Charle?* 
 Indulgence, and afterwards return'd to his Farm, 
 and old Congregation. He was fin'd 10 /, for 
 preaching at Mr. Ogle's of Kjrkjey, who was & 
 Neighbouring Gentleman ; and had his Cattle dri- 
 ven away for the Money. He died in the latter 
 End of 1683, in the fifty-firft or fifty.fecond Year 
 of his Age, and left the Character of a fober, 
 modeft, and prudent Man. 
 
 The Cafe and State of the Congregation which 
 Mr. Wicklif preach'd to, which was drawn up by 
 Mr. Robert Fenveicl^ of Nunriding, (who was a Gen- 
 tleman of a good Eftate and Name in this Ccun- 
 F ^ ty,
 
 658 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifter s, 8rc. . 
 
 ty, and a Member of Mr. IVictyfs Congregation, 
 and his hearty and conftant Friend) is yet in be- 
 ing : And what in it relates to Mr. Wick{ef, is as 
 follows. 
 
 " A T the Reftoration, Mr. Ward (now of Tork.) 
 ** " was Paftor to a confiderable Congregati- 
 " on at Hartlourne in Northumberland, whereof Mr. 
 " Ralph IVicklif was then a Member, and he was 
 " afterwards ordain'd a Minifter by the Presbytery 
 " at Morpeth. Mr. Ward being driven away, partly 
 " by the. Act againft Nonconforming Minifters, and 
 " partly being difcourag'd by fome of the Mem- 
 " bers conforming, Mr. Wictyf preaching as he 
 " had Opportunity, fome of the Members of the 
 " Congregation did adhere and ftick clofe to 
 ." him, and under his. Troubles, and Perfecutions 
 " appear'd with him and for him : And it is ne- 
 " ver to be forgot how that honeft Gentleman o- 
 " pen'd his Doors in the Time of Danger, efpe- 
 " cially to fuch as he hop'd did diflent upon con- 
 " fcientious Principles. The Truth is, (as I know 
 " it to my own Knowledge) he was greatly dif- 
 " courag'd divers Ways. Firft it was the Caufe 
 " of Sorrow to him, to obferve fuch a Ficklenefs 
 *' and itching Humour in fome old Profeffors, that 
 " if a Stranger, (a young raw Scotifh Man) fhould 
 " come, and fay he was a Minifter, away fome 
 " of them would run, by his Door perhaps, three, 
 " four, or five Miles notwithftanding the Hazard 
 " he had run by his entertaining them in dange- 
 " rous Times. Another Difcouragement was wane 
 " of Care in providing Maintenance for him. He 
 " was forc'd to be a Farmer, and teach a Friend's 
 "Children to help him to maintain his Family: 
 " And I have heard him figh and groan, Becaufe 
 '* by this means he was deprived of the benefit of 
 '* his Study, and when others ftudied he was forc- 
 ," ed to look after his Cattle and Plough. And 
 " we have often heard him complain of the In- 
 " civilities and Sordidnefs of fome Profeflbrs, even 
 " many of his Hearers, not looking him in the Face 
 
 !' from
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 659 
 
 " from Lord's Day to Lord^s Day, and Men carried 
 
 " it to him as if he had been beholden to them to 
 
 " hear him. Another Difcouragement was, that 
 
 " when his Cattle were driven from him for 20 /, 
 
 " which he forfeited for Preaching, fome of his 
 
 " Hearers, (who were moft peremptory for his 
 
 " Preaching) did flinch, and fhew'd no Chearful- 
 
 " nefs to contribute to keep him indemnified. Yet 
 
 " notwithftanding thefe Difcouragements, he was 
 
 " carried on by G o D to follow the Work of the . 
 
 " Miniftry, in the fharpeft of Times, and gather- 
 
 " ed the few remaining Members of the faid Con-' 
 
 " gregation together, and got fome of Mr. Leaver's 
 
 " People added to them, and took fome others 
 
 " whom he judg'd upright in the main, and put 
 
 " them into Gofpel Order, baptizing their Chil- 
 
 " dren, and adminiftring the LORD'S Supper. 
 
 " Some Years after, it pleas'd the mighty G o D to 
 
 " call him out of this World, to the Lofs and Grief, 
 
 " and we may fay Affliction of his Handful of 
 
 " People. 
 
 Pag. 505. Hartbourn : Mr. RALPH WARD. Ac 
 the End of the Account of him, let this be added. 
 When this good Man was by the Violence of the 
 Times, in the Reign of King Charles, driven into 
 the Country, and unable perfonally to attend his 
 Flock, he wrote a Letter to them, which deferves 
 to be preferv'd to Pofterity, and is therefore here 
 inferted. It was directed to Mr. Martin Hotham, 
 (Father of Mr. Jo. Hotham who is now Fellow La- 
 bourer with Dr. Colton in the City of Torty to be by 
 him communicated to his Friends in and about the 
 City. It was in thefe Words : 
 
 Dear Friends, 
 
 ' T c A N N o T now through Want of Opportunity, 1 
 
 * " ferve you in the Work of the Gofpel as \ 
 
 " would ; for you yourfelves know under what 
 
 *' Difadvantages I am : But that I may not however 
 
 F 3 " be
 
 660 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 " be totally wanting to you, that I may (hew my 
 " longing Defire after your Good, and fpirituai 
 " Health, and that my Labours among you may not 
 " be in vain, I have writ thefe Lines to put you in 
 " Remembrance, of what you have been taught, 
 " and to exhort you unto, and comfort and encou- 
 * ' rage you in, your prefent Duty. 
 
 " I. In the Courfe of my Miniftry, I have endea- 
 
 " voured to difcover, the finful and fhameful Apo- 
 
 " ftacy of Man from his Maker ; and the doleful 
 
 " and damnable State ail Mankind are in through 
 
 " the Fall : Being altogether corrupted ; having no 
 
 " good Thing in them naturally; but every one is 
 
 " born blind, deaf, and dead, as to the Things of 
 
 " GOD; and the Soul is void of the Life of GOD, 
 
 " the Life it fiiould live ; void of the linage of 
 
 " GOD, naked and deftitute of that Beauty, which 
 
 " adorn'd the Nature of Man at firft ; nay an Ene- 
 
 " my to it, f(om. viii; 7. This hath been manifeft- 
 
 " ed by difcovering under what Corruption the fe- 
 
 " veral Faculties of Man's Soul do lie ; what Va- 
 
 " n'uy pofielfeth the Thoughts of Man ; what Igno- 
 
 " ranee the Mind, what Infenfiblenefs the Confci- 
 
 " ence, what Forgetfulnefs the Memory, what Stub- 
 
 *' bornefs the Will, what Diforder and Irregularity 
 
 " the Aftedlions ; fo that every Man by Nature is 
 
 " wholly a Servant of Sin, and in Bondage to the 
 
 " grand Enemy. And while Man continues thus, 
 
 " there is none that doih or can do good, no not 
 
 " one: But all ate encreafing and multiplying 
 
 " their TranfgrefTions againft the LORD daily. 
 
 " Hence therefore there is an abfolute Neceifity 
 
 " of being born of GOD, of being born again. 
 
 " II. The glorious and wonderful Myftery of Re- 
 
 *' demption by JESITS CHRIST hath been dif- 
 
 " covered to you : The \Vonderfmnefs of the Fa- 
 
 " ther's Love in (ending his Son ; of the Son's Love 
 
 *' in afluming Man's Nature, laying down his Life 
 
 * in Man's Stead, and thereby obraining eternal 
 
 ' Redemption for them ; the Fitnels and Suitable- 
 
 ' neis of our LORD for this great Work, all Au- 
 
 " thority
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 661 
 
 " thority being committed to him of the Father, 
 " all Fulnefs treafur'd up in him j and the ever- 
 " lafting Counfel of GOD being reveal'd to us 
 " by him, as our Great Prophet ; the Will . and 
 " Commandment of the Father being fulfilPd by 
 " him, (in making his Soul an Offering for Sin) 
 " as our High Prieft ; the Laws and Ordinances 
 " of his Houfe and Kingdom being appointed and 
 " commanded by him as our King and Lawgiver. 
 " So that whoever hears' and believes the Voice 
 " of this Great Prophet j whoever confides and 
 " trufts in him as their Great High Prieft ; who- 
 ' ever obeys him from the Heart, as their King 
 " and Lawgiver ; (lull aflfuredly obtain eternal Life, 
 " according to the Promife of the Father made by, 
 " him. 
 
 " III. The Covenant of Grace, both what is 
 " promifed and what is requir'd in it, hath been 
 '* in Ibme meafure made known unto you: CHRIST 
 " himfelf being both the Security and Subftance 
 " of this better Covenant , in him, all his fpiritual 
 " Bleffings, all Things pertaining to Life and GoeW 
 " linefs are contain'd, and by him they are convey- 
 " ed and commuriicated to his People ; to thofe the 
 " Father hath given him. And therefore, whoever 
 '* wants Wifdom, Understanding, Grace"and Strength, 
 " Pardon and Peace, Holinefs and Righteoufnefs, 
 " or everlafting Reft and Happinefs, muft look 
 " for all from CHRIST, and in CHRIST, and 
 " in Union and Communion with him. For with- 
 " out him, or feparate from him, we can do 
 " nothing. Hence we are bid to look unto him, 
 " as the Author of our Faith, and the Giver of Re- 
 " pentance. 'Tis faid he is exalted to give Re 
 " pentance. 
 
 1 IV. You have heard thai it is impoffible to 
 " pleafe GOD without Faith : That it is impofliblo 
 ; * to efcape everlafting Wrath without Repentance : 
 ' And that thefe are the Gifts of GOP through 
 14 CHRIST, in the Ufe of the Means he hath ap. 
 *' pointed : And that therefore they that want them 
 F 4
 
 662 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, 8rc 
 
 " muft be diligent in the Ufe of Means for the 
 " obtaining of them : In Prayer, Reading, Hear- 
 " ing, Conference, &c. and muft look for the 
 " Promife of the Spirit of the Father, by the Son ; 
 " that this Promife being made good, the Law of 
 " the Spirit of Life in CHRIST, may fet them 
 " free from the Law of Sin and Death. 
 
 " V. You have heard that by the S * i R i T'S 
 " working Faith in the Heart, the Soul comes 
 "to CHRIST, gives up itfelf to be his, 
 " is united to him, abides in him, and holds 
 " Communion with him, partaking both of the 
 " Verraes of his Death and Refurrection : And is 
 " hereby not only pardon'd, and at Peace with 
 " GOD, but adopted to be a Son and Heir to- 
 " gether with CHRIST, and transform'd more 
 " and more into the Similitude of CHRIST 
 ^ himfelf. 
 
 " VI. You have alfo heard, that the Lord JE- 
 " sus hath inftituted and appointed his Miniftry 
 " and Ordinances, and the Communion of Saints 
 " in Churches, to be the Means of conveying thofe 
 " fpiritual Bleffings whereof he is the Author and 
 " Giver, to all the Members of his Body and of 
 " the increafing of Grace in them, till they all 
 " come to a perfect Man : And than he hath pro- 
 " mifed his Prefence with them for that End, 
 " that they may grow up in all Things into 
 " him. 
 
 " VII. You have heard that it is the great Duty 
 " of thofe who profefs Faith in our Lord JESUS, 
 " and Obedience to him, to walk worthy of that 
 " high and holy Calling wherewith they are call- 
 ;< ed, being fruitful in every good Work ; that in 
 *' fo doing they may honour their heavenly FA- 
 " T H E R, and their Head CHRIST JESUS, whofe 
 " Members they profels themfelves to be ; and 
 " the HOLY SPIRIT by whom they profefs to 
 " be mftructed, quickened, and led ; and may ho- 
 " ncur their ProfefTion : And therefore that they 
 
 " fliould
 
 //^NORTHUMBERLAND. 66$ 
 
 " fhould take CHRIST for their Example, as well 
 
 " as.his Word for their Rule, and labour to abound 
 
 lt in Heavenlymindednefs, and in favouring the 
 
 ' Things above, remembring they are Strangers 
 
 " in this World, and to be enrich'd more and 
 
 " more with Knowledge of the Will of GOP, with 
 
 ; * Faith, Hope, Love, filial Fear and Joy in the 
 
 * LORD; with Humility, Meeknefs, Temperance, 
 
 ' Patience, Godlinefs, brotherly Kindnefs, and 
 
 " Charity towards all. That by Love they fhould 
 
 " ferve one another, edify one another, encourage, 
 
 " ftrengthen, comfort and help one another, as 
 
 " Members of the fame Body : That they fhould 
 
 " put on as the Elect of G o D Bowels of Mercy, 
 
 " fympathizing with one another, bearing one ano- 
 
 " thers Burdens, forbearing, forgiving one another, 
 
 " reftoring and recovering one another, if any be 
 
 " overtaken in a Fault. Thefe are fome of thofe 
 
 ' Fruits which become our holy Profeflion, and 
 
 " wherein we fhould labour to abound more and 
 
 " more : And of thefe you have heard fome- 
 
 " thing. 
 
 " VIII. You have alfo heard that a ChriftianV 
 " Work is Soul-fearching Work , Self-judging 
 " Work, and Sin-mortifying Work. That we mult 
 " crucify the Flefh with the Affections and Lufts 
 " thereof. That it is contrary to our holy Profeflfi- 
 " on, to indulge to the Flefh, and walk after the 
 '* Flefh. That it is finful, and fhameful, and un- 
 " becoming a Chriftian, to be proud, paflionate, 
 ' worldly, wanton, vain and frothy in Difcourfe, 
 ' intemperate, fraudulent, and deceitful, flothful, 
 ; * idle, carelefs or unwatchful ; or Mifpenders of 
 ' precious Time. Thefe Things we Ihould be- 
 ' wave of, knowing how Great and Good a Mafter 
 we ferve, to whom we muft fhortly render an 
 Account, and expect a Reward according to 
 our Fidelity in the Work of which lie hath given 
 us a Charge. And therefore that it highly con- 
 cerns us to put off all thefe, together with all 
 Lying, Hypocrify, Ditfimulation, Cenforioufnels, 
 Sclf-conccitedncls, Self-fceking, and fuch-like ; 
 
 " thefe
 
 664 The Ejetted or Silenced Minifters^ cVc. 
 
 " thefe being the Fruits of the Fiefh, which are 
 " to be mordfy'd and deftroy'd, which we have 
 ** vow'd and covenanted againft in our Baptifm, 
 " and in the LORD'S Supper, that we will not 
 ** ferve them but feek their Ruinj and by the 
 " Sword of the SPIRIT, and the Blood of 
 ? CHRIST, endeavour their utter Extirpation; 
 ," knowing what is written, that if we live after 
 *' the Flefh we fhall die, and that one Sin in- 
 4t dulg'd, allow'd, and approv'd, and liv'd in, one 
 ,** unmortify'd Luft, will ftop the L o R D'S Ear at 
 4t our Cry, and prove of fatal Confequence to our 
 " precious Souls. How doth it therefore concern 
 " us to take heed to our Ways and Walkings ! 
 
 " IX. You have heard that a Name to live, tf 
 *' we be dead will not profit us. That whatever 
 ** we profefs, if CHRIST live not in us we are 
 ** but dead Men and Women ; and therefore it 
 ** concerns us to look to ourfelves, that we lofe 
 , 4 * not the Things that we have wrought : That our 
 F Hearts be found in GOD'S Statutes: That our 
 " Faith, Hope, Love, and Obedience to G o D and 
 *' Man, to Magiftrates, Minifters, Mafters, and 
 ,*' Parents, according to our refpeclive Relations 
 f we ftand in, be fuch as the LORD requires 
 " and approves of : That we have Refpect unto 
 " all GOD'S Commandments, and obey in the 
 " LORD, and for the LORD ; becaufe of his 
 " Command, and for his Glory : Knowing that 
 '* the Lo RD looks not at the outward Appearance, 
 " but at the Heart j and requires Truth in the in-i 
 " ward Parts. 
 
 " X. And Jafty ; You have heard that if we 
 " will be CHRIST'S Difciples indeed, we muft 
 " deny ourfelves, take up our Crofs daily, and 
 * follow him. That it is not he that draws back, 
 " but he that endures to the End that fnall be fa- 
 " ved : And therefore it greatly concerns us to 
 
 look upon what Foundation we are built, and 
 " that the Sincerity of our Love to our deareft 
 " Lord and Redeemer do appear, in fticking clofe 
 
 4< to
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 665 
 
 " to him in a Day of Trial, and being willing to 
 " fuffer the Lois of all, that we may win CHRIST, 
 " and keep Faith, and a good Confcience to the 
 " End of our Days. 
 
 " Thefe Things (my dear Friends and Brethren) 
 " you have heard in fotne Meafure opened to you 5 
 " and have receiv'd them, tho' alas with much 
 " Weaknefs, difcover'd by the Inftrument by whom 
 " you have been taught : But the Word of G o D 
 " is fure, lively, and powerful. Life and Death 
 " have been fet before you j therefore chufe Life, 
 " that you may live. 
 
 " What now remains, but that I fliould exhort, 
 " perfuade and prefs you, to look to yourfelves, 
 ." every one of you in particular, that you receive 
 " not the Grace of GOD in vain ; and that both 
 " my Account and yours miy be with Joy, and 
 " not with Grief. And for this End let me 
 
 " i. Exhort you to hold faft what is Truth, in 
 
 " Faith and Love. Faith and Love are both ne- 
 
 " ceflary, that we may hold faft our Profeifion 
 
 " without wavering. If we mix not the Word 
 
 " with Faith, it abides nor, takes no rooting in us, 
 
 " makes no deep Impreflion upon our Hearts, and 
 
 " will not work effectually in us, to make us obe- 
 
 " dient to it. That which makes us reverence the 
 
 " Word, and prize, and value, and ftand in Awe 
 
 " of it, and that which makes it of Efficacy and 
 
 " Power on the Heart, is, for it to be receiv'd as 
 
 " the Word of GOD, and not as the Word of 
 
 " Man. As Faith comes by hearing the Word of 
 
 " GOD, fo Obedience comes by believing it to be 
 
 " the Word of GOD. When the Authority and 
 
 " Majefty of the LORD is feen in the Word, it 
 
 " will caufe the Soul to tremble at it, and make 
 
 ' it afraid of flighting it, and walking contrary to 
 
 1 it. One great "Reafon of our own Unprotitable- 
 
 " nefs has been the Want or the not exercifing of 
 
 * Faith : And therefore let me beleech you in the 
 
 " Name of GOD, to eye the LORD in what hath 
 
 .'.' been
 
 666 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mimfters^ &c. 
 
 " been fpoken to you, or what may be fpoken to 
 " you by any of his Meflengers, and ftir up your- 
 " felves ' to the Exercife of Faith. And you muft 
 " have Love alfo to the Truth, if you would hold 
 " it faft. Love will caufe you to ruminate and 
 " ponder upon what you have heard, and hide 
 " it in your Hearts. It will caufe you to ftick clofe 
 " to it, and make Improvement of it, for your 
 " Furtherance in Communion with the L o R D, and 
 " Obedience and Conformity to him. Love will 
 " help you to tafte the Sweemels of it ; and what 
 " you find to be fo fweet, you will not readily part 
 " with. 
 
 " 2. Let me befeech you to exercife yourfelves 
 !C unto Godlinefs daily. Remember, this is that 
 ," which you are call'd to, and have taken up the 
 .*' Profeflion of. And confider that this confifts not 
 ," in a flight Performance of Duty, Morning and 
 *' Evening, nor in the Length of Duties, nor in any 
 ," outward Service whatfoever ; much lefs doth it 
 " confift in being of this or the other Opinion, in 
 ,*' Matters circumftantial, or of lefs Moment : But 
 i" it confifts in the beholding of G o D thro' Faith, 
 " as conftantly prefent with us ; in a Dependence 
 *' on him for Strength to enable us to become Fol- 
 " lowers of him as dear Children ; in giving up 
 *' our Hearts to him, or giving htm our Lives daily ; 
 . " in devoting ourfelves to be his Servants, to do 
 " the Things that pleafe him ; in {ticking clofe to 
 " him both in Love and Obedience ; in keeping 
 " our Hearts with all Diligence that we do not 
 " treacheroufly depart from him ; in doing what 
 " we do, not only in Obedience to him, but for 
 ' his Honour and Glory ; and in fetting forth his 
 " Praife in our Generations. 
 
 " 3. Let me befeech you to give all Diligence 
 " to make your Calling and Election fure. Think 
 " it not a Thing either impoffible or unneceflary, 
 " or unprofitable. Others have obtain'd it by Di- 
 [< ligence; and why not you? And is it no: ne- 
 " ceflary that you fhould know, whether you be 
 ' in the Way to Heaven or no ? whether you love 
 *' the Lo R D in Sincerity or no? whether your Sins 
 
 " be
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 667 
 
 " be pardon'd or not ? You cannot be Cure of any 
 " of them, if you be not fure that you are effec- 
 " tually caird. If we wreftled more with G o D in 
 " Prayers, and fearch'd our own Hearts more, and 
 " look'd more ferioufly for the Witnefling of the 
 "SPIRIT, and ftirr'd up our Hearts more to the 
 " Exercife of Grace, of Faith, Repentance, Love 
 " and Obedience, and more diligently obferv'd 
 " what Returns of Prayer we meet with from the 
 "LORD, we might hereby attain to more cer- 
 " tain Evidence, that we are the Called of G o D 
 " according to his Purpofe. And what Profit and ' . 
 " Comfort fhould we find in this ! We fhould 
 " come to G o D with a more child-like Frame,' 
 " experience more Sweetnefs in Communion with 
 " him, walk more chearfully before him, tafte more 
 " Sweetnefs in every Enjoyment, find our Hearts 
 '* more enlarg'd in doing GOD Service, be more 
 " thankful and joyful in him, and more ready to 
 " leave this World, and go to the Father : We 
 " fhould more eafily conquer Death, and lay down 
 " thefe Tabernacles with a more triumphant Hope 
 " or Aflurance of a happy and glorious Refurredtion 
 " at the laft Day ; and be more contented with 
 " our Lot and Portion in this Life, whatever it be. 
 " Oh ! let us not therefore be flothful in this Bu- 
 " finefs. 
 
 " 4. Get your Hearts and Affections wean'd from' 
 
 " Things here, and fet upon Things above. Is 
 
 " not your Trea fure above? And where ihould 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 refting Place above ? And (hould not your 
 
 * ' Hope, your Defire, your Love, your Delight, be 
 
 " above alfo ? Confider the Uncertainty of Things 
 
 " below: Confider what prefent Providences calf 
 
 ;< for. Is not the LORD (baking our Hold of all 
 
 " earthly Enjoyments ? And fhall we crofs the Pro- 
 
 ' vidence of GOD, and be glu'd to thofe Things 
 
 " which he is knocking off our Fingers from ? O 
 
 " Ics
 
 668 The Ejebied or Silenced Mimflers, 8rc. 
 
 " Ictus eye Providence, and mind what the LORD 
 " is (peaking to us by it. 
 
 " 5. Be kindly affectionate one to another with 
 " brotherly Love. Let Love be without Diflimula- 
 '* tion. Love not in Word or in Tongue only, 
 " but in Deed and in Truth. Confide r your Rela- 
 " tion to each other. Are you not living Mem- 
 " bers of the fame Body ? Confider your Badge 
 " or Character whereby you are known to be 
 " C H R i s T'S Difciples. Is ic not by loving one 
 " another ? It is this that gives Room in one ano- 
 " ther's Hearts. It is this will make you true and 
 " faithful one to another; This will knit you to- 
 " gethcr, and make you willing to ferve one ano- 
 " ther. Let not your Love be for Opinion's Sake, 
 " but for C H R i s T'S, and the Truth's Sake ; for 
 '" the Image of GOD which you bear, and profefs 
 " to have renewed on you. Yea love not them 
 " only that love you, but love your Enemies, and 
 " do good to them that hate you, that you may 
 " be the Children of your heavenly Father. 
 
 " 6. Prepare for farTering greater Things. Get 
 '* acquaintance with the Truth, and labour to be 
 *' eftablifh'd in it, that you may know it is Truth 
 " you fufifer for: And then you will have the LORD 
 " on your Side, whoever be againft you. Then 
 " you will fuffer with more Refolution, Confidence 
 '* and Chearfulnels. Then may you look on your 
 " Sufferings, not as your Shame but your Glory and 
 " Honour ; not as a Token of G o D'S Hatred, but 
 " Love ; not as a Forerunner of your future Mi- 
 *' fery, but as a Pledge of your future Glory. 
 " For if you fuffer with CHRIST, you fhall reign 
 " with him. Remember it is a Gift from the LORD ; 
 " therefore defpife it not, nor grudge, nor be dif- 
 " contented becaufe of it. 
 
 *' 7. Make it your Bufinefs to honour the LORD 
 " in the Stations wherein he hath (et you, to ren- 
 " der your Profeflion more amiable and beauti- 
 " ful to thofe who obferve you. Let your Chil- 
 " dren and Servants fare the better for you. Be 
 " you Inftrudfcors of the Simple, and Teachers of 
 
 " B*besj
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 669 
 
 " Babes ; and be in Travel to fee CHRIST form- 
 " ed in them. . 
 
 " 8. Bear with Patience what the LORD is plea- 
 " fed to lay on you ; knowing it is through Faith 
 " and Patience we muft look to inherit the Pro. 
 " mifes. 
 
 " 9. Beware of mifpending your Time: Rut 
 " account it your Duty and Priviledge to Redeem 
 " it, for your good, and the good of others. 
 
 *' 10. And laftly; Be importunate with the LORD 
 " that there may be an Increafing of thofe who 
 " are faithful to him in the midft of the Land; 
 " that fo we may become more beautiful and 
 " glorious, and there may be an Healing of our 
 " Wounds ; that both Paftors and People may re- 
 " joice together and fay, the Loao hath done greac 
 " Things for us, whereof we are glad. 
 
 " Thefe are the Words of Exhortation which I 
 " would befeech you my dear Friends to take in- 
 " to your ferious Confideration ; and be perfuaded 
 *' to follow the Counfel given you, that both you 
 " and I may rejoice together in the Day of the 
 *' LORD : That though we be now feparated in 
 ' Place, not in Heart, we may notwithftanding be 
 " running in the fame Race; and if it be the good 
 ' Pleafure of GOD, may meet again, with Liber- 
 " ry to wait on the LORD in the Ways of his 
 " Appointment : However we may meet at laft 
 " with Joy and Gladnefs, that ourLabours and Com- 
 " munion together have not been in vain. Now 
 '* my dear Friends I hope you will not forget me. 
 " And my Requeft for you is, that our LORD JE- 
 '* sus CHRIST, and GOD even our FATHER, who 
 l< hath loved us and given us everlafting Confo- 
 " lation, and good Hope through Grace ; would 
 " comfort your Hearts, and eftablifh you in eve- 
 " ry good Word and Work: i Thef. ii. 16. 17. 
 ' This is the Cordial Defire and Prayer, of 
 
 Tour Faithful Friend and Servant, 
 for Jifus $4l<e t in the Word, of the Goffel. 
 
 Ralph Ward.
 
 6 jo The Ejected or Silenced Mimflers, 
 
 Pag. 510. Wooller ; Mr. JOHN LOMAX. Add; 
 M- A, of Emanuel+College in Cambridge. Upon 
 his leaving the Univerfity he Hv'd a while with 
 his Mother in Nevccaftle , and after Come Time 
 was invited to this Town, where he was much 
 lav'd and efteem'd. I find by Dr. Walker, Part II. 
 p. 346, that this was the fequeftred Living of Mr. 
 Edward Upchefter, who he fays was much reduc'd. 
 However the Lord Grey to whom the Town chief- 
 ly belonged, ha,d a great Refpedt for Mr. Lomax, 
 and often invited him to Chillingham where his 
 Lordfhip then redded. He continu'd in this Town 
 till the Reftoration : And then rather than he 
 would a& doubtingly or againft his Confcience, he 
 chofe to leave the Place, and remov'd with his 
 Family to Nortbjhields, where he pra&ic'd Phyfick 
 and Surgery, and kept an Apothecary's Shop, there 
 being none there at that Time. He preach'd there 
 to a Congregation, from whom he had not above 
 4/ fer An, and could fcarce have been able to fup- 
 port his Family, had not his Mother (a moft ex- 
 cellent Woman for Piety and Difcretion) given him 
 Afliftance from a Jointure which (lie had by Mr. 
 "Banner an eminent Merchant, who died Mayor 
 of the Town of Nevecajile. This Mr. Banner was 
 a Man of fo much Worth, and of fo publick a 
 Spirit, that he deferves to be rememberd with Ho- 
 nour. He was Mayor of Newcaftle when King 
 Charles was reftor'd, and had been duly elected 
 by the People. Sir John Morley a noted Cavalier 
 would have had him prefently refign'd, becaufe he 
 was not of a Temper fuited to the Times, nor 
 able to fwim with the Stream. But he refus'd ; 
 becaufe he would not betray the Right of the 
 Town to choofe rheir own Mayor. When Michael- 
 mas-Day came, and Mr. Banner came to the Elec- 
 tion Houfe, the other Party {hut the Doors upon 
 him, and fuch of the Aldermen as were with him, 
 and would not fuffer them to have any Concern 
 in the new Choice. Mr. Banner was this Way 
 forc'd to remain a great while in a Cold Room, 
 which brought upon him a Fie of the Stone, of 
 
 which
 
 / ; * NORTHUMBERLAND. 671 
 
 which he died a few Days after. Some of the 
 Aldermen went to Court, to make a Complaint of 
 the arbitrary Proceedings of their Antagonists, who 
 valu'd themfelves not a little upon their Loyalty: 
 And happening among other Things to accufe Sir J. 
 M. of horrid Swearing, the King turn'd about and 
 laugh'd, as if that had been a ridiculous Thing 
 not worth mentioning, or a commendable Qualifi- 
 cation, rather than fit Matter for an Accufation. 
 They did but labour in vain, and could have no 
 Juftice done them. 
 
 Mr. Lomfix fuffer'd much for his Nonconformi- 
 ty in the Reign of King Charles, and was mifera- 
 bly harrafs'd, though never imprifon'd. He was 
 often forced to leave his Family, and not a little 
 expos'd in travelling about the Country in all Wea- 
 ther, but GOD ftill fupported him, and his good 
 Mother maintained him. She fpent her Time in 
 a moft devout Manner ; in reading, (which (lie could 
 do at that Age without Spectacles) and Prayer, and 
 ferious Convcrfation. Her Son coming to fee her 
 the Night before fhe died, fhe told him that was 
 the laft Time fhe mould read. For fhe verily be- 
 liev'd (fhe faid) that fhe was kept alive for the 
 Support of him and his Family ; adding that now 
 that GOD had reftor'd Liberty, fhe was to be re- 
 mov'd, and could no longer ferve any valuable Pur- 
 pofe, by having her Life prolonged. And fhe died 
 the very next Day: And he did not furvive her 
 very long. 
 
 He was a Man of a very comely AfpecT:, and a 
 pleafant Humour, and yet grave without any Af- 
 fectation. His Converfation was fo very agreeable 
 and obliging, that he was valu'd by all that knew 
 him. He was of a *ery even Temper, and ne- 
 ver feen ruffled, or heard to rail at any Perfon 
 or Party. He was juft to every Man's Character, 
 and where he could not commmend was filent. He 
 was a judicious and folid Preacher, and though he 
 us'd Notes, (which is not fo common in this Coun- 
 try as in other Parts) yet did not that at all hin- 
 der him from being univerfally reflected. He was 
 fo refervM as to his particular Opinion abour 
 
 V 6 L. II. ' G Church
 
 672 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Church Government, that very few but his Inti- 
 mates were acquainted with it. He broke Communi- 
 on with no good People, whofe Terms were not un- 
 fcriptural. He was one of fubftantial and polite 
 Learning, which Bifhop Cojins a Prelate of great 
 Integrity (how high foever his Notions were as to 
 Ecclefiaftical Polity) did him the Juftice to acknow- 
 ledge. When Dr. Cartwright then Prebendary of 
 Durham, (who was afterwards made a Bifhop by 
 King James) took occafion in the Prefence of Bi- 
 ' fhop Ccfms, to refledt upon Mr. Lomax amongft 
 other Diffenting Minifters, which was at that Time 
 very cuftomary, the Bifhop faid to him, Doctor 
 hold your Tongue ; for to my certain Knowledge, 
 John Lomax is a learned Man. And indeed it 
 was obferv'd that that learned Bifhop, feem'd to 
 be more earneft and follicitous to get him to com- 
 ply with the Ecclefiaftical Settlement and come 
 into the Church, than any Preacher in the Coun- 
 ty : And though he did not fucceed, he often fpake 
 of him with great Refpect. 
 
 Mr. Lomax died about 1694; but never publifh- 
 ed any Thing in Print. 
 
 Pag. 510. Chatton j Mr. JAMES DUNCANSON." 
 
 At the End of the Account of him, add : After 
 his Ejectment he retir'd to Leeds in Torkshire, where 
 he was kindly receiv'd by Mr. Stretton, at whofe 
 Houfe he died, and was buried at the New Church 
 there, Dec. 2,4, 1674. His Gaius had prepar'd an 
 Infcription for his Grave-ftone, which would have 
 given fome Notices concerning him, but could not 
 obtain Permiflion to lay it there ; an Alderman of 
 that Town, who had defign'd the Place for his own 
 Family, oppofing him : But it "is obfervable, he hath 
 left none to fucceed him there. 
 
 Pag. 511. Whittingbam ; Mr. ABRAHAM HUME} 
 At the End of the Account of him, let this be ad- 
 ded : He lies interr'd in the new Burying-ground, 
 near Eunhill Fields : And it appears by the Infcrip- 
 tion upon his Tomb-ftone, that when he died, he 
 was about the Age of ninety-two.
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 673 
 
 Pag. 513. Ejttngham; Mr. JOHN MURRAY. He 
 was afterwards a Preacher at Edinburgh : And 
 add, he is taken Notice of as fnch accordingly, in 
 Mr. Robert Woodrovfs Hiftory of the Sufferings of the 
 Church of Scotland, Vol. I. p. 347. 
 
 Ibid. tVarkyoonh i Mr. ARCHIBALD MOOR. This 
 was a Sequeftration, and Dr. Walker reprefents Mr. 
 Moor, as bearing hard upon Mr. Hejlehead who 
 return'd in 1660, An. Part II. p. ^'^^. He goes fo 
 far as to fay that he demanded twenty Shillings of 
 him for the Repair of a little Study, where bis 
 Books ftood. But this I hope was made up by an, 
 Arbitration, without coming to a Law-fuit. 
 
 Pag. 5 14. Bolam : Mr. ROBERT LEAVER. 
 Nephew and Heir to Mr. Henry Leaver of Brand- 
 fpeth. His Father, Mr. Robert Leaver a Mercer in 
 Tor^ was Son to Mr.. Sampfon Leaver, and Grand- 
 fon to Mr. Thomas Leaver, who liv'd and was famous 
 in the Days of King Henry VIII. He was born in 
 1624, and bred in Cambridge : Probably at St Johns. 
 And being a great Lover of his Studies, was in- 
 clined to have fpent much of his Time in the 
 Univerfity ; but his Father dying when he had been 
 there about feven Years, he was carried into the 
 Country and engagM in the Miniftry. This Place 
 in which he fpent ten Years, was the firft Place of 
 his Publick Service. But it being a Sequeftration, 
 he was oblig'd to refign it in 1660. He had laid 
 out confiderable Sums towards the repairing of the 
 Manfion-houfe (it is faid no, or 140 /) and tho' it 
 was at the Defire of the Parifli, he never got the 
 Money repaid. Some time after, he married Mar- 
 garet eldeft Daughter of Upbcrt Dingley of Bramhope, 
 Efq; and preach'd fometimes at a Chapel in the 
 fame Parifh, belonging to Sir William Middleton, 
 and elfewhere as Opportunity offer'd, but was no 
 where fettled afterwards. "When he faw there 
 was no Profpedl of being publickly ufeful without 
 Conformity, he retir'd to a fmall Eftate he had in 
 the Neighbourhood of Durham, and every Lords Day 
 G * Morning
 
 674 The Ejected or Silenfd Mtxiflers, &c. 
 
 Morning walk'd two Miles with his Family to the 
 Parifh Church at Branffetb, where he had in his 
 Uncle's Time often been the Preacher ; and in the 
 Afternoon, preach'd in his own Houfe to as many 
 as were willing to hear him. Here he enjoy'd 
 Quiet in Obfcurity, not being difturb'd by the 
 Five Mile AR, or any of the fevere Laws then 
 in Force againft the Nonconformifts ; and he 
 preach'd whenever he had an Opportunity offer'd. 
 Jn 1671 he was employ'd in feveral Places in this 
 County, and contra&ed a Paralytick Habit by tra- 
 velling in all Weather, and being ill accommodated 
 in the Weftern Pares of the County, among the Mi- 
 ners and Workers at the Forges. But his mod fre- 
 quent Preaching was in or near Newcaftle. In this 
 laft Place he preach'd to fome young Men, with 
 fuch. Privacy, that he knew not w^ere he was to 
 preach, till one came to conduct him to the Place, 
 which was continually altei'd. Thefe were the 
 young Men who afterwards were cited before Lord 
 Chief Juftice Jeff cries, in Newcaftle, for meeting to-' 
 gether for Prayer and Chriftian Conference, who 
 are taken Notice of by Mr. Bennet in his Memorial 
 of the Reformation, p. 361. Now alfo together with 
 Mr. Wilfon (who was turn'd out at Lamejly in the 
 County of Durham, where I have taken fome no- 
 tice of him) he kept up a Meeting for two Years 
 conftantly , preaching by Turns at the latter's 
 Houfe, a little out of the Town, for which he 
 took nothing. 
 
 In Auguft 1684, he was apprehended at his Inn in 
 Gate/head, for being the Preacher at a Conventicle 
 at Mr. George Horfle/s of Millurn Graing. As this 
 Gentleman always exprefs'd a Zeal for Religion 
 and the Diflenting Ministers, fo was he a confidera- 
 ble Sufferer. He paid 60 / for two Sermons preach- 
 ed at his Houfe in one Day, by Mr. Owen and 
 Mr. Leaver, the one in the Forenoon, and the other 
 in the Afternoon. He was one both of Family and 
 Fortune, and fpar'd neither his Pains, nor Purfe, 
 nor Perfon, to ferve the Intereft of Religion a- 
 mong the defpifed Nonconformifts, and therefore 
 well deferves to be mention'd with Honour. The 
 
 Warrant
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 675 
 
 Warrant againft Mr. Leaver in this Cafe was for 
 zo /, to be levied upon his Goods ; and by rhat 
 he was detained, till they procur'd one for his Per- 
 fon, by which he was carried before a Juftice of 
 Peace near Sunderland, and by him committed to 
 Durham Jail. There he continued feven or eighc 
 Days, and was afterwards bail'd and bound over to 
 the Quarter Seffions. When be appear'd upon his 
 Recognizance, none coming to demand the Fine, 
 he was difcharg'd, and the Money was never paid. 
 After this he ftill held on preaching, and upon Mr. 
 I'Picklifs Death was call'd to a Congregation which 
 he had lefc. Here he met with fome Difcourage- 
 ments, a Separation being made upon the Account 
 of a Difagreement among the People in the Choice 
 of an Affiftant, tho' they did not raife above 10 / 
 f er Annum for him that was the Paftor. A Gentle* 
 man that was the moft fignificant Perfon in the 
 Congregation at that Time, drew up the State of 
 the Cafe : And in it, freely complains, of the Un- 
 governablenefs of the People, and the IntrufJon of 
 the Scottifh Minifters : And he there gives this Ac- 
 count of Mr. Leaver. 
 
 *' He was born of a worfhipful Family, his 
 " Grandfather being a Man noted for Piety and 
 " Learning ; loft a confiderable Living for his Non- 
 " conformity ; had fpent nigh a 1000 / of his own 
 ' Eftate ; was born among them, and fuffer'd 
 " with them $ and was one whoie Faith and Pa 
 " tience they had Reafon to blefs GOD for: He 
 44 accepted the Call of that People at thejrfirft Mo- 
 " tion, being glad (as there was Reafon to judge, 
 " the Maintenance being fo fmall) of an Opportuni- 
 " ty to ferve his Lord and Mafter in the Work of 
 " the Gofpel, &c. 
 
 He continu'd to preach to the remaining Part of 
 the People, which was the moft confiderable, till 
 Ttt// i. 1690, when he died after three or four Days 
 Sicknefs, in the fixty-fixth Year of his Age ; tho' he 
 had been declining fome time before. He had 
 prepar'd his Sermon for Lord's Day, but w*s taken 
 
 G 3 &
 
 676 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 ill on the Saturday, and diei on the Tuefday follow- 
 ing. He was of a low Stature, and weak Confti- 
 tution, yet aa hard Student, and had the Character 
 of a learned Man in the Country where he liv'd. 
 He was not hafty in entring on the m'mifterial Of- 
 fice ; for he preach'd (even Years before he re- 
 ceived Ordination, which he had at St Nicolas in 
 Durham, at the fame Time with Mr. Franklin, Mr. 
 Dixon, and Mr. Thompfon : But when he was once 
 ingagM, he would not fuffer any Thing to divert 
 him from his "Work. His Genius feems to have 
 been acute and penetrating. He was a very ftrict 
 and religious Obferver of the Lords Day. He de- 
 fired to be buried in the Church where he had 
 - been ftated Preacher, but the old Incumbent would 
 not allow it ; tho' I am inform'd he paid him his 
 fifths very regularly. 
 
 Pag. 5 14. Alnewicke : Dr. GILBERT RULE? 
 < At the End of the Account of him j let this be 
 
 added : 
 
 He is not a little reflected on, in a vile Book, intir.' 
 The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, which was firft 
 printed in \6<)Z in 4*0 : But fuch a virulent, foul- 
 mquth'd Writer, was regarded by no Man that lo- 
 ved either Truth or Sobriety, A large Account of 
 this worthy Perfbn may be met with in Mr. Robert 
 Wcodrows Hiflory of the Sufferings of the Church of 
 . Scotland, Vol. II. Book iii. p. 126. 
 
 To the Doctor's Works may be added ; his An- 
 fwer to ten Queftions, concerning Epifccpal and Presby- 
 terian Government. His Second Vindication of the 
 Church of Scotland. His Hiftorical l{eprefentation of 
 the Teftimonies of the Church of Scotland j printed in 
 1687,^ tfr. 
 
 This Dr. Rule was fucceeded as Principal of the 
 College of Edinburgh, by my worthy Friend Mr. 
 William Carftaires, who after having had a Share 
 in the Difficulties and Difcouragements, Hardfhips 
 and Sufferings of the Diflenters in England, was 
 for many Years a bright Ornament, and moft ufe- 
 ful Member of the Church pf Scotland. He was 
 not a little CQncern'd in the C&ifultacions here in 
 
 Englwd,
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 677* 
 
 England, in the latter Part of the 'Reign of King 
 Charles II, about the beft Way of preserving our 
 Religion and Liberties, which were in fuch an appa- 
 rent Hazard from a Popifh Succeflbr, who was then 
 near in Profpedt ; and was on this Account a great 
 Sufferer. He fuffer'd in his Reputation, and was 
 fenc down to Scotland, where he was put to the 
 Torture. His Account of htmfelf in this Refpecft 
 may be feen in Mr. James Pierces Vindication of tie 
 Diffenters, pag. 255, 256, &c. And more largely 
 and copioufly in Mr. IVoodrovis Hiftory of the Suffe- 
 rings of the Church of Scotland, Vol. II. Book Hi. 
 p. 387, 6?c. But afcer rhe Revolution he was high- 
 ly efteem'd by King William, with whom he was 
 admitted to the utmoft Freedoms, accompanying 
 him in his Campaigns abroad, when he with fuch 
 an Expence of Blood and Treafure, was endea- 
 vouring to fecure the Liberty of Europe ; often 
 praying with him in his travelling Coach before his 
 Ingagements in the Field ; , and both at home and 
 abroad making ufe of his utmoft Intereft wirh his 
 Majefty, in Favour of the Church of Scotland, to 
 which he was ever a moft fteady and firm Friend. 
 And tho' he fometimes met with but indifferent 
 Treatment for all his Pains, yet he continu'd wife- 
 ly to prefide in their Church Judicatories, during 
 the latter Part of his Life, and was often fent up 
 from thence to Court upon critical Emergencies, 
 both in the Reigns of King William ' and Queen 
 Anne ; and died with the Reputation of being as wife 
 a Man as moft of his Age. Of ail the Men I ever 
 conversed with, I who have Reafon highly to value 
 his Memory for the Honour he did me, of admit- 
 ting me into his Friendfliip, muft freely own, I rec- 
 kon him to have had the beft and moft ufeful 
 Knowledge of the World, and of Mankind ; and 
 fhould have efteem'd (as I have often told him) 
 Memoirs of his drawing up of the Times in which 
 he liv'd, and the TranfacYions wherein he was con- 
 cern'd, an invaluable Treafure. Bifliop Burnet in 
 his late Hiftory, f. 585, tells us, that this Mr. Car- 
 ftaires, had fome Secrets of great Confequence from 
 Holland, truftcd to him by Penfionary Fagcl, who 
 G 4 faw
 
 $7 3 The Ejetfed or Silenc'd Minifter s, &c- 
 
 faw how faithful he was, in that he could have fav'd 
 hitnfelf from Torture, and merited highly, if he had 
 difcover'd them. And he intimates, that this was 
 the Foundation of his Favour with the Prince of 
 Orange, and of the great Confidence he put in him 
 to- his Death. 
 
 Pag. 518. Cornhlll : Mr. HENRY ARESKIN. 
 It fhould be ERSK IN E. Of him I have receiv'd 
 the following Account from a good Hand. He was 
 born in 1614 at a Village cali'd Dryburgb, the Seat 
 of an ancient Abbacy in the Merce , upon the River 
 "Tweed on the Scotti/h Side. His Father Mr. tyilph 
 Erskjne, who was delcended of the honourable ha- 
 inily of Mnrr, had three and thirty Children, of 
 which this Henry was one of the youneeft. He was 
 educated in the College of Edinburgh, where he 
 paft through the Courfe of his Studies with Re- 
 putation, and at length was licenc'd to preach, and 
 ordain'd Minifter of Cornhill, at about ten Miles 
 Diftance from Dryburgh, the Place of his Nativity, 
 on the Engljjh Side : And when he had been Mini- 
 fter there about three Years, he was ejected by the 
 Aft of "Uniformity. When he came ar firft to be 
 Minifter oif Cornhill, the People were fo rude, that 
 while he was fi ting in his Houfe he might hear 
 them curfing him in the open Streets : But in a lit- 
 tie Time he gain'd much upon them. However he 
 had not the Profits of the Living during the three 
 Years of his officiating there, and therefore came 
 up to London to petition his Majefty for fome Re- 
 lief: And coming by Sea, he was forc'd in at Har- 
 wich, where he continn'd Wind bound for three 
 Weeks. He became acquainted with the good 
 People there, exercts'd his Miniftry amongft them, 
 and receiv'd much Civility from them, both du- 
 ring his Stay, and at his Departure. Coming to 
 London, he applied to fome of the Scotti/h Nobility 
 about the Court, requefting they would forward his- 
 Suit to his Majefty : But tho' they ofter'd him Ci- 
 viliries if he would conform, yet he could get no 
 Afliftance from them without it, and therefore he 
 ior returning to Scctttwd, with an heavy Heart, 
 
 and
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 679 
 
 and empty Pockets. Being on Ship-board in order 
 ro his Rerurn, with but a Crown left to fupporc 
 him, he offer'd to exchange it for fmaller Money, 
 when he wanted fome Refreshment : But to his 
 great Surprize, he was told that his Crown was not 
 worth a Farthing. Hereupon he told his Cafe to 
 the Mafter of the Veflel, promifing him Payment 
 at Edinburgh, of what he fhould furnifti him with 
 in his Paflage thither. They were again forc'd into 
 Harwich by a fevere Storm, and were detain'd there 
 fix Weeks, in which Time as Mr. Erskjne was not 
 idle, fohad he again the Experience of the Good- 
 nefs of GOD, in the Supply he fent him in, by 
 means of the Kindnefs of the good People of that 
 Town, who earneftly endeavour'd to get him to 
 come and fettle amongft them ; to which he would 
 willingly have yielded, but could not prevail with 
 his Wife to go fo far from her Friends and native 
 Country. After his Return to Scotland, he liv'd pri- 
 vately, and exercis'd his Miniftry as he had Op- 
 portunity, and Gon took care of him and his. 
 In 1681 he was feiz'd by the Laird of Meldrum 
 with a Company of Soldiers, as he was worfhip- 
 ping G o r> on the Lord's Day with his Family. Af- 
 ter fome Removes to Metros and Stredburgh, &c. 
 which were very inconvenient to him becaufe of 
 an Ague he had then upon him, he was carried 
 before a Committee of the Privy Council at Edin- 
 burgh. When he was there, Sir George Mac^en^y 
 the King's Advocate ask'd him if he would give 
 Bond to preach no more at Conventicles ? Mr. Er- 
 skjne told him in Rerurn, that he had his Commit 
 lion from CHRIST, and that tho' he was within 
 an Hcur of his Death, yet durft he not lay it down 
 at the Foot of any mortal Man. He was afterwards 
 before the Council, and a Libel was read againft 
 him, charging him with preaching at Conventiclef, 
 and diforderly baptizing and marrying, &c. Be- 
 ing ask'd by the Chancellor what he had to fay to 
 the Libel, he faid, it was well known to thofe who 
 liv'd about him, that from Sept. 21. 1681, to the 
 End of February i6Si, he was under fuch a bodily 
 Indifpofiiion, that he was not capable of any Part 
 
 of
 
 6 8o The Ejefled or Silenced Minzfters, 8rc. 
 
 of his minifterial Function, &c. Nothing in parti" 
 cular was prov'd againft him ; and yet he was fin'd 
 five thoufand Marks, committed to the Tolbooth of 
 Edinburgh, and order'd to be carried the next Day 
 co the Bafs, to lie there till his Fine was paid, and 
 Bond given that he fhould preach no more. Here- 
 upon he than very Afternoon, prefented a Petition to 
 Che Council, begging he might have Liberty to quic 
 the Kingdom, and offering to find Sureties for his 
 doing fo. This was granted as a Favour, and on 
 June 14, Mr. John Brown of Parley Nephew to Mr. 
 Erskine, bound himfelf in a Bond of five thoufand 
 Marks, that his Uncle fhould within fourteen Days 
 remove out of the Kingdom of Scotland, never to 
 return, without Liberty granted. When he was 
 releas'd from his Imprifonment, the Clerks of the 
 Council got twenty-one Dollars from him, and the 
 Jailor and his Servants four. 
 
 Having provided himfelf for his Journey, and ta- 
 ken leave of his Friends and of his Wife and Chil- 
 dren, he removed out of the Kingdom within the 
 Time prefix'd, not knowing of any ^certain Abode. 
 He went firft into Northumberland, and thence into 
 Cumberland, and at length fix'd at Parkjidge, about 
 ten Miles from Carlt/le, the Proprietor of the Place 
 offering him a Dwelling-houfe. In September he 
 lent for his Wife and (mall Children thither, and 
 they liv'd there two Years ; till he was invited by 
 one Mr. Gray of Prejfon to live under him in an 
 obfcure Place called Monilaws, which was about a 
 Mile's Diftftnce from Cornhill where he had been 
 ejected. He could not long live here in Peace ; for 
 on July ^. 1685, he was apprehended by eight of the 
 Militia Horfemen, and carried to Wooler, and the 
 next Day to foberrie to Col. Struthers, who told him 
 he muft go to Newcaftle, to Sir John Fenwick., by Ver- 
 tue of an Order from the King ; and that Night he 
 was fent back to TVooller Prifon, where he found Mr. 
 Ogle confin'd as well as himfelf. On July 4 they were 
 carried together to Eglingham to the Juftice-houfe, 
 guarded by nine Soldiers on Horfeback, where they 
 ftaid till Monday, July 6, when Mr. Erskjne was 
 feiz'd with a violent Cholick, of which he thought 
 
 he
 
 ^NORTHUMBERLAND. 681 
 
 he fhould have died : Yet fuch was the Barbarity 
 of the Soldiers, that they would hurry him away 
 in the greateft Extremity of Torment. About fe- 
 ven at Night they arriv'd at Newcaftle *t Sir John 
 FenmicRs Gate, who order'd them to Prifon, and 
 their Horfes were taken from them by Violence. 
 Mr. Erskfnis Sicknefs and Pain continuing, the Pri- 
 foners dealt with the Jailor on his Behalf, that he 
 might have Liberty to quit the Prifon for a Time 
 in order to his Relief, which was obtain'd, and he 
 lodg'd with one Mrs. Man, who tho' none of his 
 Acquaintance, would take nothing for his fourteen 
 Days Sicknefs ; after which he return'd back to 
 Prifon. On July ^^, Mr. Ogle and he were fen 
 free, upon the Act of Indemnity : And at his De- 
 parture, the Prifoners were fo kind as to give him 
 thirty Shillings to bear his Charges home. He con- 
 tinued preaching at Monilaw, till 1687, when up- 
 on the coming out of King James's Toleration, he 
 was by a Number of Presbyterians in the Parifli of 
 Wlritfome, (on the Scottijh Side) call'd to be their 
 Minifter, which Call he accepted, after he had got- 
 ten up his Bond from the Council of Scotland. In 
 September this Year he remov'd with his Family to 
 Hivelaw in the Parifh of Wbitfome, and preach'd 
 there in .a Meeting-houfe till the Revolution, when 
 he was call'd to be Minifter of Cbirnfide, five Miles 
 from Bcrwickij where he continu'd till the Day of his 
 Death, Aug. 10. 1696. JE.t. ^^. 
 
 This good Man met with feveral very remarka- 
 ble Providences in the Courfe of his Life, of which 
 I have an Account from his Son Ebenc^er, who is 
 Minifter at Portmoa? within the Provincial Synod of 
 fyfe in Scotland, when he dwelt at Drylurgb after 
 his Ejectment from Cornhill, he and his Family were 
 often in great Stretghts. Once particularly, when 
 the Cruife of Oil and Barrel of Meal were entirely 
 fpent, fo that when they had fupp'd at Night, there 
 remain'd neither Bread, Meal, Flefli nor Money in 
 the Houfe, in ihe Morning the young Children cry'd 
 for their Brcakfaft, and their Father endeavour'd 
 to divert them, and did what he could at the fame 
 Tinic to encourage hlmfelf and his Wife, to depend 
 
 upon
 
 682 The Eje&ed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 upon that Providence which feeds the young Ravens 
 when they cry for Food : And while he was thus 
 engag'd, a Country- fellow knock'd hard at the Door, 
 and call'd for fome one to help him off with his 
 Load. Being ask'd whence he came, and what he 
 would have, he told them he came from the Lady 
 Heburn, with fome Provifion for Mr. Erskine. They 
 told him he muft be in a Miftake, and that it was 
 more likely to Mr. Erskjne of Shiefield in the fame 
 Town : He replied, No, he knew what he faid ; 
 and that he was not fuch a Sot as they took htm 
 for ; that he was fent to Mr. Henry Erskine ; and 
 cry'd come help me off with with my Load, or elfe 
 I will throw it down at the Door. Whereupon they 
 took the Sack from him, and carried it in, and 
 openM it, and found it well fill'd with Flefh and 
 Meal for the Relief of the whole Family : Which 
 gave him no fmall Encouragement to depend upon 
 his bountiful Benefactor, in future Streights of the 
 fame Nature. 
 
 At another Time, being in Edinburgh, he was 
 fo reduc'd, that he had but three Half-pence in his 
 Pocket, and was afnam'd to go to a publick Houfe 
 to call for any Thing, becaule he forefaw he could 
 not be able to pay the Reckoning j and therefore 
 walk'd in the Streets, not knowing what Courfe to 
 fteer. While he was in this Condition, one came 
 to him in a Countryman's Habit, and ask'd him if 
 he was not Mr. Henry Erskjnc. He rold him he 
 was, and ask'd him his Bufinefs. I have, replied 
 he, a Letter for you, which he accordingly deliver- 
 ed, and in it were inclos'd feven Scotch Ducatoons, 
 with thefe Words written. 
 
 Sir; Deceive this from a Sympathising friend. 
 "Farewell. 
 
 But there was no Subfcription. Mr. Erskine being 
 defirous to know his Benefactor, invited the honeft 
 Man to go into an Houfe hard by and drink with 
 him. Having got him alone, he enquir'd of him 
 with fome Earneftnefs , who it was that fent 
 him. The honeft Man told him that Secrecy 
 
 was
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 was enjoin'd him, and therefore he defir'd to be ex- 
 cus'd from telling ; for that he could not betray his 
 Truft. Mr. Erskjne however ftill continu'd to ask 
 him fome Queftions, as to what Part of the Country 
 he came from, &c. that he might the better be able 
 to guefs from what Hand this Relief came that 
 was fo feafonable ; whereupon the honeft Man de- 
 fired him to fit a little, while he went forth, and 
 hedidfo: But he being once gone, return'd no 
 more ; nor could Mr. Erslyne ever learn who his 
 Benefa&or was. 
 
 Being at another Time engag'd in a Journey on 
 Foot, his Money fell Ihort, and he was in Danger 
 of being expos'd. As he was walking along, Na- 
 ture oblig'd him to ftep afide towards a Bufh of 
 Rufljes, and going to fix his Staff in the marfhy 
 Ground, he heard fomewhat tinkle at the End of 
 it : Whereupon ftooping down, he found two half 
 Crowns, which did him good Service, helping to 
 bear his Charges home. 
 
 He was one that was very zealous in his Mt- 
 fter's Work, and not eafily daunted. He was often 
 fent by the Presbytery at the Time of the Revo- 
 lution, to preach in and take PoflelTion of thofe 
 Churches, where People were difaffeded to the 
 Presbyterian Intereft, and where Minifters had the 
 greateft Difficulty of Accefs : And he has fometimes 
 preach'd in fuch Places, while Showers of Stones 
 have been breaking in upon him at the Doors and 
 Windows all the Time. Such Treatment as this 
 he particularly met with at Coldingham. And it 
 was remarkable, that the laft Sermon he ever 
 preach'd was to that People, who had given him 
 luch harfh Entertainment. On the Monday after 
 the Adminiftradon of the L o R D'S Supper among 
 them, he difcours'd to them, upon Dan. v. 17. 
 Thou art weighed in the Ballanccs and art found 
 wanting. 
 
 The Manner of his Death was a remarkable 
 AccompHfhment of PfaL xxxvii, 37. He was feiz- 
 ed with with a Feaver which carried him off ia 
 a Fortnight's Time. Finding his End draw near, 
 he having fee his Houfe in order, called for his 
 
 Children,
 
 684 The Ejefted or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 Children, and of nine that he had living, fix were 
 yrefent. With a Kind of heavenly Authority he 
 exhorted them to cleave to the LORD with full 
 Purpofe of Heart ; declaring that the Advantages of 
 ferious Religion and true Holinefs, did infinitely 
 outweigh all the Hardfhips and Difficulties that 
 poffibly could attend it. And as a dying Man and 
 a dying Father, he gave his Teftimony to the Good- 
 nefs of the Ways of GOD; afluring them that as 
 he never had , fo imore especially then he did 
 not repent, of any Hardfhips he had endur'd in 
 his Matter's Service. I know (added he) I am 
 going to Heaven : And if you follow my Footfteps, 
 you and I (hall have a joyful Meeting there e'er 
 long. And having thus encourag'd them to ingage 
 in the Service of the LORD, he caus'd them one 
 after another, from the eldeft to the youngeft pre- 
 ient, to kneel down on his Bed-fide, and taking 
 them in his Arms, he folemnly ingag'd them to be 
 Servants to the GOD of Abraham, Ifaac, and Ja- 
 cob, 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 blefled them, and committing his 
 Wife and them to the Care of Divine Providence, 
 he recommended his Spirit into the Hands of his 
 covenanted GOD, who had car'd for him 'all his 
 Life long. 
 
 He was buried in the Church-yard of Chirnfide 
 and an Epitaph was drawn up for him by Mr. John 
 Dycerty Minifter of Coldingbam, which is engraven 
 on his Tomb-ftone. 
 
 Much the fame Account with this, of this good 
 Man, may be met with in Mr. Robert Woodrovis Hi- 
 ftory of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, 
 Vol. II. p. 156. Which is not at all to be won- 
 dered at, notwithftanding we had no Correfpondence 
 about it, becaufe we both had Particulars from. 
 the fame Hands. 
 
 Pag. 519. Byw#; Mr. JOHN DAVIS. At the 
 End of the Account of him; add: The won hy 
 Author of the Conformifts fourth Plea for the Noncon- 
 
 formiftt,
 
 in NORTHUMBERLAND. 68$ 
 
 formifts, f. 63, fpeaking of fome Minifters that to 
 avoid Offence and Dangers, and to fhew poor Souls 
 the Way to Everlafting Life, went under the Pro- 
 tection and Concealment of the Darknefe of the 
 Night, and preach'd and pray'd in Caves and Pits,' 
 venturing their Health and Lives to fave Sinners from 
 everlafting Deftrudion , mentions Mr. Davis of 
 Cumberland as preaching in one of them, and get- 
 ting a Cold that prov'd mortal, leaving fix Chil- 
 dren to the Charity of good People, and particu- 
 larly to the Care of Mr. Richard Wilson, a Gen- 
 tleman of a fmall Eftate, but of great Piety and 
 Ufefulnefe in the North, and one who had like to 
 have been ruin'd on the 3 5th of Eli%. I fuppofe 
 this Mr. John Davis was the Perfon intended. 
 
 Pag. 5 10. Bedlington ; Mr. JOHN D A R N T o tfJ 
 An Account was given of him at Tanfield in Torl^- 
 /hire, p. 831 ; and therefore he ftiould have been 
 omitted here. 
 
 Ibid. Tinntouth; Mr. ALEXANDER GOURD ON! 
 He went afterwards into Scotland where Notice is 
 taken of him, by Mr. Robert Woodrow, in his Hi- 
 ftory of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, 
 Vol. I. p. 418. 
 
 Ibid. Haughton : Mr. JOHN HUM E^ I fup- 
 pofe this might be a Sequeftred Living, and that 
 Mr. Hume might be dimilfed here at the Refto-' 
 ration, and go into Scotland. And I the rather think 
 fo, becaufe I find one Mr. John Hume, m Mr, 
 WoodrovisLib of the Suffering Scottifh Minifters, men- 
 tion'd as one of the Members of the Presbytery 
 of Edinburgh. See Appendix to his Hiftory of 
 the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, Vol. I. p. 71.' 
 And I think it may deferve our Obfervation, that 
 as feveral of tbofe that were caft out and filenc'd 
 in the Northren Counties of England, went after- 
 wards into North Britain, fo alfo feveral of thofc 
 who after the Reftoration fuffer'd for adhering to 
 Presbyterian Principles in North Britain, were af- 
 urrwards glad to fly for Refuge into our Northern 
 
 Counties
 
 686 The Ejefted or Silenced Mimflers, 8cc. 
 
 Counties that border'd upon them. Thus Mr. 
 Woodrow in the Book cited above, Vol. II. p. 6, 6>c. 
 tells, us that Mr. William Veitch was forc'd to leave 
 his native Country, and retired with his Family 
 into this County of Northumberland, to a Place nam- 
 ed Harnamhill, where he preach'd near five Years 
 to a numerous Meeting with very much Succefe. 
 And that upon the Dilpofal of that Ground to ano- 
 rher Owner, he remov'd in 1677 to Staunton hall 
 in the Parifh of Long-horflie, a Place abounding 
 with Papifts, where he alfo preach'd with much 
 Acceptation ; and though the Papifts and Clergy in 
 the Neighbourhood rais'd a Storm upon him, he 
 was preferv'd, and that fometimes very' remarka- 
 bly. At length, Jan. 19, 1679, he was feiz'd in 
 his own Houfe by Major Oglethorp, and made clofe 
 Prifoner in Morpetb Jail, and from thence carried 
 to Edinburgh, where he was by the Committee of 
 Council defign'd to be fentenc'd to Death, which 
 was happily prevented, by the Application of a 
 particular Friend of his, (who took a Journey to 
 London on Purpofe) to fome Members of Parlia- 
 ment. An Abftracl of his Cafe was printed, in 
 which it was fignify'd, that he was feiz'd in Eng- 
 land, and without any Fault, after near thirteen 
 Years Abode there, carried down to Scotland to 
 be judg'd there for old Crimes. This at that Time 
 made a great Noife, and to avoid a Parliamen- 
 tary Inquiry into it, a Letter was written down 
 to the Council of Scotland, fign'd by Duke Lauder- 
 dale, which came very feafonably, within an Hour 
 before Sentence of Death was to have been pronounc- 
 ed againft him. 
 
 The fame Author tells us, Vol. I. p. 433, that 
 in the Year 1676, Mr. John Weljh, and feveral o- 
 ther Scotijk Minifters, came into this County of Nor- 
 tbumberland, and (helter'd there in the Winter.
 
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 EJECTED, fcte 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of NOTTINGHAM. 
 
 . 520.KTOTTINGHAM; St Peter's: Mr. 
 ^ JOHN BARRET, M. A. In the Ac- 
 count given of him, Pag. 514, let it be thus : Where- 
 as I faid he is yet living, Pattor of the Congre- 
 gation at Nottingham, it muft be now alter'd ; 
 he having quitted this troublefome World, and 
 retir'd to that Place where the Weary are at reft. 
 Mr. Barret and Mr. Whitlows Cafe as to their E- 
 jectment, was fingular. Having receiv'd a Copy of 
 it, as it was left under Mr. Bands Hand -writing, 
 I fhall here annex it. 
 
 " They were both cited to appear in the Arch- 
 " deacon's Court, and upon their Appearance fen- 
 *' tenc'd by Sir Edward Lukf the Official, for a fu- 
 " ture Offence ; that is, if they did not read the 
 " Common Prayer, and wear the Surplice, the Lord's- 
 " day after, which was July, 6. 1662, exnunc prcut 
 " extunc, & extunc front exnunc, to be fufpend- 
 " ed from Office and Benefice. And this was af- 
 " ter the Archdeacon Dr. Hartcourt had to'd fome 
 " Friends of theirs, that he had receiv'd a Prohibi- 
 " tion from the Archbifliop of Tork,, whereby the 
 
 ' Archdeacon's Court was not to meddle with any 
 " new Caufe, (as theirs was, not being yet cited) 
 " to the Prejudice of his (that is the Archbifhop's) 
 " Vifttation. Both Mr. Wkitlock. and Mr. Barret 
 
 " were derermin'd to hold on preadbuig in their 
 V o L. II. H Z Places,
 
 688 The fyetted or Silenced Minifters^ &c. 
 
 " Places, notwithftanding Sir Edward ^Luke fhould 
 " filence them, till by Force reftrain'd". But they 
 " were prevented thus ; vi%. that at the fame Time 
 " that he decreed their Sufoenfion, he alfo decreed 
 " the Excommunication of the Church-wardens of 
 " both Parifhes, if they did not prefent their Mi- 
 " nifters with Common Prayer Books and Surplices ; 
 " and fuppofing they did not conform thereupon, 
 " if they (the Church-wardens) did not provide 
 " conforming Minifters from that Day before men- 
 " tion'd, which fome of them were ready enough 
 " to do. So that Mr. Whitloc^ and Mr. Barret 
 " could no more get into their Pulpits, but againft 
 " the Church- ward ens, and that would have been 
 " made a Riot. 
 
 " The Irregularities of thefe Proceedings plainly 
 " appear'd afterwards, at the Archbifhop's Vifitation 
 " after Bartholomew, when the Chancellor Dr. Borell 
 " fat as Judge in the Court, before whom thefe 
 " two Minifters before fufpended were cited to 
 " appear. When Mr. JUanet was called, he an- 
 " fwer'd, Here. Then the Chancellor ask'd whether 
 " he had conform'd ? He anfwer'd, No. Then I fuf- 
 *' pend you fays the Chancellor. Mr. TSarret re- 
 " ply'd, I am fufpended already. That Word of 
 " his caus'd a Silence in the Court for fome time; 
 " and a private Debate between the Archdeacon 
 " and the Chancellor follow'd upon it. Hereupo* 
 " the Judgment of the Serjeant at Law was ask'd, 
 " upon a Copy of Sir Edward Ltikes Decree of Suf- 
 " penfion : And it was queried whether their eje- 
 " (ftion was not contrary to the Bartholomew AA, 
 '* as it was diredfcly againft the Archbifhops prohi- 
 " bition. By that Act they fhould have had Time 
 " till Auguft 24 following, to confider whether they 
 " might with a fafe Confcience conform : And the 
 " new Common Prayer Book (which they muft give 
 " their Aflent and Confent to if they would keep 
 " in their Places) was not come down by the 6th of 
 " July, to which if they fhould haye declar'd their 
 " Alfent and Coufent it muft have been by an impli- 
 '- cic Faith, 
 
 To
 
 in the County of NOTTINGHAM. 689 
 
 To Mr. Barret's Works, may be added, a Ser- 
 mon on Scandal, which he printed in his Life Time : 
 And a Tradfc called, The Laft Legacy, 8i>o, and Six 
 Select Sermons, %vo, which came ouc juft after his 
 Death. 
 
 j . 
 
 Pag. 524. Flintham and Sutton ; Mr. JOHN JAMES." 
 At the End of the Account of him, let there be this 
 Addition. I have been informed, that Juftice IVkaley 
 being in the Mint did fome time -before his Death, 
 write Mr. James a Letter, acknowledging his great 
 Error, in being fo great an Enemy to him, and own- 
 ing that the Hand of G o D upon him was juft for his 
 Rigour towards him. Mr. James publilVd a Funeral 
 Sermon for Dr. John Buckley, 'on Prov. xiv. 32. 4*-?, 
 1689. 
 
 Pag. 515. Griefley ; Mr. ROBERT SMALLEY. He 
 and Mr. Samuel Coats, and Me. Reynolds, and Mr. 
 VVlntlcck^ wrote an Epiftle before Mr. Jckn B/r/fs 
 Treatife of Divine Meditation ; publifh'd by Mr. djke 
 in 1660. 
 
 Pag. 516. Blcasliei Mr. JOHN J A CKSON. He 
 was born at Hoxton, or Oxton in this County, An. 
 \6^^. He was the Son of Mr. William Jackson, a con- 
 forming Puritan Minifter, a good Preacher, and an 
 eminently Holy Man, who continued his Labours till 
 he was above an hundred Years old, and left many 
 Manufcripts behind him. I cannot recover any Ac- 
 count of his Education, or the Pafiages of his Life 
 while he was in the publick -Church : But am in- 
 formed that after his Ejectment (at which Time 
 he was offer'd a much better Benefice, if he could 
 have conform'd) he rcmov'd to Morton near South- 
 well, where, he taught School, and preach'd in his 
 own Houfe, and other Places as he had Opportu- 
 nity. He had often Difturbance from Informers ; 
 but I cannot hear he was ever finM or imprilbn'd 
 for his Nonconformity : However he was cited in- 
 to the Spiritual Court, and excommunicated. He 
 afterwards kept School at Kjieefeitl, (formerly a 
 apted Place for Puritans) where he preach'd twice 
 H i every
 
 690 The Ejected or Silettc'd Mimfters, 8rc. 
 
 every Lord's Day, till Sicknefs and Infirmities of 
 old-Age made him incapable : But afterwards he 
 continu'd his Service in the Afternoons, till his Death, 
 Dec. ^6. 1696. He hath left nothing behind him 
 in Print. 
 
 He was a fober grave good Man, very circum- 
 fpect and confcientious in his Converfadon, and 
 one that fpent much Time in his Clofer. He was 
 ftrid: in Family Difcipline, a bold Reprover of Vice 
 and Profanenefs, very temperate, and much wean'd 
 from this World ; and therefore bore all the Afflicti- 
 ons he met with, with great Patience and Submiffion. 
 He was well fatisfied in his Nonconformity to the 
 laft. His Funeral Sermon was preach'd by Mr. Sa- 
 muel Coates of Mansfield, to a numerous Auditory, 
 from John ix. 4. 
 
 Pag. 516. S aunty : Mr. JOSIAH ROCK; the 
 fame as is mentioh'd, fag. 615. He was properly 
 ejected here, though what is faid of him in both 
 Places fliould be put together, and I am informed 
 is ftrictly true : And it fliould have been added, 
 that he was one of great Diligence and Succefs in 
 Catechizing. 
 
 Ibid. Kjiecfall : Mr. BOSWORTH. He remov'd 
 from hence to Nottingham, where he preachM in 
 his own Houfe - 3 and there he died. 
 
 ibid. Clavoortb : Mr. JOHN C R o M w E L. Add ; 
 He was a tall comely Perfon, of a healthful Confti- 
 tution, very ftudious and ferious in the College, 
 as I am informed by one that knew him there. 
 He no fooner took the Degree of B. A, An, 1651, 
 but he long'd to be at Work in his LORD'S Vine- 
 yard. Confuking with Dr. Tuckney, he advis'd him 
 to a longer Continuance in the College; which 
 Advice Mr. Crcmveel followed : And yet to gratify 
 his own Inclination, he accepted of Invitations to 
 preach in Qouncry Villages near Cambridge, while 
 he was Junior Batchelor. When Oliver the Protec- 
 tor prefented him to Clawortb, he ofFer'd him 200 / 
 per An, tq be Houfhold Chaplain to his Son Henry 
 
 in
 
 in the County of NOTTINGHAM. 691 
 
 in Ireland. Then and fometimes afterwards he preach- 
 ed at Court with great Applaufe, and feme Cour- 
 tiers faid, he carried the Bell away from Dr. 
 Owen, and the other Court Preachers. He was in 
 great Vogue with them not only on the Account 
 of his Name, but for his Preaching and Praying; 
 efpecialty upon a Faft kept for Succefs in the War 
 with Spain, An. 165 8. He was folemnly ordain'd 
 in Claworth Church by his Uncle Mr. Fijher of 
 Sheffield, Mr. Barnard of Worfop, Mr. Frith of Mans- 
 field, and Mr. /^oc^ of Saunly. He died at Earn- 
 by Mere, in Nottingbamfoirc, the Place of his Na- 
 tivity, where he had a competent Eftate. This Liv* 
 ing of Claworth is reckon'd worth 1^0 1 per An, or 
 above. Mr. Cromwcl publifli'd a Dicourfe of Spiri- 
 tual Elejjlngs in four Sermons on Efhcf. i. 3 : And 
 of G o D'S owning the leaft Degree of Grace j in 
 two Sermons, from Amos ix. 9. 8z>o, 1685. 
 
 Pag. 517. Cromwell; Mr. JOSEPH TRUMAN, B. Z>. 
 Add ; He was born at Gedling near Nottingham, 
 in April 1631. He came of pious and religious 
 Parents. His Farher was employed in publick Bu- 
 linefs for the Country many Years, and was much 
 efteem'd for his Wifdom and Faithfulnefs : And I 
 have had from good Hands an Account of one 
 Paflage concerning him that was remarkable. Up- 
 on the Publifliing the Eool^ of Sports in the Reign 
 of King Charles I, going to vifit a fick Friend on 
 the Lot -4's- day, and patting through a Country Vil- 
 Jage where a M<y-pole had been lately creeled, 
 and where great Numbers were gathered together 
 in Purfuit of their Diversion ; He riding by them, 
 two of the Company came up to him, and in a 
 very infulting Manner told him, that though he had 
 lately frighted People from fuch Exercifes as they 
 were now at on that Day, yet they were now in 
 no Fear of him, having the King's Allowance for 
 what they did. Mr. Truman only made them this 
 fhprt Anfwer ; it is true Gentlemen you have the 
 King's Law for what you do, but we muft have 
 RefpecT: to GOD'S Laws as well as the King's, 
 two Perfons fpoken to, went immediately to tho 
 H 3
 
 692 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, Sic. 
 
 next Juftice of Peace, and made Oath , that 
 Mr. Richard Truman had faid, that we ought to 
 have Refped: to GOD'S Laws, and not to the King's 
 Laws in this Cafe. This was the Foundation of 
 a moft violent Profecution, in all the Courts in 
 England, which iflii'd in an Out-lawry. He was 
 forc'd to attend the Courts, and be abfent from 
 his numerous Family and his Bufinefs, for near 
 three Quarters of a Year. One of his Profecutors 
 
 was the E. of Ch Id ^ but his Son being at 
 
 that Time in London, met the faid Mr. Truman 
 and ask'd him what brought him thither ? He was 
 not very forward to give him an Account, becaufe 
 of his Father's Concern in the Trouble he met with.- 
 But Mr. St fe prefling him, he at length acquaint- 
 ed him with the whole Matter. That honourable 
 Gentleman exprefs'd his hearty Concern that any 
 of his Family (hould have an Hand in a Profecuti- 
 on of that Nature, and defir'd Mr. Truman to keep 
 an exact Account of all the Charge he was at up- 
 on this Occafion, and promis'd him that if ever 
 he came to the Honour and Eftate he would re- 
 pay him the whole. This comforted him at that 
 Time, but his Hope faiPd him, through the Death 
 of that worthy Gentleman, who did not live long 
 after ; by which means the whole Burden fell up- 
 on himfelf, the Damage amounting upon Compu- 
 tation to near 15007. It pleafedGoD fome time 
 after, to give one of the Gentlemen concern'd in 
 his Profecurion a Senfe of his Sin and Guilt, in 
 fwearing falfly againft an innocent Perfon, and he 
 was fo uneafy that he faid he fhould be damn'd if 
 he -did not fee Mr. Truman before he died. An 
 Account of this being fent to Mr. Truman as he was 
 returning from London, he vifrced this Gentleman, 
 before he had fe'en his own Family. When he 
 came to his Houie he found him under great Ago- 
 nies of Confcience; and amongft other Things 
 he told him that he could not die in Peace, unlefs 
 he forga\ e him that wicked and unrighteous Thing 
 he had done to him ; and alfo entreated him that 
 he would pray to GOD to forgive him : Both which 
 Mr.. Truman did before he left him ; and in a few 
 
 Days
 
 /* theCotwtj of NOTTINGHAM. 69? 
 
 Days after, the Gentleman died. As for rhe other 
 Perfon concern'd, though it never appeared that he 
 had any Uneafinefs in his Confcience for what he 
 had done, yet within a few Years he faw him 
 at his Door begging an Alms. The firft of thefe 
 Gentlemen that (wore againft Mr. Truman had an 
 Eftate of 200 /^w Annum, and the other of 120: 
 But it pleafed G o D to make up all Mr. Truman s 
 Lofles, as well as to vindicate and clear his Repu- 
 tation in a very little Time : For befides his own 
 Eftate, he rented 5 GO/ per Annum. This Land was 
 of a fandy Soil, and lay high, and Providence fo 
 order'd it, that that Year was exceeding wet and 
 rainy ; infomuch that when the greateft Part of 
 the Corn upon the low Lands was either bad or 
 deftroy'd, he had fo large a Crop that Year, that 
 he computed that he clear'd 200 / beyond his Ex- 
 pectation. 
 
 Mr. Jofefl Truman was betimes inftructed in the 
 Principles of the Chriftian Religion, and had a great 
 Advantage in the pious and devout Example of 
 his Parents. In his younger Years, he began School 
 Learning under the Direction of Mr. Laurence 
 Palmer, Minifter of Gedling, a Perfon of good Learn- 
 ing, who had been Pupil to Dr. Prideaux of Ox- ' 
 ford. From him he was remov'd to the Free School 
 in Nottingham, of which Mr. Leak, was then Head 
 Mafter. From thence he was fent to Cambridge, 
 and admitted Penfioner of Clare Hall, under the 
 Tuition of Mr. William Pendock^ t a good Scholar 
 and a faithful Tutor, who took great Pains in read- 
 ing Lectures, and making his Pupils underftand 
 them. He was of the fame Year and College with 
 the late Archbifhop Tillotfon, though they had not 
 both the fame Tutor. Their Tempers were very 
 fuitable, which created a familiar Friendfliip in the 
 College, which continu'd afterward?. He was of 
 a Temper that reconcil'd two Things that but 
 very rarely meet together in one Perfon, vi%. a 
 great Degree of innocent Pleafantry and good Hu- 
 mour, with the ftricteft Piety and Vcrtue. From 
 this admirable Temper he convey'd to the Minds 
 f all that convers'd with him, a very beautiful 
 H 4
 
 694 The E]efted or Sileytfd Minifiers, &c- 
 
 Idea of Religion. He continued for fome time in 
 his Living of Cromwell after the Atl of 'Uniformity 
 took Place, but did not read all the Service in 
 the Book of Common Prayer as the Kubrick di- 
 reds. This occafion'd an Indictment againft him, 
 which he anfwer'd to, the next AfTizes. When the 
 Tryal came on, the Judge ask'd him why he did 
 not read the Common Prayer, according to the Di- 
 rection of the Ad and the Kubrick. My Lord, 
 fays Mr. Truman {hall I tell your Lordfhip plainly 
 what the true Reafon is? Yes fays the Judge. 
 Why then my Lord fays, Mr. Truman, the true Rea- 
 fon why I do not read the Common Prayer, ac- 
 cording to the Dirediorr given, is becaufe there 
 are Lies in it : Neither can I give my Vnfeign- 
 fd Affent and Confent to all and every Thing con- 
 tain^ in that Book, for that Reafon among others. 
 The Judge was fo incenfed at this Expreifion, that 
 he immediately fin'd him 5 /, for throwing Con- 
 tempt on. the Book of Common Prayer in the Face 
 of the Court j and he was forc'J 10 pay it down 
 immediately, before rhe Court would give him any 
 farther Hearing. Then a Common Prayer Book 
 was order'd to be brought in, and deiiver'd to Mr. 
 Truman, that he might give fome Proof of his Af- 
 fertion, that had given fo great Offence. He im- 
 mediately turn'd to the Col'ed for Chriftmas Day, 
 where he read thefe Words : Almighty God, who 
 haft given us thine only begotten Sen, to take our Na- 
 ture upon him, and this Lay to be born of a Pure 
 Virgin, &c. Then he turn'd to the Colled for the 
 Sunday after Chriftmas Day, and there read the very 
 fame Words over again ; and then told them, that 
 fuppofing CHRIST was born on December 25, (which 
 yec he never faw prov'd to Satisfaction) he could 
 not be born on the 26$h, or the Sunday after 
 Chriftmas Day, whenever it fell. This he told the 
 Court was what he could not fubcribe to : For if 
 rhe firft Colled: was true, the fecond muft be falfe ; 
 and vie? versa. The Judge feem'd furpriz'd at the 
 Obfervation, and confefTed it to be a Miftake, and 
 to'd the Court he would endeavour to have it rec- 
 tified. And accprdingly the Exprefiipn wa.s altered 
 
 in
 
 in ^e-Co^Q/NQTTINGHAM. 695 
 
 In the following Editions of the Book of Common 
 Prayer, in which the Collects run thus : Almighty 
 God, who haft given us thy only begotten Son, to takf 
 our Nature upon him, and as at this Time to be born of 
 afure Virgin, Sec. 
 
 Mr. Truman had excellent natural Parts, and yen 
 could endure long and hard Study which is not very 
 Gommcn. While he was in the Univerlity, the 
 Scholars had a common Saying among them, when 
 they were ask'd whether fwch a Thing was true ? 
 Yes they would fay as true as that Truman was in 
 his Study. He never allow'd himfelf above three 
 Hours Sleep, and but a very little Recreation. All 
 the reft of his Time was chiefly fpent in Studying, 
 Meditation and Prayer. His indefatigable Induftry 
 join'd with ftrong natural Parts, gave him the Ad- 
 vantage by the Blefling of GOD, of arriving to 
 greater Degrees of Knowledge and Learning than 
 are ufual. He was not only a good Critick in the 
 Greek., but it was furprizing ro many, what Profici- 
 ency he made in the Hebrew Tongue, from the 
 Time that he began to apply himfelf to it. The 
 Strength of his Confthution, and the ardent Love 
 and Defire he had for Learning, prompted him t* 
 purfue his Studies ac thofe Seafons when others 
 were afieep. As he was well acquainted with the 
 Statute and Common Law, fo he was no Stranger 
 to the Civil Law ; and knew very well how to 
 make the whole fubfervient to Diviniiy, as is evi- 
 dent to fuch as confult the valuable Books he has 
 left behind him. He was well read in all Antiqui- 
 ty ; and particularly in that valuable Piece of ity 
 Primitive Chriftianity, and the Hiftory and Confti- 
 tution of the Church of CH R i s T, in the firft three 
 Centuries. He could not find Diocefan Prelacy, 
 and that Scheme of Church Government and Dif- 
 cipline in thole early Writers, which others pretend 
 to find in almoft every Page of them. Being per- 
 fectly acquainted with Primitive Chriftianity, he had 
 the lefslnclina-ion to comply with the prefent Form 
 eftabli(h'd in the Church of England, and for that 
 Reafon was ejected by the Aft for Uniformity. He 
 had feveral Oilers of great Preferment from Per- 
 
 ions
 
 6 c}6 The Ejetted or Silenced Mmifters^ 8rc. 
 
 fons of the higheft Dignity borh in Church and 
 State, but he preferr'd. the Peace of his Confci- 
 ence, and the pleafing of GOD, to all other Confi- 
 derations. When he was turn'd out of his Living 
 he did not lay afide the Work of the Miniitry, but 
 preach'd the Gofpel wherever he had Opportunity ; 
 looking upon this to be his Duty, tho' his Superiors 
 thought fit to filcnce and lay him afide. His Dif- 
 courfes (tho' adfofulum) were very elaborate and 
 well digefted, and ftudioufly adapted both to the 
 informing the Judgment and afFedHng the Confci- 
 ence. His Notes were very fhorr, and written in 
 peculiar Characters, which were of no Ufe to any 
 but himfelf : So that all his other valuable Writings 
 except what he publifh'd in his Life-time, were loft 
 to the World. 
 
 The Lord Marquis of Dorcbefter had a very par- 
 ticular Efteem for him, and entertain'd him always 
 with the urmoft Civility. That noble Lord would 
 frequently engage him in a Difpute, with fome 
 of the moft eminent Clergy who came to vifit 
 him, purely to hear the Strength and Force of his 
 Reafoning. 
 
 In his Journey home from London, he vifited Mr. 
 Baxter at Totteridge, who highly valu'd him and 
 his Writings ; and earneftly prefs'd him to write a 
 Treatife upon the two Covenants, which Mr. Tru- 
 man promis'd to perform, if GOD fpar'd his Life. 
 He was ill at that Time, and Mr. Baxter was im- 
 portunate with him to ftay till he was better : But 
 he told him he was expeded home, and muft go. 
 Accordingly he went that Night to his old Friend 
 and Acquaintance Mr. Stephens of Sutton in Bedford- 
 fbire, (who fucceeced Dr. Edward Stillingfleet} and 
 fo he rode thirty Miles in one Day, notwithstanding 
 his Indifpofition. When he came thither, he com- 
 plained that his Throat was much out of Order; 
 and yet he fupp'd as ufually, and. fate up pretty 
 late. He refted tolerably well, rofe about eight 
 a-Clock, and perceiving himfelf grow worfe, he 
 made his Will, writing half of it himfelf, and dic- 
 tating the other half; ufing Mr. Stephens as his 
 Amanuenfis. At eleven a-Clock lie went to Bed 
 
 again,
 
 in the County of NOTTINGHAM. 697 
 
 again, and being feverifh, a Phyfician was fenc for, 
 who came about three. When he came, Mr. Tru- 
 man complaining that his Throat was very fore, he 
 gave him fome Beer to drink, that he might Tee how 
 he fwallowM it. As he fate up in his Bed to take 
 it, he expir'd without Sigh or Groan. This hap- 
 pened 'July 19. 1671, in the forty-third Year of 
 his Age , and on the twenty-firft following, he 
 was buried privately in the Chancel at Sutton, and 
 on the Lord's Day after, worthy Mr. Stephens im- 
 proved his fudden Death in a fuitable Sermon. He 
 told Mr. Stephens the Night before he died, that 
 Dr. Tillotfon and Dr. Stillingflcet had cut ouc a great 
 deal of Work for him. 
 
 When the forrowful News of his Death came in- 
 to his own Country, there was a general Lamenta- 
 tion, and an Appearance of an universal Concer- 
 nednefs ; and at a Day of Prayer kept at Notting- 
 ham Mr. Robert Porter much affedled all the Com- 
 pany, with the great Lofs the Church of C H R i s T 
 had fuftain'd, by the Death of fo worthy and valua- 
 ble a Minifter. 
 
 He read Dr. TcvJJfis Scholaftical Writings when 
 he was but Junior Sophifter : And tho' he was im- 
 merfed in Controverfies for the greafeft Part of his 
 Time; yet his Preaching was very plain and prac- 
 tical, and edifying to the meaneft Capacity j and 
 came home to the Confciences of his Hearers. 
 
 Mr. Bawdy Oley who was Bifhop Gunnings Tu- 
 tor at Clare Hall, highly applauded his firft Book in- 
 tituled, The Great Propitiation and a good Cha- 
 racter of him may be met with in the Life of Dr. 
 Bw//, Bifhop of St David's, written by Robert Net- 
 fon, Efq; p. 204, 205. 
 
 Pag. 519. Cctgrave : Mr. JOHN C L A R K E, M. A. 
 Add; This Living is vaiu'd at 240 / for An. Mr. 
 Clarke did not enjoy it full four Years. He had 
 fix fmall Children, upon whofe Account, as well 
 as becaufe of his own Worth, his Ejcdion was 
 greatly and generally lamented. He hath extant, 
 a brief and pithy Difcourfe, about Comfort, izmo. 
 '
 
 698 The Ejected or Silenced Mtmfters, &c. 
 
 Pag. 530. Sibtborp or Flintham: Mr. GEORGE 
 COOK. When the Aft of Vniformlty took Place, 
 he offer'd to preach, but was violently hinder'd, by 
 two Men that forc'd the Pulpit-door againft him 
 when he was opening it, and crufh'd his Hand ; 
 upon which he withdrew, and faid they were * 
 wicked Generauon, and he would no more join 
 with them. He was a good Scho ar, a great Difpu- 
 tanr, and a fom.d Preacher. He remov'd afterwards 
 to the City of London. 
 
 Ibid. Altering : Mr. MATTHEW THOMP- 
 SON. This was reckon'd one of the beft Benefices 
 in thefe Parts. Mr. Tbompfon had fix Children ac 
 the Time of his Ejedr--,ent. He remov'd into Lin- 
 coin/hire ; and was an humble, charitable Man, and 
 a celebrated Preacher. 
 
 Pag. 531. Matterfey: Mr. WILLIAM A SPIN- 
 WALL. He was educated in M/igd/i/ew-College 
 in Cambridge, under 'he f uir'on of Mr. Jofeph Hill, 
 who was a faithful Tutor re a great Number of Pu- 
 pils. There he continued till he r.:ok the Degree 
 of B. A. He was ordam'd at Claworth Church, 
 with Mr. Cromwel and two more. After his Eject- 
 ment, he took a Farm a: Thurnfco in Torkjhire, 
 which had a good Houfe belonging to it; and 
 there he continu'd fome Years. There Mr. Grant 
 who is ir.ention'd in Linco!njhire t and ^ir. Tricket 
 mention'd alfo in the fame County, fojourn'd for 
 fome time with him. Mr. Afpivwall, was a plain 
 practical edifying Preacher, of an unblameable Life. 
 His Living was about 60 / fer Annum: And 
 while he enjoy'd it, he was a great BleiTmg to 
 the People. I do not know whether this be not 
 the fame Man I had mention'd before, Pag. 
 415. 
 
 Pag. 531. tin. 16, for pr? read pte. 
 
 ?* 531- Arnold: Mr, JOHN 
 At the End of the Account of him, add this ; 
 
 ftfe
 
 in the County of NOTTINGHAM. 699 
 
 Mr. SamuelCrompton, one of his Sons, is Paftor 
 of a Diflenting Congregation at Doncafter in Torl^ 
 Jhire. 
 
 Pag. 537. tin. 4 and 5, for PVejlball, read Weft* 
 hallum. 
 
 Pag. 537. Thorp : Mr. HEtfRYFEATtY. He 
 was younger Brother to Dr. John Featly, Redtor of 
 Langer in this County, and after the Reftoration, 
 Precentor in the Cathedral of Lincoln : And Ne- 
 phew to Dr. Daniel Featly, who was one of the A 
 fembly of Divines, till he was imprifon*d for fend- 
 ing Intelligence to Oxford. He was an amicable 
 Perfon for the Mildnefs, Peaceablenefs, Moderate- 
 nefs, and Candor of his Temper, and remarkable 
 for the Holinefs of his Life. He was generally belov'd, 
 and well fpoken of, by fuch as had no Affe&ion 
 for Nonconformifts. 
 
 Ibid. Linby : Mr. JOHN LEIGHTON. He 
 was the Author of a Cordial for drooping Sinners, 
 or Comfort to fuch as tremble at G o D'S Word, 
 
 Pag. 538. tin. 9, after thefe Words, Mr. Shaw of 
 Derby, add ; his Grandfon. 
 
 Ibid. lin. 13. inftead of a Living, read, the Liv- 
 ing of Great Catwonh. 
 
 Ibid. Blood or th : Mr. THOMAS ROSE. He 
 
 was born near Sheffield in Torkjhire, and went to 
 
 School at tythcram, which Town being aflaulted 
 
 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 Drake, and planted it at the En- 
 
 trance of the Bridge, and play'd upon them as they 
 
 came down the Hill, and did great Execution ; 
 
 whereas the Fire of the Enemies flew over their 
 
 Heads ; and they at that Time fav'd the Town. 
 
 After his being qualified for, and entrin^ upon the 
 
 Miniftry, I know not where his Pains were employ- 
 
 ed before his coming to Rloodwbrth ; but am in. 
 
 formed, he was leveral Years there, before his 
 
 Eje&ment.
 
 700 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, & c. 
 
 Eje&ment: And afterwards, he continued preaching, 
 tho' grievoufly harraffed by the Prebends, GIC. from 
 Southwell. Going afterwards to Nottingham, he was 
 imprifon'd for fix Months, and after his Releafe, 
 iiv d at Adbouhon, where he preach'd to a con- 
 fiderable Number, fometimes within Doors, and 
 .fometimes without, and continu'd fo doing, till the 
 Duke of Monmouth's Landing in the Weft, at which 
 ;Time he was clapp'd up, together with a great 
 many others. And when he came out, he continu'd 
 preaching as before, till his Death, which was about 
 1698 ; and he was interred in the ufual Burying- 
 place, tho' he was excommunicated. 
 
 Pag. 538. Winthorp : Mr. S ALTER. I am told 
 he afterwards conform'd, and accepted of a fmall 
 - Benefice at Canton, where he continu'd till he 
 died. 
 
 Pag. 539. tin. 8. After Miniftry, add, at Sherif- 
 kales. 
 
 Ibid. tin. 10. After London, add; his Funeral Ser- 
 mon was preach'd by Dr. Daniel Williams. 
 
 He publifh'd a Funeral Sermon on the Death of 
 Mrs. Jane Papillon late Wife of Mr. Thomas Papil- 
 lon, Efq; from I(ev. xiv. 13, %vo. 1698. A Cata' 
 logue of Sins: Highly ufeful to Self-acquaintance, 
 experimental Prayer, and a fuitabie Preparation for 
 worthily partaking of the LORD'S Supper, %vo. 
 1699. Alfo a Sermon preach'd to the Societies ftr 
 Information of Manners. 
 
 The Collectors and Compilers of Magna "Britannia 
 & Hibernia, Antiqua, (3 Nova, in $to, when they 
 come to this County of Nottingham, after mention- 
 ing fome Sufferers for their Loyalty, and the Conftitu- 
 tion of the Church, (according to the Method they had 
 taken in fome other Counties) proceed to take fome 
 t NO. 4*. Notice * of the Minifters ejefted by the Bartholomew 
 zoi. A El for Nonconformity in this County. They own that 
 they were many more than thofe of the Church of Eng- 
 land ; but then they fay, that it will be hard to under* 
 jiand how fo many could be pojfcfid of the Livings of 
 
 this
 
 in ffoC0*ye/NOTTINGHAM. 701 
 
 this County, tmlefs the eftablifhed Minifters were turrid 
 cut. And that fome eftablifh'd Minifters were turn- 
 ed out, and that defervedly, cannot be deny'd : If 
 it was undefervedly, the more is the Pity. Bun 
 there were feveral of thofe, that were ejected by 
 the Aft of 'Uniformity, that were not in fequeftred 
 Livings. Mr. Wbitloc}^ of Nottingham, and Mr. 
 John Clarke of Cotgrave, were prefented to the Liv- 
 ings they were in by the Marquefs of Dorchefter ; and 
 for any Thing I know, it might be the fame with feve- 
 ral others. They might be put in by the Legal Patrons. 
 Or they might be chofen by the People, where the 
 Right of Election lay in them. And this I think ma^ 
 be underftood, without any Difficulty. 
 
 It is farther own'd that many of the Ejected were 
 learned, pious, and deferving Men, in this and other 
 Counties: And yet fome Reflections are added, that 
 are fo peevifh and ill-natur'd, as not to feem at all 
 calculated for the Reign of King George, or to have 
 any Tendency to recommend the Work in which they, 
 are inferted to general Efteem. It is faid, that how- 
 ever that be that is, which way Ibever, they than 
 were ejected in i66x came into their Livings ; they 
 had no I(eafon to expeft better fare , nor perhaps fo good 
 *s they found. But methinks that is very ftrangej if 
 they were fuch learned, pious, and deferving Men, as 
 was juft before acknowledg'd. How were they de- 
 ferving in any Senfe, if they deferv'd no better, than 
 fuch fevere and contemptuous Treatment, as they ge- 
 nerally met with ? This needs Explanation : And 
 what is oflfer'd, will hardly, I doubt, fufficiently ac- 
 count for it. 
 
 It is faid that many of them were the Trumpets of the 
 late Rebellion^ But if a Mark had been fet upon, 
 fuch, after Proof againft them, others had efcap'd 
 that deferved better Treatment ; and all had not 
 been treated with like Severity, as they were, ac- 
 cording to the Method that was taken with them. If 
 fome were chargeable, with inflaming Things in the 
 foregoing Confufions, yet there were others that 
 were mild and peaceable, and carefully avoided all 
 Extremities ; and Mr. Wbitlock., Mr. Reynolds, Mr. 
 Barret, Mr. Truman, Mr. Mowbray, Mr. Clarke, Mr.
 
 7 02 The Ejefted or Silenced MimfteYs, 8cc. 
 
 Poo/, MrCrompton, and the reft mention'd in this 
 County, appear to have been Men of this Temper. 
 Why muft they then be thruft out with fo much 
 Contempt ? It is faid, they had no other Titles to 
 their Livings and Preferments, but what the ufurfing 
 Powers had given them. But this is not true in Fadt, 
 as to a Number of them. That they lay of en to the 
 Enemy, that K the contrary Party, (as is iuggefted) 
 they found indeed to their Sorrow : But I think they 
 might very well hope for better Treatment. And 
 the Zeal with which they appeared for the Reftora- 
 tion, their Readinefe to do all that in them lay to 
 promote and forward it, and the Joy they difcover'd 
 when it was brought about, feems to plead for Fa- 
 vour. To fuffer for endeavouring to bring about the 
 Reftoration, and to fuffer afterwards under it, when 
 it was compafs'd, muft I think be own'd hard Ufage. 
 I cannot but think that thofe that are apt to make 
 light of it at a Diftance, would have thought it 
 hard, had the Cafe been their own. 
 
 It is queried ; Did the King and the Epifcopal 
 JAen, turn them out with Plunderings, Sequeftrations, 
 Jmprifonments, and Compofiticns for their Temporal E~ 
 ftateSy as thofe Perfons were into whofe Places they wers 
 fut ? I anfwer ; he that fliould undertake to jufti- 
 fy what either the Parliamentarians did againft the 
 Epifcopalians, before and after the Father's Death, or 
 what the JQng and the Epifcopal Men did againft the 
 Diflenters after the Reftoration, would in my Opinion 
 have an hard Task of it, and come off but poorly. But 
 as light as thefe Gentlemen may make of the Seve- 
 rities towards the Diflenters, it may be fafely af- 
 firm'd, that many of them fuffer'd in their Name and 
 Reputation, in their Subftance, in their Liberty, be- 
 ing imprifon'd j (fome of them over and over, and 
 fome of them till they got their Deaths there ; ne* 
 ver coming out alive :) They fuffer'd cruel Mockings, 
 and were counted the Off-fcouring of all Things : In 
 fliort they fufler'd in all the Ways in which Men could 
 well be fuppos'd to fuffer. It is urg'd, they might ma- 
 ny of them have kept their Livings, if they would have 
 accepted them on the Terms offer d them by the Go- 
 vernment. BVU thai is no Argument, bur that it was 
 
 aa
 
 in. the County of NOTTINGHAM. 703 
 
 an Hardship upon them to have fuch Terms im- 
 pos'd upon them, after the Aft of Indemnity, and 
 another A& pafs'd to confirm them in their Livings. 
 And they that go about to excufe this, do but with 
 a Pretence of a Law that was procured to gratify 
 a vindictive Temper, feek to cover their own Un- 
 charitablenels. 
 
 But it is farther added, that they might have ever 
 after livd In Peace, if they had not difturlfd the Go- 
 vernment with their private Conventicles. That is, they 
 might have been undifturb'd, if they had forbore all 
 Preaching, contrary to their Ordination Vows : But 
 that would have been an endeavouring to purchafe 
 Peace at too dear a Rate ; and an expofing them- 
 felves to the Upbraidings of their own Consciences, 
 to avoid Severity from the Magiftrate. But as for 
 really difturbing the Government, it is an invidious 
 Charge without Foundation, that only fhews the Ma- 
 lignity and ill Temper of the Accufers. 
 
 But it is intimated there was no Need of their 
 preaching the Gofpel : Whereas the wifeft Perfons are 
 convinc'd, there is abundant Need of the Diligence 
 of alt that are in the national Church and out "of it, 
 to fave poor Souls from Ruin, and fet them right 
 and help them forward in the Way to Heaven.- 
 For fay, that the Gofpel is preached in every Parifh 
 fincerely (tho' it would be well if that Preaching in 
 many Parifhes were much better managed, and bet- 
 ter back'd with a fuitable Life and Conversation in 
 the Preachers) yet all the Help that can be had 
 from qualified Preachers, whole Hearts are in their 
 Work, is not more than is needful, in the State in 
 which Things are with us, with refpecl: to Religion. 
 If the Diflenters when ejected, gather d their Con- 
 gregations out of the publick Parifhes, it would be 
 hard to fay wherein lay the Harm of it, as long as 
 they only pretended to the Conduct of Voluntiers* 
 And tho' it is fuggefted that this was to the great 
 Difcontent of the Incumbents, yet may it be eafily 
 demonftrated that this could difturb none of them, 
 but fuch as were unwilling that Men (hould freely 
 judge and choofe for themjelves in Matters of Re- 
 lirion, to which it is evident that all Men have a 
 
 VOL. II. I natural
 
 The Ejetted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 natural Right. And for it ro be pretended that this 
 would be to tie Difunicn of the People of the Na- 
 tion in Chriftian Love, find Neighbourhood one with 
 another, is contrary to the Reafon of the Thing, and 
 common Experience, fince a legal Toleration, which 
 has taken from Diffenting worfhipping AffembHes 
 the Name of Conventicles, and been by Experience 
 found to do abundantly more Service to the Pub- 
 lick, than all the foregoing Severities. But this was 
 fo fairly canvafs'd, and fo fully cleared in the cele- 
 brated Trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverel, that I cannot 
 fee the leaft Occafion for any farther Debate about 
 it : Nor would I advife thefe Gentlemen to meddle 
 any farther with it, for Fear of the Confequence. 
 
 'The EJECTED, fcfr. 
 
 IN THE 
 
 County of O x o N. 
 
 ** 54- COt^LDE/^N: Mr. THOMAS 
 ^ HODGES. He ought to be here 
 expung'd, becaufe he coform'd, and was Minifter 
 of a Chapel belonging to an Alms-houfe for pool- 
 Men, near the Town of Ockjngham in Berkshire. 
 
 ibid. Henley upon Thames* Mr. WILLIAM 
 Add ; Whilft he continu'd in his Living, he was 
 very charitable to the Poor of the Parifh, feldom 
 failing of having fomething boil'd for them with 
 Broth, on the Lord's Day. After his Ejectment, he 
 liv'd in or near Maidenhead, upon his Eftate. Tho' 
 
 he
 
 in the County of O X ON. 705 
 
 he did not afterwards take the Charge of any parti- 
 cular Congregation upon him, yet he could not be 
 fatisfied to be altogether idle, while he thought there 
 was Room for his Endeavours to do good to Souls ; 
 and therefore he us'd to ride up and down the 
 Country, and preach fometimes among 'the Diflen- 
 ters, and fometimes in the publick Churches, where 
 he could have Liberty, when other Help was want- 
 ing ; which was not uncommon. He did this in all 
 Weather, and continu'd fo doing to an advanc'd 
 Age. Dr. Seth Ward Bifliop of Sarum, hearing he 
 had preach'd in fome Churches in his Diocefe, ex- 
 prefled fome Difpleafure at his doing it: Which 
 Mr. Srice hearing of, took an Opportunity to wait 
 upon him, and frankly own'd to him, that he had 
 indeed preach'd in fome Churches in his Diocefe, and 
 fhould make bold to continue to do it, as Oppor- 
 tunity offer'd, unlefs his Lordftiiptook more Care "of 
 the Souls of the poor People, and made better Pro- 
 vifion for them. 
 
 Pag. 540. Chipping Norton : Mr. STEPHEN FORD." 
 Add ; After his Ejectment he continued to preach 
 among the People to whom he had been related, 
 as he had Opportunity ; but he was fadly haraf- 
 fed ; and at length fome of his Enemies threaten'd 
 his Life, and he was forc'd to fly to London, where 
 he often preach'd in the Time of the Plague, when 
 many others fled into the Country to efcape it. 
 When Liberty was granted, a Meeting-place was 
 creeled for him, in Miles lane, near Thames-ftrecr, 
 and he held a Catechetical Lecture for young Mea 
 at feven in the Morning on Lords Days, and after- 
 wards chang'd it to the Evening : And it is to be 
 hop'd, did much Good. 
 
 Befides what was beforemention'd, he alfo print** 
 ed a Difcourfe of Regeneration, 8vo. 1675. Dr. 
 iVeilkfr, Part II. p. 319, fays, that it had been re- 
 ported that this Mr. Ford had been a Servant to the 
 Head of an Houfe. And fuppofing that Report to 
 have been true, he might yet be a very worthy 
 and ufeful Man, after going through a Courfe of* 
 Study.
 
 706 The Ejected or SilenSd Mimfters y 8rc. 
 
 Pag. 54.0. Banbury : Mr. SAMUEL WELLS, 
 M-A. At the End of the Account of him, let it be 
 added ; I alfo find his Name among feveral others, 
 fubfcrib'd to a (ingle Sheet, intit. The bumble Advice 
 and carneft Defires of certain well ajfefled Minifters, 
 Lecturers of Banbury, in the County of Oxon, and 
 of Brackley in the County of Northampton ; to his 
 Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax , General of the 
 Forces raised by Authority of Parliament ; and to 
 the General Cruncil of War ; prefented Jan. 25. 1649, 
 by two of the Subscribers. When the Corf oration Aft 
 drove him from Banbury, he wrote divers Letters 
 and Papers, and fent them thither every Week. 
 Thefe he afterwards collected together, and pub- 
 liflied, prefixing a Sermo.i from Afts xx. 27. This 
 Collection he intides, God's Counfel to his Creatures, 
 being the Subftance of a. Farewel Sermon at Banbury, 
 with epiftolary Difcourfes, by way of Monition, Exhor- 
 tation and Comfort: Tranfmitted to fome private Chri- 
 Jlians, by their late Paftor, in thirty-two Papers, &c. 
 8vo. 1676. 
 
 Pag. 541. Nether Hey fort : Mr. JOHN Don* 
 Dr.Walkfr, Part II. p. 2.24, fays of him, that he had 
 the Misfortune not to be belov'd by his Neighbours, be- 
 ing accounted a contentious Perfon. That he wot alfo 
 cenfurd, as fevere to his Wife and never admi- 
 nifterd the Sacrament to his Parifhioners during his 
 whole Stay among them. Thefe are Things, that if 
 they are true, I am far from vindicating him in : 
 But then when he adds, in a bantering Strain, that 
 Preachers of this Sort, have not fo many Seals to their 
 "Miniftry <x they commonly talk^ of, he might have re- 
 member'd i Cor. ix. 2, where there is an Expreffi- 
 on fo like to this that he has us'd, as makes his 
 ufing it in fuch a Way, not fo decent in one of his 
 Character. I find him feveral times mention'd in 
 Mr. Birch's Manufcripts, (of which prefently) as one 
 concern'd with him in keeping Days of Fafting and 
 ^Humiliation in private, after the paffing of the Act 
 for "Uniformity, in 1662. I there find he had nine 
 
 Children,
 
 in the County of OX ON. 707 
 
 Children, and was afterwards in great Neceflity 
 and Diftrefc. 
 
 Pag. 541. Hampton : Mr. SAMUEL BIRCH,' 
 M. A. Add : He was born in Lancajhirc, and 
 educated in Corfu* Chrifti College, when Dr. Staun- 
 ton was Prefident. Ac the latter Pare of his Time 
 there, he himfelf had many Pupils, and feveral of 
 them were Gentlemen Commoners. He went from 
 thence to Hampton, about eleven Miles from Ox- 
 ford, and was one of the three Vicars who had each 
 of them 140 / a Year, and fometimes more. 
 
 In one of his Qiiarto MSS of feveral of which I 
 have had the Perufal, I find he has given a fhort 
 Account of himfelf and his Condition and Conduct. 
 1 fhall repeat it in his own Words : 
 
 " After, y/r/j be, I had not only utterly refus'd all 
 
 Compliance with the Wickednefs of the Army 
 
 under Cromwel, (oppojing their moft unrighteous and 
 
 horrid PraRices) about King and Parliament, buc 
 
 had alfo given what Afliftance I could to the 
 
 King when he came through Scotland ; Succefc 
 
 failing, partly by their attempting to have feque- 
 
 *' ftred me, partly for my Non-engagement, I was 
 
 " turn'd out of all Ways of ordinary Subfiftence pub- 
 
 " lick or private. " How he came into Bampton 
 
 again I cannot fay. 
 
 After the Reftoration in 1660, Mr. iVhitt laid 
 Claim to his Vicaridge at Hampton : But Mr. Birch 
 on June 1 1, put in a Caveat with the Lord Chan- 
 cellor Hide, againft his taking out the Great Seal, 
 as having the King's Prefentation : And on Auguft 
 15, there was an Hearing before the Lord Chan- 
 cellor, who refus'd to give Mr. Itfhite the Seal, aod 
 fo he continu'd in the Vicaridge till Aug. 24. 1662, 
 at which Time lie was ejeded, having feven Chil- 
 dren. In one of his Qi ia rt MSS I find an Appli- 
 cation to G o D upon this Occafion, which is very 
 aflfecYmg, with this Title : Vpon the Aft of Vniformi- 
 ty, 8cc. and my conforming therettnto, or leaving rny 
 Mw</?7, Vicaridgf, &c. Humble -Addrefs to try 
 I 3 LORD,
 
 708 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mimfter.s,8(c, 
 
 LORD, July 30. 1661. I fhall be at the Pains to 
 tranfcribe it. 
 
 " T T is now high Time that I proftrate myfelf at 
 * " thy Peer, and earneftly beg to know thy 
 <c good Pleafure with thy poor Creature. Thou 
 << gaveft me my CommiiTion to preach the Gofpel, 
 f* and by many ftrange Providences haft fettled my 
 " Station in Hampton. The Civil Magiftrate (who 
 " is thine Authority) forbids me under fevere Pe- 
 ' nalty to perform any of thofe Things for which 
 " thou haft given me Commiflion, unlefs upon fuch 
 " Terms as himfelf propofeth. My GOD; may I 
 " declare mine unfeigned Affent find Consent to 
 ' all Things in this Book of Common Prayer , 
 ?' (c. to the Vfe of thofe unprofitable but moft 
 " offenfive Ceremonies, which have occafionM fo 
 " much Mifchief already in thy Church, and turn- 
 " ed fo many cut of the Way ? to the conftanc 
 " Practice of this Common Prayer, as now it is ? to 
 " this Confccratlon cf Eijljcps ; a:id to many Things 
 " in the Ordaining Pricfts and Deacons ? to the Read- 
 " ing of thofe vain Stories in Apocrypha, while fo 
 " much of thy Word, infpir'd by thy SPIRIT is 
 *' left out ? to thofe Things in the Catechifm, which 
 *' intimate Baftifmal Regeneration ? May I now re- 
 " nounce the iolemn Oath, the Covenant, wherein 
 " the Nations itand bound to a Reformation, and 
 " which hath been fo great an Inftrument for the 
 " reftoring of King, Parliament, Laws ? &c. May 
 " I openly profefs and fubfcribe that it is In itfelf 
 4< unlawful? Did thy faithful Servants (fo many thou- 
 " fands in England) wickedly, in entering thereinto ? 
 *' Or thy Mtnifters (fo many hundreds) no better in 
 ' their publick owning and avouching the fame in 
 " Print, to all the World, after fo many Years ? 
 
 " My LORD; I am by Ad: of Parliament (thy 
 " Authority over me) ipfo faclo avoided as dead, if 
 " within the Time I do not this. I am at thy Foot- 
 ;< ftool: I may not do Evil that Good may come. I 
 " may not do this great Sin, aeainit my GOD, and 
 
 " the
 
 in the County of O X O N. 709 
 
 " the Dilates of my Confcience. I therefore furren* 
 " der myfelf, my Soul, my Miniftry, my People, my ' 
 " Place, my Wife and Children, and whatfoever elfe 
 " is herein concern'd, into thy Hand, from whom I 
 " receiv'd them. LORD have Mercy on me, and 
 ' aflfift me, for ever to keep Faith and a good 
 " Confcience. I do not yet fee, (for all thar is 
 " faid againft ir) that the Covenant is the worfe, 
 " or thefe other Things better than formerly I ao 
 " counted them. Thou haft gracioufly brought me 
 " without Scandal or Breach of Confcience, thro' 
 " the former Snares on the other Extream : My 
 " Gracious LORD ; bring me alfo fafe and found 
 " through this. I do not beg for Riches, Honours, 
 " great Places, or a pleafant Life, for myielf or 
 " mine : I beg thy Grace in CHRIST; and thac 
 ; * we may be kept from Scandal to Religion, and 
 " may be brought the next Way to Heaven. MOT- 
 " tify the Sin of my Heart and Life \vhich might 
 " turn me out of the Way, blind mine Eyes, or 
 " occafion thee to permit my Fall. LORD, I ear- 
 " neftly recommend the Souls of this poor People^ 
 " my Flock and Charge, to thee. O Lord JESUS, 
 " the Head of thy Church, the Redeemer of thy 
 " People, the Saviour of thine Elect, the great 
 " Shepherd and Bifliop of our Souls, take the Care 
 " and Charge of them, provide for them, keep 
 " them, fave them. If thou takeft me from this 
 " Work here, my GOD provide fome Work fome- 
 " where, and fet me about it. Let me live no 
 " longer than I may be of Ufe in fuch Employ- 
 " ment as thou fhalt aifign me ; and therein make 
 " me faithful. I am thy Servant, let me not be 
 " altogether unprofitable. 
 
 '* As for my Provifion, my GOD, I never had 
 " any confiderable Eftate, and yet I never wanted. 
 14 I have liv'd well, without Injury to or Need of 
 " others i plentifully, by thy Gracious Providence, 
 " and bountiful Hand. I dpend on thy Promife *, yj.^ 1 " 1 
 :< and have Reafon, (more than others) from good 
 ' Experience to truft thee. When I come into 
 ' extreme Need or Straits, I will (through thine 
 *' Aififtaacc) as formerly, come, to acquaint thee 
 I 4 " with
 
 7 1 o The Ejefled or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 " with it, and to devolve myfelf at thy Footftool 
 " for the like Relief. In the mean Time I give 
 " thee moft hearty Thanks for what I have : And 
 " humbly befeech thee for Grace to ufe it well. 
 " My GOD I beg thy Direction in this great Bu- 
 " finefs, and befeech thee to fhew me what is fully 
 " pleafing to thee, and enable me to do it, for my 
 " Lord J E s u s's Sake, my Saviour and bleflfed Rer 
 " deemer, Amen. 
 
 Mr. "Birch ftayM at the Vicaridge fome time after 
 his being (ilenc'd ; and obferves that a Variety of 
 Providences contributed to it. " If, fays he, Mr. 
 " Cook, had come fooner ; if Dr. Mainard's Title 
 " had been good ; if he had not fo ftrangely and 
 " grofsly miftaken ; if Mr. Cook, had not thereby 
 ' and otherwife found Reafon to fcruple the Firm- 
 : * nefs of his Title : If all thefe, and other Provi- 
 " dences had not concurr'd, there had .been no 
 ' Probability of my Stay at the Vicaridge, and 
 " renting it. " There he continued preaching on 
 Lord's Day Nights. 
 
 At laft upon Mr. Cool$ coming to ~Bamfton, he 
 hir'd an Houfe at Sbilton, and fix'd there, in May 
 1664, and had a good Number of Boarders. In 
 '1665, the Church-wardens of the Parifli by the Di- 
 redHon of Mr. Grove the Minifter, prefented him 
 to the Bifhop's Court for not communicating with 
 them, and for teaching School. But the Chancellor 
 t)r. Aitworth was very civil to him. In March 1666 
 he by a Warrant from the Deputy Lieutenants of 
 Ber^s, was feiz'd, and carried before Sir G. Stone- 
 bcufe, Mr. Purefcy, and Mr. Pigot, for keeping Con- 
 venticles, &c. but they took Bail for his Appear- 
 rance. Some time after, he was again fummon'd 
 into the Bilhop's Court at Oxon, and not a little 
 threaten'd ; hut upon his Appearance in the Spiri- 
 tual Court, and (hewing his Faculty to be my Lord 
 Whar ton's Chaplain, he was difmifs'd. 
 
 He was of himleif molt inciin'd to have remov'd 
 to the Place of his Nativity, which was near Man- 
 thefter, where he-had a imall Eftate, but the Gentle- 
 men
 
 in the County of O X O N. 711 
 
 men of the Parifh would not fuffer him to leave 
 that Country. They plac'd him in a Manfion-houfe 
 in that Neighbourhood, belonging to Efq; Hoard, 
 and fent their Sons to him for Inftru&ion and Edu- 
 cation (which was a Sort of Service for which he 
 was peculiarly qualified) and he remain'd there rill 
 the Time of his Death, and had his Houfe conti- 
 nually full of young Nobility and Gentry from many 
 Parts of the Nation. 
 
 Ic was obferv'd, that there were not fewer than 
 fourteen of thofe that had formerly been his Scho- 
 lars, that were in one Seflion of Parliament in the 
 Reign of Queen Anne ; and force of the Chief of 
 her Minifters of State were of that Number : And 
 on this Account, it appear'd to feveral obfervant 
 snd confiderate Perfons, not to have fo decent an 
 Afped, for them to be for bearing fo hard upon the 
 poor Diffenters, with Reference to their educating 
 their young Ones in their own Way, (as they were 
 by the Scbifm Sill) unlefe they did it to atone for 
 the Sins of their Youth, when they themfelves were 
 in fuch Hands. But then merhinks it had been bur 
 proper for them to have let the World know, what 
 were the Crimes that muft be animadverted on 
 with fo much Severity. Whereas they have been 
 fo far from doing this , thac by what has come 
 from them upon Occafion, one would think their 
 own Confciences acquitted the Parties cenfur'd from 
 any real Guile, One of tbefe Gentlemen told Mr. 
 "Tinner, (ihe Grandfon of this Mr. Birch) in that 
 very Part of Queen Anne's Reign, in which the 
 Dirfenters were fo much inveigh d againft in Par- 
 liament, that this Grandfather of his, was the beft 
 Chriftian, the beft Scholar, and the moft Gentleman- 
 like Mafter, he ever knew. And others that had their 
 Education under him have often faid the fame, and 
 expariated in his Commendation. However, he 
 could never be at reft till the laft Years of his Life. 
 He was perpe r ually molefted, either by the Deputy 
 Lieutenants, or the Bifhops of Oxford, cr the Gen- 
 clearer of Doctors Commons. He was once car- 
 ried toPrifon; bur lome Gentlemen in the Neigh- 
 bourhood gave Bail for him, and he came out the 
 very next Day. Wood
 
 yi2 The Ejected or Silenced Mivifiers, 
 
 Wood the Oxonian fays, that this Mr. Birch was 
 cfteem'd an Inftiller of evil Principles into Youth : 
 And yen it appears from the Sequel, that he could 
 breed up good ftaunch Churchmen. 
 
 When the Five Mile Aft came out, he meafur'd 
 from his Houfe at Shilton along the King's High-way 
 to Bamfton Church, and found it to be three hun 
 dred and odd Yards more than five Miles diftant : 
 And therefore they gave him no Difturbance on that 
 Account. He was a very chearful Chriftian, and 
 had a continual inward Serenity and Peace. He 
 went conftantly to Church on the Lord's Day Morn- 
 ing, (at which Time only there was a Sermon 
 there) and in the Afternoon he preach'd to his own 
 Family : And when the Times would permit, he 
 had many came in to hear him, (and fome of them 
 from a confiderable Diftance too) and he admini- 
 fter'd the Sacrament to them at proper Sea fons: And 
 thus he held on to the Day of his Death. He 
 kept his numerous Family, in great Order and De- 
 corum, though he fometimes found the doing fo, 
 attended with no imal! Difficulty. He was very rea- 
 dy to forgive Injuries, and pafs by Reproaches 
 that were undefervedly caft upon him j and he had 
 many fuch. It was his common Saying as to Things 
 of that Nature, Let as fray for them, and wife 
 cut all Difreffeft from our Hearts, towards them. 
 Sometimes GOD turn'd his bittereft Enemies into 
 hearty Friends, of which there are many Inftan- 
 ces. 
 
 He had a Commiflion in the Army in the Time 
 of the Civil lVa.r ; but when he found Tilings 
 were run to Extremity, he quitted it, and re- 
 turn'd to Oxford. And when he came to lie on 
 his dying Bed, his eldeft Daughter who fat behind 
 his Bolfter to bear him up, and give him fome 
 Eafe, ask'd him what his Thoughts then were, of the 
 many Changes in publick Affairs which he had 
 paft through ; and the Anfwer he recurn'd was in 
 thefe Words : 1 blefs God I took the Parliament's 
 Part ; I blcfs God I oppo?d Oliver Cromwel ; I blefs 
 Gad with all my Soul I did not conform. After this, 
 
 wliQn
 
 in the County of O X O N. 713 
 
 when many of his Neighbours came to fee him, 
 he faid to rhem, fee that none of you come into the 
 World, and mifs of the great End you came for, 
 in knowing GOD andjE;us CHRIST whom he 
 hath lent, lavingly. The laft Words that Were 
 heard from him, were Thankjulnefs ! Thankjul- 
 nefs ! He died Jan. ia, 1678. sEtat. 6i- 3 and lies 
 buried at Shilton. 
 
 I have had the Perufal of feveral of his Quar- 
 t Manufcripts in which there are various Medi- 
 tations and Self-examinations before the Sacrament, 
 together with Afpirations towards GOD, and Pray- 
 ers ofter'd up to him, upon Account of the Pub- 
 lick, and with Reference to his own Private and 
 Family Concernments and Difficulties, for many 
 Years together ; which fhew him to have been a 
 very thoughtful, ferious, humble pious Man - 9 zea- 
 lous on the Parliament Side, at their firft taking 
 up Arms, and as zealous afterwards againft Crom- 
 veel and his artful Deligns and Schemes ; warm 
 for the Covenant, and as much againft the Ingage- 
 mcnt: A great Enemy to Confufion both in the 
 Church and State, and a mighty Promoter (in his 
 Sphere) of the Heftoration, which yet expos'd him 
 and fo many others to fo great Hardfhips. 
 
 . i^i.'Bampton: Mr. JOHN OSBOHN, M. 
 A. Add ; He was born in the County of Devon, 
 and educated at New Inn Hall in Oxen, and there 
 took his Degrees. He was crdain'd by Bifhop Hall. 
 He was another of the Vicars of Bamftcn, but 
 was catt out foon after the Reftoration. Dr. Hedges 
 put in a Claim againfthim, as former Incumbent, and 
 caft Mr; Osborn at Law, though the faid Mr. Hodges 
 had another Living, being Redtor of Hjfple in 
 Woiccjle.jhlrc, which (Dr. iValkfr Att. Part II. P. 
 80) fays, he was allow'd to keep through the whole 
 Ulurpa-'ion- When Mr. Osborn was ejected he had 
 fix Children. Wood the Oxonian fuppofes him af- 
 ter his Ejcdtment at Bampton, to have been Mi- 
 nifter of St Bartholomew's in London, he having 
 preach'd occaiionally in that Church : Whereas I 
 lu\e been aflur'd by his Son. that he had no pub- 
 
 I* L 
 
 lick
 
 7*4 The Ejetfed or Silenced Miniflers, &c. 
 
 lick Place afterwards. And whereas the fame Au- 
 thor reflects on his Learning, his Son (who was a 
 Non-juror, and therefore no more like to be pre- 
 judic'd in his Father's Favour, than even Mr. Luke 
 Milbourn himfelf ) has declar'd, he was fatisfy'd ic 
 was without Caufe. Mr. Osborn had taken the Pains 
 to draw up a Concordance to the Bible, that is a 
 Concordance of Things,' and not barely of Words : 
 But finding fome body had been before hand with 
 liim, he never publifh'd it. He died about the Year 
 1665, &tat, 46- 
 
 Pag. 541. Weftcot Barton: Mr. Bo u WEN; Dr. 
 Walker. Part II. p. 107, fays, that he us'd his Prc- 
 deceflbr Mr. Belchiere very ill ; for he not only feiz- 
 ed the Corn in the Fields, but refus'd to pay him 
 fifths. And yet he fays, he has fince been cano- 
 ni^d in the Bartholomew Legend. For my part, as 
 I know nothing particularly concerning him, fo I 
 have no Difpofition to plead for him in any thing 
 he did that was really blameable. But ftill he be- 
 ing filenc'd by the celebrated and applauded Bar- 
 tholomew Aft, I think I might fafely take Notice 
 of this, without wronging any one. I did not know 
 before that my obferving this, was any thing like 
 an Attempt to canonize him. And whether my Ac* 
 count, or the Doctor's Attempt be moft like a Le- 
 gend, I can, (without being in the leaft Pain about it) 
 leave it to the prefent and fucceeding Age to judge. 
 
 Ibid. Sommerton : Mr. FE N. w i c K. His Name was 
 JOHN. He was born in 1613, at Eaft Heddlng 
 in Northumberland, of which County feveral that 
 bore this Name were Sheriffs in former Reigns, as 
 appears from Fuller's Worthies of England in the She- 
 riffs of Northumberland. His Father was a Gentle- 
 man of a good Eftate, but by a profufe Liberali- 
 ty, and an ill manag'd Hofpitality, it was fo funk 
 and impair'd, that at the Birth of this Mr. John 
 Fenvoick^ it was pleafantly (aid by fome, that now the 
 Eftate was gone, the Heir was come. However a 
 Son was moft earncftly defir'd by the good Mo- 
 ther, and he was born to her when fhe was ad- 
 
 vanc'd
 
 in the County of O XON. 715 
 
 vanc'd in Years, being near 50: And (he from the 
 firft devoted him to the facred Miniftry, if it plea- 
 fed GOD therein to favour her. 
 
 His Father bad a Barchelor Brother, who was 
 grown rich by Merchandizing, and he us'd often, 
 to fay that he would make his Nephew his Heir ; 
 but he unfortunately ml(s'd of the Kindnefs intend- 
 ed him, which fell out in the following Manner. 
 The Uncle going abroad on Purppfe to bring home 
 all his Effects, died at Sea in his Return. In his 
 laft Will and Teftament, he had made four of 
 thofe that were with him in the Ship in which he 
 was failing homeward, Truftees for his Nephew, 
 in Cafe of his Death before he reach'd Home. But 
 they upon his Deceafe, agreed together, to divide 
 all that was left among themfelves, without giv- 
 ing an Account to any one. In order to it, they 
 took another Ship, into which they put their Car- 
 go, in order (as they pretended) to their getting 
 home the fooner. The Mafter of the Veffel, (who 
 h ad no Concern in the Truft) was troubled at this 
 their Proceeding, and doubted they had an ill De- 
 fign ; but it was not in his Power to hinder them. 
 When he came home, he difcover'd his Sufpicions, 
 and fome were fent in Queft of thofe diflioneft 
 Truftees, but with King Jehoram's Mefiengers 
 they never return'd. When Mr. Fenwicl^ told this 
 Story he us'd without any Commotion at all, to 
 fay to the Company that was with him ; thus you 
 fee I was not intended to be rich. 
 
 But this was not the only remarkable Misfortune 
 that befell him. For when he was a Child, and 
 about two Years old, the Servant who tended him 
 gave him fome Prunes, or fuch Sort of Fruit to 
 fuck out of her Fingers, and carelefsly let him fuck 
 in one of the Stones, which ftuck in his Throat. 
 She cndeavour'd to pet it either up or down, but 
 could do neither. The Child grew miferably black. 
 The Father and Mother were abroad, and there 
 was none near to give Advice or Help, or to whom 
 the Servant could make her Application. She goes 
 up Stairs to the Grandmother, who being very aged, 
 generally kept her BeJ, though flic was not fo 
 
 confin'd
 
 7 1 6 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters> 
 
 confin'd to it as not to able ro rife. The Servant 
 having done what (he could, though to no Purpofe, 
 throws the Child haftily upon the Bed, and crys 
 out there ; I have killed the Child ; the Child is 
 dead : And immediately fhe quits the Room, and 
 the Houfe, not knowing how to look her Mafter 
 and Miftrefs in the Face any more, after fo fad an Ac- 
 cident. The old Gentlewoman was greatly furpriz'd, 
 and getting up in Hafte, fets the Child on its Peer, up- 
 on a very high Cup-board that was at that Time in 
 the Room, and taking him by the Hands, fhe jump- 
 ed him down to the Floor, which mov'd the Scone 
 and fent it downward. His Life was this Way 
 ftrangely preferv'd : And yet there were two ill Ef- 
 fects and Confequences of this Matter, that lafted 
 all his Days. The Greatnefs of the Leap, for fuch 
 . fmall and tender Legs as his then were, made 
 them very crooked : And the grating of the Stone, 
 injur'd the Organs of Speech, in which he had 
 fuch an Impediment, as render'd his Delivery ve- 
 ry unacceptable. 
 
 He was bred in TmwVj-Coliege in Cambridge, and 
 had this Living of Soynerton (worth about 300 / per 
 Annum] through the Intereft of William Sprigge, Etq ; 
 of Deddington, who was Juftice of Peace and a 
 confiderable Man in the County, whofe Daughter 
 he marry'd : But he afterwards chearfully refign'd 
 his Living to keep a good Confcience ; comfort- 
 ing the People that were in Sorrow for his De- 
 parture, by modeftly telling them, that he hop'd a. 
 Letter would fucceed. He took his leave of them 
 with a Difcourfe on Deut. xxxiii. 8. Thy Tbum- 
 .mim and thy Vr'im be with tby Holy One. He had 
 no Difputes with his People about Tithes, but quiet- 
 ly took what they brought him, whether in Kind 
 or Money, without rigorous Exactions, or murmur- 
 ing Complaints. It was his ufual Saying, that this 
 "World was but our Inn, while we forgot our Home. 
 He died at Crayford, in %ent, of a Malignant Fe- 
 ver, An. 1665, in the forty-third Year of his Age. 
 His Dtftemper render'd him delirious : But in his 
 Fit he would be crying out, that he would go to 
 Heaven:; and he complain'd of the Perfons thac 
 
 held
 
 in tbe County of O X O N. 717 
 
 held him in his Bed, that they kept him from go- 
 ing thither. And in the greateft Height of his Firs, 
 it was obferv'd, that a certain Perfon whom he 
 greatly valu'd upon a religious Account, could do 
 more to quiet him with a foft and gentle Word, 
 than two or three others with the Strength of their 
 Arms. But at length, Death open'd him a Way 
 of Efcape, into that Heaven, where his Converfa- 
 tion had been obferv'd by his Friends very much 
 to be, during the Continuance of his Pilgrimage 
 here on Earth. 
 
 Pag. 541. Woodftcck.; the Ledure : Mr. SAMUEL 
 BLOAR, or rather BLOWER; for fo I am informed 
 he wrote his Name. Add ; he was of a meek Tem- 
 per, peaceable Principles, and a godly Life. He 
 had as St. Auftin, very exalted Thoughts of Divine 
 Grace, and redeeming Love. He had a very tenden 
 Regard to young Ones, and would often addrefs him- 
 felf very affectionately to them, not only in his 
 Sermons, but in his Vifirs, and would rejoice much 
 in their Hopefulnefs. He affected not a pompous 
 Way of Preaching, nor did he difpenfe the Truths 
 of the Gofpel with the Wifdom of Man's Words, 
 knowing that that was not fo likely to be attended 
 with a Divine BlefTmg. Scripture Revelation in Scrip- 
 ture Language, was the main Subject of his Di 
 courfes. He was very defirable as a Friend; for 
 he was free and communicative, candid in the laft 
 Degree, of a very fympathizing Spirit with them, and 
 particularly mindful of them in his Prayers : And 
 he was fo firm and conftanr, that where he pre- 
 tended Friendfhip, it muft be fome very ill Thing 
 indeed, that was the Occafion of his breaking it off. 
 Wherever he had an Intereft, he was for improv- 
 ing it for GOD to his utmoft ; and took all Op- 
 portunities to do fo. I can hear of nothing of his 
 publifhing, but a Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Tub, from Pfnl. xviii. 46. %vo. 1697. Mr. WooA the 
 Oxonian's being wholly filent, as to this pood Man, 
 and feveral others, to me appears defign'd ; and I 
 cannot but apprehend that one thing that influ- 
 nc'd him, was a Fear leaft the Number of the 
 
 ejeded
 
 7 1 8 The Ejected or Siknc d Minifters, 
 
 ejected or filenc'd Minifters fhould have appear'd 
 too large and considerable. 
 
 Pag. 542. Wltney ; the Lecture : Mr. WILLIAM 
 GILBERT. In one of Mr. Birch's Quarto Manu- 
 fcripts, of Meditations, Prayers, and Thanklgiv ings, 
 upon various Occafions, publick and private, which 
 I have look'd over, there is an Addrefs to GOD, 
 which is very ferious and affecting, dated June 30. 
 1661, with this Title : Vfon the Fall of the Leftures 
 About us, fit Witney, and Farrington, and here At 
 Bampton, -which the late Al of Parliament for "Uni- 
 formity, hath overturn d At frefent. I lhall take the 
 Pains to tranfcribe it. 
 
 "7 o R D is it the Work of thy Minifters to throw 
 "- 1 " down thy Service ? of Preachers to ftop the 
 " Courfe of Preaching > or of the Fathers of the 
 " Church, to take away Bread from the Children ? 
 " that they who have the principal Seats in our 
 " Church, and profefs to be the Supreme Minifters 
 ** of thy Gofpel with us, have fo great an Influence 
 " in this Work ? I humbly leave this at thy Foot- 
 " ftool, and beg that our Lord JESUS CHRIST 
 " the Head of this Church will fee to it. LORD 
 " I humbly return thee an Account of our Lecture. 
 " It was fet up in Confufion, which I, could not 
 " mend : It hath been continu'd and fupply'd by 
 " fuch Servants of thine as I could procure : My 
 " Fellow-labourers left the Care and Supply of it 
 *' long fince : I have continu'd it till Authority has 
 " prohibited it. Forgive my Sin, and have Mercy 
 * upon me, for my Lord and Redeemer JESUS 
 " CHRIST his Sake. Amen. 
 
 Ibid. Neveinton : Mr. EDWARD ARCHER.' I 
 find his Name as Minifter of SomertoK, fubfcrib'd 
 to the Paper of Humble Advice, prefented to the 
 Lord Fairfax, and the Council of War, on Jan. z$. 
 1649, from the Lecturers of Hanbury and Bracty. 
 When he was caft out of his Benefice, he had a 
 
 large
 
 in the County of O X O N. 719 
 
 large Family, and little or no Provifion for their Su- 
 ftenance : And yet he-died in the firm Belief, that 
 GOD would take care of thofe whom he left behind 
 him ; telling his Wife that fhe needed not be anxi- 
 ous about her many Children, for GOD would not 
 furTer her or them to want. Nor did they. He 
 left a Son, who is now, (or was lately) a conforming 
 Minifter at Quainton in Buckjs. 
 
 Pag. 541. Amersden: Mr. EDWARD BAGGSHAW.' 
 At the End of the Character of him, add this : 
 Dr. White Rennet in his Parochial Antiquities of Am- 
 brofden, Burcejler, &c. p. 675, has thefe Words : 
 " Mr. Edward Bagrfiaw, B. D ; of Chri/1-Church, 
 " Oxon, was poffefs'd of the laid Church j who be- 
 " ing a turbulent Nonconformist, was ejected by 
 " the Bartholomew Act, in the Year 1662." And 
 I have only this farther to add concerning him, that 
 whereas in my Account of him I had faid, he died 
 Jan. 16. 1671, it appears from the Infcriprion on his 
 Tomb-ftone, in the New Burying-Ground, near 
 Bunhil Fields, London, that he died the z8ch of 
 December 1671. 
 
 Pag. 543. Burcefler, or Bicefter : Mr. BASNET," 
 or B A R N E x. Dr. J^ennet in his forefaid Parochial 
 Antiquities, mentions Mr. William Hull as the only 
 Incumbent at Bicejier, between Mr. John Bird pre- 
 fented in 1604, and Mr. Samuel Blackpeil who came 
 to the Living in 1670. 
 
 Ibid. Garfington : Dr. WARD. In the Act for 
 confirming and reftoring of Minifters, that pafs'd in 
 1660, Provifion is made for annexing this Liv- 
 ing as formerly, to the Prefidentfliip of Trinity-Col- 
 lege, Oxon. 
 
 ibid. Silfam : Mr. ROBERT ROGERS, B. D. 
 Dr. Walker, Att. Part II. p. 404, fays, he veat the Son 
 of a Miller. But ftill he might be a valuable Man. 
 To prevent the fuppofing which, he fays, he was a 
 very Dunce, p. 17!. And had he been rejected, and 
 thrown out of the Church as fuch. upca fuitable 
 
 VOL. II. K Proof,
 
 720 The Ejected or Silenced Mini/I ers, &c. 
 
 Proof, there would have been no Room for Com- 
 plaint. But he was caft out for Nonconformity ; 
 and it looks as if he would have been fb ferv'd, 
 had he been the brighreft Scholar. However for 
 any Thing that I know of him, he might have been 
 a Man of great real Worth. 
 
 . The EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of RUTLAND. 
 
 Pag. 544. r\ JC E H A M : Mr. BENJAMIN 
 ^ K i N G. Dr. PPalkfr, Part II. p. 404, 
 fays, that Mr. King was thruft into this Living, after 
 that Mr. Abraham Wright had been admitted to it 
 by Inftitution, tho' he refus'd to be inducted to 
 avoid taking the Covenant. But as to the Particu- 
 lars of that Affair I am an utter Stranger. Mr. 
 Kjng was Minifter at Flaw/lead in Hertfordjhirc, be- 
 fore he came to Okeham ; and while he was there, 
 publifh'd a Difcourfe on the Marriage of the Lamb, 
 which he dedicated to Sir Thomat Harrington and 
 his Lady : But how he liv'd, after his Ejedtment, I 
 have not been inform'd. 
 
 Ibid. Hurley: Mr. THOMAS PERKINS. He 
 was an humble good Man ; much fet againft Pride 
 in Apparel. When he has thought fome of his Fa- 
 mily faulty, he has faid, what do I preach againft 
 Pride and fuffer it in you ? He was fomedmes paf- 
 fionate, but would foon recover himfelf, ahdfhew 
 his Good-will to the Party that anger'd him. After 
 his Ejedhnent, he would often travel on the Lonfs 
 Day feveral Miles from home to preach, and get 
 ten Shillings for his Day's Service, which for a ereat 
 
 while
 
 in the County of RUTLAND. 721 
 
 while was the mdft that he had to fupport his Fa- 
 mily. He was often in Straits : And at one Time, 
 a - Niece of his whom he had brought up, going 
 down into the Country after Marriage to vifit him, 
 he difcours'd freely with her the next Morning : 
 And among other Things, faid he to her, Child, 
 how much do you think I have to keep my Fa- 
 mily ? But poor Three-pence. At which flie ap- 
 pearing affected, he with a great deal of Chearful- 
 nefs cried out, Fear nor, GOD will provide ; and 
 in a little Time a Gentleman's Servant knock'd at 
 the Door, who brought him a Side of Venifon for 
 a Prefenr, together with fome Wheat and Malt. 
 This Prefenr being laid on the Table, he took his 
 Niece by the Hand, faying, Do you fee Child, 
 here is Venifon that is the nobleft Flefh, and the 
 fineft of the Wheat for Bread, and good Malt for 
 Drink. Did not I tell you GOD would provide 
 for us > He liv'd by Faith ; and was pleafant and 
 chearful in all Conditions, He had a Son that was 
 Minifter in the Eftablifhed Church. 
 
 Pag. 544. Glaifton : Mr. THOMAS PHILIPS. 
 This was the fequeftred Living of Mr. iVUlleim Hales* 
 of whom fee Dr. Waller, Att. Part II. p. 61. As 
 for Mr. Philips, he declares he was no ejected or 
 filenc'd Minifter, but he died in the actualServke 
 of a confiderable Cure at Elton. And as I did not 
 know this, fo I cannot contradict it. 
 
 Ibid. Barraden: Mr. JOHN WELLS. lam 
 told he alfo afterwards conformed. 
 
 Ibid. Dr. SAMUEL WINTE iv. At the End 
 of the Account of him, lee it be added, that he 
 publi(h'd the Sum and Subftance of divers Sermons 
 preach'd in Dublin, wherein the Doctrine of Infant 
 Baptifm is aflerted, and the main Objections of 
 Mr. Tombcs, Mr. pijher, Mr. BUck&ood, and others 
 tnfwer'd, 8-zw. 1656. 
 
 . , 
 
 ..-.
 
 722 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters^ & c. 
 
 ***********.********** 
 ********** ************ 
 
 EJECTED, fcfc. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of SALOP. 
 
 Pag. 5 46. C H!(E WS B t> \ T: St Marys : Mr. 
 *^ FRANCIS TALLENTS, M. ^f. 
 At the End of the Account of him, fag. 555, let ic 
 be added : He alfo publifh'd fome few Confiderati- 
 ons upon Mr. S. G's large Anfwer to a fhort Hiftory of 
 Schifm, and efpecially upon the new and bold Af* 
 fertion, that there can be no Church or Salvation, 
 in an ordinary Way, without a canonical Bifhop. 
 What he here offers, may perhaps have been the 
 Occafion of the Carriage of Mr. Dawes, who read 
 the Burial Office over this goad Man's Grave : 
 He would not prefume to read over him in fure 
 and certain Hope, but only in Hope. But ftill he 
 well deferv'd Mr. Henr/s Character, that he was 
 very much a Gentleman, a Scholar, and a Chriftian, 
 a, great Admirer of Chrtft and free Grace, and a 
 Man of eminent Prudence and Heavenly-mindednefs. 
 
 Pag. 555. Wem: Mr. ANDREW PARSONS: 
 Add, M. A. His Name is to the Teftimony of 
 the Minifters in the Province of Salop, to the Truth 
 of JESUS CHRIST, in 1648. 
 
 jP*- 55^5 taft K ne but two : I am told that the 
 Fire at iVem was not in 1678, but March 3. 167*. 
 
 Pag. 557. Eafchurch: Mr. EDWARD LAWRENCE. 
 Add, M. A. Born at Mqfton in Salop. And at the- 
 End pf the Account of him, add 5 Mr. Nathantct 
 
 Layrenct
 
 in the County of SALOP. 725 
 
 Lawrence a Nonconformift Minifter who died at 
 Banbury in Oxford/hire, was one of his Sons. And 
 Mr. Samuel Lawrence (of whom there is fome Ac- 
 count in Mr. Tang's Life of Mr. Matthew Henry, p. 
 189) was his Nephew. 
 
 ' 557- Great. Solas $ Mr. EDWARD BURY. Dr.' 
 Walker, Part II. p. 310, fays, he was a Taylor: 
 Which may be as true, as that Mr. Tucker was of 
 no Univerfity. I am well fatisfy'd upon credible In- 
 formation that Mr. ~Bury fpent feveral Years by the 
 Advice of Dr. Grew and Dr. Brian at the great 
 School in Coventry, under the Care of the famous 
 Mr. White : That he was afterwards of a College 
 in Oxford: That before he was invited to Great 
 Bolas he was Chaplain in a Gentleman's Family ; 
 and for a Time an Afiiftant to the ancient Mini- 
 fter ; and was ordain'd to the Miniftry, upon good 
 Testimonials of his Qualifications. Dr. Walker there- 
 fore is by the furviving Relations defir'd if he can 
 or dare, to produce his Authority for what he has 
 publifh'd, or elfe the Character muft pafs as pure- 
 ly his own. 
 
 Mr. Samuel "Bury, Paftor to a Congregation of 
 Diflenters in the City of Briftol, is Son of this 
 Mr. Edward Bury. 
 
 Pag. 560. Weft Felton ; Mr. SAMUELHILDER- 
 s A M. I find his Name to the Teftimony of the 
 Minifters in the Province of Salop, 1648. 
 
 Pag. 561. Whitcburcb ; Mr. THOMAS PORTER? 
 Add; Senior, M. A. I find his Name alfo to the 
 Teftimony aforefaid. There was a Publick Dif- 
 putation between this Mr. Thomas Porter, and 
 Mr. H. Hagar concerning Infant Baptifm, in Etlf- 
 mere Church, April 30. 1656 ; an Account of which 
 was publifh'd in 1656, in 4^0. 
 
 Pag. 561. Ludlow, the Lecture : Mr. RICHARD 
 SADLER. He fubfcrib'd the Teftimony foremen- 
 tion'd as Preacher at Whixalt. 
 
 K l
 
 724 The Ejetfttl or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 Pag. 562. Clun') Mr. THOMAS FROYSELL. He 
 alfo iubfcribed the forefaid Teftimony. 
 
 Pag. 563. Newport : Mr. JOHN MALDEN; 
 Add ; M A. His Name is to the Teftimony fore- 
 menrion'd, as Paftor of Chefoardine. 
 
 Ibid. tin. 4, from the bottom," inftead of Anna 
 1676, let it be, and there died, oh June 26. 1695* 
 
 Pag. 565. Kjnerly: Mr. THOMAS "WRIGHT. 
 Add, M, A. I find his Name alfo to the fore- 
 jnention'd Teftimony. 
 
 Ibid. Hales Owen : Mr. EDWARD P A s T o is% 
 Add, His Name alfo, is fubfcrib'd to the Tefti- 
 mony foremention'd. He was ordain'd by a Bi- 
 fhop, before the War, and yet could not be fa- 
 ttsfied to conform. He did not keep up any ftared 
 Meeting in Hales Owen, where he liv'd in great 
 Friendfhip with his moderate Succeflcr, without be- 
 ing forc'd away, with any Severity. He preachM 
 fometimes for his Brother that conform'd, in Kjngs 
 Svoinford Church, and feveral other Churches and 
 Chapels where he could be conniv'd at : But his 
 Pains were moftly fpent at the Diffenters Meet- 
 ings, and he had a conftant fix'd Turn at Guarnal 
 in Sedgely Partfh in Stafford/hire. He was not a 
 popular Preacher ; but very judicious, folid and 
 practical. He was of a ferious, peaceable, holy, 
 humble, catholick Spirit, and heavenly Converfa- 
 tion. He liv'd to a good old-Age. He was for 
 fome time Steward and not Chaplain, to Philip 
 Foley, Efq. 
 
 Ibid. Afton Chapel : Mr. TITUS THOMAS. 
 In the Life of Mr. Philip Henry, it is faid, that 
 he was buried at Felton, Dec. 10. 1686. 
 
 Ibid. Cocksbot Chapel; Mr. FRANCIS KEELING." 
 Add; Born at Coventry, An. 1632. Afrer he had 
 took the Degree of B. A, at Trw/V^-ColIese, Cam. 
 Iridgc, he was call'd to be Sir Tbcmas Abraham's 
 
 Chaplan,
 
 in the County of S A L O P. 72$ 
 
 Chaplain, at Wcjlon Hall in Stafford/hire. He had 
 fcarce been there two Years before he was ordain'd 
 by the Presbytery at Wuitchurcb in Salop, Mr. Por- 
 ter being their Moderator ; and he became Mini- 
 fter of Cockjhot Chapel, which was then Parochi- 
 al, and a considerable Augmentation was procured 
 him. GOD was pleas'd though he was but young, 
 to own his Miniftry, and particularly his Gate- 
 cheiical Exerufes, which were attended by many 
 Perfons that were advanced in Years. About the 
 Restoration of King Charles, he was invited to a 
 very confiderable Living in Che/hire ; but apprehend- 
 ing the Reftoration of Epifcopacy and Ceremonies 
 was intended, he wav'd it, and continu'd at Cock? 
 /hot till he was filenc'd wirh the reft of his Bre- 
 thren in 1662. He had married a Wire that was 
 a Gentlewoman of a good Family. Before the A& 
 ofUniformity rook Place, he was earneft with GOD 
 in fecret Prayer, that her Spirit might comply with 
 his intended Nonconformity. And at length ask- 
 ing her Thoughts about it, flie readily reply'd to him ; 
 Satisfy God and your own Ccnfcicnce, though you ex- 
 pofe me to Bread and Water, which he took as a 
 Return of Prayer. After his Ejectment he was pe- 
 fter'd wirh Informers, forc'd to a Diftance from his 
 Family, and profecuced in the Ecclefiaftical Courts 
 for four or five Years together, for baptizing his own 
 Child, and threaten'd to be excommunicated, and 
 yet he was not imprifon'd. After King Charles's In- 
 dulgence in 1671, he preach'd at Wrexham once a 
 Month, and feveral other Places ; and afterwards 
 he remov'd to Shrewsbury, where for fome time 
 he and Mr. Beresford preach'd alternately at the 
 Thurfday Lecture. From thence he came to Lon- 
 don, and for fome time preach'd occafionally only ; 
 but after King James's Liberty fettled at Kjngfton, 
 upon Thames, where he died, April 14. 1690. When 
 he drew near his End, he exprefs'd the greateft 
 Satisfaction in his Nonconformity, and that lie had 
 not comply'd with the Times, though he had had con- 
 fiderable Offers, and that from Relations, whofe Fa- 
 vour he loft by his Refufal : But he kept the Favour 
 i G o D, and the Peace of his Confidence, which 
 K 4 bC
 
 7 26 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mittifters, &c. 
 
 he preferr'd before all. He carefully obferv'd the 
 Providence of GOD towards himfelf and his Fa- 
 mily, and made continual Remarks upon it in his 
 Diary. He fpent confiderable Time daily inCon- 
 verfe between GOD and his own Soul ; never er- 
 peding to profper in his Studies, unlefs he im- 
 plor'd the Divine Affiftance and Bleiling. 
 
 Pag. 565. Stant^n: Mr. H. CRU--HLOW. Dr. 
 Walker, Att. Part I. p. 98, calls him CHURCHLOW ; 
 and fays he had been a Gentleman's Butler, and fuc- 
 ceeded Mr. Orfe on his Sequeftration from this Vi- 
 caridge. And he is at him again with great Seve- 
 rity, Part II. p. 314. But he owns he (peaks upon 
 common Fame, which he often is againft depend- 
 ing on, when his own Friends are concern'd : Had 
 Mr. Gilbert been living, (whofe Curate he tells us 
 he was, ) I might have been able to have faid 
 more. 
 
 Ibid, tyckjirdine ; Mr. JosHUABARNET. Up- 
 on farther Information, I fubftitute this Account of 
 him in the Room of that which was before print- 
 ed, as more compleat, and more agreeable to fur- 
 viving Relations. 
 
 He was born at Vppington in this County, where 
 his Father Mr. Humphrey Bamet was Mlntfter, and 
 a celebrated Preacher, and much admir'd by the 
 Country People , who would flock to hear him 
 twice on every Lord's Day, which was a Thing 
 at that Time very unufual. When the Book of 
 Sports came out, inftead of reading it he preach- 
 ^ ed againft it, and was cited to appear before the 
 Bilhop of Coventry and Litchfield, and was forc'd 
 to retire out of that Diocefe, into Lancafhire, where 
 he died. This Mr. Humphrey ISarnet, and Mr. 
 Wright of tPellington, though they were both of 
 them conformable to the Eftablifli'd Church, were 
 accounted the firft Puritans that Shrofjhire afforded ; 
 and that for no other Reafon, but their fedulous 
 Preaching, and fober and pious Lives. 
 
 Mr. Jcjhua Harriet, was bred up at a School in 
 Ltncafhirc, in the Place of his Father's Retirement, 
 
 and
 
 in the County of SALOP. 727 
 
 and was afterwards fent to be educated by the fa- 
 mous Mr. Ball, Author of the excellent Catechifm. 
 After his Father's Death, he was ordain'd by Pres- 
 byters, and eleded Lecturer of Tectyoufe in the 
 Parifh of Blackborne, in Lancajbire. There he con- 
 tinu'd till the impofing of the lolemn League and Co- 
 venant ; and not being fatisfied to take it, he re- 
 tir'd into Shropjhire his native Country , where 
 he fettled in two little Pariflies near Shrewsbury, 
 call'd djkley, and Hadnall, and there he remained 
 for fome time. But upon the coming out of the 
 Engagement, which he could not take any more 
 than the Covenant, he quitted both thofe Places, 
 and took fyckardine, by the Advice and Procure- 
 ment of Efquire Stefhens of Dottel, who had'a great 
 Refpect for him, and allow'd him a/ a Year du- 
 ring his Life ; which after his Death he fettled 
 on the Vicaridge of ^oc^ardine for ever. Here Mr. 
 JBarnet continu'd till 1661, when he left it for his 
 Nonconformity. But though he became then a Non- 
 conformift, he was very moderate, and was much 
 belov'd and vifited by the neighbouring Clergy. He 
 went every Lord's Day to his Parifh Church, (cal- 
 led High Ercal) twice, though it was two Miles di- 
 ftant from his Habitation : And when he preach'd 
 at home at Noon, would carry his whole Audito- 
 ry to Church with him afterwards. One main Thing 
 he ftuck at in the Terms of Conformity was Re- 
 ordination by a Bifhop, which he could not fubmic 
 to, being fully fatisfy'd his former Ordination by 
 Presbyters was valid. Though he remov'd into 
 Che/hire fome Years before his Death, and preach- 
 ed publickly in the Parifli Church of War\>urton, 
 yet he never conform'd: for that Place is exempt 
 from epifcopal Jurifduiiion. He was a Man of 
 considerable Parrs, a taking Preacher, and very per- 
 fonabie. He died very much lamented. 
 
 Pag. 766. Stoddcfden ; Mr. R E r, i N A L r> FIN- 
 LOW. He was B. A, of Jr/Hj-Collegc in Cambridge. 
 This Living was a Sequeftration ; and Mr. Finlow 
 reficn'd it to the former Incumbent, Mr. Thomas 
 Ami fit, (as Dr. Walker obferves, Att, Part II. p. 185,) 
 
 at
 
 728 The Ejetted or Silenced Minifters, &C. 
 
 at the Reftoration. After the Bartholomew Acl, he 
 was much expos'd, having no temporal Eftate to 
 jnaintain himfelf, and Wife, and four unhealthy 
 Children. He took a little Farm, and got from it a, 
 poor Living for himfelf and Family. However, his fo- 
 ber peaceable and inofFenfive Life, gain'd him Favour 
 from his Enemies : So that, when his Brethren were 
 imprifon'd in Monmouth's Time, the Juftices took 
 his "Word for his appearing when he was fent for, 
 and fent him home again. 
 
 Tag. 566. Stoke - Mr. JOHN ADAMS. He fuc- 
 ceeded Mr. William Higgins in this Living, in 1655. 
 Walker's Ate. Part II. p. 273. 
 
 Pag. 567. lin. n, for Coventry, read Daventry. 
 
 567. Crejfidge : Mr. SAMUEL S M i T H^ 
 'Add; I am inform'd he fpent his laft Years in 
 Dudley, in Wtirteftcrftiirt (which was the Place of 
 his Nativity) and there died very old in 1664, and 
 was buried at the End of the Chancel, as his 
 Grave-ftone witneffes. This is the fame Perfon as 
 was mention'd before, pag. 313. 
 
 To his Works already mention'd may be added ; 
 David'j Blcjjed Man; or, ajhort Exhortation en the 
 firft Pfalm, 8vo: Printed the fifteenth Time in 1686, 
 in Twelves. The Ethiopian Eunuch's Conver- 
 fion : Being thirteen Sermons on Part of Acts viii. 
 8vo, 1632. The Chriftian's Guide, with Uples and 
 Directions for leading an Holy Life. The Chief Shep- 
 bard $ or, an Expqfiticn on Pfalm xxiii, 8vo. 1615. 
 The admirable Convert ; or, the Miraculous Convcr- 
 fon of the Thief upon the Crofs, 8vo, 1632. MofesV 
 Prayer ; or an Explanation of Pfalm xc. 8vo. 1656. 
 A Looking Glafs for Saints and Sinners j or, <in Ex- 
 fojif'cn of the fecond Epiftle of St. John, %vc. 1663. 
 He wrote alfo on the fixth of Hofca; and feveial 
 other Books. 
 
 Ibid. Chctton ; Mr. WILLIAM BAGLY. Dr. 
 Walker, Att. Part II. p. i 5, fays, that this Mr. Bag- 
 ly was a meer Layman, fucceeded Mr. George Bcn- 
 fon in this Living, and never ' paid him any Fifth*, 
 
 fox
 
 m the bounty of SALOP. 729 
 
 for the Subfiftence of his Wife and Family : But 
 than Mr. Benfon living to the Restoration, fuM him, 
 and recover'd 80 / of him upon that Account : And 
 were the Diflenters to have imitated fuch Patterns; 
 they micht upon fuing fuch as had pillag'd and plun- 
 der'd r hem for their Nonconformity in the Reign of 
 King Charles, have recover'd very confiderable, {I 
 had almoft faid immenfe) Sums : But they knew 
 better Things. It is well for fome that they did 
 fo. 
 
 Pag. 57*. North Colebury : Mr. CHARLES 
 HUMPHREYS. Dr. Walker, Part II. p. 3 69, fays, 
 he came to this Living in 1653. 
 
 Ibid. High Ercal : Mr. RICHARD HOPKINS^ 
 Dr. Walker, Att. Part 1. p. 98, fays, he was a Glo- 
 ver, and Part II. p. 246, he fays, he was a Skinner, 
 and is very witty upon him. And after all perhaps 
 there may be as much Truth in his Reflection, as 
 in his faying that Mr. Pearfe was a Trooper at Wor- 
 er/kr-Fight, and never of any Univerfity, Pare L 
 p. 98. 
 
 llld. Mr. JOSEPH LEAJ or LEE, who I fupk 
 pofe is the fame that is taken notice of by Mr. 
 Tong in his Life of Mr. Matthew Henry, p. 154, as 
 refiding in his old-Age at Kjiutsford in Cfojhire. He 
 obferves he was a Gentleman by Birth, and an 
 humble upright Perfon, and a good Scholar, tho* 
 through bodily Indifpofition, not capable of conftant 
 Work. 
 
 Ibid. Among rhofe that conformed, is mention^ 
 Mr. H A u r, H T o N. This I fuppofe was Mr. Ayt* 
 mor Houghton of Prccs, who printed a Sermon calPd, 
 The KSJ of Ordination on A&s xiii. 2, 3, which was 
 preach'd at the Ordination, of Mr. Thomas Porter, 
 Jun. Mr. John iVilfon, .Mr. David Jenks, Mr. George 
 Bunajlon, and Mr. "Them* Soley at Whitchurch, in
 
 730 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Pag. 572. Mr. MILWARD of Powderbach. Dr. 
 jValker, Part II. p. 324, writes him Wileward. 
 
 JP^'573- At the End of what is faid about the 
 Silenc'd Minifters in the County of Salop, let this 
 jbe added : 
 
 And in another Place he fays, that eighteen of 
 'thofe that were ejected in this County did afterwards 
 conform : And forty others never did. 
 
 The EJECTED, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 574- T* A ^ NTON ; Se Magdalen's: MrJ 
 GEORGE NEWTON, M. A. la 
 the Account of him, tin. 7, after thofe Words, and 
 Mr. Robert Hill ; let this be added : And there he 
 fubfcrib'd, the Atteftation of the Minifters of this 
 County, in Opposition to the Errors, Herefies and 
 Blafphemies of the Times, in 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. JOSEPH ALLEN: It ftiould be 
 'A L L E i K E. To the Account of his Works may be 
 added, Divers fraftical Cafes fatisfaftorily refolded : 
 Commonly added, at the End of his Alarm. 
 
 Pa g- 577- Mr. JOHN GL ANVIL. At the End 
 of the Account of him, let it be added, that his Fu- 
 neral Sermon was preach'd by Mr. Warren of this 
 Town.
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 
 
 Pag. 578. "Bridges At er : Mr. JOHN NORMAN* 
 M. A. In the Account of him, lin. 12, after the fe 
 Words, He rcmovd from the Univerfity to this Place, 
 let this be added ; and here he fubfcrib'd the Atte- 
 ftation of the Minifters of this County, againft the 
 Errors, Hereiies, and Blafphemies of the Times, in 
 1648. 
 
 Pag. 580. Satcomb: Mr. RICHARD ALLEIK, 
 M. A. In the Account of him, tin. 28, after the 
 Word Writings ; let this alfo be added j I find his 
 Name to the Atteflation of the Minifters of this 
 County, againft the Errors, Herefies, and Blafphe- 
 mies of the Times, in 1648. 
 
 And ac the End of his Works, let it be added : 
 He printed alfo a Letter to a Friend, to prove, 
 i. That valid Ordination ought not to be repeated. 
 And, 2. That Ordination by Presbyters is valid, 
 4*0. 1 66 1 : Dedicared to Mr. John Humfrey. 
 
 Pag. 581. North Cadbury : Mr. SAMUEL CRA- 
 D o c K, B.D. He kept the Batchelor of Divinity's 
 A& at the PublicI: Commencement in 1651, and 
 his Performance was highly applauded, and rec- 
 kon'd for the Honour of his Puritan College. He 
 died Oftob. 7. 1706. And Mr. Bury of St Edmunds 
 "Bury in Suffolk^, preach'd and printed his Funeral Ser- 
 mon : And therein among other Things, obferv'd, 
 that the Living he quitted for his Nonconformity, 
 being 300 I per An, it may be reckon'd that he loft 
 above 13000 / by his Nonconformity, from the 
 Time of his being filenc'd to the Time of his Death, 
 in the eighty-lixth Year of his Age. 
 
 Having a Paper of his by me, which he drew up 
 in the Reign of King Charles II, in Vindication of 
 himfelf and" others who kept private Academies, 
 notwithftanding their having taken an Oath about 
 that Matter at the Univerfity j I fhall here infer: 
 it for the gratifying of the Curious, as I have before 
 done the Paper drawn up by Mr. Charles Morton up- 
 on the fame Subject. 
 
 " THB
 
 7 ? 2 jffo Ejected or Silenc'd Minifters, 8rc. 
 
 " HP H E Words of the Oath at Oxford are, Jura- 
 "*- " etiam quod in ifta facilitate alibi in An- 
 41 gl* a 1' U(im hie & CantabrigLc, LeEliones tucii folen- 
 " niter, tanquam in 'Univerjitate non refumes, nee in 
 " aliqua Facilitate ficut in 'Univcrfitate folenniter in- 
 " cipies : nee confenties ut aliquis hie fro Magiftro in 
 " ilia Facilitate habeatur. Item jurabis quod non leges 
 " aut Stamfordite tanquam in Vniverjitate, Sttfdio, 
 " vel Collegia Generali. 
 
 " The Oath at Cambridge, is this : Jurabis quod. 
 " nufquam, fr<terquam Oxonice Le&iones tit as folen- 
 " niter refumes, nee confenties ut aliquis alibi in An- 
 '' glia incipiens hie pro ~Magiftro vel Dcftore in ilia, 
 " Facilitate habeatur. 
 
 " In order to a right Underftanding of thefe 
 " Oaths, it muft be premifed, that theOccafionof 
 " framing them was the Pretence of Stamford to 
 " be an Univerfity, wherein to confer Degrees, to 
 " appoint folemn Readings, whereby Commencers 
 " might manifeft their Fitnefs for thofe Rewards 
 " and Teftimonia's of Proficiency in Learning. Ox- 
 ** ford and Cambridge in order to the difappointing 
 " of Stamford in this Particular, have by Oath obli- 
 " ged every Commencer in thefe Words, quod nuf- 
 " quam alibi Lettiones tuas folenniter refumes. For 
 " the underftanding of which it is to be premifed, 
 " that the Univerfities require folemn Exercifes to 
 ! * be perform'd by thofe who commence, which are 
 " term'd folennes Lefticnes, as may appear by the 
 " printed Copy of the Oxford Statutes, which every 
 '* one may perufe. In the Statute concerning a 
 " Mafter of Arts the Words occur ; fex folennes Le- 
 " tiones legat : Concerning a Dc6tor of Law, fex fo- 
 " lennes Leftiones publice legat : Concerning a Dodtor 
 " of Divinity, Latins folenniter fexies Icget. Such 
 ' folemn Lectures are likewife .requir'd of Com- 
 mencers in Cambridge. Now Cambridge and Ox- 
 " ford being defirous to prevent the fecting up of 
 :t another Univerfity in any Part of the Narion, 
 * where Degrees fhould be given, and folemnf 
 *' Le&ions appointed in order xo that End, they en
 
 in tie County of SOMERSET. 733 
 
 '* join that none who have folemnly read, or en- 
 " gag'd chemfelves fo to do, and have taken their 
 * Degrees with them, fhall refumere Lc&iones, that 
 " is folemnly read again for a Degree, or engage 
 " themfelves fo to do, in any Pare of this Na- 
 " tion. 
 
 " That this muft be the Senfe of the Oath, and 
 " not the forbidding the Inftruction of Youth in fc 
 " private Family, in Logick and Philofophy, will 
 " be very plain, if the following Particulars be fully 
 " confider'd. 
 
 " i. Refumere Lecliones plainly intimares the ta- 
 " king again in Hand to perform fuch Kind of Ex- 
 *' ercifes as all who commence have done before. 
 " But all that commence have not been Tutors, 
 " nor read Lectures to Scholars privately, in their 
 " Chambers, in Logick and Philofophy ; and there- 
 " fore the Oath cannot aim at forbidding fuch Kind 
 " of Lectures, but rather folenncs Lefliones in order 
 " to a Degree, which all Commencers are engaged 
 " to read. 
 
 " 2. The Oath is quod nunquam Lcftiones tuatfolen* 
 " niter rcfumcs. The Word folenniter plainly figni- 
 " fies that they are folemn Univerfity Lectures which 
 " are forbidden, and not Inftru&ions in a private 
 " Family, in which there is nothing of Solemnity. 
 " And therefore Oxford which Cambridge follows in 
 " this Particular, ufeth thefe Words, Lcftioncs tuas 
 " folenniter tanqunm in 'Univerfitate non refumes. 
 
 ** 3. No queftion, refumere Leftiones fignifies the 
 " fame in Cambridge and Oxford Oath. The Oc- 
 " cafion of them both was the fame, and the Words 
 " are the fame. But in the Oxford Oath it doth 
 " not import the reading of a Tutor or Profeflbr : 
 " For when that Univerfity forbids fuch Kind erf 
 " Lectures at Stamford it alters the Phrafe. It doth 
 * not fay, Jurabis quod non leges Stamfordi(e tan- 
 " quam in Univerfitate Studio, vel Collegia Gene- 
 " rali. 
 
 " 4. It may eafi'y be difcern'd, that the Leftiones 
 " in the Oath are the folcnnes Leftiones in order to 
 " a Degree, by the lublequenc Part : Nee confenties 
 
 " *f altaun alibi in Anglic incipient hie pro Doclorf 
 
 *j i 
 vtl
 
 734 Th e Ejected or Silenced Miniflers, &c. 
 
 " vel Magiftro in ilia. Facultate habeatur. As in the 
 " firft Pare there is an Engagement that none (hall 
 " again read for, and take a Degree in any Place 
 " in England, except Oxford and Cambridge fo in 
 " thisjatter, that if any fhall take a Degree in any 
 " Place, that no Confent fhall be given that he be 
 " accounted at Cambridge and Oxford a Graduate in 
 " that Faculty. 
 
 " 5. If the Oath did forbid all private Inftructiors 
 " and Readings, without any Limitation of a Circle 
 " of Philofophy, any " where but at Cambridge and 
 " Oxford, then it would be unlawful for a Tutor 
 " to read conftant Lectures to his Pupils in the 
 " Country in the Plague-time, or for any other who 
 " have formerly commenc'd, to communicate their 
 " Univerfity Learning to their Children, or any who 
 " live with them. Nay it would rather be the Duty 
 " of every fuch Perfon, when he leaves the Univer- 
 " fity, to make it his Study to forget all the Notions 
 " he remember'd there, leaft at any Time by com- 
 " municating them he fhould do that which tends 
 " to the Violation of his Oath. Now if any Limi- 
 '* tation muft be admitted, (and the Neceflity of 
 " fome is apparent by thefe Inconveniencies) none 
 " can be thought more reafonable than what has 
 " been already exprefs'd. 
 
 " 6. Men of approved Skill in the Statutes, and 
 " of known Integrity, never took the Meaning of 
 " the Oath to be the forbidding of Inftru&ion of 
 " Youth in Logick or Philofophy in the Country. 
 " I know one who had a whole Syftem of Logick 
 " read over to him there by a Bifhop, who was 
 " no Stranger to the Univerfity Statutes. I could 
 " name two now living, who enjoy Dignities in 
 " the Church, who in their Families have train'd 
 ; * up feveral Gentlemen in Univerfity Learning. 
 ' Thofe who are fo liberal in their Charge of Per- 
 " jury, had need be careful that through the Sides 
 " of thofe, whom they account their Enemies, they 
 " do not wound their Friends. 
 
 " So that it is apparent the Legislators did intend 
 
 ' by the Oath to hinder the fetting up of a new 
 
 " Univerfity, and that none tha: commence at 
 
 It Oxford
 
 in the County of S Q M E R S T 7? 5 
 
 " Oxford or Cambridge, fhould join with them in 
 " reading for, or accepting their Degrees.- 
 
 I cannot forbear adding, Mr. Bwr/s fhort Cha- 
 racier of him in his Funeral Sermon. This wor- 
 thy Perfon, fays he, was a Man of a ferious Spine, 
 of folid Judgment, of digefted Thought, of a clear 
 Method, and an unaffected Stile. He was courre- 
 ous and affable to all, ready to communicate, fa- 
 cetious in Converfation, but one that never mock- 
 ed GOD, nor jefted with Divinity. His Manner of 
 Writing was ferious and manly. He never affected 
 fine Turns, or Jerks of Fancy, or Strains of Wit, 
 but always ftudied to be clear and conviclive, and 
 to fpeak in the Demonftration of the SPIRIT, 
 when he would argue Men into Religion and Piety. 
 His Temper was truly catholick. He valu'd every 
 Man for his Goodnefs, and was valu'd by all that 
 were truly good, and not abandoned to Parties, or 
 fchifmatical Principles on one Side or other, rle 
 was of a forgiving Spirit, patient under Abufes, and 
 condefcending to Inferiors. It was his holy Ambi* 
 tion in every Thing to approve himfelf to GOD, 
 to be ferviceable to Men, and to fecure the Inre- 
 reft of his own Soul. He delighted in his Lo RD'S 
 Work, and labour'd in his Service to the Extremi- 
 ty of old- Age, and preach'd conftantly twice every 
 Sabbath, to the very laft of his Life fave one, and 
 then tell afleep in the LORD, in the eighty- {mh 
 Year of his Age. 
 
 Pag. 583. tin. 17. After the fe Words, a burning 
 andfhining Light, add ; I find his Name to the At- 
 tcftation of the Minifters. of this County, againft 
 the Errors, Herefies and Blafphennies of the Times, 
 in 1648. 
 
 Pag. <j3i. Mclls: Mr. RICHARD 
 At the End of the Account of him, let this be add- 
 ed : He lies interr'd in the Burial Place near "Bun- 
 bit Fields, where there is this Infcription upon his 
 Tomb -ftone. 
 
 VOL. n. L
 
 736 The Ejected or Silenced Minifiers, &c. 
 
 Here lieth the Body of 
 JAr. Richard Fairclough, the worthy Son of the late Rev. 
 
 Divine, Mr. Samuel Fairclough of Suffolk ; 
 
 ffasfome time Fellow o/Emanuel College in Cambridge, 
 
 Afterwards I{eElor of Mells In Somerferfhire. 
 
 A Perfon likf his Father, eminent 
 For his natural Parts, acquired Learning, and infufed 
 indued with [Grace. 
 
 A mqft piercing Judgment, rich Fancy, and clear Ex- 
 And therefore [prcjfion ; 
 
 A good Expofitor, a rare Orator, an excellent Preacher. 
 His Spirit and Temper was 
 moft kind and obliging, 
 mqft public^ and generous ; 
 A great Contemner of Riches, 
 And Defpifer of Vain-glory. 
 Chearfulyct watchful; jealous yet prudent : 
 A f leaf ant Companion, and a moft faithful Friend} 
 A Pious Guide and InftruEtor 
 
 ~By Dottrine and Example. 
 Obiit July 4. 1681. Anno ./Etat. 61^ 
 
 To the moft deferring Memory of hint and his Family, 
 
 This Monument was creeled, 
 
 Jls a Tejlimony of Gratitude for many Obligations, 
 
 ty Thomas Percivall of the Middle Temple, Gent. 
 
 Anno Dom. 1682. 
 
 Pag. 586. Ched^oy : Mr. HENRY JEANES.' 
 Add ; I find his Name to the Attejlation of the 
 Minifters of this County, againft the Errors, and 
 Herefies , and Blafphemies of the Times , in 
 1648. 
 
 And at the End of his Works, let there be add- 
 ed, A Treatife of the Excellency of Praife and Thanks- 
 giving in 4to. 
 
 Pag. 5 86. Wells St Andrew's : CORNELIUS 
 B URG i s s, D. D. Add 5 He made a Speech in 
 
 the
 
 in the County of S O M E R S E T. . 757 
 
 the Houfe of Commons againft Deans and Chap- 
 ters, in Anfwer to Dr. Hackct, about which Dr. Tho- 
 mas Fuller wrote a Letter to him, which is to be 
 met with at the latter End of his Appeal of In- 
 jured Innocence, &C; which was printed in 1659. My 
 Lord Clarendon in his Hiflory, Book IV, fays, that 
 the Archbifhop of Canterbury never had fo great 
 an Influence upon the Councils at Court, as this 
 Dr. Burgefs and Mr. Stephen Marfhal had upon the 
 two Houfes. But that carries a pretry ftrong Fi- 
 gure in it. As to Mr. Stephen Marfhal, he was an, 
 acYive Man, and did encourage the taking up Arms 
 for fecuring the Conftitution, when it appear' d not 
 only to him and his Brethren, but to a Number of 
 as worthy Gentlemen as ever fate in St Stephens 
 Chapel, to be in no fmall Danger ; but I am not , 
 aware he can be juftly charg'd with any Concur- 
 rence, in thofe Things, which Afterwards overthrew 
 the Conftitution, and tended to Confufion. He wrote 
 a Defence of the Side he took in our civil Broils, 
 and I cannot hear it was ever anfwer'd. Dr. Eur- 
 geft alfo has publifli'd an Account of his Principles 
 and Practices, which I think deferves to be prefer- 
 ved to Pofterity. He preach'd a Sermon at Mcr- 
 ccrj-Chapel on Jan. 14. 1648, in which he with 
 great Freedom inveigh'd againft the Defign that was 
 then on Foot of taking off the King, and fear'd 
 not the Confequence. And about the fame Time 
 he appear'd at the Head of a Number of Mini- 
 fters, who (to the expofing themfelves) fubfcrib'd'a 
 Paper that was cntimled, A Vindication of the Ml- 
 nijlers of the Gofpcl in, and about London, from the 
 unjufl Afperflons caft upon their former Aftings for 
 the Parliament, as If they had promoted the vring- 
 ing of the King to Capital Punijhment. I (hall the 
 rather here tranfcribe the Paper, becaufe it was of 
 Dr. Brge/i's drawing up. It ran thus. 
 
 I" T cannot be unknown how much we, and 
 
 * " other Minifters of this City and Kingdom 
 
 " that faithfully adher'd to the Parliament," have 
 
 ' injuriously fmarted under the Scourge of Evil 
 
 L i " Tongues
 
 7 3 8 The Ejefted or Silenced Mimfters, 8rc. 
 
 " Tongues and Pens, ever fince the firft Eruption 
 " of the unhappy Differences and unnatural War 
 " between the King and Parliament, for our Obe- 
 " diencc to the Commands and Orders of the Ho- 
 " nourable Houfes, in their Contefts with his Ma- 
 " jefty, and Conflicts with his Armies. 
 
 " We are not ignorant of the overbufy Inter- 
 " medlings of Prelates and their Party heretofore, 
 *' in overuling Civil Affairs to the great Indanger- 
 " ing of Kingdoms, and of this in particular, when 
 < private Interefts, ambitious Defigns, Revenge, or 
 * other finifter Ends, ingag'd them beyond their 
 ft Sphere. Howleit it cannot reafonably (as we 
 " conceive) be denied, that Minifters as Subjects, 
 " being bound to obey the Laws and to preferve 
 " the Liberties of the Kingdom, and having an 
 " Intereft in them and the Happinefs of them, as 
 *' well as others, may and ought (without incur- 
 " ing the juft Cenfurc due to Bufy- bodies and In- 
 cendiaries) to appear, for preferving the Laws 
 and Liberties ot that Commonwealth whereof 
 they are Members ; efpecially in our Cafe, when 
 it was declar'd by the Parliament, that all was 
 at Stake, and in Danger to be loft. No, nor 
 " as Minifters ought they to hold their Peace, in 
 " a Time wherein the Sins of Rulers and Magi- 
 " ftrares as well as others, have fo far provoked 
 ," GOD as to kindle the Fire of his Wrath againft 
 " his People. And yet, for this alone, the faith- 
 " ful Servants of GOD, have in all Ages, through 
 " the Malice of Satan and his Inftruments been 
 " traduc'd as Arch-inceadiaries, \vhen only their 
 " Acculers are indeed guilty of both laying the 
 1 Train, and of putting Fire to it, to blow up a 
 '* Kingdom. 
 
 " An Ahab and his Sycophants think none fo fit 
 " to bear the Odium of being the grand Troub- 
 11 ler of Ifracl, as Elijah. Thus the Popifh Device 
 *' was to charge the Gunpowder Trcafon (had it ta- 
 " ken EfFedt) upon the Puritans : And if you be- 
 * lieve Tertullus, even a Paul is a pcftilent Fellow, 
 " a Mover of Sedition throughout the World, a fyng- 
 " Jttder of a Seel, and what not, but what he is: 
 
 .'! Yea
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 739 
 
 " Yea CHRIST himfelf, (though a Friend to Mo- 
 " narchy, even of Heatheniih Rome) is proclaimed 
 " an Enemy to C.cfar, to open a Way to Deftructi- 
 44 on, by their Malice, who never cared for the 
 " Inrereft of C*f*r. 
 
 " Wherefore, although with us, who have had 
 " Experience of like Ufare, it he a finall Thing 
 " to be thus judged of Men, when we regard on- 
 " ly our own particular Persons : For if they call 
 " the Maftcr of the Houfe Beelzebub, how much more 
 ** thofe of his Hou/houla 1 ? Yet when we confider 
 " how much it concerns the Honour of our Ma- 
 " fter, and the Good of all, to preferve our mi 
 " nifterial Function immaculare (our good Names, 
 *' being in that Relation, as needful to others, as 
 " a good Confcience to ourfelves) we dare not 
 44 but ftand by and aflcrr the Integrity of our 
 44 Hearts, and the Innocency of all our Adtings (ia 
 " Reference to the King and Kingdom) for which 
 " we are fo much calumniated and traduc'd. 
 
 44 This we are compelled to at this Time, be- 
 
 " caufe there ave many who very confidently (yet 
 
 " moft unjuftly) charge us to have been former* 
 
 " ly inftrumental, toward the taking away the 
 
 " Life of the King. And becaufe alfo there arc 
 
 " others who in their fcurrilous Pafquils and Libels^ 
 
 " (as well as with their virulent Tongues) reprefent 
 
 44 us to the World as a bloody f editions Sett, and 
 
 ' traiterous Obftrutlers of what all the Godly People 
 
 " in the Kingdom do carncftly dcfire, for Eftabli/h- 
 
 " ing of Religion end Peace, in that we flick at the 
 
 4< Execution of the King, while yet we are (as 
 
 " they falfly affirm) content to have him con- 
 
 44 vifted, and condemned : AH which we muft and do 
 
 41 from our Hear:s difclaim, before the whole World. 
 
 41 For when we did firft engage with the Par- 
 
 ' liament, (which we did not till called thereunto) 
 
 14 we did it with loyal Hearts and Affections toward 
 
 ** the King, and his Pofterity. Not intending the 
 
 " leaft Hurt to his Perfon, but to Stop his Party from 
 
 14 doing farther Hurt to the Kingdom j not to bring his 
 
 Majefty to Juftice (as fome now fpeak) but to put 
 
 " frm into a bester Capacity to do Juftice: To re- 
 
 L 3
 
 740 Tike Ejeffed or Silenced Mlnifters^ &c. 
 
 " move the Wicked from before him, that his Throne 
 " might be eftabliflyd in Jfyghteoufnefs ; not to de- 
 " throne and deftroy him, which (we muftfear) is 
 " the ready Way to the Deftru&ion of all his 
 " Kingdoms. 
 
 " That which put on any of us at firft to ap- 
 " pear for the Parliament was, The Proportions and 
 " Orders of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, 
 " (June 10. 1641) for bringing in of Money and 
 <f Pia'e, &c. wherein they allured us that whatsoever 
 " fiiould be brought in thereupon, fhould not be 
 " at all employ 'd upon any other Occafion, than 
 " to maintain, the Protcflant ReligiQn, the Kjng's 
 " Authority, his Perfon in his Royal Dignity, the free 
 " Courfe of Jujiice, the Laws of the Land, the Peace 
 " of the Kingdom, and the Priviledges of Parliament, 
 " againfl any Force which fkall offofe them. 
 
 '* And in this we were daily confirm'd and encou- 
 " raged more and more, by their fubfequent De- 
 *' clarations and Proteftations , which we held 
 " ourfelves bound to believe, knowing many of 
 " them to be godly and confcientious Men, of 
 " publick Spirits, zealoufly promoting the common, 
 ' Good, and. labouring, to free this Kingdom of 
 " Tyranny and Slavery, which fome evil Inftru- 
 11 ments about the King, endeavoured to bring up- 
 " on the Nation. 
 
 " As for rhe prefent Actings at Weftminfter, fince 
 
 " the Time that fo many of the Members were 
 
 " by Force fecluded, divers imprifon'd, and others 
 
 " thereupon withdrew from the Houfe of Com- 
 
 " mons (and, there not being that Conjunction of 
 
 " the two Houfes as heretofore) we are wholly un- 
 
 4 fatisfy'd therein, becaufe we conceive them to be 
 
 " fo far from being warranted by fufficient Autho- 
 
 " riry, as that in our Apprehenfions they tend to 
 
 " an actual Alteration (if not Subverfion) of that 
 
 which the Honourable Houfc of Commons in their 
 
 Declaration of April 17, 1646, have taught us 
 
 to call the Fundamental Conftitution and Government 
 
 of this I^ingdom, which they therein allure us (if 
 
 " we underitand them) they would never alter. 
 
 ." Yea
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 741 
 
 " Yea we hold ourfelves bound in Duty to G o D, 
 " Religion, the King, Parliament, and Kingdom, to 
 " profefs before GOD, Angels, and Men, ftrat we 
 " veriiy believe that which is fo much feared to 
 " be now in Agitation, the taking away the Life 
 " of the Kjng, in the prefent Way of Trial, is, 
 " not only not agreeable to any Word of GOD, 
 " the Principles of the Proreftant Religion, (never 
 " yet ftaln'd with the leaft Drop of Blood of a 
 " King) or the Fundamental Conftitution and Go- 
 :< vernment of this Kingdom ; but contrary to them, 
 " as alfo to the Oath of Allegiance, the Prcteftation 
 " of May 5. 1641, and the Solemn League and Co- 
 " venant : From all, or any of which Engagements, 
 " we know not any Power on Earth, able to ab- 
 " folve us or others. 
 
 " In which laft, we have fworn (with Hands lif- 
 " ted up to the moft high GOD) that we Jhall 
 " with Sincerity, I(eality, and Conftancy, in our feveral 
 " Vocations, endeavour with our Eftates and Lives, 
 " mutually to frcferve and defend the Rights and 
 " Priviledges of the Parliaments, and the Liberties 
 " of the Kingdoms : That the World, may bear witnefs 
 " vpith our Conferences of our Loyalty, and that we 
 " have no Thoughts or Intentions to diminijh his Ma- 
 " jtfty'f juft Power and Greatnefs. 
 
 4 And we are yet farther tied by another Ar- 
 
 " tide of the (ame Covenant ; not to fujfer our- 
 
 " fclves, dircttly or indirectly, by whatfoever Comli- 
 
 " nation, Perfuajion or Tenor, to be divided or with- 
 
 *' drawn from this blejftd 'Union and ConjunRion, 
 
 *' whether to make Defection to the contrary Party, 
 
 " or to give cur felvef to a, dcteftable Indifference or 
 
 " Neutrality in this Caufc, which fo much concerns 
 
 " the Glory of God, the Good of the Kingdoms, and 
 
 " Honour of the J\i)ig: But Jhall all the Days 
 
 11 of cur Lives, ^ealoufly and conftantly continue there- 
 
 ' in, againji all Ofpojltion, and -promoting the fame 
 
 ' according to our Power, againft nil Lets and Impc- 
 
 ;< diments whatfoever. And this we have not only 
 
 " raken our;elvcs, but moft of us have by Com- 
 
 ' mand of the Parliament adininifter'd it to others, 
 
 L . ** whom
 
 7 42 The Ejefled or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 " whom we have hereby drawn in to be as deep 
 " as^mrfelves in this pub-lick Engagement. 
 
 " Therefore according to that our Covenant, we 
 " do in the Name of the Great GOD (to whom 
 " all muft give a ftricl: Account) warn and exhort 
 " all who either more immediately belong to our 
 " refpe&ive Charges, or any way depend on our 
 * : Miniftry, or to whom we have adminifter'd the 
 ** faid Covenant (that we may not by our Silence 
 " fufifer them to run upon that highly provoking 
 " Sin of Perjvny) to keep clofe to the Ways of 
 " GOD, and the Rules of Religion, the Laws, and 
 " their Vows, in their conftam maintaining the 
 " true Reform'd Religion, the Fundamental Con- 
 " ftitution, and Government o" this Kingdom, (not 
 ' fuffering themfelves to be iedticed from it, by 
 " being drawn in to fubfcribe the late Models or, 
 " Agreement: of the People, * which diredly tends 
 " to the utter Subverfion of the who Frame of 
 " the Fundamental Government of the Land, and 
 " makes Way for an univerfal Toleration of all 
 ' Herefies and Blafphemies (diredrly contrary to 
 ." our Covenant) if they can but get their Abettors 
 '* to cover them under a falfe Guile, of the Chri- 
 ftian Religion) as alfo in preferving the Privi- 
 ledges of both Houfes of Parliament, and the 
 Union between the two Nations of England and 
 Scotland} to mourn bitterly for their 'own Sins, 
 the Sins of the City, Army, Parliament and King- 
 dom, and the woful Mifcarriages of the King 
 himfelf, (which we cannot but acknowledge to 
 be many and very great) in his Government, 
 that have coft the thiee Kingdoms fo dear, and 
 caft him down from his Excellency, into a hor- 
 rici Pir of Mifery, almoft beyond Example. And to 
 pray that GOD world both give him effectual Re- 
 pentance, and fan&ify the birrer Cup of Divine 
 Difpleafure, that the Divine Providence hath put 
 
 into 
 
 * Declared by both Foufes (fr.r the SublUnce of irj to be de- 
 ft;tcf ve to tiie ti-ing cf Parliaments, and the FttndtmenUt Government 
 } />..' KjnzJom, in Die. \6\j : Vea, condemned heretofore by the 
 ij:nt^t and his to-ir.ii/ of War, 'and one of the Soldieu fhot ta 
 te^th tor pror.v:ung it.
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 74? 
 
 *' into his Hand; as alfo that GOD would reftrain 
 " the Violence of Men, that they may not dare to 
 " draw upon themfelves and the Kingdom the Blood 
 " of their Sovereign. 
 
 " And now, we have good Reafon to expe<ft 
 " that they who brought us under fuch a Bond, 
 " and thereby led us into the Necerfiry of this 
 " rrefent Vindication and Manifeftation of our 
 " judgments, and Difcharge of our Confciences, 
 " (hould defend us in it. However, we rcfolve 
 " rather to be of their Number that tremble at 
 " his Terrours who is a confirming Fire, and will 
 " not fail to avenge the Quarrel of bis Covenant, upon 
 " all that conremn it, than to be found among thofe * T... - 
 " who defpife the Oath by breaking the Covenant, * zek. xr iL* 
 " {after lifting up the Hand] although it had beeti a 8410, x. 
 '* made but in civil Things only, and that with the 
 " worft of Men. 
 
 C. Burgcfs, D. D. Preacher of the Word in 
 
 London. 
 
 Will. Gouge, D. D. Paftor of Black.friars. 
 Edmund Stanton, D. D. Paftor of Kjngfton. 
 Tbo. Temple, D. D. Paftor of Batterfey. 
 Geo. Wnll(cr, Paftor of John Evang. 
 Edmund Caleirny, Paftor of Aldermnnlury. 
 Jer. fffntaker, Paf^-or of Magdalen 'Bermondfey'. 
 Dan. Cawdrey, Minifter of Martin's, in the Fields. 
 William Spuflow, Minifter of Hackney. 
 La. Seaman, Paftor of Allh. Breadjlreet. 
 Simeon dfoe, Minifter of Michael Bafmgjhavp. 
 Tho. Cafe, Minifter of Magd. Milkflreet. 
 Nick. Proffct, Minifter of Fofters. 
 Tho.Thorovegood, Minifter of Cray ford. 
 Edvo. Corbet, Minifter of Croyden. 
 Henry Upborou*!), Paftor of Leonards Eaftchcap. 
 Arthur Jackson, Paftor of Michael's Wocdjlrc'et. 
 Ja. Nalton, Paftor of Leonard's foflerlane. 
 Tho. Cawtcn, Paftor of Bartholomew's Exchange. 
 Charles Offspring, Paftor of Antholins. 
 Sa. Clai\, Minifter of BennetFynf^. 
 Jo. Wall, Minifter of Mifhael Cornhil.
 
 744 The Ejected or Silenced Mini/leys , 8rc. 
 
 Fran. Roberts] Paftor of the Church at Auftins. 
 Maf, Haviland, Paftor of Trinity. 
 John Sheffield, Minifter of Swithins. 
 William Harrifon, Minifter of Gracecburcb. 
 William Jenk.yn, Minifter of Chnftchurch. 
 John Finer, Paftor of Buttolpb Aldgate. 
 Elidad Blackwell, Paftor of Andrew Vnderfhaft'. 
 John Crojje, Minifter at Matthews Fridayftreet. 
 John Fuller, Minifter at Buttolph Bijhopfgatc. 
 Will. "Taylor, Paftor of Stephens Colemanftreet. 
 feter Witham, Paftor of Allan's Woodftreet. 
 fran. Peck., Paftor of Ntch. Acorne. 
 Chrift. Love, Paftor of Anne Alderfgate. 
 John IVallK, Minifter of Martin's Ironmonger 
 llfomas Watfon, Paftor. of Stephen's Walhrook^ 
 William iVickjns, Paftor of Andrew Hubbard. 
 Iho. Manton, Minifter of Sto^s Newtngton. 
 Ihomat Gouge, Paftor of Sepulchre's. 
 William Blackmore, Paftor of Peters Cornhil. 
 Robert Mercer, Minifter of Brides. 
 Ha. Rpbinfon, Paftor of Mary JVoolnoth. 
 John Glafcock. , Minifter at Underfoaft. 
 Thomas iVhately, Minifter at Mary Woolchurch*. 
 Jonathan Lloyde, Paftor of James's Garltctyith. 
 John Well$, Paftor of Clave's Jewry, 
 benjamin Needier, Paftor of Margaret Mofes. 
 *Nath. Staniforth, Minifter of Mary Bothaw. 
 Steven Watkjns, Minifter of Mary Overys. 
 Jacob lice, Paftor of Buttolph Billingfgate. 
 John Stileman, Minifter at Rotherhith. 
 Jofias Bull, Paftor of North Cray. 
 Jonathan Deverux, late Minifter at Andrew** Hoi 
 horn. 
 
 Paul Duffel, Preacher at Hackney. 
 * Jofuah Kjrby, Minifter of the Word. 
 Arthur Barham, Paftor at Hellens. 
 
 This Paper thus fubfcrib'd, was not barely fpread 
 about in private, but openly and boldly publifli'd, 
 ac a Time when others, how much fbever they were 
 againft the Meafjres that were puriu'd by thofe that 
 
 hid
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 745 
 
 had got the Power in their Hands, yet thought fie 
 to be filent, that they might not expofe themfelves. 
 And in Reality Dr. 'Burgejs y feems to have been a 
 Perfon that never was afraid to open his Mind. 
 When he fate in the Ajjcmbly of Divines, he argu'd 
 againft impcfing the Covenant, and refus'd the ta- ; - 
 king of it, till he was fufpended : But having once 
 taken it, he thought himlelf obliged to keep it, and 
 was griev'd he could not prevail with others to be 
 of the fame Mind, or to ad: agreeably. He was 
 excellently well skilfd in the Liturgical Controverfies, 
 and thole of Church Government. He was Owner 
 of all the Books of Common Prayer that ever were 
 printed in England, and beftow'd them on Oxford 
 Library ; and his Letter with them may be feen in 
 Ant. A Wood. That Author however has caft fome 
 fcurvy Reflections, which Ncvecourt in his ]$ep. Eccl. 
 Vol. L p. 399, has thought fit to repeat: But it is 
 no uncommon Thing for a Man to fufier in his Re- 
 putation, among thofe who diflike the Caufe in 
 which he is engag'd. 
 
 Pag. 587. Vbleigb : Mr. \V i L L i A M THOMAS.' 
 He alfo was one of the Subfcribers of the Attejlti- 
 tion of the Minifters of this County, againft the Er- 
 rors, and Herelles, and Blafphemies of the Times 
 in 1648. 
 
 At the End of the Account of him, f><ig. 597, let 
 it be added ; Mr. Nslfon in his Life of the learn- 
 ed Bifhop B//, intimates chat that great Man in his 
 younger Days, fpent two Years in this Mr. Thomas 
 Family, and he owns that he there had the Advan- 
 tage of living in a very regular Family : But me- 
 thinks ihcre wants good Humour in the Reflection 
 that is fubjoin'd ; lut be receivd little or no real 
 Improvement or Ajjifttincc from him in bis Study of 
 Divinity. A little more of 'the Gentleman, would 
 not in this Cafe have been at all amifs ! He there 
 farther intimates, that this Mr.T/>om< was prefented 
 to his Living, by the free and unlol'citcd Bounty 
 of Thortas Egerton, Baron of FMefmerf, Lord Chan- 
 cellor of England. 
 
 And
 
 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters^ 8rc. 
 
 And that he was in great Reputation for his Pie- 
 ty, and efteem'd one of the chief Minifters of his 
 "Time, in the Neighbourhood where he liv'd : And 
 was appointed an Afliftant to Olivers CommifTioners, 
 for the ejecting fcandalous, ignorant, and inefficient 
 Minifters and Schoolmafters. 
 
 To his Works may be added, Chriftian Counfel 
 'applied to the married State, nmo. 1661. 
 
 Pag. 597. Wincaunton : Mn JOHN SACHEVEKELL;! 
 Add ; He was the eldeft Son of Mr. Sachevercll, 
 Minifter of Stoke in the Ifle of Purbeck. in Dorfet- 
 (hire, who was a Man of great Reputation. He had 
 his Education in St Johns College in Oxon, &c. 
 
 5 99* "Bath " Mr. WILLIAM GREEN. 
 He was Affiftant to Mr. Long in this Town, and fo 
 alfo was Mr. William Ea^er, who afterwards taught 
 a private School ; and at length was Matter of the 
 free School there. 
 
 Ibid. Combehay : Mr. THOMAS CREEZ. He 
 was one of the Subfcribers to the Aflbciation of the 
 Minifters of this County. 
 
 Pag. 600. Eecl(tngton : Mr. JOHN AFTER. 
 This was the fequeitred Living of Mr. Alexander 
 Huifh ; Dr. Walker, Part II. p. 76. Mr. After came 
 ro this Living in 1650. 
 
 Ibid. Glutton : Mr. A L F L A T. It ftiould be Mr.' 
 MATTHEW ALFLATT, for fo I find him fub- 
 Icribing the Attestation of the Minifters in this Coun- 
 ty, in 1648. After his being ejected, he preach'd 
 fometimes at Hath, where he died many Years 
 ago. After fome Diftrefs of Spirit in his laft 111- 
 nefs, he at length died full of Joy and Comfort. 
 
 Ibid. Weft Cammel and Dunnyet : Mr. H E N R v 
 A L B i N. He alfo was a Subfcriber to the Attefta- 
 tion of the Minifters of this County, in 1648.
 
 in the County of SOMERSET, 747 
 
 Pag. 60 i. Biuton : Mr. P A R K E R. It fhould b 
 Brewtcn : Mr. WILLIAM PARKER; for fo 1 
 find his Name, and the Place of his Miniftry, in 
 the Alteration of the Minifters in this County in 
 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Downbead : Mr. MATTHEW WARREK. 
 He was born in the Year 1641, and was the youn- 
 ger Son of Mr. John Warren a Gentleman of a good 
 Eftate who liv'd ac Otterford in Devon. He matter- 
 ed his preparatory Studies for the Univerfity at Crevs>- 
 kern in this County, and from thence he was fent 
 to Oxford. He remain'd there for almoft four Years, 
 and remov'd I fuppote (upon the Change in 1660) 
 with his Tutor to Reading. Having fpent one Year 
 with him there, he return'd to his Relations, and 
 enter'd upon the minifterial Service, but was loon 
 difabled and filenc'd by the Bartholomew Aft. He 
 was not long after, by the Importunity of Minifters 
 and Friends prevail'd with to ingage in a Work in 
 which he was very acceptable and ufeful, which 
 was the Educating of Youth for the Sacred Miniftry. 
 In this Undertaking he met with many Difficulties, 
 both in the Reign of King Charles and King Jamcs y 
 but he bore them very cheai fully. His Perfon was 
 often fought for, that he might be confin'd, but he 
 was ftill lecur'd j and at one Time he was providen- 
 tiallopreferv'd, in a Way that was remarkable, of 
 which he could not forbear taking a fpecial Notice. 
 The Cafe was this ; his Wife had a ftrange Impulfc 
 upon her Spirit, and a ftrong unconquerable Fancy, 
 that if he did not remove till fuch a Time from the 
 Houfe to which he had rerir'd for Shelter, he would 
 certainly be taken Prifoner, and hurried away to 
 Jail. Accordingly fhe fent a Meflenger with a preifing 
 Letter to him to return ; earneftly begging him to 
 be at home by fuch a Time, or that elfe he might 
 never fee her more. He imagining it was her Indif- 
 pofition, and not the Fear of his Danger that was 
 the Caufe of her Urgency, immediately took leave of 
 his Friends, and went homewards : But was not far 
 
 he
 
 748 The Ejeffed or Silenced Miniflers, 
 
 diftant from the Houfe, before he looking back from 
 an Afcent, faw it furrounded by Perfons that were 
 fent to fearch there for him, who had certainly taken 
 him, if he had not this Way efcap'dthem. 
 
 Upon King James's Indulgence, he was chofen 
 joint Paftor with Mr. Hartford, of the large and nu- 
 merous Congregation of Diflenters in Taunton, where 
 he had liv'd, and preach'd occafionally feveral Years 
 before. His Motto was, Let your Moderation be 
 known unto all Men. His Life was Peace and Love ; 
 and in his laft Hours when under extreme Pain, he 
 difcover'd true Patience and Submiflion. Being then 
 ask'd how he was, he anlwer'd, I am juft going Into 
 Eternity : But I blefs God, I am neither afham'd t* 
 live, nor afraid to die. 
 
 Many young Gentlemen that now behave wor- 
 thily in civil Stations, and others that are ufeful in 
 the Miniftry, owe their Education to him : And all 
 that knew him, own him to have been well qualified 
 fcr the Service he did them, by a good Share of ufe- 
 ful Learning, join'd with Humility, Modefty and 
 good Humour, which were his diftinguilhing Cha- 
 racters. 
 
 He died June 14. 1706, in the fixty-fourth Year 
 of his Age : And his Funeral Sermon was preach'd 
 by Mr. John Sprint, and afterwards printed ; with 
 the Addition of a Character of him by another 
 Hand. 
 
 The following Epitaph was drawn UP by one that 
 had been his Pupil, and had a great Veneration for 
 his Memory ; I mean Mr. Cbrijtophcr Taylor, from 
 whom I received it. 
 
 
 M- S.
 
 /* the County of SOMERSET. 749 
 
 M. S. 
 
 D. Matthasi Warren, Theologi vere Venerandl : 
 Literati fine Faftu, Pii fine Oftentationey 
 Prudentis abf^ue Aftutla, Facet i fene VcrnUitate, 
 Abfaue Afperitate Gra<vis y Zelo dliitno imbuti, 
 
 f fine Vecordla: 
 
 Sincere dilextt Amicos, Oppldum Tanodunum 
 Patriam, & Univerfam Chrlfti Ecclefiam : 
 
 Illuflri Comltu Warreni ftirpe ortus, 
 sfjpetfu decora^ Ingenio coml & Jucundo^ 
 Morlbus Suavijfimis, Sermone Elegans, candi- 
 
 [didus 3 Verecundus. 
 
 Natfts Otterfordiae In 'Prdvincla Devonienli 
 Oxonii 
 
 Tanodunum dlu Laborum Talaftratn habmt ; 
 Ubl Juventutem numerofam^ In Pietate, facrts 
 bonifyue Ltterls inftltttebat, 
 
 Simulcjut cxtus Presbyteranl Paftorem agebflt. 
 JQuo duplicl munere 
 
 Fidditer, fedulo, mode/le, Paclfice, 
 Multaejite cum Laude, funftus eft : 
 
 ad d. Junii xiv, Anni MDCCVI. 
 Dcus ad Caleftem quietem evocavit* 
 
 Pag. 6oi~. tin. 14, from the Bottom, JAay fhould 
 be "March. 
 
 . 
 
 Pag. 601. tt r tvclfcoml : Mr. GEORGE D A v. 
 There is publifli'd of his, The Communicant's 
 
 Inftruftor j
 
 750 The Ejetted or Silenced Mimfters, 
 
 InftruBor or, a, Sacramental Catechifm : And a Per- 
 fuafive to full Communion with the Churches of Chrift 
 in all Goffel Ordinances and Privileges, 8vo. 1698. 
 With a Preface by Dr. Hates and Mr. Hammond, 
 who give him the Chara&er of a well accomplifh- 
 ed and approved Minifter of JESUS CHRIST ; 
 very exemplary in his holy Converfation, and abun- 
 dant in his minifterial Labours : In which his Study, 
 Diligence and Fidelity were the more confpicuous, 
 in regard of the painful and weakening bodily Di 
 ftempers by which it pleased GOD to try and exer- 
 cife him for many of his laft Years. 
 
 Pag, 6 01. Afopriors: Mr. JOHN GAJLPIN. 
 Add; Dr. Walker, Att. Part II. p. ^l^, fays, that 
 this Mr. Galfin was an Independent, and that he 
 was in the Living of Tarcomb in Devon, and was the 
 Perfon who gave it up to Mr. Gamaliel Chafe, the 
 fequeftred Minifter of it, at the Reftoration. But 
 I fuppofe he was ejected here in 1661, when the 
 Aft of Vniformity took Place, and fo is a Proof (in 
 Conjunction with many others) how eafily they that 
 turn'd out when the fequeftred Minifters were re- 
 ftor'd , had been provided for in other Places, if 
 that A& had not totally filenc'd them. 
 
 He publifh'd' and prefac'd Mr. John Flave^ Re- 
 mains ; and gives lome Account of Mr. Flavel's 
 Life and Character, Death and Burial, in 8w. 
 1691. 
 
 Ibid. Duherton : Mr. HENRY BERRY, Brother 
 to Mr. Benjamin and Mr. John Berry, who are both 
 mention'd in the County of Devon. 
 
 Wilton -. Dr. Walker calls the Place, Satbal- 
 ton : Mr. GEORGE BINDON. He is mention'd 
 Att. Part II. p. 370, and the Do&or fays he may 
 have Occafion to fpeak more of him hereafter : And 
 therefore I muft be forced to wait his Leifure. I 
 find one of his Name fubfcribing the Atteftation of 
 the Minifters of this County in 1648, as Preacher of 
 the Word
 
 in tbt County of SOMERSET. 751 
 
 Pag. 603. Pitmifter : Mr. THOMAS FOR- 
 w A R D. I alfo find his Name to the Atteftation of 
 the Somcrfetfoire Minifters in j 648. 
 
 He was educated under Mr. Jeanes at New Inn 
 Hall in Oxen. Upon quitting the Univerfiry, he 
 was for fome time Curate to Mr. Seager of Broad 
 Clift, and afterwards fettled in this Parifh, upoa 
 the Death of Mr. Travers, and here he continued 
 till ejected in i66z. He much lamented King 
 Charles's being beheaded ; and was againft obfer- 
 ving CromveeCs Thankfgivings for his Victories. He 
 was offer'd his Living again and again by the Gen- 
 tleman that had the Right of Prefentation, upon the 
 Death of feveral Vicars that came after him ; but 
 perfifted in his Nonconformity, tho' he had but little 
 to fupport himfelf, and his large Family. He died 
 in December 1687. It was obferv'd ihat his religious 
 Management of his Family was attended with won- 
 derful Succek. 
 
 Ibid. Hifton : Mr. Ti MO T H Y B A T T, M. A. I 
 alfo find his Name to the Att Ration of the Mini- 
 fters of this County, but as Minifter of llmifler. 
 
 He has two Things in Print. A Definition or 
 /hort Compendium of Faith, nmo. 1636: And, A 
 Treatife concerning the Grace of God the Father, and 
 the Love ofjefus Chrijl, nmo. 1643. 
 
 Pag. 604. Laurence Lydiard : Mr. JOHN WAKE-' 
 LY. Dr. Walter, Att. Parti, p. 105, calls him an 
 Intruder, and fays, rhat when Mr. Gooden the feque- 
 queftred Incumbent of this Living, which was worth 
 between i and 300 1 per An. applied to him for fome- 
 thing to keep his Family that was in extreme Wane 
 from ftarving, Mr. Wakflys Wife took upon her to 
 return this Anfwer, that he had nothing to do there ; 
 tnd^ if he wanted, he muft take his Flail and thrafh : 
 Which barbarous Ufage (he fays) haften'd his Death, 
 But it is very hard, if a Man muft fuffer or anfwer 
 for every hafty Saying of his Wife.However the Doc- 
 tor repeats this over again (as he does moft of his 
 Stories) Att. Pare II. p. 154. 
 
 VOL. II. M
 
 752 The Ejected or Silenced Minifitrs, &c. 
 
 Pag. 604. Cricket : Mr. LA-NGDALE. His Name 
 was JOHN LANGDALE; for? fo I find it in the 
 Atteftation of the Minifters of this County in 1648, 
 which he fubfcrib'd as Minifter of Cricket Thomas, 
 by way of Distinction from the other Cricket, where 
 Mr. John Turner was Minifter, who alfo was after- 
 wards an ejected Minifter. 
 
 Hid. Combe St Nicolas : '"' Mr. HENRY B A T- 
 c H E L o R. Dr. Walker writes him Baccolor, Att. 
 Part II. p. 254. But I am now inform'd it was 
 Mr. Henry 'Backfiller or Enccaller. He was forhe time 
 Chaplain to Mr. Pridcaux, Father in Law to Mr. 
 Francis Gvcin of Ford Abbey. He had no Eftate to 
 iupport him after he was ejected, tho' he had a 
 numerous Family, having fixteen Children living at 
 once, twelve whereof Hv'd to near twenty Years of 
 Age. He died in 1713, wanting but a Month or 
 two of ninety-nine Years of Age. He was difabled 
 from preaching more than twenty Years before his 
 Death ;' Mr. Aaron Pitts preaching for him for fomc 
 time out of Charity. 
 
 ibid. Vfton noble : Mr. EMANUEL HARTFORP. 
 His Parents, tho' of a creditable Family, were not 
 able to afford him that liberal Education which his 
 promifing Parts deferv'd, fo that it was with much 
 Difficulty and hard Study that he got his Learning. 
 He was early ripe for the Univerfity , and was main- 
 tained at Oxford fome time by a Gentleman that 
 was a Stranger to him, that was pleas'd to take par- 
 ticular Notice of him ; and alfo by an Uncle of the 
 fame Name with himlelf, a Minifter of great Re- 
 pute for Learning and Piety. When he, left the 
 Univerfity, he fupported himfelf for a while by 
 teaching a School, and afterwards upon the earned: 
 Solicitations of many emnient Perlons, enter 'd 'om 
 the Miniftry at about twenty Years of Age. And 
 tho' fome that were no incompetent Judges reckon- 
 ed him well furnifli'd for it, yet he often afterwards 
 complain'd of his being thruft out fo foon, and laid; 
 he was afham'd to mention how young he then 
 
 was.
 
 in. the County of SOMERSET. 753 
 
 was. He liv'd two Years with worthy Mr. 
 Allcln at Batcomb, and in 1661, he was ejected iif 
 this Place which was in his Neighbourhood. Re- 
 flecting afterwards on this Ejection, he exprefs'd 
 himfelf thus. Why, faid he, were fo many Minifters 
 then caft out of the Vineyard ? Not for Idlcnefs, not 
 for Herefy, not for Infufficiency, not for Scandal, not 
 for Rebellion ; but becaufe in Conscience they could not 
 comply with feme Things, which their Adverfarics them- 
 felves acknowledged to be of an indifferent Nature. 
 During his Troubles for Nonconformity, which were 
 confiderable, he applied himfeif afrefh to the Study 
 of that Controversy, with a full Refolution to con- 
 form, if he could but tolerably fatisfy himfelf as to 
 the Terms required : For he could not bear the 
 Thoughts of expofing himfelf to Hardfhips and Mi- 
 feries for little or nothing; bun after his matureft 
 Studies, he was rarher more diffatisfied than ever, 
 and forc'd ftill to take his Lot among the poor Non~ 
 , cons. And tho' thus doing the World flighted him, 
 yet he was never difown'd or forfaken by Provi- 
 dence, which in his greateft Straits appear'd for him 
 in a fingular Manner, .and fbmetimes to his great 
 Aftonifhtnent. For when his Subfiftence has been 
 fo fcanty, that he has not had wherewith to pro- 
 cure him Neceflfaries for the next Day, GOD has 
 fent him Relief by the Hands of a mere Stranger, 
 or fome unexpected Friend : And as his Extremities 
 have rerurn'd upon him, have feafonable Supplies 
 been fent him in. He never indeed had much of 
 this \Vorld, nor did he atfed: it : But was always 
 contented, eafy, and chearful. After King James's 
 Indulgence he was chofen Paftor of the Ditfenting 
 Congregation at Taunton, in Conjunction with Mr. 
 Warren ; and there he ftudicd hard, and preach'd 
 acceptably. His Compofures were elaborate and 
 judicious, his Method natural and eafy, his Stile 
 grave and majeftick ; and he always compriz'd a* 
 great deal of Matter in a few Words. He had a 
 wonderful Faculty of adapting himfelf to the diffe- 
 rent State of his People,^ and giving to all their pro^ 
 per Food. His Labours were eminently fuccefsful, 
 and his Charity remarkable. He died AH*. 4. 1706, 
 Mz in
 
 754 The Ejected or Silenfd Minifters^ 8rc. 
 
 in the fixty-fixth Year of his Age : Within two 
 Months of his Fellow-labourer Mr. Warren ; and 
 his Funeral Sermon aifo was> preach'd and printed 
 by Mr. John Sprint ; and a Character of him was 
 added, drawn up by another Hand. 
 
 Pag. 604. North Currey : Mr. GEORGE PEARCE, 
 or PIERCE rather. Dr. Walker, Part II. p. 198, 
 fays he got the Living of Weft Mention in this Coun- 
 ty, in 1655. 
 
 Pag. 605 . Crofcomb : Mr. WHITEBOURKT. I 
 find his Name to the Atteftation of the Minifters of 
 this County thus : John Whitborne, Minifter of Crof- 
 comb. 
 
 Ibid. Glaftonbury : Mr. SAMUEL WINNEY.' 
 Add ; He was fo good a Grammarian, that he was 
 reckon'd to excell moft in the Weft of England : In- 
 ibmuch that when fome were difpos'd to have dealt 
 as feverely with him as with other Diffenters, even 
 HeUynr himfelf, who was commonly the Ringleader, 
 being difpos'd to skreen him, us'd to ask them, 
 whether they would have all their Children Dunces? 
 Declaring at the fame Time to them, that he was 
 the beft Schoolmafter they had. 
 
 Ibid. Cricket t : Mr. JOHN TURNER. Add; 
 He fubfcrib'd the Atteftaticn of the Minifters of this 
 County in 1 648, thus ; John Torner, Minifter of 
 Crickftt Malherb. I am inform'd he was a Man of 
 Note in Service and Sufferings with Mr. Jofeph Al~ 
 lein. He was ejecled at North Crickett. During the 
 War, he had the Right of two Parifhes, but receiv- 
 ed no Profits of either. 
 
 He was Chaplain to a Regiment of Sir John Fit%- 
 James's, who after 1661 urg'd him to conform. 
 He objected he had taken the Covenant. Sir John 
 replied, that now, the Covenant was void in Law. 
 He anfwer'd, buc the Counter-part of it is in Hea- 
 ven, and in Force. Being ejeded from both his 
 Parifhes, he preach'd in divers Places, and often in 
 a Cellar of Prideaux, Efqj becaufe of the 
 
 Loudnels
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 755 
 
 Loudnefs of his Voice. This Gentleman being a 
 Member of Parliament", ufually ingag'd Mr. Turner 
 to fpend a Day in Prayer with him at the Beginning 
 of each Seilion, and another at the End. He was 
 at one Time imprifon'd for five Years, at Ilchefter, 
 with Mr. Jofefh Allcin, and Mr. Norman. There he 
 us'd ro preach out of a Window, to a Number of 
 People {landing in the Street : And he would re- 
 hearfe to them what other Minifters of lower Voices 
 had preach'd within. After he was fee at Liberty, 
 many acknowledged to him, that they ow'd their 
 Conversion to thofe Prifon Sermons. Mrs. tyidbert of 
 London flood by him at the Window, when in one 
 of thofe Sermons the Jail-keeper fliot at him : And 
 as to Mr. Turner, he pull'd in his Head, mifs'd the 
 Shot, and then went on preaching ; and addreffing 
 himfelf diredlly to the Jailor, made him quake and 
 tremble. Towards the End of King Charles's Reign 
 he was again imprifon'd, and after being releas'd, 
 preach'd at Bemifter, Netherbury, 8cc. And herein 
 his Expectation wa,s but anfwer'd : For he all along 
 laid, that GOD would again open his Mouth to 
 
 preach again in the Churches. Stroud,E& gave 
 
 him two fmall Parifnes, and in King iVillieirris Time 
 he preach'd two or three Times in each of them. 
 
 He was a Man of great Piety, and was convert- 
 ed to GOD betimes, under the Miniftry of his own 
 Father. He had long a iatisfying Aflurance of the 
 Love of GOD, and his own Salvation: And was 
 fo courageous in fulfilling his Miniftry, that he fear- 
 ed the Face of no Man. Several Minifters Agreeing 
 once together, to vifit a certain Lady that was their 
 Hearer, but in fome Refpedls walk d not fo be- 
 comingly as were to have been defir'd, they de- 
 termin'd to reprove her ; and thought they being 
 together, what was oflfer'd would come wich the 
 more Authority and Weight. She rcceiv'd them, 
 as ufually, with great Civility : And when it 
 came to the Point, all but Turner, were for wa- 
 ving what had been intended, for fear (he would 
 not indure them ever afterwards. But he faid he 
 had his Commiflion in his Bible, and he would ven- 
 ture the Confequence. The Lady did indeed refent 
 M 3 his
 
 756 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 his Freedom, and for rhe prefent was angry, but 
 doubly honour'd him ever after. 
 
 He'liv'd to the Age of ninety- four, in great La- 
 bour, and Honour, and Comfort. He had a fcnall 
 Eft-ate of his own, and he fitted up the Barn for 
 his Dwelling-houfe. Having (by the Help of fome 
 Legacies that were left him) purchased fomewhat, 
 which he held by the Lives of his two Sons, they 
 both dying before him, he inurely loft it, and after- 
 wards needed the Help of his Friends. He liv'd 
 Bedrid for two Years before he died. 
 
 Pag. 605. Briftoh Mr. EDWARD HANCOCK. 
 Dr. Walker, Att. Part I. p. 98, fays he had been 
 Butler to Sir George Homer : Which may have 
 much the fame Truth in it, as that Mr. Pearfe of 
 Dunsford in Devon was a Trooper in the Fight at 
 IVorcefter, which he affirms as roundly, tho' there 
 was in Reality nothing in it, nor the leaft Founda- 
 tion for it. 
 
 Pag. 610. I'm. 16. Mr. RICHAK.D BLINMAN. 
 J-Ie wrote for Infant Baptifm, againft Mr. Danvers 
 In 8vo, 1674. The Tide of his Book is, An EJJay 
 tending to ijjuc the Ccntroverfy about Infant Bap- 
 tifm. 
 
 ibid. tin. 19. Dr. ICHABOD CHAUNCEY. 
 Add ; there was publifh'd in 4*0. 1684, Innocence 
 vindicated, by an Impartial Narrative of the Pro- 
 ceedings of the Court of ScfTions in Briftol, againft 
 Ichabod Chauncey, Phyfician in that City. 
 
 Ibid. Jin. 28. Mr. Jo :i N B Y w A T E R. He is 
 mention'd,^. 717, at the Town of Pembroke, where- 
 the "Uniformity Act fileac'd him. 
 
 Ibid. Temple Combe : Mr. JOHN DARBY. His 
 Name is to the Atteftation of the Minifters of this 
 County, as Redor of Abbefcomb. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. JAMES S T E p H E N s o >r, M. A. He 
 was born in North Brittetin, and educated in the 
 
 Univerfity
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 757 
 
 Univerfity of Glafcow, where he took his Degree. 
 Going into Ireland he in 1627 was ordain'd both 
 Deacon and Prieft by Bifhop George Dovenbam of 
 Deny, and that (for any Thing that appears) without 
 Subfcription, I therefore here infert a Copy of his 
 Orders, which is as follows : 
 
 " *"P E N o R E prtium, Nos Georgius povid7n. du 
 
 '" " Derenfis Ej^ notum facimus Univerfis ~^d 
 
 " die Saturni ultimo ?Ju die menfis Marcii Anno 
 
 ' DiiT Mi:ii^To fecen mo Vigefimo feptimo, in magna 
 
 " camera aedium nrum infra Civitatem Londonderit 
 
 enfis. (Dioc. nne) fitarun nos prfatus Georgius 
 
 '' E^iis arddens iacros Ordines Dei omnipotent, pr- 
 
 fidio celebran, Diledhim nobis in Ceo Jacobum 
 
 11 Stevenfon Academiae Glafcuenfis (in Scoria) alum- 
 
 num, & in Artibus Mag^nT, de vita fua lauda- 
 
 bili, ac morum 6c virtutum fuarum donis nobis 
 
 multipliciter in hac parte commendatum, atq; in 
 
 !< Sacrarum Literarum dodlrina & fcientia fufficienter 
 
 ' eruuitum, 8c a nobis examinamm 8c approbatum, 
 
 '* ad Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem admiffus 8c pro- 
 
 ' movimus, atq; ipfum in Diaconum rite & cano- 
 
 " nice ordinavimus ; Eundemq; Jacobum Stevenfon 
 
 " ad Sacros Presbyteratus ordines, ipfumq; in Pref- 
 
 " byterum rite & canonice etiam proirjovimus, turn 
 
 " 8c ibji^ In cujus rei Teftimonium Sigillum n^ 
 
 *' e^ale prtibus apponi juflimus. Dat die Menfis 
 
 " 8c Anno D^T" fupdicii & nri Confecrat. anno un- 
 
 " decimo. 
 
 Thefe his Ordination Letters (as appears by their 
 Indorfement) were exhibited in a Vifiration Aug. 19, 
 1617, held by theBifliopof Deny: And in another 
 held by the Biftiop of Ardagb (who was the learned 
 Dr. Rjchnrdfon.} July ^6. 1639 : And yet it is un- 
 certain where he was employ'd, in the firft Years of 
 his minifterial Service. But Bifliop Rjchnrdfon made 
 him his Chaplain, notwithstanding his known Dif- 
 like of the Ceremonies. And the Vicaridge of Hil- 
 tAnglwkc which was in his Collation, becoming void 
 M 4 ty
 
 7 5 8 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 by the Refignarion of Mr. Edward Stanhofe, he be- 
 ftowcd it upon him. This appears from his Infti- 
 tution, which was fign'd Juh. Ardagb, and bore Dare, 
 the laft of ORober 1635. The Terms of his Admifli- 
 on to the Vicaridge therein fet forth, are, his ta- 
 king the Oath of Supremacy ; and his fwearing to 
 a perpetual perfbnal Refidence, unlefs he had a Dif- 
 penfation ; and to yield Canonical Obedience in all 
 lawful and honeft Things. He had not been long 
 fettled here, before the Bifliop augmented the Vi- 
 caridge, by the Addition of the Land of Grange 
 Mcinterolis in the County of Lcytrim (containing by 
 Eftimation four Quarters of Land, belonging to the 
 Abbey of 'Boyle, but within the Parifli of Hilttng- 
 horke ; the Care of Souls in the laid Quarters be- 
 ing neglected, by Reafon of their Diftance from 
 the faid Abbey, and any other Parifli Church) with 
 all their Fruits, Oblations, &c. to the faid Parifli 
 Church of Hiltanghorke, to be poflefs'd by the faid 
 James Stephenfon and his Succeflbrs therein : As is fet 
 forth at large in a Writing fign'd Job. Ardagh, dated 
 July 16, 1637. Here he eontinu'd till 1641, when 
 the Rebellion broke out in that Kingdom. He recei- 
 ved the firft News of the bloody Defign of the Papifts 
 there, to rife in Arms, and put all the Proteftants to 
 the Sword, when he was near finifhing a new Houfe 
 in his Parifh : And he prefently in order to Self- 
 defence, took up Arms, went with his Wife and Son 
 to a Garrifon, and burnt down his own new built 
 Houfe, to prevent its being garrifon'd by the Re- 
 bels. He continu'd in Arms againft them, till one 
 of them fliew'd him a CommifTion under a Great 
 Seal, faid to be that of England. Whether an Au- 
 thority of that Sort deferv'd any Regard or not, 
 when in fuch Hands, it had fuch Influence on Mr. 
 Seepbcnfcn, that it aker'd his Inclinations and Refolu- 
 ticns; and he laid down his Arms, and came for Eng- 
 land. But in the Time of his Continuance in Ireland, 
 he faw fo much of the true Spirit of the Hcmifo Reli- 
 gion, as gave him a rooted and Jafting Deceitation of 
 its Principles, and Diftruft of its Votaries. He would 
 often pray to be de'iver'd from bloodthirfty Papifts, 
 f whole Cruelties he had ieen fo many affeding 
 
 Inftances.
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 759 
 
 Inftances. Tho' he could have made Oaih that he 
 had lefc behind him in Ireland to the Value of 1000 /, 
 and might have recover'd it, had he return'd back 
 thither, yet he rather chofe to lofe it, than to Jive 
 amongft fuch People. And that he did not adt 
 herein without Reafon, may in Part be feen, by 
 the printed Depofitions concerning the Irifh Cruel- 
 ties, where there is one with Mr. Stepbenfons 
 Name to it, to this ErTecl : That he faw one take 
 the Child of his Sifter, and dafli its Brains out a- 
 gainft a Tree. 
 
 Coming to Briftol, his firft Acquaintance was with 
 worthy Mr. Henry Stubbes, (of whom I formerly 
 pave an Account) and he was invited to Stroud, but 
 fettled at lormnrton in the County of Gloucefter: 
 And I find his Name to the Teftimbny of the Mi- 
 nifters of that County, in 1648, as Minifter of that 
 Place. Here alfo (in all Probability) it was, that 
 his worthy Friend and Patron Bifliop Hichardfon, 
 being reduc'd to Straits, came to him, and was 
 entertain'd by him for fome time : And that ex- 
 cellent Perfon afterwards acknowledged, that he 
 received more Kindnefs from him, than from all his 
 Ladies rich Relations put together. He was ejec- 
 ted from hence, for refuting the Ingagement : Which 
 forc'd him not only from his People, and his Be. 
 tiefice (which was worth 300 / per An.) but being 
 a Forreigr.er, from' the Kingdom too. He left his 
 Wife and Son in England, and retir'd into Holland, 
 hoping for more Freedom there than here. But 
 the States of the "United Provinces were fo very ob- 
 fequious to the Powers tiiat then were in England, 
 as not ro fuffer him to preach in their Country t 
 So that being forc'd to intermit his Miniftry, he 
 apply'd his Thoughts to Phyfick, which he ftudieil 
 there with good Advantage, for two Years ; and 
 he found it of no ftnall Ule to him afterwards. Then 
 returning back to England, he was presented to 
 this Vicaridge of Ma/tocl^, by Thomas Owen, Clerk, 
 the Patron ; as appears by the Approbation of the 
 Triers, dated OtL lo. 1654: Whereby they de- 
 clare that upon Perufal and due Confideration of 
 his Piefentation, together with a Teftimony in the 
 
 Behalf
 
 
 
 760 The Ejetted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Behalf of the faid James Stephenfon, of his holy and 
 good Converfation ; and finding him to be a Per- 
 fon qualified, as in and by the Ordinance for fuch 
 Approbation is requir'd ; they have adjudg'd and ap- 
 proVd the faid James Stephenfon, to be a fit Per- 
 fon to preach the Gofpel, and have granted him 
 AdmifTion, and do admit the faid James Stephen- 
 fon to the Vicaridge of Martocl^ aforefaid. The 
 Inhabitants of this Place were an ignorant Sort of 
 People, though they had for feven Years been un- 
 der the Miniftry of a worthy good Man, Mr. De- 
 lank., who on his Death-bed heartily lamented the 
 little Succefs he had met with amongft them. Mr. 
 Stephenfon therefore took a great deal of Pains 
 with them, in preaching and catechizing their young 
 Ones in publick, and others in private, and other 
 minifterial Services. And the Parifli being great 
 (for it is an Hundred of its felf, containing nine 
 Tithings) he was the more afliduous in his -Endea- 
 vours to fpread Knowledge and Piety amongft 
 them : And his Labours were fufficiently rewarded 
 by their Scccefs. After the Death of his Son, who 
 was a Phyfician, he pradtis'd in that Faculty himfelf, 
 and met w'uh good Encouragement. This Vicaridge 
 (with an Augmentation allow'd him of 50 I per An.} 
 was worth him about an TOO/ a Year ; but he 
 was ejected by the Acl of Vniforniity, and remo- 
 ved to an Eftate he had in the' Parifli. But though 
 he was (ilenc'd in Pub/ick, yet he continu'd the Ex- 
 ercife of his Miniftry in private, both before and 
 after the Oxford Act. This laft A6t obliging him to 
 leave Martcck, he remov'd to Crootyorn which is 
 five Miles diftant from it. There he preacrTd in 
 his own hired Hqufe, and continu'd fo doing, though 
 he met with many Enemies, and fome that threaten- 
 ed to burn his Houfe down. When he had been 
 two Years abfent, he return'd to Martcck., and 
 preach'd there in a licenc'd Houfe, upon the com- 
 ing out of King Charles's Indulgence j not having 
 above 8 / a Year allow'd him by his People. At 
 length together with fome other Minifters, he was 
 convicted of a Conventicle, and that upon the In- 
 formation of two Women of ill Fame. The Sum 
 
 to
 
 in. the County of SOMERSET. 761 
 
 to be levied upon him, was 40 / : But fuch Pro- 
 cautions were taken, that the Lots prov'dnot fo great 
 to him, as was expected. The Lord of his Eftaoe, 
 once put him to an Expence of 30 /, upon a De- 
 fect, in his Leafe, which he defign'd as a Piece of 
 Revenge upon him, for his entertaining worthy Mr. 
 Hickjuan, againft whom that Gentleman had a par- 
 ticular Averfion. Mr. Stephen fen was aware of this 
 when he receiv'd Mr. Hiclynan, but the Refped: 
 he ow'd to a Minifter, and fo worthy a Man, out- 
 weigh'd. This Mr. Hickman was his Neighbour ; and 
 fo aifo was Mr. William Coveper (who had been Chap- 
 lain to King George's Grandmother) who had an 
 Eftate in the Parifh. Mr. Stepbenfon and Mr. Cowper, 
 were once hVd on for Overfeers of the Poor: But 
 giving Proof that they were epifcopally ordain'd, 
 they got off. Being much us'd as a Phyfician, he 
 was often in the Company of neighbouring Gen- 
 tlemen, and they carried it very refpecHully to him. 
 He alfo kept a good Underftanding with feveral 
 of the conforming Clergy, whom he ofren enter- 
 tain'd at his Houfe. Sir G. Homer made him an 
 Offer of what was much more confiderable than 
 what he had left in the Church, if he would con- 
 form ; but he could not fatisfy his Confcience. 
 He was one of great Integrity: and would often 
 fay that his Heart fliould not reproach him, as 
 long as he liv'd. And though he met with a Va- ' 
 rietyof Difficulties, and' many Times found Things 
 ftormy without, yen he ftill kept a ferene and 
 even Mind, and a Confcience void of Offence with- 
 in, and was often remarkably own'd by Provi- 
 dence. He was once under great Concern, abont'a 
 Child he was to baptize in the Church, when *. 
 Number of the King's Soldiers were prefent, who 
 threatened to infult him, if he did not ufe the Sign 
 of the Crofs. Though he was fully determin'd not 
 to ufe ir, but to go on in his common Method, 
 yet he thought it a favourable Providence, that be- 
 fore he proceeded to that Ordinance, the Drums 
 were beat on a fudden, and the Soldiers drawn 
 out of the Church. And it is obfervable, that not- 
 whhftanding his many \Vandrings and Lolfcs (which 
 
 were
 
 762 The Ejected or Silenced Mitiifters, &c. 
 
 were not inconfiderable) yet what remain'd was fo 
 blefsM and increas'd, that he was able to keep a 
 plentiful Houfe, (to which he was indin'd, being 
 given to Hofpitality) and to be kind to others, and 
 yet provide well for his own, after all. He con- 
 tinu'd his preaching, after King Charles's Indulgence 
 was withdrawn. And though he liv'd to a good old- 
 Age, (being above fonrfcore when he died) yet he 
 was not fo fenlible of the Infirmities of old- Age 
 as many others. He could read a fmall Print with- 
 out Spectacles, his Mind was vigorous, and his 
 Strength fo little abated, that he often rode to Lon- 
 don in two Days, though it was above an hundred 
 Miles diftant. The Sicknefs which ended in his 
 Death, began in a Cold which he caught, by be- 
 ing uncover'd in the Prefence of fome Gentlemen, 
 which turning to an Afthma, he was foon apprehen- 
 five that he fhould not recover ; but appear'd lub- 
 miflive and eafy in his leaving the World. The laft 
 Difturbance that his Enemies gave him, was upon 
 his Death-bed : When upon the Overthrow of the 
 Duke of Monmouth, a neighbouring Juftice came 
 with fome Soldiers to feize him 5 but coming into 
 his Chamber, and feeing him in a very weak Con- 
 dition, he left him, after upbraiding him with the 
 Rebellion. And it muft be own'd that fome of his 
 Family were concern'd in that unhappy Bufinefs : 
 But it was without his Knowledge or Approbation. 
 And though after that overthrow, the Affairs of the 
 Publick had a very melancholy Afpect, yet he often 
 exprefs'd his Belief, that they that furviv'd him would 
 fee happy Days. He died July 15, 1685. He was 
 of a middle Stature, a frelh Complexion, aud a 
 chearful even Temper. 
 
 Pag. 6 ir. Langfort: Mr. JOHN BUSH. The 
 following Account of him, I hibftitute in the Room 
 of that already given, as being more compleat. 
 
 He was born at Gillm^^im in Dorfetfhire, and 
 having been bred up to Grammar Learning under 
 .Dr. Frampton afterwards Bifhop of Gloucefter, was 
 lent to the Univerfity of Oxford, and plac'd under 
 Dr. Tully., in ^V-Colleee.. After be had contitv>
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 
 
 ed there feme time, he gave fo fair a Profpect, 
 that his Tutor did him the Favour to provide for 
 him the Conveniences that were requifite to hi* 
 Continuance there, which his Father by Reafonof 
 a fecond Marriage, and Irtiie by i% was not fo able to 
 afford him. Having finiflj'd the ufual Courfe of his 
 Philofophical Studies, and fpenr fome time in the 
 Study of Divinity ; he was fent by his Tutor to 
 ferve him as his Curate. And as he always gratefully 
 confefs'd his Obligation to him, fo at that Time he 
 very chearfully endeavour'd to make him juft Re- 
 turns for it. But after he had ferv'd him fo long 
 as to have repaid what he had expended up- 
 on him, he was recommended to Colonel Strode, 
 who firft brought him into this County, and kept 
 him for fome confiderable Time in his own Fami- 
 ly, which Mr. Bu/h often us'd to commend as the 
 moft regular of any he had feen. And here it was 
 he had the Leifure as well as the Inclination, to 
 purfue thofe ferious Studies very clofely, which af- 
 terwards made him ufeful and Eminent. 
 
 He was after this made Vicar of Huijh with Lang- 
 fort, in which Character he had not officiated above 
 three or four Years, before he was difpoflefs'd by 
 the Aft of Uniformity. But during that Time, hav- 
 ing chang'd his fingle for a married State, and be- 
 ing careful to make the faireft Provifion he could 
 for a growing Family, he endeavoured to do his 
 Part towards it, for fome Years, by teaching a Gram- 
 mar School, while his Wife (being a Mercers Daugh- 
 ter in that Town) applied herielf to the Bufinefs 
 fhe had been us'd to, under her Father : And By 
 a Blefling on their Diligence and Frugality, he was 
 enabled to make a plentiful Diftribution to his Chil- 
 dren, which he cheai fully did, as foon as they were 
 capable of Employs, referving to himfelf only a 
 little to keep him handfomely while he liv'd. 
 
 He frequently preach'd in the Neighbourhood, 
 whenever Opportunity invited him. But at a Time 
 that Information was made of a Conventicle ac 
 Captain B~s, though he was feen to go inro the 
 Houfe, and had defign'd it, yet he did not preach, 
 but another Perfon that came in accidentally : And 
 
 ycc
 
 764 The Ejetfed or Siknc'd Miniflers^ &c. 
 
 yet a confiderable Sum of Money was forc'd to be 
 paid for it. After the Revolution he preach'd,generally 
 in the Town, and had a peculiar Faculty of {peaking 
 to the meaneft of his Auditory, without making him- 
 felf contemptible to any : Though perhaps he law of 
 the Succefs of his Labours, in the Place were he 
 continu'd fo long, lefs than any Man of the like 
 Abilities befides himfelf elfe where. 
 
 Some time before his Death, he was disabled in 
 a great Meafure, by a Difeafe, for the Service of 
 the Publick, and retir'd to a Relation's, by his fecond 
 Match, and there endeavoured to make himfelf ufe- 
 ful, by a Plea.fure he took in inftru&ing their nume- 
 rous little Family, in the very firft Parts of Chil- 
 dren's Learning. 
 
 'His Piety was exemplary, and he gave continual 
 Teftimony of it: And in the laft Part of his Life 
 made the Seafons of his Devotion return upon him- 
 felf fafter, as he drew nearer the Grave, and had 
 left publick Work. He had excellent minifterial 
 Abilities, of which he has left the Pubiick a Speci- 
 men, in an Affoclntion Sermon preach'd at Exefcr, 
 and an Ordination Sermon preach'd at Rridgwntcr. 
 His ConVerfation was fo kind, prudent, and ufe- 
 ful, as made it deiir'd by Perfons of the beft 
 Fafhion in his Neighbourhood. He had all the good 
 Humour that could be wifh'd, and was the moft 
 tender of his Friends good Name : Being flow to 
 Credit, and yet flower to Report ill of him. This 
 excellent Virtue he has confefs'd, was learnt him, 
 in a great Meafure by a Slander that was caft up- 
 on him, and afterwards acknowledged to have been 
 only defign'd to do him a prefent Damage. He 
 was the moft faithful Friend, and moft defirable 
 Enemy, (if the ufe of that Word may be allow'd of) 
 that a Man could well have. There happen'd a 
 fmall Difference between a Gentleman and him, 
 which however hinder'd not their mutual Refpeci 
 for each other : And yet once it wcis obferv'd that 
 he was not fo free as ufual, in a Company where 
 that Gentleman was ; and there be : ng an Occafion 
 of considering again fome Matters then talk'd or", 
 than imagined Shynefs of fpeaking before the Gen- 
 tleman,
 
 in the County of SOMERSET. 
 
 tleman, was by a Friend mentioned to Mr. Bufh : 
 And he reply 'd, GOD knows my Heart, I am not 
 angry with him, though we had a little Quarrel : 
 And it foon appeared to be the Effect of his Diftem- 
 per, which was the Palfie in the Tongue, and was 
 loon after obferv'd to encreafe faft upon him, and 
 foon fpoii'd his Converfation, and hinder"d his fpeak- 
 ing. 
 
 But long e'er this, he had attain'd fuch a gene- 
 ral Maftery of his Paflions, that he was hardly aver 
 feen tranfported with Anger, Sorrow, or Joy : And 
 he was a Man of great Temper and Judgment, and 
 a very good Scholar : Yet fo modeft, and fo favou- 
 rable to other Mens Underftandings, that he would 
 feldomer than could have been wifh'd adviie or 
 reprove : But he certainly underftood Men fo well, 
 as to know when and how to do both moft inoflfen- 
 fively. 
 
 He died March 9, 1711, near fourfcore Years 
 old. 
 
 ,t]:--{n.. ;,j i t :; ? wli xorjisr'v r I'^irr 
 
 PAg. 6 1 1. Hicham : Mr. RANDAL. It fhonld 
 be Mr. MATTHEW RANDAL, for I find than 
 is his Name in the Subfcription to the Atteftation 
 of the Minifters of this^County in 1648. Dr. Walker 
 fays he paid no Fifths, Pare II. p. 189. Perhaps 
 Mr. Kjngmnn did not need them. 
 
 Ibid. Hcthficld : Mr. THOMAS WILLIS. He 
 was the Son of Mr. John Willis, who was Minifter 
 of Pinnor in the Reigns of King James and King 
 Charles I. After his Ejedtraent from Hethfield he 
 remov'd with his Family to Stoke, and afterward 
 to Pitney in this County, in both which Places he 
 preach'd as he had Opportunity, in his own Houfe, 
 to any of his Neighbours who would come to hear 
 him ; and had much Civility and Kindnefs from 
 fome of the Gentry in thofe Parts, who were favou- 
 rable to the Nonconformifts : And had it not been 
 for this, it .would have been very difficult for him 
 to have bred up his Family. For intending after 
 he was ejected, to employ what Money he had in 
 Ca'.tle, he loft a good Part of it in the firft Sheep 
 
 which
 
 766 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 which he bought, which moft of them died. He 
 liv'd twenty Years after he was (ilenc'd, ftill preach- 
 ing either publickly or privately. But in 1682 he 
 was grievoufly afflicted with Pains in his Breaft, 
 which no Means that could be us'd were fufficient 
 to remove; and they, carried him off at the Age 
 of fifty-three. He was interr'd in Pitney Chapel, 
 the Incumbent there having a great Refpedl for 
 trim : But his Funeral Sermon was preach'd in pri- 
 .vate, by one of his lilenc'd Brethren. 
 
 Pag. 6 1 1. Puddimorc: Mr. WYAT. His Name 
 was JOSIAH WYAT, and fo I find him written 
 in the Attention of the Minifters of this County in 
 1641. This was alfo a fequeftred Living : Dr. 
 Walkers Att. Part II. p. 289. And it is complain'd 
 as before, that Mr. Kemf the fequeftred Minifter 
 could get no Fifths of Mr. Wyat. Perhaps he had 
 no Right to them, becaufe of his Circumftances. It 
 is hard to know what to fay to fuch Complaints, or 
 judge whether they are juft or unjuft, at this Di- 
 ftance of Time. 
 
 Pag. 612. Camley : Mr. RICHARD BATCH E- 
 LOUR. I find him thus, in the Subfcription to the 
 Atteftation of the Minifters of this County ; Richard 
 Batchelaur, Minifter of Camcley. 
 
 Ibid. Staple : Mr. B o o B i E R. He ftiould be 
 omitted, becaufe of what is faid, fag. 624, that he 
 conform'd in Devon/hire. 
 
 Ibid. Trent : Mr. BROUNKER^ This was the 
 fequeftred Living of Dr. Wrench, who was reftor'd ro 
 it with his Majefty. Dr. Walkers Att. Part II. p. u i, 
 112. The Doclor in another Place, />. 405, fays, 
 that one Mr. Barker got this Living in 1657. 
 
 Pag. 613. Wbitftanton : Mr. RICHARD SMITH.' 
 
 At the End of the Account of him, add ; See Confor- 
 mifts fourth Plea for the Nonconformist, p. 49.
 
 in the Comity of SOMERSET. 767^ 
 
 Pag. 613. Buckland : Mr. S TOD DEN. His 
 Name was SAMUEL S TOD DON. He was a la- 
 borious and exadt Preacher. His Funeral Sermon 
 was preach'd by Mr. Walrond of Ottery St Mary. 
 An Intimation is given by Mr. James Peirce in his 
 Weftern Inquisition, p. 44, that this Mr. Stoddon al- 
 tered his vSendmenrs as to the Do&rinal Scheme of 
 Chriftianity, in the latter Parn of his Life. But he 
 is vindicated in this Refpeft, in the Anfcver to Mr. 
 PeirceV Weftern Inquifition, p. 36, 37, 38. 
 
 Pag. 614. Curry Mallet : Mr. JOHN BAKER. 
 He was a Sublcriber to the Atteftr.tion of the Mini- 
 fters in this County in 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Cbarlccmb : Mr. ROBERT PINNEY. Well be- 
 lov'd by his Parifhioners while in his Living. He con- 
 tinu'd a Preacher among the Nonconformifts, till 
 Sickneis and Death put an End to his Days, which 
 was about the Year 1698. He was often under 
 Trouble in King Charles's Reign, and forc'd to leave 
 his Family for a confiderable Time. 
 
 Pag. 615. I'm. 4 to over againft, add his, 
 
 Ibid. Froome : Mr. JOHN HUMPHREY, M. A. 
 At the End of what is faid concerning him, let it be 
 added, that therois an Account of him and his Works, 
 given in the laft Edition of Wood's Athen* Oxonienfes, 
 Vol. II. p. 1107. 
 
 Pag. 623. Mr. THOMAS SNEAD. Dr. Walker, fays 
 he was an Army Trumpeter, Att. Part II. p. 74. Which 
 I can fay nothing to : But I find his Name to the At- 
 taxation from the Minifters in this County, in 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. WILLIS, Junior. I do not know buc 
 he may be the fame Perfon as is mention'd before, 
 fag. 6 1 1. And I may here add, that I am inform'd 
 that Mr. Henry Parfons was ejected from Burftocl^ , a 
 Parifli in this County, and was a very warm and 
 zealous Managainftthe Hierarchy, Common Prayer, 
 and Ceremonies ^ and died very old, ac Stokf un- 
 drbam, in Aug. 1717. 
 
 VOL. II. N
 
 768 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Pag. 613. Mr. GEOH.GE LONG. Note, *I am cer- 
 tainly inform'd, that Mr. Long of ~Bnth, and he of 
 Staffordfolre, were two different Perions. The former 
 died ac Bath foon afrer his being ejected and 
 filenc'd there ; whereas the latter died more lately. 
 
 Pag. 624. Mr. Bo OB IE R. See prig. 
 
 The EJECTED, fcfc . 
 
 IN THE 
 
 County of STAFFORD. 
 
 Pag. 614. yiPTON: Mr. RICHARD HINKS. 
 * Add; Before the Reftoration, he 
 not a little offended his neighbouring. Minifters, and 
 fome good People too, by his rigorous Notions, and 
 his affifting in railing Soldiers for Lambert againft 
 Mow^.: And he was allb fo unhappy as to buy an 
 Eftate that was Col. Dudleys, when he abfconded for 
 his Service to the King, which he purchas'd of Stran- 
 gers, who produc'd a Writing fo very like the Colo- 
 nel's Hand, that there was not the leaft Sufpicion of 
 a Fraud. The Colonel returning wkh the King, de- 
 nying that the Writing that had been produc'd was 
 under his Hand, had his Eftate again : And poor 
 Mr. Hin^s by raifing Money for his Purchafe, had fo 
 caft himlelf in Debt, that when he was ejeded, he 
 was utterly infolvent. He had a Wife and many 
 Children; but GOD provided for him. His Suc- 
 ceffor Mr. John Taylor fuffer'd him to dwell in the 
 Parfonage-houfe upon eafy Terms, .tho' he preach'd 
 there in die Time of Publick Service. He was af- 
 terwards impriibtiM for his Preaching. And tho' be- 
 fore the Change of the Times, he was warm and 
 hot, yet he then- became very cool and moderate ; 
 and after Mr. Taylor's Death, leaving Tip ton, he liv'd 
 
 in
 
 in the County of S T A F F O R D. 769 
 
 in and near Old Swinford or Stourbridge, ami died in 
 ereat Amity with Chriftians of various Denomina- 
 tions. 
 
 Pag. 614. Wolverhampton : Mr. JOHN REYNOLDS.' 
 dd; He was ejected from hence in 1661, and af- 
 terwards preach'd in feveral Parifh Churches, until 
 Augufl 1661, when- he was brought to live in Pare 
 of his Patrimony in Kjngs Norton- Parifti. Then he 
 fettled at Stourbridge, and preach'd in his own 
 Houfe, and many other Places freely. He practis'd 
 Phyfick, and took the Degree of Med. Dott, and re- 
 moved to London in Augufl 1683, and died there 
 the December following. He was a Man of a great 
 Genius ; eminent for his Skill in Divinity, Phyfick, 
 and Law, and other Parts of Knowledge. He was 
 liberal and free in doing Good in every Capacity^ 
 to all Perfons that came within his Reach. He was 
 folid, quick and judicious in handling controverfial 
 Matters, very ready in refolving Doubts and Scru- 
 pies of Confcier.ce, well read in the Fathers, exact: 
 in confuting the Popifli and other Errors ; catho- 
 lick, moderate and peaceable in Principle, pleafanc 
 and facetious, and yet grave and 'folid in Conver- 
 fation. He was full in Prayer, admirable in Preach- 
 ing, and unwearied in acting for GOD, and doing 
 Good, as he had Opportunity ; and that with his 
 Gifts, and Parts, and Eftate, (which was about 150 1 
 per An,} befides what came from noble and rich Pa- 
 ticnrs, that made ufe of him as a Phyfician. He 
 was frugal to avoid Wafte of Time or any Thing 
 elfe, temperate in all Things, a great Mafter of his 
 Paflions of every Sort, and regular tho' free in his 
 Difcourfe, and very exact in timeing his Affairs and 
 Actions. In fhort, he was a fingular Man. 
 
 When Endeavours were on Foot for a Comprehen- 
 Jion and Indulgence, he was written to for his Judg- 
 ment, not only by Mr. Baxter, but alfo by feveral 
 Members of Parliament, and other greater Perfons : 
 He carneftly mov'd for a good and folid Bafis of 
 Liberty, tho' in vain. He wrore and printed an 
 Anfwer to Mr. Humphreys, about fie- ordination, put- 
 ting the Leuers for his Name thus ; R. I. He a!fo 
 N % publiftrd
 
 7 70 The Ejected or SiknCdMinifters^ cVc. 
 
 publifh'd his Latin Orarion at his taking the Degree 
 of M. D, and dedicated it to Edward Lord Weird, ; 
 tho' otherwife he was averfe to the being an Author. 
 He left behind him fome Manufcripts both in Phy- 
 fick and Divinity. He did much Good in his Pub- 
 lick Miniftry, and much more in his twenty-two 
 Years Country Service, after he left Wohcrhamp- 
 ton. Mr. John 1$eynclds who lately exercis'd his Mi- 
 niftry among the Diflenters at Shrewsbury is his Son. 
 
 Pag. 614. Weford: Mr. RICHARD CHANTRYE. 
 He was of St Johns College in Cambridge. He and 
 Mr. Samuel Shaw were dear and intimate Friends. 
 They were born in the fame Town, educated at the 
 fame Free School, and afterwards in the fame Cham- 
 ber, of the fame College and Univerfity : And after 
 that, they for the moft Part liv'd in near Neigh- 
 bourhood. At Mr. Chantryes firft Settlement, he 
 and his Miniftry were much favourd and encoura- 
 ged by the pious and judicious John Swynfcn, Efq; 
 with whom he often took fweet Counfei ; and they 
 edified one another. After he was driven from 
 thence by the Severity of the Laws, he rented a mean 
 Houfe, in a mean Corner of Derby/hire, near the 
 Place of his Nativity : And while he manag'd his 
 little Farm, he took hold of all Opportunities of 
 Preaching, and in profecuting his Work encounter'd 
 with many Dangers and Hardfhips of divers Kinds, 
 which he, bore manfully, like Jacob, who in feeding 
 Laban's Flock endurd Drought by Day, and Fnft by 
 Night, and Sleep departed from his Eyes: Though it 
 can hardly be (aid that his Wages were changd as ofc 
 as Jacob's ; for Mr. Chantrye had many times none 
 at all. He was like the zealous and courageous 
 Builders of the Walls of Jerufalcm who with one 
 Hand wrought in the Work*, and. with the ether, held 
 A Weapon: For he would go in the Twilight, to 
 efcape the Informers, with a Bible in his Pocket, 
 and a Fork on his Shoulder. Having by h's Forti- 
 tude overcome great Oppoficion, in more let- 
 tied Times he preach'd as long as he could 
 ftand, and longer too ; being at lad drawn in 
 a Chair, out of his Parlor into a larger Room, for 
 
 the
 
 /* the County of STAFFORD. 771 
 
 the greater Convenience of the Aflembly. Nor did 
 he take lefs Pains with himfelf" than with his Peo- 
 ple ; cultivating his own Soul continually with pious 
 Meditations, and the Exercife of Grace. He 
 kept his own Vineyard as carefully as that of 
 which he was made Keeper. He was orter'd Pre- 
 ferments to have conformed, but refus'd them. He 
 was a Man of much Candour, Lenity, and Humili- 
 ty. No worthy Man was more apt to acknowledge 
 his own Unworthinefs. His great Zeal in his Ma- 
 fter's Work, and for the Converfion of Souls, turn'd 
 all to rhis Comp'ainr in his Sicknefs ; Alas hove little 
 have 1 done for my deareft Lord ! To all that vifited 
 him, he generally recommended, a fiducial Affiance 
 in CHRIST, and Sincerity of the inward Man. 
 He was greatly fupported under his laft finking Pains 
 and Grievances, enduring them with an admirable 
 holy Patience. He died on a Sabbath Day in the 
 Forenoon, and faid not long before his Departure, 
 The Sabbath is begun ; I hope I may this Day begin my 
 Eternal Sabbath. 
 
 Mr. Shaw (his (b early Acquaintance) remarks one 
 Thing farther, to the Honour of Divine Grace ; t>i%. 
 that he knew not any Man lefs ueholden to external 
 Advairages than Mr. Chantrye, either domeftical, 
 fcholaftical, or academical. 
 
 He has left a Son. in the Miniftry among the Di 
 fencers, who has for many Years been fpending his 
 Pains among a imall Congregation, at Staines, in 
 Middlcfex. 
 
 Pag. 615. Wedgcluvy : Mr. WILLIAM FINCHEIU 
 After his Ejectment he preachM frequently at Guar- 
 nal, in Scdgely Parifli, in this County, and in divers 
 other Places as he had Opportunity. He was a fo 
 lid, clofe, and awakening Pieacher. He was youn- 
 ger Brother to Mr. Richard Fincher, that was ejected 
 at HSorccfter, and died here at London. He was 
 born at Shell, within five or fix Miles of Worcefter. 
 Both he and his Brother had a liberal Education ; 
 and there was a third Brother that was a conform- 
 ing Minifter, 
 
 After his Ejectment, he retir'd towards the Place 
 M of
 
 772 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 of his Nativity ; and often preach'd in the rrouble- 
 ib'me Times at old Mr. Mcnccs near IVorceftcr, who 
 had married his Sifter, and who had two Sons of 
 his own, whom he bred at the Univerfity. This 
 Mr. Fincher was an heavenly good Man, and of a. 
 moft fweet Temper ; very humble, and never feen 
 in a Paflion. 
 
 Pag. 615 . T^ln'ver : Mr. RICHARD MORTON. 
 Add,"M. D ; for he was Fellow of the College of 
 Phyficians.^ He wrote a Treatife of Consumptions, 
 that is reckon'd the beft extant, upon that Subject : 
 And Pyretologia, feu Exercltationcs dc Morbis univer- 
 falibw acutis ; & de Febribus infl animator Us . 2 Vol. 
 8vo, 
 
 There is Tome Account of this Gentleman, in the 
 laft Edition of Wood's Athena Oxonicnfes, Vol. II. 
 p. 990. 
 
 Ibid. Rowley: Mr. JOSEPH ROCK. It fhould 
 have been Jo s i A H, for that I am inform 'd was his 
 proper Name. He was firft Minifter at f\Jngs Swin- 
 ford, then Preacher at Rowley Regis, and afterwards 
 fix'd at Saunby in Nottingham/hire, where he was 
 eiecled, and where he is memion'd in my Second 
 Volume, fag. 516, and again rrrenticn'd in this Fourth 
 Yolume, fag. 690. He ought to be omitted here. 
 
 Pag. 616. Rowcly: Mr. WILLIAM TURTON, 
 M. A* Add ; When he had in Appearance brought 
 himfelf to the very Grave, by hard Study and La- 
 bour in his publick minifteriai Work, his Ejectment 
 gave him fome Eafe, and was a Means of his reco- 
 ver'mg his Health and Strength. Afterwards he 
 preach'd frequently in Churches and Chape's as he 
 had Opportunity ; bur chiefly in private Houles : 
 And at length became Paftor in one cf the Diflent- 
 ing Congregations at Birmingham, where he died in 
 the Year 17 16. He has a Son in the Miniftry among 
 the Diflenters at KJllingworth. 
 
 Ibid. Swinerton : Mr. JOSEPH SOUND E. He 
 k a Subscriber to the'Tefliniony of the Minifters in 
 
 the
 
 in the County of STAFFORD. 773 
 
 the County of Stafford to the Truth of J E s u s, G?c*- 
 agaiuft the Errors of the Times, in 1648. 
 
 Pag. 626. Walfal : Mr. B u R D A r , M. A. Ic 
 fhouid be, Mr. THOMAS BYR.DAL, M. A. Add ; 
 He died a very little before the Aft of Vniformity 
 took Place. But he had fo far declar'd- his Mind, 
 that he might well be number'd with the filenc'd Mi- 
 nifterf. After his Death there were feveral Ser- 
 mons of his printed ; vi%. The Profit of Godlinefs, in 
 five Sermons : The "Unprofitableness of worldly Gain, 
 in four Sermons : The Parable of the Barren Fig- 
 tree, in feven Sermons : And Viftoricw Violence, in 
 two Sermons : And a Glimpfe of God, or a Treatife 
 proving that there is a God, 8vo. 1665. 
 
 Ibid. Womborn: Mr. W i L s L E Y : It fhould be 
 Mr. THOMAS WILSBY. Add; While he was 
 in his Living, he fee up a Lecture every other Tuef- 
 day for his neighbouring Minifters to preach in his 
 Church, that the People might have the Benefit of 
 their Aiizftance, befidcs his own conftant Labour 
 in publick, and from Houfe to Houfe. After he 
 was forc'd from his beloved People, he fent them 
 many excellent Letters relating to their Soul Con- 
 cerns, and plain and indifpurable Duties. He liv'd 
 either at or near Birmingham, and had fome Trou- 
 ble for preaching in thofe Pans. Then he remov'd 
 to Old Svoynford, and pieach'd in his own Houfe, 
 near the Church, berween the Times of publick 
 Service ; and from thence led his Hearers to the 
 Church, in which he fometimes join'd in the Sa- 
 crament of the Eucharift, as well as other Services. 
 He was of a catholick Spirit, and by Preaching, 
 Practice, and Conference, ftirr'd up others to Mo- 
 deration, holy Walking, Helavenly-mindednefs, and 
 the Practice of Piety. He was fometimes a little 
 melancholy; bur liv'd by Faith to a good old-Age, 
 and when he died was very generally lamented. 
 
 Pa%. 617. lin. 8. between own and ///<?, add, 
 hired. 
 
 N 4
 
 7 74 Th e Ejeffed or Silenced Mintfters, 
 
 Pag. 617. Litchfield; St Marys: Mr. 
 BUTLER. Add, M. .4. Dr. Walker in his ytftt. 
 Part II. p. 199, reprefents a Difagreemem with this 
 Gentleman, (Mr. Butler) as the chief Occafion of 
 the Perfecution and Sequeftration of Mr. William 
 Ltmglcy his Copartner in the Miniftry in this Parifh, 
 who (it fhould feem) difcover'd Mr. Sutler not to 
 be in Orders : And adds in the Margin, that poffi- 
 bly he had been thruft in upon Mr. Langley, which 
 was no uncommon Thing in thofe Times. Where- 
 as I have been informed, that Mr. Butler, (who was 
 born at Oddington in the County of Gloucejler) was 
 educated at Edmund-Hall in Oxon, and there took 
 his Degrees, and fb was not very likely not to be 
 in Orders, at the Time of his Settlement in Litch- 
 field. And this Mr. Langley I have been told, was 
 not his Predeceflfor there, but Mr. Harrifon. This 
 Mr. Harrifon, the former Incumbent, had the Living 
 of Btffand or Blijland in the fame County, as well 
 as this Living at Litchfield, and had his Choice gi- 
 ven him which of the two he would keep, and pre- 
 ferred the former, which he kept all along till 
 King Charles's Reftoration, and then had this of St 
 Mrtr/s alfo again. But as for Mr. Langley, he came 
 not to Litchfield, till afrer Mr. Butler was fettled 
 there : And if fo, it was not pcjfible for him to be 
 thruft In upon Mr. Langley there, how common foever 
 this was in thofe Times. As for Mr. Butler, he rare- 
 ly preach'd afrer his being filenc'd, unlefs fometimes 
 in his own Houfe. A Gentleman in Litchfield who 
 was in good Circumftances, was very kind to him and 
 his Family. He was pleas'd to fet up one of his Sons in 
 a Trade, and fend another of them to the Univer- 
 fity, where he was at the Charge of his Education ; 
 and when he died he left him j 2 / a Year, tho' he 
 was no Relation. Mr. Butler died about the Year 
 1670; about the fiftieth Year of his Age. He was 
 an holy good Man. Dr. Lilly Butler, of Alderman- 
 bury was his Son : And He being applied to by a 
 Friend of mine, with a Requeft that he might be 
 favour'd by the Doctor with a true Account of his 
 Father, the Doctor no: only declared Dr. Walkfr 1 * 
 
 Account
 
 in the County of STAFFORD. 775 
 
 Account falfe, but referring particularly to it, us'd 
 this ExpreiTion ; See the Ejfefts of Bigotry ! At Dr. 
 Butlers Morion, my Friend wrote to a worthy Pcr- 
 fon an Inhabitant of Litcbficld, about the Matter, 
 and receiv'd this Aufwcr. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 " YT7" HE N I firft came to live in Litchfield, which 
 " was in May 1655, Mr. Butler was the fole 
 
 * fertled Minifter of St Marys, (a pious good Man) 
 ' and fo continued peaceably, well beloved, and 
 ' highly approved of by the Generality of the Peo- 
 ' untill after the Reftoration; when he was ejec- 
 
 * ted by Mr. Harrlfon, who then was Minifter of 
 ' a Place commonly calPd Blltchfield, in Stafford- 
 1 jhire, which he afterwards enjoy'd with St Ma- 
 1 ry's and other Dignities. 
 
 " As to Mr. Langley, I never knew him nor his 
 
 " Book. I have heard that before my Time, he 
 
 " preach'd at St Marys, and Mr. Butler at St Chad's 
 
 " alias Stow Church in the City : And when Mr. 
 
 " Langley was remov'd from St Mary's, Mr. Butler 
 
 " became Minifter thereof. The Occafion of Mr. 
 
 '* Langlfys Removal, I know nothing of. 
 
 Tours, Sec, 
 
 Pag. 618. Burton upon Trent: Mr. THOMAS 
 BAKEWELL. Add, he was ejected from the Rec- 
 tory of tyllefton in this County (valu'd at no/ per 
 An.) in 1661 : And yet I cannot find that Dr. tVal- 
 kfr has mention'd it as a Sequeftration. But in 
 1661 he was ejected from a Weekly Lecture at 
 this Town of Burton, the Stipend for which, (which 
 was 30 / per Annum) was paid by the Company of 
 Clothworkfrt in London. Being filenc'd, he rented 
 an Houfe in the fame Parifh, where he preach'd af- 
 ter Bartholomew Day. In about half a Year's Time, 
 he was cited before Bifhop Hackft ; and upon his 
 appearing, it was charg'd upon him as a Thing high- 
 ly
 
 7 1 6 The Ejetied or Silenced Mmifters, &c. 
 
 ly Criminal, that he fhould preach in his own hired 
 Houfe, and admit others to hear him there. For 
 this (notwithftanding his former Eje&ment) the Bi- 
 Jhop in open Court fufpended him ab Officio, and 
 gave Order to one of the Clerks to (end a Letter 
 of Complaint to the Juftices and Deputy Lieutenants. 
 In a little Time a Warrant was iflfu'd out from the 
 Magiftrates, and fent by the Bifhops Apparitor to the 
 Conftable at Burton extra. He came with the Con- 
 ftable upon the Lord's Day while Mr. Bakfvoell was 
 preaching, to fee the Warrant executed upon him. 
 The Conftable not only took him, but alfo Mr. 
 * see an Thomas Ford * (an ejeded Minifter, who fomedmes 
 'Account of pj-each'd in his own Houfe at iVmfell, but was 
 County of tnen an Auditor at Burton) and carried them be- 
 
 fore Sir Edward B , who prefently told them that 
 
 they muft either be bound to their good Behaviour, 
 or go to Prilon. Mr. Bagwell deuYd to know, 
 whether preaching in his own Houfe would be rec- 
 kon'd a Breach of good Behaviour. The Juftice 
 anfwer'd thar it was. Whereupon Mr. Bakevpell re- 
 ' plied, he would give no Bond to tie himtelf from 
 preaching ; and Mr. Ford concurred with him, and 
 they were both fent to the Jail, where they were 
 decain'd ten Weeks, before the firft Adi pafs'd a- 
 gainft Conventicles ; and were then releas'd, with- 
 out having any Thing impos'd upon them. Return- 
 ing home, he was not difcourag'd, but held on 
 Preaching. When the Oxford Aft came out, Mr. 
 Bakevoell was forc'd to leave his Family, Wife, and 
 Children, and go into a defart Place fix Miles from 
 his Habitation, where he continu'd for feveral Months 
 to fpend his Pains, among a poor People who were 
 glad to have the Gofpel preach'd to them : But 
 he was forc'd all the while to live at his own 
 Charge, and at the fame Time maintain his Fami- 
 ly frorrf which he was feparated, out of that little 
 wherewith GOD had bleffed him. At length he 
 return'd home, and continu'd Preaching in Burton, 
 till the Publifhing of the King's Declaration for Li- 
 berty, in 1671. Then he was earneftly defir'd to 
 go to London, to preach to a People who had been 
 great Sufferers, leaving Mr. Ford to preach at Bur-
 
 in the Count} of STAFFORD. 777 
 
 ton. There he connnu'd in Peace as long as the 
 Indulgence lafted. But afterwards, Warrants were 
 fern to the Conftabies, to iearch the Houfes where 
 the People us'd to meet ; and thereupon they met 
 in Lanes, and Common Grounds, and Woods, that 
 they might worfliip GOD without Moleftadon. But 
 the Informers in a little Time follow'd them thither, 
 and executed upon them the Act againft Conven- 
 ticles: And he and his People fufter'd much, and 
 met with great Hardships. And yet he was one 
 that was epifcopally ordairfd. He printed, A Juftt- 
 fication of Infant Baptifm, 1646. 4to. 
 
 _ 
 
 Pag. 619. Sedgelcy: Mr. JOSEPH ECCLESHALI^ 
 Add.; He leic the Uuiverfity about 1654, and preach- 
 ed a Lecture Sermon at Dudly, which fome of . i 
 the People of Ssdgeley heard, and thereupon pre- 
 vail'd with their Vicar Mr. Parkfs, who was old 
 and weak, to call Mr. Eccle/hall to be his Ailifta.nt, 
 which he did foon after : And in a few Years Time, 
 upon the Dcarh of Mr. Parses, he fucceeded him in 
 his Living, with the good Liking of the Pariftiioners. 
 Being fingle, his Father and Mother liv'd with him, 
 and kept Houfe, and receiv'd what of the Dues 
 was willingly brought in, but fued none. He was 
 of a ftrong Constitution, and an obliging facetious 
 p'.eafant Temper, but very ferious. Laying to Heart 
 the Worth of Souls, and the great Number in the 
 Parifli, he was the more unwearied in his Labours 
 to do them good. This Parifli contains nine Vil- 
 la^es in it, and is very populous, by Reafon of the 
 Workers of Lime, and Cole, and Iron. It had been 
 an Heathenifh Place, till Mr. William Pewter's four 
 Years Miniftry there, which was blels'd with the Con- 
 verlion of many : And he being forc'd away, and 
 fucceeded by a weak Vfcar, Prophanenefs and Ig- 
 norance abounded there, at the Time of Mr. Be- 
 defkaWt firft coming among them. Laying therefore 
 all worldly Concerns afide, he fet himfelf to his 
 minifterial Work, with Zeal, Prudence, and Dili- 
 gence, both in publick and private. In Publick he 
 read the Scriptures, and expounded them, and ca- 
 tcchiz'd their Youth, and preach'd and pray'd with 
 
 great
 
 77 8 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 ^^x_ ^_ - - - - --rj - . _ - __ 
 
 great Fervency and Affection. He had a Voice 
 that reach'd to the fartheft Part of the Church, 
 which was generally fill'd, though it was inlarg'd 
 after his coming, by the building of a Gallery, the 
 Timber for which was given by Thomas Foley, Efq. 
 He would alfo expound the Word at their own 
 Houfes, and the Vicaridge too, as Opportunity of- 
 fer'd: And he was frequent alfo in perfonally in- 
 ftru&ing elder Perfons, efpecially before their Ad- 
 miffion to the Sacrament, and he would manage ic 
 in a moft obliging Manner. A great Alteration ap- 
 pear'd, both in the Numeroufnefs of the Congrega- 
 tion, and the Stop put to profane and irreligious 
 Practices which before abounded among them. 
 He preach'd Week-day Lectures in neighbouring 
 Parishes, and fometimes had neighbouring Mini- 
 fters to preach in his Church. He did not bring 
 controverfial Matters into the Pulpit ; but preach- 
 ed and prefs'd plain Scripture Truths, in order to 
 Converfion and San&ification, Salvation and Holi- 
 nefs. He rather chofe to deal with Opinionifts 
 perfonally, and anfwer their Doubts in private, than 
 confute their Notions publickly. When it became 
 neceffary, he ftudied the Terms of Conformity, and 
 preach'd his Farewel Sermon on Aug. 17. 1661, to a 
 large Congregation cover'd with Tears : And on Aug. 
 24, none coming to officiate, he went into the Pew, 
 pray'd and read Scripture, expounded, and preach'd, 
 and came there no more. When he left the Vicaridge, 
 he liv'd about a Mile from the Church, in the fame 
 Parifh, and ordinarily attended the publick Worfhip, 
 except at the Common Prayer and the Sacrament, 
 and gave his old Hearers what perfonal Help he 
 could in private. The fucceeding Vicar for fome 
 Years was hot, and fill'd his Sermons with railing 
 Invectives, which put many of the People upon per- 
 fuading him to preach to them, which he yeilded 
 to, at Times different from the publick Service. The 
 Oxford At forc'd him to fanfare, where he alfo 
 preach'd in private, and went afterwards with his 
 Hearers to the publick Church, to hear Mr. Jonathan 
 Ncwey, a worthy Man, who fucceeded Mr. Morton 
 at KJnfare. He came from the-nce fecretly by Night
 
 in the County of STAFFORD. 779 
 
 to his own People, (not daring to be feen by Day) 
 to do what Service he could, and return'd back 
 again by Night, till the Rigour of the Times aba- 
 ted. Then he appear'd in publick, and continu'd his 
 minifterial Work among his old People, with little 
 Allowance from them, living upon a little Eftate 
 of his own chiefly, with Frugality and Care. There 
 were two Meedngs kept up in the Parifh becaufe 
 of its Largenefs, at two or three Miles Diftance, 
 and Mr. Ecclejhall adminifter'd the Sacrament in 
 both. Here he continu'd his Service feveral Years, 
 till at laft he was fi'.enc'd by Death. His Funeral 
 Sermon was preach'd by Mr. H. On/land, on thofe 
 Words, Tour Fathers where are they, &c. 
 
 Pag. 619. Wittenhall: Mr. THOMAS BADLAND! 
 Add ; His Funeral Sermon was preach'd by Mr. 
 White the conforming Minifter of %iddermlnfter t 
 who gave him a good Character. Mr. Sadland hath 
 as I am inform'd, a Piece in Print concerning Eter- 
 nity ; or the Weighdnefs of the unfeen Concerns of 
 the other World, upon 2 Cor. vi. 18, 8t>0. 1676. 
 
 Ibid. Mavifon Hidwar : Mr. RICHARD SWYN- 
 F E N, M. A ; Having receiv'd from a worthy Gen- 
 tleman an handiome Character of him, I fhall here 
 infert it, as I receiv'd it. 
 
 He was younger Son of John Svoynfcn, Efq ; in 
 this County, and Brother to that truly great and ex- 
 cellent Perfon, the Ornament of his Country, and 
 very ancient Family, the lare John Swynfen of Sveyn- 
 fen, Efq. He was born in the Year 1630, and fenc 
 firft to Tamworth, then to Sutton Coldfield in War- 
 wickshire, and afterwards to the Charter-houfe in Low- 
 don for his Grammar Learning. From which laft 
 School he was fent to Cambridge, about the Year 
 1646, and admitted a Member of Pembroke-Hall in 
 that Univerfity, under the Tuition of Mr. Mofes, then 
 Fellow of that Houfe. After fix or feven Years Stay 
 there, in which Time he took the Degrees of Bat- 
 chelor and Mafter of Arts, he was ordain'd by 
 Claiiis of Presbyters in Derbyjhire, and prefently 
 after calTd to a fmall Donative, viz. Sandiacre, near 
 
 Nottingham.
 
 780 Tbe Eject ed or Silenfd Minifiers^ 8rc. 
 
 Nottingham. After two Years Stay at [this P'ace he 
 was preferr'd to Mnvifon Rjdwar of about 100 / fcr 
 Annum Value : Which Living it is faid he at tirft 
 refund to accept, till he was inform *d that the legal 
 Incumbent was fequeftred, not fo much for his Af- 
 fedlion to the Church and King, as for very great 
 Immoralities. After two Years Enjoyment of this 
 Rectory, he married Elizabeth the Daughter of John 
 Clark, of Moor-hall, Efq; in the County of Warwick,., 
 and had three Children by her at the Time of the 
 Reftoration in the Year 1660, at which Time the 
 A& for Reftoring the old Sequeftred Minifters took 
 Place ; by which Mr. Swynfen became difpoflefs'd, and 
 the former Incumbent rcftorM. In a little Time 
 after this, he made a Journey to London,- partly to 
 fee his old Tutor and fome other Friends, and part- 
 ly to difcourfe with the Learned Men of that Time, 
 upon the Subjects of Conformity and Nonconfor- 
 mity : And having Occafion to wait upon the Lord 
 Chancellor Clarendon, who profefs'd thehigheft Efteem 
 for his elder Brother, he made him the Offer of the 
 beft Preferment he had in his Gift if he "would con- 
 form ; which he acquainting -his Tutor Mofes with, 
 was earneftly difuaded from it by him : And in dif- 
 courfing that Point over with him at feveral Times, 
 Mr. Swynfcn has often rrention'd the Expretfion he 
 madeufeof at their laft parting, vi%. asCt?/drto the 
 Mariners fo fay I to thee dear Svoynfen, Ne timeas ; 
 Chriftum portas, & Fortune Chriftl j which feem'd 
 to make a deeper Imprefifion on him, than any Thing 
 elfe on the contrary Side. 
 
 Upon his Return into the Country, he appear'd 
 more confirmed in his Defign not to conform, than 
 he was before ; and though he was not without fre- 
 quent Offers from the Court, and from feveral of his 
 own Relations and other Friends, of very good Pre- 
 ferment, yet he would never hearken to it after- 
 wards. The Reafons of his Nonconformity he often 
 memion'd to be thefe. 
 
 1. That he had taken the Solemn League and Co- 
 venant, and he could not fafely fwear that there 
 lay no Obligation upon him from it. 
 
 2. That he had been' ciajTically ordain'd, and 
 
 * there
 
 in the County of STAFFORD. 781 
 
 therefore could not fubmlc to any Re-ordination what, 
 ever, becaufe he thought in the Nature of the Thing 
 it implied an Acknowledgment of the Invalidity of 
 his former Orders. 
 
 3. And laftly, he could not give his unfeigned 
 Aflent and Confent to all and every Thing contain- 
 ed and prefcrib'd in and by the Book of Common 
 Prayer. 
 
 He us'd to mention fome other Particulars which 
 he thought juftly exceptionable ; as particularly the 
 Ceremonies : But has often faid that rather than 
 break off Communion with an Eftablifh'd Church, 
 he could have fubmirted to thefe, efpecially in a 
 private Capacity : And therefore having never any 
 fettled particular Congregation of his own, but on- 
 ly what occasionally offer'd in the neighbouring Coun- 
 ties of Stafford/hire, Derbyjhire, Leicefterfhire, and 
 Warwickshire, he was often difengag'd from Preach- 
 ing, and at all fuch Times conftantly went himfelf 
 and took all his Family with him to the Parifh Church 
 where he liv'd, which was Burton under Neeveood in 
 Staffer djhlre ; a Place which he fled to upon a Pro- 
 fecurion he met with on the Five Mile Act ; at which 
 Village he liv'd the greateft Part of his Time, in 
 very good Efteem with all Sorts of People ; being 
 truly an inoffenfir e Man, ready to do good to all, 
 and was never known to be ingag'd in any one per- 
 fonal Difference in his Life. Indeed in the Year 
 1685, he (with other of the Gentlemen of Stafford- 
 fhirc, who were reputed either Whigs or Diflenters) 
 was feiz'd and carried to Chefter Caftle, upon the 
 Duke of Monmoutb''s Invafion ; where he was kept 
 clofe Prifoner, till fuch Time as that Affair end- 
 ed in the fatal Cataftrophe of that unfortunate Prince ; 
 but after this, nothing of Moment befell him on Ac- 
 count of his Nonconformity, but he remov'd together 
 with his "Wife, firft to a Daughter's whom he had 
 married, and afterwards to his youngeft Son's, i who 
 was juft then fet up a Mercer in the Town of Bur- 
 fott upon Trent, at whofe Houfe he continu'd till 
 the Year 1691, and then was feiz'd with a Dropfy, 
 of which he died in the fixty-firft Year of his Age. 
 He had long before buried two of the three Chil- 
 dren
 
 782 The Ejefted or Siknc'd Miniflers, &c. 
 
 dren he had before the Reftoration, but left three 
 others behind him, which he had fince, and of whofe 
 yeligious Education he took as much Care, as it 
 was well poflible for him to do. He never omit- 
 ted a Day, (I had almoft faid Hour) in which he 
 did not give them fome pious Advice ; and often 
 charg'd tbetn not to dare to meeuhim in an unrege- 
 nerate Eftate at the Day of Judgment : And told 
 them that he himfelf fhould be one of the firft 
 Evidences againft them if they did. 
 
 Pag. 631. Armltage: Mr. NATHANIEL MANS- 
 TIELD. Add, M. A. He liv'd fome time after his 
 Ejectment at Wolvcrhampton, and then at Wnlfall 
 where he died. At the Beginning of his Non- 
 conformity, he preach'd but feldom, but afterwards 
 more frequently. He was a fervent and aife&io- 
 nate Preacher. He had many Crofles ; the great- 
 eft of which was by his Son that furviv'd him. He 
 had much Paffion in his natural Temper, which if 
 not check'd by Grace, would have had fad Etfe&s : 
 But he died in a very calm and refign'd Frame. 
 
 Ilid. Aldencajh : Mr. THOMAS BLADON. Add, 
 He was a very valuable Man for his Piety and 
 practical Preaching He had a great Averfion to 
 Difputations ; but when he was neceffitated to any 
 Thing of that Kind, was quick and (harp and full. 
 He liv'd many Years at -Birmingham, and preach- 
 ed at many Places thereabouts. I am inform'd he 
 died at Tamwortb. 
 
 Ibid. Mayr : Mr. RALPH HALL. I am inform- 
 ed by his Grand fon that he refus'd the Ingagement, 
 and thrice endeavftur'd to /hew his People the Un- 
 lawfulnefs of it, on the Lords Dny before it was to 
 be adminifter'd in his Parifh : Once in his Expofi- 
 tion of the Scripture, and in borh his Sermons. 
 After his being caft out of this Living, he liv'd in 
 the City of Cbefhr, where he was Paftor of that 
 Congregation of Diflenters, who afterwards invited 
 Mr, Matthew Henry, to be their Paftor. Mr. Hall was 
 committed to Prifon in Cbeftcr upon, the Five Mile
 
 in the County of STAFFORD. 783 
 
 Att and during his Imprilonment was an Inftrument 
 in the Hand of GOD, for the Converfion of a Sol- 
 dier, who had been a very loofe profligate Man, and 
 was concern'd with others in a drunken Riot, in 
 which a poor Man loft his Life. This Soldier was 
 Mr. Hairs Fellow-Prifoner, and Mr. long who parti- 
 cularly relates the Story, in his Account of the Life 
 of Mr. Matthew Henry, pag. 238, obferves, that GOD 
 lent this good Man to Jail, for good to this poor 
 Criminal, who lay in the Gall of Bitternefs, and Bond 
 of Iniquity. Mr. Hall found him very ignorant and 
 ftupid, but GOD was pleafs'd to blefs the ferious 
 Difcourfe he had with him, and the fervent Prayers 
 he put up with, and for him. Confcience was a- 
 waken'd to Purpofe, and GOD feaPd his Inftru&i- 
 on. A wonderful Chance was wrought in him in a 
 little Time ; and he made fuch a Declaration of the 
 Manner of G o D'S working upon his Soul, when he 
 came to die, and of the Benefit he had received by 
 Mr. Hairs InftrucYions and Prayers, as very much 
 arie&ed all that heard him, and indeed till'd the 
 whole City with Wonder ; every one locking up- 
 on him as fuch another Monument of free Grace 
 as the Thief on the Crofs, and glorifying G o D on 
 his Behalf. The Good Man thought his fix Months 
 Imprilonment abundantly compensated by being an 
 Inftrument of fo much Good to a precious Soul, that 
 was in fo much Danger of perifliing for ever. The 
 Grand fon of this Mr. Hall, was fo kind as to cer- 
 tify me by a Letter, that the Relation Mr. Tong 
 gave of this Matter was exactly true in every 
 Thing , except the Prifon in which Mr. Hall 
 and this Soldier were confin'd, which was not the 
 Caftle of Chcfter, but the North-Gate, which is the 
 City Prifon ; and the Murder mentioned was commit- 
 ted in the City, vi%. in the Cajlls-lane. 
 
 Pag. 631. Barbfton : Mr. SAMUEL HALL: Son 
 of the foremention'd Mr. Halph Hall. He was of 
 Je/wr-College in Cambridge, where he had Mr. Thomas 
 Woodcocl^ for his Tutor. He was ordain'd at the 
 fame Time with Mr. Philip Henry. While he was 
 in his Living, he had aft Augmentation given him of 
 
 VOL. II. O jo/
 
 784 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters 
 
 golfer An, by the Powers that were then in Being. 
 He died many Years fince; and had the Reputa- 
 tion of a very pious Perfon, and an excellent Preach- 
 er, as well as of a good Scholar ; the latter of 
 which is juftifyM by fome Manufcripts in the Hands 
 of his Son, Mr. Samuel Hall, Minifter of a Diflenting 
 Congregation at Tiverton in Devon. 
 
 Pag. 6%z. Newcaftle under- line : Dr. GEORGE 
 LONG. Whereas it was faid of him, that he is 
 ftill living at Briftol, underftanding he is fince 
 dead, I would have it ftand thus ; he liv'd the 
 latter Part of his Time in the City of Briftol, and 
 there he died, on Dec. 16. 1712, Alt at, 841, in 
 great Peace and Comforr, thoughhe had been incapa- 
 ble of miniftring toothers forfeven Years before. His 
 Son Mr. Nathanael Long is taken notice of, in Mr. 
 Town's Life of Mr. Matthew Henry, p. 283, 284. 
 
 Pag. 633. Seighford: Mr. CLAYTON. It fhould 
 be Mr. RICHARD CLEYTON, for that was his 
 Name. I am told he was M. A, if not B. D. I 
 find his Name to the Teftimony of the Minifters 
 in the Province of Effex, to the Truth of J E s u s 
 CHRIST, fent to the Minifters of London, and 
 printed in 1648 : But he fubfcrib'd there as Mi- 
 nifter of Eaflon Mama in Effex. Add 5 He was one 
 of the Aflembly of Divines, and his Name occurs 
 in the Lift of the Members of that AiTembly thus : 
 Mr. Richard Clayton of Shovoel- which is a Place 
 near Lutterworth in Leicefterjhirc, whither he remov- 
 ed from Effex. After fome time, he quitted that 
 Living alfo, and remov'd to Seighford in this County, 
 where he was ejected in 1662. After fome time, he 
 remov'd to Nioieaton in Warwickshire, where he liv- 
 ed many Years. Dr. Wild being there at the fame 
 Time, there was fuch an Intimacy and Friendfhip 
 between thefe two, that they were to each other as 
 David and Jonathan. Mr. Cleyton was a good Scho- 
 lar, a found Divine, and one of ftricl Piety. He 
 was very courteous and obliging in his Temper and 
 Carriage, and at the fame Time very i'edate and 
 grave, bat not morofe. His tvhole Life adorn'd Re- 
 ligion^ 1
 
 in the County of STAFFORD. 78 j_ 
 
 ligion, and his .facred Character. He was that per- 
 fect and upright Man whom the Pfalmift fpeaks 
 of, whofe End is faid to be Peace. 
 
 Pag. 633. Wefton under Lizard : Mr. SAMPSON 
 NEWTON. I query whether he be the fame Per- 
 fon mention'd, far. 409 ? 
 
 Ibid. Hintcs : Mr. WILLIAM BROOKS. Add,' 
 Afcer his Ejectment he was very poor, and had no- 
 thing to maintain his Wife and Children, who were 
 in Danger of wanting Bread : He therefore went 
 to Birmingham, from whence he took a Turn at 
 appointed Times, to preach at certain Places where 
 Help was warned, and would fometimes continue 
 abroad for Weeks at a Time, and then return 
 home with Supplys for his Family. He died about 
 1670. He was of no great perfonal Prefence, and 
 had a weak Conftitution ; he had no taking Delive- 
 ry, and fo was not popular : But he was a very 
 holy, humble, heavenly Man. His Preaching was 
 folid and practical, his Converfe ferious and grave, 
 his Patience in Sufferings and his Dependance upon 
 G o D in Wants and NeceiTities exemplary, and his 
 Thankfulnefs great to GOD and Man. He. liv'd 
 by Faith, and was moft delightfully employ'd in pre- 
 paring himfelf and others for Heaven. 
 
 Ibid. Elford: Mr. Dow LEY. His Name was 
 RICHARD. 
 
 Pag. 634. Bafivich : Mr. RICHARD SOUTH- 
 w E L. Add ; After he was ejected and filenc'd, he 
 4iv'd at Doddington, between Atherflone and Leice- 
 ftcr. He was a worthy Divine, an excellent prac- 
 tical and judicious Preacher, and one that labour- 
 ed fincerely in his Matter's Work, both before and 
 after he was cjc-fted. Having no Eftate, he found 
 it difficult to iupport himfelf and Family ; and was 
 thereupon oblig'd to apply himfelf to Husbandry, and 
 eat and drink what was courfe and mean ; and 
 yet without Murmuring, he was humble, content 
 and patient. He frequently preach'd in his own 
 O ^ Dwelling.
 
 786 The Ejetied or SihnCd Minifters, &-c. 
 
 Dwclling-houfe, and other Places in the Country, 
 though he expos'd himfelf by it. He brought up 
 a Son of his own to the Miniftry; and was alfo 
 Uncle to Mr. John Southwell, who Remov'd from 
 Dudley to Newbury in Berkshire, and there died. 
 But as to the Time and Place of the Death of Mr. 
 fychard Southwell, I can fay nothing. 
 
 The EJECTED, fcfc. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of SUFFOLK. 
 
 Pag. 6^. JfETTON: Mr. SAMUEL FAIR- 
 ** c LOUGH; Sen. Add, M. A. He 
 died Dec. 14, 1677; JEtat. 84. He publifhM a Ser- 
 mon preach'd before the Houfe of Commons, April 
 4, 1641, from Jofhun vii. 2.1. A Thankfgiving Ser- 
 mon for the Deliverance in Colcheftcr, preach'd at 
 I{umford, Sept. a8, 1648. The Saints Worthinefs, and 
 the World's Jforthlefsnefs, being a Sermon at the 
 Funeral of Sir Nathanael Harnardifton, Aug. 26, 
 1653 : In which he gives fuch an Account of fe- 
 rious Piety, and fuch a Character of that worthy 
 Gentleman, as may fully fatisfy Perfons of Diftind:!- 
 on than will give Way to Confideradon, that it would 
 be no real Difgrace to them to become ftri&ly re- 
 ligious. 
 
 Pag. 641 . Worlington : Mr. JOHN SALKELD. 
 Add, M. A. He printed the Refurrettion of Lazarus: 
 A Sermon from John x-i. 44, upon Occafion of the 
 King's Declaration for Liberty of Confcience, preach- 
 ed at WfJJkam in the Willows in this County, April 
 13. 1673.
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 787 
 
 Png. 641. Barking : Mr. Jo H N FAIRFAX. Add," 
 M. A. And whereas in the fourth Line of my for- 
 mer Account of him, it is faid he was Fellow of 
 Corf us Chrifti College, lee it be added, in a Paren- 
 thefis, that he was caft out from thence for refu- 
 ting to take the Ingagemcnt. Dr. Walkers Aft. Part 
 II. p. H3- 
 
 Pag. 644. Hemingsion: Mr. TOBIAS LEG. Add,M.^. 
 
 Pag. 646. Ipfvich: Mr. BENJAMIN STONHAM.^ 
 He had his Education in the Univerfity of Cam- 
 bridge. Upon his quitting it, he was Chaplain to 
 Sir Anthony Erby in Lincoln/hire. Some time after, 
 he became Paftor to a gather'd Church at Ipfvpich : 
 And being there filenc'd, he came to London, and 
 preach'd in his Lodging, to all that would come 
 and hear him : For which he was committed Prifo- 
 ner<to Newgate, in the Time of the Plague. He 
 was zealous for the Millennium, but unblameable in 
 his Converfation, He died March 30. 1676 ; about 
 the fixty-fourth Year of his Age. His printed Works 
 are, the Voice of a. Cry at Midnight ; or an Alarum 
 to Churches and ProfeJJors, ffecdity to improve their 
 Temple tf/orl{, or open Worfoip, 410, 1664. The Pa- 
 rable of the ten Virgins of end, 410, 1676. Saul and 
 David compard together, 8vo, 1676. And he left be- 
 hind him feveral Manufcripts. 
 
 Ibid. St Edmund's Bur} : Mr. C L A c E T. It fhould 
 be Mr. N i c H o L A s C L A G E T.' M. A. The 
 Learned and Pious Dr. Edward Corbet was his 
 Turor. He had been eighteen Years or more Mi- 
 nifter at Bury, at the Time of his Ejectment j and 
 had there given abundant Teftimonies of his In- 
 duftry and Fidelity in the Difcharge of his Mini- 
 ftry. He was found in the Faith, and holy in his 
 Life : And both by his Life and Doctrine he made 
 it his Bufinefs to win many Souls to Righteoulhefs. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. SAMUEL SLATER.. M. A . Add ; 
 Son of Mr. Samuel Slater, of St f^atherinis Tower. 
 O 3 And
 
 788 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 And after the Account of his Death ; Add, he was 
 a very grave, ferious, ufeful Preacher, and always 
 had a conliderable Stock of Sermons beforehand. 
 
 In the Account of his Works, among .thofe whofe 
 Funeral Sermons he preach'd, add, Mr. Hathband, 
 and Mr. Gilfon. And after his Difcourfe, of Family 
 Prayer, add ; of Clofet Prayer, iimo. And at the 
 End of all, add alfo ; A Sermon to young Men, preach- 
 ed Dec. 15. 1688: And a Sermon before Sir John 
 Shorter, when Lord Mayor. 
 
 Pag. 646. Mr. THOMAS TAYLOR. Add ; He was 
 born at Scarnying in Norfolk^, in November 1615. 
 His Father removing to Kjmberlcy, his Son Thomas 
 went daily from thence to IVimondham, (commonly 
 for Shortnefs calPd Windbnrri) to School, where he 
 acquired his Grammar Learning.' From thence he 
 went to Gonvil and Cains College in Cambridge. But 
 the Town being at that Time puritannically inclm'd, 
 and the contrary Party govern'd and aw'd by a Part 
 of the Parliament's Forces, Oliver Cromvecl much in- 
 fluencing thofe Parts, his Father being a great Ca- 
 valier (as the Royalifts were then cafPd) and fear- 
 ing his Son fliould turn Roundhead, took him away 
 from Cambridge, and got him into the Family of one 
 Mr. Rjpps of Mafjhaf, where he taught his Chil- 
 dren : And that Gentleman allowing him a conveni- 
 ent Houfe near, he there taught a larger School. 
 And coming into Acquaintance with fome worthy 
 Pcrfons that were religious, he fell in with them, 
 and wrote fuch a Letter of the Reafons of his fo 
 doing to his Father, as drew Tear- from his youn- 
 ger Brother's Eyes, and a little mollified his Father. 
 He was then receiv'd among the pious Minifters at 
 Norwich, and in the County thereabout, and preach- 
 ed here and there, as Opportunity offer'd with good 
 Acceptance. He afterwards remov'd to Swaffham, 
 a Market Town in Norfolk, and taught the free 
 School there, and kept Boarders, and liv'd in good 
 Repute, till 'he was calPd to St Edmundsbury, where 
 the Acl of 'Uniformity found and fi enc'd him. He 
 was afterwards, above a Year in Prifon there, bun 
 at length releas'd by the Judge at the Aflizes, and 
 
 then
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 789 
 
 then came ro London, and became a Tobacco Mer- 
 chant ; and yet (till preach'd occafionally, fom crimes 
 in the Citv, and fometimes at Croyden in Surrey, until 
 the Diflenters had Liberty granted them. When ic 
 was fettled by Law, (or a little before) he went to 
 Cambridge, and iucceeded Mr. Holcrcft, at his Meet- 
 ing there in Grecnftreet, where he preach 1 d till Ncv. 
 1700, when he died at the Age of ievenry-five, and 
 lies buried in theMeeting-houie, in which Mr. tJujfey 
 fucceeded. He pubiifh'd two Books : The firft intit. 
 Jacob's wrcftlifig with God and prevailing ; or, the Ne- 
 cejjity and Efficacy of Faith in Prayer, in nmo. 1691. 
 The latter, called, The true Light Jhining in Dark; 
 nefs j or, aTreatife of Juflification, in nmo. 1693* 
 Which are both of them mentiou'd together in the 
 Catalogue of Michaelmas Term, 1694. 
 
 Pag. 646. Mr. C L A G E T, M. A. in the Account 
 of him, inftcad of ^cflfer of St "Mary's in Bury, it 
 fhould be Lecturer : For Bury hath two Churches in 
 one Church-yard. And I am inform'd that each 
 hath a Vicar, who performs all Offices befides. 
 Preaching. The Town hath all along maintain'd 
 two Le&urers, each of which preaches at one 
 Church in the Forenoon, and at rhe other in the 
 Afcernoon. My Grandfather was one of thefe Le&u 
 rers in Bifhop Wrens Days, not Rector. 
 
 Pag. 647. Sudbury : Mr. WILLIAM FOLKBS.' 
 Add : After his Ejectment, he liv'd at IVenham in this 
 County, where he had a fmall Eftate : And fucceeding 
 Mr. Owen Stockton at Colchefter, it was his own Offer 
 to the People there, to have no more of them than. 
 10 / a Year, to bear the Charges of his Horfe-hire. 
 He was a worthy Gofpel Preacher, and holy Liver. 
 
 Ibid. "Batisford : Mr. THOMAS HOLBOROUGH, 
 Sen. A very honeft, plain, practical Preacher. Af- 
 ter his Ejectment, and in Times of Reftraint, he 
 often attended on the Miniftry of Mr. Samuel Blac for- 
 ty, who was the Incumbent at Stove/martlet, to lome 
 of whofe Sermons that were printed in 1674, 8vo, he 
 wrote a recommendatory Epiftle. 
 O 4
 
 7 90 fhe Ejetfed or Silenced Minifiers, 
 
 Pag. 647. Hundon : Mr. FRANCISCROW, who 
 was M. A. At the End of the Account of him, lee 
 there be this Addition. 
 
 Mr. Crow was of the Family of Hugbhead in Scot- 
 land, within fix Miles of Berwick, upon Tweed. He 
 was Ufher to the famous Mr. Webb, Schoolmafter in 
 the Town of Berwick^ He afterwards had a Call to 
 be Minifter of Hundon in Suffolk., where he liv'd till 
 he was turn'd out with the reft of his Brethren : And 
 had leave to live for fome time after in the Parfo- 
 nage-houfe till he had Time to provide himfelf 
 with a convenient Houfe. He afterwards liv'd in a 
 private Houfe in the fame Town, and then remov'd. 
 to a little Village call'd Ovington, in EJJcx, where 
 he ufually preach'd twice every Lord's Day, between 
 the Times of Worfhip in the publick Church, the 
 greateft Part of the Auditory in which came to hear 
 him. He afterwards preach'd in a publick Meeting* 
 houfe in the Town of Clare, a Mile and half from 
 Ovington : Where he continu'd for many Years, and 
 had many Seals of his Miniftry. Once a Month he 
 went to S* Edmunds-Bury, preaching there to a nu- 
 merous Auditory. He has preach'd there twice on the 
 Lord's Day, and adminifter'd the Sacrament to four 
 feveral Tables, becaufe of the great Number of 
 Communicants. Often would he preach up and 
 down every Day in the Week, befides what he did 
 on Lord's Days. Towards the latter End of the 
 Reign of King Charles, he was taken at Bury, put 
 into Prifon in the Time of the Afllzes, and had Tri- 
 bulation ten Days ; but at laft came off by a Mif- 
 nomer, they not having found out his right Chri- 
 ftian Name. After this he was fo way-laid, and 
 purfu'd, that he could not get an Opportunity of 
 Preaching without the urmoft Difficulty, and there- 
 upon went over to Jamaica, and continu'd there 
 about four Years, preaching to a great Auditory, 
 that were kind to him ; but he could not perfuade 
 them to join in the Sacrament of the LORD'S Sup- 
 per. At length he returned again to England, and 
 tho' he might have had a Congregation in London, 
 yet refu&ig it, he wen: again to his old People in 
 
 Clare,
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 791 
 
 Clare, with whom he continu'd till his Death, which 
 was in the Year 1691, JEtat. 65. 
 
 He was very diligent in Catechizing both Children 
 and adult Perfons that were ignorant. 
 
 Having had an Original Letter of his from Port 
 Royal in Jamaica put into my Hands, I fliall here 
 add a Copy of it ; and that the rather, becaufe we 
 may therein fee the Spirit of the Writer ; and fhall 
 meet with fome Particulars that will gratify the Cu- 
 rious. It bore Date, March 7. 1687, and was di- 
 rected, to the Reverend Mr. Giles Firmin, at 
 vee/l in EJJe x. It runs thus : 
 
 Reverend and Dear Sir, 
 
 " T HAVE now by the good Hand of G o D upon 
 * " me, weathered out almoft a Year, in this 
 " dry and thirfty Land, arriving here the thirtieth 
 '* of laft March. I have not hitherto written to any 
 " almoft in England, bat to my Son, and about his 
 " Concerns : Not at all into the Country, until I 
 r< fend you this, to whom with my dear Brethren 
 " Mr. Havers, and Mr. Scandrctt, \ thought it my 
 ' Duty to give this firft Salute. To them I tran- 
 " fmit this as to yourfelf. It is to you all I moft 
 owe an Account of myfelf, in whofe refrefhing 
 ' Fellowfliip I have fo happily liv'd, and weakly 
 " labour'd. I was well fatisfied with my Call hi- 
 ther; (fo were many others wifer and better) tho* 
 " I fee not, yer, after one Year's Service, what the 
 Sovereign Difpofer of all fent me for. The Se- 
 '* verity of the Times threatened much my perfonal 
 Safety, in the Place where the Hand of rhe moft 
 high had fo forely and lignally broken my Family; 
 upon which a Retreat for a Time at leaft was 
 judg'd not amifs : And in the Interim, meeting with 
 a fpeaking providential Call, I could not refift it ; 
 confidering myfelf at Liberty to ferve the LORD, 
 in what Quarter of the World offer'd faireft ; be- 
 ing under no Terms or Compact for Service, or 
 ' for Maintenance, with any People, fince I was 
 !' caft out of my publick Miniftry 5 tho" I ftill bear 
 
 " that
 
 7 9 2 The Ejected or Silenced Minifter s y cV c. 
 
 " that poor People I left upon my Heart, GOD not 
 " having left himfelf without a Witnefs among them. 
 " The Thing that carries it with me, is Majw bo~ 
 " num EcclejifC vlfibllis Vniverfalis, unto which primo 
 " Inftanti, I was made a Minifter : And I am well 
 " alfur'd Jamaica hath more Need of me, and of 
 " many wifer and better, than any Part of England 
 " hath. But now Sir, as to myfelf and Place here, 
 ," I found Sin very high, and Religion very low. 
 " Here hath been great Want of fit Means to lay 
 4< a good Foundation by an ordain'd Minifter, both 
 " for the Word and Sacraments. A godly difcreet 
 " Officer of CHRIST fome Years ago, might have 
 i" done that Service to Souls in this Place, that may 
 not now be expected. There might by this Means 
 have been a People here, in fome Church Order, 
 ' train'd up and edify'd in the ordinary Ufe of all 
 '* CHRIS T'S Ordinances : Whereas there is no- 
 '* thing known here but a Form of Preaching on the 
 *' Lord's Day, and many that go on in the common 
 " Road of the Pnblick Formality, may be faid to 
 " be as dead and fenfelefs here, as almoft any where 
 " elfe : And -he People ditfansfied with this, have 
 " turn'd Anabaptifts, and Quakers. So that the 
 ** Things of G o D and Salvation, are at a mifera- 
 ." ble Pafs with us : How irrecoverable, I muft not 
 " determine. And yet the Goodnefs of GOD waits 
 " ib far to be gracious ro us, as to allow one open, 
 '* free, peaceable, and numerous Meeting, on the 
 " growing Hand : And as there is an open Door of 
 " Opportunity, fo there are not very many Adverfa- 
 14 ties, efpecially of the governing Party, who are 
 ' l the more moderate : And from them it is hop'd 
 " the Duke will take his Meafures and Impreffions 
 " when he comes. The Governor himfelf, in two 
 " Vifirs I made him, twelve Miles from Pert I(oyal f 
 ^ at Virgo del St Jago, hath treated me with greater 
 " Civility and Refpedr., than I think fit to expreft. 
 " His Secretary likewife I have good Intereft in, 
 '* having been fome Nights at his Houfe. He is a 
 " fober Perfon, now upon the Point with us, for 
 " Change of Air, in a bad Habit of Body. Our 
 " Liberties are like to be as long-liv'd, as in any of
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 795 
 
 " the King's Platrations : For indeed they can hard- 
 " ly be taken away without apparent Danger, if 
 *' not Ruin to the Ifland, considering the Multitude 
 " of Jews upon the Point, and the many Quakers 
 " there are, both here and in the Country Pianta- 
 " tions. The better Sort of Merchants and Mecha- 
 " nicks adhere ro us. And indeed I fhculd be dif : 
 " ingenuous, if upon this Head I fhould conceal 
 " the Kindnefs of our Congregation, in allowing me a 
 " liberal Maintenance. That is but needful, in that 
 " this is one of the moft expenfive dear Places in 
 " the known World, for all Manner of Provifions : 
 " And yet 'tis the moft proud and prodigal Place 
 " that ever I beheld ; especially it is fo as to the 
 *' Women among us. For a Cooper's Wife fhall 
 " go forth, in the beft flower'd Silks, and richeft 
 " Silver and Gold Lace that England can afford, 
 " with a Couple of Negroes at her Tail, there be- 
 " ing five Blacks to one White. The greateft Trade 
 " of this Place, lies in bringing of thefe poor Crea- 
 " tureslike Sheep from Guinea, hither, to (ell them to 
 " the home Plamarions, and to the Sfanifh Fadtors that 
 ' buy them at 20 I per Head, or thereabouts. Thcf 
 " come as naked as they were born, and the Buy- 
 " ers look in their Mouths, and furvey their Joirvts 
 " as if they were Horfes in a Market. We have 
 " few other Servants here but thefe Slaves, who aie 
 " bought with our Money, except fome from New- 
 " gfitc. Thefe Negroes at their firft coming, un- 
 " derftand none of the European Languages, and 
 " feldom learn Englifh perfectly, no not even they 
 " that are born here in our Houfes. Of fuch Sub- 
 " jeds, I might wrire you many Sheets, but what 
 " to my Purpofe, you will fay > Sed multa, into m*- 
 ximn defidcrantur. How thrives the Gofpel in 3*~ 
 maicn ? What have you done for GOD at Par* 
 Hoyal ? How many Souls have you convened by 
 a Year's Preaching ? Alas Sir ! What an humbling 
 Providence it is, that I can give' you no better 
 Anfwer to this great Queftion ! I can only fay I 
 have made it my Bulinefs to treat among them, 
 of the great and ncceflary fundamental Truths and 
 Vitals of Chriftianity $ fuch as Man's Mifery by 
 
 " Nature,
 
 794 The Ejefled or Silenced Miniflers, 
 
 ^ na^^^B-Mj-ir .. !..!. -- 
 
 " Nature, and GOD'S great Mercy towards fallen 
 " Man in CHRIST; of Heaven and Hell, Faith 
 " and Repentance, Justification and Sanctification, 
 " the prefent evil World, and the Precioufnefs of 
 ,'* Time, and of Seafons of Grace : But that onq 
 ;" Soul hath been yet converted, is hid from me, tho' 
 '* I daily pray that the Gofpel of G o D may find 
 .*' out, and bring in his Eledr, if he have any here ; 
 " and fome would encourage me to think more is 
 " done than I know of. I confefs my Soul thirft- 
 " eth for the firft ripe Fruit of this- blind and bar- 
 " ren Indian Ifland, where Satan hath had, fo long 
 * c and fo ftrong a Throne, and where CHRIST 
 " has been fo great a Stranger. I like it not, thait 
 " in a whole Year's plain Preaching, there is fo lit- 
 " tie vifible Striving toward CHRIST, and cafting 
 " Satan out of fo great Sinnqrs. I told them than I 
 " believe the firft of CHRIS T'S Market is ufually 
 " the beft, and that GOD'S E!e& are foon gather- 
 " ed in a Place, and not fufFer'd to loiter and trifle 
 " with CHRIST'S Call for any long Time ; Pfalm 
 " xviii. 44. And therefore, with Submiflion, in a 
 " well governed Church, I fhould incline much, 
 *' (without Levity of Spirit) to the tranfporting of 
 " godly gifted Minifters, from Places where their 
 :< Miniitry has not been blefled, to try it in other 
 " Places. Well ; it is for a Lamentation, that as 
 41 this is not a Time of Reformation, fo this fhould 
 " not be a Place of Converfion ; and that as the 
 ** Things of Religion go backward almoft every 
 ** where, fo at leaft they go fo little forward here, 
 " where Liberty is more enjoy'd than in moft pro- 
 *' teftant Countries, all the World over. But when 
 : * all is done, not by Might nor Power of Man, not 
 ;< by our Spirit, but by the S P i R i T of the L o R D, 
 " the Mountains muft melt and be made a Plain. 
 :< And for a Conclufion, I lament it, that the Preach- 
 ;< er I found here (I hope a good Man) could by no 
 :< Means be perfuaded, by me and the People 
 " jointly, to continue, and carry on the Work of 
 " GOD, in one Place, with one Shoulder, but 
 1 would needs run himfelf on a defperare Adven- 
 *' tuve, \vithout any Need, of carrying fome with
 
 in the County of SU FFQLK. 795^ 
 
 " him to plant and poflefs the Ijle of Providence, that 
 " had been twice depopulated and fpoil'd by the 
 " Spaniard, and is now attended with the Infelicity 
 " of a Proclamation by the Governor of Jamaica, to 
 " call them back, under the Pain of Treafon for 
 " fettling of a Government in any of the King's 
 " Dominions, without his Leave : For I am left 
 " alone, having the heavy Work of the Place on my 
 " weak Shoulders, being to preach two Sermons 
 " every Lord's Day ; and yet ftudying and preaching 
 " one Sermon here, is more fpending than three in 
 " England. The conftant Heat is fo confuming 
 "* Night and Day, that here is a continal Summer^ 
 " without the leaft Footfteps of a Winter, either 
 ' for Froft or Snow, Cold or Rain, or any fenfi* 
 " ble Shortnefs of Days. And indeed the Place is 
 " fo lit:le defirable either for Company or Climate, 
 " that without fome fignal Marks of G o D'S Bleffing 
 " on a Man's Miniftry, there feems fmall Encou- 
 " ragement for ftaying, if either England or New 
 " England were open. I am here depriv'd of Con- 
 " verfe both with Scholars and Chriftians, few here 
 " even of the better Son caring to fee a Minifter quci 
 " talis, out of the Pulpit ; having no Time to fpare 
 " for, nor Spirit to entertain any mutual Edification in 
 " more private Chriftian Communion. As the Wick- 
 " ed here are more prophane than in England, fo 
 " the Profeffors (the few that there are) are more 
 " lukewarm and worldly. Moft of them are And- 
 " baptijls and Independents, whofe Opinions I could 
 " willingly wave, to carry on the great Work of 
 " Godlinefs, and edifying in CHRIST, by all his 
 " Ordinances. But moft of them having been 
 ' Members of Congregations in London, and 
 " elfewhere in England, excufe themfelves from 
 " living under any Paftoral Charge or Infpe&ion 
 ' here. And for any Thing I fee, the Thing fticks 
 ;< not fo much at Diverfity of Principles one from 
 " another, or from me, or any Tenacioufnefs of 
 ' their private Opinions, as a wretched Lacdicean 
 ^Tepidity, and not caring that full Proof fhould be 
 made of any Miniftry among them, in following 
 
 " them
 
 The Ejected or Silenced Minifiers, &c. 
 
 " them clofe, for reforming loofe Lives, and Hea- 
 ** thenifh Families. 
 
 " And now I muft heartily beg your continued 
 ** Prayers for me, that if it be his holy Will, I may 
 '* domyGoi> fome Service here, or at leaft I may 
 " not loofe the little Heat I brought, if I be not in- 
 
 1 " ftrumental to increafe it in others. It will great- 
 " ly tefrefh me to hear from you all, how the 
 " LORD is pleas'd to deal with yourfelves and Li- 
 " berties. I hope you will moft kindly falute in my 
 " Name my Chriftian Friends and Acquaintance 
 ** with you, as you have Occafion : For you fee if I 
 '* fliould begin to name them, this Paper will not 
 
 , " ferve me to make an End. Now the gocd LORD 
 " that dwelt in the Bufti dwell with you and yours, 
 " and be with you all. So fhall he (till pray, who 
 '* is to you all three, 
 
 Tour unworthy much endeared 
 Brother, 
 
 F.C. 
 
 Pag. 647. Hindercley: Mr. ROBERT HOWLETT. 
 He afterwards liv'd at Colchefter, and kept a School 
 there. 
 
 Ibid. Seylam : Mr. H A B E R c H A M. His Name 
 *toas SAMUEL. He and Mr. Samuel Petto wrote a 
 Preface, to Mr. John Tillinghurfi's Remains, pub- 
 Ufti'd by Mr. John Manning. 
 
 Pag. 64.8. ^ttmborough : Mr. 
 If A x. He was the Father of Mr. John Fairfax of 
 Barking, and Mr. Natbanael Fairfax of H^illifbam. 
 He was a very lively Preacher; and had great 
 Succefs in converting Souls, to the Love of GOD 
 and true Goodnefc. 
 
 Ibid. Crofs, It fliould be Sandcroft ; Mr. 
 PETTO. 
 
 In
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 797 
 
 In the Account of Mr. Petto s Works, inftead of, 
 The Revelation Revealed, it fhould be, The Revelation 
 unveiCd. And belides what he himfelf wrote, he 
 in Conjunction with Mr. John Martin of Edgefield in 
 Norfolk^, and Mr. Frederick^ JVoodall of this County, 
 pubiifh'd a Trad: intit. The Preacher fent ; or, A 
 Vindication of public^ Preaching by fame unordained 
 Men, 8vo. 1658. 
 
 Pag. 648. Wrentham : Mr. WILLIAM AMES, 
 and Mr. THOMAS KING. Add ; I have beea 
 fince informal that it was Mr. John Philips that was 
 properly ejected from this Living in i66z. He 
 was however at that Time incapable of preaching 
 Work, becaufe of his Age and bodily Infirmities, 
 tho* he kept Pofleffion of the Living, which he had 
 been in about fifty-five Years. He was chas'd out 
 of Old into New England, for his Nonconformity. 
 Blfhop Wren would let none that were that Way in- 
 clined live in his Diocefe. At his Return he brought 
 back with him to his former Station, an Inclination 
 to the New England Difcipline. He was a very pro- 
 fitable and uleful Preacher. His Sufferings made 
 him ftudy the Ecclefiaftical Points in Controverfy the 
 more. He married Elizabeth the Sifter of Doctor 
 William. Ames, and by his Means had no fmall Fur- 
 therance in his Studies : And intimate Acquaintance 
 with him, increased his Inclination to the Congrega- 
 tional Way. He died in 1663, aged about feventy- 
 eight. He was one of the AfTembly of Divines at 
 Wcfiminftcr, as appears by the Lift of them, in. 
 which he is mentioned. 
 
 Mr. WILLIAM AMES, M. A, was likewife 
 ejected from iVrenthatn, and the next Parifh Frojicn- 
 don: Having been in the Year 1648 fettled as Co- 
 paftor with his Uncle Philifs, to the Church of 
 CHRIST at tVrentham ; and preaching likewife 
 one Part of the Lord's Day at Froftendon Jfor many 
 Years. And at that Time, I fuppote Mr. Thorn* 
 Kjng, after Mr. Philipis great Decay, fupplied ac 
 Wrcntham. Mr. Ames died in the Year 1689 in the 
 fixty-fkth Year of his Age. He was the Son of the 
 
 famous
 
 798 The Ejected or Silenced MimfteYs> 
 
 famous Dr. William Ames, (who after having been 
 twelve Years Palter at Franequer, was difmifs'd from 
 thence, in order to his being Profeffor at tyterodam, 
 and died (not in 1639 as has been represented by 
 fome but) in 1633 : And when a Child went over 
 with his Mother to New England, where he had his 
 Education at Harvard-College, and became a Gra- 
 duate, in 1645, and return'd to Old England, and 
 came to Wrentham in 1646. He was a very holy 
 Man, of the Congregational Perfuafion, and in all 
 Refpects an excellent Perfon. 
 
 He hath a Sermon in Print, intit. The Saints Secu- 
 rity againft feducing Spirits ; or, The anointing from 
 the Holy One the beft Teaching ; on I John ii. lot 
 Preach'd at Paul's before the Lord Mayor, Alder- 
 men, &c. Nci>. 5. 1651. 
 
 Pag. 648. Hun/led : Mr. SPURDANE, or SPUR- 
 DEN. He was an ufeful Preacher. 
 
 Ibid. Heveningham : Mr. JAMES VOTIER. He 
 publifh'd, A Difcourfe of Effectual Calling, 8vo, 1658; 
 being the Subftance of feveral Sermons preached 
 in this Town. 
 
 ~ >.' * 
 
 Ibid. Sibton : Mr. THOMAS D A N s o N, M. A. 
 Add to the Account of his Works ; The Saints Per- 
 feverance, afferted in its pofitive Ground againft Jer. 
 Ivcs. A Friendly Conference between a Paulift and a. 
 Galatian, in Defence of the Afoftolick^DoclrincofJu- 
 ftification, 8vo. 1694. A Synopjls of Quakerifm, in 
 Anfioer to W. PenV Sandy Foundation Jhaken ; infix 
 * Sheets ftitcUd. 
 
 There is Ibme Account of this Mr. Danfon in the 
 laft Edition of Woofs Athene Oxonienfes, Vol. II. 
 p. 1016, where among others there is this Paflage : 
 That many have faid that if his Juvenile Education 
 had been among Orthodox Perfons ; and his Principles 
 consequent to it, he might have done more Service for the 
 Church of England, than for the Nonconformifts. But 
 it is not eafy to fay, whether this was intended for 
 a Commendation, or to his Difpraife. 
 
 Pag.
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 799 
 
 Pag. 649. Crancsford: Mr. HENRY KING. 
 Dr. Walker in his Att. Part II, p. 257, fays, that he 
 came to ihis Living in 1658, and loft it in 1662. 
 
 Layftcn : Mr. EDMUND WYNCOP, or 
 WHIN co P. He was born in Mlddleton in this 
 County, in 1616 ; and afcer he had been at feveral 
 Schools, he went to Cdtf-College in Cambridge, 
 where he continu'd till he became M. A : And then 
 he return'd to "Middleton the Place of his Birth, 
 where for a while he kept a School, and pracYis'd 
 Phyfick. All this while he was for Conformity in 
 his Judgment : But afterwards, upon hearing of Mr. 
 Manning at Toxford, he became a Nonconformist ; 
 and then had deep Impreflions of Religion upon his 
 Heart ; and thereupon had much Converfadon with 
 fome ferious Chriftians" that liv'd there, and was by 
 them much confirm'd in his Apprehenfions and Incli- 
 nations. He afterwards fell into Acquaintance with 
 fome pious Minifters of the fame Judgment, who 
 perfuaded him to enter upon the Miniftry, which he 
 had not as yet done ; and he complied. A rigo- 
 rous Conformity being then no longer prefs'd as it 
 had been formerly, he became Minifter of that Town, 
 the former Minifter being dead. He afterwards re- 
 moved to other Places ; and at laft to this Town of 
 Layftcn, where he continu'd till 1662, when he was 
 ejeded for his Nonconformity. Some time after, 
 he was for twenty-two Weeks imprifon'd at Blitb- 
 burge, meerly upon Sufpicion of keeping private 
 Meetings ; for there was no Proof of it. He was 
 at length call'd to be Paftor to a Congregational 
 Church at Wattesficld in this County, accepted the 
 Invitation, and held on exercifing his Miniftry very 
 privately, till Liberty was allow'd, foon after which 
 he died. He was much admir'd and follow'd, and 
 greatly ufeful to many. 
 
 Ibid. Woodbridge : Mr. FREDERICK WOOD- 
 ALL. A Man of Learning, Parts, and Piety : A 
 ftricl: Independent, and zealous for the fifth Monar- 
 
 VOL. II. P chy,
 
 8oo The Ejected or Silenced Minijiers, &c. 
 
 chy, and a considerable Sufferer after his Ejedment. 
 He died in the Town vyhere he was iilenc'd. 
 
 Pag. 649. Combe: Mr. RICHARD JENNINGS. 
 Add ; I have had the Sight and Perufal of a Manu- 
 fcript of his, intic. A Catalogue of fome of the remar- 
 k.nble Pajfages of God's Providences to me, in the Courfe 
 of my Life. I (hail take the Liberty to tranfcribe a 
 few Paflages from thence, which 1 hope may be for 
 the Benefit of others. 
 
 " After four Years Abode in the Univerfity, in 
 " the two latter whereof I had let the Reins loofe 
 " to my youthful AfFe&ions, and wafted Time and 
 " Money profufely in riotous Courfes, walking in 
 *' my Father's Garden in Ipfwich, in the Beginning 
 tf of April 1636, I had a hidden Injection darted 
 " into my Mind, wherefore didft thou come into the 
 ** World, ? And Confcience fecretly whifpering ir, 
 " was for the Glory of GOD, I could not but be 
 " amaz'd and confounded, at the Thoughts of my 
 " former wicked Life. And meditating with my- 
 " felf what Courfe I fhould take to caft off all 
 " wicked Company (without which I fhould never 
 " turn to GOP) I had a ftrong Impulfe to go with 
 *' Mr. Nathanael Rogers to New England, * as the 
 " moft probable way to effect it. And the Moti- 
 " on was certainly of GOD in Mercy to my Sou!. 
 *' For whereas before I abhorred New England 
 " above any Place in the World, I had now a ve- 
 " ry ftrong Inclination to go. I corr.mimicared my 
 " Thoughts to my Mother who rejoiced much; but 
 ' was not without fome Fears I was nor in earneft : 
 " Whereas my Defire to go was Ib ardent and fer- 
 ' vent, that I dreamt of it much in the Night, 
 ' and nothing could take me off from the Under- 
 *' taking. 
 
 : * My New England Voyage began June i, 1636. 
 
 1 While I was in the Ship 1 was fometimes aifec- 
 
 " ted to Tears at Mr. Jtyjpr/s Sermons : But my 
 
 " Love 
 
 * See an Account of the life of this Mr. N-ithantel ~Rogrrt, in 
 Dr. Coitcn M:hi, y s Magndi* Chriftt ^mwAVa, Book III. pag. 
 104, tfv. ^-f.
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 80 1_ 
 
 '* Love to fenfual Pleafures was fo great, chat GOD 
 " call'd once and again, and.yet my Heart could hard- 
 " ]y be perfuaded to part with all for CHRIST. 
 " An half ,Converfion I could eafily aflent to, but 
 " to be divorc'd from all Sin, I could not be free 
 " to of a long Time. In the Voyage we went 
 '* through many Storms and Difficulties, and caft 
 " not Anchor in Majfachufets Tiny, till November 16. 
 
 " During my Abode with Mr. Rogers in his Fa- 
 " mily till Dec. 1638, many fweet heavenly Drop- 
 " pings from above fell upon my Soul. And in the 
 " Spring in 1637, fome previous Work of Convic- 
 " lion having been before in the Ship, GOD in 
 " infinite Mercy brought it I hope to a thorough 
 " Converfion, and to the beft of my Remembrance 
 '* brought it about in this Manner. 
 
 " Upon fome private Difcourfe with Mr. Rogers 
 
 " as we were walking to hear a Lecture, when I 
 
 ** came Home and was retir'd, refolving to enter 
 
 " upon a narrow Search of my Heart and Ways^ 
 
 " I had on a fudden fuch a Flafh of Joy darted in, 
 
 " as took me off from the Duty of Self-fearching, 
 
 " and poflefs'd me with a ftrong Confidence there 
 
 " was a thorough Work of Grace already. But 
 
 " when the Plain was over, returning with more 
 
 " Serioufnefs to the Work intended, I began to think 
 
 " that that Joy might be an Illufion of Satan. And 
 
 " when I a fecond Time enter'd upon ferious Re- 
 
 " flecYions, there was a fecond Flafh of Joy after 
 
 " the former Manner. But when it was over, I 
 
 " began to fufj e& that both thefe were the Delu- 
 
 " fions of the Devil, becaufe they tended to take 
 
 " oif from a neceflary Duty. O the Depths of Sa- 
 
 " tans Cunning, and his Enmity to Heart-fearching I 
 
 ' Through G o D'S infinite Grace and Mercy, re- 
 
 " turning to the Work, and examining my Heart 
 
 ' about the Soundnefs of my Converfion, I could 
 
 " not fatisfy myfelf, that in all the Operations of 
 
 " the SPIRIT I had experienc'd,. ei-.her in the Voy- 
 
 " ape, or in New England, I was erfedhially wrought 
 
 " upon fincerely to clofe wirh C M R i s T in the Pro- 
 
 " mile, and thereupon I pals'd Sentence upon my- 
 
 J* felf as a Chriftlefs Wretch j and this was on a 
 
 P 1 Saturday
 
 8o 2 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, 8fc. 
 
 " Saturday Evening. The Night following, (and 
 " no Wonder) was a Night of the greateft Horror 
 ** that ever I endur'd, &c. But the next Day, GOD 
 di reded Mr. fygcrs to preach pertinently to my 
 Cafe, about the Greatnefs of the Sin of Unbe- 
 lief ; And I was convinc'd that my immediate 
 Duty was to believe, and not to ftay in the Con- 
 dition wherein I was. Hereupon on the Monday 
 Morning rifing early, and laying afide all private 
 Study, and bolting my Door I fpent, feveral 
 Hours in Prayer, with the greateft Fervency, and 
 flowing of Tears, that ever I had either before 
 or fince. And a little before Noon, wreftling ex- 
 ceedingly with GOD to give me Faith, I found 
 myfelf enabled by the Grace of G o D to throw 
 my weary thirfty Soul into the Arms of G o D'S 
 " Mercy in CHRIST, relying on the Promife in the 
 " Gofpel, that he that believeth fhall be faved; 
 " and had that Peace in believing, that through 
 " the Grace of GOD I han't wholly loft to 
 " this Day, though more than forty-eight Years 
 , . . fince. * I put down this laft Claufe that as oft 
 %;*" W as I read it, I may be wrapt up in the Admi- 
 ration of the Grace of GOD, that after fo ma- 
 ny Triflings on my Part, fuch Inconftancy and un- 
 even Walking, fo much Deadnefs of Heart, Un- 
 " fruitfulnefs and Unthankfulnefs, GOD (hculd not 
 " yet be a Terror to me, and hide his Face in 
 " dark Clouds. Some Cordials I old now and then 
 " tafte off after Conversion, efpecially on Sabbath 
 " Days, &c. 
 
 " G o D wonderfully preferv'd our Ship in my 
 " Return from New England, in December, 1638. 
 '* Through a ftrange Infatuation, when our Sea- 
 " men thought they were entring into Plymouth 
 " Harbour, \ve were but at St Michael's Mount, 
 " and went in among thofe Rocks, that when we 
 " beheld in the Morning, we could not but won- 
 " der at GOD'S Goodneis, we were not dafh'd in 
 " Pieces. This Deliverance was on Dec. 31. 1638. 
 I {hall mention yet one Thing more that he re- 
 cords, in reference to the Provifion GOD made for 
 - ;his Family. " Whenas (fays he) in Auguft 1662, 
 
 -" when
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 
 
 when I laid down, I was in Debt about i6o/, 
 and had but little coming in for myfelf, Wife, 
 and five Children, and was alfo feme Years af- 
 ter unjiiftly forc'd to difcharge a Bond of 50 /, 
 and the educating and difpofing of my three Sons 
 ftood me in about 200 /, yet by G o D'S merci- 
 
 " ful Providence by Degrees I difcharg'd all my 
 
 " Debts. 
 
 P*g. 654. Ncedbam : Mr. T H o M A s J A M E s. A 
 very holy good Man, of the Congregational Perfua- 
 fion. He had a pretty numerous Society after his 
 being filenc'd. 
 
 Ibid. Willijham: Mr. NATHANAEL FAIRFAX. 
 He was the younger Brother of Mr. John Fairfax 
 of Barring. He was an ingenious Man, a good 
 Scholar, and a very popular Preacher. He pradtis'd 
 Phyfick and had great Encouragement and Succefs 
 in it, and was called Dr. Fairfax. He was the Au- 
 thor of a Book intit. The Sehidgc of the World : 
 Which has fome Remarks in it, on Dr. Samuel 
 Parker's Tentamina de Deo, 8vo. 1674. 
 
 ibid. Bildefton: Mr. SAMUEL WELD. He re- 
 tir'd hither in the Time of the War, from Pictyorth 
 in Lincoln/hire, where he was fucceeded by Mr. 
 Drake. 
 
 Ibid. Bcccles : Mr. JOHN CLARK, and Mr. R o- 
 BEK.T OTTY. 
 
 Mr. JOHN CLARK came to Bccctes 101655.' 
 See Dr. Walker's Att. Part II; p, 371. 
 
 Mr. ROBERT OTTY or O T T E E was the Son 
 of a Boddice-maker in Tarmoutb, and was kept at 
 the Latin School till he was old enough to be em- 
 jjloy'd in his Father's Trade, at which he wrought 
 ieveral Years : But being very religious, and ftu- 
 dious, he generally had his Bible before him when 
 he was at Work. His Inclination to Learning was 
 fo ftrong, that nothing but an Apprehenfion that it 
 was his Duty to comply with the Will of his Fa- 
 tfcer, could have made him eafy in following the 
 P ^ Bulmck
 
 8 04 The Ejeffed or Sihnfd Mtnifters, &c. 
 
 Bufinefs of his Trade. When he was come to 
 Years, going once to a Place where fome private 
 Chriftians met, with a Delign to ipend fome time 
 together in Prayer, and other religious Exercifes, 
 (one whofe Affiftance was mainly depended on, be- 
 ing hinder'd from coming) Mr. Of/7, who went thi- 
 ther defigning to do nothing but barely join with 
 the reft, was prevaii'd with to pray with them, and 
 afterwards to expound a Portion of Scripture, in 
 both which he acquitted himfelf fo well, as to 
 raife the Wonder of the moft intelligent of thofe 
 who were then met together. Hereupon fome ap- 
 ply'd themfelves to Mr. Bridge, (whofe Judgment 
 in that Refpecl: was well known) defiring that he 
 would encourage this young Man, who appear'd 
 to them fo fir, in applying himfelf to the Work of 
 the Miniftry. But Ibme who having wanted a learn- 
 ed Education had been by him encourag'd in that 
 Way, not anfwering Expectation, he would not yeiid 
 to their Importunity, without the Concurrence of Mr. 
 'Brinjly, who feveral Times difcourfed with the young 
 Man, and received full Satisfaction, as to his Know- 
 ledge in the Scriptures, his Gifts, his Serioufnefs of 
 Spirit, and Holinefs of Converfation, and thereupon 
 thought fit to join in encourageing him, quitting ie- 
 cular Butinefs, to apply to the facred Miniftry ; and 
 he accordingly did fo, and was foon called to Bee- 
 cles, where he met with good Acceptance, and had 
 great Succefs. He had an ufeful and edifying Way 
 of Preaching, that mec with Approbation and Ap- 
 plauie both from Minifters and private Chriftians of 
 all Denominations. After his Ejectment, he conti- 
 nu'd with the People among whom he had before 
 been labouring, and GOD contihu'd to blefs his 
 Pains among them to the End of his Days. If he 
 preach'd five or iix Sermons without hearing of any 
 good Effect upon fome or other of his Hearers, he 
 would be greatly dejeded. And even in his old- 
 Age, after he had been ufeful in bringing many 
 Souls to CHRIST, he would pray for the Spirit, 
 to fucceed and biefs his Labours, with the greateft 
 Earneftnefs, and with as great Humility and Con- 
 cern, as if he had never "done any Good in all Jiis 
 
 Life. *
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 805 
 
 Life. He was Congregarional in his Judgment : 
 But of fuch remarkable Modefty and Moderation, 
 as recommended him to the Efteem and Affe&iou 
 of fuch as difFer'd from him. . Dr. Collinges in par- 
 ticular was his iirimate Friend, and had a (inguiac 
 Love and Value for him. He govern'd his People; 
 with luch remarkable Prudence, that many thought 
 his Gift of Government was little inferior to that of 
 Preaching. He died about 169:. Jn that Year (and 
 a little after his Death) a Piece was publiih'd, en- 
 tituled Cbrift fet forth, in feveral Sermons upon the 
 Seventh Chapter to the Hebrews, by Mr. Robert Of tee ; 
 Prefaced by Mr. Martin Finch, and Mr. William Hid- 
 
 Pug. 655. Stratford: Mr. JOHN A STY. I am 
 informed his Name was ROBERT. A Letter of 
 Dr. Owens to him may be feen, in the Collection 
 of the Doctor's Sermons and Traces. He has a 
 Grandfon that is Paftor to a Congregation of Dik 
 fcnters in f(ope-mal{Cis Alley, in Moore-fields. 
 
 Ibid. Haveril : Mr. STEPHENSCANDRETT ; 
 In the Account of him, fag. 6585 tin, 19, inftead 
 of thofe Words and died in a good old-Age, not 
 many Tears fmcc ; let this be added: He died Dec. 
 8, 1706: Aged 75. He was a Man of Primitive 
 Piety and good Works. It was his Honour in a de- 
 clining Age, when others difputed away Truths 
 and Duties, to ft and UD in a vigorous Defence of 
 both. He never dechn'd his Work at home or 
 abroad, but with an unwearied Diligence continu'd 
 in it as long as he liv'd. He ha,d two Difputati- 
 ons with George Whitebead and qjher Quakers. Be- 
 fides his Antidote again/I Q^akerifm, he publiih'd al- 
 fo, Doctrine and Injlruttions, or a Catcchtfm touch- 
 ing many weighty Points of Divinity, 8vo, 1674. 
 
 Ibid. Somerlye : Mr. BARBER. His Name was 
 ED MONO. 
 
 Ibid. WeJIhal: Mr. ROBERT FRANKLIN. After 
 tbeie Words, He vat a great Sufferer for Noncoa- 
 
 P 4
 
 806 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters^ 
 
 formity, let this be added : The firft Time he was 
 feiz'd was for Preaching at Colebrook^ , for which he 
 was carried to Ailesbury Jail, and Warrants were fent 
 out to feize upon his Goods. In 16^4 he was feiz'd 
 in his own Houfe and carried to New Prifon for re- 
 fufing the Corporation Oath, and his Goods were fold. 
 Some time after, he was laid hold on when he was 
 Preaching in Glovers-Hall, and earned before the 
 Lord Mayor, and upon refufing the Corporation Oath 
 as before, was committed to Newgate, for half a 
 Year, where he met with eight Minifters more that 
 were in upon the fame Account. He was afrerwards 
 feiz'd on at ten a-Clock at Night at his Houfe in 
 Bunhil Fields, and carried to New Prifen : And when 
 releas'd, was forc'd to appear at every SefTion, 
 and give in Bail : And fo was perpetually almoft har- 
 raffed, till the Time of King James's Liberty. He 
 was a plain ferious Preacher, of great Gravity and In- 
 tegrity : And was never known to baulk any Thing 
 that he thought him felf call'd to do orfurler. 
 
 Pag. 659. Earl Stonham : Mr. GEORGE COOPEIU 
 It fhould be Mr. HENRY COOFER. 
 
 Ibid. Willi/htMi : Mr. Jo H N F E N w i c K. Add ; 
 One of great Humility, and a good Converfation ; 
 but in low Circumftances. 
 
 ibid. Middle ton : Mr. WILLIAM MANNING. 
 'Add ; He has a Printed Trad, intit. Catholick. Re- 
 ligion j or, The juft left or Character of every Perjon 
 that in any Nation K accepted with God* In fome Dif- 
 courfes, upon.4#jx. 35,36. nmo. 1686. 
 
 ibid. TVrcntham : Mr. AUGUSTINE PLUM- 
 s T E n. He was no: ejected at l/Vrcntham, but Mr. 
 Philips, and Mr. Ames, as has been hinted before ; 
 tho 1 he was afterwards Paftor of the Congregational 
 Church in this Town, which I fuppofe is the Reafon 
 why his Name is let down at this Town, in the Lifts 
 which I have leen of the Ejected. At the Time of 
 King Chariest Reftoration, this Mr. Plurnfted was 
 I'eiiow of Trinity-College in Cambridge, whither he 
 
 came
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 807 
 
 came from IVefiminfter School, as King's Scholar, 
 chofen by Dr Ariwrfmith, at that Time Matter of 
 the College. He was forc'd to quic his Fellowfhrp 
 on the Account of His Nonconformity, before the 
 pafTing rhe Bartholomew Aft, foon after the Removal 
 of Dr. Wilkjns from the Mafterfhip. Upon the coin- 
 ing of a new Matter, he endeavour'd to pafs his De- 
 gree of Matter of Arts, but could not obtain it, onr 
 the Account of Nonconformity. Hereupon he left 
 the Univerfity, and liv'd a private Life upon his Pa- 
 trimony, which was fpent ; and for Want of con- 
 ftant Employment in Preaching, he applied himfelf 
 to draw up and compofe a peculiar Sort of Con- 
 cordance, for the encouraging the Printing of which, 
 he manv Years after, publifh'd Propofals, together 
 with a Specimen of his Intentions. 
 
 His Delign was a Double Concordance to the Bible ; 
 taking in the Englifo Tranflation, and the Original 
 Hebrew and Greel^ too. It was propos'd that a Com- 
 pleat Book, with Hebrew and Greek, Indexes fhould 
 contain two hundred and fifty Sheets : That fuch a 
 compleat Book in Quires fhould be deliver'd to each 
 Subfcriber, who paid down ten Shillings at the Time 
 of the Subicribing, and fifteen when a compleat Book 
 was deliver'd : And that the Undertakers, (who 
 were T. Parkjiurft, H. Brome, !(. Chifael, J. Upbinfon, 
 N. Ponder, and W. Kftilby] fhould be under penal 
 Obligations, not to fell the Book to others, under 
 thirty Shillings in Quires. And on the Backfide of 
 the Propofals were printed thefe Words: 
 
 E have confider'd this Specimen of, A Double 
 " Concordance, and do think it will be of 
 " great Ufe, when the Whole is finifh'd, and therc- 
 * fore to encourage the Publifliing, do fubfcribe for 
 " it upon the Terms propos'd : 
 
 Lord Archbifliop of Canterbury. 
 
 Lord Bifliop of Bangor. 
 J. Tillotfon, Dean of Canterbury. 
 T. Blomcr, D. D. 
 Thorn* Sprat, D. D. 
 
 Thom/u
 
 808 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters^ 8rc. 
 
 Tbomat Gale, D. D. 
 G. Burnet, D. D. 
 J. Williams. 
 William Hopkins. 
 
 It was alfo fubfcrib'd for by feveral others ; and 
 among the reft by Dr. Owen, who wrote an Epiftle 
 to be prefix'd to it. 
 
 The Specimen that was added was wholly upon 
 the Word Witt, which is the Head-word (as Mr. P/ra- 
 fted caU'd it) to which are reduc'd the Tenfes of 
 Verbs, Participles, Adjettives, &c. It is fet down 
 thus: 
 
 Will-eth-ed. Wilt. Would. 
 
 Willing-ly. Wilfully. 
 
 
 
 Then follow the feveral Hebrew Words (ten in Numi 
 ber) to which the Englifo Word anfwers ; and they 
 are each of them dirlinguifh'd by feveral Englijh and 
 Hebrew Letters fet before them. Afterwards come 
 eleven Greek. Words, diftinguifh'd by the Letters of 
 the Greek^ Alphabet. Then comes the EngH/h Con- 
 cordance (different from Newmans) in three diftindt 
 Columns in Folio, reciting the feveral Places and 
 Sentences in the Bible, where the Words Will, 
 Would, &c. are to be found, according to the Order, 
 of the Books of the Old and New Teftament. And 
 each Quotation has a Mark fet before it, referring 
 to the Hebrew or Greek,. Words us'd in the Original ; 
 with fome'other Marks that are in Part explain'd in 
 the Account which the Specimen gives of the Defigh 
 of the Work : Tho' it is likely, their Ufe was intend- 
 ed to be farther explain'd in the Book itfelf. Then 
 there is a Specimen of the Hebrew and Gre^ T ndexes, 
 where one of the Hebrew Words for Will n -T2 is fee 
 down, with the feveral Acceptations and Ules of the 
 Word in our Englijh Tranflation ; and a Reference 
 is made to fome of the Texts where the Word is 
 found : And the like is done for the Greek? The 
 manifold Ufe of this Concordance is declar'd at the 
 End of the Specimen. It is (ignified that it might be 
 helpful for the finding out every Text and Margin
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 809 
 
 for every material Word in the Bible : And that all 
 the Tex:- for one and the fame Radical WoYd might 
 this Way be found together, under one Head, in 
 the Order of the Bible : The various Readings of 
 Text and Marten might be compar'd : And the 
 Number of Hebrew or Greek^ Words, for every prin- 
 cipal Englifo Word, and the feveral Texts in which 
 this or that Word was us'd, might be difcover'd : 
 The Variecy of Significations that every Hebrew or 
 Greel^Word was render'd in according to our Tran- 
 flation, might be feen in the Hebrew and Greek,. In- 
 dex : And all the leveral Texts of Scripture where- 
 in any Hebrew or Greek. Word is fo to be found, in 
 all its Variety of Significations, might in this Work 
 be feen together ; for which Purpofe there are two 
 Alphabetical Tables of all Hebrew and Grcck^ Words, 
 with their feveral Significations. So that this Concor- 
 dance is reprefented as more perfect than any He- 
 brew or Greel^Concor dance extant : And an Addition 
 is made of feveral Texts for material Words, which 
 Texts are not to be found in any Englifh Concor- 
 dance extant : And particularly more than one hun- 
 dred Texts are added for this Word Will. 
 
 It muft be own'd that Mr. Tookje who was ejected 
 at Yarmouth, enter'd upon this Defign before the firft 
 Edition of Newmans Concordance. He form'd his 
 Concordance according to Cottons Concordance, and 
 his Defign reach'd no farther than the Original He- 
 brew : But Mr. Plumfted bought the Copy of his 
 Widow, and began the Work anew, after another 
 Method ; adding to it the Original Greek- In this 
 Work Mr. Plumfted fpent many Years Labour, and 
 fpar'd no Coft to perfect it, tho' he was always of 
 a weakly Conftuutkm of Body, and had but a fmall 
 Subftance to fupport his Expences. He was ever 
 efteenVd a Man of great Integrity, plain Hearted- 
 nefe, and Primitive Simplicity ; an Ifraelite indeed in 
 whom there was no Guile ; and a Perfon much mor- 
 tified to the World. 
 
 Pag. 659. Afh: Mr. THOMAS WATERHOUSE. 
 Add ; He was a Scholar at the C barter- boufe in Lon- 
 don, and fent from tkence to Cambridge, and came 
 
 from
 
 8 1 o The Ejefled or Silenced Minifters, 8? c. 
 
 from the Univerfity very zealous for the Ceremonies 
 of the Church ; but he had not been long Curate of 
 Codenham to old Mr. Chandler before that Zeal of his 
 very much abated. While he continu'd there, he 
 married a Gentlewoman of a very good Family. 
 He afterwards had a Living that was in the Gift of 
 the Cbarter-houfe, near Sijhofs Stortford, in Hertford- 
 /hire. Upon the Breaking out of the Civil War, he 
 went to New England, *and had removed all his Ef- 
 fects in order to his fettling there. But he had not 
 been long there, before he had News of the Death 
 of his Wife's Brother, upon which there was a good 
 Eftate that fell to her and another Sifter, and this 
 causM his Return back again to Old England ; and 
 then he became Matter of the Publick School in 
 Colchefter. He had not been r here long, before he 
 had an Impulfe upon his Spirt that fome remarka- 
 ble Judgment would be ; all that Place ; upon which 
 he decermin'd to remove, and no Arguments could 
 prevail with him to ftay. In about half a Year's 
 Time, that Town was befieg'd, (of which there was 
 then no Proipe&,) and the Hardships they went thro* 
 were peculiar. From thence he went into High Suf- 
 folk^ t where his Wife's Eitate lay. After his being 
 lilenc'd he Hv'd at Ipfwich, and fometimes preach'd 
 there occaflonally : But his principal Employment 
 was the Teaching a School, for which he was pecu- 
 liarly qualified, and he had good Succels. He died 
 In Creting, in 1679 or 1680, being near eighty 
 Years of Age. He was a very ufeful Man, and of 
 a blamelefs Converlation ; and very firm in his Non- 
 conformity. He is mention'd again, fag. 843. 
 
 Pag. 660. Littleburgh, or Rittleburgh ; it fhould 
 be Kjttleburgh : Mr. HENRY STEPHENS : Add ; 
 He was turn'd out in 1660, upon the Claim of the 
 old Incumbent. He would not attempt to get ano- 
 ther Living, but retir'd to Wbodbrige, and preach'd 
 with Mr. Woodall, till both were (ilenc'd and impri- 
 foned. 
 
 Ibid. Chippenhfim : Mr. P A R R E. To be omitted 
 here, becaufe mention'd before, fag. 118.
 
 in the County of SUFFOLK. 811 
 
 Pag. 660. Mr. HOWEL. He died a Conformift 
 in this County. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. ZEPHANY SMITH. He publifli- 
 ed a Sermon intit. Directions for Seekers and Expec- 
 tants ; or, A Guide to voeak.Chriftians in thefe diftraft- 
 ed Times, in a Sermon at Wickham Market, where he 
 at that Time wasMinifter, 4*0. 1646. Another in- 
 lit. The Doom of Heretickf ; from Jude iv. 4*0. 1648.' 
 Another, intit. The Conspiracy of the Wicked again/I 
 (he Juft; from P/*/. xxxv. n. 4^0. 1648. And ano- 
 ther, intit. The Skilful Teacher j from Pfal. li. 13. 
 4/0. 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. VOICE. Dr. Walker, Att. Part II, p." 
 ^z6, fays, that one Richard Voice was Dr. Crofts^ 
 SuccefTor at the Living of Weftove in this County : 
 But what became of him afterwards, I know not. 
 
 Pag. 661. Among thofe Conforming in this Coun- 
 ty of Suffolk., Ihave-mention'd Mr. William Sparrow 
 of Naughton. I am inform'd when the AS of Vni- 
 formity took Place, he did not at firft fall in with the 
 Eftablifliment, becaufe he had no Opportunity of 
 feeing the Book prefcrib'd : But when he had got a 
 Sight of it, he complied, and liv'd at Bilfon a fober 
 Conformift all his Days. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. WILLIAM BURKIT of Mitch/un is 
 mentioned as conforming. Dr. Walter, Part II, p. 
 2,09, fays, that I call him Will, as he conceives by 
 mifreading, for Mil. or Miles Burkit, who he fays 
 was the immediate Succeflcr of Mr. Lawrence Bret- 
 ton, in the Sequeftration at Hitcham : And by a good 
 Token, he fays, he was very fevere on the Parifhio- 
 ners in his Tithes, paid no Fifths f and never admini- 
 ftered either of the Sacraments, during almoft eigh- 
 teen Years Stay among rhem. And the Do&or is 
 undoubtedly right in the Name of the Living j which 
 was Hitcham f and not fAitcham. 
 
 But then there was a William Burkjt the Son, as 
 well as Miles Bur kit the Father j and the Son did 
 
 conform.
 
 8 1 2 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mimfters> &c. 
 
 conform, tho' the Father continu'd a Nonconformift. 
 This Mr.Miles Burkft, I have before given an Account 
 of, under the County of Norfolk. If he was fevere 
 about his Tithes, I am inclin'd to think he liv'd to 
 repent it. If he paid no Fifths, the beft of it was, 
 that he to whom he (hould have paid them, was in 
 no great Need of that Allowance. And if he ne- 
 gle&ed the Adminiftration of the Sacraments, as the 
 Doctor intimates, it was undoubtedly a Fault : And 
 yet the Temper difcover'd by the Parishioners might 
 be therein a Temptation to him. Be his Faults what 
 they would, (for which he feems to have fuffer'd fuf- 
 ficiently) He had a Right to a Place, in what by 
 a Flower of the Dodor's Rhetorick he calls my Bar- 
 tholomew Legend, tho' it was through a Miftake that 
 he was mention'd here, fince it was in Norfolk, that 
 he was ejected and filenc'd ; and mention'd as con- 
 forming, when he liv'd and died a Nonconformift, 
 though his Son conform'd and was a very worthy 
 Man. 
 
 The EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 IN THE 
 
 County of S u R R E r, 
 
 Pag. 66\. T AM BETH: Mr. RAWLINSOK. 
 *-* His Name was JOHN. He was 
 
 one of the Minifters that fign'd the Addrefs of Thanks 
 to King Charles, for his Declaration in 1661, the 
 paiSng of which into a Law, would have had other 
 guefs Effects than could ever be expected from the 
 A8 of "Uniformity. He was alfo one of the Commiffio- 
 ners at the Savoy Conference : And was much refped:- 
 d for his minifterial Abilities, Prudence, and Piety. 
 A inoft friendly, humble, and obliging Perfon.
 
 in the County of SURREY. 
 
 Pag. 667. Mortlack. Mr. 
 B. D. He was Son of Mr. tybert Clarion of Brad- 
 ford in the County of Tork^ t where he was baptiz'd, 
 March 3. i6l. 
 
 Dr. Walker, Att. Part II. p. 141, fpeaking of Mr. 1 
 Peter Gunning, who was afterwards Bifhop of Ely, 
 fays, that he was difpoffefs'd of his Fellowfhip in 
 Clare-Hall and fucceeded in it by this Mr. Clarkson, 
 as Mr. Clarion himfelf afterwards was, by his Pupil 
 John Tillotfon, then B. A, afterwards Archbifhop of 
 Canterbury. And he mentions it in a Way that looks 
 as if he thought both were to blame : But as far as 
 I can judge, with very little Reafon. For neither 
 did Mr. Clarion immediately fucceed Mr. Gunning, 
 nor Mr. Tillotfon Mr. Clarlyon. Mr. Gunning was 
 difpofTefs'd of his Fellowfhip in 1644; and another. 
 immediately fucceeded him. And tho' it was Dr. 
 Gunnings Fellowfhip, into which Dr. Tillotfon after- 
 wards tucceeded, yet is it declar'd, after the ftridteft 
 Inquiry into Matter of Fact, that when Mr. Til- 
 lotion came into it, it was made "void by the Death 
 of one , who had enjoy d it feveral Tears after 
 Dr. Canning left it. * And that could not be Mr. * gee the 
 Clarion, who liv'd a great many Years after, his Lifcof Arch. 
 Pupil Tillotfons coming in his Room into the Pel- JJP j* 
 lowfhip of his Predeceffor Mr. Gunning. And nei- 
 ther Mr. Clarion, nor Archbifhop Tillotfon, lucceed- 
 ing Bifhop Gunning in his Fellowfhip directly and 
 immediately, there is no Room for Blame in the 
 Cafe. For as Bifhop Burnet obferves upon the Oc- 
 cafion, though Men may confider the Avoidance that 
 did immediately go before their Admittance, yet we 
 Jhall not hear of any fo fcrupulous as to run the Enqui- 
 ry farther, t ^ ut lt was no Difhonour to Mr. Clarke 
 fo* to come after fuch a Predeceflbr in his Fellow- 
 fhip as Dr. Gunning, or to have fuch a SuccefTor as 
 Dr. Tillotfon. 
 
 Ac 
 
 f See Bifhop Bamrt's Poftfctipt, to h Reflefliofat upon a Ptai- 
 phlet entit. Sum Difimftt *pt Dr. Burnet nd D'. Tilloifon, oeca- 
 fi -id ty tht Utt fnntrol Strmtn f tbi firmv ptn tbt Lairr, p ag. 164,
 
 8 1 4 The Ejetfed or Szlenfd Minifters, 
 
 At the End of the Account of Mr. Clarkson, pag^ 
 66%, let it be added, he died June 14, 1686. 
 And to his Works, it may alfo be added, that his 
 Funeral Sermon for Dr. Owen, may be met with 
 in the Collection of that Dodtor's Sermons, print 
 cd in Folio, 1721. 
 
 Pag. 669. Warplefdon : Mr. GEORGE FARROLL. 
 He was one of the Triers for this County- 
 
 Ibid. Guilford ; Mr. JOHN MANSHIP. Addj Af- 
 ter his being filenc'd he pradis'd Phyfick. 
 
 Ibid. WeftHorfley ; Mr. JOHN PLOT. He was ano- 
 ther of the Triers for this County. 
 
 Pag. 670. Eaft and Weft Mouldfey: Mr. JOHN 
 JACKSON. The fame Perion as is taken Notice of, 
 ?*g- 33, 34- 
 
 Ibid. Fatcham: Mr. JAMES FISHER^ Dr. Walter', 
 r Att. Part II, p. 6, fays, he was a Man of a very 
 mean CharaBer. But fome that knew him well have 
 aflur'd me, that he was an honeft upright Perfon, 
 and very ufeful. That Author adds an Account 
 of fomething very inhumane in this Mr. Fi/hers Car- 
 riage to his Predeceflfor Dr. Turner's Lady, when 
 big with Child, at his taking Pofleflion of the Liv- 
 ing : But though it is hard at this Diftance to re- 
 cover Particulars, as to a Matter of that Nature, 
 with any Certainty, yet to me it feems mod like- 
 ly he has therein been mifinform'd, both from Mr. 
 Ft/hers common Character, which was very re- 
 markable for great Humanity, and Tendernefs to 
 the poor and diftrefs'd of all Sons and Ranks, all 
 the while he was in Pofleflion of the Living ; and 
 alfo from what was faid by the prefent Incumbent 
 of the Living, not long fince to a Daughter of this 
 Mr. Fifher, who was well known at Darling : Speak- 
 ing to her of her Father, he told her that his Me- 
 mory was to this Day precious at Fatcham, and 
 would never die there. I believe molt People will 
 think it fcarce credible, that one fo well report- 
 ed
 
 in the Count} of S U R R E Y. 815 
 
 ed of, could be capable of fuch a Piece of Bar- 
 barity as Dr. IValker charges upon this good Man. 
 
 .?. 670. Meeftbam: Mr. WILLIAM ANGEL, 
 M. A. This Parfonage (I am inform'd) is worth a- 
 bout T.OO I per Annum. Mr. Angel was the younger 
 Son of a Gentleman in Warcefterjmre, and educated in 
 C/;r//?-College, Oxon. When he firft came to his Liv- 
 ing, he found many of his Parifhioners very pro- 
 fane ; but by his Endeavours and good Converfati- 
 on, fome Reformation was produc'd. It was his 
 ufual Way on the Sabbath Day, after Evening Ser- 
 mon, to go about the Parifh with the Church-war- 
 dens and Conftables, to prevent their accuftomed 
 Loofenefs on that Day. And though he had brought 
 them to a better Pafs, yet when another Minifter 
 fucceeded in his Room, they took to their old Way 
 of ringing their Bells. This was fo offensive to Mr. 
 Angel, that he requefted his Succeflbr, to give them, 
 publick Notice to refrain from that Practice, at 
 leaft while he continued in the Place; and after that 
 Notice, they never once did it afterwards, while he 
 Itaid. He was indeed generally belov'd by the Peo- 
 ple ; and the Chief of them very earneftly prefs'd him 
 ro ftay amongft them, and otfer'd him to get one to 
 officiate* for him, in what he fcrupled : But he told 
 them he could not like that another fhould do that 
 for him, which he himfelf did not approve of; and 
 that' he was forced to leave them, to preferve Peace 
 within. He was a good Scholar, and a very practi- 
 cal Preacher. And when after his Ejectment he 
 became a Schoolmafter, he took much Pains, and 
 bred a Number of good Scholars, of feveral Ranks 
 and Profetfions. He was very facetious and plea- 
 fant in Converfation ; one of a publick Spirit, and 
 of great Moderation and Charity. He had a pecu- 
 liar Talent in reconciling fuch as were at Variance. 
 He was a Man of great Uprightnefs ; and his End 
 was Peace. 
 
 On his Death-bed he gave Excellent Advice to 
 a young Man then beginning the World. He died in 
 March, 168^, in the fifty-firth Year pf his Age j and 
 
 VOL. II. li
 
 816 The Ejefted or Silent d Mimfiers, &c. 
 
 lies interr'd in the Burying-ground in Old Beth- 
 lehem. 
 
 Pag. 670. Culfdon ; it fhould be Cowlefdon : Mr. 
 RICHARD ROBERTS. Another of the Triers for 
 this County. 
 
 Pag. 673. Mr. SMITH. This for any thing I 
 know, may be the Mr. fychary Smith mention'd 
 fag. 690, 691. 
 
 And I have one to add to this County, that 
 was wholly omitted before 3 vi^. 
 
 Chiffted : Mr. CALEB TRENCHFIELD. I 
 linderftand that a former Incumbent return'd to that 
 Living in 1660; and Mr. Trencbfield never conform- 
 ed as a Minifter afterwards : But having an Eftate 
 of his own at Eltham in Kient, went and liv'd there, 
 and there kept School and died. He is the Author 
 of two Trads, the one intit. Chriftian Chymiftry : 
 Being feveral Obfervations, Hiftorical, Occafional, 
 and Scriptural ; with fuitable Applica:ions : 8w. 
 The other, A Cap of Grey Hairs, for a. Green Head. 
 8vo. 
 
 The EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of SUSSEX. 
 
 Pag. 675. ~pETK 7 OI(T'H: Dr. FRANCIS CHEV-" 
 * NEL ; At the End of the Account of 
 him, let there be this Addition. He is feverely re- 
 fieded on for his Carriage towards that great Man 
 Mr. Wii/tam Chillingworth, and particularly for his 
 
 Behaviour
 
 i tie County of SUSSEX. 817 
 
 Behaviour at his Grave, in which he buried his ce- 
 lebrated Book, with a vehement Invedlive, by the 
 Lord Bifliop of Bangor, now ot Sarum, in his Letter 
 to Dr. Snape, printed before Mr. de la Pillonters Reply 
 to Dr. Snape^ Vindicarion, &c. fag. xliv j and alfo 
 by Monfieur des Mai^eaux, in his H'ftorical and Cri- 
 tical Account of the Life and Writings of William 
 Chillingvoorth, Chancellor of the Church of Sarum, 
 pag. 315, C3c. But I fliould think it might in this 
 Cafe moderate the Cenfure, to confider that in the 
 Account I had given of him, which I had from 
 his particular Friend Mr. Stretton, (who knew him 
 as well as any Man,) it was own'd that he was 
 dlforder'd in his Brain. Whenever that is the Cafe, 
 it is not at all to be wondei'd at, if a Man's Ac- 
 tions are unaccountable. 
 
 Pag. 681. Brightling : Mr. JOSEPH BENNETT 
 Near the End of the Accomr of him, there are 
 thefe Words ; He delighted in his minifterial Employ- 
 ment, and therefore took^ the Charge of a, fmall Peo~ 
 fie, about eighf or ten Miles from his Dwelling ; and 
 though they could do little for him, he preached to 
 them conftantly. And vehen Age grew upon him, he 
 went and fetlcd among them at Mailings, Which I 
 defire may be thus alrer'd. 
 
 He much delighted in his minifterial Employ- 
 ment : And the People he nad been relared to, 
 and had for feveral Years exercis'd his Miniftry 
 among, having their Meeting many M'les diftanc 
 from Haftlngs, at a P ace calPd Hellingley, and he 
 being diiab.ed through Age from his Journies, went 
 to Haftings, where there was a Church rais'd by 
 Mr. Bernard of Lewis, who found the Journies too 
 troublefome for him to attend fo frequently as he 
 had been us'd to do ; and therefore he got Mr. 
 Terry fettled there as his SuccefTor ; and upon his 
 being calFd away to Hitchin, Mr. Bennet in his old- 
 Age went and fettled there with his Family, and 
 there fpent the Remainder of his Days. And though 
 that People could do very little for his Support, 
 yet he was pleas'd, and thankful to the Divine 
 Providence, that he was not laid afide wholly as 
 Q.Z ufeicfs
 
 8 1 8 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &x. 
 
 ufelefs and unprofitable. And there (in a Place of 
 great Oppofition) he did by his peaceable and pious 
 Converfation, conciliate the Favour and Friendfhip of 
 very many, who were greatly prejudiced againft 
 the Diifenters as fuch ; fo that they ftill continue to 
 Ipeak of him with Efteem and Refpeft. 
 
 Pag. 683. Mayfield : Mr. JOHN M A y N A R D, 
 M. A. Add, After his Ejectment, he liv'd in this 
 Town, and was generally refpedted. Mr. PecJ^who 
 fucceeded him, was fix'd on by the Pacron, with 
 his Approbation. He lies interr'd in the Church- 
 yard of this Place, where he has a Tomb-ftone, wish 
 this Infcripdon. 
 
 M. S. 
 
 R. R. Johan. Maynard. Coll: Regin. Ox- 
 on. An. Mag. Ingenlo Sagaci, Re Hi- 
 ftortca perltl y <tsc[uis Moribus & Veren- 
 da Gravitate Theologi, pariter & Con- 
 cionatorls . fumnje pit & Erudhi 3 ^ul per 
 Annos XL Mayfieldenfi Gregi (eo fe- 
 tid aut Infellci r/iagis) Lumen & De- 
 cus affulfo : Tandem fecull pertafus 3 C&- 
 lo Maturtts 3 Cbrlfto ^terr>um fru'iturus 
 hlnc migravit, Jun. 7. 1665". 
 
 Hie (juod Mortale erat exuendum deponl 
 
 And to the Lift of his Works fuljo'n'd to the 
 Account of him before given, a Trad: fhould be 
 added, intituled, The Beauty and Order of the Crea~ 
 tion d'.fftay'd, in the fix Days Work^ 
 
 Pag. 684. Dovonion : Mr. WILLIAM Co R D E- 
 . Y : It Ihould be C o R. D E R o Y. He was a Native 
 of Berkshire, and bred at Oxon. He had a Wife 
 and four Childi-en at the Time of his Ejedhnenr, 
 
 and
 
 in the Couttytf SUSSEX. 
 
 and fliortly after remov'd to Steyning in this Coun- 
 ty, where he kept a Boarding-School, and had a 
 good Number of Scholars, and feveral of them 
 Gentlemens Sons to inftrud: and educate, and parti- 
 cularly two of Sir John Faggcs. He was reckon'd 
 a Man of good Learning, but was not popular in 
 his Preaching. There was a great Intimacy between 
 him and Mr. Richard Stretton j and he had other 
 Friends : But he was not without his Enemies. There 
 was particularly a Juftice in his Neighbourhood that 
 was much fet againft him. Upon the Five Mile Act, 
 he was forc'd to quit his School, and retire to Thac^' 
 ham, where he died about 1668, in the forty-eighth 
 or forty-ninth Year of his Age. When he lay on his 
 Dying-bed, he told his Wife, that had he conform'd, 
 he fliould have been in a like Condition with Fran- 
 cis Spira ; for he muft have aciled againft his Con- 
 fcience. Mr. John Beaton (his Fellow Sufferer and 
 intimate Friend) preach'd his Funeral Sermon. 
 
 He was a very mortify'd felf-denying Perfon, that 
 liv'd above the World while he was in it, and was 
 a Man of (ingular Sincerity and Uprightnefs. He 
 took Delight in being ufeful and ferviceable to others 
 and left a good Name behind him : And his Wife 
 and Children found the good Effects of it, in the 
 Kindnefs which they receiv'd from feveral, after 
 his Deceafe ; and among others from the foremen- 
 tion'd Juftice, and his Widow alfo, after his Death. 
 
 Pag. 684. Foundlngton : Mr. JOHN RIDGE. Add; 
 he continued in thele Parts after his Ejectment. In 
 1669 he had a fmall Society, with whom he Wor- 
 fhipp'd GOD, in the Houfe of Mr. JLe Gay, at Weft 
 Stokf, and continu'd with them during the Life of 
 Mr. Le Gay, and his Wife, who furviv'd him ma- 
 ny Years. 
 
 Ibid. North Chapel : Mr. JOH N WOOD. Add, 
 He was a grave folid and judicious Divine, and 
 brought forth Fruit in old-Age. 
 
 Pag. 685. Chichefter: Mr. WILLIAM SPEED^ 
 He was fome time Lecturer at Vxbridge, and while 
 
 Q.3 h
 
 820 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mtnifters, &c. 
 
 he llv'd there, had a Family juft in his Neighbour- 
 hood that was forely vifited with the Small Pox : 
 And the two Families were fo near each other, that 
 there was but a little (lender Partition and a Cur- 
 tain between them. When Mr. Speed went to Fa- 
 mily Duty, the Woman in the fick Family adjoining, 
 us'd to draw the Curtain afide, and Men as well as 
 fhe could to what was faid ; having made a Hole that 
 the Voice might pafs through to her, the more eafi- 
 ly. And it pleas'd GOD, that by what Things fhe 
 in this Manner heard from Mr. Speed, in reading 
 and praying, the poor Woman was fo wrought up- 
 on, as to become a ferious Chriftian. Which Pa 
 fage is taken Notice of by Mr. Humphrey Philips, in 
 a MS Account of his own Life, that is in the Hands 
 of fome of his Friends : And Mr. Philips intimates 
 that he had it from Mr. Speed's own Mouth. 
 
 Pag. 685. Ckicbefter : Mr. WILLIAM MAR- 
 TY N. Add, M. A, fometime Fellow of Merton- 
 College in Oxen. He wro r e a Letter of Advice, 
 from an aged Paftor to his People : With the right 
 Way of dying well, and a Map of the heavenly 
 Canatn. Printed in 1681, 8w. He died An. 1686. 
 ALtat. 66, as appears fro.n his Tomb-ftone in Witney 
 Church-yard in Oxford/hire, on which there is this 
 Infcription : 
 
 Gulielmus Martin^ A. M. 
 
 Agro hoc Oppidotjtte 'Parentibus Honeftis 
 Orlundtfs, Col. Merton. Annos comptures 
 Soclus $ cujw Profunda EruditiOj Humilltas 
 Sincera, intemcrata Santihas } 
 Exundans Char It as, IndefejJ'a fe lixefiie 
 I?i Mtinere Paftorali opera, 
 ssi;o ipfttmfiiOj Memorlam 
 Tofterh commcndarunt Seculis ; 
 Qmntgtna Rivulis Gratia, Oceano 
 
 immerfis Gloria, 
 
 Menfis Auguiti die tertio Annb Salutis 
 1686. jEtatis 66co.
 
 in the County of SUSSEX. 821 
 
 Pag. 685. Weft Stoke : Mr. THOMAS JACK- 
 SON. Add ; He was very well skill'd in the Ori- 
 ental Languages : And after his Ejectment, had fe- 
 veral young Perfons boarding in his Houfe, whom he 
 iriftructed ; among whom was Mr. John Oliffe, who 
 was his Scholar before he went to Cambridge. He 
 was a Man of greater Latitude, than molt of his 
 Brethren in thofe Farts ; and taking the Oxford. 
 Oath, continu'd till after 1665, to live in the Parifh 
 whence he had been turn'd out: But died noc 
 long after. 
 
 Ibid. I'm. 9. read Sir John Fagge. 
 
 Pag. 686. Anmdel : Mr. JOHN GOLDWIRE, 
 Sen. Add ; He lies buried in Rumfej Church : 
 And upon his Grave-ftone there, is this Infcription ; 
 
 In Memory of JOHN GOLDWIRE: A Pious 
 and Learned Divine ; who departed this Life 
 the Twenty-second of May 1690 ; in the eighty- 
 eighth Tear of his Age. 
 
 He and his Son taught School, one while at Broad- 
 lands near Humfey ; and afterwards at "Baddejly. 
 
 Pag. 688. Siddleham: Mr. WILLIAM VOWSDEN. 
 After he was ejected, he took an Houfe without: 
 Eajlgate in Chicheftcr, where he dwelt many Years 
 with his numerous Family. He had the fame Blef- 
 fing with many other of the ejected Nonconformifts, 
 vi%. a fuitable Yoke- fellow, who tho 1 a Gentlewo- 
 man by Birth and Education, yet fuited herfelf in 
 the whole of her Conduct and Behaviour, to the 
 narrow Circumftances het Husband was in ; doing 
 her utmoft for the Support of their fix Children* 
 Bu: the providing Ncceflaries for fo many, was fo 
 very expenfive, notwithstanding all the good Gen- 
 tlewoman's Induftry and Frugality, that poor Mr. 
 Vowfdcn could not always pay for what he and his 
 Family always ftood in need of. He was once in- 
 debted fcven or eight and thirty Shillings, for Shoes 
 for himlelf and Family, and he was utterly unable 
 
 0.4 to
 
 822 
 
 to pay any Part of it. His Creditor having in vain 
 oft demanded, and long expected his Money, 
 threaten'u to arreft him, if he did not bring it to 
 him by the next Friday at fanheft. This gave the 
 good Man very great. Unealineis, and put him upon 
 vifiting feveral of his Friends : But fo exceilive was 
 his Modefty, that when he was with them, he could 
 not open his Mouth to make known his Cafe, or 
 ask either the Gift or Loan of the Money he need- 
 ed. On the Friday Morning, he walk'd from Chi- 
 chefter to Weftcke to Mr. Lc Gay, at whofe Houfe 
 the ejecled Minifters us'd to meet with kind Enter- 
 tainment, and an hearty Welcome. That Gentle- 
 man was fo liberal to the poor Nonconformifts, thac 
 he may well be reckon'd among the moft generous 
 of their Friends in all that Part of the Country, by 
 thofe that know what a fmall Eftare he had, where- 
 with to bring up and provide for a numerous Fa- 
 mily of fifteen Children, ten of which liv'd to be 
 Men and Women, and difpos'd of in the World. 
 But modeft Mr. Vowfden ceiild not by all that he 
 had feen and known of this Gentleman's Kindnefs, 
 work himfelf up to fo much Confidence, as to tell 
 him his Cafe : And fo took his leave, without fay- 
 ing any Thing of his prefent NecefTity. But Mr. Le 
 Gay accompanying him feme Part of the Way, juft 
 at parring from him, put fome Money into his Hand, 
 which the poor Man receiv'd very thankfully, and not 
 without owning and admiring the Providence of 
 GOD toward him, when upon telling the Money, 
 as foon as his Benefactor was out of Sight, he found 
 it to be juft the very Sum that he was oblig'd to pay 
 that very Day, to prevent his being arrefted the 
 next. 
 
 He continu'd in Sujfex till 1684, when he ac- 
 cepted of the kind Offer made him by a Son which 
 his Wife had by a former Husband, to come and 
 dwell with him here in London, his Wife being 
 dead, and his own fix Children one way or other 
 difpos'd of, and gone from him : But he had not 
 been many Months in the City, before he was feiz- 
 ed with the Small Pox, which prevented London's 
 being a Ci:y of any long Continuance to him, and 
 
 fenc
 
 in the County of SUSSEX. 823 
 
 font him to take PoflefiTion of that City which has 
 Foundations, whofe 'Builder and Makfr is God. 
 
 Pag. 688. felpbam: Mr. JOHN GOLD WIRE,' 
 Jun. At the End of the Account of him, inftead of 
 Ruwfey in this County, it (hould be Humfey in Hamp- 
 Jhire : To which may be added, that he continu'd 
 preaching there nineteen Years, and died Dec. 9. 
 1713, aged eighty-three. 
 
 Ibid. Shipley Mr. JOHNULKLY: It (hould 
 be BULKLV. After his Ejectment, he was a Sort 
 of an Itinerant, going abcut from one Minifter and 
 Friend's Houfe to another, and ftaying a fhort while 
 with each. 
 
 Ilid. Billinghurft Mr. WILLIAM WILSON J 
 M. A. His Father was a ftridt Conform i ft Minifter: 
 But the Principles of the Father had no Influence up- 
 on the Son, after he once arriv'd at an Age to be ca- 
 pable of judging for himfelf. 
 
 He was fent into Wales to be inftru<5ted in Gram- 
 mar Learning : And whilft he was a School-boy 
 there, ftood Godfather to a Child ; which created 
 him much Uneafinefs afterwards. He remember'd 
 how fo'emniy he had promis'd and vow'd to take 
 Care of the religious Education of that Child, and 
 could not do it, becaufe (he was in Wales, and he 
 in England. And indeed there has often been Oc- 
 cafion to obferve, that the humane Invention of 
 Godfathers tends no render the Minds of confcien- 
 tious Perfons uneafy, and to increafe the Guilt of the 
 wicked and carelefs. Having gotten a competent 
 Acquaintance with the learned Languages, he remo- 
 ved from Wales to Cambridge, where he continu'd 
 till he took his Degrees, and then was invited to 
 this Parifh, where with great Diligence, Faithful- 
 nefs, and Importunity, he labour'd to win Souls to 
 CHRIST, and promote ferious Religion; for the 
 Space of about ten Years together. And his Life and 
 Miniftry were no Contradiction, but very agreeable. 
 He invited Perfons to be in earneft for practical 
 Gcdlinek by his exemplary Converfation out of the 
 
 Pulpit,
 
 824 The Ejetted or Silenced Miniflers y &C. 
 
 Pulpit, as well as his warm Sermons in ir. Safely 
 could he fay with the Apoftle, 2 Cor. xii. 14. I veiH 
 , not be burthenfome unto you ; for Ifeek. not yours but 
 you. He did not indeed preach gratis with Refe- 
 rence to the whole Parifh ; and yet he was not bur- 
 thenfome to any of the Parifhioners. Such as were 
 in mean Circumftances he excus'd from paying 
 their Tithes, tho' he could as ill fpare it as many 
 others that infift upon them, while -they ftarve their 
 Parifhioners. But he had not fo learned CHRIST. 
 He would not do any Thing that mighi prejudice 
 Perfons againft the Miniftry, or tempt them to charge 
 thofe that officiated in it with Covetoufnefs or Cru- 
 elty. At the fame Time he acquir'd the Love and 
 Good-will of his good Parifhioners : And yet was 
 feparated from them by the Fatal Bartholomew. When 
 he was ejected both he and his Wife were young, 
 and they had four fmall Children, and but little to 
 fubfift on : But teaching School, and living in his 
 own Parifh, where he was well belov'd, he had 
 good Encouragement. He continu'd alfo preaching 
 privately, tho' he met with Oppofition. He had 
 not been long ejected before a Friend wrote him 
 an expoftulating Letter about ir, to which he return- 
 ed a free Anfwer, which having fallen into my 
 Hands, I (hall here infert it. 
 
 Honoured 5/r," 
 
 H A T the late Acl for Uniformity hath outcd. 
 " me from being the Minifter of this Place, 
 '* I acknowledge j and alfo that it denieth me the 
 " publick Exercife of the Office of a Minifter, I 
 !< confefs: But that I am ftill a Minifter of the 
 Gofpe!, I think will be granted by all. So that 
 " fhould I execute the Office of a Minifter in any 
 ' Part of the Church vifible, I fhould do but what I 
 * lawfully might ; I could not be faid to invade 
 another Man's Calling : For being once fet apart 
 '' for that Office, I fuppofe that Character remains 
 indelible. I have ftill an habitual Aptitude to it. 
 ! You will fay perhaps that the Laws of the King- 
 
 ." dom,
 
 in the Count} if SUSSEX. 825 
 
 " dom, to which I am bound, difallow it ; and 
 
 " therefore I cannot here lawfully do it. I acknow- 
 
 " ledge that I am bound to the Laws of the King- 
 
 " dom, fo far as they are agreeable with, or iubfer- 
 
 ' vient to the Laws of G o D : But if the Laws of 
 
 " Men feem at leaft to me to thwart the Laws of 
 
 ; 'GoD, I muft then keep clofe to the Laws of 
 
 GOD, and expofe myfelf to the Penalties pf the 
 
 ' Laws of Men. That any Practice of mine hath 
 
 " bred any Divifion in the Parifh I may fafely de- 
 
 ' ny, except it be my Example (which is more 
 
 ;< than I know if it ha r h, and more than I can help, 
 
 ' it being Scandalum acceptum, non datum) in not con- 
 
 " forming. That another will not conform merely be-' 
 
 " caufe I do not, (if there be any fuch) is no Fault of 
 
 " mine, fo long as I do not in Word or Writing dif- 
 
 " fuade him from it. This I may fafely affirm, that 
 
 * Mr. Oram haih not had at any Time, (however he 
 
 " hath reprefented me to you,) the lefs Auditory for 
 
 ' me, fince he had the Place. Yea .1 have been 
 
 " inftrumental to keep fome to the Church, who 
 
 ** elfe for ought that I could difcern would have 
 
 " abfented themfelves wholly. That I have ftudied 
 
 " Difturbance cannot (as I fuppofe) well be faid 
 
 " of me, except I had either plotted and con- 
 
 " trived fomewhat againft the State or Church, 
 
 " or elfe difluaded fome from their Obedience 
 
 " to his Majefty j both which I may fafely deny 
 
 " myfelf to have done in the leaft. Thofe that 
 
 " come not to hear Mr. Oram, or not to communi- 
 
 " care with him in the Sacrament now, would not 
 
 " do it were I a thoufand Miles off. For the 
 
 " Ground for their Non-Communion is not in me, 
 
 " but himfelf as I fuppofe. Sir I will allure you 
 
 " my Nonconformity hath not been out of any pri- 
 
 " varc Humour, (whatever Men may jucle of 
 
 " me) but purely to fatisfy my own Breaft. What 
 
 ' fome have inform'd you of, as touching my pri- 
 
 ' vate Meetings, and adminittring the Sacraynent, 
 
 ' it was not upon their own Knowledge, bu r upon 
 
 " flying Report, and the Surmifes of Men. To me 
 
 " it feems ftrange, and very hard Meafure, that 
 
 " there fliould be that Partiality I find there is ; that 
 
 " thole
 
 826 The EjeBed or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 " thofe that are but fuppofed, ro be Presbyterians, 
 " and but fufpedted to have privare Meetings, 
 " (hould be more taken notice of and fentenc'd, 
 " than the Quakers and Anabaptlfts, I had almoft 
 " faid the Papifts too, (who are equally bound to the 
 " Laws of the Kingdom with others,) who do (as 
 " I believe) meet when, and where, and as often, 
 " and as many as they pleafe, and little or no No- 
 " tice is taken of it, as I hear off of late. I will 
 
 " 
 
 "allure you that I fliall (the LORD afTifting me) 
 " endeavour to walk unblameably, and beware of 
 " Offences ; and in ajl I do, feek to fatisfy my own 
 *' Confcience, in walking by Rule, whatever comes 
 ** of it j that if I do fuffer it may be for well- do- 
 *' ing, and not as an evil Doer. It is far better for 
 '* me to have all the World about my Ears, than 
 " have G o D an Enemy, and Confcience an Accu- 
 " fer. In that you have been pleas'd to plead my 
 " Caufe and vindicate me behind my Back, I ac- 
 " knowledge myfelf much obliged : And (hall ma- 
 " nifeft it (feeing no other Opportunity offers itfelf,) 
 " in praying for you and yours j and fliall remain 
 " ftill 
 
 Tours to be commanded 
 
 in what I may, 
 Sillinghurjl, 
 Jan. 1 6. 1663: WiL Wilfon. 
 
 At length he was profecuted for Teaching School 
 and Preaching. His two greateft Enemies were a 
 neighbouring juftice, and the Parfon that fucceeded 
 him in the Parifn. The Juftice threaten'd he would 
 have him dead or alive, and make him rot in a Jail : 
 But he went firft to rot in the Grave. The Parfon 
 was fo violent, that he directed the Officers how to 
 apprehend htm ; and he vented his Malice upon 
 Mr. Wilfons Family after his Death ; which look'd 
 fo much the worfe, becaufe it was well known his 
 Intereft help'd to bring him into the Parifti : But 
 blind Zeal knows no Obligations. At length even 
 the Paiion's eal abated : For falling into Melan- 
 choly
 
 in the County of SUSSEX. 
 
 choly, it occafion'd dreadful Horror to him to think 
 he had been fo troublefome to Mr. Witfon and his 
 Family, to which he afterwards grew more favoura- 
 ble : And then the pious DifTenters became his moft 
 delightful Companions, and continu'd fo for many 
 Years. But as for Mr. Ptflfon, tho' feveral Warrants 
 were iflu'd out againft him, and feveral Attempts 
 made to take him, and he often efcap'd but nar- 
 rowly, yet GOD fo preferv'd him that he never 
 fell into their Hands. When he could not be fafe 
 at home, his ufual Refuge was the Houfe of Dr. 
 Hank/ a neighbouring Conformift Minifter, where 
 he lay unfufpected ; no one imagining he was gone 
 thither for Shelter. At length he was forc'd to lay 
 down his School ; and then he purchas'd a fmall 
 Farm, which his Wife and Servants manag'd : But 
 he held on preaching, when he could get an Audi- 
 tory, at his own Houfe or elfewhere. .His Heart 
 was fo fee upon minifterial Service, that in his laft 
 Illnefs nothing was more grievous to him, than his 
 being thereby taken off from his beloved Work : 
 And when another ejected Minifter Mr. Matthew 
 Woodman came to vifit him in his Sicknefs, and ask- 
 ed him what Petitions he would have put up to 
 GOD, he anfwer'd, that he would either be pleas'd 
 to reftore him fpcedily to his minifterial Labours, 
 or elfe receive him to Glory ; the latter of which 
 Requefts was anfwer'd, when he was about forty 
 Years of Age, having furviv'd his Ejectment about 
 feven Years. He in the latter Part of his Life dif- 
 covered great Satisfaction in his Nonconformity, 
 and a firm Dependence on the Promifes of GOD 
 for thofe whom he was to leave behind him, who 
 found the Promifes he depended on abundantly 
 made good to them, to their great Comfort, not 
 without the Obfervation of many others. ST Harry 
 Goring among other Gentlemen had a great Value 
 for this good Man, and mantfefted it upon all Oc- 
 calions. 
 
 Pag. 688. Nutburft: Mr. ROBERT FISH. Add, he 
 went young into the Miniftry. He was a very affecti- 
 onate popular Preacher, and of a moft courteous and 
 
 aftabio
 
 828 The Ejected or Silenced Mitiifters, &c. 
 
 affable Temper. When he was eje&ed, he had 
 a Wife and four or five young Children to main- 
 tain, and his whole Eftate amounted but to 1 8 I per 
 Annum ; and that it might go the farther, he fome- 
 times taught School. He continu'd the Exercife 
 of his Miniftry in all the Rigours of King Charles's, 
 Reign, without Fear, though he was often not a 
 little expos'd, by Reafon of Warrants out againft 
 him. He was fomerimes reduc'd tp great Straights : 
 And particularly G o D at fuch a Sea ton was pleas'd 
 in Anfwer to his Prayers to fend him in an exa& 
 Sum he wanted by an unknown Hand ; and he to 
 his dying Day knew not from whence it came. He 
 was of a fickly Conftitution, and yet when he was 
 ingag'd in minifterial Service, he us'd to fpeak with 
 Vehemence. Some Friends of his attempting to 
 difluade him from it, he replied to them in this 
 Manner: If Perfons, faid he, Cry Fire, Fire, in an 
 unconcerned IVay and Manner, who will take Notice 
 of it ? He died about the feventieth Year of his 
 Age. His Funeral Sermon was preach'd by Mr. 
 Peter Lob, from. Phil. i. ai. 
 
 Pag. 689. Bartavington, or Hayfhot ; Mr RICHARD 
 GARRET. He continued living in the Place where 
 he was ejected. He was a very ferious Preacher, 
 and feveral of his Neighbours continu'd hearing 
 him notwithftanding that they were great Strangers 
 to that Life of Religion and Power of Godlinefs, 
 which this good Man ftudv'd to his u r moft to pro- 
 mote. Living not many Miles from Pctwortb, he ufu- 
 ally walk'd thither every Monday: And in one of 
 thofe Walks, -a Country Fellow that had been his 
 Hearer the Day before, and like the Jews mention- 
 ed Acts vii. 54, beei cut to the Heart, by Tome what 
 he had delivered, came up to him with his Scythe 
 upon his Shoulder, and in a migh-.y Rage told him 
 he would be the Death of him ; for he was fure he 
 was a Witch, he having told him the Day before, 
 what no one in the World knew of him, but GOD 
 and the Devil : And therefore he declar'd again 
 and again that he would cerrain'y murder him, as 
 one who moft certainly dealt with the Devil. When 
 
 Mr.
 
 in the County of SUSSEX. 829 
 
 Mr. Garret was firft accofted in this Manner by this 
 poor ignorant Wretch, he was not a little terrify'd : 
 But by foft Anfwers, and mild and ferious Difcourfe, 
 he at length fo far turn'd away his Wrath, that the Fel- 
 low retir'd, without ufing any other Inftrument of his 
 Rage and Revenge on the good old Man, then 
 his envenotn'd Tongue, with which at his firft On- 
 fet he loaded him with moft bitter Revillings. 
 
 Pag. 690. Glyne; (It fhould be Gljnde) Mr. ZA- 
 CHAR- SMITH. He has in Print, Life in Death, 
 or, a thing Faith of a dying Saint, from Prov. 
 iv. 34 : A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Mary Morley. 
 
 Pag. 691. Buckfted: Mr. STEPHEN STREET? 
 This is the fame Perfon as is mention'd fag. 387, 
 in the Ifle of Thanet in the County of Kjnt. He 
 not only had the Living of Buckfted, but Ugfield 
 or Mar/hfield was join'd with it ; and he had ano- 
 ther Minifter to alTift him. When he was eject- 
 ed, he had a Wife and fix Children. He took 
 great Pains in preaching and catechizing the Youth ; 
 and was charitable to the Poor. After his being 
 filenc'd he retired to London, and fhortly after died. 
 
 Ibid. I(admill : Mr. HENRY GODMAN. Add, 
 M. A, of Peter-houfe in Cambridge. 
 
 Pag. 693. Wartling: Mr. MORE. It fhould be 
 Watling: Mr. JOB N- MOORE. In 1680 there was 
 publifh d a fmall Tract in 8w, intit. A Warning to 
 young Men, Sec, in a Relation of the horrid Mur- 
 der a<led by Robert Bringburft on his Friend and 
 himfelf, at Lewes in Suffex, 1679. The Friend 
 that was referred to in this Account, was the on- 
 ly Son of this Mr. Moore, who was Apprentice to 
 a Draper in Lewes, and was about twenty-two 
 Years of Age, and had at that Time in his Poflef- 
 fion an Eftate of about 70 / per An. This young 
 Moore, was very intimate with another young Man, 
 a Cutler, his oppofite Neighbour, who was newly 
 fet up for hitruelf. After a falling out, and a feem- 
 ing Reconciliation, the Cutler bafely bore Malice 
 
 againft
 
 830 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 againft young Moore, and mod treacheroufly and 
 barbaroufly poifon'd him ; and being detected, af- 
 terwards difpatch'd htmfeif. This could not bat be 
 an Heart-breaking Sorrow to the poor Father. 
 
 Pag. 693. Weft Grinftead: Mr. JOHN TR ED- 
 CROSS, or TREDCROFT. Dr. talker fays, that 
 this Mr. Tredcroft paid an Annuity of 24 / for An, 
 to Mr. G. Winter, the Chair Man of one of the 
 fequeftrating Committees in Suffix, Part II. p. 94, 
 and gives the Form of a Receipt. That does-noc 
 fignify, upon what Confideration the Annuity was 
 allow'd : But fuppofing it to have been as the Doc- 
 tor lufpects, I fuppofe he knows that Annual al- 
 lowances to Patrons, are not Things unheard of in 
 the eftablifh'd Church, notwithftanding the Oaths 
 taken to the contrary. I could give him a fla- 
 grant Inftance. 
 
 Ibid. Eaft Dean : Mr. WILLIAM WALLACE. 
 Dr. Walker, Part II. p. 275, mentions one Germain, 
 as being in "this fequeftred Living till the Reftora- 
 tion. 
 
 Pag. 694. Slynford ; (it mould have been SJynf old;) 
 Mr. MATTHEW WOODMAN: Add, M. A. of 
 Magdalen-Hall in Oxon, where he had Mr. Natba- 
 nael Tredcroft for his Tutor. His Father was a Mi- 
 nifter, and his Grandfarher furfer'd Maryrdom at 
 Lewes in SuJJex in the Reign of Queen Mary. His 
 Piety was remarkable when he was at the Uni- 
 verfity. His Living of Slynfcld is one of the beft 
 in thofe Parts, being reckon'd worth golfer An. 
 When he was ejecled from theace, he had nine 
 Children ; and Hv'd upon what he had of his own. 
 He was a meek mild Man, and of moderate Prin- 
 ciples. Some time before the Act cf Vniformity 
 took Place, Dr. Kjng who conform'd and was made 
 Bifhop of Clrichcfter, was importunare with Mr. 
 Woodman to conform with him j and promis'd him 
 his utmoft Intereft for the Deanry of that Diocefe. 
 His ancient Mother being warm againft Confor- 
 jp'uy, and thinking upon Difcourfe that this Son of 
 
 hers
 
 in the Comity of SUSSEX. 831 
 
 hers would comply with the Times, and dying be- 
 fore the Act took Place, left a thoufand Pounds td 
 a younger Brother, which fhe had otherwife left 
 to him. On the other Hand, his Wife's Father, 
 who was a Councellor and Juftice of Peace, and 
 had a confiderable Eftate, would never fuffer him 
 to Come near him, nor give him any Thing, becaufe 
 he did not conform. He cominu'd preaching after 
 the Law filenc'd him ; and far'd much better than 
 many of his Brethren, not being difturb'd. His 
 Carriage was fo inofFenfive that he was univerfally 
 belov a. The Corporation A& drove him to Horfbam, 
 where he continued to his dying Day, preaching to 
 the People always grans. Here he was often in 
 Troubles, and once imprifon'd and under Bail a 
 confiderable while. He and Mr. Fijh refolv'd never to 
 leave their People at Horjham and Qck[ey. He was 
 a Man of great Worth, and his Memory is to this 
 Day fweet and flagrant to the furviving Inhabitants 
 of thofe Parts. He died in March 1683 in his fixty- 
 third Year, and lies buried in Horfoam Church, un- 
 der a Tomb-ftone on which Mr. Fifh wrote an Epi- 
 taph. 
 
 Pag. 6<)6. Eaftbam ; It {hould be Eartbam : Mr.' 
 GEORGE FREEMAN. Dr. Walker, Att. Part II, 
 p. i3,*fays, thac he had the Character of an a&ive 
 bufy J - in thofe Times ; without faying in what: 
 And in this way, any Man may be wounded out of 
 Ill-will, without any Reafou at all. All that I can 
 fay, is, that if Ite really deferv'd that Character, it 
 had been no matter if he had been ejected before 
 he furrcnder'd to Mr. Glyd whom the Doctor fpcaks 
 of. And yet it is notorious he was filenc'd by the 
 Ad, which was what my taking Notice of him was 
 defign'd to intimate. 
 
 Ibid. Bignor: Mr. THOMAS REEVES. Dr. 
 
 . Part II. p. 275, calls him PEEOS or BEO>, and 
 fays he was cftcemed by all a I(ank Kjiave. This I 
 confefs is plain EngHfo : But I {hould have though:, 
 before the Doctor pretended to brand any one with 
 fuch a Chara&er, he fliould have taken Care to have 
 
 VOL II. R been
 
 8} 2 The Ejetled or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 been fure to have his rit;ht Name : For without 
 this, it is plain another may fufier in his Memory, 
 very undefervedly 
 
 Pag. 697. Wall 'avington. I am inform'd thar ei- 
 ther here, or fomewhere in this Neighbourhood, was 
 filenc'd Mr. JOHN WILLIS, a Son of Mr. John 
 Willis of Pinnor, and younger Brother of Mr. Tho- 
 mas Willis, turn'd out from Heathfield near Taun- 
 ton in Somerfet. He was fingle when ejected, his 
 "Wife dying a little before, without leaving him any 
 Child. In fome time after his being filenc'd, he 
 married one of the Daughters pf the eminently 
 Religious Mr. Peter Le Gay, in whom the Words of 
 Bildad, Job viii. 7, were fuifill'd Literally : For tho' 
 his Beginning was fin all, yet his latter End did great- 
 ly encreafe. For this worthy Perfon left France 
 when Lewis XIII opprefs'd his Proteftant Subjects, 
 and belieg'd and took Rocbel, bringing little or no- 
 thing with him. After he had been a while in Eng- 
 land, he was greatly furpriz'd to meet a young Gen* 
 tlewoman in the Street at Southampton, whom he 
 4 had courted in France for a Wife. They renew'd 
 their Converfation and Acquaintance, and married ; 
 and by an extraordinary BlefTing of G o D upon his 
 Diligence and Induftry in Merchandizing, he in a 
 few Years fo encreas'd his Subftance, that he bought 
 the Eftare of Weftokf, where he liv'd in great Credit 
 and Reputation to the Day of his Death. Mr. Wil- 
 lis marrying one of his Daughters, dwelt with the 
 Father in Law, and preach'd in his Hpufe, to a Num- 
 ber befide the Family. But his Wife dying, and 
 leaving him two Children, and he marrying again, 
 left Mr. Le Gay's Koufe, and went to Chichefter, 
 where he preach'd for a while very privately : But 
 k pleafs'd GOD to put an End to his Life and La- 
 bours, at about forty Years of Age, before King 
 Charles gave forth his Indulgence. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. JOHN BRETT of Lewes, M. A. He 
 was bred in Cambridge : Was a good Scholar, and 
 of a fweet Temper. He had feveral young Gentle- 
 men under his Care, and preach'd occalionally, as 
 
 well
 
 in the County of SUSSEX. 
 
 well as practis'd Phyfick, with good Acceptance and 
 Succefs. Living at Mnyfield he would be often an 
 Tunbrldge Wells in the Summer feafen : And died 
 in Aueuft, 1678. 
 
 Pag. 697. Mr. JOHN CROUCH, of Lewis. He 
 had his Education at Oxford. He never was Paftor 
 to any Congregation, but fometimes preach'd occafi- 
 onally in the Country, and fometimes refided at 
 London. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. JOHN P ANTON, M. A, mention'd be- 
 fore pag.j 1 ). Of All-Souls inOxon. He preach'd near 
 the Univerfity before his Ejectment, and afterwards 
 practis'd Phyfick in the City of London. His Bro- 
 ther Mr. Henry Panton, pra&is'd Phyfick at Lewes, 
 but never preach'd. 
 
 Pag. 698. I'm. i. Mr. JOHN WALWIN of BV- 
 tlcworth is mention'd as conforming afterwards. Dr. 
 Walker^ Att. Part II. p. 275, gives him a difmal Cha- 
 racter. He fays, he was a Fellow of a profligate 
 Life, and had gone about the Country, riding into 
 the Churches to difturb the Service, G?c. And that 
 once when he did fo, he call'd out aloud to the 
 Congregation as they were fingtng the Pfalm, and 
 told them he thought them extremely merry, with- 
 out Pot or Pipe. But I doubt the Doctor will find 
 his telling fuch Stories could not anfwer his End,' 
 when this Man was allow'd ftill to continue a Preach- 
 er, upon his conforming, while other excellent Per- 
 fons of great Worth were filenc'd, for not comply- 
 ing with Things which the Impofers themfelves own- 
 ed to be indifferent. 
 
 R 2
 
 834 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, 
 
 NORTH WALES. 
 
 The EJECTED, fcf c . 
 
 I N 
 
 FLINTSHIRE. 
 
 Pug. 698. TpronTHENBUHT: Mr. PHI LIT 
 *' HENRY. At the. End of the Ac- 
 count of him, let it be added, that (ince the Publi- 
 cation of my Second Edition, Mr. Tong printed an 
 Account of Mr. Matthew Henry, in 8-yo, who was 
 Son of the faid Mr. Philip Henry, and a Son every 
 Way worthy of fuch a Father. It from thence ap- 
 pears that the faid Mr. Matthew Henry was born at 
 Broad Oat(. in Flint/hire, Oftob. 18, i66z, near two 
 Months after the Black Bartholomew. He had feri- 
 ous Imprelfions of Religion from his Childhood ; 
 and was introduced into Grammar Learning by Mr. 
 H^illiam Turner, Vicar of Walburtcn in Sujfex, who 
 liv'd at that Time with his Father ; and his Father 
 carried him on in it, and he continu'd under his Eye 
 and Care till he was about eighteen Years of Age j 
 by which Time, he was very expert in the learned 
 Languages, and efpecially in the Hebrew. In the 
 Year 1680, he was lent to London, and plac'd in the 
 Family, and under the Care of Mr. Thomas Doolittlc, 
 who liv'd then at IJlington : And after fome time he 
 return'd to his Father's Houfe, purfuing his Studies 
 with great Application, and eminently growing in 
 Wifdom and Grace. In April 1685 he came again 
 to London, and went to Grays Inn, and follow'd the 
 
 Study
 
 in NORTH WALES. 835 
 
 Studv of the Law. In June 1686 he reuirn'd to 
 Broad Oak.., and preach'd as a Candidate tor the 
 Mitt'ntry with great Acceptation and Encouragemenr. 
 He was afterwards applied to by the Diifenters at 
 Chefter to come and ferric with them, and Liberty 
 being granted by the Government, he after very fe- 
 rious Preparation, was ordam'd at London, in M*y 
 1687, by Mt. William Wickens, Mr. Francis TaUents, 
 Mr. Edward Lawrence, Mr. Natbanael Vincent, Mr. 
 fames Owen, and Mr. Richard Stcele, and went down 
 to Chefter, and fettled there, according to. the Invi- 
 tation given him. In that City, and in all the Parts 
 adjacent, he was abundant in his Labours, both fta- 
 ted and occalional, and his Life was continually 
 fill'd up with Service. He continu'd at Chejlcr 
 about five and twenty Years, and was exceedingly 
 efteem'd and lov'd. He was feveral Times folici- 
 ted to fettle in London, but was not to be prevail- 
 ed with till the Death of Mr. Biltio, who had fuo 
 ceeded Dr. Bates at Hackney. After great Solicita- 
 tion, in the Year 1711 he remov'd from Chefter thi- 
 ther, and belidcs his ftared Work, was as frequently 
 engag'd as any Man, in all Parts of the City and 
 Suburbs. But Providence fo order'd it, that he 
 ihould go down to his Friends in Che/hire, and die 
 there. He made them a Vifit for two Years toge- 
 ther according to his Promi!e, and in the laft of 
 them, having fpent fome time at Chcjler, he was re- 
 turning for London, and preach'd by the Way, ac 
 Kantwich, after having had a Fall from his Horfe. 
 After that he went to Bed, at Mr. Metier/bed's ; 
 had a reftlefs Nigh% and ac five a-ClocK next 
 Morning, June ^^, had an Apopleclick Fit, and 
 died in it three Hours after. He had this memora- 
 ble Saying the Night before to his particular Friend 
 Mr. Illidge, that a Life fpent in the Service of God, 
 And Communion with hint, is the moft comfortable and 
 plccfant Life that an} one can live in this World. 
 
 Pag. 708. Hanmere : Mr. RICHARD STEELS.' 
 To his Writings may be added, a Prefacce with 
 fome Account of the Life of Mr. Themes Froyfel, be- 
 fore his Sermons of Grace and Toinpta:ions. His 
 R 3 Funeral
 
 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 Funeral Sermon was preach'd by Mr. George Ham- 
 mond, from a Tim. ii. 15. 
 
 Pag. 708. "Beingor : Mr. FOGG, Sen. His Name was 
 ROBERT. He here fucceededMr.Hewr)' Bridgcman. 
 See Qt.lValker, P. II. p. 212. In the latter Part of his 
 Time he liv'd alone and had no one with him : But 
 he gave a Friend of his, (Mr. Kjng] an Order, if he 
 did not appear within fuch a Time, to break open his 
 Door. He ufually kept his Coffin by him. He was a 
 Man of ftrong Paffions, and had fome particular Fan- 
 cies ; but his ftricT: Piety was eminent and remarkable. 
 He had been a very active Man in the Parliament 
 Times. When Prince Rupert took Eolton and put 
 fb many to the Sword, he had a narrow Efcape. 
 Having fet his Man to wait with two Horfes at a 
 certain Place, he determin'd if the Town was ta- 
 ken, to ride for his Life : But when he came thi- 
 ther, his Man and the Horfes were gone. He hap- 
 pened to meet with another Horfe, and made ufe 
 of that and efcap'd, or elfe he had loft his Life ; 
 for the Prince had a particular Aim at him. In the 
 War-time, he married his fecond Wife, who prov'd 
 a Pafift ; and her Sons were in the King's Army, 
 and much inrag'd againft their Father in Law. One 
 of them came to the Town where he liv'd, and fent 
 him a Challenge. Without letting his Wife know 
 any Thing of the Matter, he took his Sword under 
 his Coat and met him, and fo humbled the young 
 Man that he was glad to be reconcil'd. When his 
 Wife afterwards underftood it, fhe was fo far from 
 being difpleas'd at it, as to fay, that if her Husband 
 had not humbled him fhe fhould never have lov'd 
 him. About the Year 1660, one came to him to 
 have his Child baptiz'd, but would have it crofs'd. 
 Said he to the Man, I will not crofs it : But if you 
 will go to my Son Roland, he will crofs it, and crofs 
 thee, and crofs me too. He went conftantly to 
 Church at Namptwica or AElon, and preach'd afrer 
 Sermon on the Lord's Days, and alfo on the Week- 
 days. He had a ftrong Body, and a ftern Counte- 
 nance. When he was on his Death-bed, his Son 
 the Dean of Chefter was with him. He fpake much 
 
 of
 
 in NORTH WALES. 837 
 
 of the Evil of Sin, wifliing he could perfuade all that 
 vifited him to have the fame Thoughts of it as he 
 had, and to leave it. He was large and affectio- 
 nate in his Penitential Confeflions, and very earned 
 in begging Pardon of GOD: And he was blefs'd 
 with a Senfe of GOD'S pardoning Love and Mercy 
 in a wonderful Manner, to his great Joy and Com- 
 fort, and the Refreshment of others, upon his dif- 
 covering it. Once after a fainting Fit he.faid, I had 
 like to have got to Heaven too etfily : But when I felt 
 fomc Pain I thought on that Scripture ; many are the 
 Troubles of the Righteous, but the Lord deliver eth him 
 out of them all. He would often fay, The Will of 
 my heavenly Father be done. Let him lay upon me 
 what he pleafes. I am in his Hand, who waited on 
 me a great while : And why Jhould not I wait ? God's 
 Time is the beft for all Things. When one ask'd 
 him how we might know our Intereft in the Promi- 
 fes ? He anfwer'd ; we muft firft know our Intereft 
 in CHRIST; which (faid he) may be known by 
 the Working of his SPIRIT in us, as a guiding 
 and ruling Spirit. As he drew near his End, he 
 would fometimes be infenfible for fome Hours, and 
 then come to himfelf again ; and finding his Chri- 
 ftian Friends about him, would fay ; O what hat my 
 dear Father done for me, unworthy me; to let me have 
 the Company and Prayers of his dear Children at fuch 
 A Time as this ! He was lively in his Spirit to Ad- 
 miration, and would rejoice when he fpake of 
 Death, and difcover his Longing for that Time, that 
 he might be at Reft : And yet he was content to 
 wait for it, till Go n's Time came. The Day be- 
 fore he died, Mr. Philip Henry coming to fee him, 
 he begg'd him to pray with him, and he not only 
 join'd, but faid Amen feveral times with rejoicing, 
 and was much rcviv'd by the Petitions he ofFer'd 
 up for him. When he had done he thank'd him, 
 andblefs'dGoD for him, and faid, The Lord malic 
 your Reward great in Heaven.^ He died in April 1676,' 
 in the Town of Namptwich, and was buried at Afton.' 
 When Mr. Henry ask d him about his Nonconformity, 
 he faid I have conform'd too far ; thank Mr. Henry for 
 it. When he died, he was about eighty Years of Age. 
 R 4
 
 8 3 8 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifhrs, &c- 
 
 Pag; 712. At the End of the Account of Mr. 
 HUGH OWEN, Jet this be added; 
 
 Ke had a Son, Mr. John Owen, who was bred to 
 the Miniftry, among the DilTenters, who died about 
 thirty Years of Age ; of whom fee Mr. Tongs Life 
 of Mr. Matthew Henry, p. 277. 
 
 This Mr. Hugh Owen, was alfo fome time aflifted 
 by Mr. James Owen, who was a very coniiderable 
 Man, and was afterwards of Ofweftry and Salop: 
 And an Account of his Life and Writings was pub- 
 lifh'd by his Brother Mr. Charles Owen of Harring- 
 ton in %vo, 1709. There are alfo fome hints con- 
 cerning him, in Mr. Tong's Life of Mr. Matthew 
 Henry, p. 281, 183. He was very ufeful in the 
 Capaciry of a Tutor, to feveral Perfons that are now 
 doing GOD good Service, borh in Church and Stare. 
 
 Pag. 716. Llanrnler : Mr. JONATHAN ROBERTS, 
 Addj he was educa.ed in Oxford. 
 
 SOUTH WALES. 
 
 I'be EJECTED, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 County of CARDIGAN. 
 
 fVm. 716. /~>4I{DIGAN: Mr. CHARLES PRICE. 
 
 ^ Add ; He was a Native of Radnor- 
 
 fol-c - y and preach*d fome Years in this County as
 
 in SOUTH WALES. 839 
 
 a n Itinerant. He was diligent in his publick Work, 
 and edifying in "his private Difcourfe. After the 
 Reftoration he pafs'd into England, and. liv'd and 
 died at Hammerjmith, near London. 
 
 Pag. ii6.Bangor: Mr. JOHN EVANS. Add; He 
 was born in this County. He was remarkably caH'd 
 home to G o D by the Gofpel : For when he profan- 
 ed the Sabbath in the Morning, he under an Even- 
 ing Sermon thfe fame Day, became a New Crea- 
 ture. In procefs of Time he was call'd to the Mi- 
 niftry, and ordain'd by Presbyters. Though his ac- 
 quir'd Parrs were not remarkable, yet his Zeal was 
 grear, and he was indefatigably diligent, and indu- 
 ftrious, and his Labours were crown'd with Succefs. 
 He ferv'd the Congregation at Kalian feveral Years. 
 After the Reftoration he was much retnpred to con- 
 form : His great Patron David Lloyd Gwyn, offer- 
 ed him a rich Parfonage : But he durft not accept 
 it. He died foon after the 'Uniformity 4ft took 
 Place. 
 
 Ibid. Landcvroigge ; Mr. EVAN HUGHES. 
 Add; He drew his rirft Breath in this County. He 
 was fcripturally ordain'd. He was a very plain and 
 affectionate Preacher, and did good to many. He 
 had various Trials and Difficulties ; but his Pati- 
 ence was exemplary. He was but low in the World, 
 and yet contented and eafy. 
 
 Ibid. Tregaron : Mr. JOHN HARRIS. He is 
 mention'd as one of the Welch Itinerant* who re- 
 ceiv'd a Salary both in Brecon and Radnor/hire by 
 Dr. Walkfr t Part II. p. 158. 
 
 Two others are alfo fince my laft Edition menti- 
 oned to me, as belonging to this County of Cardi- 
 gan. 
 
 Mr. JOHN HANMER. He was a Radnor/hire Man^ 
 and ferv'd the Congregation of I\ellan with great 
 Humility, ajid Succefs feveral Years. Meeting with 
 went into his own Country, but did 
 
 not
 
 840 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifiers, 8fC. 
 
 not give over Preaching to his dying day ; and he 
 liv'd to a good old-Age. He alfo is mention'd by 
 Dr. Walks*, Part I. p. 158, as receiving a Salary, 
 both in Brecon and Radnor. 
 
 Mr. RODERICK THOMAS. He was defign'd and 
 brought up for the Miniftry in the Church of England, 
 but his Thoughts afterwards took another Turn. 
 He and Mr. Evan Hughes were ordain'd together 
 by Presbyters. He for fome Years ferv'd the Parifti 
 of Llanihangel Croyddyn in this County. He was 
 once prevail'd with by his Friends to read the Eng- 
 ttfh Liturgy, but was troubled for it ever after, and 
 would never return to it any more, 
 
 Pag. 716. Llanbadern Vawire: Mr. DAVID JONES. 
 Born in this County, and well educated. He was 
 a Man of good Learning. He was ordain'd by 
 Presbyters, and for fbme Years ferv'd this Parifh. 
 He was a plain but foccefsful Preacher. When he 
 was ejected and lilenc'd by Authority, he maintain- 
 ed himfelf and his Family by keeping a Grammar 
 School ; preaching as he had Opportunity, for which 
 he was feveral times in Trouble. He died of a 
 Consumption, but with a joyful Hope, and fteady 
 iTruft in GOD. 
 
 Pag. 717. Mr. THOMAS EVANS of Ifcard after- 
 wards conform'd. Had Dr. Walter but been fenfi- 
 ble of that, I hardly think he would have men- 
 tioned his receiving a Salary both in Cardigan and 
 J(adnor in the Time of the Welch Itinerants, Part 
 I. p. 153.
 
 in SOUTH WALES. 841 
 
 The EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 I N 
 
 PEMBROKESHIRE. 
 
 Pag. 717. f LANGONE: Mr. PEREGRINE 
 ^ P H i L i PS. Born at a Place call- 
 ed Amlrn in the County of Pembroke, An 1613 5 
 his Father who was a good old Puritan, being Mi- 
 nifter of the Place, and differing for not reading 
 the Bool^ of Sports, call'd the tVhite Book.. He had 
 his Education, firft at the publick School in Ha- 
 verford iVejl ; then under the Inftru&ion of Sir Ed- 
 ward Hurleys Chaplain, at Brampton Bryan in Here" 
 ford/hire ; then under the Care of Dr. Thomas after- 
 wards Biftiop of St Davi<fs $ and upon leaving him, 
 he went to Oxford, and continu'd there purfuing his 
 ftudies, till he was forc'd to retreat, by the Civil 
 War. He firft officiated in the Church, as Curate 
 to his Uncle Dr. Collins, Minifter of J^idwelly t in 
 Caermarthenjhire ; and from thence he rempv'd to 
 this Living, which he enjoy 'd feveral Years. Se- 
 veral Gentlemen of the County taking Notice of 
 his Abilities, were for preferring him to fome 
 Place or Places more equal to his Merit. And ac- 
 cordingly, Sir Hugh Owen Barr, Sir Roger Lort Bart, 
 and Sir John Mcyrick., preferr'd him to Mounton, 
 near Pembroke ; and then to St Mar/s, and Ccfocfton, 
 that were reckon'd considerable Livings, and fome 
 of the belt in that County. And he was at the 
 Pains of preaching three times every Lord's Day, 
 once in each of his Churches, did Abundance of 
 Good, and was generally reputed the belt Preacher 
 
 in
 
 #4 2 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 in thofe Parts ; and even to this Day his Name is 
 mentioned with great Honour aad Refpect among 
 the People. 
 
 In thofe Days Oliver Cmnwel came with an Army 
 into thofe Parts, and laid Siege to Pembroke, and took 
 it after feveral Affaults : And during the Time of that 
 Siege, Mr. Philips was much expos'd, and conrinu'd 
 preaching to and labouring amongft his People, tho' 
 he fometimes had the Balls flying abou: him, and 
 was in great Danger ; but was wonderfully prefer- 
 ved. Oliver hearing of his Fame, fent to him to 
 preach ac one of his Churches before the Officers of 
 his Army, which he did wirh general Approbation, 
 and was afterwards much favour'd by him. A Num- 
 ber of Men of War lying at Milford, being defign- 
 cd for the Reduction of Ireland, Cromwel got him on 
 board them, and would have him put up a Prayer in 
 each of the Ships before they fail'd. He afterwards, 
 as Occafion offer'd, preach'd in almoft every Church 
 in the County, both in Weljh and EngHJh j and al- 
 fo before the Judges, at the AiTizes, at Cardigan, 
 Ceiermnrthen, and Havcrford PJ^efl. He being ac that 
 Time one of the Committee-men, was an Inftru- 
 ment of keeping feveral worthy Minifters in their 
 Places : But at the Reftoration, was himfelf eject- 
 ed out of his Livings, and oblig'd to retire to a 
 Country Farm call'd Dredgmanhill, and became Te- 
 nant tc^Sir Herbert Pcrrot, who was his great Friend 
 in moft of the unhappy Troubles he afterwards met 
 with : And feveral other leading Men of the County 
 difcover'd a great Regard for him. 
 
 There happen'd at Carmarthen a confiderable Dif- 
 pute between Mr. Philips and Dr. Reynolds, about 
 Ceremonies and Difcipline in the Church: And ano- 
 ther of the fame Nature between him and his old 
 Turor Bifliop "Thorns, which was afterwards printed 
 by the Bifhop, contrary to the Delign or Knowledge 
 of Mr. Philips. He was foon after profecuted on 
 the Five Mile A&, and a Number of his Cattle was 
 taken away by the Bailiff, by Order of Mr. Howard 
 the High Sheriff', who fome time after, when he lay 
 upon his Death bed, ask'd him Forgivenefs, which 
 was readily granted - 3 but his Cattle were never reftor'd. 
 
 He
 
 in SOUTH WALES. 84? 
 
 He was again taken up fome time after, and made 
 clofe Prifoner in the Middle of Harveft, none being 
 left to manage his Farm, but a Wife, with five fmali 
 Children, and a very few Servants.When he had been 
 two Months confin'd, he fell fick, and was difcharg'd 
 by the Ccmmiflioners : And Sir Herbert Pcrrot fent his 
 Coach to carry him home to his own Habitation, 
 where he lay a long Time ill of a Fever, and was 
 given over by his Phyficians : But a Day of Fafting 
 and Prayer being fet apart by many ferious Chrifti- 
 ans in thofe Parts, on his Account, GOD was plea- 
 fed wonderfully to reftore and raife him. He was caft 
 into Prifon a fecond Time for keeping a Conventi- 
 cle in his Houfe, and the Judges and Bifhop Thomas 
 coming then to the AfTizes at Haverford Weft, made 
 him confiderable Offers if he would conform ; but 
 nothing prevailing they fet him at Liberty : And yet 
 ftill he was troubled with Fines, and Out-lawries ; 
 his Houfe was fearch'd by the Deputy Lieutenants, 
 Bailiffs, Conftables, #c. for he would not defift 
 from preaching in his Houfe, and labouring among 
 his People by Night ; nay he preach'd to a Num- 
 ber of People that would come to him, even wheu 
 he was in Prifon. 
 
 When Liberty was granted Diffenters by King 
 Barnes, he preach'd to two Congregations e*ery 
 Lord's Day : In the Morning at Dredgmanbill ; and 
 in the Afternoon at Haverford Weft, both Places being 
 rhrong'd with great Numbers of People. 
 
 Some few Years before his Deceafe, he met with 
 a Deliverance that was very wonderful, which de- 
 ferves to be recorded. As he was travelling home- 
 ward, riding over a Place call'd Fraiftrop (in which 
 there were a great many Coal-pits,) late at Night, 
 he unhappily fell into a Pit that was very deep, and 
 about half full of Water. The Pit being narrow, 
 his Horfe was wedg'd fait, about fix Yards deep, 
 and neither Man nor Horfe could ftir. A deaf old 
 Woman and her Grandchild travelling that Way, the 
 Child heard a great Noife, and with much Difficul- 
 ty perfuaded the old Woman to go out of her Road 
 among thofe dangerous Pits, to find out the Caufe of 
 it ; and at lift came to the Mouth of the Pic where 
 
 Mr.
 
 844 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, &C. 
 
 Mr. Philips was. She concluded there was little 
 or no Hope of faving his Life, and yet immediate- 
 ly went to Capt. Longman's, who was then Proprie- 
 tor of thofe Pits, and had been an intimate Friend 
 of Mr. Philips^ for many Years. With the utmoft 
 Surprize and Affection, he prefently brought a great 
 many of his Workmen, and with the Help of Ropes, 
 and fome Inftruments they had at Hand, drew him 
 up fafe, and without any confiderable Hurt ; for 
 which furprizing Providence he and many others 
 were very thankful. There was a perfect Harmo- 
 ny in his Family, and he was ufeful to his whole 
 Neighbourhood, and took no fmall Pleafure in re- 
 conciling Differences. He continued in Service to 
 the very laft ; preaching twice the very Lord's Day 
 before his Death: And after a fhort Sicknefs, ex- 
 chang'd this for a better Life, on Sept. 17, 1691, in 
 the fixty. eighth Year of his Age. Nothing of his is 
 printed, except the Letters between him and Bifhop 
 Thomas : But there are fome Sermons of his in Ma- 
 nufcript, upon the Words of our SAVIOUR to %ac- 
 ch<eut, which fome have thought might be ufeful if 
 publifh'd. 
 
 Pag. 717. Pembroke: Mr. JOHN BY WATER, 
 mention'd before, fag. 610. 
 
 Pag. 718. tin. 2. Mr. STEPHEN YOUNG is 
 mention'd as conforming. Dr. Walker, Part I. p. 
 160, fays, that he bore a Partifan to guard the Scaf- 
 fold, at the Death of J^ing Charles. But I fuppofe 
 the Dodior forgat he conform'd, which I fhould have 
 thought might have bid fair for obliterating paft 
 Offences. 
 
 And I cannot help obferving, that whereas Dr. 
 there quotes Dr. Toung, in Proof that the 
 Managers in thofe Times, fill'd the Vacancies in the 
 Sequeftred Livings, with Cookj, Renters, Tailors, 
 Weavers, Shooemakfrs, Feltmakgrs, Stockjngmenders, 
 "Millers, Gingcrbreadmakers, Collarmakfrs, Carpenters, 
 and Cbeefvatmakers ; there were as many of them 
 that fell in with the Church and conformed, as ftood 
 out, and remained Nonconformifts. So that the Doc- 
 tor
 
 n SOUTH WALES. 
 
 tor had no great Occafion herein to triumph over 
 us ; and for any Thing that appears, might as well 
 to the full have fpar'd his Pains. 
 
 The E J E C T E D, fck- ' 
 
 I N 
 
 CARMARTHENSHIRE. 
 
 Pag. ixo. TUT EIGHTH: Mr. JAMES DAVIS: 
 * Add; He was of Radnor/hire, and 
 wanted not for School Learning. He was ordain'd 
 regularly. He was ejected out of Merthyr $ and 
 afterward ferv'd the Flock allotted him in the lower 
 Part of Cardigan ; and in the uppermoft Part of 
 Pembroke/hire, in the Heat of Perfecution, as well as 
 in the Time of Liberty. He was a hard Student, 
 and ever intent upon improving himfelf. He was 
 very humble, loving, and refpedful, to all the fin- 
 cere Lovers of CHRIST. His Sermons were fo- 
 lid, clear, and affectionate, and eminently attended 
 with a Blefling. He bore many Afflictions patient- 
 ly, and at laft died comfortably, and was much la- 
 mented by all that knew him. Dr. Walker fays he 
 was a Labourer : But if he had been fo, I doubt 
 the Church allow'd many to preach in thofe Parts 
 that were not much better qualified than he. 
 
 Ibid. LlandeJJllio ; Mr. DAVID JONBS. Add ; 
 Tho' he was taking Pains to do good to Souls in 
 this barren Country, yet he met with great Difficul- 
 ties, and much Oppofition : And once a Writ dc 
 cjccommunicato cafiendo was out againft him. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. RICE PRUTHERO. Add ; He was 
 born, ordain'd, and died on St. Paul's Day. A little 
 
 before
 
 846 The Ejefled or Silenced Minifters, 8cc. 
 
 before his Death, he told a Friend, that his Life had 
 been a Life of Wonder. The Day that he fell ill, 
 he had a Meeting in his own Houie ; and after he 
 had done his Work, he took his Leave of the Peo- 
 ple in a familiar Way, and told one of them that 
 he was not well, and defir'd him to help him up 
 Stairs to his Study, where his Bed was ; upon which 
 he laid himfelf down, and fpoke no more, but was 
 feiz'd with an Apopledick Fit that carried him off. 
 He had confiderable Offers made him if he would 
 have conform'd, from Dr. Thomas then Bifliop of St. 
 David's, and afterwards of Worcefter, who always 
 carried it to him with a great deal of Refped. 
 
 The EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 I N 
 
 GLAMORGANSHIRE. 
 
 p *&- 719. JfOSSILLT: Mr. DANIEL 
 
 Dr. Walker complains of him that he 
 did not allow his fequeftred Predeceflbr any thing 
 to fupport him and his Children. Att Part II. p. 
 2,58. But where can he give me an Inftance of any 
 of thofe that came into the Room of thofe that were 
 eje&ed in 62, and whofe Titles were unqueftio- 
 nable, that allow'd any thing to their Predeceflbrs, 
 lee their Circumftances be ever fo dtftrefled, and 
 their Families ever fo numerous ? He left a Son 
 in the Mirtiftry among the DilfenterS, ac the Town 
 of Evejhnm in the County of Worcefler. 
 
 73 1. St Pbagens: Mr. EDMUND ELLIS. 
 Dr. Walker mentions him, Part I. p. 161 j and again, 
 Parr II. p. 3^1. 
 
 Pag.
 
 in S O U T H W A L E S. 47 
 
 Pag. 731. St Andrews - y Mr. JOSHUA MILLER : Of 
 whom I faid, he was a. London Bookseller, but ejeRcd 
 meerly becaufe he could not conform. Upon which 
 Mr. Lewis in his written Obfervations on my Account, 
 &c. fays, How could that be, if he was not in Or- 
 ders ? Could a Layman be Minifter of a Parifh ? I 
 anfwer if he could have conform'd, as fome others 
 in the like Circumftances in thofe Parts did, he 
 might have been ordain'd, and continu'd in the Place 
 he was in, as others did, and therefore it was his 
 Nonconformity was the proper Caufe of his Eject- 
 ment. This was the fequeftred Living of Dr. Hugh 
 Lloyd, ment-ion'd by Dr. Walker, Pan II, p. 16. 
 
 Ibid. Illftcn : Mr. JOHN MILES. This was the 
 fequeftred Living of Mr. William Hougbton, Walker, 
 Part II. p. 278. Mr. Miles after his Ejedment went 
 to New England. 
 
 ' 73"*" Cadagftonc juxta Neath : Mr. JENKYN 
 JONES. He is mention'd by Dr. Walker, Part I, p. 
 159, io. And again, Part II, p. 286. He rook 
 great Pains in feveral Counties, nnd was for fome 
 time imprifon'd r So fays Mr. H. Jejjey, in his Piece 
 intit. The Lord's Call to England, p. 14. 
 
 ibid. Llaingeinwr : Mr. THOMAS JOSEPH, 
 mention'd alfo by Dr. Walker, Pare I, p. 161 j and 
 again, Part II, p. 258. 
 
 Ibid. Glyncorrwg : Mr. How EL THOMAS, men- 
 tion'd alfo by Dr. Walker, Parr II, p. 258. 
 
 ' 733- Mr. DAVID DAVIES of Neath. He 
 it feems was againft Tithes before he got into the 
 Living, and afrerwards much for them : Dr. Wal- 
 ker, Part II. p. 228. But much worfe Things may 
 be truly faid of many of the Dodtor's Worthies. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. EVAN GRIFFYTHS of Oxwiche, is 
 mention'd as conforming : . And Dr. Walker in his 
 Att. Part II. p. 259, fays, that he became aftf rw "I* 
 
 VOL. II. S as
 
 ,848 The Ejeffed or Siknfd Mimfters, &c. 
 
 tK violent a Persecutor of the Dijjenters, as he had been 
 of the Hcyalifts: And he repeats it again, Part II. p. 
 159 : And indeed it is no uncommon Thing to run 
 from one Extream to another. 
 
 733- Mr. HENRY Ni COLLS of Ccychurch 
 is alfb mention'd as conforming afterwards. And of 
 him Dr. Walter, Part II. p. 374, takes Notice, that 
 he had not only the Profits of this great Living, but 
 an Addition of too / a Year. 
 
 The E J E C T E D, fcfc. 
 
 I N 
 
 Pag. 733. "DATI^ISHO: Mr. ELI AS HARVY,~ 
 *- or H A R R Y. Dr. Walker, Part I. p. 
 f i 60, fays he was a Weaver ; and he repeats it again, 
 fart II. p. 2,27. But if we may judge by others, 
 he would not upon that Account have been refus'd, 
 if he would have come into the Eftablifhed Church. 
 
 F Ibid. Kjtheden: Mr. JON. EDWARDS. I do 
 not know what Reafon Dr. iValker had Att. Part I. 
 p. 1 60, to take this Mr. Jen. Edwards of Jf^efheden, 
 to be John Edward of Langorfe, the Shooemaker, 
 when the Name of the Place and Perfon too differs. 
 However he has it again, Part II. p. 258 ; only then 
 he calls him Edwards. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. DAVID WILLIAM PJLOBERT, at 
 an uncertain Place. Dr. Walker fays, he was a 
 Ploughman, Pare I. p. 160; and has it again, Part II. 
 p. 239, only then he mentions Llandevylog as the 
 Place. But ftill he might have got a Living, as well 
 as a great many others, if he would but have con- 
 forma.
 
 in SOUTH WALES. 
 
 849 
 
 The EJECTED, &c. 
 
 I N 
 
 RADNORSHIRE* 
 
 Ptg. 734- 
 
 Sridgnorth. 
 98. 
 
 M 
 
 R. Sw A INE. 
 
 was fome time 
 See his Life 
 
 Mr. Baxter fays he 
 Schoolmafter at 
 in Folio, Part III. pj 
 
 Notwithstanding all the Complaints that have been 
 made with Refpedl to the Management of thefe 
 Pans, between the Years 164.8 and 1660, the great 
 Wkltloc^ in his celebrated Memoirs, p. 518, affures 
 us, that in September 1651, there were one hundred 
 and fifty good Preachers in the thirteen Welch Coun- 
 ties, and moft of them preach'd three or four times 
 a Week. And he adds, that in every Market Town, 
 was plac'd one Schoolmafter; and in moft great 
 Towns two Schoolmafters, that w^ere able, learned,; 
 and Univerfity-men. 
 
 S 2
 
 850 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, 8rc. 
 
 ******************************* 
 
 The EJECTED, 
 
 I N T HE 
 
 County of WARWICK. 
 
 Pag. 736. TN the City of Coventry: JOHN BRY- 
 JL A N, D. D. At the End of the Account 
 of him, add ; He. had three Sons, John, Samuel, and 
 Noah, all of them (ilenc'd Minifters. 
 
 Befides what is mention'd, he hath in Print, A 
 Difcovery of the -probable Sin, caujing the great Judg- 
 ment of I(ain and Water : A Sermon f reached at Co- 
 ventry, Dec. 13, 1^47, 4*0. 
 
 Ibid. O B A D i A H G R E w, D. D. At the End 
 of the Account of him, add ; When the Minifters 
 were turn'd out, on Aug. 14, 1662, Bifhop Hackft, 
 was particularly urgent with him and Dr. Bryan, to 
 bring them to Conformity ; and gave them leave 
 to preach a Month longer : But then he preach'd 
 his Farewel Sermon. 
 
 In the Time of the Plague in 1665 (which gave 
 a general Alarum, though it did but juft come into 
 the City) he began to keep open Meetings. He 
 was forc'd by the Oxford Aft to remove. But af- 
 terwards, for many Years, he had large Meetings, 
 till in the Year 1681 all publick Meetings were 
 fupprefs'd there. It was in that Year he was impri- 
 foned for living in the City. "While he was there, 
 a City Officer coming to fee him, faid he durft not 
 but vifit him there, remembring Mat. xxv. 43. I 
 was in Prifon, and ye vifited me not. But then faid 
 h$ to one chat fate by, (from whom I have it) what 
 
 have
 
 in the County of W A R W I C K. 851 
 
 have they to anfwer for, that put him in ? He was 
 very painful in his Studies, even after he was blind: 
 Nay, he was not idle when he was in Prifon. 
 
 One great and manifeft Defign of his Preaching 
 was to encourage Faith in CHRIST-JESUS. In 
 his younger Days, he had been much cxercis'd 
 about the Concerns of his Soul, and eagerly employ- 
 ed his Thoughts upon thofe Truths, which he found 
 had the greateft Tendency to relieve and fupport 
 his troubled Spirit. And in any Cafe, where GOD 
 by his HOLY SPIRIT brings the Word that is preach- 
 ed home to the Confciences of thofe that hear it, 
 a Number is commonly found, that not only need 
 to be instructed, and excited to their Duty, but fup- 
 ported and encourag'd againft their Troubles, Fears 
 and Defpondencies. The good Doctor having drunk 
 deep in fpiritual Trouble, earneftly endeavour'd to 
 have a firm and ftedfaft Faith in CHRIST'S Satisfaction 
 and Merits, and to promote the fame in others alfo. 
 But he did not teach Faith without Repentance, nor 
 endeavour to bring People to truft in G o D'S Mer- 
 cy, without Regard to his Commandments. He 
 was far from being an Antinomiein, either in Doc- 
 trine or Practice. Mr. Hotchlys in his Book of Im- 
 futed Hjghteoufnefs, taxes the Doctor for fome Paf- 
 iages in his Sermons on Ifa. xxiii. 6. And yet in 
 the Subftance of the Doctrine, there is no Diffe- 
 rence between him and the Doctor : They differ 
 in Terms and Ways of exprefling themfelves, rather 
 than in Matter. On one Side there was a great 
 Concern ftirring to promote Fear in order to the 
 awakening the Carnal and Secure ; and on the other 
 to promote Hope, in order to the comforting the 
 Godly, and the encouraging fuch as are foften'd 
 and humbled : And fuch a Difference there was be- 
 twixt St. James and St. Paul. It is not to be deni- 
 ed but that many of thofe that have afferted the 
 Imputation of CHRIST'S active and paifive Righ- 
 teoufnefs to Believers as their Righteoufnefs, have 
 been as careful to promote Repentance and Holi- 
 nefs, as any Men whatever. However the Doctor 
 was not (like fome others) forward to cenfure thofe 
 that did not exprefs themfelves in fuch Points juft 
 S 3 as
 
 852 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 as they did, whom he moft efteem'd and follow'd : 
 But was a Man of great Candor and Moderation. 
 Mr. "Baxter had been his Acquaintance, and he us'd 
 to fpeak of him with great Refpedr, and of others 
 alfo, that us'd a different Way of Expreffion from 
 that which he preferred. He lov'd all that fear'd 
 the LORD; and yet thought as Davenant and others 
 before him, that Fides juftificans eft Fiducia in Chri- 
 Jlum Mediatorem. Hope in the Cafe of undone 
 Sinners, arifes from a firm Belief that JESUS is the 
 CHRIST, the Son of G o D, and goes along with 
 godly Sorrow for Sin, and a Care to turn from it. 
 The true Believer takes CHRIST for his L o B. D 
 hs well as his S A v i o u R. And if Truft or Reli- 
 ance be the juftifying A(5r, it cannot be blameable, 
 to be for laying much Strefs upon it ; and for teach- 
 ing, encouraging, and prefling it. The Apoftle plain- 
 ly lays no fmall Strefs upon it, when he fays we 
 are juftified by C H R i s T'S Blood ; and calls the 
 Faith by which we are juftify'd, Faith in his Blood ; 
 and trufting in CHRIST, I(pm. v. ix, and iii, 15. 
 Ephef. i. n, 13. Archbifhop Vjher in his Sermon 
 on Ephef. iv. 13, before King James, has a Paflage 
 that is very applicable to our Purpofe. The Israelites 
 (fays he) with the fame Eyes, and the fame vifive 
 Faculty, wherewith they beheld the Sands and Moun- 
 tains in the Defart, did look^ upon the Brazen Ser- 
 pent alfo, but were cured by fafiening their Sight, up' 
 on that alone, and not by looking upon any other Ob- 
 jsl : So by the fame Faith and knowledge where- 
 by we are juftified, we undcrjland that the World was 
 framed by the WorA of God, and believe all other 
 Truths revealed : And yet fides qua juftificans Faith 
 as it doth juftify us, doth not look, upon thefe, but 
 fixeth itfelf folely ' upon the Sen of God, not knowing 
 nr.y thing here, but Jefus Chrift and him crucified. 
 
 Dr. Grews Wife was Widow ro Mr. Sampfon, a 
 pious Gentleman, by whom flie had Mr. Henry Samp- 
 fon, who was bred to the Miniftry, but turn'd to 
 Phyfick, after the Reftoration, and another Son who 
 was a conforming Minifter. Mr. Sampfon dying 
 young, and leaving his Wife young, on his Death- 
 Led commended Jvlr. (after Dr.) Grew to her for a 
 
 fecon4
 
 in the County of WARWICK. 85? 
 
 fecond Husband. By him ftie had that excellent 
 Philofopher and Phylician, Dr. Nehemiah Grew ; and 
 a Daughter Mrs. Mary Grew, a very pious Perfon, 
 who was married to Mr. Wills, a nonconforming 
 Minifter. This Mr. IVills was M. A. of the Uni- 
 verfity of Oxford, a good Scholar, and particularly 
 well skill'd in the Hebrew Tongue on which he be- * 
 ftowed much Study. He was a pious Man, and 
 very ferious and excellent in Prayer, bur was not to 
 be perfuaded to preach, tho' he was ordain'd, and 
 had made fome little Trial. After he came from 
 the Univerfiry, he liv'd many Years in a private Fa- 
 mily as a Chaplain, where he only read the Scrip. 
 mre, and pray'd. Having thus fpent his Youth and 
 middle Age, when he came to be advanced in Years, 
 and was by Dr. Grew and others, much folicited to 
 preach, he could not be prevail'd with. He thought 
 himfelf fo unfit and unable to ftudy and preach, 
 that he feem'd quite difcourag'd from attempting 
 either. He blam'd himfelf for Rafhnefs in yield- 
 ing to be ordain'd, and afcrib'd it to the Per- 
 fuafions of others. After Dr. Crew's Death he re- 
 mov'd to an Eftate he had at Stratton in Northamp- 
 ton/hire, where he died a few Years ago. The 
 good Dodtor would often fpeak of a great Number 
 of good Puritan Conforming Minifters there were in 
 this County of Warwick before the Wars. He rec- 
 koned up near Fifty fuch. 
 
 Pag. 739. Suttcn Coldfield: Mr. ANTHONY 
 CESS. At the End of the Account of him, add ; Dr, 
 John Wallis who was a Member of the Affembly of 
 Divines, was his Pupil : And he gives this Character 
 of him : He fays he was, a pious, learned, and able 
 Scholar, a good Difputant, a good Tutor, an eminent 
 Preacher, and afcund and orthodox Divine. See Peter 
 Langtof is Chronicle, publifh'd by Mr. Hcarne in 1715. 
 Vol. I : The Publifher's Appendix to his Preface, 
 pag. cxlviii. 
 
 Ibid. With^brook: Mr. SWAIN. It fhould be, 
 Mr. WILLIAM SWAYNE. He wrote 
 four Uft Pages in Mr. Nathanaet Stephenis Pre- 
 S 4
 
 854 The Ejected or Silenced Miniflers^ &c. 
 
 cept for Baptifm out of the New leftnment ; in An- 
 Iwer to a Poftfcript to Baby Baptifm routed, by I(o- 
 bert Everard, who was a Papift, and an Evidence 
 againft Fit% Harris. Mr. Sveayne thought himfelf ob- 
 lig'd to write that in his own Defence, againft fome 
 Allegations of Mr. Everard. 
 
 Pag. 741 . Birmingham - 3 Mr. SAMUEL WILLS. 
 ^c the End of the Account of him, add ; It was not 
 he, but Mr. Obadlah Wills of Wiltjkire, that wrote 
 on Infant Baptifm. 
 
 Pag. 741. Sutton under Brailes ; Mr. THOMAS 
 W H A T E L y. Add ; He was the Son of Mr. 
 William iVhately, and I am inform'd baptized Sept. 
 Jo. 1 6 10. After his Ejectment, he preach'd fome- 
 times at Milton two Miles from ^anbury in Ox for d- 
 /hire ; fometimes ztPVoodftock,, and fometimes at 
 Long Combe a Place near it. He was buried, Jan. 
 27. 1698. 
 
 Ibid. Exall : Mr. JOSIAH BASSET, add ; He 
 left a Son of his own Name in the Miniftry among 
 the Nonconformifts, who lives at Birmingham. 
 
 Pag. 743. Fillongley: Mr. BROOK s. Add; WfL- 
 :LI AM BROOKS, for that was his Name. When he 
 was rurn'd out, he had feven young Children, the 
 eldeft bemg about twelve Years old. He was an 
 honeft fmcere Man, and faid he would rather beg 
 his Bread, than conform againft his Confcience. And 
 his Wife was much of the fame Mind. For being 
 ask'd by Neighbours (who knew their poor Circum- 
 ftances) what ! would fhe beg her Bread ! She faid, 
 if they did, they fhould beg with a good Confcience. 
 However Providence took Care of them, and they 
 bred up their Children well. 
 
 Pag. 744. tfanpick ; Mr. BUTLER. His Name 
 was HENRY BUTLER, and he was Minifter of 
 St Niccltis in Warwick^, as I find by his Subfcription 
 to the. tVxrwickjbire MinillersTeftimony to the Truth 
 
 of
 
 in the County of WARWICK. 855 
 
 of J E s u s C H R i s T, in a Letter to the Minifters 
 of London, printed in 1648. 
 
 P. 744. Lower Whetacrc ; Mr. COLLIER. He kept 
 a School while in this Living : And I have been in- 
 formed that after his leaving it, he came to London, 
 and applied to fecular Bufinefs. 
 
 Ibid. tin. i and 3 from the Bottom ; let thofe 
 Words, which both together made but a mean Compe- 
 tency for a Family, be blotted out. j 
 
 ?*& 745- Shuttington : Mr. THOMAS HILL! 
 To the Account of him already, I have this addi- 
 tional Character of him, to fubjoin, trantmirted me 
 by fome that think it Pity a Man of his Worth, 
 fliould not be better known to Pofterity. 
 
 He was Chaplafc to the Countefs of Chefterficld 
 at Tamveorth Caftle, upon his firft coming from the 
 Univerfiry ; having been fome time a Domeftick to 
 the Earl before he went thither. When he was 
 ejeded at Shuttington he remov'd to a Houfe of his 
 own at Lea grange, near Orton : The Patron of 
 Shuttington, who was Stepfon to the Earl of Chejler- 
 field (that is Son to the Countefs foremention'd) ftill 
 continuing to him feveral Years, both the Corn- 
 tithes and other Profits which belong'd to the Patron 
 himfelf. But becaufe the Five Mile Aft and others 
 render'd him incapable of fupplying the Place him- 
 felf, he procur'd a worthy Worcejlerfkirc Minifter to 
 fupply it ; who did it without any Notice taken of 
 his Nonconformity. Whilft Mr. Hill was Minifter 
 at Orton, he duly paid the fequeftred Minifter his 
 fifths, of which his Widow ftill living is Witnels, to 
 whom the fequeftred Minifter fhew'd much Refpe& 
 after her Husband's Death, as he had always done 
 to her Husband. The Sequeftration however was 
 for apparent Immorality and Infufficience. But Mr* 
 Hill did not immediately fucceed, but came into 
 the Place after another had left it ; and had no/ 
 a Year added to it, which the fequeftred Mtniftec 
 never had, neither before nor after him. 
 
 Dr. Walker takes not the leaft Notice of this ; and 
 it was not indeed much to his Purpofe to have done 
 
 k.
 
 856 TheEje&edor Silenced Mimfters, 8rc. 
 
 it. However, he lets us know that the fequeftred 
 Minifter was Mr. Roger Porter, and chat the firft Suc- 
 ceflbr was one Matthews, and then fays, that our 
 Mr. Thomas Hill, (to whom he vouchfafes the Name 
 of Matter, tho' he could not to the other) came 
 afterwards : But he mentions no Fifths ; nor drops 
 *he leaft Word in Favour of Mr. Hill, tho' fo much 
 more valuable a Man than he was, that was in the 
 Living both before and after' him. 
 
 He was a Man of profound Judgment, and emi- 
 nent and general Learning. So expert a Linguift 
 when he firft went to the Univerfity, not only in 
 the Latin, Hebrew, &c. but in the Greek, Tongue, 
 ufually fo defectively underftood, that he was own- 
 ed even at his Admifllon to be fuperior in it, to 
 many or moft of the Tutors : And he afterwards 
 made anfwerable Proficience in academical Studies. 
 
 The Errors both of Ancient and Modern Philofo- 
 phers, and of the Ariftotelian and Cartefian Schemes, 
 both in Phyfick*, and Pneumatology, fince his Time 
 infifted on by Mr. Lock, and others, did not efcape 
 his Obfervation ; as was evident by a Difpute, ftill 
 remembered by fome, and Part of it after printed by 
 one of the Difputanrs. Nor was he unacquainted 
 with the feveral Mathematical Sciences, and Muficf^ 
 among the reft ; tho' much converfant in Metafhyfi- 
 cal Contemplations. 
 
 How well vers'd he was both in Hiflory in gene- 
 ral, and Ecclefiaftical Antiquity in particular, may 
 partly be collected from what is ftill to be feen in 
 leveral of the Books in his Library ; which have ma- 
 ny Notes drawn with his Pen on the Margin, as he 
 perus'd them ; in which befides his own Remarks, 
 are Citations from a great Variety of Authors both 
 ancient and modern, celebrated Divines of different 
 Perfuafions, particularly the greateft Doctors of the 
 Church of England, and Papifts as well as Protejlants,, 
 Philofophers, Hiftorians, and others ; together with 
 References (fometimes very numerous upon one 
 Page, or even a fingle Paragraph in the Author) to 
 fathers, Councils, and Ecclefiaftical Writers in feveral 
 Ages. His Greek. Teftament, a fmall Volume, which 
 he us'd to carry in his Pocket, has bis Notes almoft 
 
 Q3
 
 in the County of WARWICK. 857 
 
 on every Page, in a Character not to be read by 
 others, except in fome few Places. He was an ex- 
 cellent Textuary, and was obferv'd in his Sermons to 
 have a mighty Felicity in unfolding the more recon- 
 dite Parts of Scripture, both to the great Entertain- 
 ment and Edification of his Auditors. And (to omit 
 his Knowledge of humane as well as divine Laws, 
 &c ) He was abfolutely feen in Polemical and Ca- 
 futftical Theology ; and perhaps more concern'd in 
 Difputes and Conferences of thefe Kinds, than any 
 Minifter in that Country ; particularly about Ordina- 
 tion and Difcipline, and with good Etfedts. Several 
 of the neighbouring Preachers of confiderable Parts, . 
 Piety, and Ufefulnefs having imbib'd Notions, againft 
 any at all, or any but popular Ordinations, for which 
 fome of them were very zealous, and impatient both 
 of the contrary Opinion and Practice; whom yet 
 after his great Pains and Patience, he had the Sa- 
 tisfaction of feeing convinced of their Duty, and 
 brought to receive :he Ordination themfelves, which 
 had before rais'd both Indignation and Contention a- 
 gainft him. Two at lead of thefe I underftand are 
 mcntion'd in my Second Volume, with much Ho- 
 nour ; and one of them was afterwards a London 
 Minifter. 
 
 There were among Mr. H//fs Papers many Let- 
 ters to him from the laft of thefe Minifters, and 
 from feveral eminent and learned Men : As Mr. 
 Baxter, Dr. Spencer, Head of Corftu Cbrijli College 
 in Cambridge, who had enrer'd inro an intimate Friend- 
 fhip with him whiJft he was a Student, and then of- 
 ten fliew'd a Condefcenfion towards him, fomeihing 
 like that Jcbn xiii. 14 ; and continu'd a Correfpon- 
 dence by Letters after his Nonconformity; In one 
 at leaft of thefe Letters, (as I am told by my Infor- 
 mant, who has leen and read it) the Doctor ex- 
 prefles his ArfecYion and Eftcem, as not at all di- 
 miniuYd by his own conforming, and Mr. H//fs Non- 
 conformity. After which he made alfo kind and ge- 
 nerous Offers to him, whenever he fliould have a 
 Son to fend to the Univerfity. There were Letters > 
 to him alfo from other confiderable Perfons, and 
 Minifters of the conforming as well as nonconfcrm- 
 
 ing
 
 8 5 8 The EjetfeJ or Silenced Minifters, 
 
 ing Perfuafion, exprefling what Advantages they had 
 had, to become both more learned and betrer, by 
 Converfadon with him : Particularly from Mr. Alfop 
 a Conformift, who had heretofore made Mr. Hill's 
 confenting to ftay with him, the Condition of his re- 
 fiding in the Family of a great Perfon : But thefe 
 Letters by Removals and other Accidents, are ei- 
 ther entirely loft, or ac leaft cannot at prefent be re- 
 covered ; as indeed a confiderable Part of his Li-. 
 brary hath undergone the fame Fate. There yet re- 
 mains the Copy of one Letter (too long to be here 
 inferted) writ by Mr. Hill himfelf to one who had 
 a good Parfonage very near him, (Father to a learn- 
 ed Man now very famous both in the Univerfities, 
 City, and Country) in Anfwer to the Arguments he 
 had offer'd in Defence of his conforming : For Re- 
 ply to which Letter the faid Rector thought fit to 
 procure the Affiftance of a confiderable Number of 
 the moft noted Conformifts in that Country, whom 
 Mr. Hill was defir'd to meet at his Houfe : But 
 they all coming fooner than he, perfuaded the In- 
 cumbent entirely to drop the Difpute ; Mr. Langley 
 of Tamworth in particular telling him, that whatever 
 it was, if Mr. Hill had writ it, he need not que- 
 ftion but he would make it out. Another of them 
 (an ancient and able Minifter) faid, they took him 
 for a Conformift, but the Nonconformifts might 
 have kept their Places, if they could have had his 
 Terms : (The Bifhop having left the Matter intire- 
 ly to himfelf.) And another, the Minifter of Polef- 
 worth, (where worthy Mr. Bell was ejected) after- 
 wards came to vifit Mr. Hill, who liv'd about three 
 Miles from him, and (as a Perfon of Quality in his 
 Parifli obferved) forbore the Nonconformifts while 
 he liv'd ; but after his Death, quickly began to in- 
 veigh againft them in the Pulpit. In fhort, as that 
 eminent Perfon Mr. Samuel Shaw ejected at Long 
 tVbatton in Leicefterjkire, who was Mr. Hill's School- 
 fellow tho' confiderably Junior, and afterwards his 
 Neighbour, gave him the Character of an excellent- 
 ly learned, judicious, and holy Man, (adding that 
 he was niger, fed extmie candidus) fo there were 
 twenty Years ago, other Mimfters both of the con- 
 forming
 
 in the County of WARWICK. 859 
 
 forming and nonconforming Perfuafion, (particularly 
 Mr. Croft of Loughborow, after of Derby of the latter, 
 and one near Derby of the former) who have faid 
 that he was as ingenious, abfolutely learned, and 
 profound a Man as any they knew in his Time. 
 And there is a Nonconformift, (I fuppofe) ftill liv- 
 ing, who has been frequently heard to obferve, how 
 in all the Meetings of Minifters, if once he had fpo- 
 ken, he was fure to lead, and as it were to chain 
 the Ears of the whole AflTembly. 
 
 It is true he was not to be prevail'd on to ap- 
 pear in Print, unlefs he had been fully convinced 
 that it was his Duty : But he was thought fit to 
 perufe and give his Opinion of the Writings of 
 other eminent and learned Men before they were 
 publiuYd ; particularly thofe of that eminent Di- 
 vine Mr. Blakf of Tamworth, on the Subjects of Con- 
 troverfy betwixt him and Mr. Baxter : As to which, 
 had Mr. HilCs Advice been taken (who alfo gave Mr. 
 Blake the fame Anfwers in Subftance, which Mr. 
 Baxter afterwards publifh'd, as he did to others 
 in other Inftances) it had prevented thofe melancho- 
 ly Confequences which infu'd to that ancient and 
 reverend Perfon : Upon whofe Dcceafe Mr. Hill 
 was unanimoufly invited (according to Mr. Blairs 
 declar'd Opinion) to fucceed him at Tamwortb, but 
 did not accept it. 
 
 As to his Preaching it appears from his Sermon 
 Notes, that there was in it fuch a Conjunction of 
 ferious Piety, various Learnin?, Judgment, Argument, 
 and natural mafculine unaffected Eloquence, that it 
 is no Wonder it (hould be commonly faid of him, 
 that he never brought into the Pulpit what was or- 
 dinary, and had ftill fomething new. He had not on- 
 ly the Advantage of a devout and heavenly Mind, 
 and a learned and clear Head, but alfo a clear 
 and acceptable Voice, of which he had a great 
 Command. His other Accompliflimenrs were at- 
 tended with a great Contempt of the World, both 
 its Emoluments and Applaufe, and therefore alto it 
 is no Wonder that when he was follicited to preach 
 before the Man then efteem'd by many the Greateft 
 in Britain, if not hi Europe, and offer'd to be re- 
 commended
 
 S6o The Ejetted or Silenced Mimflers, & c. 
 
 commended to his Favour, he ftill refus'd. His ar- 
 dent Piety towards GOD, was attended with great 
 Candour and Sincerity, and a truly catholick Spi- 
 rit, an extenfive Charity to Men, both in Opinion, 
 and Practice, and both as to Spirituals and Tempo- 
 rals to his Ability. He was indefatigable not only 
 in his Studies, and the perfonal Infpection and In- 
 ftruction of his Flock, and in Conferences (to pro- 
 mote Learning, Religion, Reformation, and Mode- 
 ration and a truly catholick Spirit) but alfo in the 
 Pulpit ; preaching (befides many Lectures) frequent- 
 ly three times on the Lord's Day, viz. at his own two 
 Churches, Orton and Twicrofs, and for Mr. Bell of 
 Polefworth, who was often indifpos'd. His Labours 
 after his Ejectment were fuppos'd to haften his 
 Death (who feem'd elfe to be a Man of a firm and 
 healthful Conftimtion) particularly by a Cold after 
 preaching 5 fo that he dy'd about the fiftieth Year of 
 his Age. Funeral Sermons were preached upon him, 
 by feveral Minifters, at feveral Places. His Sta- 
 ture was fomething low, his Hair black, his Coun- 
 tenance graceful, and acceptable ; his Features ani 
 Eye feeming Indications of the Capacity and Ver- 
 tues of his Mind. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hill who was fo ufeful in educat- 
 ing young M^n in Academical Learning was his 
 Son. 
 
 Pag, 746. %ennelworth : Mr. M A D D o c K s. His 
 Name was WILLIAM. In 1668 Mr. Ihomai Vin- 
 cent printed a fmall Piece in Defence of the Doc- 
 trine of the TRINITY, and the Satisfaction of 
 CHRIST, &c. And join'd with this, there are five 
 Pages of this Mr. Maddockji in Anfwer to IV. Penns 
 Reflections. 
 
 Ibid. Wroxbal : Mr. LUKE MILBOURNS 
 Add ; M. A. I have this farther Account of him 
 from a Good Hand. 
 
 He was born at Lougbborough in Leicefterjhire, 
 and baptiz'd on St. Luke's Day. He was Student in 
 in Cambridge, where he took both 
 
 hi*
 
 in the County of WARWICK. 861 
 
 his Degrees, by the Age of twenty-four. His firft Set- 
 tlemenc was at Lynne in Norfolk, whether as School- 
 mafter or Curate is uncertain. He was ordain'd by 
 the Bifhop of Ely, in the Time of the Civil Wars, 
 preach'd at a little Hamlet in Warwickshire calfd 
 Huningly, and had a Retreat at K^nnelvoorth Caftle 
 from the Infolence of the Soldiers, by whom he had 
 fufFer'd much, almoft to the Lofs of his Life. He 
 was feveral times threaten'd with Imprifonment } and 
 was had before the General, for fpeaking his Thoughts 
 freely concerning their Dealing with the King, 
 which he heartily abhorr'd, and was more deeply 
 concern'd at his Death, than many that freely drank 
 his Health. He was fo affected with it, that he 
 kept an annual Faft upon the Day in which that 
 Blow was given, ever after, as long as he liv'd. 
 When Things were a little quieted, he was call'd 
 to PVroxhnll, a little Mile from Hunningly, in the 
 Room of Mr. Huh, who went to preach the Gofpel 
 in America. Here it pleas'd G o D fo to blefs his Mi- 
 niftry, that he did a great deal of Good, and was ge- 
 nerally belov'd and refpe&ed. Obferving this, he 
 would not by any means be drawn from thence, 
 though he had the Offer of fome good Livings, 
 while Wroxball had fo poor an Allowance/ that he 
 was often told, he did not do well by his Family, 
 which grew numerous. His Anfwer ftill was, that 
 when he could not fubfift where he was, he would 
 remove, but not before. This fhew'd great Hu- 
 mility and Contentednefs : And it pleas'd G o D fo 
 to blefs his little, that his Children appear'd as 
 well, and were as well brought up, as any Coun- 
 try Minifters that could be met with. He could 
 not be fatisfy'd to take the Engagement, and when 
 it was impos'd, was contriving a Retreat : But it 
 pleas'd GOD fo to order it, that he was overlook- 
 ed : But he did take the Covenant, and from thence 
 afterwards drew a confiderable Argument for his 
 Nonconformity. When he was turn'd cut by the 
 Ail of Uniformity, he ow'd nothing to any Man ; 
 which (all Things confider'd,) was amazing ; and 
 more than many could fay that had liv'd in more 
 Plenty. He retir'd to Coventry with his Family, 
 
 which
 
 862 We Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, 8cc. 
 
 which confifted of a Wife, and fix Children ; three 
 Sons and three Daughters, where he was many 
 ways molefted. Firft he could not be fuffer'd to 
 teach a School : Then, he was not allow'd to board 
 young Gentlemen that went to the free School there : 
 .Then he was banifh'd from home by the Five Mile 
 'Aft ; and in that Exile he finifh'd his Courfe, in 
 the Year 1667, Aged forty-five, leaving four Chil- 
 dren, the Remainder of twenty Births. He lies 
 interr'd in St Michael's Church-yard, with Mr. 
 Jtajfhet, and Mr, Samuel Fovones; though the Relati- 
 ons were offer'd by Mr. Feacl^, at that Time Mi- 
 nifter of the Parifh, to lay him in the Chancel 
 Gratis : For he faid he would have him buried like 
 himfelf: So much was he belov'd and refpe&ed. 
 
 Pag. 747. tin. n, from the bottom, Mr. Hunt, 
 Jhould be Mr. Ephraim Huit. 
 
 Pag. 749. Willingcotc: Mr. SOUTHWEL. This I 
 fuppofe was Mr. RICHARD SOUTHWEL, who 
 is alfo mentioned at Bafaicb in Stafford/hire : And if 
 fo, an Account of him may be there found. 
 
 Ibid. Witton : Mr. JAMES WRIGHT. Add; 
 M. A, of Kjng's-College in Cambridge. His Father 
 and elder Brother went to New England. After his 
 Ejectment he continu'd at Witton, till he was forc- 
 ed from thence by the Five Mile Aft. Being then, 
 at a Lofs where to go, Mr. St Nicholas fent him 
 a Letter, and invited him to Kjioll, telling him. 
 there was a Chamber, Bed, and Study there, which 
 he fhould be welcome to ; and he accepted the 
 Invitation. Mr. Gilpin at that Time liv'd there, 
 with his Son in Law Mr. Stoles, but died foon after. 
 Mr. Wright continu'd here till his Death in 1691, aged 
 eighty-one, or eighty-two. He after fome time 
 preach'd there in his own Houfe, and had as many 
 Hearers as two Rooms would hold (fome of whom 
 came feveral Miles) and did much Good. He al- 
 fb taught School, and kept feveral Boarders in his 
 Houfe. In 1685, though he was about feventy Years 
 < of Age, and always liv'd retir'd and private, yet he 
 was imprifon'd. Mr, Wilkjnfon who was turn'd out 
 
 at
 
 in the County of WARWICK. 86? 
 
 at Anfty, was after fome Years (it was thought by his 
 Wife's Unquietnefs and Importunity) brought to con- 
 form, and was Minifter at Kjioll, and Chaplain to 
 the Lord Brooke who liv'd there. He was always 
 very friendly to Mr. Wright, and to his Family after 
 his Deceafe. 
 
 Pag. 750. Brincl(low : Mr. GIL PIN. I am in-' 
 form'd that he to the very laft preach'd in his Ruff. 
 He was fo very affectionate in Prayer, that he gene- 
 rally melted into Tears. People us'd to compare 
 him to Father Lat inter. 
 
 .. 
 
 Ibid. Lemington Haftings : Mr. GILBERT 
 WALDRON. Dr. Walker, Part IT, p. 299, fays,' 
 his Name was IValden. I had faid he was cured 
 by the Claim of the former Incumbent : The Doctor 
 fays it was not fo, but by due Courfe of Law, for 
 having defended the King's Murther. However, I 
 do not fee how the Nonconformifts were concern'd 
 in that, fince he owns that he conform'd for another 
 Living afterwards near Coventry, where he died. So 
 that it fliould feem, even the greareft Crimes mighc 
 be expiated in thofe Days, by conforming according 
 to the Statute. 
 
 Ibid. Stonely : Mr. JOHN COOPER. It fliould 
 be H E N R Y C o o p E R ; for by that Name I find 
 he fubfcrib'd the Warvpickjhire Minifters Teftimony 
 to the Truth of JESUS CHRIST, in a Letter to 
 the Minifters of London, printed in 1648. 
 
 Pag. 751. line 31, it is faid, that Caucutwas a Li- 
 ving worth no / per An. This Mr. Lewis of Mar- 
 gate in his Remarks, obferves, differs from the Ac- 
 count given, fag. 744, where upon Occafion o 
 Mr. Evans's fucceeding Mr. Vines in his two Livings, 
 (of which Caucut was one) it is faid, that both thofe 
 Livings together, made but a mean Competency for A 
 family. And it does differ, and it is not inconceiva- 
 ble, how furh Differences as thofe might eafily hap- 
 pen, when my Accounts came from different Perfons 
 who had feveral Informers, and were rhemfelves of 
 
 VOL, II. T different
 
 864 The Ejetted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 different Sentiments. But that there IT, ay be no re- 
 maining Appearance of an Inconfiftency, I have here 
 corre&ed the Paflage in fag. 744 : And that the 
 rather, becaufe having the Account given, fag. 751, 
 from Mr. Jonathan Grew himfelf, who was a very 
 careful and exact Man, and well acquainted with 
 thofe Parts where he was born, I reckon it may very 
 fefely be depended on. 
 
 "Pag. 751. After line 8, and the Word Bcnnct 
 add: 
 
 Mr. BOON of Finham is mention'd by Mr. long 
 in his Preface to Mr. Jo/hua Mcrrefs Funeral Ser- 
 mon, as living and preaching in thefe Parts. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. TIMOTHY ROBERTS. Add ; He 
 . died between Shrewsbury and Ofcveftry, upon a little 
 Straw, none daring to come near him, becaufe of 
 the Infection. 
 
 - 
 
 The EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of WILTS. 
 
 - 753- IDEWSEY: HUMPHREY CHAM-" 
 . -* B E R s, D. D. I am informed that 
 this Parfonage is worth 400 I per An. 
 
 
 
 Pag. 754. Mildenlall ; Mr. THOMAS BAYLIE^ 
 B.D. Dr. Walkgr, Att. Part II, p. 106, fays, he 
 vtns a fifth Monarchy Man. But it was not for that 
 he was ejeded, but for his Nonconformity. 
 
 Pag. 755. Weftlury ; Mr. PHILIP 
 At the End of the marginal Npre, under the Account 
 
 of
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 865 
 
 of him, lee there be this Addition : And the Judg- 
 ment and Decree of the Univerfity of Oxon, was it- 
 felf - burnt as publickly, in New Palace Tard, Weft- 
 mhfter, by the Order of the Houfe of Lords, (a 
 much better and higher Authority) on March 2.7, 
 1710, as contrary to the Conftitution of this King- 
 dom, and deftrudiive to the Proteftant Succeffion as 
 by Law eftablifh'd; 
 
 Pag. 755. New Sarum ; Mr. JOHN STRICK- 
 LAND, B. D. At the End of the Account of him, 
 let it be added ; He died on a Lord's Day Evening, 
 after he had preach'd twice ; from z Pet. i. 1 1, and 
 adminifter'd the LORD'S Supper. Finding him- 
 felf out of Order, he fpoke of it to thofe about 
 him, and fate down in a Chair and died. His 
 Name is remember'd with great Refpect to this 
 Day, at Sarum, where he lies buried in St Edmund's 
 Church-yard. 
 
 Pag. 756. Mr.TnOMAS RASH LEY. He was 
 
 one of the Subfcribers of the concurrent Teftimony 
 of the County of iVilts, with the London Minifters, 
 to the Truths of JESUS CHRIST ini 648. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. WILLIAM T RO u r, H T o TS\ Add ; 
 
 There is fome Account of him, in the laft Edition of 
 Wood's At hen Oxonienfes, Vol. II. p. 966, among the 
 Writers of Queens College. 
 
 Ibid. Burbich j Mr. THOMAS TAYLOR! He 
 was born about i6iz at Brougbton, near Banbury, 
 in Oxford/hire, his Father being Re&or of that Place* 
 When he came to Burbich, (which was a fequeftred 
 Living, and is mentioned as fuch by Dr. ftfukfr, Att. 
 Part II. p. 310, (only he calls it Burbage) he found 
 the Vicaridge-houfe much out of Repair, and was 
 under a NecefTity to lay out a confiderable Sum of 
 Money to make it fit for his Family to dwell in, 
 He was obliged to quit it foon after the Reftoration, 
 and the former Incumbent returning, found the 
 Houfe in a much be etc r Condition than he left it, but 
 he made no Allowance towards the Charge of the 
 T a Reparation,
 
 The Ejetted or Silenced Mi mfters) cVc. 
 
 Reparation. The People of the Town were gene- 
 rally very ignoranr, and many of them much ad- 
 dicted to Drunkennefs ; and Mr. Taylor fetting him- 
 felf to preach to them with great Serioufnefs, and 
 prefs Things home upon their Confciences, and take 
 that Method which he thought moft likely to inftruft 
 and reform them, they were much enrag'd at him, 
 and openly exprefs'd their Anger and Ill-will, tho' he 
 could aim at nothing but to do them good. 
 
 When he was neceflitated to leave Burbich, he 
 remov'd with eight Children, and his Wife big with 
 the ninth to Salisbury, where he liv'd for fome time 
 as comfortably as if he had continued in the Vica- 
 ridge, by means of h ; s Wife's teaching Children to 
 read, and the Kindnefs he received from the good 
 People' in and about that City. He continu'd feven 
 Years in Peace with his numerous Family ; Bifhop 
 Hinchman and the two fucceedtnq Biftiops, Hide and 
 Earl, and their Courts, giving neither- him nor the 
 Other Nonccnformifts jjiat were at tha: Time in Sa- 
 lisbury, any Trouble or Difturbance. But after Dr. 
 Seth Wfetrd was tranfiated from Exeter to Sarum, 
 Mr. lay lor foon found by Experience, that he who 
 had been fo zealous for the Commonwealth, as to 
 take the Ingngcment to the Government that then 
 was, without a King or Hou'fe of Lord^, could be 
 no lefs zealous for Conformity, out of his Love of 
 Monarchy, and Loyalty to the King. In 1667, 
 Mr. Taylor was cited to appear in the Spiritual 
 Court the next Court-day, which he accordingly 
 did ; and after his Appearance was recorded, he 
 was order' d to appear the next, which helikewife 
 die!; and fo for feveral Days, till at laft, he who 
 was a very ftudious Man forgot to go : And there- 
 fore not anfwering when he was call'd, they de- 
 creed to excommunicate him for Contempt of the 
 Court, in not appearing according to Appointment. 
 The Decree was foon put in Execution, and the 
 Writ de Excomwunicato capiendo fent for to London, 
 and brought down to Salisbury with all Expedition. 
 But G o D in his Providence fo ordered it, that a 
 Perfon who was in the Secret, told a Friend of 
 Mr. Taylors, that ihe Writ was that very Night 
 
 brought.
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 
 
 brought to Town by the Poft j whereupon this 
 Friend goes to a very near Neighbour of Mr. lay- 
 lors, and tho' it \vas very late, and all Mr. Taylor's 
 Family in Bed and afleep, yet they contriv'd to wake 
 one of the Family, without making any Noife, to 
 difcover any Thing to the Neighbourhood, and got 
 into the Houfe, and perfuaded the good Man to 
 remove immediately. Early :he next Morning, the 
 Officers came to feizc him, and carry him away to 
 Prifon, and were not a little mortified and enrag'd 
 at the Difappointment, when they found him gone.' 
 He was the next Night convey'd to Stcckbrldge, thac 
 is out of the Diccefe of Sarutn ; and the Day after 
 another Friend conducted him towards London, where 
 he ftaid for feme time. He afterwards return'd pri- 
 vately again to Salisbury, where he was entertain'd 
 by a religious Gentlewoman, who had a fmall Fa- 
 mily, and a large Hcufe, to which Mr. Taylor con- 
 fin'd himfelf for fome Years. In 1671 the Excom- 
 munication was taken_ off, and he returned to his 
 Family and continued at Salisbury till the Death of 
 his Wife, about 1676 ; afrer which he removed with 
 his youngeft Daughter TO London, all the reft of his 
 Children that were then alive, being in or. near the 
 great City : And he had nor been long there, before 
 he was rcmov'cl to that City above rhat has Founda- 
 tions, whofe Builder and Maker is GOD. 
 
 He was the Father of Mr. Nathanael Taylor of Sal- 
 ters Hall, who was fo well known and fo much 
 efteem'd in this City. He gave him the Name of 
 Nathanael out of his great Rcfpedt for the Honourable 
 Nat-han.tcl Ficnncs, Efq; of Newton-Tony, who tho' he 
 himfelf liv'd not to be Vifcount Say and Sclc, yet was 
 the Son, the Brother, and the Father, of thofe who 
 bore that Title. This noble Gentleman, and after 
 his Death his religious Lady, were very kind to' fe- 
 veral Nonconformifts in this County, and particular- 
 ly to Mr. Taylor, who without fuch generous Help, 
 would very difficultly have been able to fupport or 
 bring ur> his numerous Family. 
 
 Pag. f)6. Sitttcn Mandevil : Mr. THOMAS 
 
 ROSE vv c L L. In ihe Accout of him, tin. 3, inftcad 
 
 T 3 of
 
 868 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mtmfters, &c. 
 
 of chefe Words, He was educated in Oxon, let it 
 be thus alter'd ; He was enter d of Pembroke-O/- 
 lege, Oxon, in 1647, under Dr. Henry Langley the- 
 flow Mafter. 
 
 And at the End of the Account of him, let it be 
 added, that his Arraignment and Trial for High 
 Treafon before the Lord Chief Juftice Jefferies, has 
 been lately publifh'd in 8w, with an Account of his 
 Life and Death prefix'd : In which Account of him 
 there is inferted, a grave and ferious Letter to a 
 pious Gentlewoman, upon Occafion of her Husband's 
 Deceafe. Notice is alfo there taken of his having 
 left behind him, a very ferious and affectionate Let- 
 ter he wrote to an intimate Friend, after his Re- 
 covery out of a deep Melancholy ; and alfo of a 
 Manufcript of his with this Title : A Memorial or 
 Catalogue of fame more eminent and remar1{able Deli- 
 verances that God hath vouchfafd to me, which I 
 have Caufe to remember, to the Praife and Glory of 
 his Goodnefs and Mercy - 3 and for which I hofe to fraife 
 him to Eternity. 
 
 He was interred in the Burying-place at SunM 
 fields, and has this Infcription on his Tomb- 
 ftone. 
 
 H.S.1-
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 869 
 
 H. S. E. 
 
 THOMAS ROSEWELL, 
 
 Theologtts Celeberrimus a 
 Dunkertoni in agro Somerfettenfi natas $ 
 Collegli Pembrochia: apud Oxonienlcs 
 
 \_alumnw 
 
 Jfjtf* primum Rodae In agro jam diflo ; deinde 
 In oppido Sutcon Mandevile in Comttattt Wil- 
 
 [tonenfi 
 
 Ufque ad diem 5. Bartholomaei A. MDCLXII 
 
 [ jacra admlniftra'vit $ 
 
 Ecclcfae denique apud Nauticum Sinum juxta 
 
 [Londinum, 
 In agro Sudrienfi, "Paftor co-optatus fuit. 
 
 V'tr hand mlnori 
 
 Pie tat is ac Mode flirty yuam Doclrina laude clarus^ 
 Concionator arte, facundia 3 fludio eximius 
 Sacri Codlcts Interpres afiidutts & pertttjfontt. 
 
 >ui pofl ntultos labores 
 
 Multafyue, temporum ini^uitate y vexattones acer~ 
 
 [bijjimas, 
 
 >ttas Chrifti caufa firtljfimo ammo fuftinne rat, 
 slpud Sinum nauticum antedlftiim, placide 
 Obiit XTI. Kal. Mar. 
 
 Anno 
 is ft* LXIL Gbrifi MDCXCII. 
 
 . , 
 Pug. 759- Dunhead: Mr. P ETE R IN de. At 
 
 the End of the Account of him, add : 
 
 After the Reftoration there were publifh'd two 
 
 Books of Prodigict, in the fecond of vhich are con-. 
 
 TT 4 uine4
 
 870 The Ejetfed or Silenced Mittifters, &c. 
 
 rained fome dreadful Examples of the vindicative Ju- 
 ftice of G o r>, upon the Oppofers and Defpifers of 
 this worthy Man, which tho' fome took the Free- 
 dom both then and afterwards to deride, yet we 
 
 * ?ag, Z4, are told in the Account of the Life * of Mr. Tho- 
 
 mas tyfcwel that is prefix'd to his Arraignment and 
 Trial not long iince publilh'd, that he (who liv'd 
 then in thofe Parts,) was able to atteft the Truth of 
 them, and could have added more to them in the 
 neighbouring Pariflies of which he was an Eye-wit- 
 nefs. This Mr. Ince and Mr. Sacheverel, Mr. Hallet, 
 and Mr. Bampfield, were all afterwards imprifon'd 
 together, for the grand Crime of Preaching. Judge 
 Archer going the Weftern Circuit was very favoura- 
 ble to them. He laid upon them a Fine but of 
 forty Marks a-piece, and in his Pcftea, reduc'd it to 
 twenty Marks ; and even this was compounded for 
 at a Shilling in the Pound. But then there remain'd 
 another Difficulty ; they were to be upon their Be- 
 haviour after their Releafe, till the next Aflize, 
 which they could not get over. After they had been 
 imprifon'd at Dorchefter a Year and a half, a Friend 
 came to the Town who had made a fecret Agree- 
 ment with the Judges, who otfer'd them that if 
 they would but give Bond on that Monday, to be on 
 their Behaviour till Thurfday, they fliould be relea 
 ed. But this Mr.Bampfield utterly refus'd, and would 
 not be on his good Behaviour (in the Senfe of the 
 Law) fo much as for an Hour ; thinking that would 
 amount to an Acknowledgment of Guilt. Mr. Ince, 
 and Mr. Sacheverel being fway'd by their Fellow- 
 prifoner, whom they would not leave behind them 
 in Bonds, had like to have mifs'd this Opportunity : 
 But at length, the Perfuafion of Friends, and the 
 Tears of a Wife, prevailed with Mr. Ince to yield, 
 and he did fb, with Mr. Sacheverel ; their Fellow- 
 prifoner telling them that it would add to his Trou- 
 ble, for them to continue ftill in Hold, when it was 
 only out of a Deference to him and his Judgment. 
 Upon their yielding, they were difmifs'd, but Mr. 
 Bampfield continu'd almoft nine Years confin'd, being 
 brought out by the King's Declaration for Liberty, 
 in 1672.
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 871 
 
 Pag. 760. Jtofujttry: Mr. HENRY DENT, M. A, 
 of J^W/j/tTW-Colleae in O*0w. Born in Wales, and 
 bred under Mr. Hwwr of Sarum who fent him to 
 Oxford, where he cominu'd (as I am informed) ten 
 Years, though I cannot find that Wood, in his Athe- 
 na Oxonlenfes takes any Notice of him. When he 
 enter 'd upon the Miniftry, fie was firft Afliftant to 
 Mr. Strickland of Sarum, and afterwards to Mr, 
 Wild, of S^ansbtny. This Mr. Wild, conformed on 
 Bartholomew Daj, i66z ; and Mr. Dent ftill continu- 
 ed his Ailiftanr, and taught School in the Church, but 
 was excus'd from reading the Prayers, which Mr. 
 Wild took wholly upon himfelf. But at length, noc 
 being fuffer'd to continue in this Courfe", he preach- 
 ed and taught School in his own Houfe, and his 
 Wife aifo teaching Englijh, he pick'd up a tolera- 
 ble Subfiftence, though he had not above 5 / a Year 
 from the People he preach'd to. He was as much 
 harrafs'd for his Nonconformity as any Minifter in 
 the County. He was rhree times excommunicated ; 
 though at length he got his Abfolution, for a Sum of 
 Money, which he the more freely parted with in 
 the Cafe, that he might not be wholly incapacitated 
 to continue his School, which was his main Sup- 
 port. There were three Parfons, vi%. Mr. Wilfon 
 of Hamsbury, Mr. Norn's of Alborne, and Mr. Sawyer 
 of Ncwbwj, that were his bitter Enemies* The firft 
 ofthefe, (Mr. #';7/0H) being at Church, call'don the 
 Conftable and Church-wardens to go and difturb 
 Mr. Dent's feditious Conventicle ; and declared he 
 would not begin the Service, till that was done. 
 He himfelf went with them, and being denied En- 
 trance, they broke open the Doors, and found a 
 great Number of Auditors, bur Mr. Dent was gone. 
 They took the Names of the People, and had Mo- 
 ney from feveral of them. Often alfo was he wor- 
 ried by Bailiffs, who had Warrants againft him ; and 
 once narrowly efcap'd being taken, through the 
 great Civilities cf Sir Seymour Pile, that lodg'd in 
 another Part of the Houle in which he liv'd, who 
 turn'd one out of Doors, that was got into the 
 Houfe, with a Defign to apprehend him. The fame 
 
 Gentleman
 
 87 2 The Ejetted or Silenc V Minifter s, 8rc. 
 
 Gentleman often alfo gave him private Information 
 when Warrants were out againft him, that he might 
 ftand upon his Guard. Though he was often ea- 
 gerly purfu'd, yet he never was in Prifon. He 
 would often preach in Woods and Fields, placing 
 Scouts to watch the Avenues. He for fome time 
 walk'd every Week, both Winter and Summer, 
 to Lambourn Wood-lands, above four Miles, to 
 preach to about twenty poor People, having very 
 little for his Pains : And wonld fay, He that fets me 
 to Work., will fay me my Wages. When Mr. Maver- 
 ly came to be the publick Minifter of fymsbury, he 
 had more Peace and Quiet, and a friendly Corref- 
 pondence with him. Mr. Dent then generally preach- 
 ed in the Morning, and went in the Afternoen to 
 the Parifh Church with his Family. He died in 
 March 1695, or 1696, JEtat. 63. He was a Man of 
 moderate Principles ; and of an unblameable Life 
 and Converfation. His I aft Words were thefe : An 
 Intereft in Chrift is worth ten thoufand 
 
 . 760. Collingbourn : Mr. DANIEL BURGESS^ 
 'Add, M. A. I find his Name to th concurrent 
 Teftimony of the Minifters of Wilts, with their reve- 
 rend Brethren the Minifters of London, printed in 
 1648. He fubfcrib'd as Minifter of Veny Sutton in 
 this County. From thence as Dr. Waller reports, 
 Att. p. 336, by the Intereft of his Brother Cornell- 
 w, he removed to this Living of Collingbourn, worth 3 
 or 400 / a Year, which was vacant by the Death 
 of Mr. Adoniram Byficld. But then the Doctor adds, 
 that he {hall have Occafion to tell us hereafter, in 
 another Place, how unwillingly he parted with this 
 Living in i<56z. For my Part, I muft own, lean- 
 not fee why he fhould not be unwilling (nay very 
 unwilling) to part with fuch a Living as this, in 
 which he was fo very ufeful, provided his Con- 
 fcience would have allow'd him to have kept it. 
 However if he could have fatisfy'd himfelf to have 
 conformed, and comply'd with the Terms that the 
 Law had prefcrib'd, none could have hinder'd him 
 from keeping it. For the Doctor himfelf acknow- 
 ledges, thai Dr. -Prior that had been here fequeftred,
 
 in the Countj of W I L T S. 
 
 died before the Reftoration : So that there was none 
 to put in any Claim aeainft him. But it looks as 
 if Dr. Walker was fo hard to pleafc, that he could 
 not be eafy with thefe ejected Minifters, Whether 
 they were willing or unwilling to part with the Liv- 
 ings they hd in Pcfleflion. Let them be one Way 
 difpos'd or another, he appears very willing and for- 
 ward to pafs his Cenfure. 
 
 This Mr. Daniel Burgefs was of Magdalen-Cck 
 lege in Oxon, and there took both the Degrees in 
 Arts, though 1 do not find Wood takes any Notice 
 of him. After quieting the UniverGty, he was firft 
 Minifter of Stanes in Middlefcx, whence he remov- 
 ed to the Living of Sutton in this County, when 
 it was quitted by Mr. Swaddon, who was turn'd 
 out for Immorality. Here he liv'd about fourteen 
 Years, and then upon the Death of Mr. Adoniram 
 Byfield Minifter of Colingbourn, was prefented to that 
 Living by the Duke of Somcrfet (or whether his Ti- 
 tle at that Time was only Earl of Hertford, I can- 
 not fay) the noble Patron of it, but not through the 
 Jntereft of Dr. Cornelius Surges as Dr. Walker has 
 mifinform'd the World, miftaking him to be his 
 Brother, when as I am inform'd by the Family, there 
 was no Relation between them. The Truth of the 
 Matter is this, he got the Prefentation to that Liv- 
 ing, by Venue of his own Endowments which re- 
 commended him, as well as by the Inrereft of his 
 only Brother Mr. Jfaac Burges, who was well ac- 
 quainted with the Duke, and a Perfon of confide- 
 rable Note in thofe Times, being twice High She- 
 riff of the County, and a Juftice of the Peace for 
 many Years. 
 
 Here Mr. Bur^efs continu'd preaching and labour- 
 ing among his People, with great Diligence and 
 Succefs till the Bartholomew A& took Place : And 
 then was fo far from being unwilling to quit his Liv- 
 ing for the Sake of a good Confcience, (as Dr. Wai- 
 J(er has falfly fuggefted) that he broke through un- 
 common Difficulties to preferve his Integrity, and 
 plainly fhcw'd that he preferr'd the Peace of his 
 own Mind, before worldly Advantages. For not- 
 withfi;anding the Living was of fo good Value (as 
 
 350 /
 
 874 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 350 / per An.) and he had a Family of feven Chil' 
 dren to provide for; notwithftanding the great Im- 
 portunity of the Duke and Dutchefs of Somerfctr 
 who us'd all the Arguments they could think of to 
 perfuade him to conform ; and notwithftanding the 
 earneft Inrreaties of his People, who with many Cries 
 and Tears importun'd him to continue with them ; 
 he was fo far from being unwilling, that he broke 
 through all thefe Obftacles, and told them, that he 
 could not go againfl his Conscience for nil the World. 
 And befides all this, when the Dutchefs and fome 
 others would have him tell them freely, how far 
 he could comply, and where he could not, offering 
 to make Intereft with the Bifhop to pufs by or al- 
 leviate foipe Things that were moft greivous to him, 
 he thankfully refus'd, and plainly declar'd, that that 
 would be a Snare to him, and a Stumbling-block^ to 
 hts Brethren, and therefore he could not hearken to 
 fuch a Propofal. Nay, fo loth were the Duke and 
 Dutchefs to part wit^ him, that they would have 
 him keep the Inftrument of his Prefentadon by him, 
 that if he could upon farther Confederation comply, 
 he might be reftor'd, before any other could be put 
 in. And this feems to be the only Foundation of 
 the Doctor's Suggeftion, ( if he really had any at 
 all) that he parted with his Living unwillingly : But 
 how weak and impotent it is, does fufficiently ap- 
 pear from what has been faid before. And though 
 he kept this Inftrument by him, at the Requeft of 
 his noble Patron, yet it was no Temptation to him 
 to change his Mind ; but he as chearfully as any 
 Man refign'd himfelf to the Conduct of Divine Pro- 
 vidence, and never repented of it afterwards. 
 
 From Colingbourn he retir'd to Marlborough, where 
 he had fome Eftate, and preach'd fometimes for 
 Mr. John Hughes Minifter there ; and at other Times 
 fupply'd the Country round about. He was driven 
 from Marlborough by the Corporation Aft, and died 
 in the Month of June 1679. He was a learned and 
 judicious, a faithful and laborious Minifter, and was 
 greatly efteem'd and refpeded by neighhouring Mi- 
 nifters and others ; and exceedingly belov'd and va- 
 lued by his People, who were in the utmoft Di. 
 
 ftrefs
 
 in tie County of W I L T S. 875 
 
 ftrefs when he left Colingbourn ; and upon this Ac- 
 count he did indeed pare with it unwillingly, but 
 not upon any temporal Confederations. 
 
 And here it is not at all improper, to mention 
 his Son Mr. Daniel Burgefs, who was a celebrated 
 Preacher among the Dilfenters, for many Years, in 
 the Neighbourhood of Covent Garden : For though 
 he was not ejefttd by the Vniformity Acl, not being 
 capable of any Service when that cook Place, yet 
 he was filencd by it. This good Man had many 
 Enemies, and he had fome Ways that were peculiar 
 to himfelf ; and yet GOD made him the Inftru- 
 ment of converting many Souls. His Funeral Ser- 
 mon was preach'd and printed by Mr. Matthew Hen- 
 ry ; who alfo gives an Account of the Works he has 
 publifliM. 
 
 P. 760. Tatesbury : Mr. NATHANAEL WESTS". 
 After his Ejectment he retired to Brontham, where . 
 he had fome Eftare, liv'd in his own Houfe, kept 
 a School, and had Boarders. He fometimes preachr 
 ed at Cain, and other Places as Opportunity oifer'd. 
 
 Ibid. Tefunt : Mr. JOHN F i P. Add ; He had 
 foine Eftate, and no Children. He continu'd living 
 at Tefunt, with his Wife, till the Day of his Death. 
 He was another of the Wiltshire Subfcribers in 
 1648; and fublcrib'd thus: John Phippe, Minifter 
 of leffont. 
 
 Ibid. Patney : Mr. JOHN MASSE Y. This was 
 the iequeftred Living of Dr. Marfh, of whom fee 
 Dr. Walker, Att. Part II. p. 68. Mr. Maffy con- 
 tinu'd here, till 1661, and was Father to the Turn- 
 coat of that Name, who was made Dean of Chrift- 
 Church Oxon by King James. This was another of 
 the fubfcribing Minifters in 1648. 
 
 Pag. 761. Marlborough : Mr. WILLIAM HUGHES? 
 Add. M. A. He was born at Broowham near th 
 Devices in this County. After he had finifird his * 
 Grammar Learning, he was fix'd at Neve Inn Hall 
 in Oxon and continu'd there cill he had taken his 
 
 Degrees :
 
 $j6 The Ejefled or Silenfd Minifters> 8rc. 
 
 Degrees : Some time after which r he fettled at S 
 Mrfr/s in Jvlnrlborough, and there remained till Aug 
 2,4. 1661, when he could not comply with the 
 Terms of the AB for Uniformity, arid fo preach'd 
 his Farewell Sermon to an endeared and loving Peo- 
 ple, who difcover'd their Affection by a plentiful 
 Eftufion of Tears. He had at that Time a Wife and 
 fix young Children, and purchas'd an Houfe in the 
 Town, and taught School ; and notwithstanding the 
 Rigor of the Times, feveral Gentlemen round the 
 Country fenc their Children to him for Education, 
 and he had feveral from London ; fo that in a Un- 
 tie Time he had a numerous School, which he con- 
 tinu'd for fome Years, notwithftanding feveral In* 
 terruptions from thofe of the eftablifh'd Church : But 
 that which moft provok'd them, was his gathering a 
 Church there after his Ejectment. There was fuch 
 a mutual Endearment between his People and him, 
 that they could not part with their Paftor, who had 
 fo faithfully difcharg'd that Office among them ; but 
 continued under his Miniftry to the Time of his 
 Death. He was unwearied in his Work ; and his 
 Miniftry was fuccefsful. He was holy and unblame- 
 able in his Converfation : And though his Life after 
 / his Ejectment was one continu'd Scene of Trou- 
 ble, by Reafon of Citations out of the Bifhops 
 Courts, and other Methods us'd by reftleis Men 
 to difturb him, yet he ftill chearfully bore up, re- 
 figning himfelfto the Divine Will, as knowing whom 
 he ferv'd, and whofe Work he was about. He was 
 of fo fweet and winning a natural Temper, that 
 his very Enemies had a great Efteem for him, and 
 feveral among them privately gave him Notice when 
 Mifchief was defign'd againft him : So that he oft 
 efcap'd the Snares that were laid to take him. He 
 was for feveral Years, as it were a Prifoner in his 
 own Houfe, not daring to be known to be at home 
 with his Family, for fear of being carry'd away by 
 Force. And when the Storm grew fo high, that their 
 Meetings at their ufual Place of Worfhip were whol- 
 ly fupprefs'd, he did not defift from his Work, 
 but often preach'd to fuch as would follow him, 
 in the Woods and Fiejcjs, without being difcourag- 
 
 ed
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 877 
 
 cd at the Malice of Satan or his Inftruments. He 
 was naturally of a ftrong and healthful Conftitu. 
 tion, but it was at length much broke by hard 
 Study and Labour. He contracted an inward 
 Tumour or Scbirrhus upon the Pancreas, under which 
 he labour'd for fome time : But all the while he 
 was declining, he was full of heavenly Difcourfe, 
 waiting for his approaching Change, which at length 
 carried him out oT the Reach of all Trouble, into 
 his Matter's Joy; on Febr. 14. 1687, aged 68. 
 His Funeral Sermon was preach'd at Marlborougb, 
 by Mr. William Gougb, from %ech. i. 5. He had had 
 (I am informed) very confiderable Offers made him, 
 if he would have conformed to the Church of Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Pag. 761. Neveton-Toncy : Mr. JOHN WATTS. 
 I find his Name to the concurrent Teftimony of the 
 Minifters in this County, with their Brethren in Lon- 
 don, printed in 1648. 
 
 Ibid. 'Milton : Mr. THOMAS RUTTY." After 
 his Ejectment he liv'd at Melksbatn. 
 
 Ibid. Woodborough : Mr . ISAAC CHAUNCEI 
 Add, M. A. He was the eldeft Son of Mr. Charles 
 Chaunccy, Minifter of Ware in Hertfordshire, of whofe 
 Sufferings in the High Commil2on Court, we have * 
 an Account, in fyjhveorth ; (in his ColleEticns for the 
 Year 1619) and who was fufpended and filenc'd t>y 
 Bifhop Laud, for refufing to read the Book, of Sports. 
 He luffer'd for Nonconformity in his own Coun- 
 try by Fines and Jails, and at laft was an Exile in 
 New England, where he arriv'd in 1638, and upon 
 the Removal of Mr. Dunflar, was made Prefident 
 of H/tryrfr^-College ; and theje he died, on Feb. a, 
 1671, leaving behind him fix Sons, all bred up to 
 the Miniftry in Harvard -College. A particular Ac- 
 count of this worthy Perfon may be me.t with, in, 
 Dr. Cotton Mathers Magnalia Cbrifti Americana, 
 Book III, p. 133, &c ; and in Mr. Daniel NeaTs H#?. 
 of New England, Chef. viii,/. 371, f$c. 
 
 A*
 
 878 The Ejetted or Silent* d MinifteYs, 8cc. 
 
 As to this his eldeft Son, he was after i66z, for 
 . fome time Paftor to a Congregational Church at 
 Andover, who met in the fame Place wirh the Peo- 
 ple that were under the Paftoral Caie of Mr. Samuel 
 Sprint. Mr. Sprint difcourfing with him with that 
 Prudence and Temper for which he was remarka- 
 ble, had wrought him up to ail that was neceflary 
 for uniting the two Congregations : But: w.hen the 
 Matter came to be rnendon'd to fome of Mr. Cbaun- 
 tcys People, they wer.e againft it, and fo the Coal'- 
 tion was prevented. Having applied himfelf to the 
 Study of Phyfick, he quitted Andover, fome time 
 after the Recalling King Charles's Indulgence, and 
 came to London, with a DeJign to act as a Phy- 
 fician, rather than as a Preacher for the future. 
 But after the Death of Dr. Owen, his People choo- 
 fing him, he accepted their Call, and continued to 
 officiate among them many Years. At legnth finding 
 the Society decreafe and decay, he took up a Refo- 
 lution wholly to quit minifterial Service, and no En- 
 treaties could prevail with him to the contrary. Tho' 
 he was no popular Preacher, yec Mr. Sprint, who 
 was a good Judge of Learning, and knew him well, 
 always ga\ e him the Character of a learned Man ; 
 which will fcarce be denied him by any unprejudic'd 
 Perfons, that were well acquainted with him. He 
 has feveral Things in Print. As, The Divine Injlitu- 
 tion of Congregational Churches, Minifters and Ordi- 
 nances, as has been profcfs'd by thofe of that Perfuaficn, 
 ajferted and proved from Scripture, 8vo. An EJfay 
 to the Interpretation of the Angel Gabriel',? Prophecy, 
 deliver d by the Prophet Daniel, Chap. ix. 14. Chrift's 
 Afcenfion to fill all Things, in a Sermon at Horfly- 
 down, 8w, &c. 
 
 Pag. 76 1. Alton : Mr. OBED WILLES: Let it 
 be rather, Mr. OB A D i A H WILLS, M A. He 
 hath printed, Infant Baptifm ajjerted and vindicated by 
 Scripture and Antiquity ; in Anfwer to Mr. Danvers, 
 &c. 8i>0. 1674 ; with a Preface by Mr. Richard Bax- 
 ter: And Vindicite Vindiciarum ; or a Vindication of 
 that Tread fe, in Anfwer to Mr. Danvers^ Reply, 
 8*0. 1675 : And Cenfwa Cenfurx, or a juft Cenfure, 
 
 of
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 879 
 
 of the unjuft. Sentence, of the Baptifts, upon an Ap- 
 pcaj made againft Mr. Hsnry Danvers, 8vo. 1676. 
 
 Or. Walker in his Att. Part II, p. 417, fays, thar 
 this Mr. Wills was the bad tho' godly Neighbour 
 of Mr. Gregfon, in the Living of Alton priors, where 
 he had 1 3 / a Year. He fays, that Mr. Wills got his 
 Neighbour cited before the Commiflioners, for read- 
 ing Common Prayer, and difpoffefs'd of that poor 
 P^ace, the Profits of which were given to Mr. Wills 
 as the Reward of his informing : And adds, that of 
 this and other Things concerning this Mr. IVills, he 
 may have Occafion to fpeak in another Place. And 
 therefore if there be any living, that are able to do 
 Juftice to the Memory of this Mr. Wills, I take this 
 Opportunity of making it my Requeft to them, to fur- 
 nifh me with their Informations. 
 
 Pug. 76 1. Box : Mr. JOHN STERN. Tills was 
 the fequeftied Living of Mr. Bu/hnel: Dr. Walkffs 
 Att. Part I, p. 1 8 1 . Mr. Stern was before at Chll- 
 marl^ in this County, and had this Living upon the 
 Ejedtment of Mr. Bttfhnel : But by that Time he had 
 computed all his Expences, he told Mr. Bu/hnel 
 himfelf, he was 500 / the worfe for fuing after and 
 accepting of the Living : Ibid. fag. 193. And there- 
 fore tho* it feems hard that ii Diould be demanded 
 of Mr. Bujkncl, to bear a Part of the Charge of his 
 own being difpoffcfsd, which Dr. Waller intimates 
 was his Cafe, Att. Part I, p. 105 ; yet if Mr. Stern 
 really paid the Commiflioners is/ for their incident 
 Charges, and was 500 /out of Pocker, I think he 
 night well enough exped:, that Mr. Bujhnel fhould 
 allow his Proportion towards it, before he receiv'd 
 any thing from him. 
 
 Ibid. Barveic^, ,St John's : Mr. COM p TON SOUTH, 
 B. D. In the Clofe of the Account of him, it is 
 faid ; And there he died ; (that is at Warmifter) a, 
 few Tears fince : Let it be^alter'd into thefe Words: 
 And tit length M great Weakpefs came upon him, he re- 
 tired to his Hou/e at Upper Dunhead in Wilts, where 
 be died, July ^^, 1705. 
 
 VOL. II. U
 
 TheEjetfed or Siknfd Minifter s, &c. 
 
 Pag. 763. Newton : Mr. JOHN OLDHAM. He 
 was the Son of Mr. John Oldham, fome time Redtor 
 of Nun Eaton near Tetbury in Glocefterfoire ; and 
 was himfelf Minifter of Ship ton in the fame Coun- 
 ty, before he came to this Place, where he was 
 filencM in 1662. Mr. John Oldham the celebrated 
 Poet, in King Charles's Reign, who was fo famous 
 For his pointed Satyrs upon the Jefuits, was his Son : 
 But notwithstanding his Wit and Smartnefs, he was 
 an heart-breaking Grief to his pious Father. In the 
 Works of that Writer, there is as ill-natur'd a Piece 
 as can be eafily met with, intit. A Character of a cer- 
 tain ugly old Parfon, which even Wocd himfelf, (Ath. 
 Oxon. Vol. II. p. 568) owns to be theveorftand mofl 
 cffenfive of all his Poems : As he well might do, fince 
 that Monfter of Ingratitude there fpits his Venome, 
 againft the Perfon, to whom (under G on) he ow'd 
 his Being. The Son died at thirty : But the Father 
 liv'd to a good old-Age, and continued preaching to 
 a fmall Congregation of Diflenters, at IVotton under 
 Edge, in Gloucefterjkire, and died in that Neighbour- 
 hood, not very long fince, without leaving any thing 
 in Print ; tho' he has left a good Name behind him 
 among all that knew him. 
 
 Pag. 764. Bramble : Mr. JAMES CRUMP. He 
 continu'd to live in the Place where he was ejected. 
 
 Ibid. Lurgerfhal : Mr. JAMES CUSSEY. His 
 Name is allo to the Subfcription in 1648. He there 
 wrote himfelf, Henry Cujfe, Minifter of Lurgurfhal. 
 
 Ibid. Vpton Lovell : Mr. CURL. Dr. Walter, 
 r Att-. Part II, p. 277, fays, that this was the feque- 
 ftred Living of Mr. Thomas Hickman ; and adds, that 
 his immediate Succeffbr was one Bradi/b, an Irijh 
 Man, of whofe ridiculous Preaching (not to fay 
 worfe) he intimates he could let the Reader have a 
 particular Inftance, if Modefty would permit him to 
 relate the Story. Perhaps if we had had it, it would 
 have been found not to have grated more upon Mo- 
 defty, than fome Stories he has related in his elabo- 
 rate
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 881 
 
 rate Work. However, it muft be acknowledg'd it 
 would have been very bad indeed, if it could noc 
 have been match'd in the Cafe of fome of the 
 "Dolor's own Church. And therefore he might as 
 well have fpar'd his Reflection. 
 
 Pag. 764. Hill Mtrtjn: Mr. ROBERT ROWS- 
 WELL. He liv'd in this Place after he was ejei^edj , 
 and us'd to preach fomedmes ac Calm. 
 
 Ibid. Chi/tern: Mr. DOSITHEUS WYAIU He 
 was ordain'd by Bifhop Godfrey Goodman, who by 
 his Name took him for a Puritan : But when he told 
 him his Father took his Name out of the Apocrypha, 
 he was very well pleasM with him. If the reading 
 of the Liturgy, without declaring unfeigned Affent 
 and Confent would have (atisfied the Law, Mr. l*Vyar 
 might have continu'd Vicar of Chlltern. For fome 
 Years after his Ejectment, a certain Church being 
 vacant by the Death of the Incumbent, he officiated 
 for fome time, with the Allowance, and at the Re- 
 queft of the Patron, who was his very good Friend : 
 But as he was burying a Corpfe, he was taken with 
 fome Diforder, which prevented his reading all that 
 is appointed on fuch Occafions. This he never reco- 
 vered ; tho* he liv'd fome time after, and was vi- 
 fited by his Nephew Mr. Samuel Sprint, who was 
 ejected from South TUvoorth in Hampfhlre. He found 
 his Uncle unable to fpeak above two or three Words 
 at a Time, fo that rhofe about him could only guefs 
 at his Meaning. While Mr. Sprint was with him, 
 he apprehended by his Geftures and Motions, that 
 he was not fo inrirely fatisfied as he fhould have 
 been, in what he was about when his Diforder 
 feiz'd him. He had with fome Application and 
 Earneftnefs ftudied the Revelation of St. John, and 
 had wrought himfelf up (as many others had done) 
 to a Sort of Aflfurance, that Antichrift would fall in 
 1666 : But liv'd to fee himfelf miftaken. 
 
 Ibid. Evcrjly : Mr. EASTMAN. His Name was 
 
 WILLIAM. The Living of which he was in Pof- 
 
 fclTion, was (I am told) in Hampjkirc, but being men- 
 
 U x cloned
 
 882 The Ejected or Silent? d Minifters, &rc. 
 
 tioned in this County, I (hall not attempt an Altera- 
 tion. The Living (which was 200 / for An^) was 
 given him by Oliver Cromwel, and taken from him at 
 the Reftoration. After his being caft out, he remo- 
 ved to* Salisbury, and from thence to Sbnftsbury in 
 Dorfetjhire, and there died, after he had continu'd 
 the Exercife of his Miniftry many Years. Mr. Clark 
 {thCfrConforming Minifter of fVareham in Dorfci) who 
 married his Daughter, had all his Papers after his 
 Death. 
 
 Pag. 764. Kpifton Cevcril ; Mr. JAMES EBOURN. 
 His .Name alfo is to the Subfcription in 1648, in 
 this manner : Jf.mcs Eburne, Minifter of Kjngfdon 
 Deverell. 
 
 Pag. 765. Ccmptcn : Mr. JOHN FRAWLINS: 
 It fhould be F R A Y L i N c. He was bcrn at Hed- 
 dington about nine Miles from the Devices, and after 
 his Ejectment he preach'd at the Devices every oiher 
 Lord's Day, and Mr. Ob. Wills the other. He was 
 blind for fome Years before he died, but preach'd 
 as long as he was able to ride, and he had one to 
 guide his Horfe. He died in January 1688, when 
 he was about eighty Years of Age. Mr. Gougb 
 preach'd his Funeral Sermon, on Job xiv. i : And 
 therein reprefented him, as a Mofes for Meeknefs, 
 and a Nathanael for Uprighcneis ; and one of Eli- 
 phazfs happy Men, who came to his Giave in a full 
 Age, , or Fulnefs of Days, compleat even to the 
 utmoft Line of Life. He fervM GOD iri his Ge- 
 neration as a faithful Sreward in his Houfe ; and 
 was to his Congregation a painful Labourer, in 
 Word and Docftrine, according to the Talent that 
 GOD had given him, and that with good Succefs. 
 
 Ibid. Brinford j Mr. EDWARD FAULCONER. It 
 fhould have been, Eridford ; Mr. EDWARD FALCO- 
 NER. He was not fatisfied with fprinkling in Bap- 
 tifm ; and People being unwilling to have their Chil- 
 dren dipp'd or plung'd, fome neighbouring Minifters 
 came fometimes, and bapdz'd the Children born in 
 his Parifh. He primed two Books : vi$. The Burden 
 
 of
 
 in the County of W I L T S. 883 
 
 of England, a Copy of which he prefented to King 
 Charles ; and, The Watchman i Alarm. Upon leav- 
 ing his Place in ^66^, he reur'd to Salisbury, where 
 he fpent the little Remainder of his Life. 
 
 Pag. 765. Langford: Mr. GYLES. Dr. Walker, 
 Part II, p. ^^J y lays, that hews a Proverb for Litigi- 
 oufnefs. And if fo, and there had been Proof of ir, 
 I think there had been lefs Room and Ground for 
 Complaint, had he been lilenc'd for that, than for 
 Nonconformity to the Ceremonies. 
 
 Ibid. Winter bourn- Stccks : Mr. MARK 
 I am inform'd his Name was DANIEL, and that 
 he was a very worthy good Man. He has printed a 
 Piece intir. Self the grand Enemy of Jefus Chrifl, and 
 mortal Difeafe of Man, 1 2 mo. 
 
 Ibid. Hifperton ; it ftiould be Hilperton : Mr. MAT 
 TKEW Too GOOD. Dr. Walker, Part II, p. 380 ; fays, 
 that he teat a, Taylor by Trade, and that he had former* 
 ly been a PariJh-Clcrl^. To which I can fay nothing, 
 for Want of intelligence : But I find he was one of 
 the Subfcribers, in 1648. 
 
 N.B. It may not be amifs, here to rake Notice, 
 that Mr. William Thomffon, Sen. who was the In- 
 cumbent at Cor/ham in this County, in 1663 and 
 afterwards, when Mr. Thomat fyfewell liv'd there 
 with the Lady Hungerford, would often complain to 
 Mr. Rofevocll of the Burthen of the Ceremonies, and 
 told him he was drawn in by i meer Wheedle of 
 the Bifhop to conform before he was aware. He 
 meant Dr. Pierce the Bilhop of tfath and Wells, 
 who in the Days of Archbifhop Laud thank'dGoo 
 he had noc one Lecture in all his Diocefe. 
 
 u
 
 884 The Ejeffed or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 The EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of WORCESTER* 
 
 'P*g- 7^5- THINGS-NORTON: Mr.TnoMAS 
 ** H A L L, B. D. In the Account of 
 his Works, for Minifterio Anglicano, read Minifterio 
 Evangelico. 
 
 Pag. 767. Mowfley : Mr. JOSETH COOPER^ 
 At the End of the Account of him, add ; I have 
 been inform'd that the Maintenance at MciP/ky-Chap- 
 pel is but fmall and inconfiderable ; and there be- 
 ing none to carry on the publick Service and Wor- 
 fhip of G o D in his Room there, Mr. Coofer con- 
 tinued to preach in it after the 14th of Auguft, un- 
 til December l66^ ; when a Troop of Horfe came 
 and carried him out of the Pulpit on the Lord's Day, 
 after which he was confin'd in Worcefter-]a.\l for fix 
 Months. 
 
 Among his Works, for M/<rxoff9<m<*, read 
 
 And at the End of his Works, add : Befides thefe 
 I am inform'd he hath a Tradi extant, intit. The dead 
 Wttnefs ftill ff caking to his living Friends : The Sub- 
 ftance of eight Sermons, by way of Farewell, 800. 
 1663. 
 
 Pag. 769. Mr. SIMON MOOR- The fame Per- 
 fon mentioned, fag. 53. 
 
 Pag.
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 885 
 
 Pag. 769. Mr. RicHARoFiNCHER. He 
 finifh'd his Courle, Feb. 10, 1692: And his Funeral 
 Sermon was preach'd by Mr. Samuel Slater, where 
 his Character may be met with. 
 
 Ibid. Vpton upon Severn : Mr. BENJAMIN 
 BAXTER. This was a fequeftred Living : Dr. Wai- 
 kfr, Part II, p. 408. Mr. Baxter was moft humble 
 and blamelefs in his Life. 
 
 Pag. 770. Manly; Mr. AMBROSE SPARRY. 
 His Imprifonment was in 1661, for that that was 
 commonly calfd Baxters Plot. A Letter was fram- 
 ed, as from a namelefs Perfon, and directed to Mr. 
 Sparry, defiring that be and Cap tain Yarrington would 
 be ready with Money and Arms at the Time af pointed j 
 and that he Jhould acquaint Mr. Oafland, and Mr. 
 Baxter with it. This Letter was faid to be left un- 
 der a Hedge, and was carried to Sir John Packing- 
 ton, (from whom it was fuppos'd firft to have pro- 
 ceeded) who thereupon fent Mr. Sparry, and feveral 
 others to Prifon. And though he was a very fober 
 learned Man, who had never own'd the Parliament 
 Caufe in the War, and was in his Judgment for mo- 
 derate Epifcopacy, yet he was long confm'd, and 
 even when the Forgery and Injury was detected, 
 could not obtain a Releafe without great Difficulty. 
 
 Ibid. Bewdley ; Mr. HENRY OASLAND. Add,' 
 M. A. of Tr/'n/ry-CoIIege in Cambridge. He was 
 born of fober Parents, who liv'd reputably in the 
 Parifh of fyck. in this County. From his Childhood 
 he was ftrongly inclined to Learning, and bent upon 
 the Miniftry. He was educated under the Curate 
 of the Parifli, and at the Free School at Bewdlej, 
 and was afterwards admitted into Tr/wiVy-College, 
 while Dr. Hill was Matter, of whom he fays (in 
 fome Memoirs of the former Part of his Life) that 
 Jie learnt more of C H R i s T in one Year, from his 
 plain, yet precious Chrift-advancing Preaching, and 
 almoft daily Expofitions in the Chapel, than he had 
 all his Time before in the Country. After four 
 U 4 Years
 
 886 The fyetted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 Years Continuance in the Univerfity, he went TO 
 fee his Friends, intending to rerurn, and purfue his 
 Studies there, till he had taken his Matter's De- 
 gree : But the famous Mr. Tcmbs after his Difpute 
 with Mr. Baxter in IteW/ey-Chapel, about Infant 
 Baptifm, leaving the Town, the Magiftrares prevail- 
 ed with Mr. Oajland to fucceed him. This was in 
 1650; and in 1651, he went to Londcn, and was or- 
 dained in the Church of St Bartholomew Exchange, 
 by Mr. Samuel Clarke , Mr. Simeon Ajhe, Mr. James 
 Cranford, Mr. William Taylor, and Mr. John Fuller. 
 And whereas he had (as was then ufual) a printed 
 Certificate or Testimonial of his Ordination to which 
 they all of them did fee their Hands, the Words re- 
 lating to his taking the Covenant of the three King- 
 doms were rafed out, he not taking the Covenant ; 
 ,' nor was it then infifted on as if had been formerly. 
 And when he carne to be of a Matter's Standing, he 
 went from Bevedley, and took that Degree at Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 He continu'd his publick minifterial Labours in 
 this Town till Aug. 24. 1662, having both there and 
 in the Towns adjacent, furprizing Succefs. He ca- 
 techized the Children on Thurfdays, after his Rerurn 
 from the Lecture at IZjddcrminfter. The Children 
 were Ib fond of him, that if he happen'd at any 
 Time to ftay a little longer than ufual before he 
 came, they would go out into the Fields to meet him, 
 and running along by his Horfe's Side, bring him in- 
 to Town in a Sort of a triumphant Manner. 
 
 He was leral Lesfrurer of Bevodlcy, as far as I can 
 tmderftand : For I cannot hear that any one was puc 
 out for him ; and when he was ejected, the Corpo- 
 ration chofe a new Lecturer, vi\. Mr. Solcy of Mit- 
 ton. I am inform'd his fix'd Maintenance here was 
 bur 40 / a Year, and yet he refus'd much greater 
 Offers made him if he would remove : But he was 
 unwilling, becaufe there were fo many excellent 
 Chriftians in the Town. However, after his Con- 
 finement for Packjngtons Plot, (publifh'd by Captain 
 Tarrington) he remov'd with his Family into Stafford- 
 foire, where he preached the Gofpel to any thac in- 
 vked him. 
 
 When
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 887 
 
 When he was ejected, he had nothing to fubfiflt 
 on, and fupport five Children, but a Jointure his 
 Wife had from her former Husband ; and yet he 
 was contented and eafy. In the very hotteft Pare 
 of King Charles* Reign, he preach'd in Lficefterfhire, 
 Northampton/hire, Herefordshire^ Warwickshire, iVor- 
 cefterfhire, Stafford/hire, and Shrofjhire : But when 
 the Indulgence was granted, he conrin'd himfelf to the 
 four latter Counties, in which there are many to 
 whom his Memory to this Day is precious, and who 
 can with Plcafure tell the Time and the Place and the 
 Text he preach'd on, that firft occafion'd their mind- 
 ing Religion in earneft. 
 
 He was eminent for Juftice and Charity, and ma- 
 king Peace : Of a ca'holick and healing Spirit, and 
 great Moderation. His Family went to Church when 
 he was abroad ; and when be could, he chofe to 
 preach out of Church-hours. He appear'd to all (Q 
 fet upon doing good, that he was not a little re- 
 fpe&ed by feveral that had no great Affe&ion for 
 the Nonconformifts. As he was one Day walking by 
 a narrow Road, he found two Waggons had met 
 there, and were unable to pafs by each other, and 
 the Waggoners fell to fighting for the Way. He per- 
 fuaded them to be quiet, and <io as well as they could 
 for that Time, and affur'd them they fhould never 
 have Occafion to differ upon that Account any more. 
 To make good his Word, he took the firft Opportu- 
 nity of applying to the Owner of the next Acre of 
 Land, and purchas'd ir for 6 /, and freely gave it 
 to the Country, to enlarge the Road, which is to 
 this Day no fmall Convenience. And this was done 
 at a Time when he couid not be permitted to do the 
 Good he deuYd to the Souls of Men. 
 
 He was in Labours more abundant, and ven- 
 nirecl more than <noft of his Brethren when the 
 Times were troublefome. and yet came off as well 
 as moft of them. After the Confinement mentioned 
 above, his Brethren had none of his Company in 
 Chancellors Courts, or in Prifon. It is true abouc 
 the Beginning of the Reign of King 3<tmes, he was 
 cited into the Court at Litchfield - t but he was foon 
 
 difcharg'd,
 
 888 ThcEje&edor Silenced Minifters, 8rc. 
 
 difcharg'd, without Expence or Trouble, by the De- 
 claration for Liberty. 
 
 He had many remarkable Deliverances, which 
 he noted with great Thankfulnefs. As he was 
 preaching once in Herefordfhire, an Informer came 
 in, and took the Names of the People prefent, with- 
 out being much obferv'd : And being offended at 
 fomewhat in the Sermon, he drew his Sword, and 
 Iwore he would kill the Minifter, and advanc'd to- 
 wards him with that Defign. A young Man in the 
 Place met him, threw up his Heels, and difarnVd 
 him, and fo there was no Damage done. The Sol- 
 diers that took his Brethren to Prifon came feveral 
 times to take him, but could not find him at home, 
 he being often abroad, preaching Lectures. Once 
 they came late at Night in hope of finding him : They 
 learch'd his Houfe, and feveral Houfes in the Neigh- 
 bourhood, but mifs'd the Houfe of that particular 
 Neighbour, with whom he was prevail'd with to 
 lodge for that Night, and fo he then alfo efcap'd 
 them. Tho' his Neighbours were generally for the 
 Eftablifhed Church, yet they were fo far from in- 
 fulting him when he met with any Difficulty, that 
 they generally exprefs'd their Concern ; and fome 
 of them would freely intercede with the Soldiers and 
 Officers, and perfuade them to let him be quiet, tell- 
 ing them how good a Man he was, how good a 
 Neighbour, and that he did a great deal of Good 
 among them. Hardly any of them would upon Oc- 
 cafion, have refus'd to have conceal'd him when he 
 was fought for ; and when once he was preaching a 
 Lecture about half a Mile from his Houle, the Of- 
 ficers came to difturb him, but tho' it was generally 
 known by his Neighbours, yet no one would give 
 Information. 
 
 I am informM, that a Guard of Soldiers was fet 
 in the Way in which it was known he would come 
 that Day ; and being come up, they told him they 
 muft know his Name before he pafs'd. He told 
 them with great Boldnefs, that his Name was Henry 
 Oafland, and he car'd not who knew it. Upon which 
 they let him pats, .and were not fenfible of their Mi- 
 ftake, till he was out of their Reach, 
 
 He
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 
 
 He had a firm and ftrong Conftitudon, and a great 
 Share of Health ; and was fcarce ever hinder'd from 
 preaching by Sicknefs, on Lords Days or Week Days, 
 except two or three Lords Days, about two Years 
 before he died, by a Pain that was reckon'd to 
 arife from the Stone in the Kidneys. As to other 
 letter Indifpofitions, it was his common Obfervati- 
 on, that as foon as he began his Pulpit Work, he 
 felt no more of them for that Time. 
 
 When he was in the Pulpit, he feem'd to be in 
 his Element. He generally began with fomethtBg 
 that tended to quicken his Auditory to a ferious At- 
 tention. He would uflier in his firft Prayer, with 
 fomewhat that was affedling, in Order to the excit- 
 ing in fuch as were to join with him, a Frame of Spi- 
 rit becoming thofe that addrefs'd to the Great GOD. 
 He alfo began his Sermon with a brief Speech agree- 
 able to his Subject, defigning to raife the Expecta- 
 tions, and quicken the Attention of his Hearers. 
 And all his Difcourfes weje ferious, lively and mov- 
 ing. His Subjects were commonly adapted to the 
 Circumftances of the People he preach'd to, or 
 fuitable to the different Seafons of the Year, or 
 the fpecial Occurrences of Divine Providence with 
 Refpedt to the Nation in general, or the particular 
 Place where he preach'd, teaching his Auditors how 
 to make a right Improvement of them. Having 
 explain'd his Text, and confirmed his Doctrine with 
 Scripture and good Reafon, it was his common. 
 Way to be very particular in his Application, which 
 has often fet fuch as were Strangers to him upon 
 wondering how he came to be acquainted with their 
 Cafes. He taught with Authority, and convinc'd his 
 Hearers that he did not come to trifle with them, 
 or gratify itching Ears with the inticing Words of 
 Man's Wifdom, but to demand of them in the Name 
 of the great GOD, and JESUS CHRIST whom he 
 had font, Obedience to the everlafting Gofpel 
 which he preach'd to them. In this Part of his 
 Difcourfe, he us'J to look about his Congregation 
 with an uncommon piercing Eye, that made each 
 particular Hearer think he fpafce to them. Preach- 
 ing from Matt. xxii. 5, he thus prefac'd his Dif- 
 courfe :
 
 )o The Ejected or Silenced Minifiers, &c. 
 
 courfe: I am come, faid he, to bring you the moft 
 heavy, grievous, and melancholy Tidings, that ever you 
 Jscard with your Ears. Undone ferifbing Sinners are 
 invited to the Goffel Feaft, but they make light of it, 
 and fo fall into tin aggravated Condemnation. Ano- 
 ther Time, preaching in Pen Church in Staffordjhire, 
 to a crowded Congregation , he recommended 
 CHRIST JESUS to them as worrhy to be ac- 
 cepted of by all of them ; and after he had fee 
 forth his Excellence, and convinced them upon icrip- 
 tural and rational Grounds of the Truth of what 
 he had declar'd to them concerning him, he in the 
 Application, with great Authority demanded their 
 Acceptance of him, and prefs'd it with great Fer- 
 vency; charging and requiring any in the Affem- 
 bly that made light of the Offer, and refusM to 
 comply, to go forth and wkhdraw from the reft of 
 the Company. Upon this he fat down for fome 
 time zn the Pulpit, and condnu'd filenc. And per- 
 ceiving they all ftay'd, and none withdrew, he rofe 
 up as one in an Extafy of Joy, and faid : Now I 
 hope every one of you is efpouied to JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 Be y, Efq; who had no great Arteition for 
 
 thofe of Mr. Oajland's Sentiments, feem'd to be ex- 
 treamly well pleas'd with the whole Management. 
 Often would he look upon fome particular Au- 
 ditors with great Earneftnefs, and with Authority ask 
 them, Will you obey this Word? Or will you avoid 
 this or that Sin ? O do fo for G o D'S Sake, or for 
 C H R i s T'S Sake, &c. which has had fuch an Influ- 
 ence upon fome, that they have cried out in 
 the Congregation, I will Sir, I will Sir. A fleepy 
 Hearer was feldom ieen under his Miniftry. More 
 of his Hearers might have been feen in Tears than 
 afleep. 
 
 After the legal Toleration, he preach'd twice eve- 
 ry Lord's Day, and fome Weeks one or two Lecture 
 Sermons befides, fome Miles from his own Home. 
 And this Service he cominu'd, till Lord's Day, Oct. 
 3. 1703, when he was fo ill that he cculd not preach; 
 and on the igth he died, about the eightieth Year 
 of his Age. The Publick Minifter preach'd a Fu- 
 neral Sermon at his Interrment, from fifv. xiv. 13; 
 
 and
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 891 
 
 and told a near Relation that wept bitterly, when 
 fhe faw him laid in his Grave, tbat fhe had no 
 Reafon to weep : For he left a good Name be- 
 hind him, and ieveral Hundreds to teftify that 
 he juftly deferv'd it. 
 
 He had a ftrong manly Voice, which was as 
 agreeable as it was audible j and a very rouzing De- 
 livery. He was zealous for the Caufe of Noncon- 
 formity, and ferv'd it with great Boidnefs and Re- 
 folution, in fo much that fome calPd his Difcretion 
 and Conduct in Queftion : But he feared none in 
 the Matters of his GOD. When the Soldiers came 
 to take him up for the above mentioned Packingtons 
 Plot, he was reading a Chapter in his Family. His 
 Servant-maid came to him, and told him a Troop 
 of Horfe ftood at the Door. He was advis'd to 
 fecure himfelf, which he did fo artfully, that though 
 he was all the while in his own Houfe, they could 
 not find him. At length, his Friends thought him 
 fafe, and the Soldiers defpair'd of getting him 
 into their Pofieflion : But considering with himfelf 
 that being charg'd with High Treafcn, though he was 
 very innocent, his abfconding would by many be 
 reckon'd an Evidence of his Guilt, he came forth 
 From his Hiding-place, ftood before the Soldiers, 
 and ask'd them who it was they wanted ? They an- 
 fwer'd, Mr. Onjland. I am the Man (aid he, and am 
 ready to anhver, to what any Man has to fay againft 
 me. He fpake with fuch a Spirit, as ftruck a vifi- 
 ble Terror into the Soldiers, who were in flain 
 Confufion, and did nor for fome lime fpeak to, or 
 otFer to lay hold on him. 
 
 Preaching in the Pulpit of the publick Minifter," 
 (with his Allowance) at Newport in Sbropjhirc, fome 
 time after the Ejectment in 1661, and difcourfing 
 from Ifa. xxviii. j, Wo to the Drunkards of Ephraim, 
 two noted Tiplers, fychard Eccles, and John Crabb 
 that heard him, feeing him ride out of Town, faid 
 one to another, here he goes, that denounced Woes 
 to the Drunkards of Ephraim. Ay, faid Mr.OaJland, 
 nd to the Drunkards of Newport too ; and Woe 
 to thec if thou art one of them thou mocking Shi- 
 met. 
 
 He
 
 892 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 He and his Congregation had a great Delive- 
 rance at Cofely in Stafford/hire, when he preach'd 
 a Funeral Sermon for Mr. Ecclefoall, one of the 
 eje&ed Minifters, from %cchar. i. 5. In the midft 
 of his Sermon, the Floor of the Room where he 
 was, with a crowded Congregation, funk down 
 into the Cellar, but no Body receiv'd any Hurt. 
 He fmifh'd his Difcourfe out of Doors j a Place 
 where he has often been conftrain'd to preach up- 
 on a Table, in an Orchard, or any where, as he 
 could, when the Company was too large for the 
 Houfe to hold them. He has often preach'd to 
 a numerous Congregation of Nailors and Colliers, 
 &c. in a Place furrounded by Mud- wall, and he 
 flood under a Tree. He never refus'd to preach to 
 any People that defir'd his Pains, though they were 
 ever fo poor; nor did he make any Complaint 
 of their mean Entertainment, fo he had but a good 
 Congregation, which he feldom wanted. 
 
 He was an Encourager of young Men that de- 
 voted themfelves to the facred Miniftry. If they 
 were poor, but had good natural Parts, he was not 
 backward himfelf ; and he ftirr'd up his Friends that 
 were able to contribute to their Affiftance. He 
 was indeed a common Father to the Poor, in ge- 
 neral, who greatly lamented the Lofs of fo great a 
 Friend and Benefactor. 
 
 There were but few Places where he preach'd 
 frequently, in which there was not a Funeral Ser- 
 mon preach'd for him ; fo general was the Lamen- 
 tation that the Country made for him. 
 
 He left behind him two Sons among the Non- 
 conformifts. Edward the elder is Paftor of the Dif- 
 fenting Congregation in Bewdley, where his Father 
 was ejected and filenc'd : And Henry the younger 
 died in Cambridge fhire. 
 
 He has left little in Print. His two Sermons inti- 
 tuled, The Living Dead Paftor, yet Speaking, were 
 primed without his Knowledge, by three of his Peo- 
 ple, who took them in Short-hand* He was trou- 
 bled at their taking that Method, becaufe he in- 
 tended to have publifh'd them himfelf, more to 
 Advantage. However ic was obferv'd, there was 
 
 fcarce-
 
 in the Count} of WORCESTER. 89$ 
 
 fcarce a dry Eye to be feen, while he delivered 
 thofe Difcourfes from the Pulpit. 
 
 He alfo wrote and publifh'd a Sheet, intitul'd, The 
 Chrtftian's daily Walk.., which I have not feen, but 
 am told it well deferves to be primed again. 
 
 Pag . 77 1. Old Svoinford: Mr. JAR.VIS BRYAN? 
 He came to this Living in 1655. Dr. Walker, Pare 
 H, P- 373- And at the End of the Account of him, 
 add : 
 
 As for Mr. Jarvis Bryan, it was his general Cha- 
 racter, that his Life was a continual Sermon. He 
 fpent the latter Part of his Life among the Diflen- 
 ters at Coventry, and there he died, about the Year 
 1690. He was an holy, humble, ferious Divine,' 
 whofe great Defign and Bufinefs, was to convert 
 Souls, and build them up in Faith and Holinefs, and 
 in a catholick, chriftian, peaceable Spirit and Tem- 
 per. 
 
 Pag. 77Z. Stone : Mr. RICHARD SERJEANT^ 
 He lucceeded Mr. Richard Spicer, the fequeftred 
 Incumbent of this Living, (whofe Daughter he mar- 
 ried) with his Confent. Dr. Walkers Att. Part II; 
 p. 373. He was a good while Mr. Baxters Afliftant 
 at Kjdderminfter. 
 
 Ibid. Eromfgrove : Mr. JOHM SpitssuRyr Add; 
 He was exceedingly valu'd by Dr. Hall, the late 
 Bifliop of Eriftol, whofe Sifter he married. The 
 Bifliop ordinarily vifired him once a Year, and con- 
 tinu'd fome Weeks at his Houfe. And when he died,' 
 he made Mr. John Spi/sbury, (the only Child of the 
 former Mr. John Spilsbury) his Heir : And he for 
 feveral Years has been Paftor of a Congregation of 
 DilTenters, in the Town of Kiddcnninfter, but is now, 
 lately dead there. 
 
 Pag. 774. Churchill : Mr. EDWARD BOUCHER? 
 He liv'd afterwards in Kjddcrminjler. 
 
 Ibid. Cbaddlcjley : Mr. THOMABALDWIN, Sens 
 Add : He was of Cambridge. He died in Feb. 169}. 
 
 Mr.
 
 894- T?' }f Ejeffed or Silenced Miniflers, cVe. 
 
 Mr. iVhlte in his Funeral Sermon fpeaks thus of 
 him : He was a Man of exemplary Holinefs and Re- 
 gularity of Life ; and conftant in his Attendance 
 on his Miniftry, whenever free from two fevcre Di- 
 ftempers with which he was forely afflicted. His 
 laft Fit of the Stone held him for about eleven Days 
 together, and was very acute. He was one of fignal 
 Patience under all his Dolors. When he had any 
 Intermiflion from Pain, he was prefently ready for 
 profitable Difcourfe. When he was near his End, 
 he put forth himfelf, with more than ordinary Ear- 
 neftnefs and Vigor of Spirit : And being defir'd to 
 favour himfelf, becaufe of the great WeakneTs of 
 Bis Body, his Anfwer was quick and fmart : Can I 
 (faid he) fpeak, too much for God ! 
 
 Dr. Walker, Part II. p. 300, fays, that Mr. Lee 
 the fequeftred Minifter of Chaddejley Corbet was re- 
 ftor'd in 1661. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin was by the Oxford Aft, driven to 
 Dudley in Warwickshire. 
 
 Pag. 774. All- Church : Mr. RICHARD MOORE! 
 Dr. Walkfr, Part II. p. 277, owns, that he was pol- 
 fefs'd of this Living in 1661, and then gave it 
 up to Mr. Hollingfon : But he might ealily have got 
 another Living, if the Act of 'Uniformity had not 
 follow'd fbon after, and totally filenc'd him. This 
 Mr. Moore was alive in 1681, at Weathercoc^ Hill 
 . near Kjvgs Norton : But when he died 1 cannot 
 lay. 
 
 Pag. 776. After the Word more, I'm. 33, let this 
 be added; 
 
 Mr. GILES WOOLEY, was Brother to this Mr. 
 Hicbard Wodey. I cannot learn where he was Mi- 
 nifter in 1662 : But he was a Nonconformift. He 
 came up to London and preach'd fomevvhere about 
 Hackpcy : But I know not what became of him af- 
 terwards, nor when he died. 
 
 llid. Hfyite Lady Aftcn : Mr. ROBERT BROWN. 
 This alfo was another fequeftied Living. Dr. Wal-
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 895 
 
 &r, Part II, p. 313. He was a Fifth Monarchy "Man, 
 and wrote againft hearing the Parifh Minifters. 
 
 Dr. Stiltingfleet faid that his Jerubbaal contain'd the 
 Subftance of all that was faid by the Old Brownifts. 
 He was generally own'd a Scholar. He died in P/jr- 
 mouth, by exceflive Preaching. 
 
 Pag. 776. J^dmerly: Mr. WILLIAM KIM- 
 BE R L E v. Father to Dr. John J^imbvrley of Coven' 
 try, now Dean of Litchfield. 
 
 Pag. 777. Hampton Lovet : Mr. JOHN FREESTON; 
 Dr. Walter, Att. Part II, p. 217, reprefents this as 
 the fequeftred Living of Mr. Cooper, but then adds,' 
 that he died before the Reftoration : So that this Mr. 
 freefone had a Right to the Living by the Vertue of 
 the Ad of Parliament in 1660. 
 
 Ibid. Tredington : Mr. WILLIAM DURHAM. 
 This I underftand is one of the beft Livings in War- 
 teflerjhire, or indeed in any County of England. It 
 is reckon'd worth 700 / per An ; and one Year the 
 Crop of Corn was fo good there, that his Succeflbr 
 was offer'd 800 / for his Tithes. There are five or 
 fix Villages, befides three Churches that belong to 
 this Parifh. This Mr. Durham was reckon'd a Per- 
 Ton of as great Eminence as any in the County. 
 Dr. Crouder who fucceeded him, for two or three 
 Lord's Days, preach'd at one End of the Church while 
 Mr. Durham preach'd at the other, till at length Mr. 
 Durham preach'd his Farewel Sermon,and left thePlace. 
 However he conform'd afterwards,perfuaded (as it was 
 fupposM) by the late Bifliop of London his Intimate,' 
 who was often at Compton-Houte in Warwickshire. 
 The lowermoft Church on Breadjheet Hill was given 
 him ; (which was fcarce worth a Quarter of what he 
 quitted) and there he liv'd and died. Dr. Crouder, 
 who befides this Living, had a Prebend of Wercefter, 
 and was Matter of St Mary Hall in Oxon, and fo had 
 1300 / a Year coming in one Way and another, and 
 was unmarried, yet could not fubfift. The Parifh 
 went to Law with him, and he was at length turn'd 
 
 VOL. II. X outi
 
 896 The Ejetfed or Siknid Mimflers, &c. 
 
 out ; was a great while a Prifoner in the Fleet, and 
 there died much in Debt. 
 
 Pag. 777. Lindrid*e: Mr. JOHN GILES. The 
 Father of this Mr. Giles (who was the proper Incum- 
 bent of this Living) was an eminent Minifter. He 
 died after the Reftoration of King Charles, and juft 
 before the Bartholomew All came out : But he was 
 fo zealous, holy, laborious and faithful in his Place, 
 that his Enemies would not fufFer him to be buried 
 in his own Parifh-Church, nor the Church-yard ; bur 
 his Friends were forc'd to carry him to Standford, 
 about three or four Miles from his Habitation to be 
 buried. Mr. John Giles the Son who was filenc'd by 
 the Att for Uniformity, left behind him three Sons, 
 who were all bred up to the Miniftry among the 
 Diflenters : The Eldeft John Giles, M. D. is Paftor 
 of a Congregation at Salop. The Second Jonathan, 
 was Paftor of a DaTenting Congregation at Farnham 
 in Surrey where he died fuddenly, not long fince : 
 And the Youngeft James, was Chaplain to Sir Thomas 
 Clarl{_ of Snailwet in Cambridge/hire, Bart, and pro- 
 mifed well, but is become ufelefs, by Reafon of an 
 unhapy Dilbrder in his Brain. 
 
 Ibid. Where I mention Mr. JOHN WOWEN, of 
 TmM#-College in Cambridge, and have thefe Words, 
 and is yet living, about feventy-eight Tears old ; let the 
 Exprefiion be alter'd thus : He died not longfince, tit 
 the Age of feventy-eight, or upwards. 
 
 Ibid. Where I mention Mr. RICHARD COOK, 
 who was alfo of Trinity, let it be added ; He was 
 born at I^infare, and was at the Univerfity, and pre- 
 pared for the Miniftry, but not fix'd, before the paf- 
 fing of the Aft for Uniformity. He could not be fa- 
 tisfied to conform. He was but a little while Chap- 
 lain at Preflwood, in the Family of Pbilip Foley, Efq; 
 but liv'd a Batchelor in the Houfe in which he was 
 born, did feme Service there, and preach'd occafio- 
 nally in feveral Places, without being fix'd in any 
 Congregation. He ftudied hard, and died in his 
 Prime.
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 897 
 
 Pag. 777. It has been compiain'd by fbme, that tho' 
 I have publiuYd an Abridgment of the Life of Mr. R i- 
 CHARD BAXTER, who was fo noted and fo well 
 efteem'd in this County of Worcefter, and given a yet 
 fhorter Compendium of it, before his pra&ical Works, 
 that were publifh'd fome Years fince in four Volumes 
 in Folio, I have taken no particular Notice of him 
 in my Account of the ejected and filenc'd Minifters, 
 where he {hould not be overlook'd or pafs'd by : And 
 therefore I think it may not be amifs, to add fome- 
 what concerning him in this Place. 
 
 He was born Nov. n. 1615, at Eaton Conftantine} 
 five Miles from Shrewsbury, in the County of Salop. 
 He fell into the Hands of very indifferent School- 
 mafters in his Childhood, and when he grew up the 
 greateft Afliftance he had in his Studies, was from 
 the private Advice of fome Divines whom he ap- 
 plied to for Counfe!. He had not the Advantage of. 
 an academical Education, (tho' he was extremely de- 
 firous of it, and much lamented the Want of it :) 
 And yet by the Divine BlefTmg upon his rare Dexte- 
 rity and Diligence, his facred Knowledge was in 
 that Degree of Eminence, as few in the Univerfity 
 ever arriv'd to. He was ferious betimes ; and at 
 about fourteen Years of Age, the reading Parfons of 
 tyfolution, corrected by Bunny, brought him under 
 inch religious ImpreiTions, as never wore off. He 
 was afterwards kept along while, with the Calls of 
 approaching Death at one Ear, and the Queftionings 
 of a doubtful Confcience on the other; and carefully 
 read all the practical Treatifes he could lay his 
 Hands on, in order to his Direction and Satif- 
 fadHon. 
 
 From the Age of twenty-one to twenty-three, he 
 was under fo great Weaknefs, that he hardly thought 
 it poflible he fhould live above a Year; and yet ha- 
 ving a warm Senfe of Religion, and being willing 
 to do fome Good to ignorant and carelefs Sinners be- 
 fore he left the World, he even then enter'd into the 
 Miniftry, and was examin'd and ordain'd, by Bifhop 
 Thornborougb of Worceftcr ; and that before he had di- 
 ftin&ly read over the Book of Ordination, the Book 
 X i f
 
 898 The Ejetted or Siknc*dJ\4inifters, cVc. 
 
 of Homilies, or weigh'd the Book of Common Prayer, 
 or the Thirty-nine Articles with any Exadtnefs. He 
 was firft at Dudley, where for about three Quarters 
 of a Year he preach'd to a numerous Auditory : And 
 went from thence to Bridgnortb, where he was Af- 
 fiftant to Mr. Mad/lard. 
 
 The Etcetera Oath put him upon the clofe Study 
 of the Affair of Conformity, and the more he look'd 
 into and weigh'd it, the lefs he lik'd it. Tho' he faw 
 no Reafon to believe all Kind of Epifcopacy unlawful, 
 he yet was far from fo approving the Englifh Epifco- 
 facy, as to think it lawful to fwear, he would never 
 confent to have it aher\L And it was his Obfer- 
 vation, that thar Oath which was delign'd unalterably 
 to fubjedfc the Nation to Diocefans, did but fet many 
 the more againft them : And that inftead of ruining 
 the Nonconformifts which was intended, it prov'd a 
 great Advantage to them, and inclin'd many to fall 
 in with them. 
 
 Upon the Opening of the Long Parliament, a 
 Committee was appointed to hear Petitions and 
 Complaints againft fuch as were fcandalous among 
 the Clergy. The Town of Kjdderminfter in this 
 County, among a great many others, had drawn up 
 a Petition againft Mr. Danfe their Vicar, and his two 
 Curates, as inefficient. The Living was worth 100 / 
 per An, and the Vicar in order to the compounding 
 Matters, offer'd 60 I per An to an agreeable Preach- 
 er, to be chofen by fourteen Truftees. They upon 
 hearing Mr. Baxter, chofe him for their Minifter ; 
 and he accepted : Making this Obfervation ; that in 
 all the Changes he pafs'd through, he never went to 
 any Place he had before defir'd, defign'd, or thought 
 of ; but only to thofe Places he never thought of, till 
 he was furpriz'd by a fudden Invitation. 
 
 He fpent two Years at J^tdderminflcr before the 
 Civil War broke out, and above fourteen Years af- 
 terwards, and yet never touch'd the Vicaridge-houfe, 
 tho' authoriz'd by an Order of Parliament ; but the 
 old Vicar liv'd there without Moleftation. Mr. Bax- 
 ter found the Place, like a Piece of dry and barren 
 Earth ; Ignorance and Profanenefs as Natives of the 
 Soil were rife among them : But by the Divine 
 
 Bletfing
 
 in the County o/WORCESTER. 899 
 
 Blefllng upon his Labour and Cultivating, the Face 
 of Paradile appear'd there in all the Fruits of Righ- 
 teoufnefs. Rage and Malice created him much Op- 
 pofition at firft : But at length, his unwearied Pains 
 among the People of that Town, were crown'd with 
 unexpected Succefs. When he firft came thither, 
 there might perhaps be a Family in a Street that 
 worfhipp'd GOD, and call'd upon his Name : But 
 when he came away, there was not above a Family 
 on the Side of a Street that did not do it. He had 
 fix hundred Communicants : And there were but 
 few Families in the whole Town but what fubmit- 
 ted to his private Catechizing, and perfonal Con- 
 ference. 
 
 In the Heat of the War he withdrew from J^id- 
 derminfter, and retir'd to Coventry, and preach'd one 
 Part of the Lord's Day to the Garrifon, and the other 
 to the Inhabitants. Here he had the agreeable So- 
 ciety of about thirty worthy Minifters, who fled to 
 the fame Place for Safety ; and among the reft of 
 Mr. Richard Vines, and Mr. Anthony Eurgefs. He 
 continued there two Years, taking nothing for his 
 Preaching twice every Lord'/ Day, excepting only 
 his Diet. And after Nafcby Fight, when the Caufe 
 remarkably chang'd on the Side of the Parliamenta- 
 rians and the King was left out of the new Commit 
 fions, underftanding that plotting Heads among the 
 Soldiers were bufily at Work, in order to the fub- 
 verting both Church and State, he with the Encou- 
 ragement of the Minifters who were then at Coven- 
 try, went into the Army, and accepted an Invitation 
 to be Chaplain to Col. WkitUfl Regiment, with a 
 Defign to do all that in him lay, to prevent the Con- 
 fufions that afterwards enfu'd. He march'd with the 
 Army Weftward, and was cngag'd from Day to Day 
 with the Sectaries he met with among them : And 
 by the Succefs he had, found Rcafon to apprehend, 
 that had there been a competent Number of Mini- 
 fters among them, each doing their Part, the whole 
 Plot of the furious Party might have been broken, 
 and King, Parliament, and Religion preferv'd. But 
 he was feparated from the Army, (and that in a very 
 crkical Jun&ure in February 165^, the very Day that 
 X 3
 
 900 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 they began their Confpiracy againft the Parliament, in 
 a Meeting at Nottingham, and juft before the Trial of 
 Skill at Trifloc Heath,) by great Weaknefs, occafipn- 
 ed by the Lofs of a Gallon of Blood at the Nofe : 
 Upon which, retiring to Sir Thorns Houfis, he was 
 taken up with daily Medicines to prevent a Dropfy, 
 and was in continual Expectation of Death ; tho' af- 
 ter fome time he was rais'd as from the Brink of the 
 Grave, and fpar'd for farther Service. 
 
 When Oliver got the Afcendant and became Pro- 
 te&or, he could not fall in with him, tho' he preach- 
 ed once before him. Being afterwards fent for, to 
 hear him make a Speech of above an Hour's Length, 
 about the Providence of GOD in changing the Go- 
 vernment, and favouring that Change, by fuch great 
 Things as were done at home and abroad ; he took 
 the Freedom to tell him that the honeft People of the 
 Land took their ancient Monarchy to be a Blefling : 
 And that they were defirous to know, how they had 
 forfeited that Blefling, and to whom the Forfeiture 
 was made. To which he replied, (not without fome 
 Paflion) that there was no Forfeiture, but GOD had 
 chang'd it, as it pleas'd him. 
 
 He came to tendon juft before the Depofition of 
 Hjchard Crcmwcl : And pi each'd before the Parlia- 
 ment, the Day before they voted the Return of 
 King Charles. He preach'd alfo before the Lord 
 Mayor and Aldermen of the City at St Paul's, on the 
 Day of Thankfgiving for Mons Succefs. And when 
 the King was actually reftor'd, he became one of his 
 Chaplains in Ordinary, together with fome others of 
 his Brethren. He preach'd once before him. in that 
 Capacity ; and ofren waited on him with the reft of 
 the Minifters, in order to the obtaining by his Maje- 
 fty's Means, fome Terms of Peace and Union with 
 the Bifhops. He affifted at the Conference at the 
 Savoy, as one of the Commifficners, and then drew 
 up a Informed Liturgy, which fome Perfons not very 
 likely to be prejudic'd in his Favour, have thought 
 to be the beft of the Kind they ever faw. He was 
 ofFer'd the Biflioprick of Hereford by the Lord Chan- 
 cellor Clarendon ; ..but could not be fatisfied to accept 
 it j and gave his Lordfhip his Reafons, in a refped- 
 
 ful
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 901 
 
 ful Letter. He afteded no higher Preferment, than 
 Liberty ro continue his Miniftry in h ; s beloved Town 
 of Kjdderminftcr, which he could not obtain* Tho* 
 he went down thither afcer the Reftoration, yet he 
 could not get leave to preach there above twice or 
 thrice. 
 
 He return'd therefore to London, and preach'd oc- 
 cafionally about the City, fometimes for Dr. Bates 
 at St Dun/tans in Fleetftrect, and fometimes in other 
 Places, and had a Licence from Bifhop Sheldon, up- 
 on his fubfcribing a Promife, not to preach againft 
 the Do&rine of the Church, or the Ceremonies, in 
 his Diocefe, as long as he us'd his Licence. And 
 thus he went on, till May 15, \66^, when he preach- 
 ed his Farewel Sermon at Black. Friars : He did it 
 the fooner, than none might fuppofe he intended to 
 conform at Bartholomew-Tide, which was the Time 
 fix'd by the Aft of "Uniformity. 
 
 He afterwards retir'd to Afton in Middlefex, where 
 he went every Lord's Day to the publick Church, 
 and fpent the reft of the Day with his Family, and 
 a few poor Neighbours that came in to him. In 
 1665, when the Plague rag'd, he went to Richard 
 Hampdens, Efq; in Buckingham/hire, and return'd to 
 Afton when it was over. He (laid there as long 
 as the Adi againft Conventicles continu'd in Force, 
 and when that was expir'd, he had fo many Au- 
 ditors that he wanted Room. Hereupon, by a 
 Warrant fign'd by two Juftices, he was committed for 
 fix Months to New Prifon Jail ; but got an Habeas 
 Corf us, and was released, and removed to Totteridge 
 near Barnet. 
 
 After the Indulgence in 1671, he return'd into the 
 City, and was one of the Tuefday Lecturers at Pm- 
 ners-Hall, and had a Friday Ledture at Fetter-lane, 
 but on the Lord's Days he for fome time preach'd 
 only occafionally ; and afterwards more ftatedly in 
 St James's Markec-houfe, where in 1674, he had a. 
 wonderful Deliverance by almoft a Miracle, from 
 a Crack in the Floor. He was apprehended as he 
 was preaching his Lecture at Mr. Turners ; but foon 
 releas'd, bccaufe the Warrant was not (as it ought 
 to have been) fign'd by a City-Jufticc. 
 
 X 4 In
 
 902 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters^ 8rc. 
 
 In 1676, he built a Meedng-houfe in Oxendcn- 
 ftreet, and when he had but once preach'd there, 
 the Worfhip was difturb'd, and Mr. Scddon a Derby- 
 fhire Minifter preaching for him, (he being out of 
 Town) was fent to the Gate-houfe in his Room, tho' 
 . the Warrant did not fuit him : And he continued 
 there three Months, till he got an Habeas Corpus. He 
 then took another Meedng-houfe in St Martin's Pa- 
 rifh, and was forcibly kept out of it by Conftables 
 and Officers. Mr. fjfaijmtth dying in Southward , 
 he upon the earneft Invitation of his People, preach- 
 ed to them many Months in Peace. And when Dr. 
 Lloyd fucceeded Dr.Lamplugh in St Martins, he of- 
 fered him his Chapel in Oxcnden-ftreet for publick 
 Service, and he accepted it. 
 
 In 1682, he was fuddenly furpriz'd in his Houfe, 
 by an Informer with Conftables and Officers, with a 
 Warrant to feize his Perfon for coming within five 
 Miles of a Corporation j and five more in Diftrain for 
 195 /, for five Sermons. Tho' he was exceeding ill, 
 yet he was going with them to a Juftice, till meet- 
 ing Dr. Cox the Phyfician, he forc'd him back to his 
 Bed, and went and took his Oath before five Ju- 
 ftices, that he could not go to Prifon without Dan- 
 ger of Death. The King being applied to, confent- 
 ed that his Imprifonment fhould for that Time be 
 forborn. But they executed the Warrants on the 
 Books and Goods in the Houfe, notwithstanding 
 that he gave good Proof that they were not legally 
 his ; and they fold even the Bed which he lay upon. 
 Some Friends paid down the Money at which they 
 were apprais'd, and he repay'd them. Being after- 
 wards in Danger of new Seizures, he was forc'd to 
 retire to private Lodgings. 
 
 In 1684, he was feiz'd again, and carried to the 
 SelTions, at a Time when he was fcarce able to 
 ftand, and bound in a Bond of 400 /, to his good 
 Behaviour : And was told that this Proceeding\vas 
 only to fecure the Government againft fufpected 
 Perfons. He was fome time after carried again to 
 the Seffions houfe, in great Pain, and fcrc'd to con- 
 tinue bound. He refus'd to ftand bound, not know- 
 ing what they might interpret a Breach of the Peace. 
 
 But
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 90? 
 
 But his Sureties would be bound, left he fhould die 
 in a Jail. He was alto carried thither a third Time, 
 and ftill bound ; tho' for the moft part he kept his 
 Bed. 
 
 In the Reign of King James II, he was committed 
 Prifoner to the King's Bench, by the Warrant of the 
 Lord Chief Juftice Jefferies, for his Paraphrafe on 
 the New Tejlament, which Sir Upger VEftrange faid 
 was the wickfdcft Bool^ that ever was written : And he 
 was tried on May 30, 1685, and treated moft fcorn- 
 fully and rudely j the Lord Chief Juftice, faying 
 upon the Bench, that he was forry that the Aft of In- 
 demnity difablcd him from hanging him. He was fen- 
 tenc'd to pay a Fine of five hundred Marks, and to 
 lie in Prifon till it was paid, and bound to his good 
 Behaviour for feven Years. He cominu'd in a coft- 
 ly Prifon in Pain and Languor two Years. But at 
 length, the King changing his Meafures, he was par- 
 doned, and remov'd to Charter-houfe Yard, and there 
 afllfted Mr.Sylvefter every Lords Day Morning, and 
 every Thurfday Morning he preach'd a Ledture, and 
 thus he continu'd to hold on four Years and a half, 
 rejoicing in King William's happy Revolution, tho' 
 he did not go much abroad afterward. He finifh'd 
 his Courfe, Dec. 8,. 1691, and was interr'd in Chrtft- 
 Chutch, whither his Corps was attended by a nume- 
 rous Company of Perfons of different Ranks, and 
 efpecially of Minifters, fome of them Conformifts, 
 who paid him this laft Office of Refpedr. 
 
 His laft Will and Teftarr.ent, that bore Date, July 
 7, 1689, was introduce! in this Manner : 
 
 T RICHARD BAXTER of London, Clerk, an 
 * " unworthy Servant of JESUS CHRIST, 
 drawing to the End of this tranfitory Life, having 
 through G o D'S great Mercy the free Uie of my 
 Underftanding, do make this my laft Will and 
 Teftamenr, revoking all other Wills formerly made 
 by me. My Spirit I commit with Truft and Hope 
 of the heavenly Felicity, inro the Hands of T E- 
 sus my glorified Redeemer and Intcrceflor ; 
 and by his Mediation into the Hands of GOD 
 
 " my
 
 904 The Ejefted or Siknc V Minifters, 8rc. 
 
 ' my reconcil'd FATHER, t;he infinite eternal S P i- 
 " KIT, Light, Life, and |Love, moft Great, and 
 " Good, the GOD of Nature, Grace, and Glory ; 
 " of whom, and through whom, and to whom are 
 " all Things ; my abfolute Owner, Ruler, and Be- 
 " nefadtor ; whole I am, and whom I (tho' imper- 
 " fe&ly) ferve, feek, and truft ; to whom be Glo- 
 " ry, for ever, Amen. To him I render moft hum- 
 ," ble Thanks, that he hath fill'd up my Life with 
 ,' abundant Mercy, and pardon'd my Sin by the 
 " Merits of C H R i s T, and vouchfaf 'd by his S P i- 
 " R i T to renew me, and feal me as his own ; 
 " and to moderate and blefs to me my long Suifer- 
 " ings in the Flefh, and at laft to fweeten them 
 " by his own Intereft, and comforting Approbation, 
 " who taketh the Caufe of Love and Concord as 
 -' his own, &c. 
 
 He order'd his Books that he had remaining, to 
 be diftributed by Mr. Matthew Syhefter, and Mr. 
 Upger Morriae among poor Scholars, which was done 
 accordingly. The Remainder of his temporal Eftate, 
 after a few Legacies to his Kindred, he difpos'd of 
 for the Benefit of the Souls and Bodies of the Poor. 
 And he left Sir Henry /Ijkurft, Bart, Rowland Hunt, 
 of Boraton, Efq ; Mr. Thomas Hunt, Merchant, Edwnrd 
 Harley, Efq ; Mr. Thomas Cooke, Merchant, Mr. Tho- 
 mas Trench, Merchant, and Mr. Robtrt Bird, Gentle- 
 man, his Executors. 
 
 Living and dying, he was as much refpedted by 
 fome, and as much flighted and infulted by others, 
 as any Man of the Age. He wrote above one hun- 
 dred and twenty Books, and had above fixty Books* 
 written againft him, either wholly or in parr. As 
 for rhe Books he wrote, it was faid by Mr. Long 
 of Exeter, that it would be well for the World if. 
 they were all burnt. But as they have done a thou- 
 fand times more Good than any Thing that ever 
 came from that Author's Pen, fo they are likely 
 to furvive and be ufeful when he and his Books 
 will be forgotten. And as for the Books written 
 againft him, they are many of them as virulent as 
 
 can
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 905 
 
 can eafily be met with. No Man had a greater 
 Share of Reproach than he. 
 
 He was fmartly cenfur'd, 
 
 By the Sadducces for afferting fo ftrenuoufly the 
 Life to come, and a future Refurrection. 
 
 By Materialijls, for aflerting the Difference of 
 Spirits from Bodies. 
 
 By Antitrinitaritins, for fo magnifying the Evi- 
 dence of a Trinity in Vnity. 
 
 By Ecclefiaftical Mtkfbaits, for reprefenting the 
 old Controverfies with the Nejtorians, Eutjchians, 
 and Monotbelites, as capable of eafier Reconciliati- 
 on, than is allow'd by fierce Dividers. 
 
 By Arinns and Socinians, as judging too hardly of 
 fuch as deny the GODHEAD of CHRIST. 
 
 By Armtnians as holding fpecial Election, and dif- 
 ferencing Grace. 
 
 By hot Anti'Arminletns, for holding fuch free Will, 
 and univerfal Redemption, as t//feer, Davenant, 
 and Preftcn, and other luch knowing Men defended. 
 
 By the Antibaptijls, for writing fo much and fo 
 warmly for Infant Baptifm. 
 
 By rigid Dljfcnting Separatifts, for feparating no 
 farther from the Conformifts, than they feparate 
 themlelves from neceflary Truth, and for perfuad- 
 ing Men to Communion with the Parifli Alfem- 
 blies. 
 
 By the Conforming Separatifts, for not feparating 
 from all fave themlehes, and for owning thofe to 
 be faithful Servants of CHRIST, whom they re- 
 ject. 
 
 By Clement Writer, and the Seeders, for afferting 
 the Certainty of Scripture Verity, as fealed by the 
 SPIRIT, by Miracles, and Sanctincaiion : Anct for 
 maintaining that there is yet a Continuance, of a 
 true Minittry, and true Churches. 
 
 By Mr. Ltford and fome others, for taking the 
 Blafphemers of the HOLY GHOST, to be fixed 
 Infidels judging C H R i s T'S Miracles to be by tbe 
 Devil. 
 
 By Mr. Henry Dodrvell, for not taking the Office 
 of Presbyters to be varied by the "Will of the Bi- 
 or Ordainer, without being determin'd by 
 
 C U R I S T'S
 
 906 The Ejeffed or Silenc*d Minifters, &c. 
 
 CHRIST'S Inftitution : And for not denying the 
 Presbyters and Biftiops of the Reform'd Churches 
 to be real Minifters, and not unchurching their 
 Churches, who have not an uninterrupted Succef- 
 fion of Canonical Ordination by Diocefans as from 
 the Days of the Apoftles ; and not inveighing againft 
 them as committing the Sin againft the Holy Ghoft, 
 In adminiftring the Sacraments while but Laymen, 
 though he himfelf held fuch as the French to be 
 true Minifters. 
 
 By the Eraftians, for vindicating the Power of 
 the Keys, and the NecefTity of minifterial Church 
 Difcipline. 
 
 By the Independents, for being too much for a na- 
 tional Church, and againft their unneceflary cove- 
 nanting Terms of Communion, and their giving too 
 much Power to popular Votes. 
 
 By the Scottifh Presbyterians, for being againft the 
 Impofition of their Covenant, and too much for 
 Epifcopacy. 
 
 By the High flown Prelatical Party, for being for 
 many Biftiops in the Room of one, that fo he may 
 not have an impoflible Task ; and oppofing Church 
 Power, and the Spirit of Impofition. And, 
 
 By the Magiftrates and Judges, in the Reigns of 
 King Charles, and King James, for not ceafing to 
 preach and write, when the Laws were againft him. 
 
 And all of them gave him hard Words, and en- 
 'deavour'd to run him down : But he defended him- 
 felf from Attacks on all Sides : And was fignally 
 ferviceable to the Souls of many ; and few did fo 
 much Good as he, either by their Preaching or their 
 .Works. 
 
 That the World may not be fhocked by the hea- 
 vy Charges brought againft him, or the Ufefulnefs 
 of his many valuable Works obftructed, by the 
 Imputations that may be met with, in the Writ- 
 ings of his Contemporaries, publifh'd in his Life- 
 time, or after his Deceafe, I fhall be at the Pains 
 to collecl: the chief Accufations I have met wiih or 
 heard of, and add the beft Reply I am able, out 
 of his own Writings, or from what I have receiv'd 
 by credible Information from others. 
 
 I. He
 
 in the County ^WORCESTER. 907 
 
 I. He is accus'd by fome, as being much againft 
 King Charles I, in the War between him and his 
 Parliament, and a great Fomenter of it. Ir is faid, 
 that he left his Calling as a Minifter of Peace, and 
 entred with the firft into a War againft the Kjng. 
 
 But as to this, he largely vindicates himfelf, in 
 the Narrative of the moft remarkable Pajfages of his 
 Life and Times, publifh'd in Folio, from his MS. And 
 what in his Conduct, he found upon Reflection to 
 be amifs, he owns with great Franknefs, in his Pe- 
 nitent Confejfion, and necejfary Vindication, which was 
 printed in 1691, the very Year that he died. He 
 there gives a diftinct Account, of the Principles up- 
 on which he acted, f. 14, 15, C#c; and how far 
 he did aft, and was concern'd, f. n, 21, C#cJ 
 And he declares, that he never left his Calling, or 
 took, Command or Office, fave that when Nafeby Fight 
 bad almoft ended the iVar, he went a Chaplain, that; 
 he might try to fave the Land from Rebellion. He 
 always was for ^ing and Parliament, and never againft 
 the Kjng 1 * Perfon, Power, or Prerogative, but only 
 for his Return to his Parliament, and againft his Will, 1 
 and Inftruments. Obferving withal, that when Hen- 
 ry VI was carried about by his Enemies, his Friends 
 fought for him, that fought againft the Army where 
 his Perfon was. And he adds, chat he was fo far 
 from going into a. War with the firft, that he only 
 fled to Coventry, for a private Refuge, when he was 
 fared from Home, by an Accusation at the Sejfions, the 
 particular Articles of which he could never fee t or bear, 
 er know. 
 
 II. He is accus'd by Mr. Long of Exeter, of being 
 An Eye-witnefs of the inhuman Butcheries that were 
 made, in almoft every Fight, from the Beginning of the 
 Wars, to the End of them. 
 
 To which he anfwers, (Penitent Confeffion and ne- 
 cejfcry Vindication, p. 51.) that he was an Eye-wit- 
 nefs of many of God's Provident Difpofals, and an Ear- 
 witnefs of more. He faw the Field where they fought 
 near Worcefter, and Edge-hill and Nantwich; and 
 be faw many Garrifons, (Wem, Leicefter, Shrewsbury, 
 
 Exeter,
 
 908 The Eje$ed or Silenced Mimfiers^ 8rc. 
 
 Exerer, Sherburne, Briftol, Winchefter) tint bad 
 been taken : But he fare not the Fights, at any one 
 of thefe ; but that at Langporc, that ended the Field 
 War he faw afar off, hut faw none kjlCd ; for they 
 fled before a Man was 
 
 III. Dr. Borcman of Trinity- College in Cambridge, 
 publifhing a Book againft him, in 1661, faid that 
 it was reported, that he kjlfd a Man with his own 
 Hand in cold Blood. The fame was afterwards talk- 
 ed of, in feveral Coffee Houfes, and the Accufers 
 were oblig'd to retradt and ask Pardon. Notwith- 
 ftandtng which, the Story was publifh'd again, with 
 the Affirmation of Major Jennings himfelf, (who 
 was the Party concerned) by the Rector of Burton, 
 in the Life of Dr. Peter Heylin. The Charge then 
 ftood thus : That Mr. Baxter, finding one Major 
 Jennings in the War-time, among the Bodies of 
 the Dead and wounded, look'd on while Lieute- 
 nant Hurdman that was with him, ran him through 
 the Body, in cold Blood. And that Mr. Baxter 
 took off with his own Hand, the King's Picture from 
 about his Neck, telling him as he was fwimming in 
 his Gore, that he was a Popifli Rogue, and that 
 that was his Crucifix : Which Picture was (it is 
 faid) kept by Mr. Baxter, till it was got from him, 
 but not without much Difficulty, by one Mr. So- 
 merfield, who liv'd with Sir Thomas Houfe, who re- 
 ftor'd it to the true Owner, who was liippos'd to be 
 dead of his Wounds. And this Narrative was fub- 
 fcrib'd by Jennings himfelf, that it might pafs for 
 the more authentick. But Mr. Baxter anfwer'd, and 
 clear'd up the whole Matter, in his True Hiftory of 
 Councils, enlarged and defended, publiuYd in 1681. 
 
 And yet after all, fome People ftill giving them- 
 felves a Liberty to repeat this Story, and that pub- 
 lickly too, Mr. Baxter in a Poftfcript, at the End of 
 a Tract of his intit. Catholick. Communion doubly de- 
 fended, printed in 1684, again abfolutely denied it ; 
 declaring that as in the Prefence of God, he took, t 
 voluntary Oath that it was falfe, and that be was 
 not near Major Jennings at that "Time, nor never favt> 
 him in- his Life, (unlefs he might fee him
 
 in the County of W O R C E S T E R. 909 
 
 ingly, in A Congregation, or diftant Crowd :) nor did 
 he fee tiny wound him, nor take any Medal from 
 him ' But in the Houfe where he was, be heard the 
 Soldiers tell how they wounded and flrifp'd him, and 
 took, his Medal, (laughing at A filly Soldier that cat' 
 led it a Crucifix ;) and the Man that took, it offering it 
 to Sale, Mr. Baxter declares he gave him 18 fence for 
 it, and fame Tears after fent it Major Jennings freely ; 
 which it feems made him think., find rajhly affirm falfly, 
 that it was Mr. Baxter that took, it from him. 
 
 IV. Dr. Morlcy Bifhop of Worcejler, in a Letter to <i 
 Friend fpeaking of Xidderminfter fays, the Truth is, 
 Mr. Baxter was never either Parfon, Vicar, or Curate, 
 there or any where elfe in my Diocefe ; for he never 
 came in by the Door, that is by any legal Rjght, or 
 lawful Admiffion into the Sheepfold, but climbed up 
 fame other Way, namely by Violence and Intrufion, 
 therefore by Chrijfs own Inference he wets A Thief 
 and a Rubber. 
 
 I reply thefe are very hard and paffionate Words,' 
 but I think more difhonourable to the Accufer, than 
 the Accufed. It appears by Mr. Baxter's Account 
 in his Narrative of the moft memorable Pajfages of 
 his Life and Times, that he fettled at Kidderminftcr, 
 upon the Invitation of the Bailiff of rhe Town, and 
 the Feoffees, with the Agreement of Mr. Danfe the 
 Incumbent, (whom he never bore hard upon) and 
 the general Confent and Approbation of the Inha- 
 bitants. If Mr. Baxter was a Thief and a jobber 
 for preaching in the Diocefe of Worcefter, without 
 Bifliop Morle/s Licenfe, than what did his Ordination 
 by his Predeceflbr fignify ? He was ordain'd to the 
 minifterial Office, for which he was abundantly 
 well qualified, and in which GOD moft remarka- 
 bly own'd and fucceeded him ; and to the Exercife of 
 which at KJdderminfler, he had the general Call 
 and Invitation of all that were concerned. And Pow- 
 er to preach the Gofpel, is what no human Autho- 
 rity can take away, (any more than it can diflblve 
 a Contrail of Marriage) unlefs it be for moral 
 and notoriously vicious Mifdemeanours. And Want 
 
 of
 
 
 
 910 The Ejected or Silenced MimfteYs, 
 
 of the Bifliop's Licenfe did not hinder Mr. Bax- 
 ters Ufefulnefs. 
 
 V. He has alfo been charg'd, with officioufly aflfift- 
 ing the Commijjioners for Sequeftrntion, in the Times 
 of Confufion, between 1641 and 1660. 
 
 But as for the Comiilioners for Sequeftration, he 
 pofitively declares, that he never had any thing to 
 do, for them, or with them : And as to the Com- 
 miflioners for Approbation, that: were to judge of 
 Men for Inftitution, upon Prefentations, he was far 
 from being forward to aflift them : But it being a 
 common Way with them, when a Man was prefent- 
 ed, that they were not difpos'd to approve, and yet 
 would not willingly be blam'd for rejecting, to 
 name three Country Minifters, in his Neighbour- 
 hood, upon whofe approving him, they would ac- 
 cept him ; he in fuch Cafes, at the Requeft of three 
 Minifters that were Efpifcopal, and Royalifts, (who 
 told him that they fiiould lofe their Livings if he 
 refus'd them) was prevail'd with to do this Office. 
 And this certainly was praifeworthy rather than 
 blameable. See his Penitent ConfeJJion and Vindica- 
 tion, pag. 65. 
 
 VI. VEftrange (in his Way) accus'd him of en- 
 deavouring to divert General Monk,, from bringing in 
 King Charles II. For in his Obfervator, No. 96, 
 there are thefe Words. 
 
 " Tor. Prithee ask Mr. Baxter, if he- knew who 
 " it was, that went with five or fix more of his own 
 " Cloth and Character, to General Monl^, upon 
 " his coming up to London in 1659 ; and finding 
 " a great deal of Company with him, told his 
 " Excellency, that he found his Time was preci- 
 " ous, and Jo would not trouble him with many 
 ' Words : But as they were of great Weight, fo 
 * he hopecl, they would make an anfwerable Im- 
 ; * preflion on -him : I hear a Report Sir (faith he) 
 
 that you have fome Thoughts of calling back the 
 '- King j but it is my Senle, and the Senfe of the 
 
 " Gentlemen
 
 in the County ^WORCESTER. 911 
 
 " Gentlemen here with me, that ic is a Thing you 
 " ought not to do upon any Terms : For Prophane- 
 " nefs is fo infeparablc from the Royal Party, than 
 " if ever you bring the King back, the Power of 
 " Godlinefs will moft certainly depart from this 
 " Land. 
 
 To which Charge Mr. "Baxter returned an Anfwer 
 in the following Words : 
 
 " Dr. Manton, (and whether any other I remem- 
 ' ber nor) went once with me to General Mo, 
 " and it was to congratulate him ; but with this 
 " Requeft, that he would take care, that Debauche- 
 " ry and Contempt of Religion might not be let loofe, 
 " vfon any Mens Pretence of being for the King, as 
 " it already began with feme to be. But there was 
 " not one Word by me fpoken, (or by any one, to my 
 " Remembrance) again/} his calling bacl^ the Ki^gt 
 " nor any of the Reft here adjoin'd : But as to me 
 " it is a meer Fiction. And ihe King was fo fenfi- 
 " ble of the fame that I faid, that he fent over a 
 " Proclamation ai-ainft fuch Men, as while they 
 " call'd themfelves the Kings Party, did live in 
 " Debauchery and Prophanene r s ; which Proclamari- 
 " on fo rejoiced them that were after Nonconfor- . ' 
 " mifts, that they read it publickly in the Churches. 
 
 VII. He was \varmly inve*p,h'd aga'nft, for the 
 Denial of a Propofition advir.c'd by the Difputants 
 at the Savoy Conference, which after they had caft it in- 
 to federal Forms, was at length laid down in thefe 
 Words. That Command which commandeth an Att 
 in itfclf lawful, and no ether Aft whereby any un- 
 juft Penalty is enjoined ; nor any Circumjiar.ee, whence 
 (direftlj or per Accidens) any Sin is Consequent, which 
 the Commander cught to provide againft ; hath in it 
 all Things requifite to the Lawfulnefs of a command ; 
 and particularly cannot be guilty of commanding art 
 Aft per Accidens unlawful, nor of commanding an Aft 
 under an unjuft Penalty. By thus ftating the Mat- 
 ter they had carried it ro the utmoft Length they 
 were able ; and Mr. Baxter perfifting to deny their 
 
 VOL. II. Y AQenion, 
 
 * See the ready way of Confuting Mr. B*xt(r t pg. 6. vrtiich i< 
 */ Cmrc>!i tnlarged j.nd DtJemlciL 4fO 162?..
 
 912 The Ejected or Silent? d Minifters, &c. 
 
 Aflertion, in this as well as he had done under fe- 
 veral Forms before, they were at a Lois to pro- 
 ceed in arguing. And Bifliop Morlej afterwards 
 made very tragical Exclamations, and reprefbnted 
 Mr. Baxter's aiferting that fuch a Command as this 
 might be unlawful, was deftru&ive of all Authori- 
 ty, humane and divine and not only denied all 
 Power to the Church to make Canons Ecclefiaftical, 
 for the betrer ordering and governing the Church, 
 but alfo took away all Legiflative Power from the 
 King and Parliament, and even from the BlefTed 
 GOD himfelf. For (faid he) no A& can be fo good 
 of itfelf, but it may prove by Accident a Sin : And 
 if to command fuch an Ad: may be a Sin, then e- 
 very Command is Sin. And if to command be a 
 Sin, than even GOD himfelf can command nothing, 
 becaufe he cannot fin : And Kings, Parliaments and 
 Churches ought not to command any thing, becaufe 
 they ought not to fin. 
 
 But I muft own according to the beft Judgment I 
 am able to form of Matters, tho' it be averted that 
 Things that are not evil of themfelves may have Ac- 
 cidents fo evil as may make it a Sin to him that fhall 
 command them, yet it does not therefore follow that 
 nothing at all may be commanded, for Fear of thofe 
 evil Accidents that may happen, in Cafes where the 
 Commander cannot be chargeable with any Hand in 
 them. And I fhould alfo think it may with a great deal 
 of Safe-y be aflerred, and eafily defended, that rvhcn- 
 foever the commanding or forbidding of a Thing indif- 
 ferent, K like to occafion more Hurt than Good, and this 
 may be forefeen, the commanding or forbidding of it H 
 A Sin. I cannot therefore help thinking, that Mr. 
 Baxter had hard Meafure, when upon the Account 
 of his Conduct in this Affair, he was charg'd with 
 Dlfingenuity, and Pervicacioufnefs, and had other 
 Words that were yet harder than thefe given him. 
 
 VIII. Mr. Baxter's drawing up that which he call- 
 ,cd the Informed Liturgy, (which I have printed in 
 tire, at the End of my Abridgment of his Life,) has 
 alfo beeu charg'd upon him as a Crime : And it has 
 been reprefcnted as great Immcdejty in him, to draw 
 
 uf
 
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 /> a Form of Common Prayer of bis own, and Jlile if 
 the Reformed Liturgy ; or expeft that the Old Liturgy, 
 compiled by a Number of very learned Confejfors and 
 Martyrs, Jkould give Place to a New Form, composed by 
 afingleMan, and he by Education much inferior to 
 many of his Brethren. * *SeeCempi 
 
 Whereas others think that Mr. Baxter gave good 
 and fufficient Reafons for his Conduct in this Affair. 2 
 The Defign of this Liturgy he drew up, was not to 
 juftle out the old One, where Perfons were fatisfied 
 with it, and free to ufe it as it ftood ; but to relieve 
 fuch as were not fatisfied to ufe the old One as it 
 was, by he'ping them to Forms, taken out of the 
 Word of GOD, and in the very Expreifions of Scrip- 
 ture, which was what none could fcruple. Let us 
 fuppofe there fhould be fome, in whofe Opinion the 
 old Licurgy, (as much as it was extolfd by fome) fell 
 (lion of this new One ; why fhould this be thought 
 fo prepoftcrous, unlefs it be reckon'd unaccounta- 
 ble, for Perfons to prefer a Liturgy that was intire- 
 ly fcriptural, to one that is made up of humane 
 Phrafes, and fome of them juftly enough exceptio- 
 nable ? It muft indeed be own'd, that the old Li- 
 turgy was fratn'd by feveral Confejfors and Martyrs f 
 and deferves Refpe& upon that Account : And it 
 was a great and considerable Step, for them to caft 
 fo many Corruptions out of the Publick Service 
 as they did, at that Time, when this Liturgy was 
 drawn out of the feveral Forms that were in Ufe 
 in this Kingdom before : But it was a Purfuit of their 
 Defign, to render the Publick Service yet more fcrip- 
 tural : And had they rifen from the Dead, there is 
 good Reafon to believe, that they would generally 
 have approv'd of it ; and been fo far from looking 
 upon it as a d exacting fiom them, that they would 
 have applauded it as a good Superftrudlure upon 
 their Foundations. Suppofe we then, thar he that 
 drew up this Reformed Liturgy, was by Education in- 
 ferior to many of his Brethren ; it yet neither follows 
 from thence, that he muft really be fo far inferior to 
 them in uferul Knowledge and Abilities, as fome 
 would infinuate, when they have * Turn to ferve 
 by that Suggeftion j nor can it juftly from thence 
 Y 1 be
 
 914 The Ejected or Silenced Miniflers^ cVc 
 
 be argu'd that this Performance of his was really 
 contemptible ; nor that there was any Want of Mo- 
 dcjly neither, in his making fuch an Attempt, when 
 his Brethren put him upon the Undertaking. And 
 befides, they giving their Approbation, when they 
 perus'd it, and joining with him in prefenting ir, 
 made it in EfFedl their own, as fufficiently appears 
 from the Preface that is prefix'd to it. And it is well 
 known that feme of them, not only had an advanta- 
 geous Education, but great Reputation and Applaufe 
 in the World too, and yet thought not Mr. Baxter at 
 all their Inferior. And fome Perfons that were not 
 very likely to be prejudic'd in Mr. Baxter's Favour, 
 have really thought this Performance of his, to be the 
 beft of the Kind that they ever faw. One Perfon 
 particularly, (who would be own'd if I fhould name 
 him, no improper Judge) has declared of the Reform* 
 ed Liturgy, that for Aptncfs and Gravity of Exprejficn, 
 excellent Coherence and Method, and Suitablenefs to all 
 \ the Emergencies of humane Life, it K incomparably be- 
 yond the old One. 
 
 IX. He hath alfo been charg'd with a downrighr 
 Falfhood in a Matrer of Fad:, in which he himfelf 
 was concern'd j and therefore could not but know, 
 the Reprefentation he gave to be untrue. 
 
 The Cafe is this. Mr. Baxter having built a 
 Chapel for the Worfhip of GOD in Oxendcn-flreet, 
 and not being able to get Liberty to preach in it, 
 through the Rigour of the Government againft thofe 
 of his Sentiments, made an (Drier of it to Dr. Lloyd t 
 who was then Minifter of the Parifh of St Martins, 
 in which the faid Chapel ftocd, that it might be us'd 
 for Divine Worftiip in the Way of the Church of 
 England, and it was accepted uron fuch Terms as 
 were agreed on, and Mr. Baxter was well pleas'd 
 that it was fo. I having taking Notice of this in my 
 Abridgment of his Life, and us'd Mr. Baxters own 
 Words in his Narrative, the Compiler of the Third 
 Volume of the Complete tJiJlory of England, who is 
 often pleas'd to cite my Abridgment verbatim, quotes 
 , my very Words in fag. 311, and then adds a Re- 
 fle&ion in thefc Words $ This latter fart of the f(c- 
 
 lation,
 
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 l-ation, 3 to the Offer of A Chapel, is known to be very 
 falfc. 
 
 It was {hocking to feveril, that one that had made 
 it che Bufinefs of his Life to promote Truth and Ho- 
 Hnefs, and that had written a Number of Books that 
 were fo ufeful to many, fhould in fuch a publick 
 Manner, be charg'd with Falfhood, in a Matter of 
 Fact, in which himfelf was immediately concern'd. 
 Mr. Baxter had not only aflerted in his Narrative, 
 f. 179, that he was encourag'd by Dr. Tillotfon to 
 tnr.kf the Offer of the Chapel, and that it was accepted, 
 to his great 9atpf8&* ; but had alfo mention'd the - 
 fame Paffage in feveral of his Works that were pub- 
 lifh'd in his Life-time. Particularly in his Breviate 
 of the Life of his Wife, f. 57, he declares that Or. 
 Lloyd and the Pari/hioners accepted of it for their 
 Public^ tVorfkip ; and that he and his Wife as^d. them 
 no more fynt, than they mere to pay for the Ground, 
 and the tyom over for a Vefiry at 5 1, asking no Ad* 
 vantage for all the Money laid cut on the Building. 
 And the Truth of this, was never call'd in Queftion, 
 till the Publication of this Third Volume of the Com- 
 flete Hiftory, 6cc. Tha: in fo open a Manner con- 
 eradicating Mr. Baxters Relation, as containing what 
 was known to be very falfc, it was plain and evi- 
 dent, there muft fomewhere or o'her be a great Mi- 
 ftake. And that it might be difcover'd, where that 
 Miftake lay, Application was made in a refredtiul 
 Way, to the Compiler of the Third Volume of the 
 Complete Hi/lory, who was earneftly requefted to fig- 
 nify upon what Grounds this was charg'd as a lyiown 
 Fafoood. He ofler'd to confult Dr. Lloyd Mmtelf, 
 who was then ftill living, and Bifhop of IVorcefcer, 
 and the beft able of any one to fet that Matter in 
 a true Light, he being the Perfon that was immedi- 
 ately concern'd with Mr. Baxter in thac Affair. And 
 his Lordfliip when confulted, was pleas'd not only to de- 
 clare by Word of Mouth, but to give it under his Hand, 
 that Air. Baxter being difturb'd in his Meeting boufe, in 
 Oxenden-ftreet, by the Kjngs Drums which Mr. Se- 
 cretary Coventry caus'd to beat under the Windows, 
 made an Offer of letting it to the Parijb of St Mar- 
 tia'j for a. Tabernacle at the I(ent of 40 1 a Tear ; and
 
 916 The Ejetted or Silenced Mimfters, &c. 
 
 that bis Lord/hip hearing it, faid he HId it well : And 
 that thereupon Mr. Baxter came to him himfelf, and 
 vfon his propofmg the fame Thing to him, he ac- 
 quainted, the Veftry, and, they took, it upon thofe 
 Terms. So that it is evident Mr. Baxter was no 
 Fallifier. 
 
 X. Mr. Sylvcjler in his Preface, to Mr. Baxter's 
 Narrative of the mofl memorable Pajjages of his Life 
 andTimes, takes Notice of a Letter he receiv'd out 
 of Worcefterjhire t which intimated that there was a 
 Report fpread about in thofe Parts of the Country, 
 that Mr. Baxter as his End drew near, was in great 
 Doubt and Trouble about a future State ; or rather 
 inclind to thinly there was no future State at all, and 
 that he ended his Days under fuch a Perfuajion ; which 
 cccafiond no fmall Trouble to him, he having written 
 fo many Things to perfuade Pcrfons to believe there 
 was, Sec. 
 
 But they that know what Reports were fpread 
 abroad in the World, in many Parts, as to the laft 
 Hours cf Luther, and Calvin, and many others that 
 were eminently concern'd in the Reformation of thefe 
 Weftern Parts from Popery, will not (I apprehend) 
 fee much Oecafion to be furpriz'd at the fj reading 
 of a Rumour of this Nature, after the Deceafe of fo 
 fignificant a Perfon as Mr. Baxter upon many Ac- 
 counts had been. The Devil, (without doubt) had 
 his Ends to ferve by it. But Mr. Sylvefler who was 
 with Mr. Baxter all along as his End approach'd, 
 * See his folemnly declar'd, * that " he knew nothing that 
 f L?fe " co . uld in the leaft minifter to fuch a Report as 
 inFoiio. " this. He ever heard him triumphing in his hea- 
 " venly Expectation, and ever fpeaking, like one 
 " that could never have thought it worth a Man's 
 " while to be, were it not for the great Intereft 
 " and Ends of Godlinefs. He declar'd that he doubt- 
 " ed not but that it would be beft for him, when 
 " he had left this Life, and was tranflated to the 
 " heavenly Regions. He owrv'd what he had writ- 
 ;< ten with Reference to the Things of GOD, advi- 
 ' fed all that came near him carefully to mind their 
 " Soul Concerns j and the Excellency and Import of 
 
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 " an heavenly Mind and Life, together with the 
 " great Utefulnefs of the Word and Means of 
 ** Grace, purfuant to ecernal Purpofes, ever lay 
 " preflingly upon his Heart, and exrorted from him 
 " very ufeful Directions and Encouragements, to all 
 " about him, even to the laft. And he at all 
 " Times moft delightfully fell into Coriverfation, 
 " about what related to our Chriftian Hcpe and 
 '* Work. v I may fafe!y therefore fay with good 
 Mr. Syhefter, And " now, let the Reader judge 
 " whether any thing in all this, can in the leaft in- 
 " fer, his Doubting or Denial of a future State ; or 
 " any Repentance of the Pains he took, to eftablifh 
 " others in the Belief and Hopes, of what the Gofpel 
 " tells us of as future. 
 
 XI. Mr. Baxter is farther alib charg'd with grofsly 
 abufing Dr. Owen, about the Affair of Wallittgford 
 Houfc, and his Conduct towards f(ichard Cromwef, 
 when he was fet up for Protector in his Father's 
 Room, in fris Narrative of the moft memorable Pajjagcs 
 of his Life and Times. And for this he is warmly in- 
 veigh'd againft, and run down, in the Memoirs of the 
 Life of Dr. Owen, that are prefix'd to the Volume of 
 his Sermons, publifli'd in 1711, f. xvii, xviii, &c. 
 
 It is there laid, f. xviii, that Mr. Baxter has not 
 obligd the World with producing his Vouchers which 
 Method in the Hkf In fiances he himfeif calls Slander : 
 And hereupon his Cbriftian Dircflory is quoted very 
 formally. But the Compiler of thefe Memoirs might 
 very well have fpar'd this Suggeftion, feeing, Mr. 
 Baxter had produced the Doctor himfeif as Voucher 
 in this Cafe. For he declares, in his Anfvoer to the 
 Dolor's twelve Arguments, printed in 1684, f. 17, 
 that the Doctor himfeif told him, that he was an 
 Agent in fulling down Richard'* Parliament, which 
 was foon follow'd with the fulling down himfeif. 
 Certainly therefore Mr. Baxter's declaring this af- 
 terwards in his Narrative, when he had fo fair an 
 Occafion, and fo good a Foundation to go upon, 
 could be no Slander, or at all blameable. 
 
 It is added, It is Pity Mr. Baxter, did not fullifly 
 
 Us Account in the Dolors Life time, for then doubtlcfg 
 
 Y 4 fe
 
 9 1 8 Thttfqetfid or Silenced Mittifters, See. 
 
 be would have fet tie Matter in ajuft Light. To which 
 it is replied, that Mr. Baxter did in his Life-time, 
 give Hints more than once in his Writings, looking 
 that Way : And had he had a fair Occafion, there 
 is very little Reafon to doubt, but that he who was 
 remarkable for his being afraid of no Man, would 
 without making any Scruple, have been as particu- 
 lar, in what he printed about this Matter, in the 
 Doctor's Life-time, as in what he left to be printed 
 after his Deceafe. 
 
 If any thing in Mr. Baxter's Condudr. in this Re- 
 fpecT: be to be lamented, there are many in whofe 
 Opinion it is equally to be lamented, that when ho- 
 neft Mr. Syhcfter did (as he inqmares in his Preface 
 to Mr. Baxters Narrative) write to Mrs. Owen his 
 Widow, (with fo tender and affectionate a Reffetl and, 
 Reverence to the Doctor's Name and Memory} to defire 
 her to fend him what /he could, well attefted, in Fa- 
 vour of the Do&or, that he might infcrt it in the Mar- 
 gin, where he is mention d as having an Hand in that 
 Affair nt Waliingford Houfe, or that he might ex- 
 funge that Paffage ; his Offer foculd be rcjcfled with 
 more Contcmftuoufnefs and Smarttiefs than his Civility 
 defervd, as he complains, and not without Reafon. 
 I believe I am able to fay more as to that Ma.rer, 
 than any one now living ; the Letter which Mr. Sylve- 
 fter refers to, being given to me, to put into the Hands 
 of Worthy Lady Levet, with a Defire that fhe who 
 was very intimate with Mrs. Owen, would deliver 
 it to her, and report her Anfwer. And I well re- 
 member thar that gco.l Lady was not a little trou- 
 bled at the huffing Anfwer that was returned, which 
 {lie could not with all the arguing fhe could ufe, get ac 
 all foften'd. And therefore the peculiar Admirers of 
 Dr. Qwen muft thank his Widow, that the ill Effects 
 of the publi filing that Part of Mr. Baxters Narrative 
 that is complain'd of, without any Thing added in 
 the Margin to loften it, were not prevented. 
 
 But we are told, thar Hiftorians on whofe Credit we 
 receive an Account cf the Tranfaftions of thofe Ttmes, 
 /ire filent at to this Matter : And Mr. Whitlock in 
 hif impartial Memoirs, as Mr. Baxter himfelf calls 
 them, fas nothing of it. And perhaps they mighc 
 
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 not hear of it; and even Mr. H^hitlock^ himfelf 
 might have no Knowledge of it ; and yet it might 
 be rrue. Mr. Syhejler however, who was a very 
 cautious Man, thought he might rely upon Mr. Bax- 
 ter's Report, and the concurrent Tejlimony of fuch as 
 knew the Intriegues of thofe Times. And upon the 
 Account ofthefe concurrent Tc/iimonies, it is Pity this 
 Objection againft Mr. Baxter's Narrative was not 
 ftarted fooner: For if it had, we might doubtless 
 have had more Light in this Affair, than we can, 
 now expect. 
 
 It is farther fuggefted, that perhaps Party %eal 
 might carry that Author, (meaning Mr. Baxter] be- 
 yond his Evidence. And perhaps alfo (may it be (aid 
 on the other Side) they who are willing to have the 
 Doctor intirely innocent, may make more light of 
 Evidence in thi", than they would in another Cafe. 
 But to indifferent Perfons, the Doctor's own Evidence, 
 alledg'd by Mr. Baxter, in his Anfwer to the Doc- 
 tor s twelve Arguments, will I am apt to think ap- 
 pear fufficieur. Efpecially if it be confider'd that 
 in the fame Anfvver to the Doctor's Arguments, f. 
 39, Mr. Baxter fpeaking of Dr. Owen, adds this far- 
 ther : He and I, fays he, knew the M/in (and any 
 one may fee that, he meant the Doctor himfelf) 
 who veas Paftor to the Commanders of the Army, when 
 they fulled down and ft up, and again pulled down, 
 till they had turnd their armed Bulwark^into Atoms j 
 ar.d when he faw what they had done, faid, I won- 
 der the People do not caft Stones at us, as we 
 go along the Streets. iVas not this A blaming hit 
 Flocl^? &c. This moft certainly was p'ain, and home. 
 Ay, but the DoRoSs Vindication of himfelf is menti- 
 oned, and ccnfidering h:s kpown Character in the 
 World, it is fignified that it is hcfd, that this will 
 obtain Credit, beyond unattcftcd Ajjertions to the Con- 
 trary. And others allo muft have leave to think and 
 hope, that the known Character which fuch a Man 
 us Mr. Rjchard Baxter had in the World, will ob- 
 tain fome Credit, when he declares he had it from 
 the Doctor himfelf: Efpecially when there might 
 have been the Concurrent Tejtimonies of fuch <u knew 
 tht Intricgucs of thofe Times, had they not been pre- 
 vented
 
 920 The Ejetted or Silenced Minifters, 8rc. 
 
 vented by the Stiffnefs of the Doctor's neareft Re- 
 lative. 
 
 But let us fee what the Dolor's Vindication of 
 himfelf amounts to, when the moft is made of it, 
 that the Matter will bear. 
 
 It is pleaded, that Dr. Owen, in his Reply to Fiat 
 Lux, fays that, he never had an Hand in, nor gave 
 Confent to, the raijing any iVeir in thcfc Nation*, nor 
 to any Political Alterations in them. But it cannot 
 refonably be fuppos'd, that either Mr. Baxter or Mr. 
 Sylvefter, were Strangers to what Dr. Owen advanc- 
 ed in his Anfwer to Fiat Lux. And yet the one 
 wrote, and the other publifh'd, fuch an Account 
 of the Affair at TVallingford Houfe, as is thought fie 
 to be clamour'd againft, above twenty Years after 
 its Publication : And they tell us of the concurrent 
 Teftimonies of fuch as knew the intriegues of thofe 
 Times. Had we had the Particulars of thofe c- 
 current Tejlimonies we might have judged better. 
 But fince Mrs. Owen unhappily depriv'd us of them, 
 it is the Opinion of many, that the Collectors of 
 thefe Memoirs fhew'd more Zeal than Difcretioa 
 and were over officious, in reviving this Matter, 
 and endeavouring to afperfe Mr. Baxter, in order 
 to the making him whom they admire, (nine fo 
 much the brighter. 
 
 It is added, that in his Reflections on a flandcrous 
 Libel againft himfelf, in a Letter to Sir Thomas 
 Overbury, the Author of the Libel charging him with 
 being the Inftrument in the ruin of Rjchard Cromwel, 
 the Doctor replies, that he had no more 'to do, with 
 his fetting up, and fulling down than himfelf, and 
 reprefents that Charge among the Lies of which 
 the faid Author is guilty. And yet (till, Mr. Bax- 
 ter aflfures us, that the Doctor himfelf acknowledg- 
 ed to him, that he was an Agent in fulling down Ri- 
 chard's Parliament, which was foon follow d with the 
 fulling down himfelf. And the more any find them- 
 lelves at a Lofs to reconcile thefe Things toge- 
 ther, the lefs Reafon will they have to admire the 
 Wifdom of thofe who were for reviving the Me- 
 mory of thefe Matters, after they had remain'd fo 
 
 long buried in Silence. 
 
 But
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 921 
 
 But the Colle&ors of thefe Memoirs have far- 
 ther added the Teftimony of Mr. James Forbes of 
 Glouccftcr, who in a Letrer to a Mintfter now liv- 
 ing in London, writes thus. There is ytt a. worth) 
 Minijler alive, who can bear Witntft that Dr. Owen 
 was again/I the pullinr down of- Richard Cromwel, 
 For there came a Perjon to him with this Hequeft ; 
 you muft prettch for Dr. Owen fuch a Day in the 
 Chapel at Whitehall, for he is Jicf^, and is not able 
 to preach, and the Caufe of his prefent Hlnefs is hit 
 DiJfatisfaRion at what they are doing at Wallingford 
 Houfe, with refpett to the Protestor. This Minijhr 
 is my intimate Friend and Acquaintance ; and this he 
 gave me under his Hand. But I believe the Evi- 
 dence of Dr. Thomas Manton, which is well known 
 to many, will with fuch as are net moft grofsly par- 
 tial, weigh full as much, and go as far, as this 
 Teftimony of Mr. James Forbes. 
 
 Dr. Mantcn it fhould feem was fummonM to that 
 Meeting at Wallingford Hcufe, in which the fetting 
 Richard Ctomwel aiicle was determin'd and agreed 
 on, though he did not at that Time know the 
 Defign. He went accordingly ; and ftanding in a 
 long'dark Paflage, which led to the Room where 
 the Company were met, he heard the Sound of 
 loud Voices, and liftening, he diftin&ly heard Doctor 
 Owens Voice, uttering with Vehemence fuch Words 
 as thefe ; he muft come down, and -hejhall come down j 
 firming the Table at the (ame Time with his Hand. 
 Whereupon Dr. Manton withdrew, without at all 
 appearing ; and the next Day had the Matter fuf- 
 ficiemly explain'd to him, by the Diifolution of the 
 Parliament. This was told by Dr. Manton to Mr. 
 Itflliam Taylor of Kewberry, and many others : But 
 that Mr. Taylor had it from him, Mr. Syhcftcr could 
 atteft he had heard him more than once declare : 
 And this I myfelf heard Mr. Syhejler affirm was one 
 of his concurrent Tcjiimonics that he laid Sirefs up- 
 on. And I can add to all this, that the well known 
 Mr. Richard Stretton, aflur'd me and (everal others, 
 tha: he had the Account above mention'd, from Dr. 
 Wantons own Mouth over and over ; and that a 
 worthy Brother, a Pcrfon of good Credit, declare* 
 
 he
 
 922 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 ^ i-rrM-w^^ 1 n .! n .- ..-_..- -, - , 
 
 he was told by Old Mr. Matthew Barker not long 
 before his Death, that he knew this Paflage to be 
 true. 
 
 So that upon the Whole, whereas the Compilers 
 of the Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Owen, fpeax of 
 their having fet this Matter in A jujl Light, and not 
 doubting but every impartial tirade- would thinly the 
 Doctor is fufficiently "vindicated from a Change that 
 was not fuf ported by any Evidence, and appears not 
 to have the leaft Foundation ; they muft give others 
 leave to think, that though it is discernible enough, 
 what was the : r Aim and -View, and they wanted 
 not good Will, to icach their End, yec their Affu- 
 rance went far beyond their Evidence ; and though 
 it was to have been wiih'd that the Doctor had 
 been lefs active in the Affair of WaHittgford Houfe 
 than he appears to have been, yec it would be 
 grofs Partiality, wholly to acquit him, and cenfure 
 Mr. Baxter as a Slanderer. 
 
 XII- The only farther Charge I {hall add, that 
 has been brought againft Mr. Baxter, is that in a 
 certain Caufe depending in the Court of Chancery, 
 he fvpore himfelf a Conformift ; which when his Non- 
 conformity was fo notorious to the whole Nation, 
 and what he pleaded for fo ftrenuoufly, for fo ma- 
 ny Years, and fo ma*ny Ways fuffer'd fo much for, 
 muft neceffarily be very furprizing to all that hear 
 of it. 
 
 The Cafe re!"err'd to in this Charge, is taken 
 from Mr. Fernon's Reports, (lately publifh'd) Vol. I. 
 p. 248, where there are thefe Words : 
 
 " fybert May ot, who was a Benefic'd Clergy ma n 
 of the Church of England, by his Laft Will, iz 
 Otlobcr 1676, bequeath'd 600 / to Mr. Baxter 
 to be distributed by him, among fixcy pious ejec- 
 ted Minifters, and adds, I would not have my 
 Chanty mifunderftood. I do not give it them 
 for the Sake of their Nonconformity : But be- 
 caufe I know many of them to be pious and good 
 Men, and in great Want. He alfo gave Mr. 
 ' Baxter 20 /; and 2,0 / more to be laid out in a Book, 
 ' cn:i:u;'d, Baxter's Call to the "Unconverted.
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 92? 
 
 " Upon this Will Mr. Attorney General exhibi- 
 " ted an Information, wherein he alledges this Cha- 
 " rity to be againft Law, and that therefore the 
 " Right of applying this Money was in the King; 
 " and that his Majefly had declar'd his Pleafure 
 " to be that this 600 / (hould go towards the Build- 
 *' ing of <:^//f4-College. 
 
 " Mr. Baxter in his Anfwer ftated the Contro- 
 
 " verly between the Conformifts and DiJJenters, and 
 
 " fhew'd upon how fmall a Matter fome, that con- 
 
 ' form'd in all , other Points, were kept out of the 
 
 ' Pale of the Church, and ejedled from their Liv- 
 
 " ings : And then fveore himfelf a Conformift, See. 
 
 Being willing to fee how far this could be car- 
 ried, I got an authentick Copy of Mr. Baxters An- 
 fwer to this Information of Sir Robert Sawyer, the 
 Attorney General, which I fliall here fubjoin Ver- 
 batim. 
 
 The feveral Anfwer of Richard Baxter, one of 
 the Denfend to the Bill of Complaint of Sir 
 Robert Stiver, Kt, his Majefty's Attorney Ge- 
 neral, Complainant. 
 
 
 
 PHIS Def 1 faving and referring to himfelf, 
 '* " all advantages of Except to the infuflficien- 
 " cies and other Imperfect's of the faid Bill, for 
 ' Anfwer unto foe much thereof, (as he concei- 
 " veth) concerneth tfais Def 1 * and is material for 
 " him to Anfwer, as he is advifed, he faith, he 
 " beleiveth it to be true, that Robert Mayot in the 
 " Bill named, being feized of fome Eftate, Real 
 " or Perfonal, (but what or how much this Deft 
 " knoweth not) about the twelfth day of Oticber, 
 " one Thoufand fix hundred and feventy-fix, made 
 " his Laft Will in Writeing, and thereby did de- 
 " vife fix hundred Pounds, to fixty poor ejected 
 " Minifters , to be paid by his Exe as to this 
 ' Dcf> to be by this Def diftributed according- 
 4< ry ; and by the faid Will gave this Deft twenty 
 " Pounds for his Pains therein, as in the faid Bill 
 J* is fe: forth : And that the faid Upbcrt Mayott did, 
 
 " by
 
 924 The Ejected or Silenfd Minifters^ 8rc. 
 
 " by his f d Will farther devife the Summe of 
 ** twenty Pounds, for buying as many of the Books 
 " called the Call to the "Unconverted, as will coft fo 
 
 much money, to be given by his ExcZr^ to fuch 
 ** as are low in the World, as in the faid Bill is 
 ," fer forth. And this Deft beleiveth it to be true, 
 " that the fd Robert Mnyott died about the eighth day 
 " of April, one Thoufand fix Hundred and eigh- 
 ** ty three; and that the faid Will is prov'd, as in 
 " the id Bill is fet forth. And this Def hopeth, 
 " that when this HonSbie Court fhall have all the 
 " faid Will produced, a Material part of which 
 " Will this Deft finds wholly omitted in the faid 
 " Bill, which for prevent/ng Mifconftru^JI of the 
 *' faid Will he refers to , and prays the due 
 ** Confidera^JJ of, this Hon^y^ Court thereupon : 
 '* And when this Honobfe Court fhall have confider'd 
 " the (aid omitted Claufe, and the whole &f the 
 " Cafe arifing upon the faid Will, he humbly hopes 
 " that the faid Legacy will be found to be fuch, 
 " as it will not be Difabled or Diverted by this 
 '* Court. And this Deft faith, that he never Diftribu- 
 " ted nor yet re^d the faid Summe, or fummes of 
 " Money, bequeathed by the faid Will, or any 
 " part thereof ; nor is this Def Guilty of any Con- 
 " federacy with the other^ Def ts men c oned i 1 - the 
 ' faid Bill, unlefs by his canfenting to have diftri- 
 ;< buted the faid Money, according to the faid Will, 
 " if it had been brought unto him : For reafon of 
 14 which Confent this Deft moft humbly fubmitteth 
 " to this Hobble Court : For this Def 1 believes the 
 c Teftator could not be a Defigner againft the Go- 
 " vernment, this Deft noc doubting but to prove, 
 " that the faid Teftator was truly Conformable, and 
 14 one avoiding not only the Meetings, but the Or- 
 " dinary Converfe of Nonconfortnifts, and for his 
 " Society of Choice being in Oxford: And the 
 ' fd Teftator as this Deft hath been informed (hav- 
 " Tng Devoted his Eftate to GOD) did Yearly du- 
 ! * ring his Life, lay it out much in Works of Piety 
 " and Charity, diftributing to and by Mr. Thorns 
 '* Gouge in iVales (befides other waves) Money to 
 '* teach Children to read, and buy Bibles, and Prac- 
 
 tice
 
 in the County of WORCESTER. 925 
 
 " tice of Piety, and the whole Duty of Man, a 
 " Work approved of by diverfe of the Nobility, 
 44 Bifhops and other eminent Perfons of the Eng- 
 44 lifh Clergy: Nor can the faid Teftator be (as 
 4t this Def beleiveth) fufpe&ed to defign againft 
 4< the Government, by the Guift of the faid Lega- 
 44 eyes in the faid Will, in regard he hath thefe 
 " words, or words to this Effect in the faid Will, 
 44 which are wholly omitted in the faid Bill, (vi%t) 
 41 And lefift I Jhould be mifconflrued in this Deed of 
 tf Charity, I doe -hereby declare, that I do not bequeath 
 " this money to the pcrfons aforefaid for the fake of their 
 * 4 Nonconformity, but becaufe I do beleive that diverfe 
 *' of them are Pious and in great Want. And al- 
 " though the faid Teftator, named not the fixty 
 " Poor Minifters amongft whom the faid fix hun- 
 " dred Pounds by ten Pounds a piece fliould be 
 " diftributed, yet he named this Def his Truftee, 
 *' who was to name them : And many Parifh Churches 
 " in England, give Bread and money every 5- 
 " day to the Poor, whom the Teftators or Donors 
 4< named not, but made the Officers or others their 
 " Truftees to name them, and to diftribute fuch 
 " Charity. And generally Charity to Parifhes, to 
 " Holpitals, to Colledges, for Fellowfhips or other 
 " Pious Ufes, are as this Def hath heard, diftri- 
 " buted in like manner, without naming the Poor 
 " Receivers of fuch Guifts, as is alfo done in this 
 " fame Will to the Poor of Abbington, and Ox- 
 " ford. And this Def 1 farther faith, the perfons 
 44 named to diftribute the faid fix hundred Pounds, 
 " vi%. this Def 1 and Thomas Gouge, were publick- 
 " ly known to be Hearers and Communicants in the 
 " Parifh Churches. And this Def hath written di- 
 44 verfe Books againft Schifme, and to perfuade 
 44 others to fuch peaceable Communion ; and fo the 
 4< Teftator had no reafon to doubt (that this Deft 
 *' knoweth) but that his faid Legacys would be di- 
 44 ftributed to Peaceable Men : Nor doth this De- 
 44 fendant know any Law which a meer Noncon- 
 " formeing Minifter as fuch (without other fault) 
 4 ' doth break, fmce Auguft the twenty fourth, One 
 " thoufand fix hundred and fixty-two, feeing fuch 
 
 " Conformc t
 
 926 The Ejefled or Silenced Miniftets, 8rc. 
 
 " Conforme, as far as rhe Law obligeth the Ejected 
 " or Laymen ; or that an Ejected Minifter as fuch, 
 " is by any Law that he ever heard off, made un- 
 " capable of Legacys or Charity, for his neceflary 
 " fuftenance and Life. And this Deft had good 
 " Inform^ of tnany fuch Objects of Charity, who 
 " live in great want, having little or nothing, or 
 " next to nothing, of their own to fubfift by ; feme 
 " having many Children, and fome living on Bread 
 " and Water, or unwholefome food, by which fome 
 " of them are brought into mortal Difeafes, and 
 ;< many have excercis'd very bafe and fervile 
 * Workes for Bread. And this Create and extra- 
 " ordinary Guift of the Teftator, a Conformift, ex- 
 " tendeth but to fixty Perfons, and is but ten Pounds 
 " a piece, which will go but a little way to pay 
 " Houfe rent, and buy Bread. And this Deft with- 
 " out Offence as he hopes thinks, that being meer- 
 " ly an ejected Nonconformift, doth not make a 
 " man uncapable of receiving a little Charity in 
 " cafe of extraordinary need. And this Def c knows 
 " of mawy meer Nonconformifts, who offer to fub- 
 " fcribe all the Doctrine of the Church of England, 
 " in the thirty nine Articles, who differ not in any 
 " Point declared by the Church, as to the Power 
 * l of the King, and the Duty of the Subjects to 
 " obey him in all things not forbidden by GOD, 
 " and to fuffer Patiently without Rebellion or Re- 
 " fiftance, and without Confpiring or fo much as 
 " murmuring againft him, and who alfb take the 
 " Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and therefore 
 " he humbly thinks and hop.es, that fuch men tho* 
 " they may be called Nonconformifts, have not 
 " forfeited all mens Charity. And his Majefty in 
 ' his Declar^Tn about Ecclefiaftkal Affairs, dared on 
 " or about the twenty fifth of Oclcber One thou- 
 !< fand fix hundred and fixty, having been gract- 
 " oufly pleafed to_^ay, of many of them, that to 
 [< our greate fatisf^ccon and Comforts we found them 
 " perfcns full of Aff^t to us, and of %eale for the 
 Peace of the Church and State, and neither Ene- 
 mies (as they have been given out to be) to Epif- 
 " copacy or Litturgy but modeftly to dejire fuch 
 
 " Alt*.
 
 in the County of W O R C E S T ER. 927 
 
 " Alter*cos in cither, as without Jhakfing 
 " might bcft allay tho frefent Diftempen Whofe 
 " Clemency Gracioufly Licenfed many of them to 
 ' Preach, not many Years before the Teftaror made 
 " his faid Will: And this Defendant beleiving 
 : ' CHRIST, who hath commanded to do good to all 
 ** Men, to the Juft and Unjuft, who commended the 
 " Samaritan above the Prieft and Levitc, and who faid 
 " Blejfed are the Merciful for they/hall obtaine mercy : 
 " and that with fuch Sacrifices God ts well plea- 
 " fed : And that hath laid, that they who doe not 
 " (being able) vifit feed and cloth even the leaft 
 " of his, denied it to him, and fhall goe as Cvsrf> 
 " ed into Everlafting Fire prepared for the Devil 
 " and his Angels: Therefore this Def 1 durft not 
 " deny the Driftrib^ of the faid Legacy, if the 
 '* fame had been or fhall be paid unto him. And 
 " this Deft takes it for a part of Humanity to 
 " perform the faid Charitable Will of the Dead, 
 " thinking he had Power to difpofe of his own, 
 " Eftate. For all which Reafons this Def f did 
 " confent to the Driftribi^ of the faid Charitable 
 " Legacy if the fame had been paid unto him. 
 " And as to the Twenty Pounds given by the faid 
 " Will to this Deft, and claim'd alfo by the Comtit 
 " Sir tybert Sawyer, this Deft humbly iubmits it to 
 " the Judgment of this Hol^bie Court. But as to 
 " the Demand by the faid B 11 of the twenty Pounds 
 " which was directed by the faid Will to be paid 
 " to Bookfellors for Books (called the Call to the 
 " 'Unconverted) and claimed alfo by the faid Bill, 
 " this Def r hoped that Book had not been Con- 
 *' demnable. If it be blamed for the fakeofthofe 
 " to whom they muft be given by the faid Will, 
 " they are the Poor : If for the fake of the Book, 
 " it isLicenled, (if men may be beleived) and hath 
 " been Printed two and twenty times, or therea- 
 " bouts, and never prohibited : Nor did this Deft 
 *' ever hear that any Bifliop or Conforming Prieft 
 " or other Proteftant, did except one word againft 
 ** it ; It having been long tranflared into Trench and 
 '* Dutch, and ufed in forreign Parts ; and no Fault 
 " is charged on it by the laid Bill. If it be be- 
 ." caufe it is the Wrheinp of this Def r > then it 
 VOL. II. 1 f
 
 92 8 The Ejefied or Silenced Miniflers, &c. 
 
 '* will vertually condemne all that he has written 
 " for Chriftianity, Peace, Obedience, or any other 
 " Subject. Nor doth this Deft know why this Wrire- 
 " ing fhould be condemned for his fake. This Def 
 " has taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, 
 ** and (by the Earle of Manchefler fince d^d, then 
 " Lord Chamberlaine to his Matyc) an Oath of Fl- 
 " dellty ? as his Majeftys Chaplain. And this Deft 
 " hath had from the late Lord Chancellor Hide, 
 " and from his Majefty himfelf Expreflions of his 
 " Matyes Faour and Acceptance ; and hath conftant- 
 " h joyned with the Parijh Churches, and hath not 
 41 thefe three and twenty years been Paftor of any 
 " other Church. And this Deft had his Matja Li- 
 " cenfe to Preach, and hath the Licenfe or Dr. 
 " Gilbert Sheldon then Bifliop of London. Where- 
 " fore this Deft humbly prays this Hoiiobte Court, 
 " not to make any Decree againft his unaccufed 
 " B}oks, which may render them unferviceablc 
 " when he Is dead, and fruftrate moft of the Pain- 
 " ful Labour of his Life, without any Judgment of 
 '* the Church againft them. And this Def* hopes 
 ** that to be named feven years fince or thereabouts, 
 " by a Conformable Stranger whom he never faw, 
 " and without this Def" knowledge, in a Charita- 
 .'" ble Will, doth not deferve the Penalty of thetrou- 
 " ble and Charge of a Chancery Suite, which is 
 " fomewhat to fuch as are poor, efpecially if others 
 " cannot releive them : And that their Dodtrine or 
 " Difpofieon (meerly as ejected Nonconformifts) is 
 " not fo bad as to forfeite all Charity and fufte- 
 " nance. His Majeftys dilcerning Judgment did 
 " further publickly teftify in the aforef^ Declara- 
 4 * tion, in thefe or the like Words : We muft for 
 " the Ho^ } of all thofe of cither perfuajion with 
 ." whom we havs conferred, declare that the Profejjions 
 " and Defires of all for the Advancement of Piety, 
 " and true Godlinefs are the fame ; their Profejjion 
 " of %eale for the Peace of the Church the fame. 
 " They all approve Epifcopacy ; 'they all approve a fet 
 " Forme of Litturgy ; and they all difapprove and 
 : * dijli^e the Sin of Sacriledge, and the alien a con of 
 -' the Revenue of the Church : And if upon thefe ex- 
 
 ," cettent
 
 in tie County of WORCESTER. 929 
 
 " cellent Fcund afan i, in fubmijfion to which there Jsfucb 
 " < Harmony of Affect, any fuperftrufture fhould 
 " be raifed to the Jhaktng of thcfe Foundacni, find 
 " to the Contracting and lejfening the Blejfed Guift 
 " of Charity, which is ei Vital Part of the Chriftian 
 " Religion, We /hall think, our felf very unfortunate, 
 " and ev?n fufpeft that we are defective in the Ad- . 
 " miflron of Government with which God hath intruflcd 
 " us. And this Deft bcleiveth his M^ye was not 
 " miftaken in his Judgment of rhofe Perfons, or 
 " that Charity is a Vital Pan of the Chriftian Re- ' 
 " ligton, which the Scriptures call the more excel- 
 " lent way, above Faith and Hope, as enduring for 
 " ever, when Faith and Hope ceafe. Thofe per- 
 " fons had fome Faults, whom the Apoftle com- 
 " mandeth all to receive, without Judging or defpif- 
 " ing. And this Def 1 thinks that not only the Chri- 
 " ftian Religion but Humanity binds him to pitty 
 " all who have fpenr their Lives in hard Study to 
 " know God's will, and yet by Miftake in fome 
 41 Opinion have fallen into Want: And that it is 
 " a Duty to imitarl* our Heavenly Father in lov- 
 " ing thofe with a Love of Benevolence, who are 
 " yet uncapable of a Love of Complacency. Where- 
 " fore this Def* doth profefle his Diflenc againft 
 " refigning other mens fuftenance, given not by 
 " this De r t but by a Godly Charitable Conforming 
 " All which matters when duely confidered by this 
 " Honobie Court this Deft hopes it will not be 
 " thought the Teftaror defigned the faid Guift con- 
 *' trary to the good Government of the Nation, and 
 41 contrary to the publick Peace, and contrary to the 
 " Tranquil ity of his MityT Government, as is fucge- 
 " fted in the faid Bill. And this Def hopes this 
 " Honobk Courr will never mifconftrue this A(ft of 
 " Charity which the Teftator took Care in fuch 
 " Exprels Words in his faid Will to prevent, 
 " leaft he fhould be mifconftrued therein, declar- 
 " ing that he did not bequeath the mtoey now fvied 
 " for by the Compl* to the Perfons aforefi for the 
 " fake of their Nonconformity, but bccaufe the faid 
 ' Tcftator, did belcive that diver fc of them *rt pious, 
 11 and in Create Want. Which Declaration of the 
 Z a " Tcftaror r
 
 93 o The Ejected or Silenced Minifters^ &c* 
 
 " Teftator, in the Exprefs Words ofjhe faid Will, 
 " with all fubmiflion unto this Honobie Court, doth 
 " anfwer the main Grounds of the laid Bill, there 
 " being as this Deft ftands informed, no clearer or 
 " fuller Character to be given by Chriftians of true 
 c< Objects of Charity, living and dyeing in fo few 
 " Words than what is concluded in the Words of 
 " Pious and Poor. All which matters this Deft rnoft 
 " humbly fubmitteth to the Judgment of this Honoble 
 " Court without that that any other matter or 
 " things or things materiall to be Anfwered con- 
 " fefled or avoided are true in matter or manner 
 " as by the HoooWe Compl" faid Bill is alleadged 
 " apainft this Deft. All which this Deft doth averr 
 " and is ready to prove as this HoJlobFe Court (hall 
 " award. And therefore prayeth to be hence dif- 
 " milfed with his Colts in this behalfe fuftened. 
 
 Capt' fuit hec RefpOns praedit. Defend 
 Ricus Baxter Jurat' fuit eidem, tri- 
 cefimo primo die Maji Anno Reg- 
 ni DnT Carol' ScdT AngT &c trice- 
 fimo fexto, apud Paroch. S" Egi- 
 dii in Campis, in Com. Middx co- 
 ram nobis 
 
 Hen. Williamfon. 
 John Welles. 
 J. Willy. 
 
 I cannot but think it proper here to obferve,' 
 i. That this Legacy of 600 /, to fixty poor eject-' 
 ed Minifters, which Mr. Baxter did thus endeavour 
 to defend from the Information and Complaint, of 
 Sir Robert Sawyer, Attorney General, was providen- 
 tially preferv'd, and at length difpos'd of, according 
 to the Direction of the Teftator in his Will. For 
 
 tho*
 
 in the County o/WORCESTER. 
 
 tho' upon Sir Upberis Plea, the Lord North who was 
 at that Time Lord-Keeper, did decree [he Charity 
 to be void, and the Money to be applied for the 
 Maintenance of a Chaplain for Chelfea-Coliege ; 
 and it was accordingly paid into Chancery by the 
 Order of the Court, yet it was there kept fafe, and 
 not paid out till after the Revolution in 1688, when 
 the Commiflloners of the Great Seal reftor'd it to 
 the Ufe for which it was defign'd by the Deceafed, 
 and Mr. Baxter difpos'd of it as the Will directed. 
 And therefore Mr. Vernon himfelf obferves, . that this 
 Decree was reversed by the Lords Commijfioncrs in Tri- 
 nity-Term 1689, and. the 600 1 which had been 
 brought into Court was ordered to be faid out and di- 
 ftributed according to the Will. 
 
 2. I farther obferve, that Mr. 'Baxter, cannot either 
 with Truth or Juftice, be faid to have /wore himfelf * 
 Conformift. It would have been an abfurd, an irratio- 
 nal, a fa'fe Oath, which all the World would have 
 cried out upon, and that defervedly, if he had taken 
 it. With what Face could he fwear himfelf a Confor- 
 mift, that was all the- latter Part of his Days, Co warm- 
 ly ingag'd in the Defence of Nonconformity ! I was 
 perfectly fhock'd when I me- with it in the Reports 
 of fo great a Man as Mr. Vernon. I can hardly al- 
 low myfelf to fuppofe the Expreffion is his, or to 
 be met with in his MS. \ lent one therefore to 
 the Bookfeller to defire a Sight of the MS ; but it 
 was denied ; and my Meflenger who was an Attor- 
 ney, was told it could not be granted by any Means, 
 or upon any Terms. And yet if after all, the Ex- 
 preflion really is in the Manufcript, it is evidently 
 a Miftake. It fhould not have been fo general and 
 without a Guard. But let it ftand as it does, if it 
 is the Pleafure of thofe concern'd. I dare ven- 
 ture to tell them, it will be a lading Difgrace to 
 the Book it ftands in. For Mr. "Baxter only fwore 
 to his Anfwer. In that Anfwer, he does indeed 
 plead his Moderation, which he fhew'd by commu- 
 nicating with the Parifh-Churchcs, (c. which he 
 often takes Notice of in his Writings ; but that is a 
 very different Thing from being a Conformift, which 
 be had no Occafion to fwear, and which he could 
 Z 3 no:
 
 93 2 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters^ &c. 
 
 not have fworn had he been ever fo willing. It is 
 hard indeed if Men muft be accus'd after they 
 are dead, of Things of which they were as inno- 
 cent as Children yet unborn ! 
 
 3. 1 cbferve alfo, that few Men ever had luch hard 
 Treatment as this Mr. Baxter. He was accus'd all a- 
 lcn<* by u arm Churchmen, as one of the greateft Ene- 
 mies the Church ever had: And yet at laft come Mr. 
 Vernorif- Reports, and tell us, that he fvcore himfelf a 
 Confo-imifli It was but a little while fince that we had 
 a Suit ;n Chancery, about Sir Jcbn Gamer's Legacy of 
 a good Sim of Money, to Perions lately enter'd in- 
 to the Miniftry, and voung Students for the Miniftry, 
 who were neither for Domination, nor unnecejfary Se~ 
 ftirztlon, but of Mr. Baxrer'j Principles j as Sir John 
 was pleas'd to exprefs it : And in this Caufe, (which 
 we carried with Honour) the Widow of the De- 
 ceafed being for transferring the Legacy to thofe of 
 the Eftabiifli'd Church, we gave full Proof of his 
 being a Nonconformift in Court, though the Stan- 
 ders-by were apt to think it needlefs, and almoft ri- 
 diculous : But if Mr. Vernons Reports had been pub- 
 lifhed before, which aflert hefwore himfelf a Confer- 
 mlft, and could have been prov'd authenrick, we 
 muft have loft our Caufe. This is peculiar, and 
 hardly to be rarallePd. And yet after all the heavy 
 Charges brought againft this Mr. Baxter, on one 
 Side and the other, I dare venture to give it as my 
 Opinion, that for a clear Head and a warm Heart, 
 for difinterefted Integrity, and a fincere Devored- 
 nefs to GOD, and the Intereft of pure and undefil'd 
 Religion, few in any Age have equalFd him. 
 
 N. B. The moft rigid Confelfor could not eafily 
 prefcribe his Penitents a feverer Penance, than to ob- 
 lige him to read over Mr.Crandons Book againft Mr. 
 $4#f#r\ Aphorifms in which he induftrioufly endea- 
 vours to prove that good Man a Papift, and one of the 
 worft of them too : Together with Mr. Tcung's Vlndi- 
 *ite Anti-Baxteriana, izmo, 1696; and Mr. Long of 
 Exeter s Review of Mr. Baxter's Life, 8vo. 1697 ; in 
 which they fet themfelves to prove Mr. Baxter to 
 have leen bcth Fool and IQiave at once. But PVifdom 
 *' JHft'fad of her Child, en. 
 
 The
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 
 
 EJECTED, tfc. 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of Y o R K. 
 
 In the WES T-R I D I N G. 
 
 P/f. 778. ^V*O/(K.-* Mr. EDWARD BOWLED, 
 * M. .4. In the Account of him, fag. 
 779. //. 14. for 2,7, read 30 : And fag. 781, /;. 
 penult, for 45, read 49. And lee the following Ad- 
 dition be made to his Character. 
 
 Dr. Tillotfon, and Dr. StiSingfleet, counted Mr. 
 Bowles a very extraordinary Perfon. One from 
 whom I have it, was told by the latter of them, that 
 they defir'd to bring him into the Eftablifhed 
 Church, above any one Man in England. They 
 fpent a whole Afternoon together upon him in Lon- 
 don, but a little before the Att of 'Uniformity took 
 Place, but could not prevail. His final Anfwer was ; 
 I can eafily do enough to lofe my Friends, but I can ne- 
 ver do enough to gain my Enemies. It was commonly 
 (aid in his Time, that he rul'd all Tork., and yet was 
 never feen in any Bulinefs. Being ask'd by a Friend 
 in his laft Sicknefs what of Conformity he diflik'd j 
 he anfwer'd, the Whole. 
 
 The ingenious Mr. Mttthrw Pool once told t, 
 Friend (from whom I have it) that he never under- 
 took any Enterprize of publick Concernment, with- 
 out confulting Mr. Bowles : And that he more relied 
 upon his Judgment, than upon any one Man's in 
 England. 
 
 Z 4 W-
 
 934 The Ejetfed or Silenced Minifters, &c- 
 
 Mr. Hunter preach'd at Mr. Bowles's Funeral, and 
 when he came into the Pulpit, began with thefc 
 Words : 
 
 " It is it may be, expe&ed that I fhould fpeak 
 " forncthing of this reverend Perfonfdeceafed. And 
 " perhaps I am not miftaken, if I fay that a great 
 " Part of this Audience, is come more to hear what 
 " I will fay of the Dead, than what I intend to fay 
 " to the Living. But I fhall deceive your Expec- 
 ** ration. For it is thought convenient by thofe of 
 " greater Underftanding and Authority than my- 
 ** felf, to fay nothing. Nor is it much material ; 
 " becaufe it was Part of his own laft Will and Te- 
 " ftament, that his Body fhould be indeed decently 
 ' buried, but without Oftentation. Hearken there- 
 " fore to the Word of GOD, as you find it, Phil.'i. 
 " 21. For to me to live is Chrift, and to die is Gain. 
 
 To the Lift of his Works, may be added, Mani- 
 feft Truth ; or, An Inverfion of Truths manifefl ; con- 
 taining a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Scotch 
 Army, and a Vindication of the Parliament and 
 Kingdom of England, from the falfe and injurious 
 Afperfions caft upon them, by the Author of the faid 
 Truths maniffft, 410. 1646. 
 
 His Catechifm which is as good an one for Chil- 
 dren as moft I have feen, being fcarce and difficult 
 to be met with, I think it not amifs to infert it 
 here, as a valuable Remain of this great and good 
 Man.
 
 in the \County of Y O R K. 935 
 
 A Plain and Short Catechifm. 
 
 Queft. "117" H o made you ? 
 
 * * Anfo. G o D the Creator of Heaven 
 and Earth. 
 
 Q. To what End did he make you ? 
 
 A- He made me and all Things for his Glory. Prev. xri. 4. 
 
 . In what Condition did he make Man ? 
 
 A. Righteous and happy. Fed. yii. 19. 
 
 . Did Man continue in that Eftate ? Gen ' * 7 ' 
 
 A. No, He fell from it by Sin. Gen. iU. 
 
 & What is Sin ? 
 
 A. A Tranfgreflion of the Law of Go D". i John ili. 4; 
 
 . What was the Sin of our firft Parents ? 
 
 A. Eating the forbidden Fruit. Gen. iH. 6. 
 
 Q^ What was the Fruit of that Eating ? 
 
 A. It filled the World with Sin and Sorrow. 
 
 ft. In what Condition is the Pofterity of our 
 firft Parents born ? Rn..i7 it 
 
 A. In a finful and miferable Condition. 15, and ui. '13.' 
 
 . Waft thou born in that Condition ? 
 
 A. Yes, I was conceiv'd in Sin, and am by Na- ffti li. 5. E^k- 
 ture a Child of Wrath, as well as others. " ' 
 
 ^. Hath thy Life been better than thy Birth ? 
 
 A. No; I have added Sin to Sin, and made R. ih'. w. 
 myfclf above Meafure finful. 
 
 g^ What if thou fhouldft die in the Condition 
 thou waft born and bred in ? j^ ^ ,, 
 
 A. I fhould perifh everlaftingly. 2Tbef.'i.. 
 
 Q^ Is there no Way to get out of this finful and 
 miferable Eftate ? 
 
 A. Yes. iTlm.i.j>, u. 
 
 Q Is it to be done by any Power or Righte- 
 oufnefs of thy own ? 
 
 A. No; but GOD in his rich Mercy hath ap- Tit. Si. 4., 5. 
 pointed a Way. 
 
 Q. What Way harh GOD appointed ? John ,J T . (. A ft 
 
 A. Only by J E s u s C H R i s T. i. n.
 
 936 TheEjetfedor SiknfdMinzfters, frc. 
 
 >. What is JESUS CHRIST? 
 
 Ctl.iv.4.iTim. A . The Son of GOD, manifeft in the Flefh. 
 ** ' fi; What hath JESUS CHRIST done for 
 
 Man ? 
 
 Matth. *r. ag. .4. He hath laid down his Life for our Re- 
 ol. i. 14. demption. 
 
 Q. What farther Benefit have we by him ? 
 A - Life and Salvation. 
 
 Q. Shall all Men partake of this Redemptio 
 and Salvation ? 
 
 Mat. vii. 13,14. A. No ; there are many who perifh notwith- 
 Phil.iii.i8. ftanding. 
 
 &. By what Means may a Sinner obtain a Par 
 in this Redemption ? 
 
 S it. J A - BY F ait . h in C H R i s T. 
 
 g. What is it to believe ? 
 
 Jobnfil 3 i. Afti , A - To rely on JE s us CHRIST, and him 
 xvi.3($.if.Lio. alone, for Pardon and Salvation, according to 
 John v. 44. t he Gofpel. 
 
 <j How doth the Gofpel teach us to rely oii 
 CHRIST ? 
 
 A ' to ca ^ our ^ urt h en u po n him, as to 
 
 take his Yoke upon us. 
 
 : _r _ 
 
 . Why hath GOD appointed Faith to this 
 excellent Ufe ? 
 
 Bphef.ii. t,9t A. Becaufe Faith gives him what he looks for, 
 the whole Glory of our Salvation. 
 
 >. How is Faith wrought in the Soul ? 
 fcom.r.14,17. ^ By ^e Word and SPIRIT of GOD: 
 
 "'^ & What cal1 Y u the Word of G o D ? 
 
 A. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Tc- 
 
 >. Doth GOD work Faith by the Word read, 
 
 Rom.*. 14. Eph. or P reac h'd ? 
 
 i. 14. i Cor. i.i i. A. Ordinarily by the Word preach'd. 
 
 >. In what Order doth GOD work Faith by 
 the Word ? 
 
 'Afti 11.37; John A. Firft he (hews Men their Sins, and them 
 avi * ?' their Saviour. 
 
 Q. Why doth he obferve this Order ? 
 
 i Per. ii. 7. iuke A. That CHRIST may be the more preci- 
 *" 47. ous to the Soul; 
 
 ft; Dot|i
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 937 
 
 g. Doth not Repentance go along with Faith ? 
 
 A Yes. Mirki. 15.Heb. 
 
 &. What is Repentance ? " ' A( *- " 
 
 A. It is a forrowful Senfe of Sin, with a turn- AQs v l: 20 - 
 ing from ic unto GOD. \ Thet.Y'fi. 10 * 
 
 . How is true Faith farther difcern'd ? 
 
 A. By its Fruits. Gal v - 6 - R m. 
 
 52, What are the Fruits of Faith ? Sftffi)? 1 ' * 
 
 V A. Love in the Heart, Peace in the Conference, Gal. v .6. Rom; 
 Holinefs in the Life. v - ' *.<*' w. 9. 
 
 Q. How doth Faith work Love ? r ' 1 ' 7 ' 
 
 A. It lays hold upon the infinite Love of i John iy. i?. 
 CHRIST, and works a mutual Love in us. Luke v". 47- 
 
 . How muft we exprefs our Love to CHRIST ? 
 
 A. By our Lov e to Chriftians, and keeping his Jhnxitr.i 5 , 
 Commandments. ijohn,.. 2 . 
 
 Q. Are not the "Ten Commandments, the Com- 
 mandments of C H R I S T ? 
 
 A. Yes, they are a fpecial Part of GOD'S Pfal.xis,7.Mac 
 Word, which is a Rule of Life. v.i/. 
 
 <. What doth GOD look for from his redeem- 
 ed People ? 
 
 A. That they fhould walk before him in Holi- L " k e f. 74, 7r. 
 nefs and Righteoufncfs. fcftia,f. 
 
 . Have we Strength of ourfelves fo to walk ? 
 
 A. No ; without CHRIST we can do nothing. J ohnxv - 5; 
 
 O How fhall we obtain Strength from CHRIST ? 
 
 A. By a diligent and right Ufe of his Ordi-^!;.? 1 ; * w - 
 nances. 
 
 . What are the Ordinances of CHRIST to 
 this Purpofe ? Rom . r . I4j IT: 
 
 A. The Word preach'd, the Adminiftration of i cor.xi.zj. 
 the Sacraments and Prayer. Mat.xxviii.i9, 
 
 O. When do we ufe the Ordinances aright ? JM . 
 
 , T1 i i t? u Heb.iv, 2,. Jam. 
 
 ^i. When we mingle them with Faith. i, 5. 
 
 Q How may it appear that CHRIST hath 
 left iuch an Ordinance as Preaching ? Eph.lv. n, j. 
 
 A, The Scripture tells me fo. a Tim. w. t. 
 
 & What are the Sacraments which CHRIST 
 hath left to his Church ? 
 
 A. Two : Baptifm, and the Supper of the 
 LORD. 
 
 . What
 
 93 8 The Ejefted or Silenced Mintfters, &c. 
 
 _ What is Baptiftn ? 
 
 Mt.viii. if. A. It is dipping or fprinkling with Water, in 
 *a?i- 47 the Name of the FATHER, of the SON, and 
 of the HOLY GHOST. 
 
 Q^ What is the Nature of this Sacrament ? 
 'Aft$ li. i. ^. It reprefents and (through Faith feals,) the 
 Tjt.iii. y. Ads fprinkling of the Blood of CHRIST, and the 
 tto.37. i Pet. wafhingofthe HOLY GHOST. 
 
 Q. What is done in Baptifm on our Part ? 
 Cii. ii. 17. col <* By ^ our Names are given up to the Pro- 
 i. i, i cor.vi, feflion of the Gofpel, and we ar bound to walk 
 " according to it. 
 
 & What is the Supper of the L o R D ? 
 Luke xxii. \j t A. It is a folemn Eating of Bread, and Drink- 
 ao. ing of Wine, in Remembrance of the Death 
 
 and Blood of JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 . What is the End of this Sacrament ? 
 
 * got, n, a<<. A. One main End is to ftiew forth the Lo R D'S 
 Death till he come. 
 
 &. What is the Benefit of this Sacrament to a 
 worthy Receiver ? 
 
 i Cor. x.i 6,1 7. A. It ftrengthens his Faith, and confirms his 
 Love to C H R i s T, and all his Members. 
 
 <^ Who is the worthy Receiver ? 
 
 jCor.xi.iSjij; A. He who difcerneth the Body -and Blood of 
 John ri. ;6. CHRIST, partaking thereof with Faith and 
 Love. 
 
 ; What is the Danger of unworthy receiving ? 
 t Cor. xl. 27,2?; A. The unworthy Receiver becomes guilty of 
 the Body and Blood ofCHRiSTj eatiag and 
 drinking Judgment to hlmfelf. 
 
 ^. What is Prayer ? 
 
 Phil. ir. 6.1 Jofi. ^ g j t i s a making our Requeft unto G o D, ac-] 
 JjJ 4 * ' xru cording to his Will, in the Name of CHRIST. 
 
 >. Wherein lieth the Strength of Prayer ? 
 JUSfl " L ^ : v. *> I" ^ith and Fervency. 
 u6. Sc What other Duties are clpecially requir'd in 
 
 Markxiif. 37. i an holy Life ? 
 
 Heb x V &4 X c'oL ^' Watchfulneft, and Chriftian Communion, 
 iii. 1,5.' Q^ Why muft we watch ? 
 
 A. For two Reafons. 
 
 Lukex\iv.4i. pi r ft^ becaufe we walk in theMidft of our 
 1 Pet> 1V> 7- Enemies, the World, the Flefh, and the Devil. 
 
 Secondly,
 
 'in the County of Y O R K. 959 
 
 Secondly, leaft the Day of Death or Judgment 
 come upon us unawares. 
 
 g. Shall Death come upon all Men ? 
 
 A. It is appointed for me and all Men once to H * <ir ' VBf. 
 die, and it is good to remember it oft. 
 
 &. What is Death ? 
 
 A. A Separation of the Soul from the Body; A 1 ? 5 T - 1- Ex ^i 
 
 . What remaineth after Death ? 
 
 A. The general Refurre&ion, and the Day of i Cor.xv. J<* 
 Judsment. v. 19. A& xrii, 
 
 &. What is the Work of that Day? 
 
 A. To render to every Man according to his Mat. xyi. z. 
 Works. 
 
 g^ What fhall be the Condition of the Godly 
 after this Life ? 
 
 A. They fhall be ever with the L o K D. 
 ^ 2.. What fhall be the Condition of the Unbe- John W 
 lievers, and wicked Men? 
 
 ,4. They fhall perifli with everlafting Deftruc- a ihef. !. 8, 
 tion from the Prefence of the L o R D. Mat. 25. *i, 
 
 Pag. 783. Mr. PETER WILLIAMS! Add 
 
 He was born at Salisbury : But having been Tutor 
 to Sir John Brook,., an ingenious Baronet, was in- 
 duced to refide at Tort^ t where his Father was 
 Lord Mayor. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. THOMAS CALVERT^ Add, M. A. 
 He was formerly Vicar of Trinity, in the King's 
 Court in Tork: 
 
 Pag. 784. lin. 4. for Barnickj, read Berwick*. 
 
 And to Mr. Culvert's Works may be added, The 
 wife Merchant ; or, The only Pearl of Price : Two 
 Sermons on Matth. xiii. 45, 46, preach'd before the 
 Company of Merchants in the City of Torl^, 8vo.' 
 1660. Heart-falve for a wounded Soul, from Pfal. 
 cxliii. 7 : And Eye-fahe for a blind World $ from 
 Jfa. Ivii. i. 
 
 .. Mr. RICHARD PERROT." Inftead ofM.A, 
 add B. D. He died in 1671. &t. 41. There is an Elegy 
 and Epitaph of his, on the Deaceafe of his highly valu'd 
 
 Friend.
 
 940 The Ejefted or Siknfd Minifters, & c. 
 
 / 
 
 Friend Mr. Edward 'Bright, M. A, who was for a 
 little Time Minifter of Chrtft-Cburch in London, in 
 11656. 
 
 Pag, 787. Mr. MATTHEW BLOOM. He was 
 for fome time Prifoner in 
 
 Png. 789. Hanfaortb : Mr. JOHN CART. It 
 fhould have been Mr. WILLIAM CARTE, M.A . 
 He was admitted Rector of Hanfaorth, Jan. 6. 1617, 
 upon the Prefentation of the Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 Ibid. Ackporth : Mr. THOMAS BURBECK* 
 Dr. Walker, Part II, p. 85, calls him a flijf rumfd 
 Presbyterian, which is a Phrafe that needs Explica- 
 tion. Should another call the Doctor aftiffrumfd 
 Churchman, he might perhaps have equal Reafon : 
 And yet the Doctor I doubt would hardly like it. 
 The Doctor takes me up very fhort, and fays, 
 that I fpeak falfely in faying that Dr. Bradley fuc- 
 ceeded him : And yet he himfelf owns, that he livd 
 to come after him, which I fhould have thought 
 much at one with fucceeded. But it feems Dr. 
 Jtradley, was Mr. Burbcck^s Predeceffor, as well as 
 his Succeflbr : Which is what I could not take No- 
 tice of, whilft I did not know it. And if Dr. Walker 
 was to be charg'd with ffeakjng falfely, every Time 
 he omits what he was not inform'd of, I am apt 
 to think he would count he had but hard Mea- 
 fure. 
 
 Pag. 790^ "Bradftvorth : Mr. WILLIAM HAW- 
 BEN. In the laft Line of the Account of him, Ms 
 faid he was when he died, JEtat. 84 : Whereas I 
 am inform'd he was 88. 
 
 . Pag. 791. Hemfwortb : Mr. STEPHEN CHARMAN? 
 'Add, M. A. 
 
 Ibid. Silkefton: Mr. JOHN SPAWFORD. Add; 
 er PDF FORD.
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 941 
 
 : Mr. HENRY SWIFT. Add at 
 the End ; He was Minifter of this Place forty 
 Years. 
 
 Pag. 791. Denby Chapel, in Pennyfton Parifii : Mr." 
 JOHN CROOK. Add, M. A. Born in Sheffield, where 
 his Father, an Hard-ware Man, was very remarka- 
 ble for Charity ; ftatedly giving the tenth of his 
 Eftate to pious Ufes ; which was fo rewarded by 
 G OD, that from a very fmall Beginning, he attain'd 
 50 I per Annum, and this his Son about as much 
 above ioo/. 
 
 Pag. 793. Crofton, or Crcfton ; 
 Mr. D w A R D H i L L, M. A. It was he that firft 
 fubfcrib'd the VmdicLe Veritatis, publifli'd by the 
 Minifters of the Weft^dlng of this County, by way 
 of unanimous Atteftation of G o D'S blefled Truth re- 
 vealed in his Word in 1648. 
 
 Ibid. Selby ; Mr. B i R D s A L : It fhould be B u R s- 
 D A L L. As he was bred up in Tr/wjVj-College 
 Dublin, fo he was fome time Fellow there. 
 
 Ibid. Long Haughton : Mr. TAYLOR.' It fhould 
 be Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR. There has fallen 
 into my Hands a MS, of his intituled, A Thankful 
 Remembrance of fome remarkable A8s of the Lors 
 Good Providence towards me Richard Taylor. I there 
 find that he was born at Sheffield in this Coun- 
 ty, "May 17. 1636, and bred in Magdalen- College 
 in Cambridge, under the Tuition of Mr. Jojefh 
 Kill. After he had fpent fome Years in the Uni- 
 verfity, (where Mr. Kjtfon of Sidney College, and 
 Mr. Mark. Trickftt of Magdalen s were his chief In- 
 timates) he became Chaplain in Mrs. Daltons Fami- 
 ly at Ffulburn, a few Miles from Cambridge, and 
 inftru&ed her Sons, and preach'd in feveral Towns 
 in that Neighbourhood, as there was Occafion : And 
 from thence, he in fome time, remov'd into his own, 
 Country, and hVd in this Place, where the Bar. 
 tbolomevf ASt ftlencM him. G o D afterwards own'd 
 
 his
 
 942 The Ejefted or Silenced Minifters, & c. 
 
 his Miniftry in thefe Parts for the good of many. 
 And he takes Notice of the Goodnefs of G o D to 
 him in the feveral Parts of his Life, with great 
 Serioufnels and Affection j ftirring up himfelf to give 
 Him the Glory of all. 
 
 Pag. 794. iVakgficld: Mr. JOSHUA KIRBY, M. A. 
 Jt appears from Dr. Walker, Part II, p. 300, that this 
 was a fequeftred Living. As to Mr. Kjrby, Mr. 
 Thomas Hodges formerly Re&or of Souldern in Ox- 
 fordfoire, in his Confederations fending to Peace, (in 
 4/-o, 1675) ftrenuoufly pleads the Caufe of the Non- 
 conformifts; and among other Paflages, tells us, 
 f. 15, that Mr. Kjrby was brought up to London, 
 and imprifon'd for praying publickly for his Majefty 
 by Name. And it is evident that this Mr. Ktrby 
 was at London at the Time when King Charles was 
 beheaded, his being the laft but one of the Names 
 to the Declaration againft bringing that King to 
 a Trial. 
 
 Ptg* 795- Thornhill : Mr. JOSHUA WITTON. 
 It fhould be W i T x o N, M. A : And at the End, 
 &tat. 56, fhould be 60. 
 
 Pag. 796. Ardjley Chapel, near Wakefield: Mr." 
 JEREMIAH MARS DEN. Add, he left behind 
 him a MS, to which this Title is prefix'd, Contem- 
 platio Vit< mlferabilis. By this it appears that his 
 whole Life was a Scene of Sorrows and Affli&ions. 
 He was born An. 1616; and while a Child, he by 
 eating unripe Fruit was brought into a Tympany, 
 which had like to have been mortal. When he 
 was in a good meafure reftor'd, he was fent to 
 'Mancbefter School, in order to get Learning : But 
 there he had a Mafter that was too rigid. Boifter- 
 ous Times came foon after ; and he improv'd but 
 little. Then he was aflifted in his Learning by his Fa 
 ther who was a Minifter, (c. And at length, about 
 '1647, his Father beftow'd the fmall Portion that 
 he had for him, upon his Maintenance in the Uni- 
 verfiry ; and he became a Penfioner in C^rj^'s-Col- 
 lege in Cambridge, under Mr.- Harrifon, (whofe 
 
 Pains
 
 /';/ the County o/YORK. 943 
 
 Pains with h ; m and other Pupils, he complains was 
 as (lender, as his Reputation o herwife) and condnu'd 
 there about two Years ; in which Tin;e he was ohen 
 fick. His Father died ar Nee/Ion, June 30. 1648, 
 where his Bi other Samuel was Minitter: And there 
 he himfelf wa for a Titr.e forc'd to ingage in the 
 painful Employment of a Paedagogue in Order to his 
 Subfiftence. But at length he became an occafional 
 Preacher, and help'd ( ther Minifters as he had Invi- 
 tation and Opportunity. On May 24, 1654, (when 
 he was within a Year and fome Months of being 
 thirty Years of Ape) he rook a Journey to London, 
 tope:her with his Fellow-foldier in CHRIST Mr. 
 Jolly. His Intention in : his Journey, was to make 
 Application to the Triers, that he mighr be approv'd 
 of for the Service of the Gofpel, by tho'e that were 
 competent Judges of Mens Abilities. And befiiies a 
 Certificate he carried wi h him, he had drawn up 
 what he thought might be fufficient for their Satisfac- 
 tion. But when he came to appear before rhetn 
 Face to Face, he complains, tha: Utterance and Cou- 
 rage much fail'd him. They were however fo indul- 
 gent to him, as to appoint Mr. Tombes to confer 
 with him in private, and he gave him fuch Satisfac- 
 tion, that upon bis making a Report of what pafs'd, 
 to the reft, he had their common Approbation. Both 
 before and after this, he preach'd in divers Places, 
 and fojourn'd for fome time, in Wyrral in the Coun- 
 ty of Cbefter, at 'Black^ourn, Heafej, North Allertcn, 
 Thorntcn, Halifax, and Whaley, and every where 
 found that GOD profper'd his Labours, to the Con- 
 viction of fome, and the Conversion of others. He 
 was for Infant Baptifm, but was of narrow Princi- 
 ples in admitting to Baptifm and the LOH D'S Sup- 
 per, and blames O'.hers for their Latitude. He wenc 
 afterwards into Ireland, and was for fome time a 
 Preacher there, and then return'd back to England, 
 where he had not been long, before he had a fecond . 
 
 Invitation to Ireland, to a Place calPd Carloe. But ha- 
 ving another Invitation to J^endal, in the Year 1658, 
 he accepted that, and continu'd there about nine 
 Months, tho' not without fome Opposition. From 
 thence he took a Journey of two hundred Miles, to 
 VOL. II. A a y
 
 944 
 
 or 
 
 try for an Augmentation, and obtain'd an Allowance 
 of 60 / for the firft Year, as Lecturer : But was at 
 laft forc'd from this Place, where he met with a 
 great many Temptations, to an hundred Miles Di- 
 ftance, to the Town of Hull, where he and his Fa- 
 mily were planted in a Garrifon of Safety, an Har- 
 bour of Plenty, and amongft a Number of ferious 
 Chriftians, both in the Church and without, with 
 whom he was well accepted. After fifteen or fix- 
 teen Months Stay here, where he was Chaplain, he 
 was driven by the Violence of the Times (after fomc 
 perfonal Reftraints) to H/jgwff-Hall, with H. J. and 
 W y and Mr. M, and there had a good Help of the 
 Society of Chriftians : But there there arofe a Dif- 
 ference about the Oath of Allegiance, which bred 
 Lofs, Trouble, and Prejudice. Feb. 13, 1661, he 
 was committed to Tor^-Caftle, which GOD (he fays) 
 made become no Lofs to him, but Gain, each Way. 
 While at Hague, he had a Call to preach at Ardjley^ 
 for three Quarters of a Year or more till Bartholo- 
 mew Day 1661 ; and he repre Tents it as great Mer- 
 cy that GOD was pleas'd to put it into the Hearts 
 of any to be valiant for the Truth, in fuch a Day as 
 that. 
 
 And his whole Life afterwards, was a perfect Pe- 
 regrination. About 1674 or ^75, he mentions his 
 two and twentieth Remove, and cries out, " O my 
 " Soul, what a fojourning State hath thy Life been ? 
 " now here, then there ; and in no abiding Po- 
 " fture ! If ever Soul had 'any, thou haft Caufe to 
 *' feek and look after a better Inheritance, in the 
 " Manfions and City that hath Foundations of GOD'S 
 " laying ! " Afterwards, reckoning up the Mercies 
 of his Life, he mentions this as one, never to be 
 lilenc'd for CHRIS T, by a Man, or bare Law, till 
 perfonal actual Force did compel ; and till that per- 
 fonal Perfecution for Life calfd off, &c. He blefles 
 GOD, that tho' he was oft purfu'd and hunted for 
 from Place to Place, from the Year 1661 and 1663 
 to 1670, and his Purfuers fometimes came fo near 
 the Scent of him, as to the very next Village where 
 he was, they yet mifcarried. In his Flight out of 
 the Country, he was ftopp'd at Coventry by a Con- 
 
 ftablc,
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 945 
 
 ftable, and brought before the Mayor, who found 
 no Caufe of detaining either him or his. When he 
 came to London he met with Friends ; and a good 
 Widow, with whom he and his liv'd for fome time, 
 was very kind to him. Provision was made for him, 
 by Strangers, without his feeking for it ; and once 
 he had 5 / fent him from the Exchange, by an un- 
 known Friend. After fome time he went to Henley, 
 where for about a Year he preach'd in a Barn. 
 July 13. 1675, tho' he was only found reading the 
 Scriptures, he was taken up and fent Prifoner to Ox- 
 ford. He was invited to Briftol, there to fucceed 
 Mr. Hardcaftle. And at length, after many Re- 
 moves, and fourteen Years Continuauce in or near 
 London, he was caJFd to fucceed Mr. Alexander Car- 
 micbael in Lothbury ; and fornedmes he held his 
 Meeting at Founders- Hall, and after that, by Mr. 
 Lye's Permiflion at Dyers-Hall. In eighty-two he ap- 
 pears troubled to hear of the Reftraint of Mr. Lau- 
 rence Wife, Mr. Francis Bampfield, Mr. Griffith, and 
 other good Men in Newgate, but would not himfelf 
 defift from taking all Opportunities of Preaching that 
 ofFer'd, till at length he himfelf was feiz'd, and com- 
 mitred to the fame Prifon, from whence he and 
 Mr. Bampfield, were much about a Time, tranflated 
 into a better World, in the fifty- eighth, (not the fifty- 
 fifth) Year of his Age ; as appears, from his repre- 
 fenting himfelf in this Manufcript as being in his 
 twenty-eighth Year, An. ^654. This Mr. Jeremiah 
 Marfden out-liv'd his other three Brothers, as to whom 
 he fays in his Manufcripr, that they all obtain'd Mer- 
 cy to be faithful. 
 
 He was known in and about London by the Name 
 of Halphfon, and under that Name, was written a- 
 gainit by Mr Richard Baxter in 1684, on the Ac- 
 count of his rigorous feparating Principles, which 
 went fo far as to run down Parifh Worfhip as ido- 
 lolatrical. ^c 
 
 Pag. 798. Mr. JAMES SALES, or SALE. He 
 died April n. 1679. 
 
 Pag. 799. Mr, CHB.ISTOTHBR NESSE Add,M- A. 
 A a 1
 
 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, cYc. 
 
 Pag. 799, I'm. 6, after Cambridge, add, where he 
 continued feven Years. 
 
 Pag. 800. Becftcn : Mr. LEONARD SCURIU 
 Add, the Murthering of him, and his Mother and 
 Maid, was on Jan. 22. i64- But I am inform 'd, 
 that tho' this Mr. Scurr was a good Preacher, and 
 not to be perfuaded to conform, yet he was in other 
 Refpeds fo ill a Man, as to be a great Scandal to 
 his ProfeiTion. 
 
 ibid In the Margin, there is Mention made of 
 Mr. Cudworth. And I have had repeated Informa- 
 tions from feveral credible Perfons, that this Mr. 
 Cudworth was the Minifter of Bcefton, and ejected 
 from thence in 1662 : And they add, that he liv'd 
 to be near eighty Years of Age, and died much 
 about the Time when the Minifters were banifh'd 
 from all Corporations : And that he was fo intent 
 upon his Preaching, as often to forget himfelf, and 
 hold on fo long, as that they have been oblig'd to go 
 up and give him fome Item. 
 
 Pag. 801. Hunjlet: Mr. THOMAS HAWKS* 
 WORTH. Add, M. A, of Magdalen- College in 
 Cambridge. He was admitted Curate of Hunjlet, in 
 1636. 
 
 Pag. 803. The two laft Lines, where it is faid, 
 He was fo jealous againft Errors, that he wot a Witncfs 
 Againft Mrs. Hutchinfon, belong not to Mr. Wales, 
 but to Mr. Chrtftopher Marfhal of Woodlyrk., who is 
 mention'd juft before him ; tho' through the Miftake 
 of the 'Printer, they were mifplac'd. 
 
 Pag. 804. The four firft Lines, as well as the 
 two laft of the Pae.e foregoing, properly belong to 
 Mr. Mar/hall of iVoodkirk, and not to Mr. iVales of 
 Pud^ey, to whom they are here by Miftake applied. 
 But then what follows, He died at Mr. Hickfon'j at 
 Leeds, &c. belongs to Mr. Wales. 
 
 Ibid. tin. 6. near eighty, fhouid be, above eighty. 
 
 Ibid. At the End of the Account of Mr. E L- 
 KANAH WALES, add, He was the fecond 
 Perfon , that fubfcrib'd the Vindici* Veritatis , 
 
 that
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 947 
 
 that was publifh'd by the Minifters of this County in 
 164.8, as an unanimous Atteftation to GOD'S blefled 
 Truth reveal'd in his Word, togecher with a ferious 
 Proreftation againft Errors, Herefies and Blafphe- 
 mies. 
 
 Pag. 804. Idle : Mr. THOMAS SMALL- 
 WOOD. Add, He was educated at Oxon, and was 
 feme time Chaplain to the Lord Fairfax, and after- 
 wards to Lambert in the Army. He was aged lixty 
 when he died. 
 
 Ibid. Cdey : Mr. OLIVER HEYWOOD. At the 
 End of the Account of him, let it be added ; It ap- 
 pears from his Diary, that he in one Year preach'd 
 one hundred and five times, befides Lord's Days, 
 kept fifty Days of Fading and Prayer, and nine of 
 Thankfgiving ; and travelled one thouland four hun- 
 dred Miles in his Matter's Service. He left two 
 Sons in the Miniftry among the Nonconformifts : 
 Mr. Elea^er Hcywood is Paftor of a Congregation in 
 Derby/hire, and the other is dead. 
 
 Pag. 807. Bramofe : Mr. CROSSLEY. His 
 Name was ZECHARIAH. 
 
 Ibid. PontefraB : Mr. FERRET. It fliould be 
 Mr. JOSHUA FARRET. 
 
 Pag. 8 10. Chap f el le Brears, near Halifax : Mr.' 
 GAMALIEL MARSDEN. His Brother Jeremy 
 fays of him in his MS,which I have before referr'd to, 
 that when he died, he carried into Oblivion with him, 
 as much true found Learning, and Language (for the 
 Original?) as any he knew either in City or Coun- 
 try : And that he was over fedulous in his Studies. 
 
 P*g. 8 1 r. Bramham : Mr. THOMAS HARD- 
 CAST LE. At the End of the Account of him, lee 
 it be added ; I am inform'd he was a Man of Mo- 
 deration, and it is reckon'd an Evidence of it, that 
 when he vifited his own Country, upon a Relation's 
 advifing him whom to join with, he perfuaded him 
 A a 3 to
 
 948 The Ejeffed o;> Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 to hold Communion with Mr. Chriftofher Marjhal, 
 who is mentioned before, rather than join with the 
 Anabaptifts. 
 
 Pag. 8 1 1. Barley : Mr. PICKERING. His 
 Name was ROBERT. Add, M. A, of Sidney-Col- 
 lege in Cambridge. A modeft and humble, as well as 
 'pous Man : Witnefs that Expreflion upon his Grave- 
 ftone in JVfor/^-Chapel-yard, who accounted bimfelf the 
 meaneft Servant in theWork.of Jcfus Chrift. He died 
 Oftob. n, 1680. 
 
 Pag. 8 n, tin. n, from the Bottom, June 19, 
 fliould be 19. 
 
 Ibid. I'm. 8. from the Bottom ; after Difadvantages, 
 add, and was fucceeded by Mr. James Taylor, who en- 
 deavours to live him over again in Humility and "Thank: 
 fulnefs. 
 
 Pag. 813. Tong Chapel : Mr. RICHARD COORE.' 
 r Anno 1683, he printed a thick Octavo of eight hun- 
 dred Pages, cali'd, A PraRicnl Expofitor of tke Holy 
 Bible, with the Interpretation of the Dreams and Vifi- 
 ens in Daniel, together with the two myftical Booly of 
 the Canticles and Revelation ; much admir'd by the 
 Antimonians, to whom he preach'd at Tong. I have 
 not feen this Book, but am told that he writes him - 
 felf there D. D, and dedicates it to King Charles. 
 He died at Leeds, Dec. i o, 1687. aged 71. 
 
 Pag. 817. typ-pon : Dr. EDWARD RICHARD- 
 SON. Dr. Walker in his Aft. Part II, p. 91, feems 
 
 , to reprefent it as very ftrange, that the Doctor fliould 
 be reprefenred as ejected, when he but gave Way to 
 the right Owners': But (till what I had advanced was 
 
 ' true, which was only this, that he turnd out ufon the 
 Kings coming in : And fcon after came out the Aft 
 f "Uniformity, which left none of his Difpoluion, 
 any fan her Room in the Church. He retir'd into 
 Holland, where he became fo expert in the Lan- 
 guage of the Country, that he printed a Book that is 
 very ufeful for the Learners of Engli/h and Dutch, 
 which is eallM Anorlo-Be^ica ; or, 'The Englifli and 
 
 Dutch
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 949 
 
 Dutch Academy, printed at Amjle rdnm in 8t>0, 1677 ; 
 and there he died not long after. The Doctor adds, 
 that tho' he was appointed to preach in the Minfter, 
 here, by the Parliament, yet in all Probability he 
 never was in any Orders, Presbyterian, or Epifco- 
 pal. But upon that Suppofition, I can hardly think 
 he would have been admitted a nd own'd, Miniftec 
 of the Engltfh Church at Lcyden. 
 
 Pag. 817. Leighton in the Morning: Mr. Rn 
 CHARD WH IT E HURST. He died Sept. 4. 
 1697. 
 
 Ibid . Sherborn : Mr. THOMAS JOHNSON. Af- 
 ter his Ejectment he us'd to preach at Sandal. 
 
 Ibid. Honley ; it fhould be Henley : Mr. D u K Y ; 
 it fhould be Mr. DAVID DURY. After his being 
 filencM, he went into Scotlrrd, which was his native 
 Country. There he was eminent for his Piety, and 
 particularly for his Gift in Prayer. He fared bet- 
 ter there than many of his Brethren in the Reign of 
 King Charles II, tho' he was continually changing 
 his Place. He liv'd till after the Revolution, in 
 1688, and died in Edinburgh, about the Time of the 
 firft General Affembly there, in the Reign of King 
 William. 
 
 Pag. 8 1 8. Tlwrnton Chapel, in Bradford-Dale: 
 Mr. JOSEPH DAWSON. Add ; He was one of 
 a venerable AfpeiK A hard Student, unwearied in 
 Labours, and very fuccefsful in his Miniftry. Even 
 in his advanc'd Age, he travelPd to a considerable 
 Diftance, at all Seafons of the Year, to preach to a 
 poor People, from whom he received but a very 
 fmall Matter in Return. He was never known to 
 grudge or grumble, but was always thankful, and 
 took as much Care to ferve them, as if he was to 
 have had an 100 / per An, for his Pains. He was 
 fometimes pinch'd in outward Things having a nu- 
 merous Family j yet he never repented of his Non- 
 conformity, but was patient and fubmiifive, and 
 A a 4 eminent
 
 9 $ o The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 eminent for Fairh and Self-denial, and a living In- 
 ftance of real Holinefs for many Years. 
 
 Pag. 8 1 8. Nunmonckton : Mr. I z o T T. He was 
 an Ifraelite indeed, but very fparing of his Words. 
 One of a weak Confticution, but reckoned a great 
 Scholar and an excellent Preacher. He died about 
 his fifty-fecond Year, but was a perfect Stranger 
 upon Earth, all his Time, and liv'd always as if he 
 was in Heaven. 
 
 Ibid. Horsfertb : Mr. B u L K L E v. He is men-" 
 tioned as afterwards conforming, />. 837, and fhould 
 therefore be omitted here. 
 
 Ibid. "Bay don : Mr. MOOR. He alfo is mention- 
 ed as conforming afterwards, fag. 837, and there- 
 fore (hould here be blotted out. 
 
 Ibid. lin. 5, from the- Bottom- Mr.djhlcj. See 
 fag. 415. 
 
 Pag. 819, after lin. 24, and 15 ; add, 
 
 Bolton upon Dearn : Mr. NATHAN DENTON 
 whom I am chare 'd with wholly omitting. He was 
 born in Bradfield Parifh in 1634, and brought up in 
 Wosbrough Grammar School, and from thence went 
 to VnivtrJtty-Col\$gC InOxon, in 1651, and was put 
 Tinder the Tuition of Mr. Thomas Jones Fellow of that 
 College, where he continu'd till he became Gra- 
 duate. From thence he went to Cawthorne, where 
 he taught a Free School for forr.e time ; and preach- 
 ed for the Minifter of the Parifh once every Fort- 
 ning, and at High Holland once a Fortnight a!fo. He 
 was ordain'd when he was I e: ween four and five and 
 twenty Years of Age, at Himfwortb, in a full Aflem- 
 b'y, by the Presbytery of the Weft Riding of this 
 Counry, that he mi^ht be capable o<- fervinc the 
 Par'fh of High Hoy land. From thence he remov'd 
 to Darwent Charei ii> Derby/hire, where he was fer- 
 viceable in Preaching .he Gofpel. He remov'd from 
 thence to Bolton upon Dearn, about 1660, and was 
 ejected from thence in 1661. He preach'd for a 
 
 Year
 
 In the Bounty of Y O R K. 951 
 
 Year after, at the Parifli- Church of Hickleton, at the 
 Incourasement of the Lady Jackson, Sifter to Sir 
 George Booth, afterwards Lord Delamere. Since that 
 Time he has preach'd the Gofpel, in one Place and 
 in another, as Opportunity prefented, both in this 
 County and in Derbyshire t continuing to live at Bol- 
 ton ever fince, except for about two Years that the 
 Five Mile Aft remov'd him ; and for other two Years,' 
 upon a fecond Perfecution. He preach'd frequently 
 at Great Haughton, and ftill, (that is inAuguft 1713) 
 preaches there fometimes. He has been of an un- 
 blameable Life, and maintained his Integrity. He is 
 the Picture of an old Puritan. Thomas Vincent, Efq; 
 of Baronborougb Grange near Bolton offer'd him a 
 Living of an 100 / per An, and he has had fome 
 other good Offers of the fame Nature, but he could 
 not accept with Satisfaction to his Confcience,. and 
 declares he never yet repented his Nonconformity. 
 He has a Son a Diflenttng Minifter in this County. 
 
 Peg. 819. Mr. SMITH. It is fupposM, this may. 
 be Mr. Jrjhua Smith, that is mention'd before in 
 fag. 807. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. T R i e o T T. This perhaps may be the 
 fame Pcrfon rhat is mention'd before, fag. 448, and 
 call'd MarkJTrickftt. 
 
 In tie NORTH and E A s T-R i D i N G, 
 
 Pag. 820, lin. 8, from the Bottom ; inftead of, 
 whence he was ejcRcd, let it be, where he was a Preacher. 
 
 zi. Cbenyburton : Mr. THOMAS MICKLETH- 
 WAIT. Father to Sir John Mickjethwait the noted 
 Phyfician : And the Father was no els famous in the 
 Country, for his Piery, Gravity, Prucience and Learn- 
 ing, in his Profeflion of Divinity, than his Son was at 
 London fcr his Skill in the Art of Medicine. He is 
 mention'd again by Miftake, fag. 833.
 
 952 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters^ 8rc. 
 
 Pag. 821. 'Beverly : Mr. Wi L s o N! It fhould be 
 Mr. J o s E P H W i L s o N, for that was his Name, 
 by this good Token, that after his Eje&ment from, 
 St Marys in Beverly, he offer'd to preach there, and 
 the Door being lock'd againft him, a Friend of his 
 got open the Quire-Door, and the Pfalm was fet 
 In Compliance with his Name ; and thofe Words 
 were read Pfal. Ixxx. 80, Which leadeft Jofeph Ukf 
 A Sheep. He was a bold rouzing Preacher, and 
 .very zealous, (like him in Chejhire, mentioned, fag. 
 '117) againft Ceremonies. Once preaching upon 
 the Brazen Serpent's being beat to Powder, caft in- 
 to the River, and call'd Nebujhtan, he faid ; I durft 
 tell the froudeft Prelate of them all, tfyat If the? 
 kring any Thing into the IVorjhip of God, without 
 the Authority of his Word, for it, it is no better than 
 Nehufhtan ; a Piece of dead ^Brafs. This comes from 
 one that heard him fay it. 
 
 Ibid. Holden : Mr. A R L i s H, M. A. It fliould be 
 Mr. STEPHEN ARLUSH. 
 
 Pag. 831. Tanficld'- Mr. JOHN DARNTON. The 
 fame Perfon is mention'd before, fag. 510. 
 
 Ibid. Thrusl^ ; it fliould be Think. : Mr. M A T- 
 THEW HILL. 
 
 " 833. Hejfil: Mr. THOMAS MICKLETHWAIT." 
 The very fame Place is mention'd again, fag. 834, 
 and there Mr. Wilfan is faid to have been from 
 thence ejedled. I have had a warm anonymous 
 Letter, that came as far as from the City of Tork, t 
 the Writer of which from this and a few more 
 fuch like Paflages that he obferv'd, complains as 
 tragically, and makes as great an Outcry, as if 
 he really thought Hiftorical Verity was quite over- 
 look'd in my Account of thefe filenc'd Minifters, 
 He fays, that Hejfcl is but a fingle Parijh, and lit- 
 tle capable of two Miniflers. And yet Itill it is not 
 iir.poifible, but that there might be two there, the 
 ne of which might be Afliftan: to the other, who 
 
 through
 
 /'* the County of Y O R K. 953 
 
 ___ ___ ^ _ ^ _ 
 
 through Age or Infirmity might be difabled. And 
 this Lift of mine affords a Number cf Inftances of 
 this Kind, in fome fmall, as well as in other iarr.er 
 Parifhes. But fuppofing , that either here or in 
 other Places there fhould be Miftakes of luch a 
 Nature as that they were unavoidable, (for which 
 1 from the firft defir'd that a favourable Allowance 
 might be made) I cannot fee that Hiftorical Verity is 
 in any Danger. 
 
 - 833. Mr. RIDER. He is mention'd before* 
 fag. 448, at Bromby and Froddingham in Lincoln/hire. 
 I have had the following Account of him fent me, 
 which I think may be depended on. He was the Son 
 of a pretty noted Quaker in the City of Tork. ; and 
 of 5iWry-College in Cambridge. At the Time of his 
 Ejectment he liv'd at Brough, which is a noted Per* 
 ry in the London Road over the River Humber, 
 within two Miles and an Half of Feriby. In his 
 own Houie there, did he preach his Farewel Ser- 
 mon, from Pfal. cxxxvii, i. By the Havers of Ba- 
 bylon there we fate down : iVc weft when we -ttmem- 
 bred /(ton. His Difcourfe was very afte&ing both 
 ro himfelf and his Auditory. He continue here 
 fome Years ; and preach'd as often as the Times 
 would allow. He had a very particular "Way of 
 adapting his Difcourfcs to Seafons, and Circumftances 
 that had any Thing in them that was remarkable. Up- 
 on Orcalion of the Sicknefs in London in 1665, he 
 preach'd feveral Sermons from E^ek, ix. a, 3, 6. 
 They were very affe&ing ; and fiiew'd that he tru- 
 ly fympathiz'd with the Sufferers at that Diftance. 
 Upon Occafion of the Fire of London he preach'd 
 feveral Sermons upon Ifai. xlii, 15, &c. He was 
 for his Preaching, fix Months a Prifoner in York, Ca- 
 ftle : And venturing again upon the fame Crime, he 
 was again committed, and continu'd in the fame 
 Place fifteen Months more. Upon the taking Place 
 of the Five Mile A8, he was forc'd ro remove, 
 when his Wife was near her Time, and they were 
 in fuch Straits to pet a Midwife, that flic was 
 very near being ruin'd. About the Year 1669, noc 
 finding the Country like to grow more hofpitable, 
 
 'he
 
 954 The Ejeffed or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 he came to London for Shelter. And fome time af' 
 ter, he built a Meeting- houfe in Broadftreet in 
 Trapping, he himfelf by the Affiftance of Friends 
 getting an hundred Pounds towards the Building, 
 and there he continued preaching to the laft, as 
 he could be allow'd. I take that in, becaufe here 
 alfo he met with Trouble and Difturbance. War- 
 rants were often iflu'd out againft him, but he was 
 never apprehended, though the Officers and their 
 Attendants were many times vexatious to his Wife. 
 ; They came once and again to fearch for him even 
 at Midnight , and not finding him they rifled 
 his Study. One Time when he was preaching in 
 his Meeting, the Officers came to feize upon him : 
 But the Sailors (of whom he ufually had a good 
 Number in his Auditory) made a Lane for him, and 
 he pafs'd through it, and they could not get at him. 
 He died in June i68t, JEteit. 49. 
 
 He was one of ftrict Piety, and a very affectio- 
 nate Preacher, and GOD wonderfully profper'd him 
 in his Work. His Memory is~ fragrant to this Day, 
 both in the 'North, and in the Parts about Wap- 
 fing. The Seamen fo delighted to hear him, that 
 he us'd to' be call'd their Preacher. Captain (after- 
 wards Sir John) Gayer Governour of Bombay in 
 the Indies, among a great many other beneficent 
 Legacies, left an hundred Pounds apiece to his 
 Daughter's four Children. His Works are thefe. The 
 'Morning Seeder ; fhewing the Benefit of being good 
 betimes : In feveral Sermons, on Prov. viii. 17. Sw, 
 
 1673. A Funeral Sermon, occafion'd by the Death 
 of Mt. James Jane-may, from Phil. i. 23, 24. ^to, 
 
 1674. T/jff beft Friend Jl an ding at the Door'. Or 
 C H R i s T'S awakening Call both to Profeflbrs, and 
 fecure Sinners for Entrance, &c : Being fome Ser- 
 mons on I(ev. iii. 20. A Plat for Mariners ; or the 
 Seaman's Preacher in feveral Sermons upon Jonah's 
 Voyage, Jon. i. 5, 6, 7 : With the Day of GOD'S 
 Patience to Seamen improv'd, in fome Sermons on 
 Ecclef. viii. ir. 8w, 1675. <A Locking-Glafs for the 
 JVife and Fooli/h. A Difcourie of making a Mock.. *t 
 Sin: From Prov. xiv. 9, i2rno, 1677. TbfHueand 
 Cy of Conscience after jfecure Sinners j from Gen. xlii.
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 955 
 
 ^l, \irno, 1680. And a Sermon entituled, Sea Dan- 
 gers and Deliverances iwprovd ; from A&s xxvii.iS. 
 This is at the End of Mr. James Janeways Legacy 
 to his Friends, being an Account of twenty-feven 
 Sea Deliverances. There was alfo a Pofthumous 
 Piece of Mr. Janewajs publifh'd, and prefac'd by 
 Mr. fyther, with his faid Sermon at the End. 
 
 Pag. 834. WctwAng : Mr. WAIT. He was dili- 
 gent in his Work, though he did not appear to have 
 any preat Succefs. He continued in the Place af- 
 ter his Ejectment, and his Wife taught Scholars^ 
 and he aififted her, and commonly heard them two 
 Leffons a Day. He kept three or four Cows, and 
 look'd after them himfelf in the Winter Seafon. He 
 alfo hir'd the tilling of an Oxgang of Land which 
 he had purchas'd, the Crop of which he us'd him- 
 felf to thrafh out in Winter, in order to the fup- 
 port of himfelf and his Wife and Son and two 
 Daughters. He kept alfo about forty or fifty Sheep, 
 which he look'd after in Winter, and fodder'd Even- 
 ing and Morning, commonly in his own Yard : 
 And when Lady Day came he rurn'd them before the 
 Shepherd. After he was ejected, he continued 
 preaching in his own Houfe, and would have all his 
 Scholars refort thither twice every Lord's Day, and 
 open'd his Doors, and preach'd without Fear, tho* 
 he was fometimes difturb'd by the Conftable of the 
 Town. He was well efteem'd of the Lady Norcliffe 
 of Langton, who allowed him 5 / a Year, towards 
 his Support. Whilft he was in his Vicaridge 
 he went by the Name of a Burn Hoaft , a- 
 mong his Parifhioners, becaufe he commonly held 
 them fo long in his Preaching. He was one of fin- 
 gular Piety : And his Way of living was fo diffe- 
 rent from that of his bruitifli Neighbours, and fo 
 contrary to it, that he look'd like a Man of another 
 Country. 
 
 Ibid. Hilfton: Mr. BLUNT. The Name of 
 the Place I am inform'd is Hollam, and his other 
 Name JOHN. He was young when ejected, but 
 c>ne of an holy Converfacion and a good Preacher. 
 
 Pag.
 
 9 $ 6 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters> & c. 
 
 P. 834. Rofs : Mr. STEVENSON. His other Name 
 was ANTHONY. This Parfonage is worth 150 / per 
 An, and in the Gift of the Countefs of Exeter. 
 He had good minifterial Furniture, and was al- 
 fo well skill'd in Phyfick, which he adminifter'd to 
 the Poor Gratis. He was ancient when he was ejec- 
 ted, in good worldly Circumftances, and liv'd at 
 to his Dying-day. 
 
 Ibid. Burftvpic^: Mr. HILL. He was a very laborious 
 Minifter and ufeful Preacher. He often preach'dat 
 Outthorn fix Miles from Burftwtcl^, for Mr. Samuel 
 ficard who was Minifter there, who died in 1659, 
 and was by Mr. Nejfc call'd a Lump of Honefty. 
 
 Ibid. Ellinton: Mr. Fox, or FOR. The Place 
 I am inform'd fhould be Ejfington ; and the Perfons 
 Name was Fox. He was one of a holy Life, and 
 a good Preacher. 
 
 Ibid. Bransby: Mr. POMROT. He was about fe- 
 venty at the Reftoration, and died at Beverly, not 
 long after his Eje&menr. Some fay he preach'd 
 at the Minfter in Beverly, every Lord's Day in the 
 Forenoon. 
 
 Ibid. Hcmmingburgh : Mr. FIDO. It fhould be 
 Mr. ANTHONY FIDO, younger Brother of Mr. John 
 Fido, mention'd before as caft out of his Fellowfhip in 
 Tr/wzVy-College, and now taken Notice of in Nor- 
 thamptonjhire. He was born Auguft 10, 1640, and 
 educated at TmwVy-College. At his firft Admiffion 
 he was examin'd by Mr. fyy, then Steward of the 
 College. Mr. Valentine was his Tutor. When he 
 was thrown out at the Reftoration, he was Under- 
 graduate, but ready to take his Degrees. Above 
 thirty Names were at that Time cut out of the 
 Buttery-books of that College at once, He after- 
 wards had the' Living ot Hcmmmgbtfrgb, and was 
 ejected there in 1661. He alien became Chaplain 
 aa-d Steward in a Gentleman's Family, and after- 
 wards carae to London, where he had a fmall Con- 
 
 gregation.
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 957 
 
 gregation. Having been fome time difabled by 
 Weaknefs, he died in January 171*; &tat. 7^. 
 He lies buried in the New Ground near Bunbiil 
 fields, where there is this Infcription upon his 
 .Tomb-ftone. 
 
 Here lletb interred the Body of the 
 Reverend and Learned Divine Mr. 
 ANTHONY FIDOE, -who till the Tear 
 1660, was a Fellow of Trinity-College, 
 in Cambridge,- but foon after (his 
 Conscience not permitting him to comply 
 with the Aft commonly known by the 
 Nanv of the Bartholomew A&) he 
 refignd not only his Fellowship, but a, 
 Confederate Living he was then in 
 Tojjejfion of In the County of Cambridge J 
 and Jince that Time he has continued 
 a Minlfter of the Gofpel in federal 
 Parts of England j but the laft 
 Thirty Tears of bis Life 3 in the City 
 ef London. He died a Batchelor 
 on the ijth day of January 
 4ged jf Tears. 
 
 Pag. 834. Sculccts or Oufcvood: Mr. LUDDING- 
 T o N. It fhould be Covefcots, which is near Hull, 
 where Mr. L. preach'd for fome time : Bur be- 
 ing much afflicted with the Srone, and fo unable to 
 go thither, he preach'd at his own Houfe at Hull 
 He was about feventy Years of Age at the Reftorati- 
 on, and died in Hull in 1667, and Mr. Afhley after- 
 wards fucceeded as Paftor to his Flock. 
 
 Ibid. Serraby : Mr. St H i L L. I am informM ther 
 is no fuch Place as Serraby: but that at Beverly 
 there was one Hill, of confiderable Pars, and an 
 exemvlarv Converlation, who preach'd there in the 
 Afternoons at the Miniter, as Mr. Pomroy did in the 
 
 Forenoons :
 
 9 5 8 The Ejeffed or Sikw?d Mhtifters, &c. 
 
 Forenoons: And that he afterwards remov'd to Sir 
 William Strickland's, in whole Family he officiated 
 as Chaplain. 
 
 Pag. 834. Slingsby: Mr. SINGLE RE. He had the 
 Report of a godly Man, and a good Preacher. 
 
 Ibid. He/el: Mr. WILSON. One of an holy 
 Converfation, and very laborious in the Miniftry. 
 
 ibtd.. Stirington, or rather Settrington : Mr. M E- 
 XA L. Dr. Walker, (who gives it the latter Name,) 
 owns that this Mr. Mekal, who he fays was a Kinf- 
 inan of the Prefident Brad/have, paid his Prede- 
 ceifor Dr. Thomas Carter, Fifths; or allow'd him 30 / 
 fer An. Att. Part II, p. 227. 
 
 - 8 35- Ofg ar h ; Mr. BAYCOCK. It fhould 
 be Mr. JAMES BAYO c K. He had an Univerfi- 
 ty Education, but was only an Occafional Preach- 
 er, when the Aft for "Uniformity took Place, and 
 not fix'd in any Living, but join'd in with the 
 Nonconformifts, and was for many Years a Preach- 
 er at South Cave, nine Miles Weft of Hull, and train'd 
 up feveral for the Miniftry. 
 
 Ibid. lin. 9, from the Bottom : Inftead of in the 
 great Church at Derby, let it be of St Werburgh*s. 
 
 Ibid. Ojgarby : Mr. NOAH WARD, At the End 
 of the Account of him, let it be added ; A Perfon 
 of confiderable Note for Wealth, and that had a 
 Place in the Bifliop's Court, and was much pre- 
 judic'd againft the DiflTenters, had procured a Writ, 
 de Excommunicato capiendo, againft Mr. Ward. When 
 he was in this Refpeft in no fmall Danger, fome 
 private Chriftians met on the Friday at his Houfe, 
 on purpofe to pray with him, and to beg of GOD 
 that he would deliver their Minifter. They had 
 not the leaft Expectation or Defire, of a Delive- 
 rance fo coftly to the OpprefTor, as that which was 
 afforded : But it fo fell out, (which they could not 
 but take particular Notice of) that the the very 
 next Lord's Day in the Afternoon, this angry Gen- 
 
 tleman
 
 in the County 0/YORK. 959 
 
 rletnan was kill'd in a Duel, by an intimate Friend 
 of his whom he had challenged, who was very un- 
 willing to accept the Challenge : And by this means 
 Mr. Weird was freed from Difturbance by this Writ, 
 or indeed by any other, for a good while after. 
 
 ;- 
 
 Pag. 837. I'm. 7. from the Bottom ; Mr. BOVIL 
 of. Bramley is reprefented as conforming after Bar- 
 tholomew Day : But I have been fince inform'd, that 
 he never conform'd. And this Circumftance is add- 
 ed ; that Mr. Etherington of Morley, (who is the 
 very Perfon next memion'd) ftanding out a little 
 while, and then conforming, was the Man that fuc- 
 ceeded Mr. Bovil at Bramley. t 
 
 Ibid. Hn. 14, from the Bottom ; Mr. T i M o^ 
 THY ROOT of Sowly-bridge. I have been in? 
 form'd that this Mr. Root had a great Reputation for 
 Piety, and had been a great Sufferer for his Noncon- 
 formity, and he accordingly is reprefented as fuch in 
 the Year 1683, in the Conformists fourth Plea for thf 
 Nonconformifts, p. 51, 51. He continu'd a Ncncon- 
 formift till then, and fome time longer. But juft at 
 that Time when King James granted Liberty of Con- 
 fcience, he conform'd, but had little Satisfaction af- 
 terwards, in fo doing. Mr. Tricket, Mr. Heywood, 
 Mr. Nailour and others thought his complying after 
 fuch Sufferings fp extraordinary, that they wanted to 
 know whether he faw with clearerEyes than they,and 
 defired he would give them an Account of theReafons 
 of his Proceeding : But he declin'd giving them any 
 Satisfaction. He brought up his Son in order to the 
 fitting him for the Miniftry, and he was about nine- 
 teen when his Father conform'd. He went along 
 with him to his Parfonage at Holden in this County, 
 and heard him read the Common Prayer with his 
 Surplice on, and came home and told his Mother 
 of it. Both Mother and Son were fo troubled at it, 
 that both of them died fhorrly after, within a little 
 Time one of another. He loft with his Son 14 /. 
 fer An, which was fettled upon him by a Relation, 
 for his Life, upon the Account of his being defign'd 
 
 VOL. IL Bb for
 
 960 The Ejected or Silenced Minifters, &c. 
 
 for the Miniftry. And Mr. Root himfelf enjoy'd his 
 Living but a very little while, and died foon 
 after. 
 
 Pag. 837. At the End of the Account of the Toi\- 
 /hire Minifters, let it be added thus : 
 
 I find among the Farewel Sermons of the London 
 Minifters in \to. 1663, a Farewel Sermon preach'd 
 at Great Ay ton in the County of Torl^ by G E o a G B 
 E v A N K E, Chaplain to the Right Worfhipful Sir 
 George Narvoood, Bart, at Clea-veland in Yorkshire. 
 Him I think it proper to bring in here, that he may 
 not be wholly overlook'd. 
 
 I am alfo credibly inform'd that one Mr. L L& y D^ 
 who is no where here taken Notice of, was ejected 
 in this County, from a Place call'd Farnley, within 
 two or three Miles of Leeds ; and that he had a 
 {mall Eftate which he liv'd on afterwards. 
 
 Mr. JOSIAH MARSDEN, is fome how or other 
 loft out of this Lift, but fhould (I verily think) be 
 (bmewhere inferred. He was the youngeft Son of 
 Mr. tylph Marfden, who died Minifter of Great 
 Neefton in Chejhire, Jan. 30. 1648. This Mr. fylph 
 Marfden -had four Sons, who were all of them Mi- 
 nifters ; whofe Names were, Samuel, Jeremy, Ga- 
 maliel, and Jofiah. Samuel the eldeft was in his 
 Father's Living, into which he came, in the Room 
 of a malignant Incumbent ; and is mentioned in my 
 Second Edition, fag. 130. He after his being filen- 
 ced, went into Ireland, and died there, in 1677. 
 Jeremy the fecond Son, mention'd fag. . 796, was 
 filenc'd at Ardjley Chapel, near Wakffield, in this 
 County ; and fome time after came up to London, 
 . went by the Name of tytlpbfon, and died in New- 
 gate, in 1684. He in a Manufcript he left behind 
 him, fays of his three Brethren, that they all ob* 
 tamed Mercy to be faithful, which Expreflion feems 
 to intimate that they ail fuffer'd for the fame Caufe j 
 and that the reft were dead before him. Gamaliel 
 
 the
 
 in the County of Y O R K. 
 
 961 
 
 the third Son, mentioned fag. 810, was firft nirn'd 
 out of his Feliowfhip in Trinity-College, near Dub- 
 lin in Ireland, at the fame time with Dr. Winter, 
 upon the Reftoration : And was afterwards filenc'd 
 in 1661, at Chapel le Brears near Halifax in this 
 County ; and died in 1681. But as for the fourth 
 and laft Son Jofjah Marfden, I have in this Volume 
 brought him as figning the Teftimony of Mr. Ed- 
 ward Veal, in the Capacity of Fellow of Trinity- 
 College near Dublin in Ireland : But tho' it is pro- 
 bable he afterwards came from thence into England, 
 and took his Lot with the fuffering Nonconformifts 
 here, a* did his Brother Gamaliel j yet where he 
 exercised his Miniftry afterwards, and when and 
 where he died , I have not been able to difco- 
 ver. 
 
 B'b 2 
 
 Some
 
 962 Sik%i?d Minifters omitted 
 
 SOME 
 
 Nonconformift Minifters 
 
 Omitted in the 
 
 Foregoing LISTS. 
 
 Tag. 838. "\/l R- JOHN COLLINS.' At the 
 jLVJL End of the Account of him, add; 
 He had a Son that was educated for the Miniftry 
 at Vtrecht, and was Fellow-labourer with Mr. Bragg 
 in this City, and one of the Lecturers at Pinners- 
 Hall, who died a few Years fince. 
 
 And to Mr. Collins'* Works may be added, a Ser- 
 mon of his on Jude, ver. 3, in the fecond Volume 
 of Farewel Sermons in %vo. He alfb, together wirh 
 Mr. Baron wrote a Prefatory Epiftle before Mr. Ven- 
 ning's Remains. And he alfo" wrote another Epiftle, 
 before Mr. Mitchel of New England's Treatife of 
 Eternal Glory. 
 
 Pag. 838. Mr. JAMES JANEWAY^ Add,' 
 M. A. And in the Account of him, after thefe 
 Words, where he had a numerous Auditory, let this 
 be added : And a great Reformation was wrought 
 amongft many of them. But this fo enrag'd the 
 High Party, that feveral of .them threatened to fhoot 
 Mr. Janeveay , and it was attempted according- 
 ly. For as he was walking once upon Redrijf 'Wall, 
 
 a
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 965 
 
 a Fellow (hot at him, and the Bullet went through 
 his Hat ; but as Providence order'd it, it did him 
 no farther Hurt. The Soldiers pull'd down the Place 
 in which he preach'd, which oblig'd his People to 
 build a larger to receive the Hearers. Soon after 
 this hew Place was built, there came a Num- 
 ber of Troopers to it, when Mr. Jancveay was 
 preaching there, and Mr. Ksntijh fat behind him 
 in the Pulpit. The Troopers alighting from their 
 Horfes, came into the Meeung-houfe, and crouding 
 into the midft of the Congregation, got upon a 
 Bench or Form, and cried out aloud, Down with 
 him, down with him : And at that very Inftant, the 
 Bench they ftood on broke, and all of them fell 
 down at once. While this occafion'd fome Confu- 
 fion, Mr. Janeway came ont of the Pulpit, and fome 
 of the People having thrown a colour'd Coat over 
 him, and put a white Hat on his Head, he pafs'd 
 through them unobferv'd. But they feiz'd on Mr. 
 Kenti/h, and carried him to the Mar/balfea, where 
 he was kept Prifoner for fome time. At another 
 time Mr. Janeway preaching at a Gardiner's Houfe, 
 feveral Troopers came to feize him there. They 
 were diligent in fearching for him : But he lying 
 down on the Ground, his Friends cover'd him with 
 Cabbidge-leaves, and fo he efcap'd them. 
 
 He was a Man of eminent Piety ; an affectionate 
 Preacher, and very ufeful in his Station. And 
 whereas I had before intimated that in his laft Sick- 
 nefs, his Spirit was under a Sort of a Cloud, I think 
 it not ami(s now to add, that Mr. Vincent in his Fu- 
 neral Sermon fays, that it pleas'd God to dijjipate the 
 Cloud, and help him to difccrn and look. tac upon the 
 Uprightnefs of his Heart with Satisfaction. And that 
 not long before he died, he faid, He could now as 
 eafily die at jhut his Eyes : Adding thefe remarkable 
 Words ; Here am I, longing to lefilent in the Duft, 
 and enjoy Chrift in Glory. 
 
 To his Works maybe added, The Murtherer pu- 
 ni/hed, and pardon d ; with the Life and Death of 
 Thomai Savage ; and a Sermon upon his Occafion. 
 A Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. Thom,ti Moujlcy wish 
 ft Narrative of his Life and Death, &c. 
 
 B b 3 And
 
 964 Silenced ititmfters omitted 
 
 And to this Mr. James Janeway, I may alfo add 
 another younger Brother of his, vi%. 
 
 Mr. ABRAHAM JANE WAY, who was altoge- 
 ther omitted before. He was a Preacher in London 
 before the Sicknefs, but being confumptive, retir'd 
 with his Wife, to his Mother at Euntlngford in Hert- 
 ford/hire, where he was feiz'd by Juftice Crouch, un- 
 der a Pretence of great Friendfhip. But he made 
 his Efcape to London, and died there of a Con- 
 fumption. His Funeral Sermon was preach'd by 
 Mr. Thomas Vincent, Sept. 18. 1665 : And it is pub- 
 Jiflied at the End of his Trad intit. God's Terrible 
 Voice in the City, 8vo. Tho' he died that very Week 
 in which the PJague was at the higheft, (there being 
 no fewer than 7165 Perfons who died of the Sicknefs 
 in that one Week) yet he did not die of that Di- 
 ftemper, for which his Brother James -and other Re- 
 lations were very thankful. Mr. Vincent fays of him 
 that he was a righteous Perfon, a. righteous Minifler, a. 
 dear Brother, taken away in the Flower of his Tears. 
 He wot a merciful "Man, andjhevid great Pity and 
 Companion to Souls : was earnefl with them to leave 
 their Sins ; and clofe with Chrifl. He /pent himfelf 
 and haftend his own Death, to keep others from pe- 
 rt/king everlaftingly. He wo* an upright Man, a. 
 true hearted Nathanael ; and one of very promijlng 
 Hopes for very confiderable Vfefulnefs. 
 
 There were five Brothers of thefe Janeways, vi%. 
 William of whom I have here given feme Account, 
 in my laft Article of the County of Hertford : John, 
 who died in 1657, before the Reftoration; and 
 therefore could not be ejected or filenc'd after it : 
 . James and Abraham, of whom I have here been juft 
 giving fome Account : And Jofeph the youngeft, was 
 bred to the Miniftry as well as his four Brethren ; 
 but he was a Conformift. All thefe five Brethren, 
 Sons of Mr. William Janeway of Kjljhul in Hertford- 
 /hire, who died before the Reftoration, were good 
 and pious Men. All of them were inclin'd to be 
 confumptive, and none of them liv'd to forty Years 
 of Age. 
 
 Pag.
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 965 
 
 Pag. 839. Mr. JOHN FALDO. At the End of 
 the Account of him, add, h'i$ Gofpel of Peace, 8vp.. 
 1687. And it may alfo be added, that he is inter- 
 red in the New Burying-Ground, near Bunbil Fields, 
 where he has this Infcription upon his Tomb. 
 
 Mortah quod babuit, hie depofuh 
 
 JOANNES FALDO, 
 
 Vlr ille Dei qui E'vangelium Chrifti Voce^ fcriptts, 
 Vita exornavit , vixeritne fanflius an concionatus Jit 
 Incertum eft ' y Paterna Chriftl Gregem cur a pa'vit $ 
 Concordlam Fratrum^ propagationem Evangelii 
 Ajfidua labor e feliclter procura'vit : ^ui z,elo in 
 Terr is arfit y Seraphic o refulget nunc adfcriptuf wf 
 Cboro Anrelorum. Obilt vii Jdus Februar, 
 Anno Salutis MDCXC. estatis Cu<e Lvil. '>ox 
 
 Pag. 840. Mr. THOMAS BRAND. At the End 
 f the Account of him, let it be added ; He lies in- 
 terred in the New Burying-Ground near Bunhil 
 fields. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. WILLIAM LORIMER^ Add, M. A. 
 Born at Aberdeen in North Britain, in January 164^, 
 and bred in M/ir(/c/^/-College of that Univerfity, 
 where he became a Graduate, and applied to the 
 Study of Theology. Some time after the Reftora- 
 tion, An. 1664 he came to London. He liv'd here 
 with his Uncle, a confiderable Merchant, in the 
 Time of the Plague in 1665, and . daily frequented 
 the Library of S/ow-College, and attended the Week- 
 ly Lecture of Dr. Anthony fValker of Aldermanlury, 
 which he often would fpeak of afterwards with Plea- 
 furc. He was epifcopally ordain'd, conform'd to the 
 Eftabliflied Church, and became Curate to the In- 
 cimbent at the Charter- houfe, and was afterwards in 
 Polfeflfion of a Vicaridge in Suffex. But upon ftridk 
 and clofe Thoughts afrerwards, of the Oath of Ca- 
 nonical Obedience, which he had taken to the Bifhop, 
 he concciv'd himfelf not only thereby oblig'd to pive 
 B b 4 hint
 
 966 Silenced Minifiers omitted. 
 
 him Obedience in all Things lawful and honeft, bi t 
 thought he had thereby declar'd his Approbation of the 
 fettled Canons of the Church, as really lawful and ho- 
 neft ; and by Confequence a fit and proper Rule for 
 alttthat were under the Eftablifhment to follow. Tho* 
 he confulted about this Difficulty, yet he could ne- 
 ver get over it: And the more particularly he re- 
 view'd the Canons, the more diflatisfied he was with 
 many of them. So far was he from being able to 
 fay, that they were all of them lawful and good, that 
 he was fo much diflatisfied with feveral of ihem, that 
 he thought himfelf oblig'd upon their Account, to 
 renounce his Conformity, and quit his Living. This 
 he at length did, and join'd himfelf to the Noncon- 
 formifts, and that at fuch a Seafon, as that there 
 was not the leaft Room left for Sufpicion that he 
 had any fecular Intereft to ferve this Way. When he 
 mention'd this Difficulty of his to Mr. Baxter, he 
 was at the firft furpriz'd at it, as a Thought that 
 was wholly new, and feem'd to queftion, (as Mr. 
 Olyffe and fome others have fince done) whether it 
 would juftify his Nonconformity : But when he had 
 maturely weigh'd it, he was convinc'd it had a 
 great deal in it, and thereupon he infifts very large- 
 ly upon it, in his Engllfh Nonconformity ftated and ar- 
 gued, which he printed, An. 1689. 
 
 He travell'd afterwards into France, and had a 
 great deal of free Converfation with the learned 
 Men among the Proteftants there, before the Heat 
 "of their Perfecution in that Kingdom came on. 
 While he continu'd at Paris, he was fo courageous, 
 as to hold a Difpme with fome of the Clergy of the 
 Church of Rome, in which he afferted that that 
 Church was guilty of Idolatry, which was what his 
 Antagonifts dar'd him to give under his Hand. His 
 Conscience would not allow him to baulk bearing 
 Witnefs to that which he was convinc'd was Truth, 
 in the Way that was requir'd, and therefore commit- 
 ting his Propofition, together with his Arguments 
 and Proofs to writing, he fign'd and deliver'd it to 
 them, and afterward (upon the Advice of Friends,) 
 rerir'd and withdrew, that he might not be exposed 
 ie Malice of his Opponents. 
 
 Returning
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 967 
 
 Returning to England, he continu'd to adhere to 
 the Nonconformifts, even when the fevere Laws a- 
 gainft them were moft rigoroufly put in Execution : 
 And the greateft Preferment he got amongft them, 
 was to be Chaplain to Efq; Hall at Harding near 
 Henley upon Thames. After the Devolution in 1 688, 
 he for a few Years preach'd to a fmall Congregation 
 of Diflenters, at Lee near Eltham in J^ent. And in 
 1695, he was invited to be a Profeflbr of Theology, 
 in the Univerfity of St Andrews in North Britain. He 
 went down to Edinburgh in order to the accepting 
 that Invitation ; but there heard that St Andrews was . 
 over-run with a contagious Diftemper ; and being 
 indifpos'd himfelf, he return'd to England, after that 
 he in Conjunction with other Divines, had dealc 
 freely with the unhappy Mr. Aikenhead, who was . 
 condemn'd for blafphemous Atheifm, but became a 
 great Penitent at his Execution. 
 
 After his Return to England f he was concerned 
 with others, in a private Academy near London, in 
 which many Perfons had their Education, who are 
 now of confiderable Ufe in the World, in different 
 Stations. He had no Paftoral Charge, but aflifted 
 his Brethren, occafionally, both in preaching and ad- 
 miniftring the Sacraments. He was much valu'd for 
 his Integrity, and great Learning, and was very ufe- 
 ful in presiding in the Trials of Candidates for the 
 Miniftry. He died O8ob. ^J t 1711 ; and had a 
 great Character, for his Piety, Modefty, and Self- 
 denial, as well as his Learning. He told one with 
 whom he was free and familiar in his laft Sicknefs, 
 that he knew not the Time when he began to be re- 
 ligious, having been pioufly difpos'd from his Child- 
 hood : And that for many Years paft he had had an 
 undoubied Perfuafion of his own Sincerity, and of his 
 Title to a future Happinefs. He was buried in the 
 Parifh-Church of St Margaret Pattins, in fyod Lane, 
 near his Uncle foremention'd. 
 
 His Funeral Sermon was rreach'd, a Year after his 
 Death, by Mr. James Anderfon. 
 
 His Works are thefe. Difcourfes on the five Books 
 of Mofes, 8vo. An Apology for the Minifters who 
 fubfcrib'd unto the dating of the Truths and Errors 
 
 of
 
 968 Silenced Mtniflers omitted 
 
 of Mr. Daniel Williams?, Book, (call'd Gofpel Truth 
 Jtated] from the Exceptions made againft them by 
 Mr. Robert Trail, 410. 1695. Remarks on Mr. Good- 
 wins Difcourfe of the Gofpel ; proving that the Go- 
 fpel Covenant is a Law of Grace ; anfwering his 
 Objections to the contrary ; and refcuing the Texts 
 of Holy Scripture, and many Paflages of Ecclefiafti- 
 ical Writers, both ancient and modern, from the 
 falfe GldfTes which he forces upon them, 4*0. 1696. 
 TWO Difcourfes againft Deifm, and fome other dan- 
 gerous Errors : The one fetting forth the true and 
 only Way of obtaining Salvation j the other fhewing 
 when and how all ought to reverence JESUS 
 CHRIST the Son of GOD, and Saviour of Men, 
 8t>0. 1713: Which was reprinted in 1711, with a 
 fhort Poftfcript relating to Dr. Whitby. A Difcourfe 
 on the Death and Hefurreftion of C H R i s x, as they 
 are to be affectionately remember'd and confider'd 
 in their natural Refpecl: to one another, and practi- 
 cally improv'd to G o D'S Glory, and Peoples Edifi- 
 cation in Faith, Holinefs and Comfort, %vo. 1718. 
 A plain Explanation of the firft eighteen Verfes of the 
 firft Chapter of St. Johns Gofpel, with fhort Notes 
 and Observations. To which is annex'd a fcriptu- 
 ral Demonftradon of the true Deity of the Eternal 
 Word, our moft Blefled Lord J E s u s, 1719. A 
 Farewel Sermon to the Church and the World, 
 1711. 
 
 He hath alfo left behind him feveral Latin DifTer- 
 tations in MS, fome of which are philofophical and 
 others Theological. 
 
 Fag. 840. DANIEL WILLIAMS, D. D. Born 
 
 at Wrexham in the County of Denbigh in Wales, 
 about the Year 1643, or 1644. As well as I knew 
 him, I can yet fay nothing of his Parentage and Ex- 
 tracTion, or even his Education with regard to Learn- 
 ing. His breaking through Difadvantages in this Re- 
 fpedr,, into that Capacity of great Ufefulnefs which 
 he at length arriv'd at, muft by all that confider it 
 be own'd remarkable ; and may well be allow'd 
 inftead of at all detracting from him, to add Luftre 
 to his Worth. He had a great natural Vigor and 
 
 Strength
 
 in ibe foregoing Lifts. 969 
 
 Strength of Mind, which bc ; ng improved by an un- 
 common Application, made a Compenfation for his 
 Want of fuch Helps as many others have had in, 
 thieir early Years ; the being deftitute'of which, would 
 have miferably cramp'd a common Genius, and hin- 
 dcr'd it from ever rifing beyond a Vulgar pitch. 
 
 He was a Lover of ferious Religion from his 
 Youth, and enter'd upon the Miniftry, about the ve- 
 ry Time of the difcouraging Ejedhnent of fuch a 
 Number of worthy Perfons, as were caft out of the 
 publick Churches with Contempt in \66i. He de- 
 clares in his Preface to the Reader, before his De- 
 fence' of Gofpel Truth, that/Vcm five Tears old, be had 
 no Employment befides his Studies : And adds, that 
 before nineteen, he was regularly admitted a Preach- 
 er. So that he freely own'd himfelf a Nonconfor- . 
 mift, at a Time when that Acknowledgment evident- 
 ly exposed him to great Straits and Hardships. Where- 
 as if he could have been fatisfied to have fallen in, 
 with the National Eftablilhment, his Intellectual Fur- 
 niture, join'd with his uncommon Sagacity and 
 Dexterity, and unwearied Diligence, would have gi- 
 ven him as fair a Profpeft of Preferment, as any 
 almoft of his Cotemporaries could pretend to. 
 
 When he had fpent a few Years inr preaching oc- 
 cafionally in feveral Parts of England, and found the 
 Diflenters fo difcourag'd and frown'd upon, that he 
 could have no Profped: of being able to purfue his 
 Miniftry here, without great Hazard, the Providence 
 of GOD very feafonably open'd him a Way for 
 Service in Ireland, where even in thofe Times, the 
 Government treated Men of his Principles, (amidft 
 a Swarm of bigottcd Papifts) in a very different 
 Manner from the Ufago their Brethren met with 
 here in England. Making an occafional Vific to 
 the Pious Lady lVtf.br ah am of Wefton in Salop, he 
 receiv'd an unexpe<5ted Invitation to be Chaplain to 
 the Countefs of Meath, on the other (ide the Wa- 
 ter, and readily accepted it. There he found a Re- 
 fuge from the Storm, and was in no inconlidera- 
 ble Capacity of Service. 
 
 After fome time, he was cafl'd to the Paftoral Of- 
 fice in the City of Dublin, by a Congregation of Prin- 
 cipal
 
 970 Silenced Minifttrs ommitted 
 
 cipal Figure there, that us'd to worfliip GOD in 
 IVoodftreet. Accepting of it, he had for near twen- 
 ty Years an advantageous Opportunity of being pub- 
 lickly ufeful, by his Labours in the Pulpit, his pru- 
 dent Advice upon Occafions that ofFer'd, his im- 
 proving the Intereft he obtained in Perfons of Rank 
 and Figure, and other prudential Methods he pur- 
 (u'd, in which GOD was pleas'd to make him a 
 General Blefling. He there alfo married a Wife, 
 who was not only a Lady of diftinguifli'd Piety, 
 but of an honourable Family, and confiderably weal- 
 thy ; and fo through the Bounty of Divine Provi- 
 dence, he came to be in more plentiful Circumftan- 
 ces than moft of his Brethren. And as for the E- 
 ftate with which God blejjed him, he declares in his 
 Laft Will, that he us'd it with Moderation, at to him- 
 felf, that he might be the more ufeful to others, bcth 
 in his Life and after his Death. 
 
 He fill'd his Station at Dublin- with unufual Ac- 
 ceptance and Succefs, in great Harmony with his 
 Brethren in the Miniftry ; and was refpedted by 
 moft that were hearty Proteftants in that Ifland , till 
 he (with many others,) was after fome threatning 
 Dangers efcap'd, driven from thence by the tyran- 
 nical and violent Proceedings of a Popifli Admi- 
 miftration, in the Reign of King James II. The 
 fymanifts were at that Time much more info- 
 lent there than here, and Mr. Williams being very 
 warm in oppofing their Defigns as far as they were 
 within his Reach, was not a little expos'd ; fo that he 
 couldnot continue there longer with any Safety. Where- 
 upon in 1687, he came over to England, and made 
 London the Place of his Retreat, where he was of 
 Ufe to keep fome among the DiJJenters from being 
 wheedled by King James into fuch Meafures as would 
 in the Iffue have greatly expos'd them. 
 
 It is well known to feveral, that fome Court 
 Agents did at that Time endeavour to bring the 
 Diflenters in the City, into an Addrefs, approving of 
 the Diffenfing Power : And in a Conference, at one 
 of the Meetings upon that Occafion, in the Prefence 
 ' of fome of thofe Agents, Mr. Williams bravely de- 
 clai'd, that " as it was with him paft Doubr, that 
 
 V the
 
 in the forgoing Lifts* 971 
 
 '* the Severities of the former Reign upon Prote- 
 *' ftant Diflenters, were rather as they ftood in the 
 " Way of arbitrary Power, than for their Religious 
 " Diflent ; fo it were better for them to be reduc- 
 " ed to their former Hardfliips, than declare for 
 " Meafures deftru&ive of the Liberties of their 
 " Country. " And this he purfu'd with that Clearnefs 
 and Strength, that all prefent rejected the Motion, 
 and the Emiflaries went away difappointed. 
 
 He was of great Ufe to fuch as came after him 
 from Ireland into thefe Parts, when Things were 
 carried to the utmoft Extremity, and they were in 
 daily, nay hourly Danger of being facrific'd to the 
 Cruelty of Tyrconnel, and his Army of Cut- throats. 
 Many of thefe could bring little of their Subftance 
 with them, to fupport themfelves and their Fami- 
 lies, and fo were greatly expos'd. And in thefe Cir- 
 cumftances, he not only gave them confiderable Af- 
 fiftance himfelf, but ftirr'd up Compaflion to them 
 among his Acquainance, which was large and ex- 
 tenfive, to the very utmoft of his Capacity. And 
 after the Glorious Devolution in 1688, in which none 
 could more heartily rejoice than he, he was noc 
 only fomerimes confulted by King ivilliam in the 
 Irijk Affairs, with which he was well acquainted, 
 but was often regarded at Court, in his Applica- 
 tions on the Behalf of feveral that fled from thence, 
 who were capable of doing Service to the Govern- 
 ment. And he receiv'd great Acknowledgments 
 and Thanks upon this Account, when he afterwards 
 in the Year 1700, went into Ireland to vific his old 
 Friends there ; and that even from feveral, who ac 
 firft had been apt to cenfure his quitting Ireland fo 
 haftily, as an Indication of a Want of due Courage 
 and Steadinefs, and an over great Concern for his 
 own Prefervation. 
 
 After he had fpent fome time in preaching occa? 
 fionally about the City of London, with general Ac- 
 ceptance, and not without feveral Motions made 
 about a Settlement, at length, at the latter End of 
 1688, he upon the fudden Death of Mr. John Oakfs, 
 was chofen to fucceed him in his numerous Con- 
 gregation, ac Hand-Alley, in Bifhopfgatc/lrtet: And 
 
 the
 
 Siknc*d Minifiers omitted 
 
 the Call being unanimous, he accepted it, and con* 
 tinu'd with them in the Service of the Gofpel, about 
 twenty-feven Years. 
 
 From the Time of his coming to London he had 
 convers'd much with the eminent Mr. Richard Baxter, 
 who was then living, by whom he was greatly e- 
 fteem'd, and had fometimes preach'd for him in his 
 Turn at the Merchants Letlure on "Tuefday at Pinners 
 Hall, when he was indifpos'd : And he was chofen 
 into that Lecture in his Room, upon his Deceafe 
 in 1691. A. confiderable Intereft was indeed made 
 by fome againft him, in Favour of Mr. Woodcock^, 
 who was propos'd as a Competitor. It fo happen- 
 ed that the Electors were equally divided : And ic 
 was thereupon immediately agreed, that they (hould 
 appeal to Providence by a Lot, which fell upon 
 Mr. Williams, in whom therefore there was a ge- 
 neral Acquiefcence. But it was not very long af- 
 ter, before there were frequent Jarings and Clafli- 
 ings in the Difcourfes of the Lecturers, and their Sup- 
 porters alfo were divided into Parties ; and though 
 frequent Attempts were made to prevent Mifun- 
 derftandings, yet in a little Time the Heat was 
 again reviv'd : And at length a Defign was form'd 
 to exclude Mr. Williams out of the Lecture, upon 
 the Account of his handling the Antinomian Con- 
 troverfy in a Way and Manner that fome Men could 
 not Relifh. This being difcover'd, was vigoroufly 
 oppos'd by a great Number of Subfcribers to the 
 Lecture, who at length (when no Propofals for 
 Peace would be liften'd to) joining many other Ci- 
 tizens with them, rais'd another Tuefday Lecture at 
 Salters Hall, whither three of the old Lecturers; 
 */. Dr. Bates, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Alfof, accompa- 
 nied Mr. Williams ; and two more were chofen 
 and added to them, vi%. Dr. Annejley, and Mr. J^/- 
 chard Mayo. But this was not brought about withJ 
 out great Noife and Clamour. 
 
 It muft be own'd that Mr. Williams (as well as 
 Mr. Baxter before him) was much fet againft Anti- 
 nomianifm, and any Notions that he thought look'd 
 that way : And was therefore greatly concern'd at 
 the Printing about this Time, fome of the Works
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 973 
 
 of Dr. Crifp, againft whom Mr. Baxter had alfo 
 written. To thefe new primed Sermons of the Doc- 
 tor's, there was an Atteftation prefix'd, with the 
 Names of fome City Minifters fubjoin'd, by which 
 though they only declared their Satisfaction that 
 what the Son printed was genuine, yet the Mat- 
 ter was manag'd in fuch a Manner, that it was fear- 
 ed both by Mr. Baxter and Mr. Wlllams that an 
 ill Ufe would be made of their Hands. Whereup- 
 on the latter wrote againft Dr. Crifp as well as the 
 former, and reducing the Controversy into the Com- 
 pafe of a few Heads, and diftinctly dating Truth 
 and Error under each of them, fent forth his Gof- 
 fel Truth Stated and Vindicated, (which was firft 
 printed in 1691, and feveral Times afterwards) 
 as an Antidote againft a dangerous Infection, get- 
 ting a Number of Hands to the firft and fecond Edi- 
 tion. And herein meeting with Oppofition, he was 
 ingag'd in a Controverfy that lafted feveral Years. * 
 And though he could not but upon fome Accounts 
 reckon this an Unhappinefs, yet finding Reafon to 
 be fatisfied, that the Pains which he took contribu- 
 ted to the clearing up the genuine Truth of the 
 Gofpel, he was eafy, and fubmitted to Divine Pro- 
 vidence, which allots to every Man both his Work, 
 and his Treatment. ^ 
 
 It cannot be denied but that he had hard Mci- 
 fure, from fome from whom he thought he might 
 have expeded better Ufage. Soon after the De- 
 fign of excluding him out of the Merchants Lecture 
 was fruftrated, and a new one was fet up in ano- 
 ther Place, there was a terrible Aifault upon his Re- 
 putation, with refpedfc to his Morals, and fome 
 were for ftrictly canvafling his Condudt and Beha- 
 viour, in all the Places where he had liv'd, and all 
 the Stations he had been in, even from his younger 
 Years. Hereupon he threw himfelf upon the Bo- 
 dy of the Diflenting Minifters in and about the Ci-. 
 ty, who chofe a Committee on Purpofe, to hear any 
 .Thing that could be alledg'd againft him, together 
 
 with 
 
 * A Urge and diftinft Account of his Management of this Coo- 
 trovcrfy, may be feen in the Life of Dr. Gtint Bull, the Bi&op of 
 it. Dwifi, writu-n by Mr, Kelfm. pag. *59 j fre.
 
 974 Silenced Minifters omitted 
 
 with what he had to offer in his own Vindicati- 
 on. The Committee took a great deal of Pains, 
 heard all Pretenfions, and fpent about eight Weeks 
 in the Affair, and then made the Report to the Body 
 of the Minifters, who being on Afrit 8, 1695, (up- 
 on general Notice given them, that the Report would 
 be delivered in that Day for their Determination) 
 met together, to the Number of fixty, declared 
 their Senfe in thefe Words : That it is the unanimous 
 Opinion of the Vnited Minifters, upon the Report 
 brought in from th; Committee, and the farther Ac- 
 count of thofe of the Conmittee prefent, that Mr. Wil- 
 liams is intirely clear and innocent of all that was 
 laid to his Charge, t 
 
 His own Congregation ftood firmly by him through 
 the whole Courfe of his Trouble, and he had ma- 
 ny hearty Friends all over the City, who pitied and 
 pray'd for him, and did what they could to aflift, 
 and comfort him, while the Malice of his Adver- 
 faries was fo violent and impetuous : And it was 
 obferv'd by many, that GOD gave him that Sedate- 
 nefs and Calm, beyond his natural Temper, and 
 that Prefence of Mind under his eager Profecuti- 
 on, as effectually defeated the Defigns of his Ene- 
 mies againft him. And it well deferves alfo a Re- 
 mark, that he liv'd long enough after all this, to 
 foften the Minds of many that were moft incens'd 
 againft him, and to convince not a few, that had 
 taken up very wrong Notions concerning him. 
 
 He continu'd in a conftant Courfe of ufeful prac- 
 tical Preaching for many Years. And as to his Pul- 
 pit Performances, though he never affected Polite, 
 nefs, yet it muft be own'd, by all competent Judges, 
 that they had an Aptnefs to anfwer the End of Preach- 
 ing, and were very inftrudive and affeding at 
 once : And they were own'd by GOD, for the doing 
 Abundance of Good. 
 
 Though he was not much vers'd in the "Belles 
 
 Lettres, yet he had a remarkable Depth of Thought, 
 
 and when he was engag'd in any Debate would as 
 
 diredly 
 
 f See tTie Poft r cript to the third Edition of Qofpil Truth 
 by D. W. Pag. 302, tot. <
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 975 
 
 dire&ly fatten upon the main Hinge on which Things 
 turn'd, and take an Argument in its full Compafs, 
 and as nicely and carefully reprefent it in its feveral 
 different Views, with due Force and Quicknefs, as 
 moft Men that could be met with. 
 
 However, he was not fo bookifh, as not to mind 
 how the World went ; nor fo confia'd either to his 
 Pulpit or Study, as to be an unconcern'd Spectator, 
 either of the Treatment of the Body of the Dtjfen- 
 ters, whofe Inrerefts he had much at Heart, or of 
 the State of the Nation with Refped: to Religion 
 and Liberty. 
 
 He was active to the utmoft of his Power, when 
 in the Reign of Queen Anne, there was a Bill de- 
 pending in Parliament againft Occa/ional Conformity : 
 And it gave him no fmall Pleafure, to find the faid 
 Bill twice thrown out. But when it was at laft car- 
 ried at the third Attempt, and that by the Help of 
 thofe very Perfons who ftrenuoufly oppos'd it before, 
 and feem'd to do fo out of Principle, he could not 
 help laying it to Heart. And this arfe&ed him fo 
 much the more, becaufe he well knew the Dij] "enters 
 deferv'd oiher Sort of Ufage from thofe to whom 
 they had upon Occafion, done good Service ; and 
 was apprehenfive that there was but little Likelihood 
 that any publick Benefit would accrue from the ta- 
 king of luch a Step, efpecially in fuch a Juncture ; 
 nay could eafily forefee that the forward Agents ia 
 that Affair, would themfelves be defpis'd, by thofe 
 whom they fo officioufly courted, at the Expence of 
 fuch Friends, as never had deterred them upon any 
 critical Exigence. 
 
 And it was a yet greater Troidble to him to find 
 that in the Year 1704, the moft ftrenuous Application 
 that could be made, could not prevail for the pre- 
 venting the impofmg of the Sacramental Teft, upon 
 the Diflenters in Ireland, who till that Time, had re- 
 mained all along Strangers to it. The Defign of 
 that Bill in which a Claufe was inferted to that 
 Purpofe, was to fecure the Protejtants of Ireland from 
 the growing Numbers and Infolence of the Papifts 
 there. A Claufe was added clandeftinely, (though it 
 would be no difficult Thing to tell by whom it was 
 
 You. II. Cc done,)
 
 Silenced Miniflers omitted. 
 
 done,) requiring the Sacramental left to be taken uni- 
 
 verfally, and without any Exception of Diffenting 
 
 Proteftants: Which look'd as if fome Perfons thought 
 
 that there was no Way of fecuring Religion in that 
 
 Kingdom, unlefs fuch a Practice was introduc'd, as 
 
 would inevitably in many Cafes encourage Prophane- 
 
 rrefs ; or that it was not fit that the Safety of Prate- 
 
 ftants from the Papifts (hould be confuked there any 
 
 more than here, unlefs the poor Diffenters were cram- 
 
 ped and fecter'd. However it may very fafely be faid 
 
 that this Claufe was added clandeftinely, becaufe the 
 
 Matter was conceal'd, till the Blow was given ; and 
 
 there was not the leaft Sufpicion of any fuch Thing 
 
 intended, till it was too late to prevent it : And the 
 
 Bill being read in Ireland, after it was returned from 
 
 England, they muft either take or lofe the whole. 
 
 But even this turn'd to the Honour of the Diffenters 
 
 in the Iflue, by Reafon that fuch was the Pofture of 
 
 Affairs fome time after in the Reign of King George, 
 
 that the Irijh Houfe of Commons thought fit to re- 
 
 folve, nemine contradicente, 
 
 " That fuch of his Majefty's Proteftant DifTenting 
 " Subjects of this Kingdom, as have taken Com- 
 " millions in the Militia, or aded in the Commifli- 
 " on of Array, have thereby done a feafonable Ser- 
 *' vice, to his Majefty's Royal Perfon and Govern- 
 " ment, and the Proteftant Intereft in this King- 
 " dom. And, 
 
 " That any Perfon who fhall commence a Profe- 
 41 cution againft a Diflenter, who has accepted, or 
 " fhall accept of a CommifTion in the Array or Mi> 
 " litia, is an Enemy to King George and the Prote- 
 " ftant Intereft, and a Friend to the Pretender. 
 
 Mr. Williams was very much for the Union with 
 Scotland in 1707, being convinc'd that that was the 
 moft effectual Way that could be taken for the fe- 
 curing the Proteftant Succejfion, and even the Conti- 
 nuance of their Ecclejiaftical Eftablifomtnt in North 
 Britain, againft the Attempts of fuch as were bent 
 upon oppofing, or might be tempted to betray it. 
 JVlth great Earneftnels did he recommend the For- 
 
 warding,
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 977 
 
 warding of this Union to his Friends in Scotland, and 
 he rejoic'd when it was fettled and ratified ; and 
 hop'd that the good Effects of it would be both con- 
 fiderable and lafting. 
 
 In the Year 1709, he had a Diploma fent him 
 for the Degree of Doftor in Divinity, from the two 
 Univerfities of Edinburgh, and Glafgow : And that 
 from the latter was inclos'd in a Silver-Box, out of 
 the Abundance of their Refpeifl. This was an Ho- 
 nour that he no Way aflfe&ed or defir'd, and yet as 
 Circumftances ftood, he knew not well how to re- 
 fufe it. It was a Journey of mine into North Sri- 
 tain, that was purely undertaken for Health and Di- 
 verfion, that was the Occafion of this Motion, at 
 leaft at this Time. Staying a Fortnight at Edinburgh, 
 my good Friend Mr. Carftairs a few Days before I 
 left that City, told me that at a Meeting of the Ma- 
 fters of their College, it had been decermin'd that 
 I fhould not go from them without receiving a To- 
 ken of their Refped in an Academical Way. I told 
 him I was very thankful (as I had good Reafon) for 
 the abundant Civilities which \ had already receiv- 
 ed, for which I knew not how to make them a fui- 
 table Return. He told me they had determin'd to 
 prefent me with a Diploma for a Doctorate, and 
 begg'd my Acceptance of it. I replied that if they 
 would give me the Diploma of a Mafter of Arts, I 
 fhould not refufe it : But as for any Thing farther, 
 I earneftly defir'd it might be wav'd ; and that for 
 this Reafon among feveral others mentioned, that it 
 would look like Aflfedauon and Singularity in me to 
 accept of the Title propos'd, when fo many that were 
 every Way my Superiors went without it. He fignified 
 in Return, that he found it was defign'd by other Aca- 
 demies in North Britain, when I made them a Vifit, 
 to exprefs their Refpedt in that Way, and that they 
 of Edinburgh were willing and defirous to be the 
 firft ; that I could hardly efcape it at other Places ; 
 that they fhould take it as an Affront if I refus'd 
 their Kindnefs ; and that the Method they had a- 
 grced on, would prevent any Charge of Affedatiou 
 and Singularity ; for that they would fend a Diploma 
 for a Doctor's Degree to Mr. Daniel ftflliams, and 
 C c i Mr.
 
 97 8 SilenCd Minifters omitted 
 
 Mr. JofktiA Oldfield. As Things ftood, my refuting 
 the Offer, would have been counted a great Piece 
 of Rudenefs, and fo I fubmitted. And it was the 
 fame afterwards at Glafgow. As foon as Mr. Willi- 
 am* receiv'd the News of this Defign, he wrote to 
 Mr. Carftairs and others to prevent it : But the Mat- 
 ter was over, before his Letters were receiv'd. And 
 fearing leaft the Refufal of fuch a Token of Refred 
 from thofe two learned Bodies might be taken as 
 an Affront, he acquiefcM. 
 
 And tho' he was before very ready to embrace 
 any Opportunities that cft'er'd of fhewing his Regard 
 to the religious Inrereft in that Part of Great Britain, 
 yet did he afterwards difcover a peculiar Concern 
 for their Univerfities ; and by his good Will, would 
 have had all fuch as were defign'd for the Miniftry 
 among the Diffenters in South Britain, have a Part of 
 their Education at leaft, either in one or another 
 of them j and he encourag'd the drawing up a 
 Scheme for that Purpofe, which could not be 
 brought to Perfection, for want of a general Con- 
 currence. 
 
 In the latter Part .of the Reign of Queen Anne, 
 the Doctor (as well as many others) had very dark 
 Apprehenfions of the State of Affairs, and great Fears 
 about the Proteftant Succeflion, in order to the di- 
 verting which, there appeared to be fuch Befigns on 
 foot. He dealt freely about this Marter with the 
 great Man that was then at the Head of Affairs, with 
 whom he had been long acquainted, and warn'd 
 him of his own Danger, whether he was imbarqu'd 
 in thofe Defigns, or kept himfelf out of them. If 
 he was really engag'd, he prefs'd him to confider 
 how fad a Thing it would be to have an Hand in 
 the Mifery and Slavery of his Country, which would 
 not fail of being ruinous in the IfTue to himfelf and 
 Family. And if he was not himfelf engag'd in fuch 
 Defigns,' but aim'd at fhewing his Art and Dexteri- 
 ty, in keeping Things in a pendulous Pofture, that 
 he might, have the Honour atlaft of turning theSca'e, 
 he begg'd he would confider, if Things went a little 
 farther, what a Hazard he ran of their rifing to fuch 
 an Height, as to leave no Room to bring Things into 
 
 the
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 979 
 
 the proper Channel, tho' he fhould e' er fb heartily 
 endeavour it. The Freedom that he took in this 
 Cafe was not well relifh'd ; but the Doctor was fa- 
 tisfied with his own good Intentions. And fome time 
 after, he was ferv'd a fcurvy Trick, by one whom he 
 had endeavoured to oblige, whom a fmall Degree 
 of Honour and Gratitude one would have thought 
 might have kept from fuch bafe and inhumane Car- 
 riage. The Cafe was this. The Doctor was writ- 
 ten to with fome Earneftnefs by his Friends in IrcUnd, 
 to communicate his Thoughts to them as to the Po- 
 fture of Affairs at that Time, and the Defigns and 
 Views of thofe that were at the Helm. He 
 drew up an Anfwer with great Franknefs, and fent 
 it into Ireland .by a fafe Hand, only keeping a Copy 
 of it. He had this Copy in his Pocket when he 
 waited on a certain Gentleman of the long Robe, 
 and pulling it out with a Number of other Papers at 
 his Lodgings, happen'd to leave it there behind him, 
 tho' he brought away his other Papers. The Gen- 
 tleman feeing and reading ic af er he was gone, 
 and finding it contained a great many free Thoughts 
 concerning publtck Affairs, and fome Remarks on 
 the great Man before referr'd to, that was at the 
 Head of Affairs, thought he fliould merit th faid 
 great Man's favourable Regard, if he communicated 
 the faid Letrer to him, and accordingly went and left 
 it with him : And he was incens'd to that Degree 
 againft the Doctor, that he never would forgive him. 
 And this Adtfon was therefore fo much die bafer, 
 becaufe the faid Gentleman (who was pretty much 
 reduc'd) was under particular Obligations to the 
 Doctor, who advanc'd Money to him by way of 
 Loan, at a moderate Intereft, when his Credit was 
 fo funk, that he was utterly at a Lois to raife Money, 
 jf he had not advanc'd it to him. This gave him 
 fome Uneafinefs, tho' that was as nothing, to the 
 Concern he was under about the Proteftant Succcjfi- 
 cn : For he was fully fatisfied, that the Liberty of 
 our Conftitution, and the Reformation, could not 
 fobfift under a Popi(h King. 
 
 No Man in the Nation more heartily rejoic'd than 
 
 he, at the blowing over of the Storm that feem'd im- 
 
 C c 3 pendent.
 
 Silenced Minifters omitted 
 
 pendent, by the Accefllon of King George to the 
 Briti/h Throne, and the raking Place of the Succef- 
 fion according to the Parliamentary Settlement in the 
 Illuftrious Houfe of Hanover ; which he hop'd would 
 be a Spring of many and lafting Bleflings, not only 
 to us in thefe Lands, but alfo to all the Prot eft tints 
 abroad. And on Seft. 18, 1714, he at the Head of 
 the Proteftant DifTenting Minifters of the feveral De- 
 nominations, in and about the City of London, pre- 
 fented his Majefty King George with an Humble Ad- 
 > -drefs, congratulating his Majefty's peaceable Accef- 
 fion to the Throne, and his own and the Prince's 
 fafe Arrival ; which was own'd to be the merciful 
 Return of many ardent Prayers, Gfc. 
 
 After this, tho' he held on in the Exercife of his 
 Miniftry, yet his Strength vifibly declined ; and tho' 
 his natural Conftitution was good, yet he gradually 
 decay'd, till after a (hort Illnefs, he with a firm 
 Faith and fteady Hope, committed himfelf to GOD, 
 falling afleep in the LORD, Jan. 26, 171*, Anno 
 &tat. 73. 
 
 He was interr'd in a new Vault of his own, in 
 the Burying-Ground near Sunhil Fields ; and his Fu- 
 neral Sermon was preach'd, (and afterwards print- 
 ed) by Mr. John Evans, who had for eleven Years 
 been his Fellow-labourer, and was alfo his Succef- 
 for. 
 i 
 
 On the Doctor's Tomb.ftone, there is the follow- 
 ing Infcription, an Authentick Copy o which I had 
 from the learned Author of it. 
 
 M.S.
 
 M. S. 
 DANIELIS WILLIAMS S.T.P. 
 
 WREXAMIAE IN COMITATV DENBIGENSI 
 INTER CAMBRO-BRITANNOS NATI 
 
 QVI A PRIMIS ANNIS 
 
 PIETATE AEQVE AC BONIS LITERIS FELICITER IMBVTVS 
 
 D1VJNI VERBI PRAECONIS MVNVS ADMODVM IVVENIS 
 
 IN MULTIS ANGLIAE PARTIBVS NON SINE LAVDE PEREG1T 
 
 DEINDE APVD HIBERNOS PRAECIPVE EELANAE 
 
 VBI MEDIA AETATE CONSVMPTA MAGNVM SUI DESiDERIVM 
 
 INTER OMNES REFORMATAE FIDEI CVLTORES RELIQVIT 
 
 PONTIFICIA TYRANNTDE LONDINVM SE CONFERRE COACTVS 
 
 MAGNA IBI CELEBRITATE FAMAE PER MVLTOS ANNOS 
 AD MORTEM VSQ,VE FLORUIT 
 
 VIR AMPLISSIMA MENTE 
 
 IN Q.VO ACVTISSIMVM INGENIVM CVM IVDICIO SVBACTISSIMO 
 Q.VOD PAVCIS COSTIGIT CONIVNCTVM VIDEBATVR. 
 
 IN OMNIBVS THEOLOGIAE 
 PARTIBVS SI QVISQVAM ALIVS VERSATISSIMVS 
 CONCIONATOR VEHEMENS IDEM ET ACER GRAVIS ET COPIOSVS 
 
 ASSIDVVS ET FELIX AD DOCENDVM PROBANDVM PERMOVENDVM 
 PROVT RES POSTVLABAT AEQyE ACCOMMODATVS 
 
 PASTOR DVBIVM PERITIOR AN VIGILANTIOR 
 
 AD CHRISTIANAM FIOEM PROMOVENDAM OPERA RE GRATIA 
 
 NON IN PATRIA SOLVM SED ETIAM APVD EXTEROS 
 
 SEMPER PARATISSIMVS 
 
 AD CONSILIA SIVE DANDA 
 
 SIVE EXSEQVENDA PARITER INSTRVCTISSIMVS 
 IDEMQVE IN ARDVIS ATQV'E UIFFICILLIMIS REBVS TVM PVBLJCB 
 TVM PRIVATIS PERAGENDIS NON MINORI PRVDENTIA 
 ET DILIGENTIA QVAM INTEGRITATE CONSPICVVS 
 
 IN OMNES CARITATE 
 ATQV'E CANDORE ANlMl SINGVtARI 
 
 SIBI IN RE AMPLISSIMA PARCVS IN ALIOS VERO PAVPERES 
 
 PRAECffVE AC REM PVBLICAM VT SEMPER ALIAS 
 
 ITA TESTAMENTO MVN1FICENTISSIMVS 
 
 DENlQyE OMNIS VIRTVTIS 
 QyANTVM MORTALIVM CAPIT CONDITIO 
 
 DVM VIXIT STVDIOSISSIMVS EORVM QVAE ILLA NON ADMITTIT 
 ANNIS IAM ET LAVflE PLENVS IN CABLESTI COETV 
 PART1CEPS FACTVS VH. KAL. FEB. 
 
 ANNO 
 
 ABTATIS SVAB LXXII. CHRISTI MDCCXVI.
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 985 
 
 He gave the Bulk of his Eftare, in his laft Will 
 and Teftament, to charitable Ufes, and thofe as ex- 
 cellent in their Nature, as various in their Kinds, 
 and as much calculated for the Glory of G o D, and 
 the Good of Mankind, as any one that has been 
 known or heard of: And had he but taken the Ad- 
 vice of Council, learned in the Law, when his Will 
 was finifh'd, that Negleds might have been fupplied, 
 and O erfights corrected, his Difpofition had been 
 incomparable. I tVmk it may not be improper to 
 give the Subftance of this Will, that has been 
 the Subjecl of fo much Difcourfe, with fome Parti- 
 culars relating to it, for the Gratification of the Cu- 
 rious, and the Benefit of Pofterity. 
 
 Befides what relates to the Settlement of his Wife's 
 Jointure, and Legacies to thofe of his own Family, 
 and other Relations, and fpecial Friends, and to par- 
 ticular Minifters of his Acquaintance, to feveral of 
 whom he left five Pounds each, (as well as larger 
 Sums to fome others) and to fome five, and to others 
 ten Pounds yearly, (with fmaller Sums to others) 
 during Life ; together with a Number of Rings, 
 (each Value twenty Shillings,) to fuch as are nam M j 
 and alfo be fides feveral Sums (fome greater and 
 fome fmaller) forgiven, to fuch as were indebted to 
 him; he left, 
 
 To Mr. John Welch, to be paid to the Society for 
 the Reformation of Manners, one hundred and fifty 
 Pounds. 
 
 To Walter Stevens, and Jof. Darner, Efquires, li- 
 ving in Dublin, one hundred Pounds for the Educa- 
 tion of Youth. This was paid by the Do&or in his 
 Life-time. 
 
 To the Poor of the Weodjlrcet Congregation in 
 Dublin, of which he was once Paftor, forty Pounds. 
 
 To the Poor of Hand Alley Congregation, fifty 
 Pounds. 
 
 To PoorFrtwc& Refugees, one hundred Pounds. 
 
 To the Poor of Shore ditch Parifli, twenty Pounds. 
 
 To feven Minifters Widows (particularly nana'd,) 
 four Pounds apiece. 
 
 To St Thomas's Hofpital, (and the Work-houfe in 
 BiJhopfgate-Jlrcer, London,") the Rcverfion of an Eftate 
 
 in
 
 984 Silenced Minifters omitted 
 
 in Elfley, in Cambridge/hire, (after the Death of the 
 Widow Mafon, valu'd to him at about 5 5 / per An) 
 the Rents and Profits to be equally divided between 
 them for ever* 
 
 To Mr. Upbert Mecbant, Sen, for the Ufe of the 
 Presbyterian Meeting at Burnham in EJfex, all his 
 Houfes in that Town. 
 
 To the College of Glafgow, (whilft the prefent 
 Conftitution of the Church of Scotland continueth) 
 his Houfe and Land in Barnef in the County of 
 Hertford, (let at 45 / per An ;) and the Reverfion 
 (after his Wife's Death) of his Lands in Totbam in 
 EJfex : Together with one hundred Pounds in Mo- 
 ney. 
 
 N. B. This Legacy is left with this Provifo, that 
 his Truftees and their Aflignes, fliall from Time to 
 Time appoint and nominate, four South 'Britons to 
 be Students in the faid College of Glafgow, who 
 fhall receive from thence, each fix Pounds per An : 
 And alfo three South Britons, who after they have 
 commenc'd Matters of Arts in the faid College, fhall 
 receive 10 / apiece per An y for three Years, or other- 
 wife two, at 15 / apiece, as his Truftees fhould di- 
 red : And both Sorts to be remov'd at their Difcre- 
 tion ; and Succeflbrs appointed by them to fupply 
 their Place. It is alfo order'd, that the Perfons > re- 
 ceiving the faid ten or fifteen Pounds, fhould be ob- 
 liged to fupervife and affift fiich South Britain Youths, 
 as are Students in the faid College. And when the 
 Lands of Totbam become poffefs'd by the faid Col- 
 lege, it is appointed that more Exhibitions fhould be 
 added, as the yearly Profit will afford, to fuch Youths 
 of South Britain, as his Truftees fhould nominate to 
 be added : And that they who fhall receive the Be- 
 nefit be defigned for the Miniftry, and appear likely 
 to be ufeful and faithful. And in filling up the Va- 
 cancies, the Truftees are to prefer the Sons of poor 
 Presbyterian Minifters, equally qualified, before o- 
 thers : And in extraordinary Cafes, they are to add 
 forty Shillings a Year, where the Devife made to 
 the faid College will not afford it. The College is 
 to fend every Year an Account of their Receipts and 
 Distributions, to fuch in London as the Truftees dired:; 
 
 and
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 985 
 
 and the Truftees to aflift the College in letting the 
 Premifes, and receiving the Rents. 
 
 But if ever Prelacy or Popery fhould come to be 
 eftablifh'd in North Britain, the aforefaid Grant it is 
 declar'd (hall intirely and altogether become null : 
 And the faid Houfes and Lands in Hornet and To- 
 tham are given to the Heirs and Tvuftees nam'd af- 
 terwards; and all Writings and Deeos concerning 
 the Premifes, in Pofleflion of the College, are in 
 that Cafe to be reftor'd to the Truftees. 
 
 To the Society in Scotland for propagating Chrifti- 
 an Knowledge, one hundred Pounds with Intereft, 
 from the Date of the Will. Paid by the Doctor, 
 before he died. Alfo 
 
 To the faid Society, an Eftare in and about Cat- 
 worth in Huntingdon [hire, (let at about 61 I per An,) 
 upon feveral Conditions mentioned about Millenaries 
 to foreign Infidel Countries, with which, it was found 
 upon Inquiry, that their Charter would not allow 
 them to comply. 
 
 To Mr. Jofepb Thompfon, and the reft of the So- 
 ciety for New England, his Eftare in Ejjex, call'd 
 Tol/bant, Bccknam Manner, G?c. after the Death of 
 Mrs. Bradley, upon Condition that 60 / per An be al- 
 low'd between two Perfons, well qualified as to Pie- 
 ty and Prudence, to be nominated fucceflively by 
 the Truftees, to preach as Itinerants, in the Englijh 
 Plantations in the Weft Indies, and for the Good of 
 what Pagans and Blacks lie neglecled there : And 
 the Remainder to be paid yearly to the College of 
 Cambridge in New England, or fuch as are ufually em- 
 ploy'd to manage the bleflfed Work of converting 
 the poor Indians there, the promoting which is the 
 Defign of this Part of the Gift. But if the Truftees 
 are hinder'd from nominating the faid Itinerants, 
 under the Pretence of any Statute in New England 
 or elfewhere, the faid 60 / per An, is given to the 
 faid College in New England, to encourage and 
 make them capable to get conftantly fome Learn- 
 ed Profelfor out of Europe to refule there, to be of 
 their own Nomination, in Concurrence with the 
 Minifters of the Town of Bojlon, in the faid New 
 England. And if the forefaid Society or Corporation 
 
 happens
 
 98 6 SHenc*d Minifiers ommitted 
 
 happens to be diifolv'd, or deprived of their prefent 
 Priviledge, then the faid Manner, together with all 
 the accruing Profits and Advantages, is given to 
 the faid Town of Bofton, with the Minifters there- 
 of, to benefir the faid College as above, and to 
 promote the Converfion of the poor Indians. 
 
 To Mr. Stephen Davics of B&nbury, and feveral 
 others nominated fucceiTive!y, are given the Contin- 
 gent Remainders, for the Uies and Intents fpecified : 
 And twenty-three Truftees are appdinted, in whom 
 the feveral Effaces bequearh'd, are vefted, for two 
 thoufand Years : Who are to pay to Mr. Davies, and 
 the Heirs mention'd fucceilively, the Sum of eight 
 Pounds fer Annum ; and to take effectual Care that 
 all the Profits ariling from the feveral Eftares be- 
 queath'd, may be employed to the Glory of GOD, 
 in fpreading and promoring of pure unmix'd Chrifti- 
 anity, and Support of the Poor. 
 
 The Truftees nominated, are Mr. William Lori- 
 mer, Dr. Oldfield, Dr. Edmund Calarriy, Mr. William 
 "Tang, Mr. Matthew Henry, Mr. Benjamin fybinfcn, 
 Mr. Zgchary Merrel of Hampftcad, Mr. John Evans, 
 Mr- William Harris, Mr. Thcmas Reynolds, Mr. Ifaac 
 Bates, Mr. Jeremy Smith, Mr. Head, Mr. John Morton, 
 Linnen Draper, Mr. Edmund Farrington, Jun. Mr. 
 William Adee, Mr, Jonathan Colly er, Mr. Benjamin 
 Shefpard, Mr. Francis Bark/lead, Mr. Archer, Mr. Ri- 
 chard Watts, Mr. Ifaac Honywood, Mr. George Smith. 
 
 The faid nomina ed Truftees, (or fuch of them as 
 fliould accept the Truft) are order'd to chafe others, 
 if any refus'd it, or died before the Teftator. They, 
 or the Survivors of them, are order'd to be fummon- 
 cd, and the major Part when met to nominate other 
 Perfon or Perfons, in the Room of the Deceafed, as 
 they judg'd faithful and fuitable, and inhabiting in 
 or near London. The elected from Time to Time, 
 folemnly to engage to be faithful in the Management 
 of what they undertake : And thofe fo chofen, ftill 
 to concur in chufing whom they think fit, to fill up 
 all the Vacancies that (hall happen by the Death of 
 any of the Number, either of thofe firft nominated, 
 or thofe from Time to Time elected, that the Num- 
 ber ir.ay be nreferv'd full. Whenever an Election is 
 
 - to
 
 in tie forzcing Lifts. 987 
 
 to be made, all the Survivors to have Notice of the 
 Time and Place. The Elected from Time to Time 
 to have the fame Right, Priviledge, and Power, with 
 the firft nominated. 
 
 The Truftees, and their Affigns and Succeflbrs, to 
 meet at leaft once a Quarter in London, (and to al- 
 low themfelves forty Shillings amongft them for their 
 Expences at each of thofe Quarterly Meetings) that 
 they may order Affairs, and enquire into the Ac- 
 counts of Receipts and Payments ; and if any of them 
 or their Succeflbrs fliall remove to a confiderable Di- 
 ftance from London, or voluntarily neglect or betray 
 their Truft, or be render'd incapable faithfully and 
 diligently to anfwer the Ends of it ; that then the Re- 
 fidue of the Truftees and SuccefTors from Time to 
 Time, (hall chufe others in the Room of fuch, and 
 the difallow'd be depriv'd of all Power and Right to 
 intermeddle in any Part of this Truft. The Truftees 
 to be fole Judges of what may be doubtful or darkly 
 exprefs'd, either as to the Names of the Legatees, 
 or any other Matter; and to have full Power to let 
 Leafes of the Lands and Houfes committed to them, 
 at the full Rent from Time to Time, for nine Years; 
 and the Expence and Charge of Letters, Defence of 
 Title, and collecting Rents and Profits, and what elfe 
 is necefTarily expended, to be difcharg'd out of the 
 Profits for the Term of two thoufand Years, (c. 
 
 The Deeds which convey the refpedive Eftates 
 to the Teftator, to be recorded in Chancery, except 
 what lie in Middlesex, which arc to be regiftred. 
 And the prior Writings which fupport the Teftator's 
 Title, to be kept diftinctly by fuch a Perfon as the 
 Truftees fliall appoint ; excepting what concern NVt 
 England, which are to be delivcr'd to the Treafurer 
 of that Society. 
 
 If the Truftees and their Succeflbrs fhall negled: 
 the Truft, fo that none of them meet for two 
 Years to manage any Part of it, except in a Time 
 of War or Plague, then if fome or more of them do 
 not apply themfelves to manage fuch Parts of the 
 Truft as are in their Power within three Months af- 
 ter the faid two Years, then the Cities of Edinburgh 
 Glafgovp from that Time arc authorized to af- 
 
 fumc
 
 9 88 
 
 ~L * - 
 
 Silenced Miniflers omitted 
 
 fume and poflefs all and every Pare of the Premi- 
 fes, &c. 
 
 The Vote of the major Part of the Truftees pre- 
 fent is to conclude every Matter ; but twelve of 
 them, (if fo many are alive, and near London, free 
 from violent Reftraint) are to be always prefent, in 
 letting Leafes, electing Succeffors, and other impor- 
 tant Matters. And in the forefaid Cafes of Death, 
 C#c. All about London being fummon'd to two fuc- 
 ceflive Meetings, what is concluded in the firft, 
 (Notice thereof being fent to the Abfent) and con- 
 firm'd in the fecond Meeting, (hall ftand, if the Number 
 be feven ; provided they have not wilfully omitted 
 to fill up the Number by electing others, in the Room 
 of fuch as either are dead, or reject the Manage- 
 ment of the Truft after Acceptance, or inhabit above 
 ten Miles from London, or are by fifteen Truftees 
 voted Endeavourers to betray or fruftate the Scope 
 of any considerable Part of this Will ; who are all 
 to be fucceeded as if dead, and others elected by 
 the Truftees in their Stead. 
 
 The Will, orders Charity Schools to be open'd and 
 kept up in feveral Places : And directs that the 
 Truftees chufe and appoint fome pious grave Perfon 
 to teach twenty poor Children to read Englifh, and 
 inftruct them in the Principles of the Chriftian Re- 
 ligion, in the Towns of Denbigh, Flint, Carnarvan, 
 lAontgomory, Bcaumorris, or elle Conwaj, Merioneth 
 or Holt, in Wales : and Chslmsford in the County of 
 EJftxi paying eight Pounds fer Annum to every 
 fuch Teacher, as long as each of the fatd Teach- 
 ers (lull be approved of by the Truftees; who fhall 
 give each of the Learners, one of the Ajjemllies 
 Catechifms, with the Proofs at large ; and one of 
 the Doctor's Books, call'd, The Vanity of Childhood 
 and Touth, when they can repeat the Catecbifm 
 without the Proofs ; and a Bible when they can re- 
 peat the Proofs. And (whereas in a foregoing Arti- 
 cle of the Will,) the Eftate of the Teftator'in Burton, 
 and Crofs-howel, &c. in Denbighshire, was left to Mr. 
 Roberts and his Wife, and the Survivor of them for 
 Life, he and (lie paying yearly to Mr. i^enrick^ or 
 orher the Presbyterian Diflenting Miniftcr in Wrex- 
 
 . ham,
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 
 
 bam, fix Pounds ; and ten Pounds a Year to fuch a 
 Man as they appoint, to teach twenty Children to read 
 and write, and inftrudfc them in the Principles of Re- 
 ligion ;) it is alfo order'd that the fame Method be 
 us'd with the Learners in Wrexbam after the Death 
 of Mr. Roberts and Wife, and that the ten Pounds ap- 
 pointed for the Teacher there, payable by them du- 
 ring Life, be made 15 / fer An, that fo twenty-five 
 Boys may be not only inftru&ed as before, but alfo 
 fuch of them taught to write as are willing to learn ; 
 fome one in each of the Towns, being defir'd to in- 
 fpect the Management. It is alfo order'd that the 
 Teachers fhould pray daily with the Learners ; and 
 that they be paid faithfully, as long as the Truftees 
 approve them j and that others be nominated upon 
 the Death, or other Removal of any of them, by 
 the Truftees. .''' 
 
 It is order'd that Enquiry may be made after fuch 
 a Preacher of the Gofpel, being a Proteftant, and 
 skilful in the Irifh Tongue, as (hall be willing as an 
 Itinerant, diligently to preach in Iri/h, where he can 
 find an Opportunity for it in Ireland, and fhall be 
 nominated and approv'd by Walter Stevens, Efq ; 
 Dr. Duncan Cumming, Mr. Jofefb Eois, and Mr. Na- 
 thanael Weld., of Dublin, and their Affigns, from 
 Time to Time, as well as by the nominated Tru- 
 ftees : And that then <>o I per Annum fhall be paid in 
 Dublin to the faid Walter Stevens, Duncan Gumming, 
 Jofefb Bois, Nathanael Weld, and their Affigns, who 
 are to apply it to the faid Purpofe, and pay it to 
 the faid Itinerant Preacher in Irifh, as long as they 
 approve of him. And when he fhall die, or be 
 dilallow'd by them, another fhall be chofen by them 
 to the faid Work and Benefit, with the toncurrence 
 of the Truftees, and they to chufe fome other Per- 
 fon to convey it by, if the faid Gentlemen affign 
 none to receive it. 
 
 To Mr. William Evans of Ctiermartben, and his 
 Succeffors in training up young Men for the Mini- 
 ftry in Wales, ten Pounds per An, towards the Sup- 
 port of fuch Welch young Men, as fhall be under 
 Tuition, in order to preach the Word of GOD in
 
 99 Silenced Miniflers omitted, 
 
 c 
 
 Wales ; fuch Perfons being approv'd by the Truftees 
 and their SuccefTors. 
 
 To Mr. t^enricl^ of Wrexham while he continues 
 Paftor of the Congregation there, ten Pounds per 
 An, after the Death of Mr. Roberts and Wife ; and 
 the fame Sum to his SuccefTors in the faid Congre- 
 gation, while it remains in its prefent Confthution, 
 Presbyterian. 
 
 It is order'd by the Do&or that his "Works fhould 
 be collected, and in fit Parts reprinted, and given 
 away ; though he intimates that fuch as are Controver- 
 fal may be printed in a lefs Number, yet he orders 
 that as to fuch as are not Controverfal, there fhould 
 be printed, to the Number of one thoufand five hun- 
 dred the firft Year ; and every five Years for the 
 .Term of twenty Years ; and ev ery tea Years for 
 the Term of thirty Years ; and every twentieth Year 
 for the Term of two thoufand Years, the like Num- 
 ber. But as to his Treatife of Childhood and Touch, 
 Gofpel Truth, Man made Righteous, the Anfvcer to the 
 Report, End to Controverfies, and the Minifterial Office^ 
 he Orders that of each of them, there fhould at 
 each of the forementioned Terms be the Number 
 of a thoufand printed, and given to young Students. 
 The Vanity of Childhood and Touth, he would have 
 printed ofcner becaufe of the Schools : And the laft 
 five, he orders to be given to Perfons of more Judg- 
 ment j and that they fhould alfo be tranflared into 
 Latin ; and that of Childhood and Youth into Welch ; 
 orders five hundred of each thus tranflated to be 
 printed the fecond Year after his Death ; and this 
 repeated as oft as there is Occafion. 
 
 The Will appoints Mr. Hugh Roberts, and Mr. Fran- 
 cis Wo'oley Executors. And, 
 
 Orders the Truftees, to apply all and every Part of 
 the yearly Profits of the Eftate bequeath'd to them, 
 and to diftribute the prefent Profits, and thofe in 
 Reverfion, to the enfuing Ufes : vi%. one eighth 
 Part for Bibles, Catechifnn, and good Practical Books, 
 in 'Englifh and Welch, to be given to the Poor of 
 different Places fucceifively, and that every Year : 
 A tenth Part to fuch poor Widows of Preachers o 
 the Word, as they judge fitieft Objects j a fifth 
 
 Pare
 
 ;;/ the foregoing Lifts. 991 
 
 Part to Preachers of the Word that are poor, or- 
 thodox, and moderate, chofen by the Truftees j an 
 Eighth, to bind fober Lads of pious Parents Appren- 
 tices to fome ordinary Trades, and thofe for the 
 greateft Number to be of fuch as were inftru&ed in 
 Wrexham, or the other Charity Schools, creeled by 
 this Will in Wales ; an Eighth for the farther Educa- 
 tion of fuch for the Miniftry as having fpent three 
 Years in ftudying the Sciences, are thought fit to 
 be aflifted to proceed in their Studies two Years 
 longer, in Glafgow, or any other Place appointed by 
 the Truftees. And all the Refidue of rhe Profits, ari- 
 fing from the real and perfonal Eftate bequeathed, 
 to be paid by the Truftees to the Preachers of the 
 Word of GOD in Wales; a third in South Wales, 
 and the other two Parts in North Wales ; and the 
 firft Partakers to be Mr. Baddy if he continues to 
 preach in Denbigh ; and Mr. Parrot of Denbigh/hire, 
 Mr. Philips in Carnarvon, Mr. Howel Powel in South 
 Wales ; and Mr. Edward t^enrick^ in or near Me- 
 rioneth/hire, if the Truftees fee no Caufe to alter 
 or withdraw. 
 
 It appoints Mr. Jonathan Collyer, Sen. (giving good 
 Security) to receive and pay what the Truftees ap- 
 point, and to keep the Accounts in a diftind: Book : 
 and for his Labour, (befides an Allowance of all ne- 
 ceffary Expences) to have 30 / fer An. He to fend 
 Notice of the Meetings when necelfary, or demand- 
 ed by any three Truftees. His Succeflbrs from rime 
 to time to be appointed by the Truftees only, and re- 
 moved when they think fit. 
 
 As to the Teftator's Library, it orders, that Dupli- 
 cates, and fuch Books as are ufelefs or unfit for a 
 publick Library, be given away, and the reft to be 
 fix'd in a Publick Library, to which fuch as the 
 Truftees appoint fhall have Accefs, for the Perufal 
 of any Book in the Place where they arc lodged. , 
 A Freehold Edifice to be purchas'd, in fome cheap 
 and convenient Place, without or within the Walls 
 of the City of London, with a Room for a fingle 
 Perfon, whom the Truftces (hall from time to time 
 appoint to keep the faid Books, whereof two Cata- 
 logues to be kept, (one by him that has the Care of 
 
 Vol. 11. Dd th
 
 992 Silenced Miuifiers omitted- 
 
 the Library, and another by him whom the Truftees 
 name of their own Number) wherein may be in- 
 ferted any other Perfons Gift of Books, with the 
 Names of fuch Donors as (hall add to the Library. 
 The Library-keeper (who may be fome young Preach- 
 er) to have 10 / fer An, and to give Security for his 
 Fidelity, and Attendance at the Times appointed. 
 If no fit Edifice can be procured , then a fmall Piece 
 of Ground to be bought, and a Building to be 
 erected for the Purpofe, not pompous or too large : 
 And the Truftees are to keep the faid bought or 
 built Edifice in Repair, and at due and proper Times 
 to keep a Fire there to preferve the Books, &c. 
 
 The Whole is concluded with Solemnity, in the 
 Words following ; 
 
 "I befeech the BlefTed GOD, for CHRIST JESUS 
 " Sake, the Head of his Church, (whofc I am and 
 " whom I defire to ferve,) that this my Will may by 
 ' his Bleffing and Power reach its End, and be 
 " faithfully executed. Obtefting in the Name of 
 " this Great and Righteous GOD, all that fliall be 
 " concern'd, that what I defign for his Glory, and 
 " the Good of Mankind, may be honeftly, prudent- 
 " ly, and diligently employed to thofe Ends j as I 
 " have to the beft of my Judgment directed by this 
 " my laft Teftament. 
 
 The Will bears Dare, June a6, 1711. 
 
 And it was prov'd and inroll'd in Chancery. 
 
 Several Difficulties have been met with in the 
 Execution of this Will. 
 
 The Doctor (as has been obferv'd before) nomi- 
 nated for his Executors, Mr. Roberts of Denbigh/hire, 
 (who married his only furviving Sifter) and Mr. Fran- 
 cis Wooley of London. Mr. Roberts died before the 
 Doctor; and Mr. IVooley being under great Indifpo- 
 fition, and not fie for Fadgue or Trouble, renounced 
 the Executorfhip : And thereupon at the Perfuafion of 
 the Truftees, Mrs. Williams took out Letters of Ad- 
 miniftration, with the Will annex'd. 
 
 Mrs. Roberts being Heir at Law, had an undoubt- 
 ed Right to feveral Copyhold Eftates, which the 
 
 Do&or
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 99? 
 
 Doctor had not taken up to the Ufe of his Will, and 
 was prefs'd by feveral to make her Claim, to whatfo- 
 ever the Law would give her ; which it was appre- 
 hended would not a little have embarrafs'd the Tru- 
 ftees in the Execution of their Truft. She at the 
 fame Time complain'd that her deceafed Brother,' 
 had not (in her Opinion) left what was fufficient out 
 of his plentiful Eftate, to fupply the Wants, and an- 
 fwer the Expectations, of the Poor in Wales, which 
 was his and her native Country : And therefore fhe 
 fignified, that unlefs the Truftees would come to an 
 Agreement, to allow fixty Pounds fer An more than 
 the Will fpecified, for the Relief of the Poor in the 
 Welch Counties, (he would take all the Advantages 
 which fhe could find the Law would give her, for 
 her own Benefit, that fo fhe might have wherewithal 
 to do fome confiderable Good in her native Country. 
 But then, fhe at the fame Time intimated, that fhe 
 was fo willing and defirous that her deceafed Bro- 
 ther's Eftare fhould go to fuch Sort of Ufes as his 
 Will dire&ed it fhould be employ'd in, That if the 
 Truftees would but give her legal Security, for the 
 Allowance of the mention'd 60 / fer An , for charita- 
 ble Purpofes in Wales, under her Direction, fhe" 
 would contentedly quit all Advantages fhe might be 
 able to claim as Heir at Law, and intirely fall in 
 with them, in confirming the Will, inftead of giving 
 them any thing like Disturbance or Oppofition. 
 
 This Offer was the kinder, becaufe it fo happen'd 
 that the next Heir after Mrs. ^oberti was a Papift, 
 from whom other Ufage might be reafonably feafd 
 by the Truftees. And yet they were fo tied down 
 by the particular Directions of the Will, that they 
 could not by any Means with Safety enter into fuch 
 an Agreement, and add fixty Pounds -per An Allow- 
 ance to the Wcljh Counties, without the Confent and 
 Direction of the Court of Chancery ; and they fig- 
 nified as much to the Heir at Law. But at the 
 fame time they added, that if fhe would lay it be- 
 
 Propofal dut was made, accompanied with the Con- > 
 D d a firmvion
 
 994 Silenced Minifters omitted 
 
 firmadon of the particular Scheme of the deceafed 
 that was oflfer'd by the Heir at Law, would be fo 
 far from being detrimental, that it would be bene- 
 ficial to the Truft they had undertaken. And that 
 they were free and ready to agree to fuch an ad- 
 ditional Settlement for the Benefit of fo poor a 
 Country as Wales, if the Court did but think fit to 
 approve and confirm ir, that they might be fafe in 
 their* Proceedings. The Matter was accordingly 
 brought into Chancery, and approv'd and confirmed 
 by the Court, according to the Defire of the Heir at 
 Law ; and own'd to be for the Benefit of the Truft, 
 as was fuggcfted by the Truftees : And they there- 
 upon a&ed with Safety in complying with her faid 
 Defire. But this neceflarily and unavoidably took 
 up a great deal of Time. 
 
 The Truftees finding feveral Things that came 
 before them difputable, for Want of more particji- 
 lar Directions in the Will, and feveral Points of Law 
 arifing, determined (notwithftanding the Charge that 
 would attend it) that in order to their own Safety, 
 and that neither they nor thofe that came after them 
 might be liable to be call'd to an Account, they 
 would not take a Step in any Thing of Confequence 
 but under the Direction of the Court of Chancery, 
 , whofe Proceedings are well known to take up 
 Time. 
 
 They have had feveral Suits depending, which 
 they had no Way of avoiding. A Bill was brought 
 againft them by the Gentleman of whom the Te- 
 ftator had purchased the Reverfion of Glovers Hall 
 in Beach lane, in the Parifh of St Giles's Cripplegate, 
 pleading for the annulling of that Reverfion, upon 
 the Payment of a certain Sum fpecified in an Agree- 
 ment laid to be made between him and the de- 
 ceafed, Pofterior to the Sale of the Reverfion, after 
 the Deceafe of the prefent Pofleflbr. The Truftees 
 in their Anfwer declar'd upon their Oaths, that they 
 knew nothing of fuch a pofterior Agreement ; buc 
 that they would fubmit to the Judgment and Direc- 
 tion of the Court, hoping .that if they found the 
 Agreement genuine, they would allow them legal 
 Intereft as well as t're Sum ff ecified, from the Time 
 
 fix'd
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. ^_. 995 
 
 fix'd in the faid Agreement, which would have 
 amounted to a confiderable Sum. After which the 
 Complaint was dropp'd, and they heard no more of 
 it; and the Plaintiff difappear'd, fo as to leave 
 the Truftees in Uncertainty whether he was alive 
 or dead. 
 
 They have had another Suit with Mr. "Bryan, who 
 marrying the Daughter of Mr. Meecham of Surnham 
 in EJfcx, to whom the Dodtor left feveral Houfes in 
 that Town, for the Benefit of the Difienting Meeting 
 there, rook Po(Te/Tion of the Houfes bequeath'd ; the 
 faid Mr, Mcccbtm dying before the Dodtor. And the 
 faid Mr. "Bryan being indebted to the Dodtor in a 
 confiderable Sum, refus'd Payment upon feveral Pre- 
 tences, but upon an Hearing was caft. Such Things 
 as thefe gave no fmall Trouble, and took up that 
 Time that might have been applied to much better 
 Purpofes had we nor been prevented. 
 
 It was alfo a good while, before Mrs. Williams 
 the Adminiftratrix, whofe Receipts and Payments 
 were very confiderable, could get her Accounts bal- 
 lanced, and obtain a Difcharge from the Court ; till 
 the obtaining of which the Truftees had not the 
 Eftares bequeath'd to them properly in their Hands. 
 And this Atfair was therefore the longer depending, 
 becaufe of the Embarraflment of the Court of Chan- 
 cery, at that Time, about the Accounts of their Ma- 
 fters, which occafion'd fuch Changes, and put fo 
 great a Stop to Affairs, as the World generally 
 knows. 
 
 Mr. Collyer was appointed by the Will to be I(e- 
 tciver, and his Work was fix'd, and 30 I per An fet- 
 tled as his Salary : But he refufing to adt, the Court 
 of chancery upon Application, gave leave to the 
 Truftees to choofe another in his Room. And the 
 doing this, and receiving the Security of the Perfon 
 fo chofen, and fettling his Salary with the Confent of 
 the Court, took up Abundance of Time. 
 
 The College of Glafgove to whom an Eftate was 
 left at Earnet in Hcrtfordjhirc, together with the Re- 
 verfion of fome Lands in Effex, after the Death of 
 Mrs. Williams, upon certain Conditions fpecificd in 
 the Will, had Intimation given them by the Truftees, 
 D d 3 Of
 
 996 Silenced Mimfters omitted 
 
 of what was requir'd on their Part by the Teftator, 
 in order to their enjoying fuch Lands, and did agree 
 that Council on their Part, and on the Part of the 
 Truftees, fhould meet and determine what was ne- 
 ceflary for them to comply with, in order to their 
 enjoying the Eftare, confiftently with the Safety of 
 the Truftees. Two Gentlemen accordingly did meet 
 from time to time,and adjufted what they apprehend- 
 ed was neceflary to be complied with on each Side. 
 According thereto, an Inftrument of Agreement was 
 drawn up by themfelves, which was deliver'd to the 
 Scotti/h Agent here, and by him fent to Glafgow, and 
 return'd approv'd, and by their Agent deliver'd to 
 an Attorney in London, to ingrofs, tho' he did not 
 think fit to do it, without making fome Alterations in 
 the Phrafes, as it was drawn up by Council, which 
 tho' not very material, yet the Solicitor of the Tru- 
 ftees thought it not proper to confent to them, un- 
 le(s they were approv'd by thofe that drew the 
 Agreement. Their Attorney afterwards applied to 
 a Committee of the Truftees defiring an abfolute 
 Affignment of the Eftate to the College of Glttfgow, 
 under Pretence of faving the Truftees much Trou- 
 J> . ble and Charge. The faid Committee referr'd him 
 and their owa Solicitor both, to the Council confult- 
 ed formerly, to advife if it were practicable, ne- 
 ceflary and fafe. And this at laft is finim'd. 
 
 Specifick Legacies have been paid. The. Truftees 
 have had frequent Meetings. Some of thofe that 
 were nominated in the Will refufing to accept and 
 act, and others of them being dead, in the Room 
 of both Sorts, new Truftees (fome of which are alfo 
 dead) have been chofen, according to .the Rules pre- 
 fcrib'd in the Will/and under theDirecliion of Council. 
 
 Several of the Eftates being much out of Repair, 
 have been repair'd by the Truftees, and leas'd* out 
 according to the beft of their Judgment, and the 
 beft Advice they could get. The Deeds relating to 
 feveral Eftates have been enroll'd ; and Draughts of 
 fome of them taken according to Rules of Art. 
 
 Perfons fix'd on for the inftructing of Youth both 
 in Wales and Effex, (fome of the Places mentioned in 
 ihe Will being eschang'd for others ; the Places par- 
 ticularly
 
 in tbe foregoing Lifts. 997 
 
 ticularly raention'd refufing to accep' of Schools up- 
 on the Doctor's Conditions) have been approv'd of 
 in Chancery, toge'her wirh the Perfon to preach the 
 Gofpel to the Irt/h in their own Tongue. But this 
 alfo took up a great deal of Time. 
 
 Several Books have been reprinted, and Bibles," 
 tc. t have been bought and diftributed to Schools 
 and poor People, and will be continu'd from time 
 to time. 
 
 But as to the Publick Library, (which is likely to 
 beconfiderable, becaufe befides the Doctor's own Col- 
 lection, there is the Addition of Dr. William Bates's 
 Library, which he himfelf purchas'd while he was 
 yet living, giving between 5 and 600 / for it) for 
 which the Generality of the Truftees have a princi- 
 pal Concern, that remains yet unfettled. Not but 
 that they have taken a great deal of Pains about it, 
 in fearching and inquiring ; but it has hitherto been 
 without Succefs. They have had a Variety of Places 
 under Confederation : But either they were not right- 
 ly fituated and eafy of Accefs ; or the Title was not 
 clear ; or the Demands as to Price have been too 
 high. And Afliftance as to this, from any prudent, 
 publick fpirited Pcribns, would be very kindly ta- 
 ken ; and is therefore rhe rather defir'd, becaufe 
 fuch a Publick Library might be an additional Orna- 
 ment to the City, contribute to the promoting of 
 ufeful Learning, and be a great Advantage to the 
 rifing Generation. 
 
 As to the Works of Dr. Daniel Williams, they are 
 thefe that follow: 
 
 Gofpel Truth Jlated and vindicated : Agalnfl Dr. 
 Crifp, 1691. 8vo. 
 
 A Defence of Gofpel Truth, agair.ft Mr. Chauncy, 
 '1693. 4to 
 
 An Anfaer to the Report , &c. 1698. 8w. 
 
 An End to Difwd, 1699. 8w. 
 
 A Letter to the Author of a Difcourfe of Free- thinly 
 
 , . . 
 
 Some Queries relating to the Bill for preventing tht 
 Growth of Schifm, 1714. 
 
 A Sermon before Sir John Shorter, Lord Mayor, 
 Nov. lo. 1687. 4*0. 
 
 D d 4 A
 
 Silenid Minifiers omitted 
 
 A fecond Sermon before Sir John Shorter, Jan. 9, 
 58^-. 4*0. 
 
 The Vanity of Childhood and Toutb : Some Sermons 
 to young People, 1691. 8vo. 
 
 A Thanksgiving Sermon for the Deliverance from the 
 Irifli Rebellion, Octob. 23. 1689. ^to. 
 
 A Thanksgiving Sermon, 1702. 410. 
 
 A Thanksgiving Sermon, Dec. 31. 1706, 8vo. 
 
 A Thanksgiving Sermon for the Union, May i. 1707. 
 
 Man made righteous in ChriJPs Obedience : Two Ser- 
 mons at Pinners-Hall, 1694. %vo. 
 
 A Funeral Sermon for Dr. Samuel Annefley, 1696. 
 1 2 wo. 
 
 For Mr. John Woodhoufe, 1701. \irno. 
 
 - - For Mr. John Quick, 1706. 4*0. 
 
 For Mr. Thomas Doolittle, 1707. 8i;o. 
 
 For Mr. Matthew Henry, 1714. 8w>. 
 
 For Mrj. Mary Gravenor, 1707. %vo. 
 
 Sermons at the Ordinations of Mr. Gravenor, and 
 JVir. \Vright, 1708. 8i>o. 
 
 An Enquiry into thefrefent Duty of Proteftant Dif- 
 fcnters. A Sermon at Salters-Hall, Jan. 22. 171^, %vo. 
 
 A Sermon on that Queftion, What fypc ntancc God 
 requires for National Sins ? Morning Exercife, Vol. IV. 
 1689. 4^0. 
 
 Pag. 840. Mr. FARNWORTH. Poflibly this 
 may be the very fame Perfon as was ejected from 
 Hccklcy, in the County of Ejjex , mcntion'd fag. 312. 
 
 Ibid. Mr. JAMES LAMBERT. He was one that 
 was concern 'd in the Evening Lecture that was fet up 
 about the Year 1679, in Exchange Alley in Cornhil, 
 in Conjunction with Mr. John Shower, Mr. Thomas 
 Gccdwin, anfl Mr. Tbeophilus Dorrington. Which 
 Lecture was well fupported, and attended by a 
 Number of Perfons that afterwards fill'd the moft 
 eminent Pofts of the City. None of thefe Lecturers 
 were ejected Minifters ; but were bred up for the 
 Miniftry afterwards : And yet they as really fuffer'd 
 by the Aft of "Uniformity, as if they had been ejected 
 by it: And they are all of them now dead. 
 
 Mr.
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 999 
 
 Mr. LAMBERT fucceeded Holy Mr. Wadfworth 
 in the Paftoral Care of his Congregation in South- 
 wark. He died Auguft, 9. 1689. And lies incerr'd 
 in the New Burying-Ground by Bunbill ^ 
 
 Mr. JOHN SHOWER fucceeded Mr. Borfet at 
 Curriers Hall near Cripp 'legate ; and afterwards re- 
 mov'd with his Congregation into Jewinftreet ; and 
 after fome Years Continuance there, he remov'd 
 to Old Jewry, where his Congregation built him * 
 fpacious and decent Place of Worfhip at a confide- 
 rable Charge. He died March 18, 1715, and was 
 buried at Highgate. His Funeral Sermon was preach- 
 ed by Mr. Tong, who alfo wrote his Life, to which 
 the Reader is referred. 
 
 Of Mr. THOMAS GODWIN I have taken Notice be- 
 fore, in my Account of his Father Dr.Thomas Goodwin. 
 
 And as for Mr. THEOPHILUS DORRINGTOX^ 
 he after fome time, left the DiJJcnters, and went 
 over to the Eftablifh'd Church; and not being fa- 
 tisfied to have acted according to his own Judgment,' 
 he purfu'd his former Friends and Acquaintance with 
 a Bitternefs which they never deferv'd at his Hands. 
 He became Rector of Witter/ham in Kent : And 
 there (among other Things) wrote a Tract entituFd, 
 The Dijfinting Mint/try in Religion Cenfur'd and con- 
 demn d from the Holy Scrip tures- y on which I made 
 ibme Remarks, in the hrft Part of my Defence of 
 Moderate Nonconformity. 
 
 Pag. 840. Mr. M E N c E. His Name was FRAN- 
 CIS. He was born at Himbleton near the City of 
 Worccfter. His Father was a confiderabie Farmer 
 that had an Eftate of his own. His elder Brother 
 (whofe Name was Robert) was alfo a Minifter ; but 
 he conform'd. The younger Brother Mr. Francis 
 Mence was firft Prentic d to a Clothier in Worcefttr ; 
 but had not been long with his Mafter, before he 
 found him fo addicted to his Book, that he went 
 to his Father, and advis'd and perfuaded him to 
 make a thorough Scholar of his Son. And he having 
 
 fufficieir.ly
 
 iooo Silenced Miniflers omitted 
 
 fufficiently attain'd Grammar Learning before, hi s 
 Father fent him to Pembroke -College in Oxon, and 
 he continu'd there till after the Restoration, and 
 then returned Home. Some time after, he was 
 Chaplain to Mrs. Phcafant at Birchmorchoufe near 
 tVobourn in Bedford/hire. From thence he went in- 
 to Hampjhire, where he was Preacher for feveral 
 Years at Fareham ; till he was calfd to that which 
 had been Mr. I^ytkers Congregation in Wapping. 
 He was a pious, humble, patient Man. He liv'd 
 holily and died comfortably, about the Year 1696; 
 and of his Age fifty-feven. He was the Author of 
 Vtndici< Fcederis, or a Vindication of the Intereft, 
 that the Children of Believers as fuch, have in the 
 Covenant of Grace with their Parents, under the 
 Gofpel Difpenfation: A Treadle on A&s xi. 39, umo, 
 1694 : And another Piece intit. Deceit and Fal/hcod 
 detected ; in Anfwer to Mr. Hercules Collins, with a 
 Poftfcript, anfwering Mr. Benjamin Dennis's Remarks, 
 izrno. 1695. 
 
 Pag. 840. line. 2,8. After this Paflage, and it is not 
 unlikely, but fome others alfo may be omitted ; 
 kt this be added, 
 
 One of thefe omitted Perfons is Mr. HENRY 
 FIELD, who was born at Kings Norton in iVorcefter- 
 /hire, bred up under Mr. Thomas Hal/, and fent to 
 Pembroke-College in Oxon ; and from thence remov- 
 ed to thrift's- College in Cambridge, where he was 
 Fellow, and preferred by the Earl of Manchefter to 
 be Minifter of TJttington in Lincoln/hire. He was 
 imprifon'd for much the fame Crime as Mr. Parfons 
 was, after King Charles's Reftoration, and died in 
 the Gatehoufe. There is a Copy of Verfes upon 
 his Death, by Mr. Richard Moor, at the End of his 
 Abel I(edivivus, printed in %vo, 1674. Mr. Baxter 
 in his Account of his Life and Times, fays that 
 ftlr. Parfons of iVem, Dr. Bryan, and this Mr. Field 
 were accus'd for much the fame Thing. 
 
 Among thefe emitted Perfons I reckon alfo one 
 Mr. BEE BE, of whom I have receiv'd a particular 
 Account. He was zfilencd Minifter 5 and I remem- 
 ber
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 1001 
 
 ber I had Tome Converfation with him above thir- 
 ty Years ago ; but I canno: fay whether or no he was 
 ejected, much lefs from whence j unlefs it be he than 
 is here mentioned, fag. 136, in the County of Derby. 
 
 He was a Student at Oxford when King Charles I 
 was befieg'd there, and then left the Univerfity and 
 traveli'd on Foot into the North, to his Father's 
 Houfe, and there applied himfelf clofe to his Stu- 
 dies. After fome time he was ordain'd to the Mi- 
 niftry, and fent into Scotland, as Chaplain to the Re- 
 giment of Colonel Anight, in the Army of General 
 Monk They that were at that Time in Power, 
 leaving that Part of their Army in that Country, 
 he continu'd there many Years. He had a ftrong 
 Body and Lungs, and a loud Voice, a quick Inventi- 
 on, and a great Memory; and fo was very well fit- 
 ted for Field-fervite. He was much employ'd in 
 praying and preaching in their own Regiment, and 
 fometimes before the General, and the whole Ar- 
 my, when they were together, which appeared to be 
 much to the Satisfaction, both of the General, and 
 of Colonel Kjiight. * With them he came into Eng- 
 land, and they brought in the King, who knighted 
 the Colonel, who was thence forward S\^I(alfh Kjiight. 
 At his Houfe, though he was Juftice of Peace, Mr. 
 Beebe us'd frequently to preach after the Reftoration : 
 But whether he continu'd in his Family till the 
 1 afling of the AR of "Uniformity, I cannot fay. 
 
 Not being fatisfied to conform, he after fome time 
 quitted the North, and went into Shrop/hire, and liv'd 
 with a Relation at Rowley hall, near Bridgnorth, and 
 practised Phyfick, preaching occafionally in the neigh- 
 bouring Parrs, and particularly at Guarnal, in Sedge- 
 ly Parifti in Stafford/hire, where he took his Turn 
 itatedly with fome others. He preach'd afterwards 
 at Stourbridgc, and from thence was calFd to be Pa- 
 ftor of a Congregation of Diffenters at Circncejler in 
 Glouccfterfhirc ; where after fome Years Continuance 
 he died. He us'd to take great Pleafure in difcour- 
 fing with his familiar Acquaintance, of the fecret 
 TranfacYions in General Monies Army in ScotUnd, 
 and what follow'd afcerwards. Often would he 
 
 talk 
 
 * Particular Nor'ce isttlcn of thii Col. K : gt>t t in the Life of Dr. 
 Jthn Birttick^ which w*t printed not long fines.
 
 ioo2 Silenced Minifters ommitted 
 
 talk of the fubtle Contrivances of the General, Col. 
 Knight, Mr. Nicholas Monk^ a Minifter, and his Bro- 
 ther in Law Mr. Thomas Clarges, and a few more, in 
 order to the Reftoration of King Charles II, after ty'- 
 chard Cromwel was fet by. He would teli what Dif- 
 ficulties lay in the Way, how few they durft truft, 
 what Devices and Stratagems were us'd, how often 
 the General was ready to defpair, and how Colonel 
 Knight and Mr. Clarges and others heancn'd him, and 
 reviv'd the Progress of the Affair from Time to 
 Time : How much he and others were diflarisfied 
 about fome Steps, and efpecially that no more Care 
 was taken of Religion : And yet how impoflible it 
 was to obtain any firm Security about it, as Circum- 
 ftances then ftood; by Reafon that had the Defign of 
 , bringing in the King upon any Terms been known, 
 
 it had been prevented, by the Oppofition that would 
 have been made againft it, by the Majority of their 
 own Army, as well as General Lambert's. They 
 were not without Hope, that Intereft and Gratitude 
 would have ingag'd the King, upon his Reftoration 
 to have favour'd the fober Party in the Land : But 
 finding it otherwife, and that they that were for 
 running Things to Extremity, without any Regard 
 to Piety, or even Sobriety, carried all befove them, 
 and that fb great a Number of worthy Minifters were 
 filenced, who had feveral of them ad ventured their 
 Lives, and all that was dear to them to promote 
 the Reftoration, it made fuch an Impreffion upon 
 him (as v/ell as many others) that he could not wear 
 it off to his dying Day. 
 
 Another omitted Perfon, is Mr. GEORGE LAW* 
 HENCE, M. A, mention'd in Wood's Athen. Ox. the 
 laft Edition, Vol. II. f. 1125, among the Writers of 
 New Inn Hatt who he fays was a Preacher one 
 while in London, and another while at the Hofpital 
 of St Crcfs near Wmchefler ; and was filenc'd and 
 ejected afrer King Charles's Reftoration : But where 
 he liv'd and preach'd afterwards, and when and 
 . where he died, J atn not able to difcover. 
 
 Another ormtred Perfon is Mr. VAVASOR POWEL 
 one that u r is famous in Wales, for his preaching with 
 
 great
 
 in the forgoing Lifts. 1003 
 
 great Vehemence in the Woods and Fields, and up 
 on the Mountains, as well as at Markets and Fairs. 
 He met with Imprifonment from different Parries, 
 and at laft died in the Fleet, and was buried in Bun- 
 hit Fields. But of him I have faid fo much in my 
 Remarks on Dr. Walkers Attempt, intit. The Church 
 tind the DiJJenters ccmpard at to Perfecution, that 
 there is the lefs Occafion for adding any thing here. 
 
 Another Pcrfon of whom no Notice is taken is 
 Mr. ROBERT TRAIL, who came hither from Scot- 
 land after the Aft of 'Uniformity pafs'd, and was for 
 many Years a celebrated Preacher in this City. He 
 was moft certainly filenc'd by the A&, though not 
 ejected. He died not long fince ; and has left feve- 
 ral Tracts in Print. As the Throne of Grace difcour- 
 fed of, in thirteen Sermons, from Heb. iv, 16, %vo. 
 The Lord's Prayer, on John xvii. 24, difcours'd of in 
 iixteen Sermons, Ivo. Aftcdfaft Adherence to the Pro- 
 fejjlon of our Faith, recommended in feveral Sermons, 
 tvo. 1718 : And a Letter upon the Doctrine of Jufli- 
 fication. 
 
 Another omitted Perfon is Mr. SAMUEL POM- 
 r H RE T, who was born at Coventry, and bred up at 
 the publick School there, from whence he went to 
 Cambridge-, but upon the Turn of the Times, he found 
 fuch a Change there as he could no way relifh, and 
 therefore remov'd and finifh'd his Studies under Mr. 
 J(alfh "Button, who kept a private Academy at If- 
 lington, near London. His firft Employment was to 
 officiate as Chaplain in the Family of Sir . William 
 Dyer in EJJex. He afterwards went Chaplain of a 
 Ship in a trading Voyage to the Mediterranean, and 
 by his great Pains, good Example, and winning Be- 
 haviour, he produc'd a vifible Reformation in the 
 Ship's Crew, and there was Reafon to hope feveral 
 of them became truly religious : And GOD remark- 
 ably blefs'd them j for though they were out upon 
 the Voyage for two Years apace, yet not one in all 
 the Company, (which amounted to an hundred,) died 
 in all the Time. Upon his Return, he for a lit- 
 tle while preach'd a JLe&ure in Lincolns Inn Fields, 
 with good Acceptance j and then accepted the Call 
 
 of
 
 1004 Stknfd Mmifters omitted 
 
 of a Congregation at Sandwich in I\ent, with whom 
 he condnu'd leven Years, and in all Likelihood 
 would have done it much longer, had he not been 
 " driven from them by Perfecution. GOD owning him 
 to do good, the Devil rag'd againft him, and ftirr- 
 ed up great Oppofidon. He was at length taken,. and 
 imprifon'd in Doiw-Caftle, but efcap'd from thence 
 by Night, out of a Window, and made off to Can- 
 terbury and fo to London. There he preach'd three 
 or four Times every Lord's Day at diftant Places, 
 and often on the Week-days belides ; and though 
 the Informers were very bufy, yet he was not feiz- 
 ed on. When the DUfenters had Liberty, he ga- 
 ther'd a numerous Congregation, which met firft in 
 iVmchefter-ftreet, and afterwards in Gravel-Lane in 
 Hounfditcb, where he continu'd his painful Labours 
 with great Succefs, till his Death, Jan. n, l'^^\. 
 His Funeral Sermon was preach'd by Mr. Thomas 
 1 Reynolds, and the Reader is referr'd to that for his 
 Character, which is given at large* 
 
 Another Perfon here quite omitted is Mr. TOBIAS 
 ELLIS, who is mention'd by Mi: Baxter, in his 
 Narrative of his Life and Times, among thofe ejec- 
 ted for Nonconformity ; and he fays that he was a 
 Man of great Sincerity and Zeal, and Defire to do 
 Good, and Devotednefs to G o D j and adds, that fall- 
 ing into the Life of a private School mafter, he fol- 
 low'd it with almoft inimitable Diligence, living 
 with very little Sleep, lefs Food, great Labour, and 
 Delight in all : By which he was fav'd better than. 
 by Phyfick, from a Melancholy Inclination. He 
 printed a Difcourfe of the Kingdom of God, from 
 Mat. vi. 33, dedicated to King Charles II, Oft. 1678. 
 
 Pag. 84.1. about the Middle ; in Chejhire Mr. 
 L i * T o T : It fhould be Mr. L i N T o T. 
 
 Pag. 843. Mr. JOHN EVANS. At the End of the Ac- 
 count of him, after July 16, 1700, add; at the Age of 
 feventy-two : See Mr. Tongs Life of Mr. Matthew 
 Henry, p. 278. And let thefe Words that follow, His 
 Son is now Co-faftor with Dr. Williams, to a numerous 
 Di/enting Congregation in London, be expung'd ; and 
 
 thefe
 
 in the foregoing Lifts. 1005 
 
 rhefe fubftkuted in their Room : His Son that bears 
 both his Names, was firft Copajior with Dr. Williams, 
 to a numerous DiJJenting Congregation in London, and 
 fole Paftor of it after his Deceaje. 
 
 There is alfo an Account of the Ordination of 
 this Mr. John Evans the Younger, at Wrexbam in 
 Auguft 1701, in Mr. Tang's Life of Mr. Matthew 
 Henry, pag. 163, 264. 
 
 There was one Mr. JENKIN EVAKS^ a 
 ble Man, of whom there is fome Account, in Mr. 
 Town's Life of Mr. Matthew Henry, pag. 187. 
 
 Pag. 843. Whereas Mr. THOMAS WATERHOUSB 
 is mentioned as the ejected Schoolmafter at Ipfwich, 
 let Notice be taken, that he had been tnention'd 
 before pag. 659, and therefore fhould have been 
 omitted here. 
 
 Pag. 845. tin. 3, 4, 5 : In Yorkfhire Mr. JOHN 
 GARNET, and Mr. ISRAEL HAWKSWORTH 
 were ejected from the School at Leeds. They had 
 fent many good Scholars to the Vnherjity. I would 
 have it alter'd thus : Mr. Garnet, and Mr. Atkinfon 
 were the ejcfted Schoolmaflers at Leeds in Yorkftiire,' 
 and Mr. Hawskworth was of Hunflet, where his pi- 
 ous Father refided. The faid Mr. Garnet, M. A. of 
 C/jrj/Ts-College Cambridge, was very ufeful in his 
 Station, and made above an ioo/ per An, of his 
 School, which furnifli'd both Church and State with 
 feveral eminent Perfons that were by him fitted for 
 the Univerfity. Mr. tylph Thoresby calls him Ifc 
 bert Garnet in his Antiquities of Leeds, p. 81. 
 
 THE
 
 
 THE 
 
 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 
 
 AND THE 
 
 
 
 DISSENTERS 
 
 
 
 Compared, as to 
 
 
 
 PERSECUTION, 
 
 
 
 I N 
 
 
 
 Some REMARKS on Dr. Walkers 
 
 
 
 Attempt to recover the Names and Suf- 
 ferings of the Clergy that were Seque- 
 ftred, j?c. between 1640, and 1660. 
 
 
 By EDMUND CALAMY, D.D. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 
 Firft printed for JOHN CLARK, at the 
 Bible and Crown in the Poultry, near Cheap- 
 fide, in M DCC XIX. 

 
 THE 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 AND THE 
 
 DISSENTERS 
 
 ! .3:-!i ><\ffS^ ">n: 
 
 Compared, 
 
 .- 
 
 MY Account of the Minifters, Lecturers, Ma- 
 fters, and Fellows of Colleges, and School- 
 mafters, who were Ejected or Silenc'd af- 
 ter the Reftoration in 1660, by or before the Ait for 
 Uniformity ; delign'd for preferving to Pofterity, the 
 Memory of their Names, Characters, Writings and 
 Sufferings ; (which of a fingle Chapter in my Abridg- 
 ment of the Life of Mr. Richard Baxter, was at length 
 improv'd into a Volume by itfelf j came out in 1713. 
 In my Preface to it, I intimated to the World, that I 
 (hould have been glad if the Account of former Suffer- 
 ings on the other Side, between 1640, and 1660, 
 which it was generally faid was defign'd to be pub- 
 liflied, had feen the Light, before this, which was 
 my Second Edition came out: And that the rather, 
 becaufe finding by the Queries which were fent abouc 
 the Diocele of Excn, that they that were concern'd 
 in it, would be willing to take all Opportunities of 
 expofing thofe who fuflfer'd for their Nonconformity, 
 I fhould have reckoned it an Happinefs if from their 
 Searches, I might have receiv'd Light to help me to 
 rectify Miftakes, as well as upon another Account, 
 which I there exprefs. This coming to the Sight of 
 Mr. Lewis of Margate, with whom I had fome Ac- 
 quaintance, he fent me a Letrer wherein he freely 
 expoftulated with me for cenfuring the Work of his 
 VOL. 11. A i Chumm,
 
 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 Chumm, Mr. (fince Dr.) Walker, before I had feen 
 it; and intimated, that he could not imagine he would 
 be warm or fevere ; but hop'd he would write with 
 that Temper, that I fhould wifli any Hints of that 
 Nature, had been forborn. I fliould have been glad 
 to have been miftaken in my Apprehenfions : And 
 that Mr. Lewis had found his Friend either fo careful 
 of himfelf to govern his Temper, or fo ready to liften 
 to the Advice of others, which was fairly given him 
 from different Quarters, as that I fhould have had 
 Reafon to have own'd my Surmifes altogether ground - 
 lefs. But that Gentleman hath fince with great Frank- 
 nefs, not only let the Doctor and me, but the World 
 know, how fenfible he was of his Miftake. How- 
 ever, I believe, moft Men would have been of my 
 Mind, that had feen the Exeter Queries, which were 
 fent round the Country, in order to the picking up 
 Materials for the intended Hiftory, in Oppofition to 
 my Abridgment, and the annex'd Account of the 
 Ejected and SilencM Nonconformifts. I (hall here 
 fubjoin a Copy of them, for the Gratification of the 
 Curious, and to introduce my intended Remarks 
 with the more Advantage. Thefe celebrated Queries 
 were put into the Form of a Circular Letter, to the 
 Minifters of the feveral Parifhes in the Diocefe, in 
 the Words following^ 
 
 I$ev. Sir, 
 
 t( V" o u are humbly requeued to make the follow- 
 " * ln g Queries in your Parifh. 
 
 " Whether in the Times of Rebellion and Confu- 
 " (ion, your rightful Epifcopal Predeceflbr was for- 
 " mally turn'd out of his Benefice ; or fo much har- 
 " raffed, that he was forc'd to leave it? Or forc'd to 
 " compound for it ? Or with much Trouble and Dif- 
 " ficulty kept it? Or was turn'd out for fomeTime, 
 " and recover'd it again by the Rcftoration ? 
 " If he werefo ; 
 
 " What his Name was ? As alfo the Name of his 
 " Parifh ? And what his Character, either for Mo- 
 " rals or Learning ? And what his Degree in the 
 v Univerfity? 
 
 " How
 
 compared, as to Perfection. 
 
 " How he was turn'd out ? that is, Either for not 
 " taking the Covenant, or by the Committee of Com- 
 " miflioners, or Triers of Minifters, or by any othei 
 " more arbitrary and violent Way ? 
 
 " What Caufes or Crimes were alledg'd againft 
 " him ? How they are prov'd, and by what Evi- 
 " dence ? In general, What Hardships and ill Treat- 
 " ment he lay under ? Particularly, What was his 
 " Ufage by the Commifiioners, if turn'd out by 
 " them ? What Accounts you have current among 
 " you of his Examination before them? WhatRude,- 
 " nefs was offered him there ? G?c. 
 
 " What Treatment he had from the Soldiers, or 
 " the Mob? And whether his Temporals were not 
 " feiz'd as well as his Spirituals ? His Houfe plun- 
 " dered, hisPerfon (or Family) infulred, orinjur'd? 
 " Particularly, in the Time of Divine Service, G?c. 
 " As alfo, Whether there were not Indecencies com- 
 " mirted in or toward the Church in thofe Times ? 
 " And whether he preach'd at all after he was turn'd 
 " out of his Place ? And fufier'd not for it ? 
 
 " Whether the fucceeding irregular Minifter of 
 " thofe Times, laid any Hardfhips upon him ? Or 
 ** had any hand in countenancing his ill Ufage ? 
 
 " What: Family he had at that Time? What him- 
 " felf and they did after, for a Subfiftance ? What 
 " became of him and them ; and what his worldly 
 " Circumftances at that Time were ? 
 
 " Whether the Allowance of a fifth, order'd by 
 " Parliament, was paid him ? Whether the Parifli 
 " on his Ejectment, continued not fome time whh- 
 " out any Minifter at all ? 
 
 " Whether his Life or any Funeral Sermon be 
 " printed ? Whether he publifh'd any Thing him- 
 4< felf? Or hath any Papers remaining, which re- 
 '* late to his Sequeftration ? &c. 
 
 " Whether he liv'd to the Reftoration, and came 
 *' into his Place again ? And if foj Whether imme- 
 " diately on the Reftoration, or at Bartbolcmcve-Dzy 
 " l66^> 
 
 " Whether he hath any Relations or Friends liv- 
 " ing, that can give a fuller Account of this Matter ? 
 " And where they may be writ to ? 
 
 A 3 " Secondly,
 
 The Church and the DijJ'enters 
 
 " Secondly, 
 
 " What the Name of the irregular and illegal Mi- 
 " nifter, (who in thofe Times immediately fucceeded 
 " him, at his being turn'd out ?) And (if there were 
 " move than one before the Reftoration) what his or 
 " their Names alfo? 
 
 " How he or they got Pofleflfion of the Place ? 
 " V/he r her by Appointment of the Commiffioners ? 
 " Ufurpation ? Or what other Way ? 
 
 " Whether your Predeceflbr at Bartholomew-tide 
 " 1661, was one of thofe turn'd out by the AH of 
 " "Uniformity ? And (if the Place had been a feque- 
 " ftred one) whether he was the Perfon who had 
 " immediarely fucceeded the ejected, rightful, Epi- 
 " fcopal Clergyman in thofe Times, or there had 
 " been one or more between them ? 
 
 " And concerning both the one and the 
 
 " other of thefe ? 
 
 " What their feveral Characters were? Either for 
 " Morals, or Learning? Whether they had ever 
 " been at any Univerfky ? Or were Tradefmen ? 
 " And did not return to their Trades again, when 
 " they were filenc'd ? 
 
 " Whether they were ever in Epifcopal Orders ? 
 " Or in any Orders at all ? And how long they mi- 
 " niftred (efpecially either of the Sacraments) before 
 " they were fo? 
 
 " What Opinions they were of? A, Prtdyterians, 
 " Independents, Anabaptifts, Brownifts, Fiffh-Monar- 
 " chymen ? &c. As alfo, what Heterodoxies they 
 -" held or broach'd ? 
 
 " What Accounts there are among you of their 
 " Ignorance ? Of their ridiculous Praying or Preach- 
 " ing. Canting ? Formal cr immoral Pradifes ? 
 
 ' What factious, or furious and violent Things 
 
 " they ekher faid or did, againft Monarchy, Epifco- 
 
 <{ pacy, the Church, the King, the Bifiiops, the Cler- 
 
 " gy, the Liturgy, the Lord's Prayer, the Ceremo- 
 
 ' nies, or the Royalifts? 
 
 *' Hov/ often the Sacraments us'd to be admini- 
 " ftred in their Time ? 
 
 " Whether they continu'd not to preach privately, 
 *' afcer they had been lilenc'd at Bartholomew tide 
 
 " 1662?
 
 as to Perfecution. 
 
 " 1661? Whether they after conform'd, either as 
 " Laymen, or Clergymen ? Conftantly or occafionally? 
 " What Countrymen they were ? Of what Uni- 
 " verfity, if of any ? Who of them dead ? When 
 " they died? And -what their Age ? 
 
 " What kind Treatment your Predeceflbr (if he 
 " were turn'd out at Bartholomew tide) had from the 
 " Church Minifter who fucceeded him ? And what 
 " was the Character of that your Epifcopal Prede- 
 41 ceflbr? 
 
 " If your PredecefTor was not 
 " ejected at St. Bartholomews, 
 " Whether he had not come into his Place by 
 " fome irregular Way or other in the la'e Times 
 " of Confufion ? And was conunu'd in it only for 
 " Conforming ? 
 
 " What Perfon can give any fuller and more per- 
 " feet Account of them ? 
 
 " What the Names of thofe Commiflioners who 
 " ejected your rightful Epifcopal Predeceflbr were ? 
 " As alfo their Character, for Learning and Mo- 
 " rals, Eftate and Condition? 
 
 " Whether any of their Papers, Proceedings, Jour- 
 ** nals, &c. are ro be had ? And where any of their 
 " Relations alfo live? 
 
 " Thefe feveral Queries, 'tis prefum'd, ancient Peo- 
 " pie of your Parifli, the Relations or Defcendants of 
 " fuch as were concern'd in thofe Times, (efpecially 
 " any Relations or Defcendants of their own, or their 
 " intimate Acquaintance or Friends) (any Learned 
 *' Gentlemen of your Parifli) and your own Parifli 
 " Records, (particularly your Wardens Accounts 
 " fubfcrib'd by them) will enable you to fatisfy. 
 
 Befides which, 
 
 " Any Accounts of Books, Pamphlets, or Parts 
 " of Books and Hiftories, which treat of the Suf- 
 " ferings of the Clergy in thofe Times ; or any 
 " Books or Pamphlets which may help towards the 
 " giving an Account but of any one fingle Perfon, 
 " (whether of the Suffering Epifcopal, or any of 
 " the irregular illegal Minifters) in thofe Times ; or 
 " any other Notice relating to thofe Matters, jIluU 
 " be moft thankfully received. 
 ?. The fuller you are the better. But if you can 
 A
 
 8 The Church and the Diljenters 
 
 " only learn the Names of your injur'd Epifccpal 
 " Predeceflbrs, or of your Predecelfor that was turn- 
 " ed out at Bartholomew-tide i66z : Or, if you are 
 " fure your Predeceflbrs refpedively were either 
 " fequeftred, or ejected in 6^ t without knowing 
 " their Namesj or if you know (or have heard) of 
 " any other Minifters, in any orher Parifli belides 
 *' your own, which loft their Place, (either the one 
 " Way or the other) or only as before) the bare 
 " Names of the Parifhes themfelves (the Minifters 
 " of which refpecTively, you are fure were either fe- 
 " queftrcd on the one Hand, or cured at Sr. Bartho* 
 '^lomcves on the Other) you are requefted ro fend 
 " even that little Information : And for this latter 
 " Purpofe to enquire of any Relations of any feque- 
 " ftred Minifters, (befides your own Predeceflbr) liv- 
 " ing in Your Parifli, who may inform you in this 
 " Matter. 
 
 " You are defir'd to fet down the Names cr 
 " Quality of the Perfon, from whom you have 
 " your Relations ; as from a Son, a Brother, or 
 " Friend, &c. of the Minifter himfelf ; or whatever 
 " elfe the Relation or Condition may be, that ren- 
 " ders his Teftimony creditable : And to fend no.hing 
 " but what you have Grounds to believe is true. 
 
 " You are defirM farther, to lay thefe Queries 
 " before you, whilft you are enquiring of any one 
 " for Intelligence ; becaufe feveral of them may 
 " otherwife be omitted by you: Some of which be- 
 " ing defign'd for peculiar Purpofes, the Omiffion 
 " would be very prejudicial. 
 
 " The Defign intended to be profecuted by thefe 
 " Queries, ha - h been humbly laid before the Right 
 " Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bifhop of this 
 " Diocefe, and the Reverend the Archdeacons, 
 " who have been pleafed not only ro approve of ir, 
 " but alfo to permit that it be recommended in their 
 *' Names to you, for the Atfiftance that is hereby 
 44 requefted of you. 
 
 " Be pleas'd to fend the Anfvver to thefe Queries 
 <c ro Mr. Francis Coo^ the Right Reverend the Bi- 
 *' (hop's Regifter ; or Mr. Nicholas IVebker, the Re- 
 "" vcrend the Archdeacon's Regifter, in Exon, or ro 
 " Mr. John Athertcn, the Reverend the Archdeacon's 
 
 " Regifter
 
 as to Perfection. 
 
 *' Regifter in Totnrs : Or to Mr. Jofoua Tucker, the 
 " Reverend the Archdeacon's Regilter in Barn/table, 
 ** wiih all convenient Speed. 
 
 I got a Copy of thefe leading Queries by meer Ac- 
 cident. They were lent me by a Friend from the 
 Weft of England, and he inform'd me that he ob- 
 taiu'd 'em in this Manner. v A certain Parifh Miniftef 
 that was willing to ferve the Caufe, comes with 
 his Paper to a good Old Chriftian, whofe Father 
 had been a Sufferer between 1640 and 60, and 
 was of the Loyal Party, and tells her that if fhe 
 would but rub up her Memory, and help him to a 
 Number of Particulars, of the Sufferings of her Fa- 
 ther, and Others of the fame Side, and of the Ex- 
 travagancies and Madnefs of thofe that came in 
 their Room, fne might have a fairer ProfpecT: than 
 flie ever could have expected, of fome Reparati- 
 on for the Loflc's her Family had fuftain'd, &c. 
 The Poor Woman was furpriz'd with the Motion ; 
 and fignified to the Maker of ir, that if fhc could 
 but gee fafely and qu-ecly to Heaven 'twas as much 
 as (lie dcfu'd : But that as for paft Matters, they 
 might remain in perpetual Oblivion for her : She 
 had no Inclination to revive them. The Parfon 
 chid her for her Simplicity ; and told her he hopM 
 (lie would be wifer than to let flip fuch an Oppor- 
 tunity ; and rrefently falls to asking her Queftton* 
 out of this Paper, concerning her Father. She told 
 him her Father had been long in his Grave, and fhe 
 knew of no good End it would anfwer to drag him 
 thence, and revive what in her Apprehenfion were 
 better forgotten. By this Time the Examiner be- 
 gan to be in a PafTion, and infifted on it, that 
 he muft and would know, what it was that her 
 Father was charg'd with, when his Living was fe- 
 queftred. She told him he had better let that Mat- 
 ter alone, for it would not anfwer his End. And 
 when he would take no Denial, fhe gave him fuch 
 an Account of the Particulars laid to his Charge, 
 and the Evidence thar fupported 'em, as was not at 
 all to his Guft. He diverts therefore, and asks 
 other Qieftions about the Pcrfon that fucceded her 
 
 Father,
 
 io The Church and the Difienters 
 
 Father, upon whom he reflected with great Free- 
 dom. She told him, that as much as he defpis'd 
 that Minifter, who came in her Father's Room, if 
 fhe ever got to Heaven, {he fhould have Reafon to 
 blefs GOD for him, as an Inftrument in his Hands, to 
 help her thither. The Inquirer was wofully difap- 
 pointed, and ftorm'd and rag'd to no Purpofe j for 
 he could not help himfelf. At laft he retir'd, and 
 thro* the Slipperinefs of his Memory, (though fome 
 afcribe it to another Caufe) he left his Paper behind 
 him, which was carried to one that took a Copy 
 of ir, and return'd it. By next Morning he recol- 
 lected himfelf, and fetch'd his Paper in mighty hafte, 
 and with no fmall Concern, and feem'd glad he had 
 found it, and return'd no more. 
 
 But it was not in this Diocefe only that Queries 
 were fent about to fetch in Materials for the grand 
 Work defign'd. Some were alfo difpers'd in the 
 Diocefe of Canterbury, and I have obtain'd a Copy 
 of them by the Favour of a Friend. They were 
 in the Words that follow. 
 
 I(ev. Sir, 
 
 R. Ctilamy (in his late Abridgment of Mr. 
 Baxters Life) hath publifhed' a Lift of thofe 
 " who were ejected at St. Bartholomew-Day 1661, for 
 " Nonconformity : And hath lain many heavy and 
 " grievous Imputations upon the Aft of "Uniformity, 
 " on that Account. As one Part of an Anfwer to 
 " which, it is propofed to advance an Account of 
 " the Royal and Epifcopal Clergy, which fuffered 
 " in the late Times of the grand Rebellion. For 
 " this Purpofe you are humbly defired to enquire 
 " in Your Parifh, whether your then Predeceflbr 
 " might not be one of thofe very many Sufferers, 
 " who were at that Time either formally fequeftred 
 " from their Livings, or at leaft fo much harraf- 
 : ' fed and threatned, that they were forc'd to Re- 
 " fign or Quit them. And if you find, he was fo, 
 " ro bring or^ranfmit his Name and Degree, (toge- 
 " ther whh the Name and Value of the Place, and 
 
 " County
 
 as to T erf edition, n 
 
 *' County in wbich ic lies ; as alfo whether a Rectory 
 " or Vicaridge,) either to the Archdeacon, &c. 
 
 " If there were any Thing peculiar in his SufFer- 
 :< ings, or Character, as likewife in the Character 
 '* of the Perfon who fucceeded in his Place at that 
 " Time : And you can get them from good Hands ; 
 " or if you hear of any Papers relating to thefe 
 " Matters ; be pleafed to fend an Account of eicher 
 * ' the one, or the other, c. 
 
 I have fome Reafon to believe that Letters of the" 
 fame Nature were fenn through moft other Diocefes 
 in the Kingdom : And therefore I am fo far from 
 wondring that the Accounts tranfmitted are fo parti- 
 cular, that I raiher wonder they are not much more 
 exact. 
 
 Upon the difperfing of thefe Letters, Dr. Walk$r 
 had I fuppofe Advices from different Quarters with 
 Relation to his Conduct. Among the reft, an old 
 Friend of his, advis'd him carefully to avoid faying 
 any Thing ro blacken the DhTenters, or render them 
 odious, of which an ill Ufe would be made by com- 
 mon Adverfaries. And about the fame Time the very 
 fame Gentleman wrote me Word, that he hop'd I 
 (hould find the Characters of the Nonconformifts 
 were very favourably trea-ed: And he would not 
 allow me the leaft Sufpicion of the contrary, not- 
 vvkhftanding what I knew of Dr. Walkers Ccnduifk 
 at Exon, to which I believe he was pretty much a 
 Stranger. 
 
 At Lengrh in 1714 out comes the celebrated long 
 ejected Work, in a Folio, in a fina^ Print, with 
 the Title of, An Attempt towards recovering an Ac- 
 count of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of 
 the Church of England, Heads of Colleges, Fellows, 
 Scholars, &c. who we re fequcftred, harrafsd, &c. in the 
 I ate Times of the grand (ebel limit Occafiond by the 
 Ninth Chapter, (nccv the Second Volume) of Dr. CalamyV 
 Abridgment of the Life of Mr. Baxter ; together with 
 an Examination of that Chtftcr. The World was at 
 firft amus'd with fo large a Work, but by Degrees 
 began to fpcak freely of it in Conversation, where 
 it has had tfce Fate of other Performances. 
 
 One
 
 The Church and the Dijjenters 
 
 One learned Doctor was pleas'd to bring it into 
 the Pulpit, and call it, A late Book,. of Martyrology, and 
 reprefent it as a Accord which ought to be kept in every 
 Sanftuary*: But, fays Mr. Lewis who has taken him 
 to Task for it, what is it lefs, than to defile thatfacred 
 "Place, to bring fuch a Farrago offalfe andfenfelefs Le- 
 gends into it t- Which was as mortifying to the Au- 
 thor, as the other was elevating. This Mr. Lewis be- 
 ing a particular Friend of the Author's, it may not 
 be amifs to add what follows prefently after. When 
 (fays he) I firft read Mr. WalkerV Circular Letter to 
 the Archdeacons, I fancied he intended to give us an 
 Account of thoje worthy Men, who in the Time of the 
 Civil War and. 'Ufurpation, were perfecuted for Rjghte- 
 eufnefs Safe, and loft all that they could not keep with 
 a good Conscience, for the Sakf of their Duty to God and 
 the Kjng. And this I really thought a good Works For 
 that fuch righteous Men ought to be in everlafling Re- 
 membrance. But after about Ten Tears going with this 
 Wor^ and that the Time of its Birth was come, and 
 I had the Opportunity of feeing the Production, Ifoon 
 found it to be a -perfect Changeling. In/lead of what I 
 expected it to be, Ifaw an huge Heap of the moft hete- 
 rogenecm Characters, and like the Popifh Bead-roll of 
 their Saints and Martyrs, a great many of them much 
 more deferving to have their Names blotted out, than 
 their Memsry to be prcfervd, &c. And he that thus 
 freely pa(fes his Cenfure, happens to be the very Per- 
 fon, that was dilpleas'd with me not long before, for 
 not expecting Judgment, Candor, and Moderation in 
 the Performance, But I really thought, when fuch a 
 Sett of Qperies, was to run through the Hands of the 
 Clergy in all Parts, in order to Returns, which when 
 made, were robe under the Management of one of 
 Dr. Walkers Warmth and Zeal, it was no difficult 
 Matter to form a Conjecture what the Refu't would 
 prove. And I muft (ay, whoever was difappotmed, 
 my Expectations were exactly anfwer'd. 
 
 When the Work had been out fome Time, Mr.- 
 Withers of Exon, Printing a Reply to Two Pamph- 
 lets of Mr. Agate's, added an Appendix containing a 
 
 few 
 
 * Dr.Tfc*. B : /Ss Sermon Hefore the *ons of the Clergy, Dtc.6. 17163 
 p. fp. t See Mr. L' Remarks on the laid Sermon, f . 51.
 
 cow-par* d y as to Perfecution. i $ 
 
 few Hcmarksy on Dr. Walker'* Preface to his 
 which Appendix, men with a favourable Reception 
 from the Generality of thofe who would give ic the- 
 Reading. Mr. Withers there deals pretty freely wich 
 the Doctor, about his unchriftian Railing and ill Lan- 
 guage ; his fcurrilous and bafe Reflections upon the 
 Memory of King William ; the Indecency and Rude- 
 nefs with which he treats his Superiors ; the frequent 
 Occauons he takes to ridicule ferious Godlinefs ; his 
 notorious Falflioods and Untruths, of which he gives 
 feveral Inftances ; the vain Effort he makes to preju- 
 dice King George againft His beft Friends ; and the 
 Opportunity he has given of turning all thofe railing 
 Accufations, which he hath falfly brought againft the 
 Whigs and Diflenters, againft his own Patrons, the 
 Tories and High-Fliers, and that wich a great deal of 
 Truth : And upon the whole he concludes this Preface 
 of the Doctors, to be one of the mcft fcurriloia Libels, 
 that ever yet appeared in Folio. 
 
 But the whole Work being IcveFd againft me, and 
 what I had publifli'd, it has been generally expected 
 that I fhould take fome Notice of it, and I have been 
 accordingly call'd upon : And tho' fome have declar'd 
 it their Opinion, that it would be but a throwing 
 away of Time and Pains, to meddle with an Heap 
 of SturV which fo few wculd regard ; yet others have 
 thought, that Truth would fufier, and the Doctor tri- 
 umph too much, if I fljould lee fuch voluminous Scan- 
 dals lie wholly neglected, which were raked together 
 upon my Account. 
 
 I have therefore fubmhted to the Penance of giv- 
 ing the whole a Second Reading, making fome Re- 
 marks as I went along, which I here communicate, 
 not expecting to make much Impreflion upon the 
 Doctor, whom I take to be too much confirm'd in 
 his Way to be open to Conviction, but leaving ic to 
 the World to judge between us. 
 
 I am too much concern'd in his Prcfacf, wholly 
 to overlook it ; tho' more has been faid to that al- 
 ready, than he can be able eafily to digeft, or to 
 anfwcr in hafte. The Doctor there declares that 
 this Bulky Work of his, was wholly occafkm'd by 
 my Abridgment j which inftead of creating the leaft 
 
 Uncafi-
 
 14 "The Church and the Dij} enters 
 
 ^^"^^^^^""" g " . 
 
 Uneafinefs, would have been a Pleafure to me, had 
 he kept within any Bounds of Truth and Decency. 
 However, he feems very defirous, the World ihould 
 think he had as good Grounds for his Undertaking, 
 as I for mine : About which 'tis hardly worth while 
 to contend. The Church was moft certainly at Li- 
 berty to preferve the Hiftory of her Sufferings : Nay 
 it was but fit fhe ftiould do it. And yet had the Dif- 
 fenters themfelves, (with all their ill Nature) been 
 left to choofe an Undertaker, 'tis my Opinion of 
 them, that they would have been hard put to it, to 
 have pitch'd upon one that fhould have managed 
 more to their Advantage, than the Prefent Hiftori- 
 an : Though even that would have been more com- 
 fortable, if our common Chriftianity, had been no 
 Way espos'd in the Management. If the Church 
 has no Deafen to be ajhamed of fuch an Hiftory, now 
 it has appear'd, I think verily there is no great Caufe 
 of boafting of it. We DifTenters it is true, are 
 therein exposM with a Vengeance, and dealt with 
 moft unmercifully: But for my Part I can't per- 
 ceive, that there is any very great Danger, either of 
 our throwing off all Shame, or holding down cur Heads 
 for ever, upon this doughty Champion's fignalizing 
 himfelf fo wonderfully, with his mighty Feats. I 
 fuppofe he has done his beft againft us : But I can't 
 perceive but we have fome Life ftill left; and where 
 there is Life, there is Hope. 
 
 He with great Pcfitivenefs afierts, that the Num- 
 bers, the Sufferings, and the Excellent Characters of 
 the Loyaltfts, do far exceed thofe of the Nonconformifts : 
 Which is much more eafily affirm'd, than prov'd. 
 But fuppofing it granted him, I yet cannot perceive 
 that it either follows from thence that he has adled 
 fairly in repre tenting the poor Nonconformifts uni- 
 verfally as fuch defpicable Creatures ; or that thofe 
 of the Eftablifhed Church, are at all to be juftified, 
 in retaliating upon others, the Sufferings which 
 they themfelves had met with; without clearing 
 which, the Doctor feems to have taken Abundance 
 of Pains to but little Purpofe. Were thefe Non- 
 conformifts its true, fuch a wretched People as jie 
 makes them, it cannon be denied but ihat the Seve- 
 rities
 
 compared, as to Perfection. 
 
 rides ufed againft them, might be fairly enough 
 Apologized for. For he tells us, Their Conduct has 
 been one continud Attempt upon the Conjlitution : That 
 in K} n g James'j Reign they fell in with his Meafures 
 for the Huin of the Church ; and that afterwards they 
 debauched both the Civil and Religious Principles of the 
 Nobility and Gentry. But as long as the Body of the 
 Nation, as well as our own Conferences know thefe 
 Alfertions to be moft abominably falfe, and defti- 
 tute of any Support ; and as long as the Legiflature 
 itfelf, has thought fit to clear us from fuch Charges ; 
 his repeating them ever fo often over and over 
 again, carries no Proof in it, that we have not 
 been hardly dealt with, and moft fhamefully abus'd ; 
 nay, is an Evidence of nothing, but that our Au- 
 thor is refolv'd Right or Wrong to run us down, as 
 far as his Influence will reach. And as for his Infinu- 
 adons, that fame DiJJenting Preachers, were by the Ad- 
 vice of Perfons in the higheji Pojls in the Kingdom, re- 
 commended to a certain TJniverfity, (he might as well 
 have faid Univertides, fince more than one was con- 
 cern'd) for the Degrees of Dolors in Divinity ; and 
 that their Darling the Prince of Mindleheim (from 
 whom he'd be hard put to it to prove they ever re- 
 ceivM any Favour, abftra<5fcing from the great Ser- 
 vice he did to his Country, for which they cannot 
 but highly honour him) was to be General for Life : 
 That they endeavour d the Ruin of the Nations Com- 
 merce ; fird the Houfes of Atnbajfadors fent hither ; and 
 murder d thofe that were to be fent Abroad ; and bird 
 Perfons to tear uj> the very Foundations, not ofChriftia- 
 nity only, but of all Religion and Government ; which 
 are all of a piece, they are fo ridiculous as well as 
 malicious, that any one that fhould regard them, 
 would be a real Obje& of Pity. This is a Flight 
 not eafily to be match'd, in any Ancient or Modern 
 Rhetorick. One would imagine (as Mr. Lewis * has 
 happily enough exprefc'd it) that when the Author 
 wrote it, he was in Flamftead'j dark,. Upom, where ht 
 Jbews People Objects all rcvend $ Men and Wcmcn 
 
 walking 
 
 * ftenttfcs on a late Scnaon pceictf J before the SODS of the Clsr- 
 T, by Ur. '/, p. f J.
 
 1 6 The Church and the Dij] enters 
 
 with their Feet upward, and Shifs failing, with 
 their Mafts and Sails turnd ttffy-tuny, 
 
 What follows nexr, about Loyalty, I fuppofe was 
 f. x, xt intended for the laft Reign, rather than the prefent, 
 and may therefore be pafs'd over, becaufe of the 
 Change which has happen'd fince, which our Au- 
 thor, I fuppofe, did not forefee : But when he fays, 
 that as much as Ignorance and Hypocrify are more de- 
 formd than the moft excellent Learning and true Piety, 
 Coblers and Mechanickj than Perfons of the firft l^ank. 
 for Efteem and Eminence, the Deflations of Jerufa- 
 lem than the Beauties of Holinefs j fo much more mon- 
 Jirous is the Face of Things that he produces, than that 
 which I expofe It is perfect Rant and Blufter, and 
 I can be content that the Judgment be left with the 
 Readers, upon a fair Companion. 
 
 When I drew up the Preface to the Account of 
 p. xii. our Minifters who were ejcclcd after the ^eftoration, I 
 frankly declared, that I was pleas'd, inltead of be- 
 ing difturb'd, at the Attempt that was intended to 
 tranfmit to Pofterity, the former Sufferings on the 
 other Side ; and I often faid the fame in Converfa- 
 tion : But this he will have to be a Virtue produced 
 by Ncceflity, and a feeming, rather than a real, Appro- 
 bation of what was not in my Power to prevent. Buc 
 if for once he will take my Word, I can affure him, 
 if it had been intirely in my Power to have pre- 
 vented the drawing up fuch an Hiftory, I ftiould 
 not have attempted it : And yet muft own, that 
 could I have done any thing to prevent the fo grofsly 
 breaking in upon Truth, Juftice, and Decency, as 
 is done by the Hiftorian, I fhouid have thought my 
 Time and Pains well beftow'd. And fince I have 
 feen the Performance, I am far from being fur- 
 prizM that the Reverend Prelate to whom he re- 
 fers, fhouid difcover an Uncafinefs, that fuch a 
 Work was in no better Hands. The Bifhop knew 
 Mankind better than our Author, and may very 
 well be allow'd to be fenfible, that the mifguided 
 Zeal, and injudicious Bigotry, which would run 
 through his Work, would in fuch an Age as ours, 
 be far from doing the Church any real Service* 
 Nor can I forbear adding, that he that can with 
 
 fo
 
 compared, as to Perfecution. 17 
 
 fo much Aflurance, give fuch an Account both of 
 the Occafion of my Journey to Sarum, in which I 
 had the Honour of his Lordfhip's free Converfation, 
 and of that Converfation itfelf, which is intirely 
 falfe, could not by any means be a fit Perfon to be 
 a Church Hiftodan. 
 
 His Recriminating, had there been any Tindhire 
 of Modefty in the Management of it, might have 
 pafs'd uncenfur'd, becaufe it might have had a good 
 Tendency to make all Sides for the future afliam'd 
 of Rigor and Severity ; but he has been fo very out- 
 ragious, that I find his own Friends are at a Lofs 
 how to frame an Apology for him. Perhaps their 
 Upbraidings may more effectually promote Convic- 
 tion, than the Animadverfions of others. 
 
 I can eafily believe, his Pains in collecting and 
 tranfcribing Materials, &c. has not been fmall : And 
 fince he had fuch Aififtance from feveral Perfons of 
 Worth and Eminence, 'tis to be lamented, he made 
 no better Ufe of it. He inlarges with Freedom upon 
 his Method of Management, with which if his own 
 Subfcribers and Benefa&prs were but fatisfied, he'd 
 have the lefs Reafon to value the Thoughts of other?. 
 The Excufes which he adds, are needful enough j 
 and fome of them may I think eafily be allow'd. 
 
 But after all, he feems apprehenfive of Cudden and 
 
 i / r L- i T- T 
 
 precipitated Anjvpers ; from which Fear, he may I 
 fuppofe by this Time be pretty well recover'd. For 
 fo far has every Wr^been horn producing a Pamfbfet 
 againfl him, that I find fcarce any that have thought 
 it worth their while to take Notice of him, except 
 thofe whom I have mentioned before. If therefore he 
 really was in Earneft in what he wrote, he feems 
 bound, according ro his pofitive Promife, to be con- 
 tented to be thought to have mifreprefented the Parry , 
 as veil in the Worl(_ itfelf, as in his Preface. This 
 cannot reafonably be reckon'd an Hardfliip upon 
 him, feeing it is his own Piopofa!. However, I can 
 alfure him, whether he be contented with it or nor, he 
 is not only thought, hut known, to have moft grofsly 
 mifreprefented the Pany, againft whom he fo much 
 inveighs, with as little Wit as Judgment. And I am 
 of Opinion (and am well aflbr'd I am not fingular) 
 VOL. II. B tha:
 
 1 8 The Church and the Dijjenters 
 
 t ' 
 
 that he may very fafely, notwkhftanding theThreat- 
 ning he has added, let alone the Morals of thofe men- 
 tion d in the Abridgment ; tho' the beft of it is, we 
 there defirebut common Juftice. 
 
 However, fince he is fo difpos'd to applaud him-" 
 
 p. sir. f e if i n his Performance, while others are Ib little in- 
 clin'd to concur with him, he has Reafon enough to 
 be contented that he has been fo quiet. I think ve- 
 rily the Party he has fo violently affaulted, has had 
 as much Patience, as he reafonably could defire. If 
 any of them would willingly have feen the Sheets of 
 his Work as they were printed off, I don't perceive 
 it could have been the leaft Damage to him. Had 
 he made a Motion of that kind with refpedt to the 
 Second Edition of my Abridgment, he fhould have 
 been gratify'd. It would have been a real Pleafure 
 to me, to have had any Hints from him, towards the 
 rectifying unwilling Miftakes and Errors. But he it 
 feems was fo far of another Mind, that he would 
 not give my Second Edition the Reading, * tho' it 
 was publifh'd fome time before his "Work came out 
 of the Prefs, for fear he fhould find any Occafion for 
 Alterations. But fince his greac Work hath feen the 
 Light, it has been anfwer'd with as profound a. Silence, 
 as the Author of it could well threaten his Anfwerer 
 with. Except his old Friend, and Mr. Withers, Peo- 
 ple have kept their Refentments to themfelves. Not 
 fo much as a Curr bath barRd at him, to hinder him, 
 in his Advance towards his Journey's End. The 
 
 i. xBx Twenty I(eams of Paper he has already fpent, and than 
 at a Time when it bears fo great a Price, has turn- 
 ed to fo little Account, that People thought it Pity to 
 provoke him to wafte any more. Full Liberty has 
 
 t ,; teen left him, for his clofeft Application to the more 
 
 immediate Bujinefs of his Function, (for the Negleft of 
 
 * 3< which he elfewhere prays GOD to be merciful to 
 
 Irim,) which moft Men think will yield him much 
 more Comfort, than any farther Attempts to a& the 
 
 Pare 
 
 * Hence it appear* manifellly unreafonab'e, for him to reded on me 
 for Miftakes, which that Second Edition of mine re&ify'd (and that 
 before his Book came out { and for any thing that appears, before it 
 went to the Prefs) as he does abcut Mr. 8mfar t fart II. p. 1517.
 
 corn-par* d, as to Per f edition. 19, 
 
 Parr of an Hiftorian, for which Nature never feems 
 to have defign'd him. 
 
 No fooner is the Preface over, than we are enter* 
 tain'd with an Alphabetical Lift of the Names of fuch 
 as encourag'd this great Work by Subfcription, the 
 like to which could never be produc'd by any Difc 
 fenter ; and I very much queftion whether the Doc- 
 tor himfelf with all his Intereft, will be able to 
 compafs fuch another for the Second Part of his 
 Work, now the World has feen the Firft. Thefe 
 Subfcribers are in Number above thirteen Hundred, 
 to the no fmall Comfort of the Bookfellers, who I 
 doubt had orherwife been in Danger, of having a 
 great many Copies lie upon their Hands. There is 
 Room enough for a Sufpicion of this Nature, be- 
 caufe fo few have been fold that were not fublcrib'd 
 for, and fo many of the Subfcribers were fo ready 
 to part with their Property afterwards, at a Rate 
 not very honourable ro the Aurhor. However, the 
 Names make a great Show, and are apt to draw forth 
 Obfervation, nor only upon Account of their Num- 
 bers, but alfo becaufe of their Rank, Quality and 
 Figure, and the vaft Variety of their Circumftances. 
 There are Archbifhops and Bifhops, Deans, Preben- 
 daries, Archdeacons, Cannons, Doctors, Redtors,' 
 Vicars and Curares : Heads of Houfes, Fellows of 
 Colleges, Schoolmafters and Chanters : Together 
 with Dukes and Dutchefles, Earls, Vifcounts, Lords 
 and Ladies, Baronets, Knights, Efcjuires, Members 
 of Parliament, Gentlemen, Attornies at Law, and 
 
 Merchants in Abundance. And that it might not be 
 
 had lefs Zeal 
 for the Church, or Jefs Refped for its Champion 
 
 T- 1 / II I 1- 
 
 thought that Perfons of a lower Rank had 
 
 than their Superiors, there are Bookfellers, and fome 
 of moft other Trades : As a Baymakcr and Dyer, 
 Apothecaries, Vintners and Fullers ; a Braiier, Gro- 
 cer, Haberdaflicr, Surgeon, Brewer, Bookbinder. 
 Mercer, Druggift, Shipwright, Linnen- Draper, and 
 Upholfterer ; and even as low as a Currier, a Plai- 
 fterer, and a Barber : So forward were all Sorts to 
 encourage this migh:y Work, and hand it into the 
 World. And if the Author would b;u in his next 
 give us a fair Account, how many of rhcfe. nevcf 
 B % cajl'd
 
 20 The Church and the Dtffenters 
 
 call'd for the Books which they had fubfcrib'd for, 
 and how many difcover'd their Sorrow afterwards, 
 for being drawn in, it would gratify the Cuiiofity of 
 many, and be a Satisfaction in part to feme that com-, 
 plain of their being hardly ufed, and a Caution to 
 others for the future, to prevent Forwardnefs to en- 
 courage the Publication of they know not what. 
 However, when the Work fo fwell'd upon our Au- 
 thor's Hands, as to be Matter of Complaint to himfelf 
 and ethers, and when the Price was like to rife fo 
 high, it is the Opinion of many, that this Ornament 
 of fuch a Medley of Names had better been fpar'd, 
 than that he {hould have fpent three Sheets and an 
 half of Paper upon it, at the Coft of his Buyers. 
 
 The Attempt itfelf has two Parts. The firft is an 
 hiftorical Introduction, to ufher his Sufferers in upon 
 the Stage with the more Advantage : And the fecond, 
 a Particular Lift of Sufferers on the Church fide, with 
 ill the Encomiums, that their Friends from all Parts 
 of the Kingdom were able to give them. I (hall 
 beftow a few Remarks upon each. 
 
 His Hiftorical Introduction to the Whole, is as 
 confus'd an Heap of Scandal as the Prefs has been 
 delivered of for many Years : And tho' it is large, 
 and in fome Parts of it very particular, yet is there 
 not as far as I can perceive, either Order or Me- 
 thod, or any thing to recommend it but Heat and 
 Bigotry, with their ufual Attendants. It is ufher'd 
 in with a Furious InveCtive againft my unhappy 
 Abridgment, which I cannon but own would be very 
 P* x * justifiable, if there really weic any fuch dreadful 
 Defigns as the Author apprehends in View, when it 
 was drawn tip. But as I am not fenfible of any thing 
 of that Nature, he feems to me to fight with the 
 Air, out of Fear of his own Shadow. Without be- 
 ing at the Pains to produce any thing that might 
 look like Proof, he gives it as his Senfe that the 
 publifhing to the World an Account of the Peacea- 
 ble Behaviour of the Nonconforming Minifters, their 
 "Mieekncfs under Sufferings, the Holiness of their Lives, 
 and the many Perfecutions they underwent, would do 
 much Damage to the Church, by encouraging the 
 Separation. And therefore by way of Opposition, he 
 
 under^
 
 as to Ptrfecution. 21 
 
 undertakes to (hew, that the Little-finger ofthcfe Men, 
 was heavier than the Loins of the Church. Of this he 
 declares himfelf fo very confident, that he would gladly 
 fut the whole IJfoe of the Caufe betwixt the Church and 
 Dijjenters, upon this Jingle Point of Persecution. But 
 in this, I am afraid he'll find in the Sequel, he has 
 gone a little too far, and was not well advis'd. He 
 owns however, tha: tb<? the Accufation of Perfccuti- 
 n, could not only be retorted upon the Dijjenters, but 
 be returned likewife fevenfold into their Bofomt, yet it 
 will not follow, that the Church herfelf is wholly fret 
 from it. And in return for his Franknefs (which I 
 confefs I (hould be not a little pleas'd with, if he 
 would bu: ftand to, and purfue it) I on the other 
 Hand, am very free to acknowledge, that tho' the 
 Charge of Perfecution could not only be fully prov'd 
 true on the Church Side, but carried much higher 
 than I ever pretended, yet I am far from fuppofing 
 that that would juftify any that adher'd to the Princi- 
 ples now own'd by D'uTenrers, for ufing Rigor and 
 Severity in Matters of Confcience, when they had 
 Power in their Hands ; or Warrant all the Proceed- 
 ing between 41 and 60. And yet if as he propofes, 
 the Iffue of the Caufe betwixt the Church and the Dif* 
 fenters, be fut upon this Jingle Point of Persecution, 
 I am afraid the Church will be no great Gainer, un- 
 lefs it be in common with her Neighbours, in learn- 
 ing for the future to deteft ufing Ripor in Matters 
 of Religion, and to be more careful of doing as (he 
 would 6e done unto : The promoting which, was 
 one grand Aim of the Abridgment, whatever it was 
 as to the Attempt. 
 
 Our Author thinks fit to make a Divifion of his 
 Work ; and firft undertakes to give an Account of 
 the Numbers, Sufferings, C#c. on the Church Side ; 
 and then to examine the Account given on the Side 
 of the Ditfenters. 'Tis the former Part of his Task 
 only, that he has as yet been able to compafs : And 
 as to the latrer, in which we that are Diflenters are 
 moft concern'd, we muft with Patience wait his 
 I.eifure as well as we 'can ; tho' he gives us fuch 
 Tokens of his great Good-will as he goes along, as 
 may be abundantly fufficient to ftay our Siomachs. 
 B 3 Ho
 
 22 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 He feems to me to hav.e inferred as many iil-naturM 
 Reflections on the Sufferers on our Side, in this (ingle 
 Part of his Attempt, as in the Opinion of a Man of 
 any Mercy and Moderation might have been fully 
 fufficient for a great many Volumes, and is ever 
 and anon threarning us with what he has more in 
 j. 5. Re(erve ; and yet he appears, Poor Man, to be not 
 a little at a Lofs, in what manner he was to froceed, 
 in the remaining Part of his Task : Nay he goes fo 
 far as to declare, he mould be very glad, if be could 
 be fo fortunate, as to find cut an Expedient to evade it. 
 For my Part, I cannot fee, why the little Acceptance 
 which the great Pains he has already taken has mec 
 with, together with the Changes that have fince 
 happen'd which he I fuppofe little expected, may 
 not be ajlow'd to furnifh him with the Expedient 
 he fo much defires. I can't tell why he fhould feek 
 for one more plaufib!e. I think verily, his Attemft has 
 happen'd to be pullijh'd at a Seafon, when there is as 
 little Profpeft of an encouraging Opportunity to make the 
 Search that is needful, or to make publick.the Ireful t of 
 it, as any that he could have pitch d upon. But if he 
 thinks otherwife, may he go on and profper. I de- 
 fire not to be his Hindrance. I can venture t'other 
 Folio without the leaft Fear it will deprive me of a 
 Night's Reft, occafion me an uneafy Hour, or caufe 
 any one Friend I have in the World, to look lefs 
 pleafantly upon me than before. Who knows but 
 when he has produced thofejhameful Things he fpeaks 
 of, he may have a Dignity added to his Doftorate. 
 What indeed will conftrain him is hard to fay. I be- 
 lieve moft that know him, or that will take the Pains 
 to read over what is come from him, will be of Opi- 
 nion that he is fo far from needing to be conflraind 
 ro make the Sufferers on our Side as black as is 
 pdifible, that it won't be eafy to reftrain him from. 
 if,' if he can but pick up fuitable Materials. And 
 when he has dene his worft, I am not without hope 
 by a fair Comrarifon between one fide and t'other, 
 to do.lorrewhat towards the promoting a future Ab- 
 horrence of that Rigor, which without diftinguifii- 
 ins Men by their real Crimes, expofes the Innocent 
 equally with the Guilty, on the Account of their 
 
 differing
 
 Sd, as to Perfection. 
 
 differing from thofe that are Uppermoft, and have 
 the Power in their Hands. For whofoever they are 
 ro whofe Lot this falls, they can't fail of being in 
 the Wrong, let it be how it will. 
 
 Well then, the Motion of comparing the Church 
 and Diflenters together in the Point of Perfecution, 
 is freely agreed to. I the rather give in to it, ho- 
 ping it may be of Ufe. I am content to purfoe it 
 as far as the Dodlor pleafes, and (hall not be afham'd 
 ro yield, wherefoever he'll lay a Foundation for Con- 
 viction. I am free to declare againft any thing that 
 looks like Perfecution, whoever are the Parties con- 
 cern'd. I am far from thinking they that are now 
 call'd Diffenters, have been free from Blame. But 
 if their Guilt prove upon a Comparifon, equal to 
 that of the Churchmen, it will, I confefs, a little 
 furprize me. The Doctor is very pofitive in his ge- 
 neral Judgment, before he comes to Particulars. He 
 fays, that if the latter bear any tolerable Proportion f 
 whether in Number, Degrees, or Circumftanccs to the 
 former, he will gladly be dccnfd not only to have loft all 
 his Labour, but to have revived a great and unanfwe- 
 rablf Scandal, (which clfe might in great Meafure have 
 lain ajlecp} on the C/mfe he has undertaken to defend. 
 If he can bear it, after he has given his own Op- 
 nion fo decifively, I'll give him the Senfe of Two 
 worthy Perfons of his own Church. The firft is the 
 Author of the * Conformifls Pleas for the Nonccnformifts, * Conform. 
 who when the Sufferings of the Royal Party were ob- firft Plct - 
 jected to him, makes this Return: Wflw can anfwer p * I2 l! 
 for the Violence and Injuftice of A&ions in a Civil 
 War ? Thofc Sufferings were in a Time of general Cala- 
 mity ; but thefe were ejected, not only in a Time of 
 Peace, but a Time of Joy to all the Land, and after an 
 Act of Oblivion, when all pretended to be rtconciCd f 
 and to be made Friend:, and to whofe common Hejoycing 
 thefe fuffering Miniftcrs had contributed their earneft 
 Prayers, and great Endeavours, &c. The other is 
 one yet livinp, and one whom he values, and cor- 
 refponds with too, whofe judgment I have under his 
 own Hand, in thefe very Words : I miift own, (fays 
 he) that in my Judgment, however both Sides have 
 been cxctflivdy fo Hume ; yet that the Severities uid by 
 B 4 '**
 
 24 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 the Church to the Diffenters, are Icfs excufable, than 
 thofe uid by the Diffenters to the Church. My Heafon 
 is, That the former were us'd in Times of Peace, and a, 
 fettled Government ; whereas the latter were inflicted in 
 4 Time of Tumult and Confujion. So that the Plunder- 
 ing and Ravaging endurd by the Church Minifters r 
 veerc owing (many of them at leaft) to the tydenefs of 
 the Soldiers, and the Chances of War* They were plun~ 
 der*d, not becaufe they were Conformifts, but Cavaliers, 
 and of the Kjng's Party. The Allowance of the fequeftred 
 "Mintfters a fifth Part of their Livings, was a Chriftian 
 Aft, and what, Iconfefs, Ijhouldhave been glad to have 
 * Mr. Laeif feen imitated at the Defloration, * &c. But Dr. Walker 
 ! Margate, declaring himfelf of a quite Different Mind, I (hall 
 be at the Pains to follow him. 
 
 He begins with letting the Reader know, that he in- 
 tends wholly to confine himfelf within theTimes of the fatal 
 Parliament, and not to meddle with any of the prepa- 
 ratory Difcontents and Factions in the foregoing Tears. 
 And for this Reafon, I think it is very evident, he 
 begins too low to give his Reader a juft and fair 
 Account of Matters, or fuch as is neceflary to the 
 pacing a juft comparative Judgment, between the 
 Church and the Diflenters, upon the Point of Per- 
 fecution. When I faid, That the former out-did 
 the latter (at which the Doctor difcovers himfeif fo 
 uneafy) I took in all the Times that pafs'd before ; 
 and referr'd to the Severities us'd towards thofe 
 call'd Puritans from the firft Reformation, and the 
 Hard fhips they met with in the Reigns of Queen '* 
 %abeth, King James and King Charles I, before the 
 Confufions began. The Nonconformifts were all 
 along miferably harafs'd, ejected, and filenc'd, and 
 met with fuch hard Ufage as was often compiain'd 
 of in Parliament : And when at length Bifhop Laud 
 got the Afcendanr, they were fo teaz'd and wor- 
 ry'd, in the High -Commiffion and Star Chamber Courts, 
 as not a little exafpcrated the Sufferers, and provok'd 
 to thofe Returns after the Beginning of the Long 
 Parliament, as I am far from juftifying. Thefe 
 Things the Doctor declares he's not for medling with. 
 But it fo falls our, that they muft be meddled with, 
 
 and confider'd tco, by One that would pafs a faip 
 
 * . 
 
 and
 
 corn-par* d, as toPerfecution. 25 
 
 and equirable Judgment, which of the two Sices 
 has exceeded the other in Perfecution. He himielf 
 has uwn'd, thar we that complain fo much of Perfc- p t x ; 
 cution, never had it in our Power but once : Whereas 
 the Church Party has had Power in their Hands all 
 along, a few Years only excepred. They began, and 
 fet the Pattern ; and tho' others did ill in following 
 it, yet when the Church Party fo much complained 
 of them for doing fo, they were certainly the more 
 inexcufable, in returning to it again themfelves, 
 with fo much Rancour and Birternefs, after the Re- 
 ftoration. Now comes Dr. tValkpr , the High- 
 Church Advocate, and is for quire omitting the fiirft 
 Pa r rern and Sampler that was fet by Parker, and 
 IFhitgiftj and 'Bancroft, and Laud, and Wren, and 
 others of the fame Stamp, and for beginning juft 
 with the Parliamentary Severities in 1641, and af- 
 terwards, and comparing them with the Rigors af- 
 ter 1660, and thence concluding, that they have 
 much out-done their Neighbours : Whereas if he 
 would have drawn any fuch Conclufion fairly, he 
 ought to have trac'd Things from the Beginning. 
 This to me appears much the fame, as if when an 
 Enquiry was made, Whether John or Thomas was the 
 greater Cheat ? (which may be fairly enough de- 
 bated without juftifying either of them for Cheat- 
 ing) it mould be aflerted, that Thomas much ex- 
 ceeded John ; for that John cheated Thomas but of a 
 bare Thousand Pound, whereas Thomas cheated John 
 of full Fif:een hundred. But ftill if John cheated 
 Thomas of Two thoufand Pounds, take firft and laft 
 together ; tho' Thomas did cheat John of Fifteen hun- 
 dred between the Two thoufand ; yet John was the 
 greater Cheat, and Thomas was the greater Sufferer. 
 In fuch a Cafe as this, to pretend not to meddle with 
 the firft Thoufand of which John cheated Thomas, 
 and to confine the Regard to the Fifteen hundred 
 only, and the latter Thoufand, is only to confound, 
 and not give Light, nor help rightly to determine the 
 Qneftion propos'd. 
 
 I muft needs fay, I take Perfecution to be one 
 of the greateft Impofitions and Cheats upon Man- 
 kind, that caa be imagined or thought of ; and 
 
 whoever
 
 26 The Church and the Dijjenters 
 
 whoever is guilty, be it in a fmaller or greater De- 
 gree, fhall fo far have my Vote againft him : But 
 when there is a Comparifon propos'd, if the Church 
 was firft guilty, and that to a Degree that cannot fair- 
 ly be denied to have been very confiderable, and 
 returned to it when (he recover'd her former Power, 
 to a Degree that was in fome Refpects Drearer than, 
 before, I am inclinable to think moft Men will be 
 apt readily to conclude her to be under the greateft 
 Guilt, notwithftanding that they that were no friends 
 to the Ecclefiaftical Conftitution or Hierarchy, did 
 a great many Things in an Heat, between thefe two 
 Periods,' which they they that are moft difpos'd to be 
 their Advocates, are not able to juftify. Methinks 
 this Comparifon ought to be purfu'd both Ways, by 
 any One that will pretend positively to affirm, that 
 the Sufferings of the Epifcofal Clergy, were athoufand. 
 times greater of the Two. That is, I confefs, a round 
 Atfertion: But the Proof had need be very ftrong, 
 that fhall convincingly make it out. 
 
 It is not my Bufinefs here, to give an Account of 
 the Severities us'd againft the Good Old Puritans by 
 the Prelates and Ecclefiaftical Courts from Time to 
 Time, till the Opening of the Fatal Parliament, as 
 the Doctor calls it, the Particulars of which will 
 I hope be e'er long publiih'd to the World by an 
 Impartial Hand. Perhaps, Dr. Walkgr may have 
 the Sight of them, (if he is fo difpos'd) before his 
 other Part will be finifli'd - 3 and then I hope he will 
 think it concerns him to look farther back, in or- 
 der to the making a juft Comparifon. Or if he 
 fhould not, I believe moft Men that are not for jufti- 
 fying of Rigor, becaufe it is of their own Side, will 
 be of Opinion, that what went before the Civil 
 Wars, is as neceflary to be confider'd, by fuch as 
 would be able to jndge rightly which Side out-did 
 the other in Perfecution and Severity, as what pafs'd 
 in the Times of Confufion, or follow'd after them. 
 But fince the Doctor has taken another Method, I 
 have nothing to do but to follow him. 
 
 He begins his Tragical Narrative which he rec- 
 kons the moft: proper Introduction to his grand 
 Dc%n, with Pctiiicr.s ro the Parliament againft the 
 
 Church,.
 
 as to T erf edition. 27 
 
 Church ; for which there moft certainly was fuffi- 
 cient Occafion : And then he proceeds to the refto- 
 ring of Pryn, Burton and Baftmcl^, and the revoking 
 the Sentences againft Smart and Lcighton, &c. in the 
 High CommhTion and Star-Chamber, and Ecclefia- 
 ftical Courts. He warmly inveighs againft thefe 
 Perfons (whom I have nothing to do to attempt to 
 juftify) and then forrowfully complains that the Church P- &i 
 was wounded by their Indemnity. But had the Church 
 been more moderate in her Temper and Proceed- 
 ings, the Wound in this Cafe would not have been. 
 great, or t' would have been heai'd with Eafe. He 
 fays, the Hierarchy was revifd , but confiders noc 
 what Provocation was given by paft Proceedings. 
 The Church was affected in her Civil lights ; which 
 might have been complained of with much more De- 
 cency, had {he riot before indangered the Civil Rights 
 of the Body of the Nation, which was fo loudly 
 and generally complain'd of. Her inherent Legifla- 
 tive Rights, ic fhould feem, were alfo affauked ; For 
 the New Canons were condemned, &c. And how fhe 
 came by an inherent Hfght to make fuch Canons, 
 would be hard to fay. i here leave the Doctor to 
 the Lawyers ; tho 1 confidering him as a Divine, if 
 he had been too much in hafte to have given Proof 
 of any fuch Legijlative lights of the Church of ChriJFs 
 authorizing, it yec might not (I fhould have thought) 
 have been at all unbecoming, for him in his Margin 
 to have pointed us to fome Author, which he rec- 
 kon'd had given Proof of it. For though he thinks 
 fit to wifh, th?.: tbefe Canons, or others likf them were p. 7. 
 JIM in the Ecclefiaftical Conftitution, yec he cannot I 
 think be inferable, that in that he has a Number of 
 Worthy Divines, as well as the Generality of Law- 
 yers and Statefrnen intirely againft him: And I hope 
 they are in no Danp.cr of changing their Mind. 
 
 But the poor Church being difarnid of her Execu* p- 8. 
 tlve and Legijlative Power, ir is complain'd that fhe 
 was thence forward at the Mercy of every Ruffian who 
 was minded to ajjault her. Whereas others are of Opi- 
 nion, fhe had (till all the Power CHRIST had left her, 
 an i was no more expos d than in the firft and pu- 
 reft Ages of Chriftianity. The Government ef the 
 
 Church
 
 28 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 Church by Archbijkops, Deans, &c. was complain d of t 
 and petition d againfl. And who can wonder at it, 
 that does but confider how gr'e ous they by their 
 Management had made that Sort of Government to 
 the People ? If undue Methods were really taken, to 
 get fuch Petitions, it was certainly very juft'y blame- 
 able : But our Au r hor might have obferv'd, had he 
 thought fir, that the Didders of the Hierarchy are 
 not the only Perfons that are chargeable with fuch 
 
 *fc Practices. The Mob aflembled, andcry'djzo Bi/hops, 
 MO Bijhops. For my part I am no great Admirer of 
 Mob Reformations : And yet I think it fliould not 
 be quite forgotten, that the Mob can upon Occaficn 
 be ftirr'd up and fir'd on the Church Side too, and 
 then applauded, as giving the Senfe of the Nation ; 
 of which we have had an Inftance in our own. 
 
 p. 11. Times. A Biff was at length brought in, for the utter 
 
 Eradicaticn cf Bijhops, Deans, &c. "Which it is the 
 
 * Eccl.HifK Opinion of Dr. Thomas Fuller * (Churchman enough 
 
 .iLp. 175 j n a u Conscience) wouid have been prevented, could 
 
 but the Divines ?hat fare in the Jerufal em-Chamber, 
 
 z i h ave keen iiften'd to. Members of Parliament, were 
 made Ecclejiaftical Commijjionen, &c. Bi/hops Lends 
 were fold : Deans and Chapters alfo were condemned ; 
 tnd Cathedrals fell ; and vaft Sums of Money were raisd 
 cut cf their Revenues, to fatisfy the publick, Debts. But 
 it would be hard indeed, if our prelenc Diflemers 
 muft be forc'd to anfwer for all the Proceedings of 
 that Parliament, the Members of which were uni- 
 verfally in Communion with the Church of England 
 a very few only being excepted, which is a 'Ihing 
 that cannot be denied. 
 
 ^ r - Oaths and Subfciiptions were voted down : And I 
 
 think it would have been no fmaH Addition to our 
 Happinefs, and would not a little have promoted 
 our Peace, had they never been reftor'd again. Nor 
 can I apprehend it much for the Credit of the Church, 
 ro have fince revived them, and particularly to have 
 forc'd Perfons to come under any Ties of this Na- 
 ture, in the Courfe of their Education, in their youn- 
 ger Years, before they can be fuppos'd competent 
 Judges of the Things to which they are defign'd to 
 bo oblig'd. Bat i: fhouid feem, that there were 
 
 fome
 
 corn-par* d, as to P erf edition* 29 
 
 fome Minifters that promoted thefe Things ; and 
 the Letturers help'd to render their feveral Hearers 
 difaffcfled to the Church Government and Ceremonies : 
 At which our Author exclaims moft vehemently, 
 and fays, that the Clergy adminiftred Fuel and blond 
 up the Coals, &c. And for any thing I know, there p> 16. 
 may be a great deal of Truth in it : And yet I 
 think the other Part of the Clergy, that had ftrain'd 
 the Prerogative of the Crown, and the Power of 
 the Church to that Height, that they had almoft 
 preach'd Liberty and Property out of Doors, (of fome 
 of whom the Dodtor in his fucceeding Lift, gives- 
 very pompous Characters) fhould not in fucha Cafe, . 
 have been wholly overlooked. 
 
 The High Commlfjlon Court was taken away. And 
 tho' the Friends of the Church have fince that Time p ' r * 
 had fair Scope enough, to do any thing which they 
 apprehended might be for their Imereft, yet can I 
 not hear of any Attempt to revive it, except in the 
 Reign of King James II, which with me goes for a 
 convincing Proof, that it was a general Grievance. 
 And as for the Ex Officio Oath, and the Court of the 
 Star-Chamber, we may very well fuppofe that after 
 1660, when fo much Zeal was ftirring, they could 
 not have fail'd of being reftor'd, had either Chancel- 
 lor H)de, or the other States-Men that were in the 
 Secret after the Reftoration, judged them to be pro- 
 per Expedients to ftrengthen and advance the Church. 
 
 The Parliament made a Protejlation to maintain and 
 defend with their Lives and Ejlates, the true Reformed ** 
 Proteflant fyligion, cxpreffd in the Doftrine of the 
 Church of England, againfl all Pofery and Popifh In* 
 novations : And afterwards agreed, that thefe Words 
 were not to lie extended to the maintaining of any 
 form of Worfhip, Difcipline, or Government, nor of 
 any I(ites or Ceremonies of the faid Church of Eng- 
 land. This flicw'd they had more of a Catholick Spi- 
 rit among them, than can ordinarily be met with 
 among thofe that come after them : The more is the 
 Pity ! And yet this is cried out upon as a great Piece 
 of Wickednefs. But it would be hard to lay, how ic 
 could be a mckfd Thing, fuppofe the Majority of 
 the Members that were for this Proteftarion, not- 
 
 wkhftanding
 
 The Church and the Dif enters 
 
 withftanding their Satisfaction as to the Doctrine o 
 the Church of England, were yet convinc'd of the 
 NeceiTity of a farther Reformation in Worfiiip, and 
 Difcipline, or Government. This is all that as far 
 as I can perceive, can be from hence concluded : 
 And what wickfdnefs could there be in making fuch 
 a Declaration, if this were their real Senfe ! 
 p. 4J. But Ceremonies were abolifh'd too : And though they 
 
 have been re-eftablifhed, yet it is more than I know, 
 that it has ever been prov'd to this Day, that Di- 
 vine Worfhip would be at all the lefs acceptable to 
 GOD, or lefs profitable to Men, if it were wholly 
 . freed from them. The Communion Table was removd 
 into the Middle of the Church. And what of that! 
 Might not People as effectually reach the Divine 
 Blefling in the Middle of the Church, as at the Eajl 
 End of it, provided they did but attend with due 
 Devotion ! Images, Altars and Crucifixes, &c. were 
 P-44- ordered to be taken away out of all Churches and Cha- 
 pels : And I heartily wifh that neither they that had 
 the Afcendant in thofe Times, nor they that came 
 after them, had done any worfe Things ; and then 
 I cannot fay there would have been any great ground 
 for Complaint. There was a Sub-committee employ d to 
 Reform Innovations in Difcipline : And it has been the 
 Apprehenfion of many that it had been happy for 
 the Church both at that Time and fince, had their 
 t> a? Advice been folio w'd. The Book. for tolerating S forts 
 on the Lord's Day, for the not reading of which fo 
 many worthy Minifters had been fi'enc'd, was order- 
 ed to be burnt. And it was a great Shame that it 
 ever came out ; or that it was not burnt as a de- 
 teftable Piece of Profanenefs long before ! May-poles 
 were ordered to be taken down. And have May-poles 
 then any Thing of Religion in 'em ? What Occa- 
 fion was there for mentioning fuch Things as thefe, 
 when a particular Account was given how the Church 
 was ruin'd ? Copes, Surplices, 8cc. were order d to be 
 . itft fold ; and Upods, Fonts and Organs defaced. And there- 
 fore to be lure the Church could not ftand long after. 
 A Fafl was appointed on Chriftmas-day, and fo that 
 Feftival was buried ; and yet it would be no eafy 
 Matter to give any thing of a Reafbn, why Perfons 
 
 after
 
 as to Perfecution. 
 
 after this, might not be as good Chriftians as they 
 
 were before. The Divines in the Jerufalem Cham- 
 
 ber had the Regulation of the Common Prayer Book 
 
 tinder Confiderat ion : And it is Pity their Regulation 
 
 was not regarded. Singing of Pfalms was in St. 
 
 Margaret's Church -prefer d to the Second Service: And 
 
 had it been fo every where elfe, it had been much 
 
 the better. And in Concluficn the whole Service of the 
 
 Church was taken away, and the Directory fucceeded in 
 
 the I(ocm of it : And whatever Minifter omitted the 
 
 ufe of it, was to forfeit Forty Shillings ; and he that 
 
 depraved it, was to be find, at the Difcretion of thcfe 
 
 before whom they were convifted, provided not under . . 
 
 Five Pounds : And if any one ufcd the Common Prayer 
 
 in Publicly or Private, he was for the firft Offence to 
 
 forfeit Five Pounds, for the Second Ten Pounds, and 
 
 for the Third to fujfer a Tear's Imfrifcnment. This 
 
 was very fcvere : And tho' the Church had fet the 
 
 Pattern, yet fliould fhe not have been herein follow- 
 
 ed, by thofe who had complain'd fo much of this 
 
 Sort of Management. The Dodror obferves, that 
 
 this Ordinance went beyond the Acl of Uniformity, of 
 
 which we fo much complain ; and I cannot fay but 
 
 that in fpme Refpects it did : And yet if he had but 
 
 been difposM to have done me Juftice, he might have 
 
 taken Notice, that fo far was I from vindicating or 
 
 pleading for this Ordinance, that I upon Occafion 
 
 of it, had added * a Marginal Note, in thefe ve- v ^ f r ' J * : 
 
 ry Words: This is I confcfs an Evidence, of what \^\ ' *' 
 
 is too flain to be denied ; that all Parties wben they 
 
 have been uppcrmofl, have been aft to bear hard on 
 
 thofe that have been under them. But it deferves a 
 
 Hemartd that even by this Ordinance, as fevers as it 
 
 was, no Encouragement was given to mercenary Infor- 
 
 mers ; And the Injlances of Perfons dealt with accord- 
 
 ing to this Ordinance were very few. I wi/h I could 
 
 fay the fame with refpeil to the Aft of Uniformity, the 
 
 Five Mile Acl, and the AR againft Conventicles, which 
 
 were faft againft the Nonconformifts after the Reftora- 
 
 ticn. Tills he overlook'd : But whether defignedly 
 
 or not, he knows bcft. 
 
 He takes particular Notice, that the Acl of Uni- 
 formity, fajl Seventeen Tears after, on (he very fame 
 
 Daj
 
 2 2 The Church and the Diftentefs 
 
 Day .that this Ordinance faff V Seventeen Tears before. 
 Which to me feems not very material, or to de- 
 ferve any great Strefs. Let it be the fame Day and 
 the fame Hour of the Day, and the fame Moment of 
 the Hour, either Seventeen or Seven and twenty 
 Years afterwards, I do not fee we have any Reafon 
 to conclude any thing from thence : Neither the for- 
 mer Ordinance, nor the following Aft, are a Jot 
 the better or the worfe upon this Account, as far as 
 I can perceive. But fome People pleafe themfelves, 
 and think to entertain their Readers, with fuch 
 * See Ech. P rect y Obfervations. Thus have I read in an Hifto- 
 Hift.Vol. ir. rian that came out fince Dr. Walter, * that when 
 P* 446. the Covenant pafs'd in the General Ajjembly in Scot- 
 land, and was to be fent into England, the Lord 
 Maitland, afterwards Duke of Lauder dale , made a 
 Speech, and declar'd How upon the Seventeenth of 
 Auguft, Four Tears ago, an Ad: pafs'4 for throwing 
 Epifcopacy cut of the Church of Scotland ; and now 
 upon the Seventeenth of Auguft, alfo an Atl was faf- 
 fing for the Extirpation of it out of the Church of Eng- 
 land ; and that Providence having order d fo, as both 
 to happen on one Day, he thought there was much in 
 it ; and that Men might thereupon warrantable expeft, 
 glorious Conferences to follow, even further off than 
 England, before all was done. The Hiftorian obferves, 
 that this was a Conceit that fome reckoned ingenious, 
 and others ridiculous. I doubt thofe Men have but 
 poor Underftandings, that can relifh fuch Entertain- 
 ment. But if fuch Things as thefe are argu'd from 
 on one Side, why may not they on the other ? Per- 
 haps they will be as convi&ive as any Thing that 
 could be mention'd. And therefore I fliall add, that 
 if the paffing of the Ail of "Uniformity, which re- 
 ftor'd rhe Common Prayer, Seventeen Years after, on 
 the very fame Day that the Ordinance pafs'd for abo- 
 lifhing the Common Prayer Seventeen Years before, 
 be admitted as an Argument on rhe Church Side, of 
 God's owning the Juftice and l{ighteoufneft of their 
 Caufe ; I cannot fee but the Death of a great Lady 
 on Auguft i. 1714, which was the very Day when 
 the Sclnfm Aft was to take place, may be us'd on 
 the Side of the DUTemers, as an Argument of the 
 
 Injuftice
 
 'd, as to Perfecutiov. 
 
 Injuftice of that Acl, for a yet more plaufible Rea- 
 Ion. Though I am one that ufually am not affe&ed 
 with Obfervations of this Nature ; yet I cannot help 
 asking, Why might net a Low Church Man, be al- 
 low'd to fay in this, as Dr. Walker does in another 
 Cafe, vi%. That it pleaid Him, who giveth a f\ing 
 (or Queen) in his Anger, and tnketb him (or her) away 
 in his Wrath, by fo timeing of a Deach that was but 
 little expedited to have been fo fudden, to fruftrate 
 tie fair Hopes of fome, for a Time : Nay, I hope they 
 are fruftrated for all Time to come. 
 
 But to return from this Digreflion. We are told, 
 that thus ac length, the Church of England, was utter- 
 ly dijfolvd f.s 'an Eftablifoment : Which it is pleaded, 
 is a Demonftracion, that feme Mens pretended Refor- 
 mation, is never other than an intended Extirpation. 
 But this Demonftrarion would have been xjuite over- 
 thrown, could the Committee cf Divines that fate 
 in the Jerufalem Chamber have been liften'd to; or 
 the Commiifioners at the Savoy have been regarded ; 
 or King Charles's Declaration for Ecclefiaftical Affairs, 
 been allow'd to rafs into a Law. Any of thefe three 
 Schemes follow'd, would have fatisfy'd the moft thac 
 were aggrieved, and prcduc'd a Information, wich- 
 out an Extirpation. And therefore the Charge infi- 
 nuated, is only a groundlefs Slander. 
 
 The Doctor next comes to theAJfimbly of Divines, 
 whom he calls an Extraordinary JunBo. Had he there- 
 by meant a Number of very Valuable Men, met to- 
 gether for Confuitation, he would have had both 
 Reafon and Truth of his Side: But though I know 
 he had another View in giving them that Title; yet 
 I doubt he'd be a little put to it, to pitch upon a 
 Meeting of Divines, that came togecher in an or- 
 dinary Way, at any Time fince, that have done more 
 real Service to the Church of GOD than they did, af- 
 ter all the Contempt that has been pour'd upon them, 
 either formerly or lately. He fays, They veere not 
 chofen by the Clergy, but the Houfe of Commons nomi- 
 tiated them. And why, I pray, fhould they be efs 
 fit to be confulted about Eccleliaftical Matters, when 
 chofen by Gentlemen, than if chofen by the Intrigues 
 of the Ciergy, who are generally for giving the Pre- 
 
 VOL. II. C ference,
 
 $4 The Church and the Dij] enters 
 
 ference, to fuch as run higheft for Church Power ? 
 The Houfe added others at Plenfurc. And why not ? 
 Suppofing, (which may be eafily allow'd,) that as 
 fome that were nominated refused to appear, ib 
 others offer'd afterwards, that were of confiderable 
 Worth, that either were not thought of at the firft, 
 or not mention'd, for Fear their Number fliould be 
 too great ? They had Laymen amongst them. And as 
 they are a Part of the Church of CHRIST, as well as 
 Minifters ; fo methinks it is but fit they fhould have 
 fome to reprefent them, in all Ecclefiaftical Meet, 
 ings, and efpecially where Matters fall under Con- 
 fideration, that are of Concernment to the one, as 
 well as the other. Such as -were Epifcofal in their 
 judgment, would not fit amongft them. Which was a 
 Thing that was not in their Power to help. Several 
 fuch were publickly invited, and prefs'd in private, 
 to give their Prefence. And their Refufal to join 
 in amicable Debates, in order to an happy Settle- 
 ment, I am inclin'd to think, was no great Service 
 to their Caufe or Intereft. However, feveral of them 
 that did meet, and continue Sitting all the While, 
 were really Epifcopal in their Judgment. The Doc- 
 tor charges them with Ignorance, 8cc. But their Cha- 
 racters and Works are better known to the World, 
 than that fuch Accufations fliould eafily obtain Belief. 
 f3i They were in Coates and Cloaks ; and therefore in as 
 fcriptural a Garb as any they could have worn : And I 
 cannot fee how this could detract either from their 
 Learning or real Worth. They met with Obftru&ions 
 from Mr. Selden, &c. And if the Doctor thinks 
 they'd have met with lefs Obftruction from that learn- 
 ed Gentleman, fuppofing they had been a regular 
 Convocation of Epifcopal Jure Divino Men, I am of 
 ' Opinion, he is much miftaken. They had Five Dif- 
 fering Brethren amongH them. And fome Convoca- 
 tions fince, have had a far greater Number that have 
 diirented from the Majority. And is the Church pre- 
 fently undone, if thofe that meet about her Affairs, 
 are not all of one Mind ? The Presbyterian Divines 
 made loud Out-cries againfl Toleration. And our Au- 
 thor fays, That if ever they argud ftrenuoujly, it WAS 
 ufon this Subjett. But this is a Point in which the 
 
 Learned
 
 compared, as to Persecution. 
 
 Learned are divided. Some of the lower Houfe of 
 Convocation,/ 5 have in their Writings of late Years, 
 made loud and vehement Out-cries againft the Bi- 
 fhops, for excluding them from a co-ordinate Pow- 
 er in Eccleiiaftical Determinations : And fome have 
 thought, that/frocr they argud ftrenuoujly, it was up- 
 on this Subject ; and yet for all this, Matters continue 
 as they were; unlefs that fome have alter'd their 
 Notions, upon altering their Stations; or' at leaft are 
 grown filent, comparatively to what they were be- 
 fore, fince they have been advanc'd from the lower 
 Houfe of Convocation, to the Upper. They had p. 3* 
 Eraftians among them. And have not the Ecclefiafti- 
 cal Aflemblies that come toge:her in our own Times, 
 fome of the fame Stamp alfo among them ? But their 
 very Conftitution was Eraftian. And it has been the 
 Opinion of a Number of great and good Men among 
 us, that it muft be the fame as to any Aflembly, that 
 will bring Things to an happy Settlement. The Par* 
 llamcnt kept a ftrift Hand over them, and never per- 
 mitted them to ajfume co-ercive Power, in Matters of 
 Church Government. And had the State always, and 
 at all Times done fo, by thofe who without any War- 
 rant from Scripture, have been very fond of confin- 
 ing the Name of the Church to them (elves, as far as 
 I can judge, it had been beft for both. It is faid, 
 that this Aflembly had an Hand in ravaging, and f ,,, 
 ruining the Loyal Clergy, and plundering of Churches : 
 But that they had any fuch Intention, when they 
 were for proceeding againft blind Guides, and fcanda- 
 lous Minifters, is what I fhould have thought, hardly 
 any Man would have fuppos'd, that was not bent up- 
 on condemning them, Right or Wrong. They re- p. 34 
 commended the Covenant, and fo drew the whole Na- 
 tion into a fnlemn Confederacy, for the Extirpation of 
 the Ecclefiaftical Government ; Whereas it is well 
 known that many of them were Epifcopal in their 
 Judgment, and it was decln.r'd by by Mr. Baxter, (arid 
 from him inferred in my dbrigment) that a Paren- 
 thefis was added for the Satisfaction of fuch Perfons, 
 and that Mr. Coleman gave the Covenant to the Lords, 
 with this Explication, that by Prelacy, all Epifcopacy 
 was not metnti but only the Form dftrib'd. 
 
 C z He
 
 $6 The Church and the Dij] enters 
 
 He farther obferves, that this Aflembly drew up 
 A Syflem of Calvin'j Principles, which they called a 
 Catechifm, which when foortcnd was drawn out to a. 
 length that as much exceeds the Memory of Children, as 
 many of the Doftrines in it do their other Capacities. 
 This Fling at the AJJemblys Catechifm, is a plain 
 Proof that our Author was for letting nothing flip him, 
 that he thought gave him matter of Reflection, whe- 
 ther it tended to his Point as to Perfection, Yea, 
 or No. But befides that this Catechifm is not 
 defir'd to be regarded by any, farther than it is found 
 prov'd by Scripture ; it is well known that we 
 have many Children of Four and Five Years of 
 Age among us, (not to fay younger) whofe Me- 
 mories retain it moft exactly, as well as grown 
 Perfons, that have found Caufe heartily to blefs 
 GOD, that they had a Form of found Words, fo 
 agreeable to the facred Scriptures , furnifliing 
 them with Matter for their Thoughts to work upon, 
 with Advantage, after they were advanced in Years, 
 and found their Understandings ripen'd. I fhould 
 therefore have thought, that this Reflection might 
 have been fpar'd. It is added, to clofe the Whole, 
 that they at laft funk., away, the Contempt and Derifi- 
 on of their own Makers, and Scandal of that, and Ab* 
 borence of future Ages. Whereas their Memory is 
 like to be had in Honour, while fuch as rail at them, 
 will either be forgotten, or not remembred without 
 Ignominy and Contempt. 
 
 Our Author next comes to Tithes, for touching 
 
 p. 36. which, as great a Man as Mr. Selden fell under the 
 , . Difpleafure of the Clergy, to that Degree, that they 
 have fcarce been able to forgive him to this Day. 
 Thefe were not abolifh'd and put down, in the 
 Days the Doctor is fpeaking of, becaufe it was found 
 difficult to provide another Maintenance for the Ml- 
 niftry : But could that have been fix'd to Satisfacti- 
 on, and fo as that the End might have been anfwer- 
 ed, I cannot fee where the Damage had been, had 
 there been here alfo an Alteration, as well as in 
 other Things. 
 
 It is farther a Matter of Complaint, that when the 
 
 9 , Ecclejjaftical Conftitution was fulfd down, nothing was 
 
 fet
 
 as to Ptrfecution. 37 
 
 fet up in its Room ; but Difcipline was ncglecled, 
 Licentioufneft overfpread the Kjngdom : But of this, 
 Complaint might have been made, with fomewhac 
 a better Grace, had there been in this Refpect any 
 great Amendment, when Things in 1660 return'd 
 into the Old Channel. It is On all Hands agreed,! 
 that never did Co miferable a Deluge of Licentiouf- 
 nefs overfpread the Land, as at the Reftoration. But 
 he that can venture with an Air of Serioufnefs, as if 
 he belicv'd himfelf, to fay, that though many that in- 
 veigtfd againft the Church in former Times feemd to be 
 in earneft, yet they r?ho for many Tears paft have under' 
 taken the Patronage of the Diffenting Caufe, have lit- 
 tle left than openly profeffed and declared themfelves 
 Atheifts, &c. He may even fay juft what he pleafes, 
 with Reference to any Thing, either formerly or 
 more lately. Ecclefiaftical Inforcemenif, have not 
 hitherto prov'd fufficient to check Licentioufnefs ; 
 nor are they likely to prove of more Significance 
 hereafter. If the main Ordinance of Parliament for 
 Presbyterian Discipline was rather a Pcrmijjion than an p- 3$. 
 Jnforcement of it, in my Mind, it was lo much the 
 better, and the lefs liable to be corr.plain'd of. The 
 Doctor gives us a Tafte of that Difcipline, in the 
 Proceedings of the Second Clafs in Lanca/hire, an 
 Account of which having fallen into his Hands, he 
 gives fome Extracts out of it, for -the Entertainment 
 of the Curious ; But it is hard to pafs a Judgment 
 upon what he relates, unlefs we had the whole before 
 us. And therefore I muft leave him the Satisfaftion 
 he enjoys in his own witty Obfervations, without 
 Moleftation. 
 
 At length returning from his Digreflions, which 
 are foreign enough to his own Purpofe, becaufe they 
 make no Difcovery, how much the Diffenters out- 
 did the Church in Perfecution, which was the Thing 
 he_ undertook to make out j he fets himfelf to fliew 
 what Treatment the Clergy met with inthofe Times, 
 and how their Ruin was compafs'd. An Attempt p. 41.42, 
 he tells us, was firft made on their Credit and I(eput<i~ 
 tion, which muft be own'd is fo very tender a thing, 
 that if once it be loft or impair'd, it is feldom if 
 ever that it is again recover'd. Great Humbert of 
 C 3 tbcm,
 
 3 8 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 them, he fays, were Perfons of Excellent Lives and 
 Learning ; which is not at all queftion'd ; and yet 
 at the lame Time many of them were of a very dif- 
 ferent Character, and he himfelf owns as much, 
 more than once iri his Lift that fucceeds. The Bi/hops 
 were treated with great DifrefpeR ; which cannot be 
 denied: And fome of them, as Bifhop Hall, Mor- 
 ton, Prideaux, &c. were Men of that Worth, that it 
 is much to be lamented that they were thus treated : 
 But as for others of them they might read their Sin 
 in their Punifhment. The inferior Clergy were loaded 
 with all the Crimes they could well 'think.of : And if 
 they were free from Guilr, there are none but whan 
 it muft be confefled if it had been their own Cafe 
 f. 43- would count it hard. They were inveighed againft in 
 Parliament : But he that would judge whether juftly 
 or not, muft enquire into Particulars. This I know, 
 that Dr. Thcmas Fuller, who wrote the Churcb Htfto- 
 
 * Church V y^ fpeaking of the fequeftred Clergy, * fays, that 
 U'P! ao". f otne f their Offences wer e fo foul, that it is a Shame to 
 
 report them, crying to "-fuftice for Punifbmcnt. And 
 
 when Dr. Peter Heylin afterwards fell foul on him 
 
 for this, his frank Acknowledgment, he owns, that he 
 
 did acknowledge what indeed could not be concealed, and 
 
 what in Truth muft be confcjfcd ; viz. that fome of the 
 
 t Appeal of EjcBed, were guilty of foul Offences f* Our Do&or 
 
 injur'd inno- obferves, that Mr. White laid that Eight Thousand de- 
 
 C C;P- >/ Jgrrfd fo y e Cfi ji outi> as unworthy andfcandalous : Which 
 
 Paflage is repeated a great many Times over through- 
 out his Work, becaufe no fmall Strefs is laid upon it. 
 And the Truih on't is, this Mr. White was as likely 
 to know as any Man, though perhaps as Table to be 
 prejudic'd on one Hand, as my Lord Clarendon and 
 p. 44. Dr. Nelfon on the other. He tells us , The Votes, 
 Orders, and Hefolvcs of the Houfc continually reflected on 
 the Clergy. And this is the iefs to be wondred at, 
 becaufe they continually oppoled them with all their 
 Might. Such as Dr. Pecl^mgton, Dr. Bray, Dr. Heylin, 
 Dr. Cofins, and Dr. Hcywccd, were frofecuted before 
 fbc Parliament : And there is no judging whether with 
 or without Reafon, unlels the Charges and their 
 Proof be confider'd and weigh'd. Committees were ap- 
 pointed to enquire into the Lives *ind Praclices of the 
 
 Clergy
 
 red, a* to P erf edition. 39 
 
 Clergy: And had the Body of them been fuch as our 
 Author a little before defcribes them from my Lord 
 Clarendon, this would have been to their Honour in 
 the Ifiue: They would but have fhin'd the brighter. 
 Had only a few been found tardy, in fo great a Num- 
 ber as they amounted to, 'twould have been no great 
 Matter of Reflection. However it was not at this 
 Time only that the Clergy were much complain'd of. 
 A Bill was brought in againft fcandalous Minifters, at 
 the very beginning of King Charles's II. Parliament, 
 * An. 1615-6 ; but was forc'd to be dropp'd, as * Ecbarfs 
 well as a great many other Things that were defign'd yol i 0*4 
 for the Publick Good. But 'tis complain'd, That the 
 Committee for Scandalous Minifters was a Stage for Clergy ? 4f 
 baiting j that whoever were brought before them, were 
 for that only Deafen, thence forward deemed either 
 fcandalous or insufficient, or feme other way unworthy : 
 And factious Lecturers were appointed in the Pulpits of 
 many of them. They were commonly revifd in Petitions 
 to the H^ufe, and in the Weekly Papers, and Occafional Li- 
 bels. An4 here Mr. Wl)ite\ firft Century, is repre- P 4*> 47 
 fented as the moft comprchcnfive "Undertaking of the 
 Kjnd: Upon Occafion of mentioning which, an Ac- 
 count is given of this Mr. White, who is faid to have 
 been, The moft aftive and implacable Enemy the Clergy 
 had. In his Preface, he charg'd the whole Body of them p. 4!, 
 with Infamy and Scandal. And fpeaking of a Second Cen- 
 tury, our Author quotes my Abridgment, which fays, 
 They were both fill'd with abominable Particularities. 
 But then he breaks off with an &c. without taking 
 any Notice, of the Words that immediately follow- 
 ed, which would hardly have flip'd him, had he 
 thought them to his Purpofe. I had faid of Mr. 
 White's Century, That concealing the abominable Par- 
 ticularities it contained, had been a much greater Ser- 
 vice to Religion, than their Publication ; which was but 
 making Sport for Atheifts, Papifts, and Profane. 
 And had he but added this Cenfure, it would have 
 been feen and known, how little we are for fuch 
 Methods : But it better fuited his Defign , that 
 we fliould pafe for Approvers of Mr. White's expo- 
 fing the Clergy ; And therefore in Prudence he 
 waves what was faid concerning it. 
 
 C 4 He
 
 40 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 4 p. He next complains, of the divefting the Clergy of 
 
 fill Temporal Power and Jurifdiciion; which many 
 to this Day, think to be no fmall Incumbrance, to 
 thofe whofe Office is properly of a Spiritual Na- 
 ture. And then comes ro the Attempts and Praclifes 
 
 p ' *' upon their Perfons and Eftatef. He tells us, that the 
 Houfe received r.nA countenanced Accufaticns and Infor- 
 mations again/i them, exhibited in Petitions. The Bi- 
 Jhcps were committed to the Tower, and their Eftates, 
 
 p. 54. &c . as rye n j^ a [ as p er f ojin l t -were fequeftrcd. The inferiour 
 Clergy were cited before the Parliament as Delinquents, 
 and imprifond, or put into the Cuftody of the Serjeant 
 at Arms, to their great Charge and Trouble. The B/- 
 Jhop's Houfes in London, were often made the Place 
 of their Rejlraint, Sec. And if there was no Canfe 
 for it, it was really very hard. And then he adds, 
 They were confined in Ships, which were floating Pri- 
 
 p. 5& fons, upon the River of Thames, where their Hard- 
 fhips were unfpeakable : And feme of them were thrcat- 
 ned to be fent to Algiers, and fold for Slaves to the 
 Turks. Thofe alfo that fufferd by Land, had the Mi- 
 fery of long Confinement, exccjfive Fees, noifome Rooms, 
 &c. without being able to obtain a Trial. Few were im- 
 
 p- 19- frifcnd, but what were fequeftrcd : Thefe Barbarities 
 
 9- 5 * were enrcura~ed and promoted by the Clergy, that had 
 
 gone over to the Fa ft ion. The Rabble alfo infulted the 
 Clergy, and contributed not a' lit tie to their Ruin. The 
 Account our Author gives of fome of thefe Particulars 
 is very tragical, and affecting, and would move any 
 Man, if there were but the needful Circumftance 
 of Truth ; which many are tempted to call in 
 queftion, by what he immediately fubjoins, vi%. 
 that the late Proceedings of a like Mature, againft a 
 
 p. 69, "Regular Clergyman, of kncwn %eal and Affection to the 
 
 Eftablijkmsnt, could yield but a m:lancholy PrcfpeB, to 
 f:ich as knew and ccnfuierd thefe Circumftanccs of Hifto* 
 ry. By which Addition, he has fpoil'd all. For if the 
 Proceedings againft the Clergy, which he fo bit- 
 terly complains of, were but cf a like Nature with 
 thofe againft that famous Doctor more lately, I be- 
 lieve moft People will be of Opinion, there is no 
 great Occafion for fuch mighty Out-cries, but they 
 mjghc well enough have been fpar'd. If there was as 
 
 much
 
 corn-par* a, as to Persecution. 41 
 
 much Ground for the Pretences of Popery and Super- 
 ftition formerly, as there was for Sedition and Faction 
 more lately, Few will think 'em fo ridiculous as 
 our Author feems to imagine ; and it will abate 
 the Comrarfion which he takes fo much Pains to 
 excite, and at the fame time diminifh the Credit 
 of his Hiftory. If there be no more Truth in what 
 he relates before, of fomc (piergymens being fold 
 to Slavery in Turkey, than in what he iniinuates of 
 tin Oath more than tailed of lately, to damn or ftarve 
 the Clergy, if the Impeachment had gone down at glibly 
 with the People, tti it was expected ; 1 am afraid it will 
 generally meet with more Comempt than Credit, and 
 turn to but a very poor Account to his Sufferers, for 
 whom he appears fo much concern'd. And therefore 
 fhould this Part of his Attempt (whatever becomes of 
 the other) ever come to a fecond ImprelBon, which I 
 believe, neither his Bookfellers nor Subfcribers much 
 expect, I would advife him or them to take Care, 
 tha r this Paflage may be wholly expung'd. 
 
 The Doctor next undertakes to confider the fe- 
 veral Committees that dealt with the Clergy. The 
 grand Committee for Religion, he fays, bore very hard P* ^ 2 * 
 upon 'em. He inumaces the fame as to the Sub- 
 committee, or the Committees of fcandalom Minifters, P- ^5* 
 and the other lefs Committees into which it was 
 divided. Petitions againft the Clergy were prefented 
 to thefe Committees, in the Name of their feveral p.5- 
 Parijhcs, altho they came not from the tenth, or even 
 the twfntieth Part cf the Inhabitants. The Subjsft of 
 the numerous Accusations brought againft them, WM 
 either fhatncfully trifling, or elfe plain Matter of Duty, 
 and Obedience to the Orders of the Church. Their in- 
 humane Judges often infulted them, with great Scorn and P- *& 
 Contempt, and with open Deviling* and Reproaches. And 
 he inftances in fome of the firit and moft 'early Suf- 
 ferers that came before 'em ; as, Mr. Summons offyync ^. , 
 in EJJejc, Mr. Squire of Shoreditch, and Mr. Finch of P 
 Chrtft-Church, who vindicated jhemlelves from the 
 Accufations brought againft them ; tho' as to the 
 latter of the Three, he owns himfelf not very well 
 fatisfyd M to his Character. And to make fure Work 
 on't, thac their Sufferings might not be forgotten, 
 
 they
 
 4 2 The Church and the Dijjenter s 
 
 they are many of them again repeated in the fuc- 
 ceeding Lift, under their feveral Names. However, 
 & 7 1 - upon Occafion of his faying, that Mr. Finch in his 
 Defence did not acquit bimfelf from having been a 
 Man of an ill Life, he takes Occafion to own, that 
 there were in thofe Times fame among the Clergy, that 
 were ~M.cn of wicked Lives, and even a Reproach and 
 
 P* 73 Scandal to their Fun&Un, which he, intimates he ac~ 
 , knowledges, that he might not be thought to defend, 
 that which of alt other Things he the moft abhorrd, 
 viz. the Vices of the Clergy. But whether fome Parts 
 of his Attempt difcover that Abhorrence of the Vices 
 of the Clergy, that might juftly be expected from 
 him, and that particularly from this Declaration, 
 which is handfomely and ftrongly enough exprefs'd, 
 will be confider'd in the Sequel. 
 
 He then proceeds, to the Committee for plunder d 
 Minifters, who he fays were a ft an ding Tribunal, for 
 the I(uin of the Regular Clergy, and were therefore 
 
 I- 74- call'd, the Committee for plundering Minifters. Thefe 
 were the main Engine, made ufe of by the Parliament, 
 for the I(uin of the Clergy. -He mentions fome par- 
 ticular Perfons that fufferM by this Commi r tee : As 
 
 fr- ?! Dr. Daniel Featley, and Mr. Reynolds of Devon. And 
 
 * 79 ' then he obferves, that the Profecutors before thefe 
 Committees, were often the meanejl, and bnfeft, and moft 
 ignorant Perfons in the Parijh, and yet they encouraged 
 them. Very unfair Methods were ufed to get Hands to 
 
 t 8e. thefe Petitions. No regard was had to the Truth or Fal- 
 
 fhood of the Articles infer ted: And the Judges themf elves 
 were Solicitors and A?ents. They were accused of that 
 which was plain Matter of unqueftionable Duty, which 
 p, 8*. was interffers^d with Allegations of Popery, aud Immo- 
 rality ; and Malignancy againft the Parliament wasftill 
 the Burthen of the Seng : And when by numberlefs Bar- 
 barities and Vexations they were driven from their Houfes 
 and Parifhes, Abfcnce and defcrting their Cures was fre- 
 quently made an Article of the Charge againft them. 
 p. 83. The Judges alfo were malicious and ignorant. The Par* 
 ties condemned bad no Legal Trial. Things many Tears 
 before buried in Oblivion were enquird after, and ad- 
 mitted as Charges. The lighteft and moft groundlefs Suf- 
 f. if. picicns were allowed of, as Part of a Charge, The bare 
 
 Word
 
 as to Terfecution. 4$ 
 
 Word of Accufers was taken without tin Oath* Many 
 were condemn d without being beard, or fo much as ever 
 hearing that they were accused : And when they had A 
 Hearing, it vias generally managed with Jhameful Arti- 
 fices and Contrivances : Nay, fome times their Living P-W- 
 vs>as firft -put under Sequcftration, and an Hearing teas 
 given afterwards. Thefe are Things no Man will 
 pre:end to plead for. The only Queftion is, Whe- 
 ther the Fads are true ? 
 
 There were Committees alfo in the Country, that _ 8 
 were inferior Courts of Inquifition, who ieferr'd Mat- 
 ters to the Committee for plunder d Minifters. And the 
 Miferies of the Clergy in general were very much 
 increas'd, by the creeling of thefe Committees in the 
 feveral Parts of the Kingdom. Our Author gives 
 feme Account of them in Hereford, and in Northamp- p g^ 
 tonjkire, &c. where the fame Obfervations are re- p. 93, &c. 
 peated, as were before made as to the London Com- 
 mittee: And he particularly inftances m the Cafe and 
 Treatment of Dr. Peterfon. P* 5 *- , 
 
 He complains, that after thefe Committees had at f ' 9 ' 
 Pleafure ejeclcd thefe Incumbents, they fhamefutty ne- 
 gleflcd their Parijhes, and fill' d their Pulpits with more 
 Jkameful Succejfors, of which he gives fome Inftances: 
 And I can't pretend to fay, but that in fuch a Num- 
 ber as was neceffary to fill the vacant Livings, there 
 might be fome fuch as he mentions : And yet it 
 does not therefore follow, but that the Generality of 
 thofe that fucceeded the Minifters that were feque- 
 ftred, might be Men of clearer Characters, and fuch f 
 as did fet themfelies laborioujly to feel^ the faving of 
 Souls ; which ExpreiTion I am not aflum'd to re- 
 peat, notwithftanding his infulting Banter. 
 
 And that he mayn't be able to fay, he has but 
 my bare Word for it, I'll give him the Words of a 
 certain aged and pious Clergyman of the Church of 
 England, yet living, * and not more generally known 
 than refpeded, who having perus'd this Doctor's Per- 
 formance, makes this Remark among others : 
 
 " This Author (fays he) frequently falls foul upon 
 " the Memory of thofe Minifters, who were put into 
 " the fequeftred Livings, and tells ftrange Stories of 
 
 " many, 
 
 * Mr. Stfplitnt ofSuttw in Btdftrtyu"} who b fincc dead*
 
 44 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 " many, to make them infamous, which I cannot 
 " give any Credit to. Tho' I knew but few of the 
 " fequeftred Clergy, yet I knew feveral of their im- 
 " mediate Succeflbrs, forr e in Lincoln/hire , and more 
 4< in Leicpfterjhire, all which were valuable for their 
 " Education, minifterial Abilities, and prudent Con- 
 .*' du$. Its well if thofe Parifhes now have fuch 
 " faithful Paftors, which I much doubt ". The fame 
 Peifon alfo gives, me to underftand, that he knew 
 fome Minifters whofe Qualifications for their Office 
 were very mean, who were loofe in their Lives, and 
 difaffected to the Parliament's Caufe and Proceed- 
 ings, and yet kept in their Livings in all thofe Times, 
 and were never fequeftred or ejected, tho' their Li- 
 vings were of good Value. 
 
 Our Author does not omit to take Notice, that 
 the Parliamentary Committees were impower'd to 
 allow Fifths, to the Wives and Children of fuch as 
 were fequeftred, which I had reprefented as an Act 
 ef Clemency: But the Doctor now intimates, it was 
 j. 99- ^ great Addition to the Miferies of the Clergy, tho' at 
 beft, he fays, 'twas rare that this Allowance of Fifths 
 was ever paid. He oblerves as to this Allowance, 
 p. too, &e. that it began but late, that the Delinquent himfclf was 
 ftarvdy while Wife and Children were little fupported 
 by it: That the Ordinance till 1654, did not oblige to 
 fay a Fifth, but only allowed of it : That it was diffi- 
 cultly recovered and was to ccafc at the Death of tho 
 Perfcnfequcftred. 
 
 He fartner adds, that Bi/hops, Deans and Chapterf, 
 and ejected Fellows of College s, had not the benefit of 
 this Allowance * : And many Qualifications were added 
 by the Ordinance. And after all, thffe Fifths were 
 fomctimes denied by the Commit tees ; and more frequent- 
 ly by the ufurfing Intruders. And in the very few In- 
 fiances where thy were faid, he fays, "'twas at a very 
 low Rate. He declares himfelf fatisfy'd, that taking 
 the whole Body of the fequeftred Clergy together, 
 fcarce One in Ten in the whole Number ever had 
 
 them * 
 
 * And yet he himfelf afterwards, />. m. fays, Thai rrovifan wat 
 VWde by the Parliament y that the Eirl tf Manchelter m&A alfaw a. f'fih. 
 to the Wivct And Children tf t..t[c t\tft?d in the "Vnivtrfty of Cam- 
 bridge.
 
 com far* d, as to P erf edition. 45 
 
 them * without Trouble, and to the full Value. I 
 conceive it no eafy Thing to make a Calculation in 
 the Cafe. However, he has taken Notice of feveral 
 that receiv'd Fifths,, and I of feveral that paid them. 
 And we need not doubt but there were many more 
 than we are able to recover. And fuppofing ic to 
 have been paid ever fo indifferently, it was molt 
 certainly better Provision than was made by the AH 
 ofVniformity , for thofe that were ejected and filenc'd. 
 It was fuch as many of them would have rejoyc'd in, 
 and been very thankful for. 
 
 Thefolemn League and Covenant, next comes in for p. IQ$ 
 a Share in our Author's Invectives. This was order'd 
 to be taken by all Minifters, Lecturers and Curares : 
 And the Doctor intimates, that more fufferd by this, ^ :d * 
 than by tiny other Engine of the Times befides. He af- 
 terwards proceeds to the Regulation of the Univer- 
 fity of Cambridge, where, he fays, that firft find lajl t 
 could not be left than 5 or 600 ejefted. Then he be- 
 ftows fome Remarks upon the Commiflloners of the 
 Affociated Counties of Lincoln, Huntingdon, Effex, 
 Hertford, Norfolk., Suffolk and Cambridge ; and fo 
 comes to the Oxford Viiitation, for which he has far- 
 ther Remarks to fpare, with which his beloved Au- 
 thor Anthony a Wood moft plentifully farnifhes him. 
 He obferves, that befides the Vice-chancellor and 
 Proctors, the Vifitors difmifs'd about Ten of the Pro- 
 feflbrs and Publick Readers, and fpar'd no fingle 
 Head of any College, except Lincoln and Queen's. 
 They ejected fome Hundreds of Fellows, &c. And 
 fo general was the Riddance made, that at C. C. C. 
 
 of 
 
 * He himfelf gives feveral Inftances in his fucceeding Lift. 
 Thus he owns, P. II, p. 4, that Mr. tfevehatn conftantly paid 
 Fifths to Dr. tf;cb>lM for the Living of Dean: And, />. 389, that 
 Mr. Venirli paid Fifths to Mr. yaurhan in tforthamptonftire ; and that 
 the Wife of Mr. Eiwards (who was but Lecturer at Tuibeney hi 
 I'embrtkfjblrc) receiv'd 17 / per An. Fifths, which was a pretty fair 
 Allowance, f. 415. He fays, that Mr. Mikephcr Alpbcry had his 
 Fifths duly paid him by his Succcflbr Mr. B , P*gt 183. He 
 mentions another, /. 21-, and another Mr. Tfiomar Carter, p. 217, 
 and Mr. //. Davits, P.235- Nay, Mr. FrJsncls Davits had a Fourth, 
 
 IviA. Mr. Forbes alfo had Fifths', /. 141, and Mr. Tiio. F*rfi<.r t Ib. 
 
 and MX, George Miles, p. 312, &c.
 
 The Church and the DtJJenters 
 
 of Forty-fix Members, including Chaplains, they left 
 but Four or Five: And at Vniverfity-College, but one 
 fingle Perfonof the whole Foundation. The original 
 Regifter of this Vifitation, he fays, is yet preferv'd in 
 
 p. 138* the Bodleian Library ; but that he had neither Time 
 nor Opportunity to confult it * ; and perhaps, for 
 fome Reafons, he had no great Inclination to it nei- 
 ther. Tho' I fhould have thought it more material 
 to confult and publifh the Original, than Scraps from 
 Wood, or any fuch canker'd, partial Author. 
 pi 144., &c. He farther takes Notice of the Petitions of the 
 fequeftred Clergy to his Majefty, and to Sir Thomas 
 
 p. 146. Fairfax ; and of the Confequences of the Ingagcmcnt, 
 for the not taking of which many were caft out. And 
 then comes to the Sufferings of the Clergy in Wales, 
 
 f. 147. en whom the Parliament at loft turn A their Eyes, making 
 them fadly compenfate for the Delay of their Sufferings* 
 Here he freely inveighs againft Hugh Peters, and Vava- 
 for Powel f, whom I might well enough pafs by, becaufe 
 
 not 
 
 * Notwithftanding this Declaration here, I find the Doftor, 
 P. II. p. 99, adyertifmg the Reader, that the Lift of thofe 
 ejefted in the Univerfity of Oxen, was taken out of the Original 
 Regifter of the Visitors. 
 
 t I don't know that the firft of thefe has left any thing behind 
 him, forthejuftification of himfelf from the Things laid to his 
 Charge : But the lecond of them, publinYd a Duodecimo in 1661, 
 intit. The Bird in the Cage chirping: To which Is prefixed, A brisfNetr- 
 rat ive of the former Propagation, and late Rsjlriciion of the Gojpcl (ami the 
 Godly Preachers and Profejfors thereof ) in Wales. In which he takes 
 notice of his being charg'd with extirpating, inftead of propa- 
 gating, the Gofpel in that Country, and converting the Profits 
 of the Tithes to his own Ufe. He gives an Account, that in 
 1641, a Petition was prefented to King and Parliament, in which 
 it was declared, that there were not ib many confcientious and 
 conftant Preachers, as there were Counties in Wales and that 
 thefe were either (ilenc'd or much perfecuted : And that by Vir- 
 tue of an Aft of Parliament in 1649, many were ejefted for 
 Ignorance and Scandal; but not all, as fome reported. For 
 that in Montgomeryshire, there were Eleven or Twelve never ejeft- 
 ed, and feveral in other Parts. And tho' after this there were 
 great Complaints, that the People were turning Papifls and Hea- 
 thens for Want of the Word of God, there were a great Number 
 of Preachers came from other Parts. And that particularly in
 
 r'di as to Perfecution. 47 
 
 not in my Lift. He obferves that the grand Defiga 
 of the Propagators of the Gofpel in Wales, was utter- 
 ly to abolifh the Inftitution of Parifh Minifters, and 
 to gen into their own Hands the whole Ecclefiaftical 
 Revenue of that Part of the Kingdom, and to fupply 
 the Churches with a few occafional and ftipendiary 
 Preachers : And then, after no fmall Pains in ballan- 
 cing Accounts, in a Way that is confus'd enough, he 
 computed that there were between Three and Four 
 Hundred Minifters feoueftred in the fix Counties of 
 South Wales, and the County of Monmouth ; and fays 
 that if North Wales be taken in, the Number of the 
 ejected muft have been upward of Five, and not 
 much fhort of Six Hundred. And then, after ano- 
 ther as confufed Computation of the Worth and 
 
 yearly 
 
 lre, there were at leaft Sixteen Preachers, whereof ten 
 were Univerfity-men, fome of the meaneft of which were after 
 the Reftoration approv'd by the Bifhops, and fettled in Pariflies. 
 That as for the Tithes, they (according to the Aft) were divided 
 into Six Parts ; One of which went to the unejefted Minifters ; 
 a fecond to other fettled and itinerant Minifters ; a third to main- 
 tain Free-Schools, of fome of which the ejefted Minifters and 
 their Sons were Mafters ; a fourth to the Widows and Chil 
 ftren of the ejefted Minifters ; a fifth to Under- Officers, as Trea- 
 furers, aad Solicitors, Sequeftrators, &c. And a fixth to the 
 Widows of Minifters deceas'd. He adds, that the Tithes were 
 forc'd to be fet low, beCaufe fome would not take them to. 
 farm, others would not pay, and the Country was poor af- 
 ter the Wars, &c. He declares, he meddled not after 1653: 
 And that he never receiv'd for his Preaching in Wales, by 
 Salary, or any other Way, but between 6 and 700 / at moft. 
 That he never had any Thing from the Tithes, and defies any one 
 to prove it. And whereas 'twas faid, that he had purchas'd fome 
 Thoufands yearly of the King's Rents and Lands, he declares that 
 what he had purchas'd, amounted but to 70 / yearly, of which 
 he never receiv'd above 60 / 10 s. in any Year ; which return'd to 
 the King again upon his Reftoration. And he refers to a Book he 
 had publifti'd before, intit. Examen, & Purgarfun Pivuafiris, printed in 
 1653 ; wherein he is by Authentick Certificates, figna by Per- 
 fons of good Credit, and many of them Gentlemen of good 
 Eftates, clear'd from the Charges that were brought againft him 
 in the Hue and Grf. And yet has the Doftor copy'd out a Abun- 
 dance of Stories out of this Hue and Cry without the leaft Notica 
 there ever was any Reply publilK'd.
 
 The Church And the Dij] enters 
 
 yearly Value of their Livings, &c. He adds, that the 
 whole of the Revenues and Eftares of the Church and 
 Clergy, that was feiz'd by thole then in Power, ap- 
 pears on the moft mod eft Computation, to have a- 
 mounted to above 345000 / Sterling. He fliews how 
 the growing Profits were difpos'd of, and takes Notice 
 of the Petitions to the Parliament about the Matter, 
 and with great Freedom inveighs againft Preachers in 
 thofe Parts as illiterate Tradesmen, Cc. And yet as 
 bad a Condition as iheWclfh Counties were in at that 
 Time, Commifiioner Whitlocl^ in his Memorials * 
 
 * See Mr. gives an Account that in September 1653 there were 
 
 Mem*p^a8. a Hundred and Fifty good Preachers in the thirteen 
 Weljh Counties, and moft of them preach'd three or 
 four times a Week : And that in every Marker-town 
 wasplac'd oneSchcolmafter j and in moft greatTowns, 
 two Schoolmafters, able, learned, and Univerfity 
 Men. Which is fo good Authority in the Cafe, that 
 I-believe moft Men will think, that our Author" here 
 alfo, as well as in other Places, has over done it, ouc 
 of the Abundance of his Zeal. 
 
 From Wales, the Dodor returns back into Eng- 
 land, and gives fome farther Account of the Proceed- 
 ings of the Commiflioners there : And then enters 
 upon an Account of the Triers, without whofe Appro- 
 bation none could be admitted into Livings; and 
 their Determination was abfolute. He freely charges 
 thefe Gentlemen with fuch Pardalities and Corrup- 
 tions in fo high a Truft, as were hardly ever fo much 
 as charg'd on any Bifhop by the word of Enemies. 
 He fays, they approv'd of feveral moft illiterate Per- 
 
 t>, 172- fons, and even unordained Mechanicks, and others 
 of the meaneft Education ; and were very tyrannical. 
 And whereas in my Abridgment I had from Mr. Bax- 
 ter fignified, that thefe "Triers did fome good in the nridft 
 cf all their Faults, which he was as fenfible of as any 
 Man, he difcovers himfelf not a little difpleas'd: 
 And inftances in the Treatment which Dr. Sadler, Mr. 
 Camplin, Mr. Broad, Mr. Clutterbucl^, Mr. Trojfi, and 
 Mr. Duncomb met with from them ; and yet I am 
 
 p i?4 perfuaded the Dodtor does not imagine that we ap- 
 prove of their having fuch Ufage, any more than he 
 does. However, when he had been fo particular 
 
 about
 
 corn-par'' d) as to Perfecution. 49 
 
 about thefe Gentlemen here", I can't fee the leaft 
 Occafion for his much inlarging upon them again 
 when they come in his Way in his Lift. This t(K 
 me appears not very eafy to be reconciPd, with 
 that Concern to avoid Repetitions which he fome. 
 times difcovers. 
 
 He afterwards paCTes to a New Ordinance for the p. 178. 
 ejecting fcandalous, ignorant, and infufficient Minifters 
 and Schoolmajlers, in 16545 and gives Mr. GatforeTs 
 Reflections upon it ; and adds an Account of the 
 Execution of it upon Mr. Bufhnel, (whofe Cafe alone p. is*, 
 takes up above three Sheets of Paper) and then 
 mentions the Protector's Declaration in 1655, which 
 bunted the fequeftred Clergy out of the Private Families 
 effuch as were willing to entertain them for Chaplains 
 Or Tutors, to tke flawing them and their Families ; by 
 which, he fays, their Miferies were compleated. And 
 yet in the very next Page, he afcribes the compleat- p. igy, 
 ing their Ruin, to another Declaration in 1656, by 
 which all former Sequeftrations were confirm'd. 
 And after fome light Touches upon fuch Inftances 
 of their Sufferings as were before omitted, he pro- 
 ceeds to compute the Number of the Suffering Cler- 
 gy, which he reckons not to fall much fliort of Ten ? - 
 Thoufand, tho' with all his Pains, (as we fliall fee 
 prefently) he can give no good Reafon to believe, 
 that they reach'd Half Way. He gives feveral 
 Reafons why h ; s Lift lliould be fo fcanty and defe- 
 ctive, after all the Care he had taken to make ic 
 more compleat ; and fo draws to the Clofe of his 
 Introductory Account, which cannot eafily be 
 mitch'd, for Tedioufnefs, and Immethodicalnefs, and 
 frequent Repetition of the fame Things again and 
 again, notwithftanding that he owns he had glutted 
 his Reader at well AS himfelfwith it. He is refolv'd, rhac 
 be his Lift, more or left perfeft, bell detain his Reader P- i0 4 
 no longer frcjn it : But I'll venture to give him this 
 friendly Caution beforehand, that if he comes to ic 
 with any rais'd Expevftations, his Difappointment will- 
 be but fo much the greater. 
 
 And thus at length I can congratulate myfelf otx 
 
 being got through the Author's Preface and Intro* 
 
 duRion, which contains as furious an Invective as 
 
 VOLL. II. D *. has
 
 50 The Church and the DiJJ enters 
 
 has of late Years appeared agalnft the People call'd 
 Presbyterians. And I (hall clofe my Remarks upon 
 them with the Words of Mr. Levels of Margate j 
 the very Words with which he clofes his Remarks 
 * See Mr. O n Dr. Bifi. * 'Tis too plain, fays he, what is the 
 L/j'jRem. j^ a f on of all this Wrath and Clamour againft the Pref- 
 byterians. They who exercife it, cant but be fenfible 
 that they are an impotent Body of Men, compared 
 with thofe of the Church. But are all faithful to the 
 Proteftant Succeifion, and will neither by Perfuafion, 
 nor Threats and ill Vf age be brought off from being 
 fo. Et hinc ilia? Lachrymae. This makes them worfe 
 than Hereticks and Idolaters, and to be unworthy to be 
 usd even with common Humanity. 
 
 Next follows the long expected Lift; and that 
 confifts of feveral Articles. For the Doctor firft gives 
 an Account of the Cathedral Clergy ; and adds to 
 them fuch as fuffer'd in the Chapel Royal, and in 
 the Colleges of Eaten, Manchefter, Rippon, Southwell, 
 Wejlminjlcr, tFindforzndWoherhampton; from p. I. 
 to p. 97. 
 
 Then come the Sufferers in the Two Umverfi- 
 ties ofOAr/or^and Cambridge ; from p. 97, to p. 164. 
 
 To them' fucceed the London Clergy, with thofe 
 within the Bills of Mortality, and Parts adjacent $ 
 from p, 164, to p. 181. 
 
 Then follows a Lift of the fuffering Parochial Clergy, 
 all through the Kingdom ; horn p. 18 1, to p. 412. 
 
 To which is fubjoyn'd an Appendix, containing 
 an Account of fome Few of the School-Mafters, 
 Lecturers, Curates, &c. who were turn'd out j 
 from />. 412, top. 425. 
 
 And the whole of this Part of the Attempt is 
 clos'd with Two Alphabetical Indexes j One of the 
 Names of the Clergy that were fequeftred ; and an- 
 other of the Livings mention'd in the Lift foregoing. 
 
 To prevent Tedioufnefs, (with which One would 
 be tempted to think the Dodlor had ftudy'd to tire 
 his Readers) I (hall content myfelf with a Few 
 General Remarks on the whole Lift as it ftands : And 
 then fhall add fome Particular Remarks on each Part 
 of it ; and on the two Indexes at the End. And when I 
 have fubjoyn'd a brief Return to fuch Reflections on 
 
 my
 
 compared, as to Perfecution. 51 
 
 my Abridgment, and the Sufferers added ro it, as the 
 Doctor has fcarter'd up and down in his Preface, 
 Introduction , and Hiftorical Lift, I fhall wait 
 with Patience for the Remainder of his un- 
 dertaken Work ; and if it pleafes GOD I live ro fee 
 it complea r ed, I fli'all venture to run it over, lee 
 it be ever fo angry, or ever fo bulky, endeavour- 
 ing to make the beft Ufe of it I am able, for the 
 Benefit of prefent and fucceeding Times. 
 
 My General Remarks on the Doctor's whole 
 Lift as it ftands, are thefe : 
 
 I. There is much more of Shew in it, than 
 there is of Subftance. He is plainly very defirous 
 it fhould feem large, whatever it was in Reality : 
 But when a Diftin&ion is made between real and 
 imaginary Sufferers , there will be Room for a 
 confiderable Defalcation. Among his Cathedral Cler- 
 gy, befides the Perfons who he has Reafon to be- 
 lieve were Sufferers, he reckons up a Variety of 
 Prebends and Canonrics , and o:her Dignities, in 
 which he takes it for eranred, there were fome 
 Sufferers, tho 1 he has no Evidence of it; nay, fome- 
 times does not know (as he frankly acknowledges) 
 whether there were any fuch Dignities, for any Suf- 
 ferers to poffefs, or be ejected from. And of this 
 Sort of Sufferers , who are mark'd wkh Two 
 
 Scratches after this Manner, there are in the 
 
 Diocefe of St. Afaph Fourreen, in ~Bnn?or Ten, in Can- 
 terbury Twelve, in Carlifle Eight, Chefter Six, Chi- 
 cheftcr Five, St. D/ivicTs Twenty, Hereford Ten, Lan~ " 
 duff Eleven, Lincoln Forty-five, London Eight, Nor- 
 wich Two, Pete* borough Nine, Hccheilcr Seven, iVcfis 
 Eleven, Iffncbcfter One, PfbrcefterTwo, Tbr^. Eight; in 
 the Chapel fyyal Fourteen, in M/rnc^/rer-CollegeFour, 
 in I(ippon-Co\\e?c Two, and in Wolveihampton Eight; 
 in all, above Two hundred ; befides many others 
 thar are dubious. Its a Sign the Doctor had a good 
 Will and ftron^ Inclination to multiply the Num-. 
 ber of his Sufferers to the utmoft, that he fhould 
 take this Me:hod. But how doe? he know, but 
 that many ot thefe Dignities (fuppofing them to 
 te real, and not imaginary) might be entirely va- 
 D % cant,
 
 52 The Church and the Dij] enters 
 
 cant, when the Revenues of the Cathedrals were 
 feiz'd ? or but that leveral of them might be pof- 
 fcffed by one Perfon ? Or, but that the Sufferers 
 in thofe Dignities (if fuch there were) may be 
 mentioned in other Places, where they had Livings, 
 which he himfelf owns to have been no uncommon 
 Thing ? Upon thefe Accounts, this Flourifh might 
 well enough have been fpar'd, unlefs he had had 
 more Light. Thefe muft ftand for wafte Paper 
 when we come to a Computation. Nor is this 
 the only Proof he is for making all the Shew 
 that is poflible. He is for producing one and the 
 fame Man over and over in his Lift, as if the Num- 
 ber of his Sufferers would increafe and rife, in Pro- 
 portion to the Number of the Preferments they 
 loft. Thus for Inftance, Part II. f. 48, we meet 
 with Richard Stuart, LLD. Deanry of Paul's, Pre- 
 bendary of St. Pancras, and Penitentiary ; Deanry at 
 Weftmivjler ; and Prebend of the third Stall there ; 
 Deanry of the tyyal Cbafel, Provoftfhip of Eaton- 
 College, and Prebend of North Alton in the Church 
 of Salisbury. I fliould have thought that when all 
 this had been mentioned, and an Account and a Cha- 
 racter of him had been added, we had had enough 
 in all Confcience of this one Sufferer. But it feems 
 the Doctor thought otherwife : And therefore we 
 have him again, f. 65, in the*Cathedral Church of 
 Sarum ; and again, at the Chafel Royal, f. 87 ; and 
 again in the very fame Page at Eaton-Cottege ; and 
 again with a new Pomp, and farther Account of him, 
 at Wejlminfter, p. 91. This looks as if he defign'd 
 to pelt us with Dignities. And yet after all this Pa- 
 rade and Shew, the poor Doctor is help'd but to 
 one fingle Name in his Index. Many fuch Inftances 
 as thefe may eafily be obferv'd. This looks as if he 
 was afraid he fhould not fpend Paper enough in pur- 
 fuing his Undertaking ; and is far from difcovering 
 his Sorrow to be fo great at the Bulk of his Book, as 
 P n ^ would make us believe ; or that the Bulkinefs of 
 
 ' p ' * * * it was fo unavoidable as he reprefents it. 
 
 II. After all the great Pains the Doctor has ta- 
 ken, the Lift he has pioduc'd, does not feem to me 
 
 to
 
 red) as to Perfecutzoti. 53 
 
 to anfwer his End : For ic neither proves that the 
 Number of Sufferers on the Church Side was fo 
 much greater as he pretends, than on the Side of rhe 
 DiflTenters ; nor that their Sufferings were in them- 
 felves, fo much more heavy and fevere, as he infinu- 
 ates. The Two Things which in his Introduction he 
 propofes to prove, and make undeniably evident, are 
 thefe : That cur Minifters ejeElcd Five Times greater Pref - ? I 
 Numbers of the Epifcopal Clergy, and opprefs'd them in 
 a. Th-iufand Times greater Degrees, than ever their own 
 Fi tends fufferd from the Eftablifomcnt. If then nei- 
 ther of thefe Things are clear'd, it muft be own'd, 
 the poor Doctor has loft his Labour, which is uncom- 
 fortable in any Cafe ; but peculiarly fo, where fo 
 much Pains has been taken, and fo much Time fpenr, 
 to the acknowledged Neglect of the more immediate Partl.m 
 Bufmefs of his Funflion, And that he really has noc 
 by his Lift made either of thefe Things out, as far as 
 I can judge, admits of plain and eafy Proof. 
 
 i. His Lift does not give fufficient Proof, that 
 the Number of the Sufferers on the Church Side, 
 was fo much grearer, than on the Side of the Dif- 
 fenters, as he pre:ends it was. He fays indeed again 
 and again, that there were Ten Thoufand Sufferers 
 on the Church fide, and reckons it mod eft to fall to 
 e : ght thousand : But Mr. Withers * has ftiew'd this P.I. p. i 
 to be impollible ; efpecially in the Year 1 644, which 
 is the Time re r er'd to) becaufe the Parliament had 
 not at that Time fo many Clergymen under their 
 Jurifdidtion. The Doctor owns indeed that he Pref. p. j 
 was frequently obligd tofupply the Want of more particu~ 
 lar Intelligence by the Helf of Guejfts : (And it is plain 
 enough he did fo, and that he fometimes gucfs'd very 
 much at Random too) but to guffs there muft be eight 
 or ten thoufand Sufferers on his Side, when, after all 
 his Bluftering, his Lift makes out little more than a 
 fifth Part of them, is unconfcionable, and beyond all 
 Bounds, and therefore cannot by any means be al- 
 low'd. Mr. Wliites Saying in the Houfe of Com- 
 mons, (which he fo oft refers to) " That Eight 
 " thoufand deferv'd to be caft out j is nothing of a 
 D 3 Proof, 
 
 * See b Apftnd'* to hit Reply to Mr. df*tt. p xsiv, z*v.
 
 54 The Church and the Diff enters 
 
 Proof, thac near fo many, actually were fequeftred : 
 And yet, as far as I can perceive, this is his main Evi- 
 dence. The Doctor cannot particuiar'y reckon up 
 above Two thouland four hundred, which is about 
 the. Number of Parifhes in his Index, from whence 
 Clergymen were ejected. It. is plain the Number 
 of Sufferers in thefe Parifhes, muft fall confiderably 
 fliorc of the Number of Par! (lies in which they 
 fuffer'd, becaufe a good many of them had Two 
 or Three Parifhes apiece. And if it be pleaded, 
 that the Cathedral Clergy, and the Sufferers in 
 the Two Univerfities will require an Allowance of 
 a greater Number ; it is eafily reply'd, that fo many 
 of them had Parochial Preferments as he himfelf is 
 Prcf.p. 49. forcM to own, that the Addition that is procur'tl 
 that Way, will fcarce over ballance the Number of 
 Pluralifts, among his Parochial Sufferers. Mr. Wi- 
 thers * has made a Computation as to three of the 
 Aflbciared Counties, vi^. Suffolk., Kotfoll^ and Ctim- 
 Iridgefoirc, in which there were One thoufand three 
 hundred ninety-eight Parifhes, and Two hundred 
 fifty-three Sequeftrations. So that a Fifth Part of 
 the Livings were not fequeftred. And taking thele 
 Three Counties as a Standard by which to meafure 
 the whole Kingdom, the Number of Sufferers will 
 be lefs than Two thoufand, fuppofing of the Nine 
 thoufand two hundred eighty-four Parilhes in Eng- 
 Und, there were lefs than a fifth Part fequeftred. 
 The fame Gentleman 1m alfo made another Com- 
 putation frcm the County of Devon, in which there 
 was likely ro be as great a Number of Sufferers 
 as any where, and in which the Doctor feems to 
 have been moft exa&. In this County there are 
 Three hundred ninety-four Parifhes, and according to 
 the Doctor's Account about One hundred thirty-nine 
 Sequeftrations ; out of which Number of One hun- 
 dred, thirty-nine, Thirty-nine muft be deducted, as 
 cither uncertain, or Piuralifts, or Perfons officiating 
 again, either in their own or other Livings. And 
 if One hundred Thirty-nine gives a Difcount of 
 Thirty-nine, then by the Jftiile of Proportion Two 
 thoufand Three hundred Nmery-nine (which is the 
 
 Number 
 * fee his Atfcnd'x to his Reply to Mr. Ag*te, $ xxvii, xxviii.
 
 d, as to P erf edition. 
 
 Number of Par: flies in the Index to the Attempt) 
 will give a Difcount of Six hundred Seventy-three ; 
 which being fubftraded from Two thoufand Three 
 hundred ninety-nine, there will remain about One 
 thoufand feven hundred twenty-fix, to about which 
 Number the Sufferers on the Church fide will be re- 
 duc'd ; aud either Way they'l fall fliort of the Num- 
 ber tha: fuffer'd by the Aft cfVniformity, inftead of fo 
 vaftly exceeding it, as is oft aflerted. Nay if I 
 fhould allow him Five hundred Perfons over and 
 above for Miftakes, Perfons forgotten, and Sufferers 
 in the Universities or Cathedrals, that had not Liv- 
 ings, (which I think is a very fair Allowance) yet ftill 
 his fuffering Friends, wont for Number, much ex- 
 ceed thofe that fuffer'd for their Nonconformity af- 
 ter the Reftorarion. 
 
 I hardly can apprehend that more of the Clergy, 
 fuftei'd in the Parliament Times, than there fuffer'd 
 of the Married Clergy in the Reign of Queen Mary. 
 Bifliop Burner -\ gives a Tragical Account of their | Hift.ot'the 
 Treatment from Dr. Parker, that was aferwards H./.VO!. in. 
 Archbtlhop of Canterbury. Some Men, (fays he) have P' a2 f z2 ' 
 been deprived, never convict, no nor never catted : Some 
 called, that were fajl locked in Prifon ; and yet they 
 were neverthelefs deprivd immediately. Seme were de- 
 prived without the Cafe of Marriage after their Order : 
 Seme indued to refign, upon promife of Penfion, and the 
 fromife as yet never performed. Scmcfo deprived, that 
 they were fpoilcd of their Wages, for the which thty 
 fervd the Half Tear before ; and net ten Days before 
 the Bfceipt, fcquejlrcd frcm it: Seme prevented from 
 the half Tears Rgceipt after Charges and Tenths of Sub- 
 fidies paid, and yet not deprivd Six iVeeks after. Some 
 deprivd of their Receipt fomewhat before the Day, with 
 the which their Fruits to the Queens Majefty fhould 
 be contended j and feme yet in the like Cafe chargeable 
 hereafter, if the Queens merciful Grace be not inform' 
 cd thereof, by the Mediation cffome charitable Solicitor. 
 There were deprived or driven away, Twelve cf Sixtftn 
 Thoufand as fame Writer makfth Account. This fcetns 
 much fuch a Calculation as Dr. Walker's ; made at 
 Random and by Guefs. Several cndearour'd to rec- 
 tify it ; and among the reft Dr. Tanner (the Bifliop 
 D 4 informs
 
 5.6 The Church and the DiJJ'eaters 
 
 informs u?) offer'd this Suggeftion : That the Diocefe 
 of Norwich is almoft an Eighth of all England. Now 
 there, there were only Three hundred thirty-five de- 
 priv'd on that Account. And by this the whole Num- 
 ber will fall fliort of Three thoufand. This (fays the 
 Bilhop) if true, is a Conjecture ; yet it is a very 
 frobable one. And the other Account ts no way credible. 
 And according to this Calculation, there being about 
 Two hundred and twenty on the Church fide feque- 
 ftred in this Diccefe of Norwich, there cannot have 
 been Two thoufand that fufier'd in all. And tho' this 
 is but a Conjecture, yet it is a much more probable 
 one than his : And I may as truly fay as Bifhop 'Bur- 
 net, that the other Account (I mean Dr. iValkers) if 
 no way credible. I fhould think therefore his Boaft 
 upon this Head, might very well have been fpar'd. 
 Whatever way we take to calculate rationally, there's 
 Prtf.p. 15. np Evidence of the Truth of what he afferts, that 
 our Side ejected five times greater Numbers of the 
 Epifcopal Clergy, than rheir Side did of Ours. If 
 their Number was equal, it could not very far ex- 
 ceed. Neither, 
 
 ^. Does the Lift give fufficient Proof, that the 
 Sufferings on the Church fide, were in themfelves fo 
 much more heavy and fevere than thofe on our Side, 
 as he would infinuate. It is true I cannot fay that 
 Jn. Part H. any of our Sufferers, loft their Teeth with poifond Sauce, 
 ?' *33' as he would have us believe (if he could perfuade 
 us to it) fome of his Sufferers did, for which he 
 fSeehisAp- is fo defervedly banter'd by Mr. Withers: f But that 
 pen. p. MX. ]Vfr. Hughes of Plymouth, and many others, loft their 
 Health by their Confinement, and that Mr. Jenkins, 
 Mr. fylphfon, Mr.. Field, and many others died in 
 ,, Prifpn, is too well known to be call'd in queftion. 
 \Ve don't know that any of our Sufferers were con- 
 find in Ships and that under Dccl^ ; but we have had 
 fome fent to very unhealthy Prifons, and fome caft 
 into Dungeons, which is almoft as bad. We pre- 
 tend not that any on our Side, were threaten'd with 
 being lold as Slaves to the Turks ; but feveral of 
 the;n were actually fo treated, that a Turkjfh Sla- 
 very would Ijave been almoft as eligible. As to In- 
 fuiis by rude Language, hard Names, Affronts in 
 
 open
 
 compared, as to Perfecution. 57 
 
 open Court, rigorous Conftrudtions of Words and 
 Actions, and mercilefe Treatment under Confine- 
 ment, I cannot fee any great Inequality, But then 
 there is this Difference very difcernable ; that the 
 Severities which the Doctor moft complains of, were 
 the Effects of Civil Difcprds; whereas the Sufferings 
 on our Side were moftly upon a religious Account 
 which made them the more cutting. The Parlia- 
 ment dealt feverely with many of the Clergy it is 
 true, but then they did it not fo much becaufe they 
 were Efifcopalians in their Judgments, as becaufe 
 they oppos'd them in their Practices, and affifted 
 their bitter Enemies. But ftill, many that (hewed a 
 Difpoiition to live peaceably, remain'd nnmolefted. 
 Many went on ufing the Liturgy and Ceremonies, 
 notwithftanding the Rigor of the Times. Dr. Walker 
 himfelf owns that Dr. Peter Gunning held a con- ^ n ' * 
 ftanc Congregation in the Chapel at Exeter Houfe, 
 where by his Reading the Engli/h Liturgy, Preach- 
 ing, C^c. he aflcrcedthe Caufe of the Church of Eng- 
 land, with great Pains and Courage , when the 
 Parliament was moft predominant. And Dr. Tho. 
 Fuller whom he makes fo great a Sufferer, owns his 
 being permitted Preaching, and the Peaceable enjoy- 
 ing of a Parfonage t : And he adds, that he never 
 was formally fequeftred, but went before he was 
 driven away from his Living. And though he after- 
 wards had Liberty to preach, yet he folemnly a 
 furcs the World, that he never had either by his 
 Pen or Practife done any Thing to the betraying 
 the Intereft of the Church of England, And he in- 
 timates, that others might have had like Liberty 
 with himfelf, if they would have forborn Printing, 
 and Preaching Satyrs on the Times ! I wifh the 
 poor Nonconformifts in King Charles's Reign, could 
 have been able to fay the fame. And if Men at 
 any Time will thruft themfelves into Sufferings, when 
 by but living quietly, they may eafily avoid them, 
 they are moft certainly the lefs to be pitied. Such 
 Things as thefe make it evident, that the former 
 Hardlhips and Severities, were not fo much be- 
 yond the latter, as is pretended. And therefore 
 
 when 
 
 f See bis Appeal of injur'd innocence, agaiuft Dr. Hylm, P. I. p. 13, U
 
 5 8 The Church and the DijJ'enters 
 
 when I find Dr. Walker affert fo pofitiveiy, that the 
 Sufferings on the Church Side were A Thou fan df old 
 greater than thofe on our Side, it is to me much 
 like the Rhodomontade of Dr. Bijfi in his Sermon 
 to the Sons of the Clergy, who very roundly af- 
 ferts, that there are "Thoufands of Cures in England, 
 of different Titles and Tenures, the yearly Mainte- 
 nance whereof are far inferiour to the ufual Hire or 
 Support of the meaneft Domefticks : And than our 
 Clergy are become the worft provided for, of any in 
 the Chriftian World. And that every one knows 
 that there are Hundreds yea, Thoufands of Secular 
 Offices, the Revenue whereof Equals that annex'd 
 to moft of our Bifhopricks : And that there are fome, 
 which in Value would balance them all, when put 
 in the Scale together. I find thefe two Doctors much 
 alike. And indeed it is natural for High-Fliers, to 
 love ftrong Figures : But then they muft be inter- 
 preted accordingly, when a Man would fpeak ftrict- 
 ly. Thus when our Doctor fays, that the former 
 Sufferings were a thoufandfcld greater than the later, 
 all that is meant is, that they were very great, as 
 well as the Latter. This is all that his Lift proves. 
 And this is all that can be granted him. But as for 
 the Comparifon, and the Thoufandfold, we wait for 
 the Proof of that till hereafter. 
 
 III. The Doctor's Lift is full of naufeous Repeti- 
 tions. Tho' all Readers are far from having Capa- 
 cities alike, yet it is ungenteel and a lirtle uncivil 
 in any Author, to reprefent his Readers as fo dull 
 as not to be capable of taking the Items he gives, 
 unleis he repeats them at every other Lerfalmoft. 
 And yet this is the Doctor's Way. He comes with 
 the fame Things over and over, till he perfectly 
 doyes and forfeits us. We have the very fame 
 Stories in his Lift as we had before in his Intro- 
 duction, to the needlefs wafting many Sheets of 
 Paper, and the ufelefs tiring the Reader into the 
 Bargain. He pretends to be not a little concern'd to 
 P.ll.p. pp. avoid unnecejffiry Repetition. But I fhould think he 
 forgat this, when he brings in the fame Perfons, 
 and repeats the fame Stories and Admonitions again 
 
 and
 
 compared, as to "Persecution. 59 
 
 and again, till they gorw perfectly naufeous. How 
 often when he takes Notice of an Hardflvp of any 
 of his Sufferers, does he fay, This is not the only In~ 
 fiance of the Kind ! And how often does he inter- 
 pole with his dull Cautions againft Moderation, as if 
 he could not fufficiently inveigh againtt it ! Now 
 a Man may bear once to hear a Tale of a Tub ; 
 but if it comes up at every Turn, there's no Mortal 
 but muft be tir'd. Had the Doctor duly confiderM 
 this, I mould think for his own Sake, and the Credit 
 of his Work, he'd have been more careful. Me- 
 thinks when Stories were told once, with Particulars 
 and at large, it might have been enough to refer to 
 them afterwards, without bringing them in again, 
 and again : But the Doctor feems to have thought 
 that fome Sort of Things that were fevere could ne- 
 ver come up too often ; and that this would be the 
 Way to make the Impreflion the deeper : Without 
 confidering how few would be able to bear it. I 
 can't at all wonder therefore, that no one fets him- 
 fe'f to read this Book over, without being wretched- 
 ly weary and tir'd. 
 
 IV. The Doctor's Lift has feveral Things in it that 
 are perfectly ridiculous. I might here mention a- 
 gain the pcifond Sauce, which is much more worthy 
 of Laughter than Credit ; and many other Things 
 that occur : But I'll faften particularby on the Account 
 he gives of Mr. Gcaft, who he fays was a very worthy ^ - 
 Man : And of whom he tells us, that he counted the 
 Words of the Covenant, and found them exactly fix hun- 
 dred fixty fix, the Number of the Eeajl. He adds, that 
 being imprifcnd for his Loyalty, he had tittle eife to do. 
 I am glad the Sufferers I have given an Account of, 
 were neither idle, nor fo fooliihly employ'd. How- " 
 ever, tho' there is what I have now tranfcrib'd, in 
 the Text, yet in the Margin there is a Note added, in 
 thefe Words, How he counted them I know not : All 
 the Words exceed twice that Number. Can any thing 
 be more ridiculous ? I muft however do Dr. Walker 
 the Juftice to own, that his Sufferer was not the only 
 Perfon that gave into this Fancy. For Dr. fuller ha- 
 ving meruion'd it in his Church Hlftory, Dr. Hejlln Book u. p. 
 
 takes p- 203.
 
 60 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 * P t2 J3- takes Notice of it in his Animadverfions *, and fays, 
 that the Number of fix hundred fixty -fix Words, neither 
 more nor lefs, which are found in the Covenant, tho? 
 they conclude nothing, yet they ftgnify fomething. But 
 when rhe Number of Words in the Covenant, (even 
 tho' Preface and Conclufion are left out) are many 
 more than Six hundred fixty fix, it would be ftrangc 
 indeed, if an Observation that is not true in Fad: 
 ihould fignlfy any thine ! Dr. Hsylin adds, thar who- 
 ever be was that made this Obfervation upon the Co- 
 venant, he defcrves more tc be commended for his Wit, 
 than condemned, for his Idlenefs. Whereas if Dr. 
 Walkers Account be true, there was Idlenefs enough. 
 For the Poor Man had little elfe to do, as he acknow- 
 ledges. And tho' he was at that Time confin'd, he 
 yet was thus far to be condemned, chat he might moft 
 certainly have employ'd his Time much better. But 
 after all, where was the Wit of this Obfervation, 
 when it has nothing of Truth in it ! But all the My- 
 ftery of the Matter is this ; he was willing there 
 fhould be juft Six hundred fixty fix Words in the 
 Covenant, neither more nor lefs, that he might have 
 Occafion for the Obfervation ; and therefore he took 
 fome Way and Method, fo to reduce the Words of 
 the Covenant, as that there might at length be juft fo 
 many left. Which brines to my Mind the Way ta- 
 ken by a Zealot for Church Power, before the Re- 
 formation, to find the Number of the Beaft, in the 
 Name of Sir John Oldcaftle. Out of the Name 
 Jo H N OL DC A S'T E L, he in Numerals makes the 
 Number of DCCI. From thence he fubftrads the 
 Years of his Age, wherein he fell in with the Lol- 
 lards, and was condemn'd for Herefy, which were 
 thirty-five ; and then there remain'd juft Six hun- 
 dred fixty fix, which was the exad Number of the 
 Beaft. But it will be long enough, before fuch 
 Wit as this, will do any Caufe in the World the 
 leaft Service. 
 
 V. The Doctor in his Lift, reprefents fome things 
 
 as certain, which are certainly known to be falfe. 
 
 ^tf.Pm II. Thus he tells us, This is certain, that on the Kfftora- 
 
 P- 374, t ' lQn ^ Mr. Todd was in PoJJeJJion of the Vicaridge cf 
 
 Leeds.
 
 corn-par* d, as to P erf edition. 61 
 
 Leeds. Whereas on the Reftoration he was ^lini- 
 fter of the New Church which Mr. Harrifon built, 
 and is neither Parfonage, nor Vicaridge, but a Do- 
 native, endow'd with the Rents of a fhort Street, 
 which that great Benefactor, built for that Purpofe. 
 Mr. Stiles was Vicar at the Reftoration, and did not 
 die till fome time after. And Mr. Lewis furniihes me 
 with another Inftance, with Relation to Southwell Col- 
 lege. The Doctor fpeaking of it, express himfelf 
 thus. I kpow not any Thing elfe of it, fave that it was 
 plunder d of all its Records in the Time of the Hebel- 
 lion. He feems to intimate this was a Thing about itid. p." ji 
 which there could be no Doubt or Hefitation ; and * 1 -**'- 8 * 
 that nothing could be more certain. Whereas in 
 Reality there is nothing can be more certainly falfe, 
 as Mr. Lewis tells us he is affur'd by a Letter from 
 one of the Prebendaries of that Collegiate Church*. 
 His Words are, Our I{egifter tells me, (whofe Father 
 was Hcgiftcr before him) that very little Damage was 
 done to our J^egifterics : IVe have fome very fair and 
 Ancient Books, which contain the Original Records of 
 our Prebends, Churches Grants, Deeds, &c. One of 
 which Eookf bears Date 1116. The Doctor fignifies 
 his Hopes that I won't turn (hort upon him for his 
 Miftakes. I have as little Reafon to do it as any 
 Man, becawfe I have unhappily fallen into a Variety 
 of Miftakes myfelf, being engag'd in a Work of fuch 
 Variety, as needed more Informations, than I had 
 Opportunity of getting : And yet we ought with Care 
 to diftinguifh between Things certain and meer Un- 
 certainties, if we would not impofe upon fuch as 
 think they may rely upon us. 
 
 VI. The Doctor's Lift has in it feveral Untruths: 
 Mr. Withers * mentions lome fuch. As the Character * App. j>. 
 he gives of Mr. Collins, whom he reprefents as a very ^ p art 
 foor, defpicablc, canting dull Fellow : Tho' his Pulpit 0.2*91. 
 Performances were fo acceptable, that many from 
 the neighbouring Pariflies were his ufual Auditors : 
 And his Account of Mr.Standi/h, a Prieft, Vicar t>f 
 Wells, who he fays was imprifon'd with fuchCircum- 
 
 fiances 
 
 * See Mr. L/rnVs Remarks on Four Sermons lately preacb'd by Dr. 
 
 TlC4l B'JJl, [>. Jl.
 
 62 The Church and the Dig enters 
 
 ftances of Severity, for burying the mnrder'd Dean 
 with the Common Prayer, that he died in Jail ; 
 when as the Truth of it is, he liv'd above twenty 
 ' Years a f te r war ds. By which fays Mr. Withers* we 
 H," ma y ue f s kat Credit we are to give to tbofe other I- 
 Jlances of Barbarity, which are recorded in the Attempt. 
 Which is indeed a Reflection that is very natural. 
 He alfo in the very fame Page takes Notice of a very 
 falfe Account of Mr. Edmund Tucker, which I fhall 
 have Occafion to animadvert on, in my farther Ac- 
 count of the Ejecled and Silencd Miniftcrs, which I in- 
 tend in a little Time for the Prefs. And I fhall here 
 add fome other Inftances. 
 
 The Doctor mentions one Dr. Luddington t Arch- 
 deacon of Stow and fays, that he was cruelly fcrfe- 
 ^itt.Taxt II. cuted: Whereas a Friend of mine, and he one of 
 ? 4* the Church of England too, that liv'd in his Neigh- 
 bourhood, and knew him well, gives me an Ac- 
 count under his Hand, that he never heard he 
 reas ferfecuted at all. And he adds, that to the beft 
 of his Remembrance, he was in PoflelTion of the 
 Rectory of Carlton, worth 130 or 140 / fcr Annum 
 before 1660. And if he did fuffer any Thing, he 
 reckons he had an Ample Compenfadon. For af- 
 ter the Reftoradon, he had Two Rectories, and 
 Two Dignities, belides his Wife's Jointure ; and 
 Three Daughters were all his Charge. His Hofpi- 
 tality confifted in keeping Humming Ale, which he 
 call'd tyger, of which he was no Niggard. Bur 
 fays my Author, he died a very Beggar, to my 
 Knowledge. 
 
 He calls one C , the Minifter of Allington, 
 
 .Af.part II. a ^ealous Covenanter : Whereas I am inform'd by 
 Col! if* one c ^ ac was his intimate Friend, that Mr. Robert 
 Clarl(, then Minifter of Allingtcn, (as he had been 
 many Years before, and condnu'd fo till his Death 
 in 1655) was a Perfon of as meek, peaceable, and 
 moderate a Temper and Spirit, as any he ever 
 knew. He was as far from Bigotry, and as neutral 
 in *his whole Deportment in the Quarrel between 
 
 King 
 
 | Dr. Walker queries whether this was the fame Timothy Luddinzton, 
 fequeftred from Eaft Bedford in Nottingham/hire ? To which I anfwer, 
 no, be was not \ for this Gentleman's Name was Stephen LnAdingtgn,
 
 'd) as to Perfecution. 
 
 King and Parliament, as any Minifter of Note in 
 ihofe Parts. He was of the Puritan Stamp, and 
 a Parliamentarian in his Heart, but was fo cau- 
 tious and referv'd in thofe Times, that the Cavalier 
 Epifcopal Gentry, that hared all the Clergy that 
 were zealous for the Parliament's Caufe, yet had a 
 Refpedt for him, and fpake honourably of him up- 
 on all Occafions. He was Prebendary of Lincoln ac 
 the Diflblution of Cathedrals, which had our Au- 
 thor known, I fuppofe he would not only have wa- 
 ved this Reflection upon him, but given him a very 
 different Character. Upon this my Informer cries 
 our, and I don't fee who can blame him, Wliat Cre- 
 dit can I give to this Author's Chambers ? 
 
 In another Place, he fays, tha: Mr. Sherwin made PtIIp.iof 
 300 / of the Living of Wallington. This alfo a wor- 
 thy Clergyman of the Church of England informs me, 
 cannot be, fince it is not worth above 160 / per An. 
 But (fays he) our Author overvalues other Livings 
 that were fequeftred. 
 
 But there would be no End of it, if I fhould pre- 
 tend to number all the Untruths that might be ga- 
 ther'd out of his Performance. 
 
 I (hall add but one more general Reflexion on 
 the Doctor's Lift, and that is fuch an one as can 
 hardly efcape any Man that runs it over ever fo 
 lightly, and that muft, I think, raife , the Refent- 
 ment of all Lovers of Sobriety. 'Tis well known, 1 
 and he himfelf neither was, nor could be infcnfible, 
 that a Number of hi; Sufferers were charg'd with 
 fuch Immoralities, as were fcandalous to their Fun- 
 ction, which he often ridicules, and makes a Jeft 
 of; than which hardly any Thing could be more 
 unbecoming. Thus he calls Drunkennefs and fwear- 
 ing Hackney Imputations, in his Account of Mr. Fo- 
 thersby, without fo much as giving the lead Inti- Ibid.p.i^i 
 mation of his Innocence. And in the Cafe of Mr. 
 Hancoct^ f he mentions the Hackney Accufation of Tip- P.n p.ij". 
 ling and Swearing. And in rhe Cafe of Mr. Finch 
 of ChriJl-Church, he takes Norice of the Hactyiey Ac- p ar ti.p. 70, 
 cufation of Tavern haunting and Drunkennefs. Now &c. 
 fuch Crimes as thefe were either well prov'd or 
 not: If not well prov'd, the Dodtor, when, he had 
 
 mention'd
 
 64 The Church and the Dtjjevters 
 
 mention'd them, fhould have endeavourM to have 
 difprov'd them. But if they were well prov'd, 
 their Sequeftration was fo well deferv'd, that they 
 ought not to have been reprefented as Sufferers^ 
 or under an Hardfhip : And the making a Jeft of 
 their Crimes, is moft certainly, a Thing very un- 
 becoming a Divine ; and efpecially one that had 
 recommended the Sufferers of whom he gave an 
 Account, as Perfons of fucb Lives, as fcarce any 
 Church fmce the firft Times of Chrtftianity was ever 
 
 wi.p-3- Uejsdmth. 
 
 It is indeed a Thing that is not eafily to be for- 
 given, that our Author fays no more in Vindication 
 of his Sufferers from fuch Charges. Often does he 
 mention what is objected againft them in Whites 
 Centuries, and particularly upon the Head of In- 
 continency, without either offering any Thing to 
 clear their Innocence, or making any Acknowledg- 
 ment of their Guilt. And in the Cafe of Mr. Paul 
 
 P.n. p. 22 Clafham, who he fays was charged with Adultery , 
 and feveral Inftances of Baftardy, he has a very odd 
 Reflection ; vi%. That he queftions whether this 
 would have brought him under the Difpleafure of 
 the Party, had he not called the Parliament Rebels 
 
 ', ' and Traitors, and fled to the King's Army. Bur 
 
 to make it appear, that he had the leaft Shadow 
 of Right or Reafon to qiieftion this, he ought to 
 have produced fome Inftances of Perfons whom 
 * they favoured, that were known to be guilty of 
 
 fuch Crimes. Often alfo does he mention their be- 
 ing charg'd with encouraging Sports and Paftimes 
 on the Lord's Day, and reading; publickly the Book 
 for that Purpofe, in fuch a Way as if he thought 
 they were rather to be commended than blam'd on 
 this Account. All which Things put together, ap- 
 pear to me very unbecoming one that is a Clergy- 
 man, and that profeffes, that the Vices of the Clergy, 
 
 *j*rod.p. 7? are ^at he of all Things the moft abhonetb. 
 
 \ have now done with General Remarks on the 
 Doctor's Lift as it ftands ; and (hall go on to fome 
 that are more particular, on the feveral Parts of 
 which it is made up. He begins with the Ctibe- 
 dr*l Clergy, which he fays, may perhaps be the com - 
 
 pleateft
 
 d, as to Persecution. 65 
 
 fleateft Part of the Lift. But as compleat as it 
 
 is, I think it chargeable with very great DC- f 4?: **? 
 
 Mb. 
 
 I readily acknowledge many of his Sufferers 
 mention'd here, to have been Men of ereat Worth 
 and Eminence. I'm fince- e-y forry they met with 
 fuch Ufage ; and can as heartily as any Man lament 
 the rigorous Treatment of fuch Excellent Perfons, 
 as Biftiop Morton, Biftiop Hall, Biftiop Prideaux, 
 Biftiop Brownrig^, &c. I han't the leaft Word to 
 fay in Vindication of it. Biftiop Halls bard Meafure, 
 written by himfelf, added to his Account of the 
 Specialties of his Life, and dared May 19, 1647, 
 would make any Man's Heart bleed that reads it. 
 And yer, 
 
 Many of our Author's Sufferers of this Rank are 
 but imaginary, as has before been hinted. He does 
 
 but make Scrat hes in this Manner, and 
 
 fuppofes Sufferers where he has no Proof. And fome- 
 times he complains, that he cannot fo much as guefs 
 how much they fuffer'd. As in the Cafe of Mr. An- 
 drew Topham. And he guejjes Mr. Giles Thorn fuffer'd 
 as Archdeacon of Bucks, and that Mr. Thomas Mar' P- 44- 
 Icr, was a Sufferer as Archdeacon of Sarum, &c. p> $ 3 . 
 
 He in fo many Words owns himfelf altogether, 
 uncertain, whether fome of them fuffer'd at all. 
 As in the Cafe of Dean 'Eglionby, p. 6. Mr. John 
 Caftilione, p. 7. Mr. I(ees Pritchard, p. 16. and Mr. 
 Anthony Maxton, p. it ; and many others. And 
 yet both in the Lift, and the Index of Names ac 
 the End of it, they ftand upon a Le^el with the 
 greateft Sufferers, as if he had had the fulleft Cer- 
 tainty. 
 
 He makes fome of them Sufferers that it is plain 
 were not Sufferers. Thus he brings in Biftiop Dave- 
 nant as one of his Sufferers, faying, that he had A f< &, 
 Tajl of the Miferies and Sufferings which were then 
 coming in fuller Meafure upon the Church ; and ac- 
 cordingly his Name ftands in ihe Index, (to make 
 up the Number,) wirhour the leaft Difference that . 
 can be difcern'd, between him, and the greateft 
 Sufferers in all the Book : And yet Dr. Fuller *, af- 
 
 VOL. 1L E lures <EIL 
 
 P. a;
 
 66 The Church and the Dij) 'enters 
 
 fure* us, that he died before his Order died : And 
 
 tHiftoryof Archdeacon Echard t, that he ended his Days in 
 
 Engka^Vol. p eace and Honour. Bifhop Montague of Norwich, 
 
 '* 2 ' 7 ' alfo, is brought in by our Doctor as another of his 
 
 p. 55. Sufferers, though he is faid by Archdeacon Echard, 
 
 to have feen none of the Miferies of the Civil 
 
 *<:!>. Hift.f War. 4- However he ftands in the Index, to help 
 
 En?, vol. IT. m ake up the Number, in common with the greateft 
 
 p ** 77 ' Sufferers. And Dr. Wjl field, alfo Bifhop of Brijlol, 
 
 is mentioned as another Sufferer, though he was not 
 
 difpoffefs'd of his Bifhoprick, and had the Profits 
 
 of it reftor'd him, after they had been a little 
 
 ? J. Time withheld. At this Rate, it is a very eafy 
 
 Thing to make the Number of Sufferers increafe 
 
 and multiply. 
 
 But our Lift affords us divers other Inftances of 
 this Kind. Thus the Doctor mentions Mr. John 
 P. n. p. 46, Fairclough alias Featly, as Suffering the Lofs of a 
 Prebend in the Cathedral of Lincoln: Whereas I 
 have it from a Clergyman that knew him well, and 
 was very converfant with him, that he was not 
 Prebendary of Lincoln till the Reftoration in 1660, 
 and therefore to be fure could not lofe it before. 
 And whereas the Doctor fays that this Gentleman 
 return'd from the Indies into England after the 
 Rebellion was over ; My Friend allures me, that to 
 his certain Knowledge, he was in Pofleflion of the 
 Re&ory of. Langbor in Nottingham/hire, Six Miles 
 from Nottingham, in the Years, 56, 7, 8, 9, and 
 60, and had been fo fome Years before, though he 
 cannot pofitively remember how many : And this 
 Living was valu'd at i6o/ per Annum. The fame 
 Perfon adds, that he was very conformable to thofe 
 Times, and that though he would frequently make 
 {ad Complaints, and tell lon^ Stories of great A- 
 bufes and Affronts he met with from one of his 
 Parifhioners, Steward of the Lord of that Manner, 
 vi%. Mr. How of Gloucefter/hire yet he never heard 
 him complain of any Sufferings from the Govern- 
 ment. There are fome in this Part of his Lift, who 
 perhaps upon Search would be found more on our 
 Side, than for the Church, notwithftanding the 
 
 Dignities
 
 c.0mfar*d, as to Perfecution. t 67 
 
 Dignities conferr'd upon them, that were defigned 
 to bribe them, to be on the Doclor's Side. I take 
 this to have been the Cafe of Dr. Peter du Moulin, p . 7 . 
 and alfo of the Famous M. Gerard Vo$us\ who P- 8 - 
 were both of them made Prebendaries of Canter- 
 bury. And there are alfo fome, whom he has 
 here brought in as Sufferers, that more properly 
 belong to my Lift than his. As Mr. Francis 
 Hampfieild, and Dr. George I^endal, mentioned by 
 him in Exeter Cathedral j though as far as they - . , 
 did fuffer, they fuffer'd for their Nonconformi- 
 ty. And yet they make as great a Figure in his 
 Lift, and the Index at the End of it, as if they 
 had fuffer'd e\er fo readily, for 'their Zeal for the 
 Hierarchy or Ceremonies. And fo little Care has 
 he taken to be confident wiih*himfelf, that when 
 he elfewhere, dees but guefs they might be Pres- 
 lyterians, he declares, He cannot Claim a. Place ' 9 *' I4 
 for them in his Lift. I think verily, either the one 
 fhould have been omitted or the others inferred. 
 If he would guefs , he fliould have done it alike 
 for both. 
 
 Many of thefe Cathedral Dignities that did 
 fuffer were great Piuralifts, as fufficiently appears 
 from the Infpedtion of them as they ftand in the 
 Lift. There are few of them, but what had a 
 Living, betides their Dignity : And fome had Twp 
 or Three. 
 
 Some of his Sufferers of this Sort met with no' 
 fmall Favour, according to his own Acknowledgment. 
 Thus i he Learned Or. James Vjber, wno is here 
 mentioned as the fuffervig Bifhop of Carlijle, had p ~ 
 not only a Peniion allow'd him in common with 
 orher Bifhops, but he owns he was a Preacher ac 
 Lincoln* Inn ; And though he me: wirh tome Hard- 
 (hips and Troubles in the common Confufkn, yec 
 all Sorts treated him wirh great Refpet ; and that 
 was theReA/ard of his Moderation too, rhoagh rh'tf 
 Doctor has to little Ref^eA for that Ineaking Ver- 
 tue, that he thought fir to overlook it, and infulc 
 at his ufual Ra e. This good Man was as much 
 and as generally refpeded as any one of the Are : 
 E ^ And
 
 68 The Church and the Dtffenters 
 
 And Cromwell was at the Charge of a Publick Fu- 
 neral for him. 
 
 f- 70. The Doctor himfelf alfo owns, that Dr. John 
 
 Wall enjoy'd his Canonry of Chrift-Churcb, through 
 the whole Courfe of the Usurpation : And that 
 
 p. 79. Dr. Chriftopher Potter, though he loft his Deanry, 
 
 continu'd in his Provoftfhip of Queens, and died in 
 
 his College. And though Dr. William Hodges, loft 
 
 p. 80. his Archdeaconry of Worcefter, yet he was allow'd 
 
 to keep the Living of Ripple in that County through- 
 
 p. io. o ut the whole Ufurpation. And Dr. Lancelot Dawcs, 
 though he loft his Prebend of Carlijle, yet kept the 
 Livings of Barton and Ajhby, in Wcftmorland, till 
 his Death in 1654. Though Dr. Robert Hall loft his 
 Treafurerfliip and Canonry in the Cathedral of Exe- 
 
 p. if. * er * ne i s Y, ec own'd to have kept the Rectory of 
 Clyftheydon in Devon all the Time of the Ufurpation ; 
 and there to have continu'd a great Patron and Sup- 
 porter of the fequeftred Clergy. Though Dr. Skin- 
 ner loft the Bifhoprick of Oxford, he yet was permit- 
 
 p. 75. ed to keep the Rectory of Launton, in that Coun- 
 ty, during the whole Ufurpation. And though Mr. 
 
 p. 74. William Sijfe, loft his Prebend of Wells, yet he 
 kept his Living of Quantocks Head, by the Intereft 
 of a great Man of the Times. Though Dr. Hen- 
 P. 84. yy Fairfax, loft his Prebend of Tork^ he yet was 
 allow'd to keep the Rectory of Bolton Piercy during 
 all the Troubles. 
 
 There were others alfo among them that were no 
 great Sufferers, though the Doctor takes no Notice 
 of it. Thus though Dr. Topbam loft his Deanry of 
 Lincoln, yet I anrinform'd by a very good Hand, 
 that he continu'd to enjoy the rich Living of Cla- 
 veortb in Nottingham/hire till his Death in 1657, 
 when Mr. Cromwell (whom I mention in my Abridg- 
 ment) fucceeded him. Our Doctor therefore inftead 
 
 j, of faying, be could not guefs hove much be fufferd 
 
 may (if he fliould come again to the Prels) rather 
 fay, be could eafily gucfi that be was no great Sufferer. 
 And yet he is as much inferred in the Index as if he 
 ha<Hiad nothing left him to fubfift on. 
 
 And
 
 CQmfar*d, as to Perfection* 69 
 
 And to all this it may be added, that feveral of 
 them that did fuffer, were icandalous for betraying 
 Liberty and Property. Dr. Robert Sibthorp Preben- 
 dary of Peterborough, was one of this Stamp. Mr. P* 
 Collier*, himfelf lays of him, that he deliver 'd fuch 
 Doclrine as purfud through its Conferences, -would 
 make Magna Charra, and the other Laves for fecu- . 
 ring Property fignify little. Dr. Upger Mamvaringihe ^/-.part U. 
 Suffering Bifhop of St. Davids wa> another of the p . [ 6 , 
 fame Complexion : And of him the fame Mr. Col- 
 lier fays t, that his Divinity was extravagant, fubver- 
 five of the Conftitution, and direclly againft a great part 
 of the Statute Book^ Dr.P^illian Laud is alfo men- 
 tioned as the fuftering Archbifhop of Canterbury, ./to. Part li. 
 who had as great an Hand as any one Man what- P* * 
 ever, in bringing on the Publick Confufion. Thefe 
 all afterwards in the Index ftand on the Level, with 
 the moft innocent Perfons that met with the greateft 
 Hardfhips : Though it is the Opinion of many, that 
 what they fuffer'd they richly deferv'd, and the two 
 firft of them a great deal more. 
 
 Nor can I forbear obferving, that Dr. Godfrey 
 Goodman, that celebrated Popifh Bifhop of a Pro- 
 teftant Church, is here brought in both in Lift and 
 Index as the futfering Bifhop of Gloucefter, and p. 32 . 
 mention'd a Second Time at Windfor. I muft con- p- 94- 
 fefs I cannot look upon the adding him and Dr. 
 Stephen Gcffe and Mr. Rjcbard Milefon, and Mr. p 'p/I 7 
 Thomas Bayly, and Mr. Thomaf Gawen, and Mr. P . 75 .' 
 Hugh CreJJy, (and others of the fame Stamp) as p- 77 
 any great Credit to the reft of the Company. I P* ** 
 am forry that in order to the fwelling his Lift of 
 Sufferers for the Church of England, he fhould either 
 be under a NecefTuy, or think it advifable or expe- 
 pedient, to bring in known and avow'd Upmantfts. 
 If he would rake Notice of them, I mould have 
 thought, he had better have alloted them a Place 
 by themfelves. 
 
 Next follow the Sufferers in the two Univerfities 
 of Oxford and Cambridge : And as to them it may 
 be oblerv'd ; 
 
 E 3 That 
 
 * Ecclcf. Hlft. of Grttt Brit**, Part II, p. 74Q. 
 t Aid. Ptrt II. p. 741.
 
 70 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 That many who are brought in as Suffering for 
 their Loyalty, and Zeal for the Church, did in 
 Reality fuffer for their Immoralities, and fo de- 
 fervM all they fufter'd. A Cantabrigian that liv'd in 
 th-vfe Times, and that yet furvives, * and is a Man 
 of f.reat Worth, informs me, that he knows this to 
 have been the Cafe at Cambridge ; and perhaps it 
 might have been very plain that it was fo at Oxford 
 , too, had the Doctor confulted and publiGYd the 
 Particulars charg'd on thofe that were turn'd out 
 by the Vifi-ors there, from that Regifter of their 
 Vifaation, which he tells us is yet prefervd in the 
 B~d eian Library , which lie had neither Time nor 
 
 PartHp.138. Opportunity to confult. However the Doctor owns 
 as to feveral of his Ejected Fellows that they 
 
 Pan ii. p. were re turn'd fcandalous , and therefore I think 
 if that was given as the Reafon of iheir Eject- 
 ment, he fiipuld either ha\e vindicated, or Omit- 
 ted them. 
 
 Some of the Sufferers in this Clafs, belong more 
 properly to my Lift than the Doctor's. As Mr. 
 John Berry, Mr. John Mauduit, and Mr. Soretcn, 
 
 ibid.p.iitf. memion'd as caft out of Exeter-College in Oxon, 
 and Mr. Jojias Banger, and Mr. Daniel Capel, caft 
 
 ibid.p. 12.4. out of Magdalen-College in the fame Univerfity. 
 And it is not unlikely, but there would have ap- 
 pear'd a confideraole Numl er of this Sort, had not 
 the Doctor omitted thofe that loft their Headfhips 
 and Fellowfhips in the fev eral Collepes of Cambridge, 
 forrefufing the Ingagement, as he himfeif owns that 
 
 P. ii. p. 14.3. f evera i did, that were Presbyterians ; though he de- 
 clares that for that Reafon, he could not allow them 
 a Place in his Lift. But if it would have been 
 any real Honour to them, I cannot fee why they 
 might not have had as good a Claim to it, as their 
 Brethren at Oxford. 
 
 The Do&or feems to contradict himfeif in the 
 Account he gives of Dr. Samuel Collins : Reprefent- 
 ing him as difpqflefs'd of his Profelforfhip, and yet 
 
 p. Ti.f. if continued in it. Whereas in Reality, he actually 
 
 c-.mpar with continued 
 
 r- iif- 
 
 * Mr. Stttlcr.s of SuttGtt in Bedfcrdfi.irr, fince dead.
 
 comfar'd, as to Perfecution. 71 
 
 continu'd Profeffor (as I am inform'd by one that 
 knew him) to the Time of his Death. Dr. Fuller 
 fays *, that though he loftfhis Church, yet he kept his 
 Chair, wherein he died about the Year, 1651. 
 And Archdeacon Echard fays f, that he continu'd 
 in the Profeffor's Chair to the Day of his Death. 
 Though I know by Experience fuch Miftakes are ea(y 
 when a Man is in hafte, yec they may be prevented 
 or recftify'd with a little Care. 
 
 Some of the Doctor's Univerfity Men, can fcarce 
 be laid to be Sufferers. What does it fignify that Mr. 
 Thomas Carelefs, loft his Fellowfhip of Baliol, when *.H-P"> 
 it is own'd he became Redor of Barn/ley and Vicar of 
 Cirencefter, and fo was preferred, after his Eje.fl- 
 ment ? And what though Mr. Bernard Gilard loft his 
 Fellowfhip of Exeter-Co\\e$e, yet as long as he had 
 the Re&ory of tymanfleigh in Devon, he was not Ib ' P' 1 ^* 
 very hardly dealt with. Though Mr. William Creed, 
 loft his Fellowlhip of St. Johns, he yet got and 
 was permitted to enjoy the Living of Eaft Coleford 
 in Wilt/hire. And Mr. Thomas Pierce, though he loft Ib - P- I2e - 
 his Fellowfhip of Mdg^4/e-College, he yet obtain- 
 ed, and afterwards injoy'd, the Revflory of Brington 
 in Northampton/hire. And were that good Man ib. p, iaa 
 yet living, I am perfuaded it would have troubled 
 him, to fee his Name brought in, to the inflaming 
 of the Reckoning. 
 
 I (lull only add that fome of the Univerfity 
 Sufferers turn'd Papifts : As Mr. John Betts, Mr. John ib.p, m. 
 Goad, Mr. Abraham Woodhcad, Mr. Obadiah Wai- ^J|* 
 kfr, Mr. Richard Crafhave, and Dr. Henry Johnfon : P ' }bid. 
 And the Dodor himfelf owns, that Mr. Richard p >ya. 
 Sherlock was reckon'd a Papift in Mafquerade. f\ 99 ' 
 
 ., , /-.^iii- tO 
 
 And perhaps there were many more fuch, had he 
 thought fit to take Notice of them. But methinks 
 it is a little hard, that either open or fecret Papifts 
 Jhould be brought in, to fill up the Number of the 
 Doctor's Sufferers. 
 
 E 4 The 
 
 * Worthies of E*gl*d, p. 153. 
 
 t Uiftoiy of J/IM<, Vol. IL p. 732.
 
 72 The Church and the Dij] enters 
 
 The Sufferers among the London Clergy are the 
 next in Order : And they are a little above a Hun- 
 dred in Number. Many of them, (I may fay near 
 a Fifth Part of the whole Number) were mention- 
 ed before among the Cathedral Sufferers, and there- 
 fore might very fafely, have been omitted here ; 
 unlels it could be thought that mentioning them 
 over arain added to their Number. Several of them 
 were Piuralifts ; and feveral were charg'd with 
 Immoralities ; and the ; e are fome of them that the 
 Do&or is not able to vindicate, notwithftanding that 
 from Mercurius Hufticus, (an Author whofe Credit 
 with many runs but very low) he rells us, that for 
 A more Pious. Learned, and laborious Miniftry, no Peo~ 
 fie ever enjoy d it $ even their Enemies themfehes be- 
 P. II. p. 1 80. ing Judges. 
 
 But after all , the main Bulk of the Do&or's 
 Lift is made up of the Parochial Clergy, in all Parts 
 of England and Wales. And it cannot be denied, 
 but that many of thefe, were great Sufferers in the 
 Time of the Civil War, meerly for adhering to the 
 King, and refufing the Covenant, which inftead of 
 being pleaded for, is to be lamented. Nor do I at 
 all doubt, but that the Parliament's Committees were 
 too fe^ ere in eje&ing a Number, that did more good 
 than hurt in their refpecYn e Places, as the Protec- 
 tor's Commiflioners were afterwards. And I doubt 
 there is too much Truth in what our Author re'ates 
 of the Barbarities commitred by the Parliament 
 Soldiers, in fome Parts, in thofe difmal Times. But 
 though fome of them were really Men of great Worth, 
 yet fome of them were fuch abominable Creatures, 
 that any Party may well be afhamed of them, and 
 think it a Difgrace to them, to have their Names 
 perpetuated. 
 
 The Doctor mentions as a Sufferer, one Mr. Helton 
 p. an. otMexbrough. He has indeed his Name only : But 
 being mention'd among fuch Company, a Man might 
 be tempted to think, that he was a Perfon that 
 was undefervedly born hard upon. Whereas one 
 that knew him very well, gives me this Account of 
 
 him.
 
 as to V erf edition. 
 
 him. Thar his Living was reckon'd buc ac 10 /. 
 per An. befides a Dinner on the Lords Day, which 
 yet was too much for him, unlefs he had been bet- 
 ter. For he was infamous for his Impudence and 
 Imp ; ety, and promoting Prophanenels among the 
 loofe Gentry. About Fifteen of them entred into 
 a Fraternity, and chofe him for their ghoftly Father j 
 and being a fingle Man, he fpent moft of his Time 
 at their Houfes, making them Sport with his fcur- 
 rilous prophane Wit. He was fuch a Rake, that 
 the whole Country rang of him and his mad Pranks.' 
 Now can it be any great Credit to have fuch a Man 
 of One's Side ? 
 
 In another Place, the Doctor mentions the Liv- 
 ing of Staunton in Nottingham/hire, as a Sequeftrati- 
 on, tho' he could not recover the Name of the Suffe- 
 rer. I am inform'd, by a certain Clergyman of 
 the Church of England that alfo knew him, and 
 thinks his Name was Francis, that he well remem- 
 bers he was a drunken, profane Wretch, of which 
 he gives me this Inftance: That one Saturday in. 
 the Evening, in the Summer-Seafon, he called at 
 the Houfe of a certain Baronet in his Return from 
 Grantham Market to Staunton. He happen'd to 
 come in when the Servants were at Supper in the 
 Hall. They defir'd him to fit down with them, 
 which he did. When Supper was ended, they 
 defir'd him alfo to return Thanks ; which he did in 
 theie Words: 
 
 The Lord be blefs'd for all his Gifts : 
 The Devil be hang'd with all his Shifts. 
 
 Mechinks a Number of fuch Worthies as thefe, 
 would not much have recommended any Caufe in 
 Chriftendom. 
 
 I am inform'd from the County of Devon, where 
 this Author pretends to be moft exadr, and where 
 it may well enough be expected that he fhould be 
 fo, that many of the fequeftred Parifh Minifters 
 there, were Men of very ill Lives. Mr. Ven of 
 Qtterton, who is commended by the Dodor as fo 
 
 worthy
 
 74 The Church and the Difjenters 
 
 * ><t/ "o^ irt 11 ' worthy a Man, I am inform'd (and that by one 
 ? 3 > 3 7- j can Depend upon) was made to pay a Crown for 
 Drunkennefs by Sir John Tonge. And fo bitter an 
 Enemy was he to the Parliament and their Caufe 
 and any that he apprehended favoured it in the 
 leaft Degree, that when Mr. Duke attended to re- 
 ceive the Sacrament, tho' he was his Patron, yet 
 without any Warnjng or Exception before, Jie told 
 him at the Tab!e, He could not adminifter the 
 Sacrament to a Rebel : And yet his Houfe was a 
 Garrifon for the King, and he was a very pious and 
 peaceable Gentleman, that medled little with the 
 Affairs of thofe Times. It is not I think verily 
 much to be wonder'd at, nor with any great Vehe- 
 mence to be complained of, that fuch a Man as this 
 Ihould be us'd with Severity, by thofe that had 
 Power in their Hands. 
 
 Mr. Charles Churchill alfo of Fenlton, who is re- 
 brefenred by the Doctor as a Pious, as well as a 
 p. aifi. Learr ed and Loyal Perfon. was a Man of a lying 
 % Tongue, that was continually telling of Jocular 
 
 Lies, to ridicule Religion, and Religious Men. la 
 fo much that his own Wife would often fay, you 
 muft not believe my Husband j for he ufes to tell 
 Lies to make Gentlemen laugh. He was much ad- 
 dicted to profane Jeerings, and mocking at holy 
 Things. Once when he was Riding along by a 
 Puritans Door, and found he was at Family Prayer, 
 he faid, he pray'd fo heartily that he was in bodily 
 Fear, his Horfe would have fallen down on his Knees. 
 And he was fo much given to Drunkennefs, that he 
 had debauch'd the greateft Part of the Gentlemen 
 and Farmers in the Parifli, who had the greateft 
 Deliverance in the World when he was turn'd out, 
 and fucceeded by fo Excellent a Perfon, and fo 
 good and exemplary a Chriftian, as Mr. Hleron. 
 Thefe few Inftances may help to fliew, what Sort 
 of Men, many of Dr. P^al^srs Parochial Sufferers 
 were. 
 
 I find there are comparatively but few among 
 them, to whom even the Doctor himfelf in the 
 Budft of their other Commendations, can find in his 
 
 Heart
 
 as to persecution. 75 
 
 Heart to give the Character of an unblameable 
 Converfation. I meet with it indeed, in the Cafe 
 of Mr. Thomas Fofter ; and Mr. John Falder, is P- H** 
 faid to have been a Man of an unblameable Life: And p ' ***' 
 Mr. Francis Nation, is laid to have been a Man of P' 3 20 * 
 great Piety: And Mr. Thompson of H dly, is faid P-3 8 3- 
 to have been one of an Exemplary Life ; and there 
 are fome few others commended in that Way : But 
 this is far from being common. Several of them 
 are own'd to have been fcandalous. This is acknow- 
 ledg'd, as to Mr. John Pecfyam. He is one that is 
 charg'd home in Writes Century, and the Do&or 
 fays, He has been informed, he was reatty a. very 
 fcandalous Fellow. And therefore he adds, That he p. 33^ 
 could have been very willing to have fhut him out of hit 
 Lift, if the Faithfulness and Integrity of an Hiftorian 
 would permit him. This I grant is fair. It is own'd 
 a'fo as to Mr. Nicholfon of Church/low in Devon, That 
 he was a Man of a very fcandalous Life, and as to p. 318. 
 Mr. Thomas Shepherd of Graf ham in Huntingdon/hire, P- J^ 
 That he was turnd out for his fcandalous Life. But 
 there is one of his Sufferers, and that is Mr. Louit 
 of Branfton, whom I wonder he is not afham'd P* 2 ' 5 ' 
 to mention. He was tried before Searjeant Godcold 
 and condeain'd, and executed as a Wizard at Bury 
 in Suffolk^' And therefore methinks no fit Compa- 
 nion for thofe that are brought in as Sufferers for 
 their Principles of Religion aad Loyalty. Many 
 others indeed of his Sufferers, whofe Names he has 
 taken fuch Care to preferve to Pofterity, were as 
 Mr. Lewis of Margate has obferv'd, famous for no- 
 thing but Vice and W'ickfa'nefs, and a Scandal to that 
 Religion which they frofefsd *. And therefore I can't 
 perceive be has any great Caufe to boaft of the 
 Service he has done. For what real Service can it 
 be to Religion, for a Man to take a great deal of 
 Pains, and make a Stir all over the Nation, in pick- 
 ing up Materials, in Order to a diftincl: Account, of 
 fuch as were defcrvcdly put out for their fcandalous Im- 
 
 * See his Remirki on Dr. Btfcft Samoa before the Sooi of the 
 Clergy, p. yi.
 
 76 The Church and the Diffenters 
 
 moralities ; Men who would have taken any Covenants, 
 fubfcrWd any Engagements, could they but have held their 
 Preferments. Of thefe the Dollar mentions a few, and 
 yet there were more of this Chara&er than he is willing to 
 
 Betides, feveral of the Perfons in the Doctor's Lift 
 fuffer'd upon the Ordinance againft Pluralities, which 
 was moft certainly very juftifiable, This Ordinance 
 was fo far from being a Perfecution, that it was 
 really the redrefling of a grofs Abufe, inveigh'd againft 
 by Divines abroad, and cotnplain'd of at home from 
 the very Time of the Reformation. I can't fee why 
 a Man that has four or five Livings, fhould be repre- 
 fented as fuffering an Hardflrp, if all but one are 
 taken from him. Pluralities may fomeumes rife to 
 a very fhameful Pitch, anrl actually did fo in Popifti 
 Times. I have read of one B:go de Clare, Rector of 
 St. Peter's in rhe Eaft, Oxon, v.-ho was prefenred by 
 the Earl of Gloucefter, to the Church of IVyfton in the 
 Coumy of Northampton, a jd obraui'd Leave to hold 
 it, with one Church in Ireland, and fourteen other 
 Churches in England f. But Peribns may he very 
 blameable Plurahfts, w'thout reaching his Number 
 of Living*, or near it. The Two Howe? of Parlia- 
 ment in rhe Petition to King Charles, An. 1625, a- 
 bout Religion, among other Things defir'd, That 
 Pluralities might be moderated. The King in h's An- 
 fwer telh them, That Pluralities were fo moderated, 
 that no Difpenfaticn for them was granted : And 
 that no Man was allow'd above two Benefices, and 
 thofe not above thir:y Miles diftant. Notwithftand- 
 ing which Anfwer of his Majefty to rhe Complaint 
 of his Parliament, we find by Dr, IValkfr, that fe- 
 f : *. veral had three Livings ; as Mr. John Beading, Dr. 
 19 tf aac ^ a fi ere * ^ r< Humphry Sydenham, Mr. Hugh 
 ' 7!.' Barcroft, and many others. And in the Treaty of 
 ?. 204. Uxbridge, 'twas one of the Propofals of the King's 
 own Commiifioners, upon the Head of Religion, 
 
 that 
 
 * See h's Remarks on Dr BiffcSt Sermon before the Sons of the 
 Clergy, p fa. 
 I Kttwtt's Parochial Anticlines, p. 2$z.
 
 compared, as to Perfecution. 77 
 
 that no Man fhould be capable of two Parfonages or 
 Vicaridges with Cure of Souls*. I fliould think 
 indeed one fuch Benefice enough for one Man : And 
 he that has one, that can afford him a Maintenance, 
 fhall not with me pafs for a Sufferer, though he hath 
 two or three others taken from him ; unlefs we ac- 
 count him a Sufferer of what he deferv'd: And the 
 Church of Chrift and the Souls of Men muft fuffer 
 if he fliould be fpar'd. 
 
 Now we learn from the Doctor himfelf, that tho' 
 Mr. tychard Pretty did upon the Ordinance, againft 
 Pluralities, lofe the Living of tiamfton in Ar den in ?'33& 
 Warwick/hire, he yet was permitted to keep his o- 
 ther Living of Aldr'dge in Stafford/hire. And though 
 Dr. Hitch was by the fame Ordinance forc.'d to re- *,^ T J 
 fign a leiTer Living, yet he kept ?he rich Parfonage 
 of Guifly all thofe Times. Dr. iValkfr indeed queries 
 whether he was not turnM out of that too ? But 
 from one that knew him well, I can allure him, he 
 kept it all along, and never was in any Danger of 
 being difturb'd except by the Cavaliers in the Time 
 of the "War. So that he cannot pafs for any very 
 great Sufferer. And he himfelf owns, as to Mr. Sa- 
 muel Peryam, that though he was difpoffeffed of ^ 
 Ninehead, by Vertue of the Ordinance againit Plura- 
 lities, yet he was not only permitted to keep his other 
 Living of Upwington, but he was fuch a Favourer of 
 the Times, that it is with fome Regret that he is 
 brought into the Lift of Sufferers. There were a 
 great many others alfo of the Parochial Clergy, that 
 had much Favour (hewn them. Thus for Inftance, 
 the Learned Dr. Sanderfon, though he met with fome 
 Trouble at his Living of Boothby Panel in Lincoln- 
 /hire, yet after a fhort Confinement at Lincoln, he 
 being exchang'd for Mr. Clark, of AUington, (who 
 was Prilbner at Newark) Matters were io compro- 
 mis'd between them two, (rhe one being by Agree- 
 ment a Security for the other) that the Doctor con- 
 tinu'd afterwards to live quietly, in the Exercife of 
 his Miniftry there, 'till the Reftoration. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 * Ethtrfi Hiftory of Ej/W, Vol. II. p. 517.
 
 7 8 The Church and the Dijjenters 
 
 f. Jo/. Dr. Walker indeed fays, That the Doctor was 
 federal Times plundered, and once wounded in no lefs than 
 three Places. That he was reducd to great Poverty, and 
 in 1658, wtti in a, very fitiful Condition'. But a cer- 
 tain worthy Clergyman of the Church of England, to 
 whom that Doctor was well known *, gives me an 
 Account, (and I'll add his own Words) That to his 
 Knowledge the Doctor was far from being reduc'd 
 to any Poverty in thofe Times ; nor was he in a pi- 
 tiful Condition in 1658. He liv'd in as much Plenty, 
 as the better Sort of Clergy did, upon his Rectory, 
 and maintain'd his Children fafhionably. His Living 
 was valu'd at 130 or 140^ per An- y and he had Mo- 
 ney befides, which did not lie dead. For though he 
 did not put it out to Imereft in the Ordinary Way, 
 which he had written againft, yet did he difpofe 
 of it in a Way really more advantagious to the 
 Lender, and fometimes to the Borrower. For he 
 would give an 100 /. for 10 /. for Seven Years. 
 This he thought lawful, but not the Common 
 Way, which occafion'd Reflections from feveral on 
 his Cafuiftical Skill. This he fays was the Com- 
 mon Report ; and one that was his Agent in difipo- 
 fing of the Money affur'd him of the Truth of it. 
 He adds, That he knew that after he was made 
 Bifhop of Lincoln, and before he had receiv'd any 
 Profits, he was forc'd to borrow an ico/. to defray 
 extraordinary Charges, which was all the Strait he 
 was reduc'd to. This Perfon liv'd near him, and 
 conversed much with his Admirers, but never heard 
 before, that he was plunder'd, or had any Vio- 
 lence offer'd to his Perfon : And declares he is mo- 
 rally certain that what is faid by Dr. Walter of his 
 being wounded, is utterly falfe. He liv'd unmo- 
 lefted after the Wars, tho' he conniv'd at the Pa- 
 rifhioners following their Sports on the Lord's Day , 
 as formerly, when they had a wicked Licenfe for 
 it. The fame Perfon alfo tells me, he was prefent 
 in 1656, when the Doctor married a Couple by the 
 Common-Pray er-Book and read the Confejficn, and 
 
 Abfolution, 
 
 * Mr, Sttfbept of Sutton in B^/W/Wrr, face dead.
 
 compared, as to Perfecutio?i. 79 
 
 Absolution, &c. many of the Gentry being Prefenr. 
 Nor can I forbear adding one Particular, which I 
 had from the fame Worthy Perfon ; vi%. that be- 
 ing with this Bifhop Sandcrfon, on the Evening after 
 the King had pafs'd the A& of "Uniformity, he among 
 other Things told him, that more was impos'd on, 
 Minifters than he wifti'd had been. 
 
 I dare venture to fay, that as much feverer as 
 Dr. Walker reprefents the Treatment the Church 
 Party met with formerly, than that which the Di 
 fenters have met with fince, he'd find a difficulc 
 Task of it to fhew any Favour like that which Dr. 
 Sanderfon met with, fhewn to any of the Nonconfor- 
 mifts, cf ever fo great Worth or Note, or even them 
 that were ever fo helpful to promote the Reftora- 
 tion, after King Charles's Return. 
 
 Nor was he the only Inftance of this Kind by 
 many. For the Dodor himfelf owns, that Mr. An* p. 15. 
 tbony Gregory, though caft out of the Living of Pe- 
 trockjtow, in the County of Devon, yet afterwards 
 got the Living of Charles, and was permitted to keep 
 it. And in the very fame County, Mr. John Par* 
 fons , though driven from I^entisbicrre , was allow- ' pi 317- 
 ed to officiate at May Down till the Reftoration : 
 And Mr. William Saterly after his Living of Ide p. jyj. 
 was fequeftred, was not only fuffer'd to teach a 
 School at a Village call'd Coldridge, in the Parifh 
 of Stokenham, but alfo to ferve a fmall Place called 
 Sherford , an Appendix to it. Mr. Towgood alfo of 
 Briftol, though he fuffered much, yet after feveral p. 4>5 ; 
 Years Silence, he continu'd the Exercife of his Mi- 
 niftry at Kjngfwood Chapel, near Wotton under Edge, 
 and was prelented to the Living of Tortwortb, where 
 he continu'd till the Reftoration. 
 
 Often does the Doctor mention little Places 
 which the Minifters that were fequeftred formerly, 
 were allow'd to keep. Though Mr. Simon Lynch, p ; 2S j % 
 was turn'd out of the Living of fymveeU in Effex, 
 he yet was afterwards permitted to keep the poor 
 Curacy of Blackmorc. Mr. Francis Natiin, had fe- p. 3*3. 
 veral Livings fuccefftvely, and at lenrch got the 
 fmall Vicaridge of I.<j\v.innacl^ in Cornwal t which 
 
 he
 
 So The Church and the DiJJenters 
 
 he was permitred to keep until the Reftoration. Mr. 
 George Buchanan, in the little Vicaridge of J(oyflon t 
 read the Service, and adminiftred the other Offices 
 of the Church of England, till the Reftoration. Mr. 
 
 t> jfc, John Tarlton, after his Suffering, got the fmall 
 Living of Wembworthy in Devon, and made a Shift 
 to keep it until the Reftoration. And Mr. Nicholat 
 
 f. 306. Monk., was fuffer'd to keep a fmall Cure through 
 all the Time of the Ufurpation, and toward the 
 Clofe of it, had the rich Living of Qlkhampton, in 
 Cornwal. 
 
 One would be apt to think the Doctor quite 
 forg at fuch Favours as thefe that are not to be pa. 
 ralell'd in the Treatment of the Nonconformifts 
 from the Church Party, when he reprefents the 
 Sufferings of the Latter as fo much exceeding thofe 
 of the Former. 
 
 This is what many others have confirm'd ; tho' 1 
 can't here forbear again citing the worthy Author 
 of the Conformtfts Plea for the Nonconformifts, who 
 feems to have been the direct reverfe of Dr. Walker, 
 both in Principle and Temper. That Gentleman 
 mentions feveral of the Epifcopal Clergy that en- 
 joy'd Liberty and Freedom between 1640 and 60. 
 I could (fays he) reckon up many that had Livings 
 in the City, and preach'd in the Churches without any 
 Let. As Dr. Hall, afterwards Bifhop of Chcfter, 
 Dr. Sail, Dr. Wild, (afterwards a Bifhop in Ireland) 
 Dr. Hardy, Dr. Griffith, Dr. Pierfon (after Bifhop 
 ofChefter) Dr. Moflome, Mr. Faringdon, with many 
 more, befides Abundance in every County, 'Tis 
 true Oliver Cromwel and his OScers did once upon 
 fome Provocation of a prerended Plot againft him, 
 by a Proclamation prohibit their Preaching, keeping 
 Schools, &c. But by the Interceffion of that Ex- 
 cellent Man Archbifhop Vfher, they had their Li- 
 berty again, and preach'd and enjoyed their Places 
 all the Time of the Ufurpation. And therefore fuch 
 tragical Out-cries as are fomerimes made by Dr. 
 Walker, might very well have been fpar'd. There's 
 no Occafion for them, eipecially when according to 
 bis own Propofal, we were purfuing a Comparifon. 
 
 There
 
 corn-par* (1, as to P erf edition. 
 
 There are fome of the Doctor's Parochial Sufferers 
 that gain'd more than they loft, and had becter Livings 
 given them than were taken from them j and could 
 be no great Sufferers. This was the Cafe of Mr. John 
 Lee,- Dr. Busby, and Mr. William Scot, who tho' his P- " 
 Living of Morebeith in Devon was fequeitred, got thar f ' 7 *'. 
 of Withypoole in Scmerfetfoire , which was becter. 
 And Mr. Jofcfh Nichclfcn alfo in Cumberland had a 
 better Living in the Room of a worfe. And thele P 
 were certainly no great hardfliips, or were fufficiently 
 made up to thofe concerned in them, and will be Ar- 
 guments on our Side, rather than the Doctor's in the 
 Comparifon, unlefs he can give any Evidence, than 
 the Treatment the Difienters met with from the 
 Church Party fince the Restoration, had any Thing 
 of this Kind intermix'd with ir. 
 
 There are withal, feveral in the Doctor's Paro- 
 chial Lift, that were as chargeable with the very 
 Things, for which he fo. warmly inveighs againft 
 his Qppofites, as the moft, if not any, of them 
 could be faid to be. Thus Mr. G. Coliere was p. 234; 
 thruft upon the Parifh of Shelley after Mr. Georgt 
 Duranis Removal by Sequeftration, and he became 
 active in difpoflelling others of the Loyal Clergy, 
 tho' he conform'd and kept the Living upon the 
 Reftoration. If his Guilt muft be charg'd upon the 
 Diifenters, the Doctor evidently throws more upon 
 them than they deferve. 
 
 Others in the Doctor's Parochial Lift, might for 
 any Thing he appears to know, be fo far from (iiffer- 
 ing for luch Principles as he adheres to, as than 
 they might fuffer upon Principles that were widely 
 d'.flferent. Thus he owns in a Marginal Note, that 
 Mr. Najh of Warjley in Huntingdon (hire, who was p. 319; 
 imprifon'd for refuting the Ingagement, might for 
 any thing he knew, be a Presbyterian : And yet is 
 his reckon'd in the Index among the fequcftred Liv- 
 ings j which (hews that the Doctor, right or wrong, 
 was for taking all poflible Methods, to greaten the 
 Number of his Sufferers. 
 
 And finally fome of thofe in this Parochial Lift, 
 were Papifts, as well as feveral in the Vniverjiti 
 
 VOLL. II. F LM,
 
 82 The Church and the Diflenters 
 
 Lift, and feveral in the Lift of Dignitaries, as has 
 been before obferv'd. This is what our Author endea- 
 F. ?5.lnthe vours to apologize for. He feems ra'her to wonder, 
 Wargm. ( a u Things confider'd) that there were no more, than 
 that there were fo many, of this Sort. He will have 
 it that they that were fo, were fcandali^d into Po- 
 fery, h the vile And deteftable Praftifes, of thofc who 
 fnprofid to themfclvcs the Name of Proteftants. I agree 
 with him in wondring there were no more, when 
 the Tranfition from High-Church to Popery, is fo 
 very eafy: But as to the occafion why there was 
 fo many, I differ from him. This I fuppofe may be 
 afcrib'd to the taking Nature of Church Power and: 
 Pageantry to fome Difpofitions, and to the Diligent 
 Endeavours of popifli Agents and Emiflaries to fe- 
 duce all that would liften to them wherever they 
 came, as well as to the unbecoming Practices of any 
 Sort of Proteftants. But if it be confider'd how 
 much of Impofition and Perfecution, (which is the 
 true Spirit of Popery let it be found where it will) 
 has remain'd, and how much it has been cherifti'd 
 in the Church; and how vifible a receding there 
 has been in a great Party that have been for en- 
 grofling the Name of the Church to themfelves, 
 from the true Principles of the Reformation ; and 
 what a Fondnefs that Party fhewM for the next 
 Heir in the Reign of King Charles II, to the vifible 
 hazarding a Return back to Rome, we may well e- 
 nough wonder, and muft I think afcribe it purely to 
 the infinite Goodnefs of Almighty GOD, that Po- 
 pery has not quite overrun us, and that we have 
 any left, to value and honour the Proteftant Name 
 and Principles.. 
 
 When thefe Parochial Clergy are over, our Au- 
 .4i*. thor f c ll ws them, w "h * n Account of fome few of 
 the Schoolmafters, Lefturers, Curates, &c. who were 
 turnd out. But thefe are bat few in Number, and 
 much like thofe menticn'd in the Lift foregoing, t 
 cannot perceive this Appendix has any Thing in it 
 that is very remarkable; tho' by the Text he cites, 
 he feems to count them valuable Fragments. I envy 
 him not his Satisfaction. 
 
 There
 
 compared, as to Perfecution. 8? 
 
 There are added in the Clofe of all, .Two Alpha- 
 betical Indexes ; the one of the Names of the Seque- 
 ftred Clerpy, and the other of the Livings mennorx'd 
 in the Lift foregoing. ' Thefe may ferve for a two- 
 fold Ufe : To help to find a Perfon or Living that 
 was fequeftred, mention'd in the preceeding Work 5 
 and alfo to prove that the Number of our Author's 
 Sufferers falls far fhorr of what he pretends. He ap- 
 pears to have been more feniible that thefe Indexes 
 might be aorly'd to this latter Ufe, than willing they 
 fhould be fo : And therefore feems defigneoly to have 
 laid in againft it. For he fays, Thar the comparing 
 of thefe two Alphabets together, will not by any means help 
 the Deader to mak? tin exact Computation of the true 
 Number of Sequeftrations mention d in the Lift. Buc I 
 believe there are Few will reckon his Reafcns con- 
 vincing. If the Number cffequcjtred Places is much 
 greater than that of the Per fans who were fequeftred from 
 them, (as he himfeif acknowleges) then cannot the 
 Number of his Sufferers in all, rife much higher 
 than the Number of his Parifhes which his Index 
 mentions. Tho' fome of his Cathedral D'gnitaries 
 are not to be met with in his Index of Perfons, (and 
 I don't know how they all fhould, fince fome of 'em 
 are but imaginary ones) and fome of the Parifhes 
 of his Parochial Sufferers are not to be met with in 
 his Index of Places, becaufe he was altogether in 
 uncertainty about 'em ; yet if it be confider'd, how 
 many of his Cathedral and Univerfiry Sufferers, by 
 reafon of their having Livings, ( and fome of 'em, 
 more than one,) come in in his Parochial Lift, and how 
 many Parifhes are to be met with in his Index of 
 Places, the Names of the Sufferers in which are not 
 to be met with in his Index of Perfons, upon baHaac- 
 ing Accounts fairly, it cannot 1 e, that the Number 
 of his Sufferers fhould be much grea'er, than the 
 Number of Parifhes mcnnon'd in his Index. I am 
 apt to think this will be the Judgment of moft, a? 
 Things now ftand : And as for any other Reafons to 
 the contrary, that may have been relerv'd, I can't 
 fee how it can be expe&ed we fhould be affected 
 with 'em, feeing the Doctor him felf has freely own'd, 
 that chey are not worth mentioning particular!;. 
 F
 
 8 4 
 
 The Church and the Di'Jetiters 
 
 But the Doctor -by what he has as yet publith'd to 
 the World, feetrs to have done but half his Work. 
 P4rti.pa,3, For according to his promife in his Introduction, we 
 are yet to expect a fecond Appendix, of the horrid Sa- 
 crHedge and Profanations committed on the Cathedrals, 
 and, other Churches of the Kjngdom : Together with 
 a Vindication of the eflabli/Wd Clergy, from the Calum- 
 nies they were chargd with ; and an Account of the 
 miferablc State of Religion, which was the genuine and 
 immediate Confequence of the abolishing of Epifcopacy, 
 and the Defmittion of the Clergy. And all this is to 
 be accompany'd, or follow'd with Remarks on my 
 Account of thofe who fuffer'd under the Act of "Uni- 
 formity. In which it is to be enquird, How, and in 
 what Manner the ^wo thousand Perfons mention d, were 
 ejected ; and whether the Encomiums which I have be- 
 Jtow'd on this Body of Men in ge .-"-//; and the 
 f articular Characters with which I have adorn A the 
 Accounts cf many of ''cm, are as covjiftent with Truth 
 and Juftice, as with the Defign that -probably was in 
 view, &c. 
 
 But it being altogether uncertain when this fe- 
 cond Volume may fee the light ; and our Author 
 having in this his firft Volume brought a good ma- 
 ny Charges againft me ; and interfpers'd here and 
 there, feveral Reflections on the Sufferers mentioned 
 - in my Account, as well as threaten'd me with a great 
 deal more, and what is much worfe, hereafter ; I 
 think it may not be amifs, before I conclude, to make 
 fome Returns to his Infinnations, Charges, and Refle- 
 ctions, as I took Notice of them when I was run- 
 ning over his Performance. 
 
 He often makes a woful Stir about the Words t- 
 jecled and filenc d, the meaning of which I think is 
 obvious enough, to any Man that is not willing to 
 confound 'em. I had given Intimation, that feveral 
 that were not ftridrly ejected, were yerjilencd by the 
 Act of Uniformity. This the Doctor either could not, 
 or would not understand. And therefore he fays, 
 that a great number of the Minifters, of whom I 
 give an Account, were cjcclcd, juft as Mr. Baxter 
 was; that is, net at all. A pleafant Fancy! not 
 ejected, becaufe the former, Incumbents were yec 
 
 living,
 
 corn-par* d<) as to Ptrfecution* S<> 
 
 living, which was the Reafon of their being caft 
 out, that Way might be made for their Re-entrance ! 
 And were they not filenced neither, fur the fame 
 Reafon ! Unlefs that alto be difprov'd, it as much 
 ferves my Purpofe, as if they had ever fo formal- 
 ly or wrongfully been ejected. However, where I 
 was able, I diftinguifli'd the ejecied, from fach as 
 were only filencd : And yet when I do declare 
 Perfons to have been caft out in 1660, (and fo 
 only filmed in 1661, unlefs they before that, were 
 legally nxt in other Livings, which was the Cafe 
 of iome) he will ha\e it that I reprefent them as 
 ejev^ed in 61. Thus tho' I had faid of Mr. So* 
 mud Hieron *, That he was ejected, foon after tl;e 
 Sgftcraticn, be being In a fequefticd -place, and the 
 former Incumbent being ftill alive : He yet will have 
 it, That he K recorded in the Abridgment ; at ejected 
 from this Living in 1662. Mechinks 'tis hard to Antmftjp.\*. 
 know how to deal with fuch an Adverfary, or what P' al<s ' co1 '*. 
 Way to take to make him eafy ! 
 
 He charges me with diminishing the Number of the 
 fuffering Clergy of the Church of England ; and he's p re f. p. 3 
 preiently after, at it again: But if 1 ha\e diminifh'd and 6. 
 it, I think verily he has magnify'd it enough ; and 
 fo I hope has made fufficient Amends. But though 
 I have no defire to diminifh it, ye: I can't fee there 
 is any Occaiion for making it, four or five Times as 
 grcac as it was. 
 
 He fays. That whereas there was about 2000 ejefted 
 after the Hcftoration, they that ga~-e up again to the 
 right Owners, or thofe Curates, &c. who were only Ji- 
 lencd, and prevented from having any Preferment for tlie 
 future, made confide i ably more than one half of them : lb. 14* 
 And that not fifty of the Remainder of 'em (nay he goes 
 fo far as to fay that he did not remember he had 
 met with an inftance of more than one Jingle ferfon) 
 had any other Title, (antecedent to the urgent Necejfity of 
 the Act of 1660) to the places from vchich they were re- 
 movd, than what Scquejlration, Plunder, 1/furpation, 
 and Rebellion had given them. And a little after, he 
 F 3 fays, 
 
 t Vol. II. p. aJ4
 
 86 The Church and the Dtffenters 
 
 fays, that one half of the cjetted Minifters had no Free- 
 Ib.pt 15* holds to be driven from. 
 
 I reply ; that of the 2000 Minifters that were 
 caft out after the Restoration, there was a number 
 tha: rejignd to the right Owners, is freely acknowledg'd : 
 As aiio that feverat of 'em were Curates, and only 
 filencd, and prevented from having any ptrfermrnt for 
 the future: But that thefe made considerably more 
 than one half of Vm, is what he can never prove to 
 the World's End. Of above izo that were filenc'd 
 for rheir Nonconformity in Devon, which is the Doctor's 
 own County, about zz gave up their fequeftred 
 Livings to the furvivine: Incumbents ; which is fo 
 far from being confiderably mo'e than an half, that it 
 falls ftiort of being a fifth Part of 'em. The Livings 
 of the reft of 'em, were as much their Freeholds as 
 the Law could make 'em fo. If he is able to re- 
 member but one (ingle Perfon, that had any other 
 Title antecedent to the Law in 1660, to the Places 
 from which they were remov'd, than what they 
 got in the Ways which he mentions, I pity the 
 Siipperinefs of his Memory. For as Mr. Withers 
 "UtftnAix,?. obferves. there were two at lead in his own City 
 of Excn, who had a fairer Title than what he talks 
 of : vi%. Mr. Nichols who was fectled there before 
 the Wars began, and Mr. Atkjns who was chofen at 
 St. Johns after they were ended, and when both Mo- 
 narchy and Epifcopacy had been reftor'd. And that 
 Doctor himfelf has" told us, that Mr. iVabonA was pre- 
 fented to the Rectory of Wolfardifoworthy in r he 
 An. Part Ii. County by the rightful Patron , and that Mr. Trcfcot 
 *' 2 *" took out a Broad Seal for the rich Parfonage of Shod' 
 brook And he mentions a Number in other Coun- 
 ties, that had as good Tic!es as any were at all. 
 Newowrf a'fo in his Rgp effort um Ecclcfiaflicum will 
 help him to a great many more, in the City of 
 London, and in EJfcx and Hertford/hire. I am not 
 willing now to enter upon an Enumeration, but will 
 undertake that by that Tinre he has publifli'd his 
 Proof of this his wild Afiertion, I (hall have the 
 Name of a great many mere at his Service, with full 
 ~~ J fuflkiem Evidence, that by this Suegeftion of 
 
 his
 
 as to P erf edition. 87 
 
 his he has bafely wrong'd them. But fuppofe there 
 were feveral of them that came not in upon the 
 Title of the rightful Patrons, but only, they upon, 
 Vacancies (one Way or another occafionM) iupply'd 
 the Places, with the Confent, and at the Requeft of 
 the Parifhioners, I am perfectly at a Lofs to difco- 
 ver, how this can be made a juft matter of Refle- 
 <ftion upon them. 
 
 He fays alfo, 'hat the whole Epilogue to the ninth 
 Chapter of my Abridgment is ffent in throwing the moft 
 odious imputations en the Church, and heightning them 
 with the utmofl Aggravations ; which is much about Prcf> P- x * 
 as true, as the Character he gives of the Ditfenters 
 in general, that their ccnducl has been cne continued At- 
 tempt upon the Ccnftituticn : Tha r they have debauched 
 both the Civil and the Religious principles of the Nobi- 
 lity and Gentry : That they endeavour d the Ruin of the 
 Nations Commerce ; fird the Houfes of Embaffadors fent 
 hither and murtherd thcfe that were to be fent abroad, 
 and hir'd psrfons to tear up the very Foundations, not of 
 Chrijlianity only, but of all Religion and Government. 
 
 He adds, that he might as well ha\ e mentioned 
 St. Peter and St. Paul, Ignatiut. and Pclycarp, and all 
 the ancient Farhers of the primitive Church in his 
 L'ft, as I have mentioned fome that are taken Notice 
 of in mine. He grafts this upon my bringing in Pref.p. ji. 
 fome that dy'd a little before the Acffc of Uniformity 
 cook place, iho' after it was pafs'd into a Law. But 
 I fuppofe he would have fpar'd this Reflection, had 
 he but confider'd, that he htmfelf owns his menti- 
 oning fome as Sufferers in his Lift, who he knew 
 dy'd before the general Confufion. This has been 
 already obferv'd as to Dr. Davenant Bifhop of Sarum, 
 and Bithop Montague of Norwich, &c. Nay, he freely 
 owns asro his Cathedral Clergy, that it is foffible fome 
 of the Members might dis, before the Cathedrals were put 
 down, and might not be Sufferers ; and that this may 
 perhaps have caufed fome Mifta^cs. There are o- Prtf P- *' 
 thers of whom he himfelf declares, that he on- 
 ly guejjes they were Sutferers ; which is the Cafe 
 of Mr. Thomas Marler ; and others that he did jkt. Part It 
 not know whether they livd to fujfer, as Mr. Thomas p. 63. 
 
 F 4 ' #7,
 
 The Church and the if ij] eaters 
 
 -*rP a rtiL Ely, &c. And ye: the Names of thefe Perfons arc 
 p * *?* as much inferted in the Index as thofe of whom he 
 had the greateft Certainty. Now I think one that 
 takes fuch Methods as thefe, can fcarce be allow'd 
 to keep within any Bounds of Decency, in faying, 
 he might as well have brought in Sr. Peter and St. 
 Paul, See. among his Sufferers, as I might produce 
 fome that I have nam'd, becaufe among above 1000 
 mention'd, there may perhaps be half a dozen, thac 
 died before the Aft of Vniformity took Place, or 
 within a few Days of it ; who- yet endur'd it by 
 Anticipation, and were well known to be determin'd 
 to endure the utmoft Sufferings, rather than comply 
 with the Terms of Conformity prefcrib'd. 
 y He complains alfo, that I have augmented'^ L ift* 
 with fome that have been bred at leiift to the Miniftry, 
 Pref. x ' (tf not bwn") Jince the Ejcclmcnts of Bartholomew-^ *. 
 And if I have, their being kept out of the Church 
 v^hen qualified for good Service in it, is moft cer- 
 tainly to be charg'd on the Aft for Vniformity ; and 
 therefore I fee no Reafon but they may be allow'd 
 to pafs for Sufferers by that Aft, which was all tha: 
 I intended to intimate by mentioning them. How- 
 ever there are not many of this Sort produced. And 
 if mere fuch had been mention'd than had been 
 ftri&ly juftifiablc, I think verily a Charge againft 
 me upon this Account, don't "well become one who 
 as Mr. Levels * has obferv'd, has fo far in this Re- 
 fpeft exceeded all Bounds, as to add to the Number 
 cf Sufferers on his own Side, and incrcafe l*ls Heap, 
 by adding Fellows of Colleges, who were not in Orders, 
 nay, descending to mention Scholars, Clark*, and Chori- 
 Jlers. 
 
 Another Complaint he makes is, that I have not 
 prfp,xi-ir. given an Index of Parijhcs : One Pveafon of which 
 Ofn'uiion was becaufe of the Difficulty of it as to 
 Spelling: As to which I was by a Friend re r err'd, 
 to the Vtilor Ben-ficiorum, and Adams \ Index Lilians: 
 But then I found upon a little Trial, that any Exaclv 
 'r.efs m fuch an Index would have taken up fo much 
 
 Time, 
 
 * F.emark! on Dr. BiV. Senvon, p. jj.
 
 r*, as to Perfection. 89 
 
 Time, that I could employ to forne better Purpofe, 
 that I could not think it worth my while. 
 
 He intimates, that he has fame Bfafon to doubt,^ 
 whether I have not concealed the ill Characters offome 
 of my Sufferers, of which I had Notice. I cannot fay tt *4 
 wha: f(cafon he may have, or think he has, for his 
 Doubt m this Cafe: But can allure him that from 
 the Beginning of my Undertaking, it appeared to me 
 more proper I fliould myfelf take Notice of any, 
 moral Irregularities I knew to be chargeable on 
 any Perfons I menrion'd , than expofe myfelf to 
 cenfure, as concealing Faults: And I have a&ed' 
 accordingly. And cannot upon the ftri&eft Recol- 
 lecftion fay, tha: I have heard any thing fcandalous 
 of any one of the fi'enc'd Minifters, that I have 
 not taken (ome Notice of, except in the Cafe o 
 Mr. Leonard Scurr of Beefton in Torkshire *, who 
 was murder'd in his own Houfe, of whom I was 
 once told by a grave Perfon, that he was but an 
 ill Man. However I took no Notice of it, both 
 becaufe I heard nothing of it from any one elfe ; 
 and alfo becaufe I did not know but the diftin- 
 guifhing Calamity that came upon him, might be 
 the thing that might have led fome People to fu- 
 fpedt fome uncommon Guilt, and that this Sufpi- 
 cion might have given rife to the Report. And 
 though in this Cafe I will not fay by the Dodtor as he 
 does by me, thac I have fome %eafon to doubt whe- 
 ther he has not taken the Method which he men- 
 tions, yet I do not know whether others may not be 
 inclined to fuch a Doubt, unlefs he hereafter takes 
 Occafion to ufe the fame Franknefs as I have done 
 as to this Matter. 
 
 He farther complains, there are a great Num- 
 ber of Partial Characters in the Abridgment. But 
 this I can fafely fay, that if there are, it is more 
 than I know of. Jt has been my endeavour to keep 
 within CompaCs, and rather to fall ftiort, than ex- 
 ceed : Of which I could give fome flagrant Proof, 
 if I thought it at all needful. Far be it from me, 
 to pretend to fay, where fo many are concern'd, 
 
 thac 
 
 t t Vol. II. p. too.'
 
 90 The Church and the 
 
 that I have in no Cafe been impos'd on, fo as to 
 give a Character, beyond what was deferved. It 
 is not to be fuppos'd I fliould be able to deliver 
 fo many. Characters ro Pofteriry, upoft my own Per- 
 fonal Knowledge ; I muft be aififted by orhers. I 
 have been free to own it. And as far as I can 
 judge by the Report of others, the Characters given 
 atre very juft ; and I have in that Refpedfc endea- 
 vour'd all along to ufe due Caution, and ftand upon 
 my Guard. 
 
 He adds, that I have brought in, A <vaft Num- 
 ber of Curates, and even Perfons occafionally Rffidenc 
 
 law MaT "^ ^' lt ^' in ^ e P ar *ft>e s or Places mentioned. And 
 "*' if I fometimes have done fo, where is the Damage > 
 For what does it fignify, whether the Perfons men- 
 tion'd were Parfons, Vicars or Curares j and whe- 
 ther they were ftatedly or occafionally only, Refi- 
 dent in the Places where they are mentioned ? If 
 they were filenc'd by the Al of Uniformity , it 
 anfwers my Purpofe to take Notice of them. And 
 I have for the moft Part done it at thofe Places 
 where they were Preaching, (be it in one Capacity 
 or another) at that Time when the Law ftopped 
 their Mouths, which I thought moft proper. It is 
 true I have fometimes by Miftake done otherwife, 
 and did not think it neceflary to make an Altera- 
 tion afterwards, which I fuppofe may eafily be for- 
 given. But when he fays, that if he gueffe* Rjght, 
 more than one half of my Sufferers is made up of 
 Curates, Chaplains, Perfons not fixed, and Perfcns not 
 
 fftrtl.p.200, in any Orders ; I can aflure him if he is fo fond of 
 guejfing, he muft even guefs again. But who can 
 wonder at the grofleft Blunders, when a Man writes 
 fo much by guefs. Let him begin when he will in 
 his own County of Devon, I believe he will find him- 
 felf wofully out. 
 
 He often reflects upon our Minifters, for fuc- 
 ceeding thofe who were caft out by the Authority 
 of Parliament, when yet it is no more than many 
 of his own Church did, and that, as far as I can 
 
 F. II p. 27. perceive, without Scruple. Thus Mr. Torcvay fuc- 
 ceeded Dr. Kutchefon in his Living of Cheriton, and 
 
 conform'd I
 
 compared, as to ^Persecution. 91 
 
 conformed at the Reftoration, and kept Pofle.Iion. 
 And Dr. Hugh Rpbinfon alfo, accepted a fequeftred p. u.p. 33. 
 Living: And fo did Mr. Scudamore, and Dr. Ear- !* 1! . P 3f- 
 ten Holyday, and many others. I am fenfible he re- p I i.p.yf. 
 prefents thefe Perfons as blameable for fo doing, 
 and feldorn brings them in without a Flun: But 
 I would fain know, what he would ha'% e had the 
 People have done at that Time, in Parifhes where 
 the Minifters were fequeftred. Would he have had 
 them liv'd without any Gofpel Ordinances, in a 
 Chriftian Country? If not, muft they not chufc 
 another to officiate, when the legal Incumbent was 
 deprived ? For my Part I cannot fee why a Perfon 
 thus chofen, by ihe People whom he was to preach 
 to, had net a fufficient Warrant (if he was quali- 
 fied for the minifterial Work and Service, and or- 
 dain'd to ir) to juftify him. But anything will be 
 reckon'd enough to juftify an Accufation, where a 
 Man is warmly difpos'd to find fault. And that I 
 do the Do&or no Wrong in fuppofing this to be bis 
 Cafe, is plain from hence, that I cannot find he upon 
 any Occalion has given tolerable Characters of any 
 of the poor filenc'd Nonconformifts. 
 
 He infinuares, that my Account, abounds veitlt 
 Jvlifreprcfcntaficns, cccajicrfd by the %eal of fame rvht 
 have been ready to aggravate and inflame a Story, 
 beyond ths Bounds of Truth and Honefty. I cannot Tret. p.xltL 
 fay I am at all fenfible of this, becaufe I have 
 cndcavour'd to drop any Thing that I thought 
 could be juftly liable to , be fo interpreted ; on 
 which Account, if there fhould be any Thing of 
 that Nature remaining, I fhould think it might the 
 more eafily be forgiven ; and that the rather, fince 
 he is fo free as to own there may be fame fuch on hk 
 Side. In this Cafe, I can leave it to the Reader to 
 judge between us, without any Anxiety or Concern 
 about the Iffue. 
 
 He farther infinuares, that tbcfe of the cjcfted "Ml- 
 nifters whom I have pafsd over in Silence, (their Names 
 only excefted] were Perfons of fuch Characters, as Par- 
 tinlity itself could not recommend. So that it feems Part I. p. 3. 
 he is relolv'd to have me oae way, or other. If 
 
 a
 
 92 The Church and the Dif enters 
 
 a tolerable Character be given of any of thefe fi- 
 leac'd M'fv.fters, its partial : And if (for wane of 
 Intelligence) their Names only be mention'd, it was 
 becaafe none durft venture to fay, they had any 
 thing commendable in them, or belonging to them. 
 But as to this Matter Surmife of his, he will now in 
 a little Time be the better able to judge how well 
 it was grounded, by the Chara&ers which through 
 farther Information he will find I have been able to 
 give of a good Number, of whom before I could 
 only give the Names. And perhaps, by that Time 
 he has digefted thefe additional ones, I may have 
 more at his Service. 
 
 He reflects alfo on feveral I had rnention'd as fuf- 
 fering on our Side, for their Concern and Activity 
 in the Wars : Not confidering (I fuppofe) that feveral 
 on his own Side, were in this Refpecl: in :he fame 
 Condition. Thus he himfelf tells us of one Tbotnat 
 .n.p.3io. Mafon, that he took up Arms for his Majefty. and 
 commanded an independent Companv ac Befooire 
 Caftle. And I have heard of one Stiles, another 
 Bclvoire Captain, (whom he I think has omicred) 
 who had a Troop of Horfe, that was famous for 
 Fighting and Plundering the Country : Wh : after 
 the Restoration, took Pofleflion of the Vicaridge of 
 Crovoland, and kept it without a Title to his Dying- 
 day. He was celebrated for fuddling and fichting 
 with his drunken Companions. Archdeacon Echard 
 alfo, mentions one Dr. Michael Hudfon, one of the 
 King's Chaplains, who was no lefs remarkable for 
 his Valour, and Martial Enterprizes, than for his 
 Schollarfhip and Divinity. 
 
 Often alfo does the Doctor intermix with his 
 Account of his Sufferers, Reflections upon their Suc- 
 ceilors, hoping, I fuppofe, to make his Narratives 
 pafs off the more pleafantly with his Readers : But 
 as far as I can judge, thofe Reflexions are for the 
 inoft part undeferv'd ; and many times are as void 
 of Breeding or Good-humour, as they are of Truth. 
 Bat I lay in this, as Bifliop Burner in another Cafe, 
 
 The 
 
 * Ki'bry of England, Vol. H. p. 6z^
 
 com far 1 fl 9 as to Perfection. 93 
 
 The Author of a, Train of Defamation is fuffciently 
 difprcvd, when it is Apparent that feme fart of his 
 Relation mufl certainly be falfe. The Bilhop brings 
 this in, with refpect to Sanders, who had taken much 
 the fame Pains to vilify the Englifh Reformation from. 
 Popery, and the main Agents in it, as Dr. Walkfr 
 has done to reproach the Proteftant Diflenters, and 
 expofe them to general Contempt. 
 
 When he can faften nothing on the Perfons or Con- 
 dud of thofe of our Friends that were the the Suc- 
 ceflfors of his Sufferers, the Doctor often takes a Li- 
 berty to difparage and villify their Parentage, which 
 to me feems not to have much of the Gentleman in 
 k. And in Reality, if a Man himfelf be fit for the 
 Work he undertakes, and behaves himfelf worthily 
 in his Poft and Station, I cannot fee what it fignifies 
 to reflect on thofe from whom he is defcended. Sup- 
 pofing they might have nothing to diftinguifli them, 
 nay, fuppoling them to have been mean in their 
 Circumftances, it deferves the more Notice, that 
 any of their ufhering into the World, fhould deferve 
 Refpect on Account of their Ufefulnefs, in fuch an 
 Office as that of the facred Miniftry. We cannot, it 
 muft be own'd, on our Side, boaft of fo noble, and 
 gerreel a Defcent, as fome have had on the Doc- * 
 tor's Side : And what Wonder, when we have nO 
 Dignities or great Emoluments to intice and incou- 
 rage : But ftill to be meariiy defcended, is not in my 
 Apprehenfion, a greater Objection againft the Suffer- 
 ers on one Side, than it is againft thofe on the other 
 Side. And I think verily, there are none on our 
 Side fo mean in this Refpect, but there are thofe 
 to be found in the Doctor's Book that will equal 
 them. 
 
 But fometimes he mentions a mean Defcent, in 
 order to Dilparagement, where there is no real 
 Ground for it : And then I confefs, I hardly know 
 what Name to give to the Practile. Thus he tells P.ir.p.' 
 
 us, that one H was Dr. HShitfonfs fecond Sue- Co!, i. 
 
 celfor at Walgrave, and that he was the Son of a 
 
 Taylor 
 
 * See hi$ Appendix, at the Ecd of Vol. Ill', of his HiRory of 
 Ac RcfcrnutJM}, p. 35 /. .
 
 94 The Church and the Diflenters 
 
 Taylor in NoYtbamptoiifkire. And had this been true* 
 I cannot fee what of an Argument it carries in it, 
 that he was not a Valuable and Ufeful Man : But 
 when it is falfe, I believe all Mankind will agree 
 without demur, that it is abominable, and to be de- 
 tefted. Now I am inform'd, and that by a Worthy 
 Minifter of the eftablifh'd Church, * whom none 
 would refufe to credit if I fliould but name him, 
 (and I have it under his Hand too) that this H 
 was no other than Dr. Jeremy Holled, and that his 
 Father was a Gentleman in Lincoln/hire, Steward 
 to Theophilus Earl of Lincoln, who committed the 
 Management of his whole Eftate to him, which 
 thriv'd confiderably under his Care, though it mife- 
 rably decay'd afterwards. And he had another Bro- 
 ther in the Miniftry, vi%. Dr. Jonathan Holled, who 
 was beneficed at Eflcn in Northampton/hire, which 
 was a good Parfonage as well as Walgrave. This 
 Paffage would fhrewdly tempt a Man to fufpecT: the 
 Doctor was miferably impos'd upon by his Correfpon- 
 dents. And who can tell, but that when he fays, that 
 . Mr. Robert Rogers, B. D. was the Son of a Miller, 
 and that others had fuch or fuch mean and defpicable 
 Perfons for their Parents, it might upon Inquiry be 
 found to have, no more Truth in it, than than Dr. 
 Jeremy Holled was the Son of a Taylor. 
 
 It is moft undoubtedly the eafieft Thing in the 
 World to ridicule or inveigh againft any Perfon, 
 Party or Principles that can be mention'd, when 
 Perfons will give themfelves leave to vent any thing 
 that comes next, without any Diftindlion between 
 what is true or falfe, probable or unlikely. The Sa- 
 cred Scriptures themfelves with the Penmen of them, 
 and the moft Eminent Perfons of whom they give us 
 an Account, have met with fuch fort of Treatment 
 from prophane Scoffers. The Reformation of the 
 Church of England from Popery, (with as much Cau- 
 tion as it was carried on) has been to the full as 
 feverely inveigh'd againft and derided, in Four Can- 
 to's in a burlefque Stile, by one Mr. Thomas 
 as the Proreftant Diflenters have been in Dr. 
 
 Attempt 
 * Mr. Stefhsnt of Stttcn in Btdfenl(h'ire t face
 
 d) as to Perfecution. 95 
 
 Attempt in Folio. The latter Gentleman hath not 
 difcover'd more Concern to make thofe that are 
 out of the Eftablifh'd Church both odious and ri- 
 diculous, than the former has done by thofe thac 
 were in it. There is this difference indeed be- 
 tween the two Attempts, Thar the former, as Bi- 
 (hop Burnct obferves *, tho' if is futt of impious 
 S.bufe, is yet put in a Strain apt enough to ta^e with 
 thofe vpLo are difpoid to divert themfehes with a Shew 
 of Wit and. Humour : Whereas the latter, tho' he 
 fomeumes afte&s to be thought witty, yet oftent 
 comes off fo dully, and in his whole Performance,' 
 is fo wretchedly infipid, as well as infufferably tedi- 
 ous, that there is no great Danger of his much taking 
 with any, but fuch as love Venom and Ill-nature, 
 Fury and Bigotry, for their own Sakes, in any 
 Shape or Drefs without Diftindtion. And to fuch 
 I am content to leave him, till any farther Efforts of 
 his, give Occafion for farther Animadverfions. 
 
 * Pref. to thii Third Volume of the Htftory of t 
 
 SOME
 
 SOME 
 
 REMARKS 
 
 UPON 
 
 Dr. Sennet's ESSAY 
 
 ON THE 
 
 Thirty -nine Articles^ 
 
 Printed at 
 
 LONDON 
 
 In 1715, in O&avo. 
 
 By EDMUND CALAMY, D.D. 
 
 LONDON: 
 Printed in the Year MDCCXXVII.

 
 97 
 
 SOME 
 
 REMARKS 
 
 UPON 
 
 Dr. Bennefs ESSAY, &V.- 
 
 F all the Perlbns that have from the 
 Prefs oppos'd, what I publifh'd fome 
 Years ago in Defence of moderate Non- 
 conformity, that Triumrhant Writer 
 Dr. Bcnnet, has in his Effay on the 
 Articles, treated me the moft outra- 
 geoufly. He appears fo ftrangely di 
 fturbed at what I advanc'd about Subfcriptions, that 
 he knew not how to contain himfdf within any to- 
 lerable Bounds, but (chat I may borrow Language 
 from his own dear Self) he ufes very coarfe Expref- 
 Jions, which a Gentleman is not willing either to ufe or 
 to hear, and therefore ought not to be treated with 
 Ceremony. (<t) He difcovers as foul a Mourh, as if he ( 4 ) 
 had had his Education at the College of Billingfgatf, Epiftle,p.. 
 rather than at eitHer of our famous Univerfities. I 
 fhould have been a little furpriz'd at fuch Sort of 
 Treatment, had I not known it to be the ufual Way 
 of that Author, to befparter to his utmoft, thofe 
 whom he oppofes, with a Defign I fuppofe to make 
 VOL. II. G i it
 
 9 8 Remarks ufon Dr. BcnnetV Ejjay 
 
 it evident that he has a Right to run them down at 
 his PSeafure. In drawing up the twenty, eighth 
 Chapter of his Effny, which he has been pleased to 
 allot me, he feems ro have been in one continu'd 
 raving Fit, fo as to have forgotten his Prieftly Cha- 
 racter of which he fometimes makes fuch Bcafts; 
 unlefs he took it to be an eflential Part of that Cha- 
 racter, to rhodomantade wi;hout either Senfe or 
 Reafon, and run down all that do not chime in with 
 him. However I muft own he is fo very obliging, 
 (whether or no he really intended it, he knows beft,) 
 as himfeif to furnifh me with a fuificient Anfwer to 
 feveral Things that are the Matter of his Complaint 
 and Uneafinefs : So that I can fay of him as he does 
 of another Gentleman, that as for his Deafenings I 
 muft own they are pretty harmlefs ; and are not Hkfly to 
 do much "Mifchief : And for the future his Calumnies 
 ft) Pref. wMneed no other Anfwer but that they are his. (b) 
 Epiit.p. xv*. His Language is hardly to be parallei'd, except 
 it be in the Writings of the celebrated Dr. Attcrbury, 
 whom out of an Admiration of his Excellence, he 
 has copied after. That diftinguifh'd Author contend- 
 ing with the eminent Dr. Wake, (fince advanc'd to 
 the higheft Station in the Eftablifh'd Church) very 
 civilly tells the World in his Preface by way of In- 
 trodudHon, that he found his Work a/hallow cmfty 
 Performance, written without any Knowledge of our 
 Ccnfthution, any Skill in the particular Subject of De- 
 bate, and upon fuch Principles as are deftruftive of 
 Civil as well as Ecclefiajlical Liberty : Declaring, that 
 all he advances is not only ill dcfignd, but ill ground- 
 ed ; and his Principles are asfal/e as they are fcanda- 
 low ; and that there tire no Names or Cenfures too bad 
 to be bcjlow"d on fuch Writers and their Writings. * 
 And he adds a litrie after, that his mighty Perfor- 
 mance is really nothing more than a Series of long, 
 flat, impertinent Accounts, attended with fuitable I(e- 
 flefii^ns j but without one wife Word fpoken, or true 
 Stroke, ftruck, in Behalf of his Point, from the Begin- 
 ning of the Book to the End of it | And in that 
 whole Writing he is in the fame Strain $ faying that 
 
 one 
 
 *- Pref.EpItl, p. '. f Ibid, p. xxiv.
 
 on the Thirtj-nine A< tides. 99 
 
 one Part of that Doctor's Work, is drawn cut to the 
 Length of an hundred tedious Pages, in which there is 
 fcarce One (he fays he fpeakj what he hoi confiderd) 
 that would not upon careful Review, yield a manifeji 
 Proof of his Infiimity or Ignorance. * And fome time 
 afrer, he fays, tha from the Beginning to the End of 
 his wretched Performance he has prwd nothing effec- 
 tually, but his own profound Ignorance of the Subject he 
 is ingagd in. t In like manner Dr. Bcnnct in his 
 prefent Performance, is for appearing grand and ma- 
 gtfterial, and throws about him at a mighty Rate, 
 and feems. to think he can hardly be too free in 
 his Invectives, cr treat liich as come in his Way 
 with too much Acrimony or Contempt. Thus he 
 fays of one of thofe he is dealing with, that what 
 he has wrinen is a Bundle cf Ignorance and Miftakf s ' 
 And rhat he has prcvd nothing at all, but that he was 
 almcft an utter Stranger to his own Subject : (c) And (0 Dr. Ben- 
 tha- he knew not one Syllable more of it, than barely g" * ft rre jj. 
 fcrvd to puftle himfelf. And that he has been bold 
 enough to breach the g^ojffjl "Untruths in Matters of 
 Facl. (d) That what lie writes is a Complication of (J) p. i v . 
 vile Faljhoods. (e) And he chare es h : m with /ham () p. vii. 
 Hcafonings, Heaps of Blunders, impudent "Untruths, 
 and malicious Slanders, (f) And as for me, I am (/) p. xi. 
 freely chared with inventing and publijbing groft 
 Falfioods; (g) even the Memoirs of my own Brain : (b) (e) tflay, p. 
 with delivering a Paflage that is crammed with the '7^- 
 moft palpable Faljhoods, (f) wi;h puHifliing: /hemelrfs {JJ * * 
 Forgeries, (^.) and coining the moft flagrant "Untruths (*) p . ?;<j. 
 in a plentiful manner. (1) And at another Time, a CO p. 3 8*. 
 Paflage of the treat Mr. Sclden , is clurn'd as con- 
 taining a Bundle of horrible and palpable Fa/Jhoods. (m) C") P- * 
 And this is the Strain with which this Author feems 
 moft delighted. But fuch an infulting, fcornful, 
 flaunting, huffing, rude and bouncing Way of writing 
 as this, is never likely to convince, and make.? but 
 very little Impreflion upon the wifer and thinking Part 
 of Mankind : And if the Doctor gains by it in the 
 Event, I (hall own myfelf more miftaken, than in 
 any of the Points about which he fo freely infults 
 G 3 me, 
 
 * Atjcrbiiry's RfcfeN, fatten, &c. p. t. f p. 19^
 
 ioo Remarks t!fan Dr. Bennet'j Ejjay 
 
 me. H wever, I may fafely fay of him, as Bifhop 
 Burnet of Dr. Atterbury. tha* be feems to have forgot 
 the common Decencies of a Man, or of a Scholar. * 
 
 But before I come to Parricuiars, i, may not be 
 amiCs, juft to touch upon the RUe of this angry Doc- 
 tor's great Difrleafure againft me, which he has vent- 
 ed in a manner to little becoir.im- a Ge.u:eman or 
 a Chriftian. And he;e he h'n^elf leads me the Way. 
 I had aflerted tha' before the Tea* 1571, all the Clergy 
 were required to Jubfc.ibe the Articles of is6z ; and 
 that at firft this Subfcripticn was readily agreed to. 
 And hereupon he ells the World, tha. he carneftly 
 intreated me by Private Letters to communicate to him 
 theG>cund of my sljjertion, with fome few other No- 
 () Eflky, p. tices, (n) and he ados, ihatfo was well affured that 
 37** thofs Letters came to my Hands, but hf could never ob 
 
 tain an Anfwer : And he rep re: em* my denying him 
 that common Civility, as the Ground of his peculiar 
 Re .eminent. Poor Gentleman ! It leems a little 
 Thing will diforder him. Methinks it is high Time 
 to get more Command of himle;f, or elfe I doubt ic 
 will be in the Power of every one he has to do 
 with to expofe him. But I don't much care, if I go 
 a little farther back, and tell what paft before any 
 Letrers we e writren. 
 
 I had indeed heard of the Gentleman before, and 
 feen what he had publifh'd, and heard fomewhat of 
 his Character too, but was an utter Stranger to his 
 Perfon, till he was pleas'd upon a particular Occa- 
 fion, to make me a Vifit. Among feveral other 
 Things that then pafs'd in Converfation, he told 
 me with a grea? deal of Fraaknefs, when he was 
 fpeaking of the Books I had then pubiifh'd, that he 
 and I meant the fame Thing. This was fo unexpect- 
 ed a Compliment, that J muft confefs I was a littJc 
 at a Lofs for an agreeable Return to ir, on a fudden : 
 And tho' I thought J treated him civilly, yet I could 
 not help thinking, that he either fo much miftook 
 my Meaning, or had fo awkward a Way of expret 
 fing his own, that the lefs Intercourfe there was be- 
 
 tween 
 
 * Pefle^. on the Book intir. The R^liti, Pcwtrt *nd Prw/fc / 
 tn Eogl.ih (.'Mivcatitn, p. i .
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 101 
 
 tween us, it might be better for both ; and fo tho 1 
 I would readily have gratified him in what he movM 
 for, had it been in my Power, yet I could not bring 
 myfelf fo far to diffemble, as to fignify any great 
 Defire of a Correfoondence with him. Some time 
 after, he gave himfelf the Trouble of writing to me, 
 and I not only own the Receipt of his Letters, but 
 muft acknowledge there were fome Expreffions in 
 them that appear'd tolerably civil : But then there 
 were fuch afluming Airs intermixed, as gave me 
 fufficiently to understand that it was his Aim to pick 
 a Quarrel, which is a Thing that cannot be more 
 difagreeable to fome, than it is pleafang to others. 
 It was not therefore out of Backwardnefs to Civility, 
 in which I am defirous to be behind Hand with no 
 Man, but out of Unwillingnefs to have a Debate 
 with one of the Doctor's Temper, that I return'd 
 him no Anfwer. And I was confirm'd in my Back- 
 wardnefs to en' er upon aCorrefpondence with him, 
 by the Account that was given me, by fome who 
 liv'd then in his Neighbourhood, of the Freedom he 
 took to pour out infulting Threatnings againft me 
 in common Converfation, fignifying how unmer- 
 cifully he defign'd to treat me, in the EJfay which 
 he was preparing. I found no Inclination herein 
 to give him Difturbance, and was apprehenfive 
 that attempting to divert him, would have been 
 as fruitlefs, as to go about to (top the Tide of 
 the River with my Thumb at London "Bridge. And 
 this it fhould feem, ' has rais'd his Indignation to 
 that Degree, that not being fatisfied to charge me 
 with Miftakes, (which are pretty common Things 
 with moft of us Authors and) which others would 
 have thought a Charge heavy enough in -all Rea- 
 fon, he could not reft without fpending a Chap- 
 ter, in HcflfElions on the grofs Fal/hoods I had invent' 
 ed and pubiijlyd. (o) This is Dr. Atterbury moft ex. () E ffy,P- 
 a&ly ! For that Author dealing with Dr. Wakf, when 37 * 
 he had boldly charg'd him with renting for bit 
 Point againft his Conscience, fays that thefe are Words 
 that he does not eafily perfuade himfelf to bejlow upon 
 any Man : But adds, that that Writer's grofs Preva- 
 rications and Difguiffs of Truth, forct this hard Lan- 
 G 4 guave
 
 102 Re marks upon Dr. Bennet'j- Ejjay 
 
 guage from him. * In like manner, Dr. Bennet now 
 tells the World, that be is morally certain, that divers 
 "Narrations concerning the Articles, which I have print- 
 ed as confidently as if I had fame written or printed 
 Papers to vmch them, cannot he warranted otherwife, 
 (f>) Eflky, p. than by the Memci: s of my own Brain. ( f) This I 
 374- confefs, is a carrying the Charge as hip.h, and mix- 
 
 ing together as much Roughnels and Acrimony, as 
 much Infolence and Ill-nature, as could well be 
 done in fo few Words. I may fafely fay here, as 
 he does in another Cafe, with Relpedt to Bifhop 
 Sf arrow, that this is as vile a Character, almoft, as 
 (j) p. JJ2. 'tispcfli'jle for any Man to deferve. (^) But as long 
 as the Character given is not deferv'd, the Difho- 
 nour attending it, falls intirely upon the<~mer of it. 
 For my part, I don't know but I may be as apr to 
 value my Reputation as my Neighbours : And yet 
 I fhall not ftick to own, that confidering from what 
 Quarter this Accufation came, fo little apprehenfive 
 was I of any Damage it would do me, that I was 
 a good while in Sufreace, whether or no it was worth 
 my while to rake the leaft Notice of it. At length 
 J heard of his repeated Boafts of his mighty Perfor- 
 m;.nce againft me, and leading his Book to fome, 
 and presenting it to others, with the Leaves turn'd 
 down wherein I was fo cruelly infulted. So that it 
 feems, he can't reft without an Anfwer, tho' I am 
 afraid poor Gentleman ! that will not contribute 
 much to his Satisfaction. But I think, he muft 
 thank himfelf if he meets with any Thing that is 
 not to his Relifh. 
 
 , After fo long Silence then, I do by thefe Prefents 
 
 give this formidable Doctor to underftand, that tho' 
 I have r aken due Notice of theCompafs of his abun- 
 dant Civility, and the Extent of his Prieftly Charity t 
 and the Warmth of his inflam'd 2(eal, yet I muft 
 beg Leave ftill to differ from him, about the Mat- 
 ters his twenty-eighth Chapter runs upon ; and if he 
 won't give it me, I fhall take it. And tho' I am nor 
 bjound to give him all my Reafons, or Authorities, 
 
 or 
 
 * Page 178.
 
 on the T; irt^-nine Articles. 
 
 or V-'Uche s, vet if it will do him any Service, I 
 fhal! e him know } tha: I had for fome Years in my 
 Hands, 'he large Manufcript Hiftorical Co; edions 
 of the weil known Mr. fyger Morris, who is own'd 
 by MT.Strype to have bee i a very careful Inquirer after 
 fuch Matters* This Mr. St ryfc (who is ftill living) tran- 
 fcrib'd several Things out ot thde Collections, that 
 he rhought might be of Ufe ro him, while they 
 we e Li my Cuftody : And it was from thence that 
 I t> anfcrib'd the greareft Part of that Account of Sul- 
 firiptions, at which rhe Doctor is fo much incens'd ; 
 and which he \smortlly, that is paflionately fo certain 
 is no othervfife warranted, than by the Memoirs of my 
 cwnJlrain: (r) And I hope it won't be very long, (r) 
 before he may have an Account of thefe Collections, 37 
 from a good Hand. 
 
 However, by the way, I think it may not be im- 
 prorer to return the Do<5tor my Thanks, for his fo 
 freely owning, that there was yet another Thing bc- 
 fides that mer\tion'd, that gave himXJneafinefs ; and 
 this is of luch a Nature, as that I fliould think, 
 with refpedt to the Generality of Readers, it fliould 
 carry a fufficient Antidote along with it, to prevent 
 its having any ill Efte&s upon them. For he fays 
 in the" Clofe of this Doughty Chapter, that A Max 
 who is able to coin the mqft flagrant "Untruths, (this is 
 Dr. Atterbury all over !) in this plentiful manner 9 it 
 certainly qualified the beft of any Perfon living, to re- 
 cord the Excellencies and Sufferings of the Diffenting ^. 
 Teachers (s) I profefs I can hardly help pitying the 
 poor Dodtor, that he fliould have no Friend fo 
 faithful and kind to him, as to advife him, out of 
 common Prudence, to have kept that impotent 
 Flight to himfelf. I know no Need he had fo pub- 
 lickly to acknowledge, that a warm Defire to do 
 what in him lay to blaft the Credit of my Account 
 of the Minifters that were ejected in ^66^ for their 
 Nonconformity, had any Hand in drawing him into 
 fo much foolifh Extravagance. But fince he could 
 not keep it in, I don't know but it may be well 
 enough that it is out. If it does him no Ditfervicc, 
 
 ? Hift.of tbeRef. under Queen Etowtofr, Vol. I p. 141.
 
 1 04 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennet'j EJJ ay 
 
 I can allure him I am in no fear it will do me any j 
 no nor the Diffenting Teachers neither, as arrogantly 
 as he defpifes them. 
 
 If it be any Satisfaction to have Company in 
 Tribulation, the Doctor does not deny me that, at 
 which I am not furpriz'd. For when his Choler 
 overflows, it is but an ufual Thing for feveral, if it 
 fo happens that they come in his Way, to fuffer un- 
 der it at once. According to Cuftom therefore, in 
 the very Page in which he begins to tofs me about 
 as a Foot-ball, he fays of Dr. Fuller (whofe Per- 
 formance in our Ecclejiaftical Hi/lory has hitherto 
 kept up a tolerable Reputation as well as a good 
 (0 Effay, p. Price) that he can't admit his Teftimony for Proof, be- 
 373- . caufe he betrays grofs Ignorance in this Matter, (t) 
 All that I underftand by that, is that he differ'd from 
 our Dictating Doctor, which moft certainly is a 
 Thing unpardonable. Tho' if that Author really 
 was ignorant, he difcovers fo much of a better Tem- 
 per with his Ignorance, than my affuming Cenfor 
 with all his Knowledge, that I am very inclinable 
 to believe a great many People will be apt to give 
 him the Preference. However by that Time I 
 have got through his fevere and ill-natur'd Repri- 
 mand, it may poflibly happen that fome may be 
 of Opinion, that this very Author himfelf, has not 
 difcover'd fo exact a Knowledge of thefe Matters, 
 after all the Pains he has taken, as to have any 
 great Occafion for Boafting. 
 
 The Paflage of mine at which the Doctor is fo 
 much inrag'd, that he cannot keep in any tolera- 
 ble Temper, is exprefs'd in this Manner. The 
 firft Subscription that was required, was only to the 
 Articles of Religion, drawn uf and agreed to in 
 the Convocation in 1^61. All the Members of that 
 Convocation were firft required to fubjcribe , and 
 nil the Clergy afterwards ; though there was neither 
 Law nor Canon for it. This was refused by the famous 
 John Fox the Matyrologift, who declared he would fub- 
 fcribe to nothing, but the New Teftament in the Ori- 
 ginal. Generally however, it was at firft readily agreed 
 to : But fuch Changes and Alterations were afterwards 
 made in thefe 'Articles, that many even of the Body 
 
 of
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 105 
 
 cf the Clergy refused to fubfcribe them A fecond Time, 
 
 in the Convocations of 1566 and 1571, &C. * For 
 
 my parr, though I have fince been at fome Pains, 
 
 in making farther Inquiries into this Matter, I am ftill 
 
 of the fame Mind : And fkould have no Inclination 
 
 to aker any Thing in the whole Paflage, except it 
 
 fliould be, by adding a Limitation to the firft Claufe 
 
 of ic, where inftead of faying, the firft Subfcriptio* 
 
 that was required, I fhould rather be tor faying, the 
 
 firft Subfcripticn that was required in the Bfign of Queen 
 
 Elizabeth, becaufe there was a Subfcriptkm required 
 
 before, j But what I have here aflerted, in Dr. Ben* 
 
 ncfs Opinion, is fo far from being true, that in the 
 
 elegant Strain of his good Friend Dr. Atterbury, 
 
 (whofe obliging manner he fb much applauds, () and {*) PreEEp. 
 
 with whole Obfervaticns he tells us bis Papers were P* fii - 
 
 enriched,) he fays the Palfege is crammed with the moji 
 
 palpable Fal/boods. (x) Admirably polite I confefs ! 
 
 But I may bear the Cenhire with the more Patience, 
 
 feeing I have but Neighbour's Fare. For the very 
 
 fame genteel Compliment is afterwards pafs'd upon 
 
 a Paflage of the Learned Mr.Selden. (7) So that tho* (y) p. 411. 
 
 the Dodor treats me but ruggedly, yet he ftill feems 
 
 difpos'd to let me have good Company, which is 
 
 fome Comfort when a Man is in Diftrefs. 
 
 When he firft begins to take this Paragraph of 
 mine in pieces, he appears to have fome imall Re- 
 mainder of Companion and good Humour left. For 
 having declar'd thac the Members of the Convocation 
 in 1562 did fubfcribe the Articles they agreed on, and 
 pafs'd them by Subfcription, (^) he is fo candid as to (*.) pi 374, 
 declare he is willing to fuppofe that this is all I 
 meant, by their being required to fubfcribe thcm*. But 
 thoiii'h the putting as favourable a Conftruclion upon 
 my Words as this amounts to, is what he is not fotne- 
 t'unes \ cry free for, upon which Account I have the 
 more Reafon to take Notice of ic here, yet the 
 bed of it is that I cannot perceive, that I upon this 
 Occafion had any great Need of hk Favour. What 
 
 * Defence of Moc'erare Nonconformity, TirtU. p. 107. 
 f It tppears from Lifhop Bitrnet, Reform. Vol. III. p. tr;, r. 
 that the Article* of i jj* weie to be fubfcr L'J.
 
 io6 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennet'j EJJay 
 
 I faid, appears literally rrue, vi%. that all the Mem- 
 bers of the Convocation in 1561, were required to fub- 
 fcribe. For though the Articles did then pals by Sub- 
 fcripcion, and though fome did at firft fubfcribe very 
 readily, yet there were others that hung back, and 
 were not fo ready for it, but that they needed to be 
 required, and urg'd and prefs'd, and that a -am and 
 spain. And for the Truth of this I appeal to Dr. 
 Peter Heylin, whom I fhould have thought our Doc- 
 tor would ha\ e confulred in the Cafe. He in his 
 Account of the Convocation which began on Ja- 
 nuary 13, 156}, fays * that there appeared Difficulty 
 in taking the Subfcriptions of the lower Houfc. For 
 though they all teftified their Confent unto th"m on 
 the ^<)th of January, either by fPords exprcfs, or by 
 faying nothing to the contrary, yet when Subfcription 
 was f^EQVlf^ED many of the Ca'-inian or Zu- 
 inglian Gofpellers had demurrd upon it. And he 
 adds, that with this Demur their Lord/hips are ac- 
 quainted by the Prolocutor on the <>th of February; by 
 whom their Lord/hips were defird, in the Name of that 
 Houfe, that fuch who had not hitherto fubfcrib'd the 
 Articles, might BORDERED, (which T take to be 
 equivalent to REQUIRED) to fubfcribe in their own 
 f roper Hrufe. or in t-'ie Prefence of their Lordjhips. 
 iVhich t{cqueft being eajjly granted, drew on the Sub- 
 fcription of Jome others, but fo that many ftill re- 
 mained in their firft Vnwillingnefs. An ORDER 
 therefore is made by their Lordjhips on the loth then 
 following, that the Prolocutor fhould return the Names 
 of all juch Perfcns who refused Subfcription, to the 
 End that fuch farther Courfe might be taken with 
 them, as to their Lord/hips fhould feem mofl fit. After 
 which (fays he) we hear no News of the like Complaints, 
 and Informations j which makes it probable (if not con- 
 cluded] that they all fubfcrib'd. I hope this Doctor 
 will not be chare'd with grofs Ignorance, as well as 
 Dr. Fuller. I hope he has no grofs or palpable Fal- 
 /hoods, /hamelefs Forgeries, or flagrant "Untruths in his 
 Account ; and that he cannoc be charg'd with pub- 
 lifhing the Memoirs of his own Brain. And yet I pro- 
 
 fefs 
 
 * Horn's Hiftory of Q.'cen
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 107 
 
 fefs I know not what it may come to, fhould the 
 Do&or happen to fall into another Fit. For though 
 he owns that the Members of the Convocation in 1561 
 did fubfcribe the Articles they agreed on, yet he fays 
 that they were otherwife requird to fubjcribe them, at 
 Members of Convocation, is a meer Chimera. (a) 
 What he may here mean by othervpife required, he jA * * 
 knows beft. I fhould fuipect there is fomething here 
 left out, that is neceflary to make up the Senfe. 
 But let his Meaning be what it will, I ftand to 
 what I aflerted, vi%, that all the Members of that Con- 
 vocation were firft requird tojubfcribe. And if this be 
 a Chimtra, it appears from the Words cited, that 
 Dr. Heylin is the Father of it, and not I. And I 
 (hall add that it is Mr. Strype^s, and Bifliop Burners 
 Chimera too ; and (without any difparagement of 
 our Dodtor) I believe I may venture to fay of both 
 of them, that they fearch'd as nicely into thefe Mat- 
 ters, as he can pretend to have done. 
 
 Mr. Strype fays * that in the nth Sejfion of this 
 Convocation, the Articles being fubfcrib'd by fame of 
 the lower Houfe, were brought up by the Prolocutor ; 
 fraying the moft Reverend and the Right t^everend Fa- 
 thers, to take Order that all that had not yet fubfcriVd^ 
 might do it publicly, cither in the AJfembly of the low- 
 er Houfe, or before them in the "Upper. Whereupon 
 the faid Fathers decreed, that the Nantes of thofe of 
 the Houfe that had not fubfcrib'd fhould be written t 
 tnd brought to them the next Sejfion. From whence 
 I think it appears very^plainly, that after the Sub- 
 fcription of the major Number of that Convocation* 
 without which the Articles could not have been faid to 
 have pafs'd, there was a Subfcription requir'd of the 
 Refidue of their own Members, and that (ome of 
 them were not very forward for it. Bifhop Burnet 
 alfo agrees in r irely, and tells us that on Feb. 5, 1561, 
 the Prolocutor with fix of the Clergy, brought up the Ar- 
 ticles of f(eligion, that had been fent by th>> Archbijhof 
 to the lower Houfe : Many had already fubfcribd them^ 
 but he propofed that fuch as had not yet done if, might 
 
 be 
 
 * Annals of the Reform, fjr the firft twelve Yean of Qucc'a 
 ii/x.^.^p- 291,
 
 io8 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett 
 
 & REQUIRED either to fubfcribe them in the 
 lower Houfc, or to do it in the Pre fence of the Bi/hops. 
 Vpon this the upper ffoufe ordered that the Names of 
 thofe who had not fubfcrib'd them might be laid 
 before them the next Sejjion : On the icth the Pro- 
 locutor with eight of the Clergy came up and told 
 the Bifhops that many had fubfcrib'd fince their loft 
 meeting: Upon that the Bifhops renewed their former 
 Order, * So that if all our Hiftorians are not guil- 
 ty of Faljhoods, Forgeries, and "Untruths, and of pub- 
 lifhing the Memoirs of their own Brains, I may ftill ven- 
 ture to fay that all the Members of the Convocation in 
 1561, were required to fubfcribe the Articles, leaving 
 the Dodtor to do what he pleafes with the Chimera 
 he talks of, which he may account for in his next 
 Effay. Though I muft own, if fome Mcns Repre- 
 fentations may be regarded, there is no prear Occafion 
 to boaft of the Mighty Doings of this Convocation : 
 For we are told that many things were agreed to in 
 it, that would have tended to the great Good of the 
 Church, but were fupprcfs'd : For nothing was of force , 
 but as the Queen and the Archbifhop confented. t 
 
 I had added that all the Clergy were requird t fub- 
 fcribe afterwards, though there was neither Law nor 
 Canon for it. And here the Doctor is again di- 
 fturb'd. For he by no Means will allow the Sub- 
 fcription to have been extended to all the Clergy, 
 till 1571. And fuppofing him to have been herein 
 in the Right, it is but putting many in the Room of 
 till, and I am ftill fafe: For he himfe'f owns it 
 as to many j faying, 1 have rcafon to think,, that in 
 the Tear 1564, the London Clergy were requird by 
 the High Commijjioners to fubfcribe the Articles of 
 
 ?> E J? ' 1561. ft 
 
 However I am ftill of Opinion, that this Matter 
 may very fafely be carried much farther, than the 
 Do&or out of his abundant Caution feems free to 
 allow. For Mr. Stype (who in Marers of this Na- 
 ture deferves as much to be regarded as moft Men) 
 fpeaking of thefe Articles, tells us from the firft, 
 
 that 
 
 f Hift. of the Refcrmat'on, TVt HT B ok VT- P- 3oZ, 
 * Bmntt's Hifi. of the Reform. Vol. ill. p. 318.
 
 on the Thirty -nine Articles. 109 
 
 that they mete to be fubfcritfd by all Clergymen. * 
 And if they were not actually requir'd to be fub- 
 fcrib'd by all of them immediately, it plainly ap- 
 pears not to have been the Fault of the major Part 
 of that Convocation. For the fame Gentleman has 
 given us the particular Requefts and Petitions of the 
 lower Houfe, with Refped to the Bool^ of Articles ; 
 f and the ioth, nth, nth, i^th, I4th, ijth, i6th, 
 1 7th and i8th, (3c. refer to a general Subfcription 
 to be made, to the faid Articles when compleated, 
 by all that fliould have Inftiturion and Induction, or 
 take Degrees in the Univerfities, c. Though this 
 amounts not either to Law or Canon, yet I think 
 it fhews the good Will of the dignified Clergy at 
 that Time, and what they aim'd at, and were difpo- 
 fed to purfue as far as they were able. 
 
 And I take this Step of theirs, the rather to de- 
 ferve Obfervation, becaufe a general Subfcription 
 had been requir'd, as Dr. Bennet himfelf obferves, 
 (c) to the Articles that pafs'd ten Years before, in , 
 King Edward's Reign, An. 1551. Subfcription was 
 then requir'd, not only from the Bifliops, but alfo 
 from all fuch as ftiould take holy Orders, or officiate 
 in the Church, either in reading or preaching, or 
 that enjoy'd any Benefices. And a Book was kept 
 in the Bifhop's Regifter for that Purpofe as a Record. 
 And any thatrefus'd to fubfcribe to them, were not 
 to be admitted by the Bifliop to any Orders, or Ec- 
 clefiaftical Miniftry. And fuch as fcrupled to fub- 
 fcribe, for lack of the right Knowledge or Under- 
 ftarding of any of them, the Bifhop by Inftru&ion 
 and Conference was to endeavour to inform them, 
 allowing them about fix Weeks Time for Deliberation, 
 or otherwile rhey were difabled from enjoying any 
 Preferment in the Church. 4- And it was narural 
 enough for the Clergy after 1561, to think that ic 
 was to the full as reasonable, for it to be infifted 
 on that their new Articles fhould be univerfally 
 fubfcrib'd, as that it fhould be fo before as to the 
 
 Articles 
 
 * Life of Arcbbi&op Parlor, p. 12?. 
 
 * Hilt. 01 the Kefrm. under Queen Elit^kttb. Vol. I. p. 30 1, 30 2> 
 t Ux.Stryfit Memorials eclcfufikal, Vol. II. p. 420.
 
 no Remarks upon Dr. BennetV EJJay 
 
 Articles of 1551. And they plainly fhew'd than this 
 was their Mind, b.y their Carriage af-erwards. 
 
 But to go on ; Mr. Strype alfo farther informs us, 
 that a general Subfcription of the Articles of 1561, 
 was actually infifted on, before that Time that is 
 mentioned by the Doctor : And lets us know * that in 
 ^564, the Clergy in and about the City of London, 
 were fummon'd to Lambtth, where the Bifnop's 
 Chancellor told them" (and tJbey were an hundred 
 and forty in Number) that it was the PJeafure of the 
 Council, that they ftiould not only keep the Unity 
 of Apparel, and inviolably obferve the Kubrick of 
 the Boof^of Common Prayer, and the Queen's Injunc- 
 tions, but alfo the Eook^ of Convocation, (and that fays 
 Mr Strype well, muft be the Thirty-nine Articles) to 
 all which they were requir'd prefently to fubfcribe. 
 And he tells us eliewhere, f that about the latter 
 End of March 1564, the London Minifters, together 
 with thofe of the 'Archbifeop's Peculiars in the faid 
 City, and thofe of South w ark, were all peremptorily 
 requird to fromife and fulfcribe Conformity to the Ha- 
 bits prefcribed, and likewifc to the Rites of the Com- 
 mon Prayer, the 39 Articles, and the Queens Injunc- 
 tions ; or to be deprivd within three Months. And as 
 moft did fubfcribe at that Time, fo about thirty flood 
 out, and were fufpended. 
 
 Dr.Heylin alfo fpeaking of the Year 1564, falls 
 in, and fays 4- that the Articles of Religion lately 
 agreed upon in Convocation, had been fubfcrib'd by all 
 the Clergy who had voted them ; fubfcriU'd not only 
 for themfelves, but in the Name of all thofe in the fe- 
 ver al Diocefes and Cathedral Churches, whom they re 
 frefented. But the Bi/hops, N- B, not thinking that 
 fufficient to fecure the Church, R E QU I R E D Sub- 
 fcription of the reft In their feveral Places, threatning 
 no left than Deprivation tofuch as wilfully refused, and 
 obftinately perfijied in that ^efufal. And when in 
 another Writing, * the fame Dr. Heylin appears 
 difpleas'd with Dr. Fuller, for infinuating that the 
 
 Bifhops 
 
 * Life and Aftl of Archbifliop Grindal, p. 98, 99. 
 
 f Hift. of the Ref. under Q. ti;i0fcrf>, Vol. I. p. 4.15. Ibid. p. 165. 
 4 HUtory of Queen Eliz,a.btth, p. 6y. 
 
 * Animadverfionson the Church Hiftory cf &rit<un, p. 149.
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 1 1 1 
 
 Bifhops in thefe rheir Proceedings in 1563 and 1564, 
 a&cd by a \cak^ Authority, in requiring their Clergy 
 to fubicribe, when a: that Time they had no Ca- 
 nons to proceed upon, he fays, that if they did 
 any fuch Thing, it was not as they were em- 
 power'd by their Canons, but as they were enabled, 
 by that Authority which was inherent naturally in 
 their Epifcopal Office. To which Dr. fuller replies, 
 * (as well he mighr) that he does not underjiand 
 what he therein means or drives at. 
 
 The Doctor out of his abundant Modefty and Hu- 
 mility is pleas'd to fay, that he vpill unfeignedly thanl^, 
 either me, or any other Perfon whatfoever, for better 
 Information, (d) For my Part I can't well tell, whe- ^ Effity, p 
 ther he will think what .1 have here put together 375. 
 about the General Subfcription to the Articles that 
 was infifted on, before there was either Law or 
 Canon to enforce it, amounts to the letter Informa- 
 tion, for which he declares he fhall be fo unfeigned- 
 ly thankful. If it does not, I muft own I fhall not 
 be much concern'd. And if it does, I fhall leave it 
 to him to exptefs his unfeigned Thanhs, in what Way 
 he may think moft fit and proper. But whether it 
 does, or does not, I am very inclinable to believe, 
 that moft People will by this Time begin to be of 
 Opinion, (if they were not before) that there is hi- 
 therto no great Occafion for his Uneafinefs ; and 
 yet much lefs for his Rudenefs. But exadiy like 
 Dr. Atterbury, to whom he tells us he has contracted 
 A Debt of the bumbleft Gratitude, (e] he will take his ^ p reftE p % 
 own Way, let the Confequence be what it will. p. iii. 
 
 I had faid that there was neither Law nor Canon 
 for this Subfcription : that is, not for that requir'd in 
 1564, or at any Time before 1571. At this Dr. 
 Bennet cries out, Strange ! (/) Bur as ftrange as <f) p ?75; 
 he makes of it here, it is ftri&iy true, and he him- 
 felfown'd as much a little before, (g) faying in fo / * _ ,_ t 
 many Words, that the Articles of 1561 were agreed ' 
 on, and publifod, tho 1 there was at prcfent no Law or 
 Canon that exprefsly requird Subfcription to them. I 
 would fain know why it fhould be more Jlrange for 
 
 VOL. 1L H me 
 
 of >ji<r'4 lnntitr.it. Tart II. p. 87.
 
 *ii2 Remarks ufoti Dr. Bennet'j Ejjay 
 
 me to fay this than Dr. Bennet. To juftify his cry- 
 ing QMtftrangel In this Cafe, he pleads that he bad 
 fhewn that the High Commijfioners had Power'to require 
 Subfcription by the firft of Elizabeth, Chap. i. And 
 it mult be own'd that he had afTerred that, but that 
 is a diftinct Thing from Proof. But notwithftand- 
 ing he had aflerted this, he yet had at the fame 
 Time declar'd in fo many Words, that there was at 
 frefent no Canon that exprefsly requird Subfcription. 
 And in the Name of Wonder, why might not I af- 
 fert, affirm, and declare this as well as he ? How 
 can this be allowable in him, and blameable in 
 me ? His declaring this fo diftinctly himfelf, and 
 making fo jlrange of it when it comes from me, 
 is a meer Atterburian Grimace. I fancy moft People 
 upon a Comparifon, will think that I had the moft 
 Reafon of wondering of the two : Tho' I am not 
 much difpos'd that Way. I am free to own, I count 
 nothing ftrange, where fuch a Gentleman as Dr. 
 'Rennet is concern'd. ^ But when he fays, with the 
 Doftors Leave, meaning mine, there was Law for 
 this Subfcription, I think verily he runs too far. 
 Does he need my Leave to blunder and contradict 
 himfelf ! that would be ftrange with a Witnefe ! If 
 he through Forgetfulnefs, will fay one Thing in one 
 Place, and the direct contrary in another, it is not 
 in my Power to help it : But as for my giving him 
 Leave to do thus, it is a putting too hard upon me 
 to infift on that. For me to give Leave, that he 
 fhould affirm there was no Law for a General Sub- 
 <fc) Eflky, p. fcription, which he aflerts in one Page, (h) and yet 
 37*v', that there was Lave for it, which he aiferts four 
 ,.. Pages after, (i) is what I can by no Means do. Tho' 
 
 *' ^ 7S> I fhould not be backward to any Inftance of brotherly 
 ' Kindnefs, that could reafonably be defir'd of me, yet 
 this carries fuch a downright Contradiction in the 
 Face of it, that I can by no Means give Leave, 'Tis 
 a Thing that is really out of my Power. I here re- 
 turn him his own elegant Complement ; metbinks 
 he Jhould have fpard the Pains of contradicting him- 
 felf in Stories of his own Invention ; and that efpeci- 
 ally within the Compafs of fo few Pages. 
 
 But
 
 on the Thirty -nine Articles. 
 
 But for Dr. Bennet when he had been guilty of 
 fo unhappy a Blunder^ about a Law for this Sub- 
 fcription, to charge me^ with a like Blunder about 
 A Canon for it, has but an ill-natur'd Afped:. Had 
 I been really guilty, and a<5bually faid there was no 
 Canon for this Subfcription, in one Place, and yet 
 yielded that there was a Canon for it, in another, 
 I think verily another Perfon might have ral- 
 lied me "upon this Account, wirh a greater Appear- 
 ance of Decency, than one that had declar'd ex- 
 prelsly, in fo many Words, both that there was a 
 Law for Subfcription, and that there was no Law that 
 exprefsly required it, at the fame Time. Buc 
 when there is no Ground at all given on my Pare 
 for a Charge of this Nature, for the Doctor to infuk 
 me at the Rate he has done, is too unmerciful. I 
 can allure him, whatever becomes of the Law for 
 Subfcription, before the Year 1571, (which he may 
 clear up and Jkcw as well as affirm, if he is but 
 able) I am as well fatisfied as he himfelf can pof- 
 fibly be, that there was no Canon for the Subfcrip- 
 tion to the Thirty-nine Articles, before that Year. 
 He is pleas'd indeed to fay, that I both deny and 
 affirm it. But had he been free to put a favoura- 
 ble ConftruRion upon my Words, (which he talk'd of 
 but the Page before ;) nay had he but been wil- 
 ling to do me common Juftice, nothing of that Na- 
 ture had ever been fuggefted. For all that I affirm 
 in the Place that he referrs to, is this ; that the Con- 
 vocation (vi%. that in 1571) made a Canon, obliging 
 to fubfcribe all the Articles without Exception. * I 
 meant no other Convocation than that ; nor will my 
 Words fairly bear any other Senfe. And it is moft 
 evidently true, and own'd as far as I can perceive 
 by the Doiftor himfelf, that that Convocation aBufilly 
 did make a. Canon obliging to fubfcribe aft the Arti, 
 cles without Exception, . notwithftanding that there 
 was neither Law nor Canon exprefsly requiring fuclj, 
 a Subfcription as many of the Biftiops infifted on, 
 from 1561 or 1564, till the Year 1571. So that 
 by all the Stir the Doctor has been making about 
 H ^ this 
 
 Offence of Moderate Nonconformity, Part II. p. 113.
 
 H4 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett EJJay 
 
 this Matter, he has but been raifing a Duft, and ty- 
 ing Knots in a Bulrufh : And all that can be fairly 
 concluded upon the Whole is, that this moft courte- 
 ous and obliging Gentleman, was very willing and 
 defirous, and thought it might ferve his Purpofe, for 
 me to be thought to have contradicted myfelf as he 
 had done. But for Time to come, I would advife 
 the Doctor as a Friend, to be peculiarly cautious of 
 running into a Contradiction himfelf, when he is 
 charging any Thing of that Nature upon another ; 
 and that efpecially at a Time when he muft be forc'd 
 to wreft his Neighbour's \Vords,to make him fo much 
 as appear to be guilty of any Thing like a Contra- 
 diction, while he fays nothing but what is really 
 confiftent, and ftrictly and literally true. In fuch a 
 Cafe as this, it had not been at all amils, for Dr. 
 Sennet. 10 have remember'd the Caution which his 
 Grea: Friend Dr. 'Atterbtry, (whom he fo much ad- 
 mires and applauds) gave to Dr. Wake, when he 
 told him that the Air of AJJiirance which he tool^ , 
 toould be very amazing to a Man that did not conji- 
 4er how Doubts dwell ufually in knowing Breafts, and 
 that thofe who have the leafl Skill in Things, are moft 
 aft to be fojitive. * The Advice included in this 
 Caution was in itfelf very good, tho' it carried in 
 it great Infolence, as it was applied by him that 
 gave it: And that the rather, becaufe it was fo con- 
 trary to his own Practice. For it feems it is the 
 Atterburian Way, (of which Dr. Bennet would do 
 well to beware for the future,) to inveigh againft the 
 . "Miflakft of other Men, when in the mean lime the- 
 Miftake is all their own. \ 
 
 The Doctor's next Cavil againft me, relates to 
 the perfbnal Subfcriptien of the famous John Fox, as 
 to which he fays, that the Subfcription he refuid, was 
 A Subfcription to the Articles, he begs Leave to disbe- 
 lieve, till he has better Evidence than my bare Affirma- 
 tion. (4.) And tho' when he was fo fubmiflive as to 
 
 ir. 
 
 * Atterbury'; Rt^hti, Powers nd Trivitedget of an Engliih Convoca- 
 tion, p. 2.71. 
 f i'ce Ecflef. fyntdi, and Parliamtntarj Convocations, P. I. p. 50.
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 115 
 
 ir, for the Reafon given ; yet in this, I am as free 
 to give him Leave, as he can be to defire it. How- 
 ever I cannot but obferve, that rho' the Do&or does 
 not believe Mr. Fox refus'd a Subfcription to the Ar- 
 ticles, he yet does not intitnare what he took that 
 to be which he refus'd to fubfcribe. Dr. Heylin de- 
 clares it was not the Canons than he refus'd to fub- 
 fcribe, and he reprefents it as a Blunder in Dr. Ful- 
 ler, that he ftiould bring in that worthy Perfon as 
 required to fubfcribe the Canons by ArchbiJJyop Parker ; 
 whereas (fays he *) there were at that Time no Canons 
 to fubfcribe unto, nor is it the Cuftcm of the Church to 
 require Subscription unto Canons, but of thofe only who 
 confented to the mailing of them. I muft confefs I 
 look upon it as moft probable that it was the Arti- 
 cles that he refus'd to fubfcribe ; and the Probabili- 
 ty hereof appears to me from feveral concurring 
 Circumftances. 
 
 I obferve that it is under the Year 1664 that Dr. 
 Fuller takes Notice of Mr. Fox's refufing the Sub- 
 fcription that was requir'd. And it has been be- 
 fore feen, that the fubfcribing the Articles was at 
 that Time very generally requir'd, tho' there was as 
 yet no exprefs Law or Canon for it. This Mr. John 
 Fox was at that Time about London, and he was fo 
 leading a Man, that his Example might very well 
 be thought as likely to influence others to a Com- 
 pliance in fubfcribing, as any Man's that could have 
 been pitch'd upon. And Dr. Fuller tells us, that he 
 was fummon'd by Archbifhop Parker to fubfcribe, 
 on Purpofe, that the general Deputation of his Piety. 
 might give the greater Countenance to Conformity. \ 
 And in this Reipccl: none of thofe that did not ac- 
 tually fit in the Convocation, could appear more 
 likely to have been call'd on to fiibfcrioe the Arti- 
 cles than he. And befides, had he been urg'd to 
 have fubfcrib'd to the Ufe of the Habits, &c. I 
 can hardly think he would have made fuch an An- 
 fwer as is related. His referring to the Practice 
 and Ufages of oilier Reformed Churches, had then 
 H 3 in 
 
 * Animadwrfiont on the Church Hlftory of Biit*!*, p. if*, 
 f Church Hjftory, Eook IX. j\ 76.
 
 n6 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett EJjay 
 
 in my Apprehenfion, been much more proper, and 
 more likely. But fuppofing him prefs'd ro fubfcribe 
 all the Thirty-nine Arcicles without Exception, no 
 Anfwer could be more pertinent and fuitable, than 
 for him to declare, that he would fubfcribe to nothing 
 but the New Teftament in the Original. For tho' 
 he lik'd the Subftance of the Docinne contain'd in 
 the Articles very well, yet that being no farther 
 true, than as it could be prov'd from the New Tcfta- 
 ment, he might be unwilling to encourage the let- 
 ting up any other Srandard of Orthodoxy than the 
 New Teftament itfelf, in which many that have liv'd 
 fince his Days, have moft fully concurr'd with him 
 in their Sentiment. Or if we fuppofe it was fome- 
 thing different from the Articles rhat Mr. Fox had of- 
 fered him to fubfcribe, tho' he had lik'd them ever 
 fo well in the main, yet according to his Principle, 
 he muft have refus'd Subfcription, becaufe he was 
 not free for fubfcribing any Thing but his GreekJTe- 
 ftament. And Dr. tJeylin feems to have been of 
 the fame Opinion with me, in this Matter, from 
 the very Way in which he infrcduces the Notice he 
 takes of Mr. Fox's refufing Subfcripcion, which was 
 with obferving, that the Obflinacy of the Gcnevians, 
 as he calls them, in Matter cf Ceremony, -prompted 
 the Bi/bops to make Trial of their Orthodoxy in Points 
 of Doftrine, and to require a Subfcription to the Arti- 
 cles in 1564. * And who more likely to be tried 
 in this Cafe, than the famous Mr. John Fox, the 
 Martyrologift ? 
 
 This great and good Man being return'd from his 
 Banilhment abroad into his Native Land, did in the 
 Year 1560 go down to Norwich, with the Encou- 
 ragement of the Bifliop of that Diocefe, and there 
 preach the Gofpel, and inftru6t the People who had 
 been leaven'd with Popery, in the Principles of the 
 Proteftant Religion, | but had no Settlement. In 
 1561, he ftill. rernain'd unprovided for in his ragged 
 Exile Condition, as appears from his Letter to his 
 Fellow Collegian Dr. Humfrey, congratulating him 
 
 upon 
 
 * Hif'pry of Queen E!:z.ahth, p. \6$. 
 
 | Sj>;/<^H!ft, of the Ref. under Q.//z/*fofi, Vol,J*p.2oi.
 
 on the Thirty 'nine Articles. 117 
 
 upon his teing made Prefidenr of Magdalen Col- 
 lege, Oxon, which Mr. Stype takes n-K'ce of; * 
 and about the fame Year he et forth the firft Edi- 
 tion of his Afts and Monuments in Engliln. t l n 
 1663, he continued ftill unprovided for, as the fame 
 Author obferves in the Beginning of it : | But in 
 the Courfe of that Year, he was preferr'd to the 
 Prebend of Sbipton under WichwooA in the Church 
 of Sariyn. And in the Year 1566, when the Con- 
 teft about the Habits ran fb high, and many Mi- 
 nifters were forbid preaching on the Account of 
 their Noncompliance, Mr. Fox having no Living, 
 was not taken notice of, or fumtnon'd before the Com- 
 miffioners, , tbo he was no Approver of the Habits, and it 
 was well enough known that he was not. * And there- 
 fore I muft own I ftill think it was as likely to 
 have been in 1564, that he fhould be cal'fd onto 
 fubfcribe, and that to the Articles, as to any thing 
 elfe, or at any other Time. But after all, if the Doc- 
 tor who freely owns that Mr. Fox did ms.ke the Decla- 
 ration mention'd, and refused the Subfcription that was 
 requird of him, (/) continues to be of another Mind, (0 E ff*y P- 
 and ftill thinks it was another Sort of Subfcription 375 
 that he refus'd, and not that to the Thirty nine Ar- 
 ticle:, for me he has full Liberty, and I grudge ic 
 him not. And if the Reafons he has to produce 
 outweigh mine, he fhall find me ready to fall in 
 with him. But till that appears, I cannot help dif- 
 fering from him. And fo far am I from being fin- 
 gular in my Sentiment, that the very Gentleman 
 who wrote the Vindication of the Church of England 
 from the Afperfions of a late Libel, intit. Priejlcraft 
 in Perfection, (whom the Doctor fo much applauds,) 
 () herein concurrs with me, and fays, that John > j prrf . 
 Fox was one of thofe that rcfusd to fubfcribe the Ar- p. n, an 'd 
 tides, (n) And who knows, but his Suffrage, may oft 
 pafs for the better Evidence the Dodtor requires, 
 when he comes to re-confider the Matter. 
 
 Thefe Things being premis'd, which are indeed 
 
 but of the Nature of Preliminaries, the Doctor lofes 
 
 H 4 all 
 
 * Life of Archbifliop Ptrkfr, p. I la^ 
 
 4 Hilt, of the Reform, under Queen Elit^tnh, Vol.1, p. 
 
 i Jbid. p. 367. * Ibid. p. 223
 
 n8 Remarks upon Dr. Bennet'j- EJJaj 
 
 all Patience, and charges me (a la mode de Cbrifl Church} 
 with a fhort Pajfagc crammed with the mojl palpable 
 () Eflay p. F a lfhoo4s : (o) And Teems to be in as great a Con- 
 975. fternation as if he had been afraid that Heaven and 
 
 Earth were coming together, or the general Difiblu- 
 tion were juft at hand. And if you would know 
 what is the Matrer, it is only this ; that I had faid, 
 that/#c& Changes and Alterations were afterwards made 
 in thefe Articles of 1561, that many even of the Body 
 of the Clergy refused to fubfcribe them a fccond Time 
 in 1566 andi^ji. Whereas he fays it is evident 
 to Demonftration, (but he does not tell us b,y what 
 Son of Logick we muft judge of that Demonfha- 
 tion) that the Articles of 1561 were never changd or 
 altered in the fmalleft Punctilio till they were rcviid in 
 1571. Nor were they ever laid before the Convocation 
 in 1566. And the Autographal Subfcription of the 
 Convocation of 1571 to the jame Articles, even before 
 the JHevifal is ft ill extant, and he has print edit at large 
 (j>) P- 376. in his twentieth Chapter, (p) But I doubt it will up- 
 -on Search be found, that it is eafier by far to alfert 
 than prove a Demonftration in fuch Particulars, as 
 thefe. I here fay, as Bifhop Stillingfleet * in ano- 
 ther Cafe, fame Mens Demonftrations viill hardly a- 
 mount to the Strength of a probable Argument. And 
 I am apt to fear no Mens Way of Deafening more f 
 than thofe who tall^ moft of Demonftrations. And 
 therefore I fhould have thought the Doctor had bet- 
 ter have referv'd his Good God ! for fome weightier 
 Occafion, where the Matter was more important, 
 and the Evidence much clearer, fo as to come a 
 little nearer to a Demonftration, for fear of propha- 
 ning that facred Name he mentions, (and which he 
 cannot but know his Function peculiarly obliges 
 him to fandtify) by taking it, in vain. But I will be 
 at the Drudgery (for once) of taking Things to 
 Pieces, and confidering his Aflercions and Queftions 
 difti.ndly. 
 
 i. He pofitively aflerts, and pretends it is evident 
 even to Demonftration, that the Articles of 1562, were 
 never changed or alter d t even in the fmalleft Punftilio, 
 
 tilt 
 
 iqu : ti*! / the Britifh Chvrchc t t Chap. V.
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 
 
 till they were revised in 1571. And therefore he asks 
 me in a triumphant Manner, according to his lau- 
 dable Cuftom, how I prove that any the leaft Change 
 or Alteration was made in the Articles of 1562, before 
 theRevifal in 1571 ? (fj] To this I anfwer that I am 
 inform'd by Bifhop Eurnet * that Alterations were 
 made in the Articles, of 1561, between the Time that 
 they were firfl fubfcrib 1 d, and t he I aft Vot ing the m ; and 
 he intimates that iuch Things are common in fuch 
 Bodies. And therefore I muft confefs it appears to 
 me to be very trifling to pretend to be fo very nice 
 and exadl in fuch Things, as the Do&or would 
 fomerimes feem to be. And I fliould think than 
 any Man that does but obferve, that tho' in the Ti- 
 tle of the Articles, they are faid to have been agreed 
 upon by the Archbifloops and Bifhops oj both Provinces, 
 and the whole Clergy ; whenas none of the Province 
 of Torli fubfcrib'd at all, excepting the Archbifliop, 
 with the Bifliops of Durham and Chefter, will fee but 
 little Ground to pretend to any great Exa&nefs in 
 the Procceedings of fuch Ecclefiaftical Bodies. And 
 I fliould alfo think, that any Man that obferves that 
 tho' the Statute in 1571, requires Subfcription to 
 the Thirty-nine Articles, as they are compri^d in a. 
 printed Bool^, yet there were at that Time in that 
 printed Book but Thirty-eight Articles, the twenty- 
 ninth being omitted, notwithftanding that it pafs'd 
 in Convocation, fliould not fuppofe that great politi- 
 cal Bodies are always exact ; and fliould have but 
 little Heart to pretend wich our Doctor, that it is 
 evident even to Dcmonftration, that the Articles of 
 1562, were never changd or alter d even in the fmall- 
 fft Punctilio. Mechinks the Dosflor in fuch a Cafe 
 as this, fliould have remember'd the Queries that he 
 himfelf faw Occafion to ftart in another Cafe, with 
 Reference to the Canons; vi%. what if fame Particu- 
 lars were alter d by the Queen's Command, when there 
 was no Convocation fitting ? Does not every Body /jwon 
 whf!t Spirit Queen Elizabeth was of? (r) Methinks (r) p. 347. 
 fuch Queries as thefe, which are certainly as allow- 
 able in one Cafe as in another, much weaken 
 
 our 
 
 * Expof. of the Anitki, p. If.
 
 i2o Remarks Jifon Dr. BennetV EJJay 
 
 our Doctor's prerended Demonftration. And in Rea- 
 lity, how he can reconcile his now averting it to be 
 evident even to Demonftration, that the Articles of i$6z 
 were never changed or alter d in the fmalleft Punftilio, 
 till they were rcvifed in 1571, with his fo frankly own- , 
 ing thatP<*?^?r did upon Occafion make an Altera- 
 tion at the very Prefs, in the Articles, after they had 
 CO Eflay, p. p a f s 'd the Convocation, (/) and that that Archbifliop 
 Ciup 24! ac ^ ecl ty Order of the Q;ieen, who interefted her- 
 felf much in religious Matters, and caus'd divers 
 A'rerations to be made in the Articles and Canons 
 0) Eflky,p. of the Church, (t) I cannot imagine. Its Pity fonie 
 233, 345, Men have not better Memories. Nay if the Thing 
 that our Author has fairly enough infinuated, fhoultl 
 be frankly own'd; vi%. that Queen Elizabeth did 
 take upon her to order an Alteration in the Articles, 
 after they had pafs'd the Convocation, fhe did no 
 more than her Father Henry VIII had done before 
 her, of whom we are told by a celebrated Writer, * 
 (from Bifhop Burnet) that he corrected and amended 
 with his own Hand the Articles of Religion that were 
 drawn up in 1536, before they were pubUfh'd. And if 
 Queen Elizabeth might thus change the Articles in 
 one Place, why might fhe not do it in twenty, if 
 fhe faw Occafion? And whar then becomes of our 
 Doctor's Demcnftration, that the Articles were not 
 changed or alter d even in the fmalleft Punctilio ? 
 
 a. The Doctor as positively aiferts, that the Arti- 
 cles of 1561 were never laid before the Convoca- 
 tion in 1566 : And very triumphantly asks me, where 
 did I learn that the Articles were ever offer d for Sub- 
 00 P- 3^7- fcriftlon^ to the Convocation of 1^66 ? () But here I 
 hope he cannot pretend to a Demonftration, the A&s 
 of the Convocation perifhing in the Fire of London. 
 And yet really he might have done it with as good a 
 Grace, as under the laft Heaxl. He tells us that 
 Dr. Heylin'j Abftraft fhews that 190 Sufmefs was done 
 or proposed in this Convocation, except what related 
 , to < Subfidy which they granted to the Queen, (x) But 
 for any I hing that appears, Dr. Heylin might there- 
 fore fay that no Bufinefs was. then done but this, 
 
 becaufe 
 
 * L>r, tf'^t's Authority of Chiiftian Priocei afiatcd, p. 136.
 
 en the Thirty-nine Articles. 
 
 becaufe nothing elfc was brought to Perfection, 
 
 There are others that ftill think it highly probable 
 
 that the Thirty-nine Articles were requir'd to be 
 
 fubfcrib'd in the Convocation in 1566, becaufe this 
 
 was the very Thing with which the Convocation in 
 
 1571 firft began. And they look upon it as the 
 
 mere likely, becaufe the Commons were at that 
 
 very Time upon a Bill to oblige to a Subfcripcion 
 
 to them, which would make it appear fcandalous 
 
 for any Members of the Convocation, ftill to re- 
 
 fufe Subfcription. To me alfo I muft confefs it ap- 
 
 pears the more probable that this Convocation in 
 
 1566 had a Concern about the Articles, as well as 
 
 that which went laft before it, and that which came 
 
 next after it, becaufe Mr. Selden fays, that the Ar* 
 
 tides were mr.de at three feveral Convocations, as weS 
 
 as confirm d by A& of Parliament, fix or feven limes 
 
 after. * Now there is no third Convocation, ac 
 
 which they could be made, unlefe we take in that 
 
 of 1566, as well as that of 1561 in which they 
 
 were begun, and that of 1571 in which they were 
 
 finiflul. I know very well that Doctor Bennet with 
 
 his ufual Confidence, fays that this Pajfnge contains 
 
 a Bundle of horrible and palpable Faljhoods, (y) but O> E{& 7,P 
 
 that is only an Attcrburian Caft. The Truth of the 37 ' 
 
 Matter is this; that AfTertion did not fuit the Doc- 
 
 tor's Purpofe, and therefore he was forc'd to vent 
 
 his Spleen : And if he had not, it is hard to fay what 
 
 the Confequence might have been. However if 
 
 this may not be allow'd to pafs for fufficient Evi- 
 
 dence, I have that to add prefendy, that I hope wiH 
 
 plainly (hew that I had fome Shadow of fytfon, (^) (t) * 3?r: ' 
 
 at leaft, for what I have aflerted. 
 
 3. He affirms, that the Autographal Subfcription 
 tf the Convocation of 1571, to the fame Articles t 
 even before their fyvifal is ftill extant, and he has 
 printed it at large in his twentieth Chapter, (a) And () p. j"<- 
 this is the plealantcft Touch of all. He affirms 
 that they who fubfcribed a certain Copy that is in the 
 Bodleian Library verre undoubtedly the lower Houft 
 ef that Convocation which met in 1571. (b) But Bi- (*) p. 
 
 (hop 
 
 * Tibfc Talk, LmtL*> 1716. p. J.
 
 122 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett Ejjay 
 
 after he had been fpeaking of the Con" 
 vocation 'in 1561, fays that we are not fure that the 
 like Care was usd in the Convocation Anno 1571 ; 
 for the Articles are only fubfcriVd by the Archbifhop 
 of Canterbury, and, the ten Bifhops of his Province ; 
 nor does the Subfcription of the lower Houfe appear. 
 * I profefs I begin to be in Pain for Dr. Bennet. 
 I am afraid he will come off but poorly ; efpecially 
 confidering that he is forc'd to own that the I{e- 
 gifters of this Convocation are loft-, and that the 
 Subfcription bears no Date at all ; nor is there any 
 frevious Form : And that confequenrly the Upll it- 
 felf does not /hew for what Heafon the Subfcription was 
 
 fr) Eflky p. made, or at what particular Time, (c) And for this 
 
 ,271, Reafon I cannot imagine, how he can poffibly have 
 
 any Certainty that that which he has printed as the 
 Autographal Subfcription of the Convocation of 1571 
 to the Articles, is really and truly fuch,, His Account 
 of this is very deficient. And, for any Thing that 
 yet appears, or that he has fuggefted, this Subfcrip- 
 tion carries nothing of a Proof in it. It is granted, 
 a Roll of many Names there is in the "Bodleian Li- 
 brary, and this is few'd to Wolfs Edition of the Ar- 
 ticles of 1561, and by the Account of the Names that 
 the Dodor has printed, they fliould feem to be the 
 Names of the lower Houfe of Convocation, in 1571: 
 But whether this Roll of Names was few'd to this 
 Book of Wolf, by miftake, as is aflerted by Dr. 
 Atterbury, | or out of Defign, as others fufpecl, is 
 hard to fay. And what this Roll of Names" at firft 
 belong'd to, before it was few'd to Wolfs Copy of 
 the Articles, no Mortal knows. Let it then be grant- 
 ed, that this was a real Subfcription of the lower 
 Houfe in 1571, yet how can it be evidenc'd to be 
 their Subfcription to the Articles of that Year ? 
 This is very unlikely, becaufe it feems Wolfs Edi- 
 tion omits the Twenty-ninth Article, which was in- 
 
 (r/J p". 112. ferted in the Articles of 1571. (d) And the Dodtor 
 himfelf owns, that the Subfcription to this Copy, could 
 not be that Subfcription which is mention d in the 
 
 (Op. 273. l^ttfication of 1571. (e) So that though he calls this 
 
 the 
 
 * JZxpoft. of 59 Articles, p. 16. f Rightj, &c. p. 411.
 
 on the Thirty -nine Articles. 
 
 the Autographal Subfcription of the Convocation in 
 1571 to the Articles 0/1562, yet for any Thing 
 he knows, ic may as well have been a Subfcrip- 
 tion to any thing elfe. And therefore what he means 
 by faying, that never did tiny Subfcription carry more 
 evident Marks of its being what it appears, (f) is be- (f) Efl *7* 
 yond my Skill to imagine. For in Reality, ic does 2 9 ' 
 not at all appear what it was made te. I think 
 there is much better Proof, that this was not the Au- 
 tographal Subfcription of the Convocation in 1571, 
 to the Articles of 1562, rhan there is that that Sub- 
 fcription in che Volume Synodalia, in Bennet~Co\\ege t 
 was not a Subfcription of the lower Houfe, in 1562, 
 to that very true Copy of the Articles which it fuc- 
 ceeds, about which the Dodtor contends with fo 
 much Warmth, (g) But for mighty Boafts, and poor (g) P- *o 
 Performances, commend me to Dr. Rennet, above 
 moft of the Writers of the Age. 
 
 4. He farther asks me, who told me, that any one 
 Member of the Convocation in 1566, or of that in 
 1571, refused to Jubfcribe the Articles? Or if they did 
 refufe, hove /hall it appear, that they refused to fub- 
 fcribe, upon the Account of Changes and Alterations 
 made in the Articles ? (h) I anfwer, that fome refus'd (/ ; ) p. y 
 in 1571, appears very plainly from hence, in that 377. 
 Archbifliop Parker, after accepting and confirming the 
 Prolocutor, commanded all the Company of the lower 
 Houfe, that had not yet fubfcrib'd the Articles, made 
 in 1561, now to do it. And that all that would not 
 fubfcribe them, but refus'd fo to do, fhould be exclud- 
 ed. * I know not how to fuppofe that fuch a Step 
 as this would have been then taken, had there not 
 been fome that had till then refus'd. And the fame 
 Hiftorian that mentions this, does in the very fame 
 Page in which he takes Notice of it, give an In- 
 ftance in Richard Bifliop of Glouccftcr, who cared not 
 ro fubfcribe the Thirty-nine Articles, though it was 
 to be done by all the Members of the Synod. And 
 in the Collections of Mr. fygcr Morris, which I men- 
 tion'd before, I met with an Account that after the 
 fir ft Subfcription to the .Articles in 1562, fome Al- 
 
 terations 
 
 Archbiflbop P&kff, p, 318.
 
 1 24 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennet'j EJJ'aj 
 
 terations were made. And particularly the Para" 
 graph beginning with thefe Words, Chrifius in C<s~ 
 turn afcendens, which was fo exprefs and full againft 
 the Corporeal Prefence, and was in the Articles when 
 they where firft fign'd, was afterwards dafh'd with 
 "Minium. * Upon which Account many refused to 
 fubfcribe a fecond Time in 1562, and perfifted in 
 their Refufal in 1566, though they were feverely me- 
 nacd. This menacing in the Cafe, to me feems 
 plainly to argue, an yet remaining Averfion in fome. 
 And if upon the whole I have run into Miftakes 
 about thefe Matters, (which I muft own I am not 
 yet aware of) it was thefe Papers of Mr. Morris that 
 mifled me. Though I am very inclinable to believe, 
 that his Authority will with many, go as far as Dr. 
 EBay, p. Rennet's. Thefe Papers he calls invifible Records, () 
 6 ' and with his ufual Civility, talks of my drejfing up 
 
 a Romance, and opening a Fairy Scene, and I know 
 not what : But the Papers may foon become vifible, 
 and I hope will be fo eVe long ; and then he may have 
 the Satisfaction to find himfclf miflaksn, at which he 
 is fo kind as to intimate, he for my Sake would be 
 fo very glad. And that I may not be behind Hand 
 with the Dodor, I can aflure him, I fhall be as 
 glad of it for his Sake, that fo being convinced of 
 having been a falfe Accufer, he may learn to go- 
 vern his Pen better for the Future, and keep from 
 fuch malicious Criminations, and fuch {welling Words 
 of Vanity, as would bring a Difcredit to the beft 
 Caufe in the World, and cannot do the leaft Ser- 
 vice to a bad one. 
 
 5. The Dodtor farther asks, where I found, that 
 
 the Parliament f aft d the Aft of the i^th of Elizabeth, 
 
 Chap, n, to flop farther Rigors, and to put an End t 
 
 j _ the Severity of the Hi/hops? (k) I anfwer I found it 
 
 in Mr. Morris's Papers, and in feveral Writings of 
 
 the 
 
 * Bjfliop Burnt in h's Hlftory of the Reformat, Vol. III. P. 301. 
 Speaking of leaving out the exprcfi Declaration made in the Ar- 
 ticles of i JJ2 againft the Corporal Prefence of thrift in the Sa- 
 crament, fays that it no Way appears to him, whether thefe Wtrdt vocrt 
 fHppn/fd by the Confent tf the Cmvccation, or whether the grtten wdtr- 
 td it to ft dene either tj & dntfl Command, tr by denying her <Jjfit* 
 tt that Part tf the <JrticL\
 
 on the Thirty -%i tie Articles. 
 
 the old Puritans. And I ftill think it may be eafily 
 
 gathered, from the Account of Mr. Peter PVentworth, 
 
 in Dewes's Journal. * He tells me that Dr. Fuller 
 
 whom Ifometimes quote, calls this Law a fharp Edict 
 
 wainft the Nonconformifts. And it muft be own'd 
 
 to have been fharp enough, if it be confider'd that 
 
 Deprivation was to be the Confequence, of a 
 
 Man's refuting through Diflatisfadion, to fubfcribe 
 
 to any one of the Dodrinal Anicles of Religion : 
 
 And yet it manifeftly tended to abate Rigor and Se- 
 
 verity, if that Ad diftinguifti'd between the Doctri- 
 
 nal Articles, and others, as I muft own I did, and 
 
 do ftill apprehend it does. And I take this to be 
 
 the true Reafon, why the Commons in vt>hofe Houfe it 
 
 began, were fo fond of this particular Bill, as the 
 
 Dodor obferves they were. (/) And though he (/) p. 407. 
 
 feems to think it a material Objedion againft their 
 
 defigning by this Bill to make this Diftindion, that 
 
 upon this Suppofition, there is no knowing which of 
 
 the Articles are to be fubfcrib 1 d, and which arc not, (m) M P-*'T 
 
 yet if the Method which they propos'd had been 
 
 purfu'd, this would have been eafy enough to have 
 
 been known : For when the Bill was brought in, ic 
 
 had an Englifh Edition of the Articles that was 
 
 mark'd, join'd to it : And thefe Marks would have 
 
 fufficiently made it known, which Articles were ne- 
 
 ceflarily to be fubfcrib'd, and which not. To me 
 
 this is very plain, from Dewes^s Journal ; where we 
 
 have an Account that in the Houfe of Commons, Dec. 
 
 5. 1566, the Bill with a little Book^ printed in the 
 
 Year 1561, for the found Chrijlian Religion was read 
 
 the firft Time. * And that on Tuefday Dec. 10, thf 
 
 Bill with a little Book, printed An. 1561, for the found 
 
 Chrijlian Religion, was read the fecond Time, and order- 
 
 ed to be ingrofid. \ This little Book would have 
 
 prevented any Confufion, as it was mirk'd. 
 
 The Dodor very officioufly wbifpers me in the Ear, 
 and tells me what he might as well have fpoken our ; 
 W^. that the Bijhops were fo far from eftccming this 
 Ad a Diminution of their Power, and a Check, to their 
 Proceedings, that they then:fclv;s were moft earn eft Pro- 
 
 morerf 
 
 * Page 234. f p. i ?z. * iW-
 
 126 Remarks nfon Dr. BennetV Ejjay 
 
 moters of it, in the Tear 1566, when the Bill was firft 
 fr) Effay, p. brought in: (n) But he offers what is not much to the 
 377- Puvpofe. I readily grant indeed that he had fuffici- 
 
 ently prov'd before, from the Pecition of the Bifliops 
 (o) ib. chtp. which he publifhes at large, (o) that the Spiritual 
 xvllu Lords, as he fays, did not ferfuade the Queen to pre- 
 
 vent the pajfing of this Bill ; but usd their heft En- 
 ([) p. 261 deavours to promote it, and obtain the fyyal Ajjent. (p) 
 And had it pafs'd as it firft came to the Houfe of 
 Lords, it might have anfwer'd their End. But it 
 Should have been remembred, that though they were 
 for the Bill in 1566, as it firft went up to the Houfe 
 of Lords, yet there it was alrer'd, and mifcarried : 
 And the very fame Bill as it was then alter'd, being 
 brought into the Houfe of Commons in 1571, pafs'd 
 both Houfes, but was not fo much to the Guft of fe- 
 veral of the Bifhops, and thofe of the Clergy that 
 affedled Domination, as if it had pafs'd at firft. And 
 yet failing here, they were ftill in hopes of compaf- 
 fmg their Defign, by the Canon which they pafs'd af- 
 terwards in Convocation. The Bill which they were 
 for, requir'd an Aflent and Subfcription to all the Ar- 
 ticles in the Lump, and without any Exception : But 
 the Bill as it was alter'd, and the Ad: as it pafs'd, 
 (perhaps it would not be a mighty Difficulty to tell 
 by whofe Influence) was for an Aflent and Subfcrip- 
 tion, to the Doclrinal Articles only. To keep him (if 
 it be poflible) from faying again, in his ill-natur'd 
 "Way, that I was refolvd to brand the Bifhops, though 
 I had not Patience enough to Work^ up my Malice to an 
 14) P- 377 Appearance of Truth, (</) I fhall add, that Mr. Robert 
 Beal who was at that Time a noted Man, Clerk of 
 the Council, and one of good Learning, and a con- 
 fiderable Intereft, made an Apology for his Actions 
 in the Parliament of 1 591, in a Letter to a certain no- 
 ble Lord, in which he fays, that the Statute of the 
 \-$th, did require a Subfcription to the Articles of Faith 
 ONLT; and that he had heard it credibly reported, 
 that it appear d by the Records, that the Limitation was 
 thought meet to be infer ted (vi^. ONLT,) by the Lords 
 in the higher Houfe, when as the Bill lad pafs'd the lo- 
 wer Houfe in more general Terms. * 
 
 Bu r 
 
 * Strft?{ I^ft of Archbiftop Wkvyft, p. 1 8;;
 
 on the Thirty -nine Articles. 127 
 
 But it feems the Dodtor does not know what to 
 make of my affirming that the Aft requires the Cler- 
 gy to fubfcribe to thofe Articles only, that concern the 
 true Chriftian Faith, and Doctrine of the Sacraments, 
 and that this Subscription pafid fmoothty : tfhereas the 
 Convocation made a Canon to oblige to a. Subfcription 
 to all the Articles, as well thofe relating to J^ttes and 
 Ceremonies, Order and Polity, as thofe that concern d 
 the Chriftian Doctrine of the Sacraments ; and that 
 this Subfcription was refused by many, becaufe of what 
 teas added in the zoth Article, (r) 8cc. And he tells (0 Eflay, 
 me that he fhall foon fhew that the aforefaid Statute * 77i 37 
 obliges the Clergy tofulfcribe all the 39 Articles. But 
 he not having done it as yet, as far as I can judge,' 
 I think myfelf to be ftill at Liberty to deny it. He 
 declares he knows of no double Subfcription. But if 
 it was one Sort of Subfcription that was requir'd by 
 the A& of Parliament, and another that was re- 
 quired by the Canon of 1571 ; and a Number 
 could freely yield to the former, and yet were not 
 to be perfuaded to yield to the latter, there certain- 
 ly was a double Subfcription. He fays, that with 
 my Leave, the Subfcription that was requir'd by the 
 Canon, was the very fame that was requir'd by the 
 Statute too. But this is what I can by no Means al- 
 low, till I fee better Evidence produc'd than as yet 
 appears. Mr. Selden fays, there is a Secret concern- 
 ing thefe Articles, Of late Miniftcrs have fubfcriHd 
 to all of them, but by Act of Parliament that con- 
 firmed them, they ought only to fubfcribe to thofe Ar- 
 ticles which contains Matter of Faith and the Doctrine 
 of the Sacraments. And he adds, that this appears by 
 the firft Subfcriptions. * And were thefe firft Sub- 
 fcriptions confulted, they might perhaps give us Light 
 in this Matcer. If they were limited and confined to 
 fuch Parts of the Thirty-nine Articles, as contain only 
 Matter of Faith, and the Doctrine of the Sacraments, 
 it muft be becaufe the Law was at firft undcrftood 
 to relate only to fuch of the Thirty-nine Articles as 
 come under one of thofe Heads. 
 
 VOL. II. I How: 
 
 t Table Talk, ./. J7I*. fiJl
 
 128 Remarks ufon Dr. BennetV Ejfay 
 
 However that which I have reprefenred, was 
 the real State of the Cafe, I fhall now fet myfelf to 
 prove from feveral Things in Concurrence. And ; 
 
 i.l argue from the Words of the Act of Parlia- 
 ment, 'compar'd with the Words of the Canon. 
 
 As to the A&, that runs thus : 
 
 " That the Churches of the Queen's Majefty's 
 " Dominions, may be ferv'd with Paftors of found 
 " Religion, be it enadted by the Authority of this 
 " preient Parliament, that every Perfon, &c. which 
 " doth or (hall pretend to be, a Prieft or Minifter 
 ;< of GOD'S Holy Word and Sacraments, byReafon 
 " of any other Form of Inftitution, Confecration, 
 " or Ordering, than the Form fet forth by Parlia- 
 " ment, in the Time of the late King of moft wor- 
 " thy Memory, King Edward the Sixth, or now us'd 
 " in the Reign of our moft gracious Sovereign Lady, 
 " before the Feaft of the Nativity of CHRIST, 
 *' next following ; fhall in the Prefence of the Bi- 
 " fhop, or Guardian of the Spiritualities of fome 
 " one Diocefs, where he hath or fliall have Eccle- 
 " fiaftical Living, declare his Affent, and fubfcribe 
 " to all the Articles of Religion, which only concern 
 " the Confefflon of the Faith, and the Doftrine of the 
 " Sacraments, comprifed in a Boot^ imprinted, intitu- 
 '' led, Articles whereupon it was agreed, &c. 
 
 The Canon which pafs'd, April 3. 1571, runs 
 thus: 
 
 " Every Bifliop before the firft Day of Septemler 
 
 " next, fnall call unto him the publick Preachers, 
 
 " fuch as fliall be in bis own Diocefe, and fhall re- 
 
 " quire again of them, their Licenfes for Preach- 
 
 ' ing, which they have, fign'd with any Authentical 
 
 " Seal, which they fhall rerain with themfelves, or 
 
 " elfe abolifh; After prudent Choice made of them, 
 
 " he fliall give readily again new Licenfes, to them 
 
 " whom he fhall find able to that great Office, in 
 
 " refpect of their Years, Doclrine, Judgment, Ho- 
 
 : * nefty of Life, Modefty and Gravity : And yet fo 
 
 " that they firft fubfcribe, to the Articles of Chriftian 
 
 " Religion,
 
 OH the Thirty-nine Articles. 129 
 
 " Religion, publickly approved in the Synod, and 
 " that they make Promife, willingly to maintain and 
 
 : * defend that Doctrine, which is contain'd in them 
 " as moft agreeable to the Verity of G o i>'s Word. * 
 
 I ftiould think that any one that was not unwil- 
 ling to fee it, might difcern a manifeft Difference be- 
 tween thefe two Injunctions. They differ, 
 
 1. As to the Time of their taking Place : Which 
 as to the latter of them was to be before the Firft of 
 September 1571, whereas with refpect to the former, 
 any Time before the Chriftmas following was iuiS- 
 cient. 
 
 2. As to the Parties concern'd : The latter refer- 
 ring to all Minifters in the general, to whom the Bl- 
 fhops fliould give new Licenfes ; but the former to 
 fuch only, as pretended to be Miniflcrs, by any other 
 Form than that of the Eftabliftfd Church of England ; 
 i. e. that were ordain'd either in Scotland, or Hol- 
 land, or other foreign Churches. 
 
 3. As to the Thing required. The latter infifts 
 upon a Subfcription to the Articles, fimply, and with- 
 out any Dijlin&ion at all; whereas the former re- 
 quires a Subfcription to all the Articles of Religion 
 which only concern the Confefjion of the true Chriftian 
 Faith, and the DoElrine of the Sacraments. And I 
 cannot fee how any Senfe can be made of the Word 
 only in the Act, without here allowing for a Diffe- 
 rence. Dr. Bennet quibbles in the Matter, and fays 
 that the Word only is an Adverb demonstrative, not re- 
 JlriRive. But in my Apprehenfion, that Criticifm on 
 the World only, does but demon/irate the Doctor's 
 Unwillingnefs to be convinc'd, or reftrain'd. Mr. 
 Collier appears much more frank : For he fo much 
 differs from the Doctor, that he owns that by this 
 RESTRICTION in the Word ONLY, all Ar- 
 ticles relating fo the Jiomilies, the Ordinal, the Church's 
 Power in imfofing I(ites and Ceremonies, and her 
 Authority in Controverfics of Faith, fesm omitted on 
 
 I ^ Purpofc, 
 
 * And the J6ih Canon of 1603 requires U the Clergy to fubfcn'lx 1 , 
 trillin&ty tout K Mima, and to acknowledge all and evay Article, t 
 ke agreeable to the Word of GOD.
 
 Remarks ufon Dr. BennetV EJJay 
 
 Purpffe, as if it had not been the Defign of the Sta- 
 tute, to bring thefe Articles vtithin the Subfcription : * 
 Tho' he afterwards quotes an Authority upon us, 
 that fhall be confider'd prefently. And I muft own, 
 that notwithftanding all that has been advanc'd by 
 the Do&or to the contrary, I take the inferring this 
 Word only, for a full Proof, that the Parliament was 
 for more Lenity, than the Body of the Convocation. 
 The latter were for a Subfcription to all the Thirty- 
 nine Articles without the leaft Exception : Whereas 
 the former were fatisfy'd with a Subfcription of 
 thofe Articles, which only concerned the ConfeJJion of the 
 true Chriftian Ftith, and the DocJrine of the Sacra- 
 ments. 
 
 And I fhall add, that I think M. Des Mai^eaux has 
 in his Hiftorical and Critical Account of the Life and 
 Writings of Mr. William Chilling-worth t offer'd that 
 which I take in this Cafe to be very confiderable. 
 He fays that the ReftridHon is not barely in the 
 Word only. It would ftill fubfift, tho' that Word 
 were left out. For to fay that every Minifter Jball 
 declare his Affent and fubfcribe to all the Articles of 
 Religion which - - - concern the Confejjlon of the true 
 Chrtftian Faith, and the Doftrine of the Sacraments, 
 compri^d in a Bool^ imprinted, intituled ARTICLES, 
 &c. evidently limits and determines the Affent and 
 Subfcription to fuch Articles in that Book , as concern 
 the two Heads mentioned, and difpenfes with ajjent- 
 ing and fubfcribing to the other Articles in the fame 
 Book. The Word only was added to inforce the 
 Limitation, and put it out of all Manner of Doubt 
 or Exception. But at the fame Time that Word, 
 with the Word all juft before it, have thrown a Sort 
 of Uncouthnefs in that Sentence, fuch as may be 
 feen in other Adts of Parliament where Claufes arc 
 added. 
 
 z. I argue in this Cafe, from the difcover'd Senfe 
 of fome, that I think may be juftly reckon'd likely 
 to have had as right a Notion of thefe Matters, as 
 Dr. Rennet. And here I Ihall begin with a memo- 
 rable 
 
 * Ecclef. Hifhof Gn*{ Britjnn, Vol. II. p. 53 
 f Page 6f,
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 
 
 rable Speech, made in the Houfe of Commons in 
 1610, in which there is this Paflage. * And to take 
 away that crying Sin which doth moft provoke God, 
 and moft grieve the Subjects, viz. the depriving, 
 difgracing, filencing, degrading, and imprifoning, 
 fuch of God's Miniflers, (being learned and godly 
 Preachers) as he hath furnijVd with rnojl heavenly 
 Graces to call ns to true Repentance, for no offer 
 Caufc, but for not conforming the mjelves otherrvife than 
 ly Subfcription limited in the Statute made in the 
 thirteenth Tear of the late Queen Elizabeth of famous 
 Memory, thereby making the Laws of the Church and 
 Cbmmonwealth to jar : Which to reform, we made a 
 Law for Subscription, agreeing to the Intent of the 
 forefaid Statute, which every wife Man wil! approve^ 
 and willingly fubfcribe unto ; whereby much Peace and 
 Unity would grow in the Church and Commonwealth, 
 and be an Occafion that many Subjects might be welt 
 taught the Means of their Salvation, who now want 
 fufficient Knowledge of the Word of God to ground 
 their Faith upon. It is true King James appears not 
 to have been well pleas'd with, this and other 
 Paffages of this Nature, in that Houfe of Commons, 
 and therefore the Parliament was diffolv'd foon af- 
 ter. But fuch a Speech as this plainly fhews that 
 Gentlemen at that Time had a very different Senfe 
 of this Matter, from Dr. Rennet, notwithstanding his 
 Pofitivenels, and afTuming Confidence. 
 
 Nor can I help laying Strefs on Mr. Seldcrfs Au- 
 thority, tho' the Doctor fhould be ever fo angry. 
 That learned Gentleman fays, that of late, Mini- 
 Jtcrs have fubfcritfd to all the An ides ; but by Ail 
 of Parliament that confirmed them, they ought only 
 to fubfcribe to thofe Articles, 'which contain Mat- 
 ter of Fcith, and the Doftrine of the Sacraments, 
 as appears by the firjl Subfcriptions. \ The Doc- 
 tor lays, he is perfuaded the Editor has herein 
 mifreprefented him. (/) But I take that to be, be- 
 caufe he is unwilling to believe any Thing that 
 I 3 makes 
 
 * Thii Speech is to be met with in Rtcord tfftmt tmthj Pntudinji, 
 t tht Hcr*Mr, Wtft *nd Ftiihftd H(t / C-.mmmi, in tin Ittte f*T- 
 t'amrnt. Printed, ^tn. 161 1 , p. 10. 
 
 \ Table Talk, Lmdtn 1716. p. J-
 
 1 3 2 Remarks itfon Dr. Bennet'j- Ejlay 
 
 makes againft him. I can fee no Way of clearing 
 this, bac by producing the firft Subfcription*. 
 
 Both Mr. Collier in his Ecclcfuijlical Hiftory, and 
 Dr. Rennet in his Ejfay, appeal in this Cafe to Sir 
 Edward Coke. Mr. Collier fays, that it was the Mean- 
 ing of the Legiflature, that Subfcripticn fhould be made 
 to the Articles without nny Exception, is made good by Sir 
 Edward Coke's Authority. * But if as Mr.Selden af- 
 ferts, the contrary to this appears by the firft Subfcripti- 
 ons, even this Authority, as great as it appears, comes 
 to nothing. And befides, I cannot tell, whether or 
 no this Authority is in itfelf fo great, as that it muft 
 neceftariiy carry it from Mr. Selden. For I have read, 
 that Time has been, when Sir Edward Coke, as great 
 a Lawyer as he was, being brought to his Knees at 
 the Council Table, was commanded "to a private 
 Life : And ordered in his Retirement ro review his 
 Books of Reports, which the King was inform'd, 
 had many extravagant Opinions, publifh'd for pofi- 
 rive and good Law. t But I never read any Thing 
 of this Nature, with Refpect to Mr. Selden, or that 
 his Law was called in Queftion by the Civil Au- 
 thority. 
 
 But then the Doctor fays, if Mr. SeldenV Au- 
 thority VMS vaftiy greater than it is - yet furely that 
 of all the Judges of England , mil ever bui- 
 lt) Eflky, p i ( ance it, (t) Which is a Thing that I muft confefs 
 I mould not offer to call in Qieftion, if all the 
 Judges in a Body, had given their pofitive Judg- 
 ment, in the Matter that is here csbated. But real- 
 ly I find, that the C?te of Smith which is mention- 
 ed, in which Cafe i: v/as that n. Lnrd Chief Ju- 
 ftice Cokf, gave the C nion of VSrtij Chief Juftice 
 in 'the Kjngs Bench', and the concurrent Refolution 
 of all the Judges of England, :'' es not come up to 
 the Matter that here falls undc; our Consideration. 
 It is appealed to, both by Mr. Collier, \ and the 
 f/jjf. 405. Doctor too. () But as far as f can judge it will not 
 anfwer the Purpofe for which they mention it. For 
 
 in 
 
 * Fccltf Hift. of Bntt*'n, Vol. IT. p. 530. 
 
 f Comp'eat Hiftoiy of Expand, Vci. il. p. 704, 70$. 
 
 4 icclcf. Hift. of Great Britt>ii t Vol. II. p. 530.
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 
 
 in that Cafe, the Judges only gave it as their Opi- 
 nion, that the fubfcribing the Thirty-nine Articles with 
 the Addition that Smith made, vi%. (fo far forth as 
 the fame were agreeable to the iVord of God) was not 
 according to the Statue of 13 Eli%. but faid nothing 
 at all of that Sort of Subfcription which Mr. Seldett 
 fpeaks of, and fays was us'd in the firft Subfcrip- 
 ticns. And the Reafon they gave for their Opi- 
 nion, how fuitable foever it might be to Smith's 
 Cafe, yet would nor hold as to what Mr. Sdden 
 fpeaks of. This Subfcripticn (fay they) was conditio- 
 nal, and would not agree with the Scope of the Statute. 
 But they neither did nor could fay, that fubfcribing 
 to thofe Articles which contain Matter of Faith, and 
 the Doctrine of the Sacraments, was not according 
 to the Statute : Nor could they alledge, that this 
 would be conditional, and difagreeable with the Scope 
 ef the Statute, fince ihe very Words of the Statute 
 require a Subfcription, to all the Articles cf ]$cligien, 
 vehiJj only concern the CcnfcJJicn of the Faith, and the 
 Doclrine of the Sacraments. But fince fo great a 
 Man as Mr. Selden is fo freely charted by our pee- 
 vifh Doctor, with a Bundle of horrible and palpable 
 Fc'Jhoods (x) if what is father'd upon him in his (*) Effay, 
 Table Talk., upon the Head of the Articles, did real- 4 1 * 
 ly come from him, I think verily, I maybe the more 
 eafy, though I have ever and anon, a like Taft of bis 
 abundant Civility. 
 
 But I fhall now add another Authority which I 
 think cannot be contefted, and that is Dr. Heylins. 
 He had feen all thofe Acts of the feveral Convoca- 
 tions which perifh'd in the Fire of London, and 
 made Tranfcripts from thence, and had convcrfed 
 with a Variety of Learned Men in the Stare as \vell 
 as in the Church, fo as to have had as good an Op- 
 portunity as any Man, of judging of the real Intentions 
 both of Parliaments and Convocations, in their feve- 
 ral Proceedings : And from him, we have the follow- 
 ing PafTage, which I take to be very remarkable. 
 
 " It had been ordered by the Bifliops in their 
 
 " Convocation (in 1571) that all the Clergy then af- 
 
 " fcmblc djhould fubfcribe the Articles. And it was or- 
 
 " dered by the unanimous Confent of the Bifliops 
 
 I " and
 
 1 34 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett Effay 
 
 " and Clergy, that none Jhculd le admitted from 
 
 " thenceforth into Holy Orders, till he had firftfubfcriU'd 
 
 the farhe ; and folemnly obliged himfelf to defend 
 
 the Things contain d, as confonant in till Points to 
 
 the Word, of God. But by the firft Branch of the 
 
 Ad: of Parliament, Subfcription feerrTd to be no 
 
 otherwife requir'd, than to fuch Articles alone as 
 
 contain d the Confcjfion of the true Chriftian Faith, 
 
 ** and Doftrine of the Holy Sacraments. Whereby 
 
 " all Articles relating to the Book of Homilies, the 
 
 " Form of confecrating Archbifhops and Bifliops, the 
 
 " Church's Power for impofing new Rites and Cere- 
 
 " monies, and retaining thofe already made, feem- 
 
 " ed to be purpofely omitted, as not within the 
 
 " Compafs of the faid Subfcription. And although 
 
 " no fuch R E S T R I C T I O N do occur in the fol- 
 
 " lowing Branches, by xvhich Subfcription is requir- 
 
 " ed indefinitely unto all the Articles, yet did the firft 
 
 " Branch (eem to have fuch Influence upon all the 
 
 " Reft, that it was made to ferve the Turn of the 
 
 *.' Puritan Faction, whenfoever they were calPd up- 
 
 " on to fubfcribe, &c. * 
 
 Such was the Temper of Dr. Hcylin, that we may 
 be afTur'd he would have clear'd this Matter up, and 
 prov'd that the Puritans had no Right to that Favour 
 xvhich they pleaded for, from the Statute, of an Ex- 
 ception from an Obligation to any other Subfcripti- 
 on, than only to the Articles that contained the Con- 
 feflion of the true Chriftian Faith, and Doctrine of 
 the Sacraments. And fince he was not able to do 
 it, Dr. Bennet might as well have fpar'd his Pains. 
 And therefore, 
 
 3. I fhall aifb argue from the generally declared 
 Senfeofthe Puritans, and their Defendants, from 
 the. Time of the paiTing the Act for Subfcription in 
 IS? i, down to the Act for Toleration, in 1689. They 
 have generally (ignified, upon a Variety of Occafi- 
 ons that have cffer'd, that though they were not fond 
 of multiplying Subfcriptions, where there was not a 
 real Neceiliiy, they yet at the Call of Authority, 
 were free to fubfcribe to the Articles relating to Faith 
 and the Sacraments, according to the Statute, tho' 
 
 they 
 
 * /ty/iVi Hift. 'of the Pre<byt. p. 267.
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 
 
 they could by no Means yield to that general and 
 indefinite Subfcription, to all the Articles without: 
 DiftincYion, that was required by the Canon. And 
 this has commonly pafs'd Current j and they have not 
 met with much Oppofition. 
 
 The Admonition, which was printed in 1571 or 
 1572, has fomewhat in it to this Purpofe: And there 
 are leveral Things that look this Way, in the Part 
 of a Hegifter. As in the Praftkes of Prelates againft 
 godly Minifters, 8cc, * and oft elfwhere. Mr. Henry * 
 Smith, Pieacher at St Clement's without Temple-Bar, 
 being fufpended by Bifhop Aylmer in 1588, among 
 other Things, for not fubfcribing, made this Anfwer : 
 I refufe not to fubfcribe to any Articles which the Law of 
 the Realm doth require of Men of my Calling; acknow- 
 ledging with all Humblenefs and Loyalty, her Majeftys 
 Sovereignty in all Caufes, and over all Perfons, with- 
 in her Higbncfi$ Dominions ; and yeilding my full Con- 
 fent to all Articles of Faith and Dottrine, taught anil 
 ratify d in this Church, according to a Statute in that 
 Behalf provided, the i^th Tear of her Majejlys Reign.- 
 And therefore befeech his Lordjhip, not to urge upon 
 me any other Subfcription, than the Law of God, an& 
 the Laws pofjtive of this Realm do require. * 
 
 Mr. Walter Travers alfo, who as we are told by 
 Dr. Fuller, | had been feven Years together Lec- 
 turer in the Temple, (refufing all prefentative Prefer- 
 ment to decline Subfcription) and liv'd domeftick 
 Chaplain in the Houfe of the Lord Treafurer Cecil , 
 being Tutor for a Time to Robert his Son, after- 
 wards Earl o^ Salisbury - y cannot well be fuppos'd to 
 have been ignorant in thefe Matters. He in the Sup- 
 plication which he made to the Council, about the 
 Year 1591, or 1591, upon Occafion of the Differ- 
 ences that arofc between him and Mr. Hooker, inti- 
 mates that the Archbifliop of Canterbury, refus'd to 
 give him his Commendation to the Gentlemen of 
 the Temple, unlefs he would fubfcribe: And his 
 Anfwer was that he agreed to fubfcribe, according 
 
 to 
 
 * Strip?* Lfe of Biftop Jylmtr, p. 155, 
 
 j Church Hiftory Eook IX. p. 214. 
 
 4 Worki of Mr. &ih*rd />**', p. 490.
 
 136 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett Ejjay 
 
 to any Law, and to the Sranire provided in that 
 Cafe, but pray'd to be refpited for fubfcribing to any 
 other, which he could not in Conference do, either 
 for the Temple, or for any Place in the Church. | 
 Of which Mr. Hoofer took not the leaft Notice in 
 his Anfwer, though confidering the Keennefs of Spi- 
 rit he difcovers in his Reply (as meek a Man as 
 he was) he had been likely enough to have made 
 fome Return, had he had any Thing that was ma- 
 terial to offer. 
 
 In 1583 fifteen Minifters fubfcrib'd to the Articles 
 in thefe very Words ; we do Confent wholly to the 
 J$oo1{ of Articles, agreed on by the Archbifhops and Bi- 
 fhP s , f or f much as concerneth Faith and the Sa- 
 craments therein. * Mr. Dudly Fenner fpeaking of 
 the Subfcription which was requir'd by the Bifhops 
 to all the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion as a Thing 
 that was more than the Act of Parliament would 
 warrant, has thefe Words : For fays he, neither In 
 exprefs Words, nor any founding that Way, doth that 
 Law require Subfcription, or Ajjent, farther than to 
 till the Articles of Religion, which only Concern the 
 Confejfion of the true Faith, and the Doctrine of the 
 Sacraments, comprised in a Bool^ intituled, Articles, 
 Sec. f 
 
 Mr. Jojias Nicols, who was a confiderable Man in 
 his Time, writing in 1602, has this Expreifion : IVe 
 fubfcribe willingly to the Bool^ of Articles, according 
 to the Statute in that Behalf provided ; viz. to thofe 
 Articles, which only concern the Confejfion of the true 
 Faith, and the Doftrine of Sacraments, as the Sta- 
 tute exprejly conwiandeth and llmlteth. \- 
 
 And Mr. Thomas Rogers, in his Preface to his 
 Expofition of the Thirty-nine Articles, which was 
 printed in 1607, owns that in 1583, and a few 
 Months after Archbifhop Grindal's Death, the Dif- 
 fatisficd Brethren dctermmd at a meeting among them- 
 felves, that if the Subfcription to the Book, of Articles 
 of Religion Jhould be again urged, the faid Brethren 
 
 might 
 
 { Works of Mr. Richard Ko:ker, p. 490. 
 * Mo.r'ii'i MS. 
 
 f Defence of th'e Godly Minivers againft D. Br'Jtge-, p. 78. 
 | Plea of the ii.noieuc, p. 21.
 
 on the Thirty -nine Articles. 137 
 
 might fubfcribe thereto, according to the Statute. * 
 And in the fame Preface aifo, he mentions fome 
 Brethren that faid, iVe have always been ready to 
 fubfcribe to the Articles of f(cligion, concerning the 
 Doctrine of Faith, and of the Sacraments, which is all 
 that is required by Law. t And the Brethren in 
 Devonshire aud Cornvpal faid, we are ready to fub- 
 fcribe to rhe Third, which concerneth the Book of 
 Articles of Religion, fo far as we are bound by 
 Stature, concerning the fame : vi%, as they concern 
 the Doctrine of rhe Sacraments, and the Confef- 
 fion of the true Faith. And twenty two London 
 Brethren told King James to his Head, how the Sub- 
 fcription he called for, was more than the Law re- 
 quir'd. 
 
 Dr. Fuller alfo exprefles the common Senfe of the 
 Brethren in thefe "Words : If Subfcription to the Ar- 
 cles of Religion, and to the Boc-l^ of Common Prayer 
 /hall be again urged, it is thought that the Bool^of 
 Articles may be Jub^rib^d unto, according to the Sta- 
 tute of the thirteenth of Elizaberh, that is, unto fuch of 
 them only, as contain the Sum of Chriftian Faith, and 
 Doclrine rf the Sacraments.. * 
 
 Dr. William Ames in his jre/h Suit againft Ceremo- 
 nies, t exprefsly diftingutfhes between Legal Sub- 
 fcription, and Canonical Subfcription, and intimates 
 that the Parliament itfelf in 1610 made that Di- 
 ftinilion, in a Petition to King James. The Paflage 
 runs thus. 4- " Whereas alfo divers painful and learn- 
 " ed Paftors, that have long travei'd in the Work 
 " of the Miniftry, with pood Fruit and Bleffing of 
 " their Labours, who were ever ready to perform 
 " the Legal Subfcription appointed by the Statute 
 " of I3th Eii%. which only concernerh the Confe 
 " fion of the true Chriftian Faich, and Doctrine of 
 " the Sacraments, yet for not conforming in fome 
 " Points of Ceremony, and refuting the Subfcription 
 
 directed 
 
 * See Vr. R,|r\ Preface, $. lo. f Ibid. S- ?' 
 
 * fttlltT** Church H.ft. Book IX. p. l\o. 
 | Part I. p. ii?. 
 
 4- Tee 'lertrd f fame iwrtlj Troceedir.rt in tbt Htnaitrdtlt, Wfi t 
 f*iikf.-l \ltuft /" CVrvi*>j, i tht latt _ ftrlinmtnt. Printed ^jn, 
 20.
 
 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett EJJaj 
 
 " directed by the late Canons, have been remov'd from 
 " their Ecdefiaftical Livings, being their Freehold, 
 " and debarred from all Means of Maintenance, to 
 ," the great Grief of fundry your Majefty's well af- 
 " fe&ed Subje&s j feeing the whole People that 
 *' want InftrucYion are by this Means punifh'd, and 
 " through Ignorance lie open to the Seducements of 
 " Popifh and ill affeded Perfons : We therefore moft 
 " humbly befeech your Majefty, (c, &c, 
 
 This Parliament, tho* it was a pretty warm one, 
 could never have pretended, that divers painful 
 and learned Paftors who were ready to perform the 
 legal Subfcription, were depriv'd for refufing canoni- 
 cal Subfcriptlon, if they had not been two and dif- 
 ferent Subfcriptions, And therefore the Replier to 
 Dr. Mortons, the Bifhop of Coventry and Litchfield's 
 Defence of the Ceremonies of the Church of England, 
 faith that the Defendant (that is Dr. Morton) could not 
 Iring forth one A& of Parliament then in Force, that 
 tttowd of Subfcriptions and Conformity to be urgd as 
 then it was by the Prelates. And it is obfervable, 
 that this is wholly pafs'd over, by Dr. John Burger 
 in his Rejoinder : For he takes no Notice at all of 
 the Want of an A& of Parliament inforcing an uni- 
 verfal indefinite Subfcription to the Articles, which 
 was urg'd by the Replier, the Refufal of which, 
 was in the Cafe of many, punifh'd with Depriva- 
 tion ; and only declares, that it was true that many 
 good Subjects were greatly-grievd for fuch Deprival of 
 godly and fruitful Minifters, as was complain'd of in 
 the foremention'd Petition of the Parliament to the 
 King ; and that fo alfo were they that deprivd them, 
 who yet proceeded againfl them (being commanded fo 
 to do] not becauje they were painful or fruitful Mini- 
 fters, but for other Deafens : * Without offering the 
 leaft Word in Proof, that the AcT: of Parliament 
 (vi%. that of 1571) requirM fuch an indefinite Sub- 
 fcription, as was afterwards agreed on. Whereupon 
 Dr. Ames, publifhing in 1633 ms frefh Suit again/I 
 Ceremonies, or Triplication unto Dr. Burges'j Rejoin- 
 der, reminds him, that the Parliament condemneth 
 
 exprsfsly, 
 
 * Dr. Suva's Anfwer reJDin'd, p. 71.
 
 on the Thirty -nine Articles, 139 
 
 exprefsly, all urging of Subscription, above that ap- 
 fainted by the i^th Eliz, which only concerneth Con- 
 fejjion of the true Chriftian Faith, and Doftrine of the 
 Sacraments, t To which I do not know that any 
 fatisfactory Anfwer has been given to this Day. 
 
 It would be no difficult Thing to fhew that the 
 fame Notion about the Difference between legal 
 And canonical Subfcription obtained among the Ncn^ 
 conformifts all along the reft of the Reign of King 
 Charles I, and after the Reftoration too, and was 
 never fully anfwer'd, by thofe who took upon them 
 to oppofe it. And in the feveral Attempts in order 
 to a Coalition or Comprehenfion that were made 
 in the Reign of King Charles II, Care was ftill ta- 
 ken to make the Diflenters eafy upon this Head of 
 Subfcription, by taking off the Addition that was 
 made by the Canon, to the Ad: of Parliament in 
 1571. And at the laft, after the Glorious Revolu- 
 tion in 1688, thofe of the Puritanical Stamp effec- 
 tually carried their Point, and had Liberty granted 
 them by the Aft ef Toleration, to exercife their Mini- 
 ftry publickly, upon fubfcribing only to thofe Arti- 
 cles of Religion, which concern'd the Confeflion of 
 Faith, and Doctrine of the Sacraments ; being 
 wholly excus'd from fubfcribing Art. 10, about the 
 Power of the Church, and alfo the 34th, 35th, and 
 36th Articles. 
 
 It is hard to fuppofe, that Dr. Sennet who had 
 taken fo much Pains about the Articles, and fpent fo 
 much Time in fearching into their Hiftory, and the 
 feveral Particulars that relate to them, fhould not 
 bs aware of all this : And if he was aware of if, 
 his making fo ftrange of it, any Man (I (hould 
 think) would be apt to fufped, muft be with a De- 
 fign to .impofe upon his Readers. 
 
 But I having faid, that the Convocation in 1571 
 made a Canon to oblige to a Subfcription to all the 
 Articles, as well thofe relating to Hites and Ceremonies, 
 Order and Polity, as thofe that concern d the Chriftian 
 Faith, and the Doftrine of the Sacraments : And that 
 this was refusd by many t bccaufe of what was added 
 
 in 
 
 \ Amrs'i frefli Fruit, p. lef ,
 
 140 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennet'j- Ejjay 
 
 in Art. 20, and becaufe of the 34^?, ^th, and -$6rh 
 Articles ; * the Doctor farther challenges ms to prove, 
 that it was refused by many, nay by fo much as ont 
 Clergyman, before the Tear 1573 upon the Account of 
 rohat I pretend was added in the 2cth Article. In an- 
 fwer to which I fliall only fay, that I find Mr. Mor- 
 ris in his Papers, aflerts very pofiuvely, that fn the 
 very Tear that the Parliament pafs'd their Aft of Sub- 
 fcription, the Convocation made a Canon to oblige the 
 Clergy, to fubfcribe all the Articles, as well thofe re- 
 lating to F(ites and Ceremonies, Order and Polity, as 
 thofe that concern d the Chriftian Faith, and Doctrine 
 of the Sacraments : And that this was refused by many, 
 becaufe of what was added Art. 2.0, and becaufe of Arti- 
 cle 34, 35, 36. How far this may fatisfy him I do 
 not know : Nor indeed am I much concern'd. Tho' 
 when he adds with fo much Aflurance, that he has 
 /hewn that the controverted Claufe is a genuine Part of 
 the loth Article, I take the Freedom to give it him 
 as my Advice, in order to the compleating of his Vic- 
 tory, to return a clear and folid Anfwer to a Tract 
 publifh'd not long fince, which is intit. An Hiftorical 
 and Critical Effay, on the Thirty-nine Articles of the 
 Church of England ; wherein it is dcmcnflrated, that 
 this Claufe, the Church has Power to decree Rites and 
 Ceremonies, and Authority in Contrcverfies of Faith, 
 inferted in the loth Article, is not a Part of the Ar- 
 ticles, as they were eftablijtid by Aft of Parliament in 
 the i-^th ff Eliz, or agreed on by the Convocations of 
 1561 and 1571. And this I the rather advife him 
 to, becaufe an handfome Anfwer to that Difcourfe, 
 will be very much for his own Honour, and much 
 for the Credit of his Church ; and will alfo contri- 
 bute not a little to many Perfons Satisfaction, and 
 mine among the reft. And I muft own I think this 
 much more concerns the Docftor, than the heaping 
 up nice and critical, (I might fay hypercritical) Ob- 
 fervations, about Words, Letters, and Syllables, Gar- 
 nitures and Ccmpartiments, 8cc. tc many of which 
 his own Expreffion may be very juftly applied, that 
 &) Eflay, p. it was not worth while to blot Pat>er with them : (^) 
 
 While? 
 
 * De of Mod. Nonconf. Part II p. Hi,
 
 on the Thirty-nine Articles. 141 
 
 While yet he appears to have been as intent, bufy 
 and folemn, when he was employed about them, as 
 if he had been fetting out the juft Limits and Boun- 
 daries, of Kingdoms, .States, and Empires. 
 
 But the Doctor it feems after all, cannot difmifs 
 me without one fpiteful Suggeftion more, and Jhew- 
 ing how prettily 1 canfaljjfy, what I cannot but have 
 read, (a) But he would have done well to have W ? 37$ 
 added, that he undertook to fiiew this, only upon 
 Condition that his Conjectures might be allow'd to 
 pafs for full and fufficient Proof, which every one 
 perhaps may not readily fall in with : And yet really 
 without this, what he offers, ftands for nothing, and 
 cannot anfwer his End. He fays he is fully ferfuad- 
 ed (b] (there is his Evidence upon which he grounds (*) Effa 7> P* 
 his Charge againft me as a Falfifier) that the four 3 ' 
 Articles I mention, a Subfcription to which was in 
 1573 requir'd by Archbifhop Parker, and feveral 
 other Diocefans, are no where extant, but in the Pa- 
 fer of Mr. DeringV, which is frinted in the Part of 
 a Regifter, p. S i, &c. and that I tranfcrib'd them 
 from thence : And he bids me deny it if I can. For 
 my part I cannot be pofitive at this Diftance of 
 Time, fo as with Certainty to fay, from whence I 
 tranfcrib'd them ; nor do I apprehend it of any 
 mighty Confequence. He it feems is of another Mind, 
 and therefore cries, fray obferve the Confequence. I 
 am very free to it : He has made fuch fmall Earn- 
 ings hitherto, that he has his Liberty to make the 
 moft of it that ever he can, for me. 
 
 He fays that Mr. Dering had been examin'd by 
 the Privy Council upon feveral Articles taken out of 
 Cartwright's Writings, and appeared a Perfon of dan- 
 gerous Notions. A powerful friend of his fent him 
 the four Articles I recited, on Purpofc to try how far 
 he would be willing to yield, in order to his Refto- 
 ration to the Difcharge of his Function. Dering 
 fent back his Anfwer, and was thereupon admitted 
 by the Privy Council, to the great Grief of the 
 High Commiflioners, to read the Leclure in St 
 Paul's. And having given this Hiftorical Account, he 
 asks this Queftion ; with what Face then could Dr. Ca- 
 lamy ajfert, that Archbifhop Parker, andfevcral other 
 
 Diocefans
 
 142 Remarks ufon Dr. BennetV Effay 
 
 Diocefans, requird a, Subfcription of their Clergy, to 
 the Articles offer d to Mr. Dering ? I anfwer ; tho* 
 it was from a Friend that thefe Articles were fent 
 to Mr. Dering, and with a kind Defign, yet ftill it 
 continues true as I aflerted, that thefe were the 
 moft common Heads rcquird to be fubfcriVd, about 
 1573. Archbifhop Parker did then infift with 
 feveral upon a Subscription to Articles of this Na- 
 ture, and fo did other Bifhops too ; though each 
 particular Bifhop added or alter'd, as he thought 
 good, according to Gircumftances. And when he 
 comes to fee Mr. Morris's Papers, he will have full 
 Proof of this. So that either he fhould have drop- 
 ped his Charge of Falfifying, or taken better Care 
 to fupport it. 
 
 If he looks into Fuller, * he will find the Mi- 
 nifters of the County of Kent, requir'd to fubfcribe 
 to certain Articles, concerning her Majefty's Au- 
 thority, and concerning no Contrariety to the 
 Word of God in the Book of Common Prayer, 
 and Adminiftration of the Sacraments, and the Book 
 of ordering Bifhops Priefts and Deacons ; and that 
 they believ'd all Things in the Book of the Arti- 
 cles of Religion, to be agreeable to the the Word 
 of God, &c. And the very fame four Articles, with 
 a little Variation, were propofed to be fubfcrib'd 
 by feveral, in other Counties, as appears from the 
 feccnd Part of a Rfgifter, where there is a Paper 
 thus intitled ; Exceptions to be fallen Againfl tkofe 
 Articles, proposed to be fubfcriVd unto, by Minijlers 
 and People. And tho' I fliall not infert this Paper here 
 or take it into Confederation, I (hall yet by the 
 Way obferve, that I do not find it takes the lead 
 Notice of the controverted Claufe of the twenti- 
 eth Article ; which I fancy to fome will be art 
 Argument, that they had never heard of that Claufe, 
 OT elfe they would hardly have fail'd of obje&ing 
 againft if. 
 
 But I am attacked yet once more, and then the 
 formidable bullying Chapter draws to a Clofe. The 
 Doctor ic feems is much difturbed, that I fhould 
 
 fay 
 
 t Church H.'lwy, Book IX,' p, ifj-I
 
 on the Thirty-line Articles. 143 
 
 fay any th'ng of confidering and combining the Ar- 
 ticles which Mr Dermg, Mr. Greenham, and Mr. 
 Jchnfon were catfd upon to fubfcribe : And fhould of- 
 fer to intimate that they differ d in fever*! things one 
 from another : And yec really that was the common 
 .Way, as is known to any Man that knows any 
 thing of the Particulars of thofe Times. But for 
 his Part, he cannot believe that I ever faw the Ar- 
 ticles that were offered to Mr. Greenham. Poor Man ! 
 I would fain know what he takes himfelf to be! 
 He cannot believe! \Vhy then he may e'en let it 
 alone, and if he thinks good, applaud himfelf in 
 his Incredulity. He adds, Let him referr to the Place 
 if he ever did. Wonderful civil I confefs, and 
 Dictator like. What an unhappy Man was I that 
 I fhould neglect anfwering his Letters, and that 
 Way forfeit this moft ingenious Gentleman's Favour 
 to fuch a Degree, as to provoke him to tell all the 
 World, that my positive Affirmation ftands for nothing 
 with him ! He it feems has not feen the Articles 
 offered to Mr. Greenham. But what of that ! I have 
 feen a great many more things than he is aware of ; 
 a great many things that never came in his Wav, not- 
 withftanding his bufy Searches. He talks of the firft 
 Part of a Rfgiftcr, which perhaps he may have in 
 .his Poflefiion, though it is really very fcarce : But 
 I have feen afccond Part, which is much fcarcer, and 
 was never yet printed : Nay I have not only feen ir, 
 but had it for a conliderable Time in my PofleiTion ; 
 and Mr. Stryfe then favv it too, and from thence tran- 
 fcrib'd fome things for his own Ufe. I have feen 
 a great many different Sets of Queries, fenr to Mi 
 nifters in thofe Times ; and by what follows the Paf- 
 fages he has cavil'd at, in myfecond Defence of Mode- 
 rate Nonconformity, he might eafily perceive, that fe- 
 veral Forms of Subfcription, that were made and 
 admitted in thofe Days, have fallen into my Hands. 
 Perhaps cut of his abundant Civility, he may tell me 
 he believes none of them to be real : He looks upon 
 them all as counterfeited. And he may do juft as 
 he thinks good; and applaud his own dear Self, in 
 the Courfe he takes, as he pleafes. I am not difpo- 
 fed fo much as to attempt to give him Difturbancc. 
 VOL. II. K Upoa
 
 144 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennett EJjay 
 
 Upon the whole, he tdls me, that he thought 
 bitnfelf cbligd to lay of en my moft foul Pra&ices, for 
 fear unwary Readers jhculd depend ufon my Veracity. 
 What molt oblig'd or induc'd him to take the Me- 
 thod he has purfu'd, he may know bcft; though I 
 believe moft People will be apt to think, he a&ed 
 juft as his fplenetick Nature led him, without much 
 confidering the Confequences. And now that he has 
 given hirr.felf Vent fo plentifully, I can without the 
 leaft Concern about the IfTue, leave it to the Readers 
 to judge between him and me, not only as to Vera~ 
 city, but alfo as to Civility, and Candour, and com- 
 mon Honefty, and what elfe he pleafes; and parti- 
 cularly whether after all his Blattering, he has ex- 
 pos'd me or himfeif the moft. With an Appearance 
 of Solemnity, after the Atterburian Mode , with 
 which he both begins and ends, he declares he was 
 really a/ham 4 tofindfuch Abominations in the Writings 
 cf one that frofejjes himfeif a Chriftian. But by this 
 Time, (if he is not too much harden'd,) he may per- 
 haps fee Caufe to be really afkamd upon another 
 Account ; being made fenfibie that by multiplying 
 his vile Insinuations, where there was not the leaft 
 Occafion for them, he has given the World fo black 
 a Character of himfeif, thar in all Probability, his 
 App!aufe for the future will be more dreaded than 
 his Reflections, and it will be efteem'd an Honour 
 to have no Share in his Favour. He feems to be in 
 fome Fear, that if he had not anack'd me, People 
 might be inclined to diftruft fuch Particulars as he had 
 cftablijh'd, (or rather endeavcmr'd to eftablifh] in his 
 Book; And the Matter will not in my Opinion be 
 much mended, if after fo much Pains taken, he 
 fhould find that People are inclind to diftruft what- 
 ever comes from him ; and perceive that (as he 
 himfeif fays of another Gentleman) he has taken 
 great Pains to furchafe univerfal Contempt, (c) 
 (e't Prcf Ep. i-] e fignifies that he at firft intreated me, if I ceuld, 
 fo wipe nflr the fyproaeh which he was cafling on me : 
 (d) And now he invites me, to do myfelf Jujlice upon 
 
 |?4. l> " ? ' *'' w ; W and he % s he dces ' ic heartily: And tells 
 
 (} i\ sS- 3 . n-e. that as far as gocd Manners wculd fenr.it htm, 
 
 which all the World can bear wjrnefs he has little 
 
 con fohed,
 
 on the Thirtj-nine Articles. 14$ 
 
 confulted, he has dene his utmofl to provoke me to if. 
 And I muft confefs, I very much queftion, whether 
 even he himfelf, with all the ill Nature he is Mafter 
 of, (though I reckon few there out do him) could 
 have written more prwckjngly, or have mingled more 
 Gall with his Ink, than he has done in this whole 
 Chapter. But I have before now known feme of 
 the!e Triumphanc Writers, that have dar'd thofc 
 whom they have fet themfelves to oppofe to make a 
 Reply to them, who have feen Caufe enough to re- 
 penc ic afterwards. 
 
 Were he one that I could be free with, I would 
 advife him for Time to come, not to be fo very 
 fond of picking Quarrels, or challenging Perfons'to 
 write againft him : And ro let thofe alone, that are 
 free he fhould take his own Way ; and difcover no 
 Inclination to give him any Uneafinefs. 
 
 And that I may a little conform to him in the final 
 Conclnfion, I will vencure to fay, that I cannot hut 
 Add, that a Man who pours out the moft flaming 
 Reproaches and Slanders in this plentiful Manner on 
 one whenever did him any Injury, and inveighs fo 
 abufiveiy, againft one who has as good a Right to 
 the Freedom of his own Thoughts, and to pubjifh 
 them too, as himlelf ; does but act like himfelf, in 
 continually quarrelling with his honeft Neighbours 
 acd Parilhioners, to the tiring out of all that have any 
 thing to do with him, with his end'els Strife and 
 Conrention. But I as well as manv others that bear 
 him no ill Will, cannot help thinking, that it would 
 more become one of his Character and Profeflion 
 to remember and confider, that the Wifdom thac 
 is from above, is firft pure, then peaceable, gen- 
 tie, eafy to be inrreated, full of Mercy and good 
 Fruits, without Partiality, and without Hypocrify. 
 
 Pcflfcrift. 
 
 9L A. w
 
 Remarks ufon Dr. Bennet' EJJ'ay, (Jc. 
 
 Poflfcrift. 
 
 IT H i N ic not amifs to certify, all whom it may 
 concern, that thefe Remarks upon the Effay of 
 Dr. Bennet, were drawn up and finfh'd, long be- 
 fore I had the Sight of the true Copy of a Letter 
 from A Parfon to his Part/hioners, and the Pa.rijkioncr$ 
 jtrifaer, which have been lately publifli'd : And yet 
 if I was in Dr. Sennet's Cafe, I fhould think the 
 World might juftly exped from me as good a Re- 
 ply to that Anfwer as I was able to give, and that 
 i muft aeceflarily fuffer in my Credit and Reputation 
 as long as fucha Reply was wanting. 
 
 AN
 
 A N 
 
 D E X 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 NAMES of the PERSONS 
 
 'EJECTED or SILENC'D 
 B Y T H E 
 
 for Uniformity. 
 
 Ace. here refers to the Account I publifh'd before, 
 the Pages of which are referr'd to. 
 
 Cont. points to the two Volumes here publifti'd, the 
 Pages of which are alfo here referr'd to. 
 
 " An Atterisk prefix'd intimates there is a Cha- 
 ra&er given in this 
 
 MR. John Abbor, Ace. 
 f. 696 
 
 * Mr. Robert Abbor, Ace. 
 f-3<>7, Ccf./>.475 
 VOL. II. 
 
 Mr. Abbot of MonrnoutJj- 
 /hire, Ace. f. 473 
 
 Mr. James Abdy, Ace. f. 
 
 Mr. Ack worth, Ace. f. 381 
 
 Mr. Richard Adams ofLon- 
 don, Ace.f. 44, Cent. p. 65 
 
 A Mr.
 
 An I N D E X of Tbofe eje&ed 
 
 Mr. Richard Adams of Lei- 
 
 cefterfkire, Ace. p. 437, 
 
 Cont. p. 594 
 
 Mr. Thomas Adams, Ace. 
 f.66 
 
 Mr. John Adams, Ace. p. 
 566, Cont.f. 728 
 
 Mr. Tobias Adams, Ace. p. 
 604 
 
 Mr. William Adderley, Ace. 
 f. 34, Cont.f. 41 
 
 Mr. Bartholomew Adrian, 
 Ace. p. 654 
 
 Mr. John After, Ace. p. 38, 
 600, Cowf. />. 57, 746 
 
 Mr. John Agur, or Argor, 
 Ace. p. 304, Cont. p. 465 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Agus, or A- 
 
 gas, ^fcc. ;. 107, Cont. 
 
 p. 143 
 
 Mr. Samuel Ainfwonh, Ace. 
 7.496 
 
 Mr. Aires, Ace. p. 457 
 
 Mr. Henry Albin, Ace. p. 
 600, Cont. p. 746 
 
 Mr. Alcock, ^cc./>. 38 
 Mr. Alden, ^cc. />. 90 
 
 Mr. Edward Alexander , 
 Ace. p. 383, Cont. p. 5 43 
 
 * JMr. Samuel Alexander , 
 
 ,/fcc. p. 483, Cont. p. 630 
 
 * Mr. Matthew Alflat, ./for. ;. 
 
 609, Cont. p. 746 
 
 Mr. Alford, Ace. p. 459 
 
 Mr. Richard AUein, Ace. p. 
 580, CVA. pi 731 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Allein, Ace. p; 
 
 574> Con*.;. 730 
 
 Mr. William Allein, Ace. p. 
 
 263 
 
 * Mr. Jofeph Allen of Corn- 
 
 real, Ace. p. 216 
 
 Mr. Thomas Allen of Nor- 
 
 wich, Ace. p. 476, Cont. 
 
 p. 617 
 
 Mr. Thomas Allen of Suf- 
 fex, Ace. p. 693 
 
 * Mr. John Allen, Cont. p. 6 17 
 
 * Mr. Robert Allen, Ace. p. 
 
 495, Cont. p. 6 39 
 
 Mr. Allen of 'New-College, 
 Oxon, Ace. p. 75 
 
 Mr. John Allot, Ace. p. 531 
 
 Mr. Vincent Alfop, Ace. p. 
 487, Cont. p. 633 
 
 Mr. William Alfop, .Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Ifaac Ambrofe, Acc.pl 
 409, Cont. p. 566 
 
 Mr. Ambrofe of Hanwell, 
 Ace. p. 47X 
 
 Mr. Nehemiah Ambrofe, 
 Ace. p. 417 
 
 * Mr. William Ames, Ace. p. 
 648, Cent. p. 797 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Amgill ,' 
 Ace. p. 813 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Amiraut, 
 y4cc. p. 483, Cont. p. 630 
 
 Mr. Paul Amiraur, ^cc. />. 
 483, Cow*. ;. 630, 631 
 
 Mr. David Anderfon, ./for.' 
 
 f. 671 
 
 Mr.
 
 or fiknfd in the Tear 1662. 
 
 Mr. Anderfon ofBofton, Ace. 
 7.456 
 
 Mr. Philip Anderton, Ace. 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Andrews, Ace. 
 
 p. 491, Cont. p. 637 
 
 Mr. Angel of Effex, Ace. p. 
 310 
 
 * Mr. William Angel, Ace. p. 
 
 6 jo, Cont.p.%i<j 
 
 Mr. John Angier, Ace. p. 
 395 
 
 * Mr. Samuel Angier, *Cont. 
 
 p. no, &c 
 
 Mr. Philip Anisbit, Ace. p. 
 834 
 
 Dr. Samuel Annefley, Ace. 
 7.47, Cont. p. 65, tfc 
 
 Mr. William Appleby, Ace. 
 p. 331, Cont. p. 506 
 
 Mr. Archer of Effex, Ace. 
 p. 311 
 
 * Mr. Edward Archer, Ace. 
 
 p. 542, Cont. p. 718 
 
 Mr. Stephen Arlifli, or Ar- 
 
 lufh, Ace. p. 822, Cont. 
 
 7.952 
 
 Mr. Robert Armitage, Ace ' 
 p. 80 1 
 
 Mr. Arnold, Ace. p. 34, 
 Cont. p. 42, who perhaps 
 may be the fame that is 
 mention'd at Bromley in 
 Kfnt, Ace. p. 382 
 
 * Mr. Arnold of Lmcolnfiire, 
 
 1, Cont. p. 606 
 
 Mr. Arnold of Paddington, 
 Ace, p. 472 
 
 Mr. Elias Arnold of Sutfex, 
 Acc.p.6<)o 
 
 Dr. John Arthur, Ace. p. 
 666 
 
 Mr. Simeon Aftie, Ace. p. 
 i, Cont. p. i, &c 
 
 Mr. James Afhhurft, Ace. 
 p. 71, Cont. p. 104 
 
 Mr. Afnhurft e/ Bedford- 
 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 93, Cow*. 
 
 /. 131 
 
 Mr. William AMey, -^cc. 
 7. 814, 818 
 
 Mr. Aflily, Ace. p. 633 
 
 Mr. John Afhwood, Ace. p. 
 150 
 
 Mr. Bartholomew Afhwood, 
 Ace. p. 249, Cont. p. 350 
 
 Mr. William Afpinwall , 
 
 >4cc. p. 415, 531, Gf. 
 
 7. 572, 698 
 
 Mr. Perer Afpinwall, Ace. 
 p. 419 
 
 Mr. Richard Aftley, Ace. 
 p. 414, Cent. p. 569 
 
 Mr. John Afty, ^cc. p. 655, 
 Cont. p. 805 
 
 Mr. Robert Atkins, ^cc. 7- 
 214, Cmff.f. 138 
 
 Mr. Peter Atkinfon, 5r. 
 ./to. 7. 410, Cont. p. 566 
 
 Air. Peter Atkinfon, Jjw 
 ^. 7. 417, Cont. p. 573 
 
 A 1 
 
 Mr.
 
 4 An I N D E X of Thoje e]etied 
 
 Mr. Simon Atkinfon, Ace. 
 P- 158 
 
 Mr. William Atcerfol, Ace. 
 2- <>99 
 
 Mr. Richard Avery, Ace. 
 
 ' f- I0 3 
 
 Mr. Avien, Ace. f. 28 1 
 
 Mr. Samuel Auftin, Ace. f. 
 150 
 
 Mr. Peter Auftin, Ace. p- 
 490, Cont. p. 635 
 
 B 
 
 Mr. Babb, Ace. p. 623 
 
 Mr. Richard Babbington, 
 Ace. ^.256, Cont. p. 376 
 
 Mr. Bachelor, Ace. p. 844 
 
 Mr. Ifaac Bacon, Ace. p. 
 
 204 
 
 Mr. Henry Backaller, Ace. 
 p. 97, Cont. p. 132, 379 
 
 Mr. Samuel Backlar, Ace. 
 P- 654 
 
 Mr. Thomas Badland, Ace. 
 p. 629, Cont. p. 779 
 
 Mr. William Bagfhaw, Ace. 
 p. 197 
 
 Mr. Edward Baggfhaw'^cc. 
 />. 542, Cont. p. 719 
 
 Mr. William Bagly, yfcc. 
 p. 567, CowJ. /. 728 
 
 Mr. William Bally, Ace. p. 
 242, Cent. p. 276, dk 
 
 Mr. John Baker of Wilts, 
 Ace. ^.760 
 
 Mr. John Baker of Norfolk, 
 Ace. p. 48 1 
 
 Mr. John Baker cf Scmcr. 
 
 fct, Ace. p. 614, Cent. 
 
 p. 767 
 
 Mr. Jcfeph Baker, Ace. p. 
 763 
 
 Mr. Baker of Kent, Ace. 
 p. 384, faifly pag'd 382 
 
 Mr. Baker cf Chcfkirc, Ace- 
 
 **+1: P- l * 1 *. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Bakewell , 
 
 Ace. p. 628, Cont. p. 775, 
 
 776 
 
 Mr. Thorna^ Baldwin, Sen. 
 Ace. p. 774, Cont. p. 893 
 
 Mr. Thomas Baldwin, fan. 
 Ace. p. 624 
 
 Mr. Roger Baldwin, Ace. 
 
 p- m 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Ball, Ace. 
 p. 362, Cont. p. 531 
 
 Mr. William Ball, Ace. p. 
 604 
 
 Mr. Henry Ballard, Ace. p. 
 74* 
 
 Mr. Francis Bampfield, Ace. 
 p. 258, Cont. p. 411 
 
 Mr. Jofias Banger, Ace. p. 
 249, Cont. p. 350 
 
 Mr. John Banifter, Ace. p. 
 
 481 
 
 ^ 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Bann, Ace' 
 
 P- 544 
 Mr.
 
 or filenfd in the Year 1662. 
 
 Mr. Bantofr, Ace. p. 310, 
 Cow?, p. 485 
 
 Mr. Edmond Barber, Ace, 
 p. 658, Cent. p. 805 
 
 Mr. John Barcrofr, Ace. p. 
 763 
 
 Mr. Matthew Barker, Ace. 
 p. 45, tont.p. 63,64 
 
 Mr. Edward Barker, Ace. 
 
 f MS' 
 
 Mr. Clement Barling, Ace. 
 
 p. 384, falfly pag'd 381 
 
 Mr. Robert Barlow, Ace. 
 p. 134, Cont. p. 173 
 
 Mr. Thomas Barnes, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Jofliua Earner, Ace. p. 
 565, Cont. p. 726 
 
 Mr. Andrew Barner, Ace. 
 p. 566 
 
 Mr. David Barns, yfcc. f. 
 818 
 
 Mr. James Baron, /fee. p. 
 98 
 
 Mr. Simon Barret, Ace. p. 
 102 
 
 Mr. John Barret, Ace. p. 
 524, Otf. f. 687, 688 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Barry, Ace. 
 p. 380 
 
 Mr. J. Barfton, Ace. p. 354 
 
 Mr. John Bart'et o/ /lA'w, 
 Ace. p. 2 1 8, GJMJ. ;>. 138 
 
 Mr. John Bartlet of Fre- 
 
 mington , Ace. p. 249, 
 
 Cont. p. v>i 
 
 Mr. William Bartlet of 
 
 Biddiford, Ace. p. 240, 
 
 Cont. p. 2,63 
 
 * Mr. Robert Bartlet, Ace. 
 p. 281, Cont.p 43i,C&? 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Barton, Ace. 
 p. 203 
 
 Mr. John Barton, Ace. p. 
 380, Cont.p. 536 
 
 Mr.Jofiah Baflet, Ace. f. 
 742, Cow/-. /. 854 
 
 Mr. Samuel Baflhet, Ace. p. 
 71* 
 
 Mr. Bafnet or Barnet, Ace. 
 
 p. 543, Cont. p. 719 
 
 Mr. Baftwick, Ace. p. 311 
 
 Z>r. William Bates, yfcc. />. 
 49, Cont. p. 75 
 
 Mr. Robert Bath, Ace. p. 
 ; 399, Cont. p. 5 6Z 
 
 Mr. Bathoe, Ace. p. 648 
 Mr. Batloe, Cont. p. 117 
 
 Mr. Timothy Batr, Ace. p. 
 603, Cc/-. p. 751 
 
 Mr. John Batt, Ace. p. 613 
 
 Mr. Richard Batten, Ace. 
 p. 149 
 
 Mr. Francis Batty, Ace. p. 
 
 * M/-. Richard Baxter, 
 
 p. 897, e?c. efe efc 
 
 * Mr. Nathanael Baxter, Cent. 
 
 p. 570 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Baxter, Ace. 
 
 p. 769, Cm.^>.885 
 
 Mr.
 
 An I N D E X of There e]e r ded 
 
 Mr. Stephen Baxter, Ace. 
 P- 77 
 
 Mr. Thomas Bayes, Ace. p. 
 483 
 
 9 Mr. Samuel Bayes, Ace. p. 
 496, Cont. p. 643 
 
 Mr. Bayes of Suffolk., Ace. 
 p. 648 
 
 Mr. Thomas Baylie, Ace. 
 p. 754, Cont. p. 864 
 
 Mr. John Baynard, ./tfcc. p. 
 490, C0. />. 635 
 
 .* Mr. James Bayock, ^ec. p. 
 p. 835, Cont. p. 958 
 
 ^ Mr. John Bazely, vfcc. p. 
 496, C<w*. /. 635 
 
 Mr. John Beadle, ^w. /. 
 301, Cont. p. 460 
 
 Mr. Robert Beak, Ace. p. 
 
 . 375 
 
 Mr. William Beal, Ace. p. 
 328, Cont. p. 503 
 
 Mr. Bean, Ace. p. 741 
 
 Mr. Thomas Beard, Ace. 
 p. 309, Cont. p. 485 
 
 Mr. John Beaton, Ace. p. 
 685 
 
 Mr. Nehemiah Beaton, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Beaumont, Ace. p. 673 
 
 Mr. George Beck, Ace. p. 
 457, Ccwf. p. 605 
 
 Mr. Becket, ^cc. p. 329 
 
 Mr.. Ifaac Bedford, Ace. p. 
 366 
 
 Mr. James Bedford, Ace p. 
 371, C0*.j>. 533 
 
 Mr. Henry Bee, Ace. p . 633 
 * Mr. Beebee, C0*. />. 1000 
 
 Mr. John Beeby, Ace. p. 
 204, Cont. p. 236 
 
 Mr. Edwar4 Beecher, Ace. 
 p. 696 
 
 Mr. Beerman, Ace. p. 3 5 
 
 Mr. Richard Beefton, ^(cc. 
 P- 717 
 
 Mr. William Belcher, Ace. 
 /. 381, Cof./>. 541 
 
 Mr. William Bell, Ace. p. 
 404, Cont. p. 564 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Bell of Nor- 
 thumberland, Ace. p. 513 
 
 Mr. Bell of Pollefworth, Ace. 
 
 f- 743 
 
 Mr. Bendy, Ace. p. 635 
 
 Mr. Benlows, Ace. ^.513 
 
 Mr. William Benn, Ace. p. 
 157, Cont. p. 409 
 
 Mr. Robert Bennet, Ace. 
 p. i7 
 
 Mr. Edward Benner, Ace. 
 ?i.- f. 27$ 
 
 Mr. Philip Bennet, -4cc. /. 
 417, Cwif. f. 573 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Bennet, yfcc. p. 
 68 1, Cont. p.^ 17 
 
 Mr. John Bennet o/ #^*V- 
 wzc^., Ace. p. 410 
 
 Mr. John Benfon of Ejfex, 
 
 Ace, p. 309, Cent. p. 484 
 
 Mr.
 
 or fdenfd in the Tear 1662. 
 
 Mr. Benfon of Cumberland, 
 Ace. p. 154 
 
 Mr. Ely Bently, Ace. p. 804 
 
 Mr. William Benton, Ace. 
 p. 791 
 
 Mr. Thomas Benton, Sen: 
 Ace. p. 483 
 
 Mr. Thomas Benton, Jun. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Mr. Nehemiah Benton , 
 Ace. p. 34, Cont. p. 43 
 
 Mr. Samuel Beresford,^cc. 
 p. 165, Cont. p. 230 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Berry, Ace. 
 p. 246, Cont. p. 329 
 
 * Mr. John ' Berry, Ace. p. 
 
 p. 253, Cont. p. 370, &c 
 
 Mr. Henry Berry, Ace. p. 
 602, Cont. p. 750 
 
 Mr. Hugh Berhel, Ace. p. 
 131 
 
 Mr. Richard Bickle, Cont. 
 p. 406 
 
 Mr. William Bicknell, Ace. 
 /35 
 
 * Mr. William Bidbank, Ace. 
 
 p. 483, Cont. p. 628 
 
 Mr. Robert Bidbank, Ace. 
 P> 483 
 
 Mr. John Bigley, Ace. p. 
 309 
 
 Mr. John Billingfiey, Ace. 
 p. 169, Cont. p. 233 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Billingfiey, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Robert Billio, Ace. pi 
 308, Cont. p. 478, <5c 
 
 Mr. George Bindon, Ace* 
 p. 602, Cont. p. 750 
 
 Mr. John Bingham, Ace. -p* 
 187, 
 
 Mr. John Binmore, Ace. p. 
 245, Cowf. p. 31$ 
 
 Mr. Binfhul, Ace. p. 119 
 
 Mr. Robert Birch, Ace. p* 
 
 414 
 
 * Mr. Samuel Birch, Ace. ft 
 
 541, Cont.p.joj, 3c. 
 
 efc. 
 
 Mr. Birdfal, 'Ace. ^.79?' 
 
 Mr. John Birker, Ace. -p. 
 p. 458, Cow*, p. 6o. 
 
 Mr. John Bifcoe, Ace. p. 35, 
 Cw. j>. 44, 
 
 * Mr. William Blackaller , 
 
 Cont. p. 379 
 
 Mr. William Blackmore* 
 
 Ace --H, Cont. p. ^ 
 
 Mr. William Blackway, 
 
 Ace. p. 33J 
 
 Mr. Thomas Bladon, Ace. 
 p. 631, Ccf. />. ?8z 
 
 Mr, William Blagrave, Ace. 
 
 f- 92. 
 
 Mr. Henry Blake, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Blake, Acci 
 p. 6901 
 
 Mr. Blakely, ^. ^>. 307 
 Mr .
 
 An I N D E X ef Thofe ejected 
 
 Mr. Richard Blinman, Ace. 
 p. 610, Cent:, p. 756 
 
 Mr. Samuel Blower, Ace. 
 p. 542, Cont. f. Tin 
 
 Mr. Matthew Bloom, Ace. 
 p. 787, Cent. p. 940 
 
 Mr. Robert Blunt, Ace. p. 
 504 
 
 Mr. John Blunt, Ace. p. 
 834, Cont. p. 955 
 
 Mr. Bodin, Ace. p. 328 
 
 Mr. George Boheme, Ace. 
 p. 449, Cent. p. 602 
 
 Mr. Mauritius Boheme , 
 Ace. p. 438, Cont. p. 594 
 
 >r. John Bond, Ace. p. $3 
 
 Mr. Sampfon Bond, Ace. p. 
 150, Cont. p. 125 
 
 Mr. Thomas Bonner, ^cc. 
 p. 448 
 
 Mr. Bonniman, Ace. p. 133 
 Mr. Booler, ^cc./. 613 
 
 Mr. Boon cf Finham, Cont. 
 p. 864 
 
 Mr. Samuel Borfer, Ace. p. 
 goa, Cow*, p. 464 
 
 Mr. Thomas Bofle, ^cc. p. 
 436, CCHJ. /. 593 
 
 * Mr. Bofworth, Ace. p. 516, 
 Cont. p. 690 
 
 Mr. Bore, ^cc. p. 567 
 
 Mr. Ephraim Bothel, Ace. 
 p.tfz 
 
 Mr. Edward Boucher, Ace. 
 p. 774, Cwif. ^-893 
 
 * Mr. Tobias Boucher, ^icc. 
 
 p. 149, Ccf. /. 216 
 
 Mr. Bovil of Bramley, Ace. 
 p.%17, Cent. p. 959 
 
 Mr. George Bound, Ace. p. 
 304 
 
 * Mr. Samuel Bourne, Cent. 
 
 p. 231 
 
 Mr. John Bowden, Ace. p. 
 248, Cent. p. 335 
 
 Mr. Bowen, or Bomven, 
 Ace. p. 54 z, Cent. p. 714 
 
 Mr. Edward Bowles, Ace. 
 ;>. 779, Cent. p. 933 
 
 Mr. John Bowy, Ace. p. 2 90 
 Mr. Bowyer, Ace. p. 2,81 
 
 Mr. Thcmas Bowyer, Ace. 
 f- ^35 
 
 Mr. Thomas Brace, Ace. p. 
 
 .<;-' 75 
 
 Mr. Braddow, Ace. p. 623 
 
 Mr. Kathanael Bradfliaw 
 Ace. p. in 
 
 Mr. James Bradfhavv of 
 Chc/bire, Ace. p. 123, 
 
 * Mr. James Bradfliaw of 
 
 Lanes. fhire, Ace. p. 414, 
 Cent. p. 567, &c 
 
 Mr. Thomas Brag, Ace. p. 
 349 
 
 Mr. 'Robert Bragge, Ace. 
 p. 51, Ccwr. ;>. 74 
 
 Mr. Thomas Brand, Ace. p. 
 839, Cont. p. 965 
 
 Mr. Brecknock, <4cc. ;. 840
 
 1} the Att for Uniformity, 
 
 Mr. 
 
 Mr. John Brett, Ace. p. 697, 
 Cent. p. 832 
 
 Mr. Richard Breviter, Ace. 
 p. 484, Cent. p. 63 1 
 
 Mr. John Brice of Berths, 
 Ace. p. 99, falfly pag'd 90 
 
 Mr. John Brice of Dorfet- 
 
 Jkire, Ace. p. 291, Cent. 
 
 p. 419 
 
 Mr. William Brice, Ace. p. 
 540, Cow/-, p. 704 
 
 Mr. Samuel Bricknall, Ace. 
 ^.688 
 
 Mr. William Bridge, Ace. 
 p. 478 
 
 Mr. Haflefoot Bridges, Ace. 
 p. 35, Con/./. 44 
 
 Mr. Samuel Bridges, ^cc. 
 ?. 37, Cent. p. 475 
 
 Mr. Bridgman, yfcc. />. 256, 
 ^['.a'.Cont.p. 376 
 
 Mr. John Brinfley, -^cc. />. 
 477, Ctmt.p.6\i 
 
 Mr. Samuel Brinfley, Ace. 
 p. 309, Cent. p. 316 
 
 Mr.Robert Brl>fley,/4cc..84 
 
 Mr. Michael Brifcoe, Ace. 
 p. 407 
 
 Mr. Theophilus Brittain , 
 Ace. p. 456 
 
 Mr. Daniel Broadly, Ace. 
 t- '59 
 
 * Mr. Edmund Brome, Ace. 
 p. 480, Cont.p.6^'} 
 
 Mr. Patrick Bromfield, /to. 
 p. 511 
 VOL. II. 
 
 Mr. Andrew Bromhall, Ace* 
 p. 53, 266 
 
 Mr. Oliver Bromskill, Ace. 
 p. 421, Cent. p. 581 
 
 Mr. Thomas Brook, Ace. p. 
 133 
 
 Mr. Thomas Brooks, Ace* 
 p. 2,7, Cont. p. 28 
 
 Mr. Samuel Brooks, Ace. p. 
 371, Cont. p. 533 
 
 * Mr. William Brooks of War- 
 
 mclyhire, Ace. p. 743, 
 
 , Cent. p. 854 
 
 *' Mr. William Brooks ofStaf* 
 r -j.-\fordjkirc t Ace. p. 633, 
 
 , ^^Cont.p. 785 
 
 Mr. Thomas Broomwich,' 
 : Ace. p. 769 
 
 Mr. Brough, Ace. p. 290 
 
 Mr. Brounker, Ace. p. 612, 
 Cont. p. 766 
 
 Mr. Thomas Brown, Ace. 
 
 O^Y-VTf T . 
 
 ft. 54.7 
 
 .r^ ILbiuS rjjfi'i'V/ 
 Mr. Edward Brown, ^cc. 
 
 r / 45 1 
 Mr. Brown of Lincclnjhirc, 
 
 j * Mr. Jofeph Brown, Ace. p. 
 31 1,, Con?, p. 486 
 
 , * Mr. Robert Brown, Ace. p. 
 776, Cont. p. 894 
 
 I Mr. Thomas Browning , 
 Ace. p. 493, Cont. p. 638 
 
 Mr. Bruce, Ace. p. 53, 572, 
 Cont. p. 76 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Brunning , 
 Ace. p. 645
 
 io An I N D E X of Thofe ejetted or fiknfd 
 
 Dr. John Bryan, Ace. / 735, 
 Cent. p. 850 
 
 Mr. John Bryan, Ace. p. 5^6 
 Mr. Noah Bryan,y4cc./>.6i9 
 
 Mr. Samuel Bryan, Ace. p. 
 743 
 
 Mr. Jarvls Bryan, Ace. p. 
 771, Cent. p. 893 
 
 Mr. Edward Buckler, Ace. 
 p. 34.0, Cont. p. 508 
 
 Mr. John Buckly, Ace. p. 134 
 
 Mr. John Bulkley, Ace. p. 
 311, Con*. ^. 487 
 
 Mr. John Bulkly of Suffex, 
 Ace. p. 688 r Cont. p. 813 
 
 Mr. Bull, Ace. p. 47 1 
 
 Mr. Bullock, Ace. p. 4 1 8 
 
 Mr. John Bunkley, Ace. p. 
 Iio 
 
 Mr. Thomas Burbeck, Ace. 
 />. 789, Cont. p. 940 
 
 Mr. William Burchil, Ace. 
 p. 117 
 
 Mr. Thomas Burdall or 
 Byrdall, Ace. p. 6^6, 
 
 Cont. p. 773 
 p 
 
 Mr. James Burd wood, yfrc. 
 ^. no, Cow/-. ^. 144 
 
 Mr. Richard Burefs, yfrc./. 
 384, falfly pag'd 381 
 
 Mr. Edward Burgal, Acc.'p. 
 1 18, Cont. p. 171 
 
 Dr. Cornelius Burgefs, Ace. 
 p. 386, Cont. p. 736, &c 
 
 Mr. John Burgefs, Ace. p. 
 2,41, Co/-. p. 
 
 Mr. Anthony Burgefs, Ace. 
 
 p.739> Cont. p. 853 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Burgefs, Ace. 
 
 P- 349 
 
 * Mr. Daniel Burgefs, Ace. p. 
 
 760, Cent. p. 871, &c 
 
 * Mr. Miles Burket, Ace. p. 
 
 483, Cont. p. 626 
 
 Mr. Burnaby, Ace. p. 311 
 Mr. Burnand, Ace. p. 1 5 8 
 Mr. Samuel Burner, Ace. p. 
 54* 
 Mr. St John Borrough, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Burrough, Ace. p. 48 1 
 
 Mr. Burroughs of Lincoln- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 461 
 
 Mr. Burroughs of Northamp- 
 ton/hire, Ace. p. 496 , 
 Cont. p. 644 
 
 Mr. Burfdall, Ace. p. 793, 
 ^n\",' Cont -P' 94' 
 Mr. Jeremy Burwell, Ace. 
 p. 361, Cow?. />. 530 
 
 Mr. Edward Bury, Ace. p. 
 557, Cont. p. 713 
 
 Mr. John Bufh, ^cc. p. 6 1 r, 
 
 Cowf. />. 762 
 f . i 
 
 Mr. John Bufhnell, v4cc. ^ 
 693 
 
 Mr. Butler of Bucty, Ace', 
 p. 107 
 
 Mr. John Butler of Litch- 
 field, Ace. p. 627, Cont. 
 t- 77_4> 775 
 
 Mr.
 
 ly tie Aft for Uniformity. 
 
 ii 
 
 Mr. John Burler of Norfolk^, 
 Acc.p.^Ko, Cent. p. 6^z 
 
 Mr. Butler of 'Northampton- 
 Jhire, Ace. f. 496 
 
 Mr. Henry Butler, Ace. />. 
 611 
 
 Mr. Butler of 
 
 Ace. p. 744, Cont. p. 854 
 
 Mr. Butr, Ace. p. 332 
 
 Mr. Ralph Button, Ace. p. 
 60, Cont. p. 90 
 
 Mr. Byard, Ace. p. 834 
 Mr. Byat, Ace. p. 633 
 
 Mr. Richard Byfield, Ace. 
 p. 664 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Byfield, Ace. 
 p. 256, Cont. p. 376 
 
 Mr. John Bywater, Ace. p. 
 610,717,0^. p. 7 5 6,844 
 
 Mr. Thomas Buxton, Ace. 
 p. 629 
 
 * Mr. Edward Buxton, Cont. 
 p. 235 
 
 Mr. Cade, Ace. p. 649 
 
 Mr. Edmund Calamy, Sen. 
 Ace. p. 4, Cont. p. 7 
 
 Mr. Edmund Calamy, Jun. 
 Acc.p.io\,Cont.p. 46 1, ($c 
 
 Mr. Lewis Calandrine, Ace. 
 f 311, Cont. ^.485 
 
 Mr. David Calderwood , 
 Ace. p. 6iz 
 
 Mr. Abraham Caley, Ace. 
 *. 35 
 
 Mr. Thomas Calvert, Ace. 
 783, C<wr. p. 939 
 
 Mr. James Calvert, Ace. p. 
 
 830 
 4 
 Mr. Crammerford, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Campion, Ace. 
 p. 566 
 
 Mr. Matthias Candler, Ace, 
 p. 651 
 
 Mr. Cane, /fee. />. 497 
 
 Mr. Daniel Capel, Ace. p* 
 317, Cont.p.wz 
 
 Mr. Robert Carel, Ace. p. 
 249, Cwtf. p. 351 
 
 Mr. John Carmitchel, ytfce. 
 />. 159, Cont. p, 216 
 
 Mr. James Carr, yicc. f. ' 5 9 
 
 Mr. Carr of Effex, Ace. p. 
 308 
 
 Mr. Carflake, Ace. p. 148,' 
 Cont. p. 338 
 
 Mr. Solomon Carfwill, Ace. 
 p. 150 
 
 * Mr. William Carftairs, Cont. 
 p. 676 
 
 Mr. John Cart, Ace. p. 789, 
 Cont. p. 940 
 
 Mr. Carter of Crookfd-lane ; 
 ./ice. />. 36 : Who perhaps 
 may be famePerfon men- 
 tion'd, Ace. p. 38* 
 
 B 2 Mr.
 
 12 An INDEX of Thofe ejeffed cr 
 
 Mr. Thomas Carter, Ace. p. 
 383, Cent. p. 543 
 
 Mr. John Cartwright, Ace. 
 p. 125, Cont. p. 170 
 
 Mr. John Cwer,Acc. p. 7 1 7 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Gary, Ace. p. 
 473 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Caryl, Ace. p. 
 7, Cent. p. \i 
 
 Mr. Sampfon Caryl, Ace. 
 p. 673 
 
 Mr.Roberc Caryl, Acc.p.2^ 
 
 Mr. Thomas Cafe, Ace. p. 
 il, Cent. p. 13 
 
 Mr. John Caftle, Ace. p. 88 
 Mr. Catch, ^cc 7. 472 
 
 Mr. Cater, Ace. p. 367, 
 Cow?. 7. 5 3 i 
 
 Air. James Cave, -4cc. />. 
 159, Cont. p.izi, &c 
 
 Mr. Edward Cauthorn, ^cc- 
 ^.497, Cont. p. 648 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Cawthorne, ^cc. 
 />. 455, Con*. 7.603 
 
 Mr. Daniel Cawdrey, Ace. 
 p. 489 
 
 Mr. Thomas Cawton, Ace 
 p. 73, Cent. p. 106 
 
 Mr. John Chadflev, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Richard Cardinal, Ace. 
 p. 314, Cow*. 7. 491 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Chadwick, Ace, 
 
 Dr. Humphrey Chambers, 
 Ace. *. 753, Cent. p. 864 
 
 Mr. Francis Chandler, Ace. 
 p. 312, Co. />. 
 
 Mr. Richard Chantry, 
 
 p. 624, Cent. p. 770 
 
 Mr. Chaplyn, /7cc. />. 268, 
 Cowf. ^.421 
 
 Mr. Chapman o/ Corpus 
 Chrifti, Ace. p. 9 1 
 
 Mr. Samuel Chapman, Ace- 
 p. 649 
 
 Mr. Samuel Charles, ^cc. 
 ^. 182, 
 
 Mr. Naihanael Charkon, 
 Ace. p. 604 
 
 Mr. Stephen Charman, Ace. 
 791, Cant. p. 940 
 
 Mr. Stephen Charnock, Ace. 
 "p. 56, Cont. p. 8 1 
 
 * Mr. Ifaac Chauncey, yfcc. />. 
 761, Cent. p. 877 
 
 Dr. Ichabod Chauncey, Ace. 
 p. 6 10, Ccwf. /. 756 
 
 Mr. Thomas Cheefman , 
 ^cc. />. 103, Cont. p. 136 
 
 Mr. Chelhire, ^cc. j? . 43 7 
 
 Mr. John Chefter, Ace. p. 
 414, Con*./. 5 8 7 
 
 Dr. Francis Cheynel, ^cc. 
 p. 625, Cowf. /> 816 
 
 Mr. John Chifhul, Ace. p. 
 . 239, Cent. p. 262, &c 
 
 Mr. Jacob Chriftopher, >4cc. 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Church, Ace. p. 
 38, Cont. p. 57 
 
 > .% Mr.
 
 by the Aft for 
 
 Mr. Jofiah Church, Ace. p. 
 310, Ccnt.f. 485 
 
 Mr. Jofuah Churchill, Ace. 
 p. ^6^ t Cent. p. 416 
 
 Mr. Nicolas dagger, Ace. 
 p. 646, Cent. p. 787, 789 
 
 Mr. Ambrofe Clare, Ace. p. 
 240, Cont.p. 273 
 
 Mr. Samuel Clarke, Sen. 
 Ace. p. n, Cent. p. 13 
 
 Mr. Sabbarh Clarke, Ace. 
 p. 130, Cont. p. 172 
 
 Mr. Samuel Clarke, Jun. 
 Ace. p. 105, Cont. p. 141 
 
 Mr. John Clarke of Not ting- 
 
 hnmfb'tre , Ace. p. 529, 
 
 Cont.p. 697 
 
 Mr. John Clarke of Berk/, 
 Ace. p. 99 ; falfly pag'd 90 
 
 Mr. John Clarke of Suffolk., 
 Ace. p. 654, Cow/. />. 803 
 
 Mr. John Clarke of EJfcx, 
 Ace. p. 307, Cont.p. 676 
 
 Mr. Thomas Clarke of Ef- 
 fex,Acc. ^.304,0^.^.468 
 
 Mr. Thomas Clarke cf 
 Hampjhirc, Ace. p. 346, 
 Cont. p. 5 j 5 
 
 Mr. Matthew Clarke, y^cc- 
 />. 421, Cont.p. 581, C?c 
 
 Mr. Perer Clarke, Ace. p. 
 822 
 
 Mr. Clark / Lynfel in Ef- 
 fex, Ace. />. 3 i 2 
 
 Mr. Clark of Chipping Nor- 
 ton 9 Ace. p. 540 
 
 Mr. David Clarkfon, Ace. 
 p. 667, Cont.p. 813 
 
 Mr. Luke Clayton, Ace', p. 
 788 
 
 * Mr. Benjamin Cleland, Ace. 
 
 p. 245, Cont.p. 314 
 
 * Mr. Richard Cleyton, Ace. 
 
 p. 633, Cow?. /. 784 
 
 Mr. Abraham Clifford, Ace. 
 p. 90, Cont.p. 128 
 
 Mr. Ifaac Clifford, ^cc. /. 
 280 
 
 Mr. Samuel Clifford, Ace. 
 
 f. 764 
 Mr. Zachary Clifton, Ace. 
 
 p. 696 
 Mr. William Clopton, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Coates, Ace. f. 
 
 Mr. Cob, Ace. p. 35 
 
 Mr. George Cockayn, AM. 
 p. 35, Cont. p. 51 
 
 Mr. Thomas Cole, Ace. p.' 
 6 1 9 Cent. ^.90 
 
 Mr. John Cole, Ace. p. 309, 
 Cont. p. 164, 481 
 
 Mr. Colewhone, Ace. p. 834 
 
 Mr. Collet, Ace. p. 652 
 
 Mr. Anthony Collier, Ace. 
 
 /33*. 353, Cont. p. 506 
 
 Mr. Collier of Warwickshire, 
 Ace. p. 744, Cont.p. 855 
 
 Dr. John Collinges, yfcc. p. 
 474, Cont.p. 61$ 
 
 Air-
 
 14 An I N D E X of Thofe ejected orJiknCd 
 
 Mr. John Collins, Ace. p. 
 837, Cont. p. 962 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Collins, Ace. 
 f. 614 
 
 Mr. Robert Collins, Ace. p- 
 250, Cont. f. 353, &c. 
 
 Mr. John Collyer, Acc.p.i^ 
 
 Mr. Francis Comyng, Ac& 
 f. 361, -Cont. p. 531 
 
 Mr. Coney, Ace. f. 543 
 
 Mr. Richard Comyns, Ace. 
 
 f. 99, falfly pag'd 90 , 
 
 Cont. f. 133 
 
 Mr. Tobias Conyer, Ace. f. 
 
 33, Cont. p. 35 
 
 Mr. Conftable, Ace. p. 308, 
 
 Cont. f. 478 
 
 Mr. James Conftantine, Ace. 
 f. 909 
 
 Mr. Robert Conftantine , 
 Ace., p 398 
 
 * Mr. Conway, Ace. p. 71, 
 
 Cont. p 105 
 
 * Mr. George Cook, Ace. p. 
 
 530, Cont. p. 698 
 
 Mr. William Cooke, Ace. p. 
 119, Cont. p. 165, &c. 
 
 Mr. Cook ofWinckcfter in 
 Hampfhire, Ace. p. 351 
 
 * Mr. Richard Cook, Ace. p. 
 
 777, Cont. p. 896 
 
 Mr. Robert Cook, ^cc. />. 
 
 204 
 
 Mr. William Cooper, ^cc. 
 p. n, Otf. /. 1 8 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Cooper, ^cc. ^. 
 767, Cont. p. 884 
 
 Mr. Henry Cooper of Suf- 
 
 foll^, Ace. p. 659, Cont. 
 
 p. '806 
 
 Mr. Henry Cooper of War- 
 
 Vfickfhire , ^cc. />. 750, 
 
 Cow*, jp. 863 
 
 Mr. John Cooper, Ace. p. 
 331 
 
 Mr. Cooper of Huntingdon- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 371, Cont. 
 
 f- 534 
 
 Mr. Vincent Cooper or Cup- 
 per, Ace. p. 496, Cont. 
 p. 644 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Cope, Ace. p. 
 127, Cont. p. 170 
 
 Mr. Edward Coppin, Ace. 
 p. 386 
 
 Mr. John Corbet, ^cc./>. 333 
 
 * Mr. Edward Corbet, Ace. 
 
 p. 480, Cont p. 613 
 
 Mr. Samuel Corbyn, Ace. 
 p. 88, Cont. p. 123 
 
 * Mr. William Corderoy , 
 
 Ace. p. 684, Cont. p. 818 
 
 Mr. Richard Coore, Ace. 
 p. 813, Cont. p. 948 
 
 Mr. Corker, Ace. p. 384, 
 falfly pag'd, 381 
 
 Mr. Henry Cornifti, Ace. 
 p. 67 
 
 Mr. John Cory, Ace. p. 483, 
 ?. 628 
 
 Mr.
 
 by the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. John Conman, Ace. p. 
 49* 
 
 Mr. Stephen Coven, Ace. f. 
 256, Cent. f. 379 
 
 . Mr. Thomas Courtney, Ace. 
 
 P- 59 
 Mr. John Cowbridge, Ace. 
 
 p. 148 
 
 Mr. George Cowper, Ace' 
 f. 70, Cent. f. 104 
 
 * Mr. Henry Coxe, Ace. p. 
 
 347, Cont.p. 516 
 
 * Mr. Ellas Crabrree, Ace. p. 
 
 481, Cont. p. 623 
 
 Mr. Samuel Cradock, Ace' 
 p. 581, Cont. p. 731 
 
 Mr. Cramlington, Ace. p. 449 
 
 Mr. Thomas Crane , Ace. 
 p. 268, Cont. p. 421 
 
 Mr. Cranford, Ace. p. 834 
 
 Mr. Luke Cran well, Ace. p. 
 165, Cont.p. 230 
 
 Mr. Thomas Crapon, Ace. 
 p. 764 
 
 Mr. Thomas Crees, Ace. p. 
 599, Cont.p. 746 
 
 Mr. James Creswick, Ace. 
 p. 340, Cwf.f. 509 
 
 Mr. Thomas Critrendon , 
 Ace. p. 72 
 
 Mr. John Crodacor, ^(cc. p. 
 25, Cowf. p. 21 
 
 Mr. Zachary Crofton, Ace. 
 p. 23, Cont. p. 1 8, 6?c. 
 
 * Mr. John Crofts, Ace. p. 
 
 351, Cont. p. 519 
 
 Mr. Thomas Crompton, of 
 
 Torlycarth Park*. Chapel in 
 
 Lancafhire , Ace. p. 40, 
 
 Cont. p 564 
 
 Mr. Thomas Crompton of 
 Ajhly Chapel in Lanca- 
 fhire ', Ace. p. 414 
 
 Mr. William Crompton, Ace. 
 p. 247, Cont. p. 331 
 
 Mr. John Crompton ofLan- 
 
 ca/hire, Ace. p. 418, Cent. 
 
 t- 575 
 
 Mr. John Crompton of Not- 
 tingham/hire, Ace. p. 5 3 1, 
 Cont.p. 698 
 
 Mr. Cromwel of Lincoln' 
 Jhire, Acc.p.tf? 
 
 Mr. John Cromwel of Not- 
 tingham/hire, Ace. p. 526, 
 Cont. p. 690 
 
 Mr. John Crook, Ace. p. 792, 
 Cont.p. 941 
 
 Mr. Croflyn, ^cc. p. 153 
 Dr. Jofhua Crofs, Ace. ^.58 
 
 Mr. William Crofs, Ace. p. 
 530 
 
 Mr. Francis Crofs, Ace. p. 
 604 
 
 Mr. George Crofs, Ace. p. 
 6 3 f 
 
 * Mr. CrofTin, Ace. p. 351, 
 Cont. p. 519 
 
 Mr. Crofsland, ^cc. /. 88 
 
 Mr. Samuel Crofsman, Cent, 
 p. 491 
 
 Mr. Cro&ley, Ace. p. 897, 
 . 94.7 
 
 Mr.
 
 16 An INDEX of Thofe ejetied orftknJd 
 
 * Mr. John Crouch, Ace. p. 
 
 697, Cent. p. 833 
 
 Mr. John Crow, Ace. p. 366 
 
 Mr. Francis Crow, Ace. p. 
 647, Cont. p. 790 
 
 Mr. Cruchlow, Ace. p. 5 6 5, 
 Cont. p. 726 
 
 Mr. John Crump, Ace. p. 
 376, Cent. p. 535 
 
 Mr. James Crump, Ace. p. 
 764, y4tv. p. 8bo 
 
 * Mr. John Cudmore, Ace. p. 
 
 257, Cow?, p. 381 
 
 Mr. Richard Culmer, Ace. 
 p. 388, Cent. p. 554 
 
 Mr. Curl. yfor. />. 613, Cant. 
 p. 880 
 
 Mr. James Cufiey,- Ace. p- 
 764, Cowf. 880 
 
 D 
 
 Mr. Thomas Daines, Ace. p. 
 653 
 
 Mr. John D&\\e\,Acc.p. 483 
 
 Mr. Dammer, Ace. p. 268, 
 Cent. f. 422 
 
 Mr. Thomas Dandy, Ace. p. 
 494 
 
 Mr. Thomas Danfon, Ace. 
 p. 648, Cont. p. 798 
 
 Mr. Paul D'Aranda, Ace. p. 
 684 
 
 Mr. John Darby, Ace. p. 
 6io f Cont. p. 756 
 
 Mr. Matthew Darby, Ace. 
 p. 387 
 
 Mr. John Darnron, cfBed- 
 
 lington, Ace p. 520, Cont. 
 
 p. 685 
 
 Mr. John Darnton of Tan- 
 field, Ace. p. 831 
 
 Mr. Darwen, Ace. p. 871 
 
 Mr. James Davis, Ace. p 
 720, Com. p. 845 
 
 Mr. John Davis of Cumber- 
 land, Ace, p. 518, Cont. 
 p. 684 
 
 Mr. Davis of Suffolk, Ace. 
 p. 649 
 
 Mr. Davis of Cambridge, 
 Ace. p 88, Cont. p. 127 
 
 Mr. John Davis of Dover, 
 Ace. p. 380, Cont. p. 536 
 
 Mr. Richard Davis, Ace. p. 
 716 
 
 Mr. Merideth Davis, Ace.- 
 p. 720 
 
 Mr. David Davses, Ace. p. 
 733, Cont.p.Stf 
 
 Mr. William Davifon, Ace; 
 p. 329, Cont. p. 50} 
 
 Mr. Robert Davy, Ace. p. 
 308, Cow*. />. 476 
 
 Mr. Thomas Dawkes, Ace. 
 p. 35, Cent. p. 52 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Dawfon, Ace. p. 
 818, Cont. p. 949 
 
 Mr. George Day, Ace. p. 
 602, Cont. p. 949;
 
 ly the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Day of Emanuel, Ace. 
 f. 90, Cont. p. 1 18 
 
 Mr. Baldwin Deacon, Ace. 
 p. 163 
 
 Mr. Deacon of l^ent, Ace. 
 
 ' f- 383 
 
 Mr. William Dell, Ace f. 83 
 
 * Mr. Henry Denr, Ace. p. 
 
 760, Cont. f. 871, &c. 
 
 Mr. John Demon, Ace. f. 
 818 
 
 * Mr. Nathan Denton, Cont. 
 
 f. 950 
 
 Mr. John Devenifli, Ace. f. 
 604 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Devereux , 
 Ace. f. 188 
 
 Mr. Tnftram Diamond , 
 Ace. f. 744 
 
 Mr. Dickinfon, Ace. f. 459 
 Mr. John Dicr, Ace. p. 613 
 
 Mr. William Difney, Ace. p. 
 53,88, Cont. f. 76, 127 
 
 Mr. Thomas Dixon, Ace. p. 
 
 IBS 
 
 Mr. Dixy, Ace. p. 438 
 
 Mr. Robert Dod, Ace. p. 
 0308, Cont. p. 477 
 
 * Mr. Timothy Dod, Ace. p. 
 
 4$6, Cont. p. 640 
 
 Mr. Dod of Bettt/hangen 
 Ace. p . 384 ; falfly pag'd 
 
 Mr. John Dcd, Ace. p. 541, 
 Cont. )>., 706 
 
 VOL. IL 
 
 Mr. John Dodderidge, Ace. 
 p. 466, Cont. p. 6 10 
 
 Mr. Dominel, Ace. p. 842 
 
 Mr. John Dominick, A:c. f- 
 486 
 
 Mr. John Donnne, Ace. p. 
 93, Cont. p. 130 
 
 Mr. Thomas Doolittel, Ace. 
 p. 52, Cont. p. 75 
 
 Mr. Samuel Doughty, Ace. 
 p. 415, Cont p. 591 
 
 Mr. Thomas Douglafs, Ace. 
 p. 33, Cont. p. 35 
 
 Mr. Dowel, Ace. ^.308 
 
 Mr. Richard Dowley, Ace. 
 p. 633, Cont. p. 785 
 
 Mr. Thomas Down, Acc.p- 
 219, Cont. p. 140 
 
 Mr. Mark Down, Acc.p. 2 19 
 
 Mr. Anthony Down, Ace /. : 
 246 
 
 Mr. Richard Down, Ace. f 
 263, Cow/, p. 416 
 
 Dr. Roger Drake, Ace. p. 
 25, Cowf. ^>. a* 
 
 Mr. Robert Drake, yfcc. /.' 
 604 
 
 Mr. Michael Drake, Acc.p. 
 448, Cont. p. 60? 
 
 Mr. Draper o/ ^>r, ^cc.' 
 p. 384, faifly pag'd 381 
 
 Mr. William Draper, Ace* 
 
 ? 544 
 
 Mr. Richard Drayton, Ac*- 
 
 f- 43T 
 
 C Mr. 

 
 1 8 A A I N D EX of Thofe ejected GY 
 
 Mr. Drincha!, Ace. p. 418 
 
 Mr. Drye, Ace. ^.331, Cent, 
 f. 506 
 
 Mr. John Dunce, Ace. p. 
 329, Cent. p. 503 
 
 Mr, James Duncanfon, Ace. 
 p. 510, Cent. p. 672 
 
 Mr. George Duncombe , 
 Ace. p. 84, Cont. p. 117 
 
 Mr. Dunkinfon, Ace. p. 34 
 
 * Mr. Dunftan, Cont. p. 174 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Duran r of 
 
 Devon. Ace. p. 240, Cont. 
 
 p. 272 
 
 Mr. Robert Durant of Lin- 
 colnjhire, Ace. p. 448, 
 
 Cont. p. 598, 599 
 
 Mr. John Durant of Canter- 
 bury, Ace. p. 374, Cont. p. 
 535 
 
 Mr. William Durant, Ace. 
 p. 500 
 
 Mr. John Durrant of Nor- 
 folk^ Ace. p. 483 
 
 Mr. Dury of Lanca/hire , 
 Ace. p. 4 1 8 
 
 * Mr. David Dury, Ace. p. 
 
 817, Cont. p. 949 
 
 Mr. Samuel Dyer, Ace. p. 
 33, Cont. p. 35 
 
 * Mr. William Dyer, Ace. p. 
 
 1 10, Cent. p. 147 
 
 * Mr. Richard Dyer, Cont. p. 
 
 ; 107 
 
 Mr. Daniel Dyke, Ace. p. 
 37, Cont. p. 532 
 
 Mr. Dyman, Ace. p. 351 
 
 Mr. Duke, Ace. p. 384, 
 falfly rag'd 382 
 
 E 
 
 Mr. John Earle, Ace. p. 686 
 Mr. John Eafon, Ace. p. 696 
 
 * Mr. William Eaftman, Ace. 
 
 p. 764, Cont. p. 88 1 
 
 Mr. Ea:on ofBridport, Ace. 
 p. 261 
 
 Mr. Robert Eaton of War- 
 wickshire, Ace. p. 742 
 
 Mr. Robert Earon of Che- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 131, 407 
 
 Mr. Samuel Earon, Ace. p. 
 412, Cont. p. 566 
 
 * Mr. William Eaton, Cont. p 
 
 412 
 
 Mr. James Ebourn, Ace. p. 
 764, Cent. p. 882 
 
 * Mr. Jofeph Ecclefhal, Ace. 
 
 p. 629, Cont. p. 777, 778 
 
 Mr. John Eddlefton, Ace. p. 
 418 
 
 Mr. Thomas Edge, Ace. p. 
 129 
 
 Mr. Edwards <// Buck.*, Ace. 
 p. 109 
 
 * Mr. Jon. Edwards, Ace. p. 
 
 733, Cont. p. 848 
 
 Mr. Richard Eeds, Ace. p. 
 330, Otf. p. 505 
 
 Mr-
 
 ly the Aft for Uniformity. 1 9 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Eeles, Ace. 
 t* 3*7 
 
 Mr. Gawen Egglesfield,^cc. 
 f- *59 
 
 Mr. Robert Ekins, Ace. f. 
 88, Cont. f. 127 
 
 Mr. John Eldrige, Ace. p. 
 696 
 
 Mr. Thomas Elford, Ace p. 
 467, Cont. f. 6 10 
 
 Mr. Ellis of Suffolk, Ace. p. 
 660 
 
 Mr. Edmund Ellis, Ace. p. 
 731, Cont. p. 846 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ellis of Effex, 
 Ace. p. 311 
 
 I * 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ellis of Nor- 
 folk.. Ace. p. 483 
 
 * Mr. Tobias Ellis, Cont. p. 
 
 1004 
 
 Mr. Matthew Ellifton, Ace. 
 ' $, 3Ji, CoM. p. 490 
 
 Mr. Ellyot, .dec. />. 151 
 
 Mr. EKvood, ytfcc. p. 457, 
 Cow/. />. 606 
 
 Mr. Samuel Ely, Ace. p. 
 300, Cont. p. 460 
 
 Mr. Francis Englifh, Ace. p. 
 473 
 
 * Mr. Henry Erskine, or Are- 
 
 skin, Ace. p. 518, Cof. 
 
 p. 678, efc. 
 
 Mr. Henry Efday, Ace. p. 
 307, COTJ*. p. 476 
 
 * Mr. George Evanke, Cont. 
 
 p. 960 
 
 Mr. Evans of Warwickshire, 
 Ace p 744 
 
 Mr. John Evans of W+cx- 
 ham, Ace. p. 842, Cent. p. 
 
 * v ' ts - /* 
 
 i o 4 
 
 Mr. John Evans of Bangor' 
 -^Acc p 716, Cont. p. 839 
 
 * Mr. Daniel E\ ans, Cow/-, p' 
 
 ,0^.8 
 
 no 
 
 * 
 
 c^o ^ .ittt 
 
 Mr. Eubank, ^icc. /. 835 
 
 Mr. Hugh Everard, Ace. p. 
 
 ^liffliV&tfr 79 
 
 Mr. Robert Everenden, ^cc. 
 /. 690 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ewins, Ace. p. 
 608 
 
 Mr. William Eyre, 1 'Ace. p. 
 
 756 
 
 Mr. Lewis Facy, Ace. p. 148 
 
 Air. Samuel Fairclough^y^w. 
 
 A;c. p. 635 , Cowf. p. 
 
 786 
 
 Mr. Samuel Fairclough ,' 
 
 fan. Ace. p. 91, Cont. p. 
 
 119 
 
 Mr. Richard Fairclough , 
 
 735 
 
 Mr. John Fairfax, Ace., p. 
 &4Z, Cont. p. 787 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Fairfax J 
 ^cc. ^. 648 , Cont. p. 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Fairfax * 
 Ace. p. 654, Cont. p. 803 
 
 Mr. Fairfield, ^cc. p. 6 1 1 
 C ^ Mr,
 
 20 An I N D E X of Thoje e]ected or fiknc'd 
 
 * Mr. Edward Falconer, Ace. 
 
 ^.765, Cont.f. 882 
 
 Mr. John Faldo, Acc.p.%i%, 
 Ccnt.p 965 
 
 Mr. James Farmer, Ace. p 
 437 
 
 Mr. Ralph Farmer, Ace. p. 
 609 
 
 Mr. Farn worth, Ace. ^311, 
 840, Cent, f 998 
 
 Mr. Richard Farrant (ffiljly 
 Tarranr) Ace. p. 248 
 
 Mr. Farret or Ferret, Ace. 
 p. 809, Cone. p. 947 
 
 Mr. Farrington, Ace. p. 354 
 Mr.JohnFarrol,^c. />. 343 
 
 Mr. George Farrol, Ace. p. 
 669, Cent. p. 814 
 
 * Mr. Jofeph Farrow, Ace. p. 
 
 459, Cont. p. 607 
 
 Mr. John Fathers, ^cc. /. 
 150, Cont. p. 123 
 
 Mr. George Fawler, Ace. p. 
 33, C0f./. 35 
 
 Mr. Peak, Ace. p. 190, 
 Cont /> 454 
 
 * Mr. Henry Fea Iy T Ace. p. 
 
 537, Cont. p. 699 
 
 Mr. Fenny, S<?n. -4cc./>. 251 
 
 Mr. John Fcnwick, ^cc. p. 
 659, Cont. p. 806 
 
 Mr. Fenwick o/ JC/ W J 
 X.;ff, Ace. p. 486 
 
 * Mr. Fenwick o/ Oxfordjhire, 
 
 Mr. Robert Fergufon, 
 
 ^. 383, Cont. p. 544 
 
 * Mr. John Fido, Ace. p. 83, 
 
 Co;?, p. 1 16, 649 
 
 * Mr. Anthony Fido, Ace. p. 
 
 834, Cent. p. 956, 957 
 
 * Mr. Henry Field, Cont. p. 
 
 1OOO 
 
 Mr. Finch cf Derbyjhire, 
 Ace. p. 205 
 
 Mr. Henry Finch, Ace. p. 
 404, Cont. p. 564 
 
 Mr. Zachary Finch, Ace. p. 
 307 
 
 Mr. Martin Finch, Ace. p. 
 448, Cent. p. 60 1 
 
 Mr. Edward Finch, Ace. p. 
 319, Cowf./>. 503 
 
 Mr. Richard Fincher, Ace. 
 p. 769, Cent p. 885 
 
 Mr. William Fincher, Ace. 
 
 p. 625, Ccf. f. 77 
 Mr. Reginald Finlow, Ace. 
 
 p. 566, Cowf. p. 727 
 
 * Mr. Finney, Sen. Ace. p. 
 
 152, Cont. p. 362 
 
 Mr. John Fip, /tar. p. 760, 
 Cow*. />. 875 
 
 Mr. Giles Firmin, Ace. p. 
 295, Cent. p. 458, &c 
 
 Mr. Robert Fifh, Ace. p. 
 688, Cont. p. 82,7 
 
 Mr. Fifter, Ace. p. 35 
 Mr. Fifher o/ /<?*, /?cc. ?. 
 
 Mr.
 
 the Act for Uniformity 
 
 21 
 
 Mr James Fi flier cfFatcham 
 Ace. p. 670, Cent. p. 814 
 
 Mr. James Fiftier of Shcf 
 field, rj0:).dcc. p. 7*5 
 
 Mr. Fifher ofGlouccftcrfhtre, 
 Ace. p. 329 
 
 Mr. Samuel Fi flier, Ace. p. 
 
 724, Cont - f- I6 9 
 
 Mr. Henrv Fiammank, Ace. 
 
 p. 1 46, Cent. p. in 
 
 * Mr. Roger Fiammank; Ace 
 
 p. 148, Cont. p. 216 
 
 Mr. Richard Fiavel, Ace. p- 
 318, Cont. p, 501 
 
 * Mr. Phineas Fiavel, Cont. 
 
 p. 501 
 
 Mr. John Fiavel, Ace. p. 
 2,10, Cont. />. 252 
 
 Mr. Fleetwood, Acc.p.io% 
 
 Mr. Edward Fletcher, Ace. 
 7.330, Cont. p. 505 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Flower, Sen. 
 Ace. p. 763 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Flower, Jun. 
 
 Mr. William Floyd e, or 
 Flood, Ace. p. 490, Cowf. 
 
 Mr. John Fogg of Lcverpool, 
 Ace. p. 408, Cont. p. 566 
 
 * Mr. Roberr Fogg, Ace. p. 
 
 708, Cont. p. 836, 837 
 
 * Mr. William Folkes, Ace. p. 
 
 647, Cont. p. 789 
 
 Mr. Samuel Fones, Ace. p. 
 251, Cont. p. 362 
 
 * Mr. Daniel Foot, Ace. p. 
 H7, Cont.f. 157 
 
 Mr. John Forbee, Acc.p 660 
 
 Mr. James Forbes, Acc.f. 
 317, Cowf. />. 500 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ford o/" Dv 
 
 by/hire, Ace. p. 104, Cowf. 
 
 7. ass 
 
 Mr. Ford o/ Che/hire, Ace. 
 
 Mr.Thomas Ford of Exeter. 
 Ace. p. 207, Co*. ^. 137 
 
 Mr. Stephen Ford, Ace. f* 
 540, Cont. f. 705 
 
 Mr. John Porefide, Aec t f. 
 518 
 
 Mr. Forfter, Ace. f. 55 
 Mr. Forth of Derbyshire, Ace. 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Forward, Ace. 
 
 p. 603, Cwtf. />. 75 1 
 
 Mr. Forward o/ Dorfct, 
 Ace. p. 270 
 
 * Mr. Davis Foules, Cont. f. 
 
 49* 
 
 Mr. Richard Fowler ef 
 
 GlouceJlerJbire,Acc. p, 330, 
 
 Cow^. f . 506 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Fowler, 
 Ace. p. 97 
 
 Mr. Stephen Fowler, Acc.p. 
 90, 494, Cont. p. 118,639 
 
 Mr. Henry Fowles, Ac. f . 
 
 697 
 
 Mr. Thomas Fownes, Ace. 
 
 Mr.
 
 22 An INDEX cf Thofe e'jetfed or friend* d 
 
 Mr. Samuel Fownes, Ace. 
 
 I'*")!, 751 
 
 * Mr. George Fownes, Ace. 
 
 p. 109, Cortt. f. 144 
 
 M>*. J. Fox, Ace. f 331 
 
 Mr. Timothy Fox, Ace. f. 
 6^6 
 
 * Mr. Fox of Yorkshire, Ace. 
 
 f. 834, Cent. p. 956 
 
 Mr .Richard Frankland , Ace. 
 f. 184, Cent. p. 452, &c 
 
 Mr. Gracious Frankly n,Acc. 
 p. 610 
 
 MV. Robert Frankly n, Ace. 
 p. 658, Cont.p. 805 
 
 Mr. Thomas Franks, Ace. 
 P-77-7 
 
 Mr. John Frawlins, Ace. p. 
 765, Cent. p. 88* 
 
 Mr. Thomas Francis, Ace. 
 p. 777 
 
 Mr. John Freefton, Ace. p. 
 777, Cont. p. 895 
 
 * Mr. Jeremiah French, Ace. 
 
 p 18 1, Cont.p. 435 
 
 Mr. Samuel French, ^cc.^, 
 
 377 
 
 Mr. John French,^cc./>.73i 
 
 Mr. Daniel French, Ace, p. 
 382, Cent. p. 543 
 
 * Mr. George Freeman, Ace. 
 
 p. 696, Cont. f. 831 
 
 Mr. Thomas Friend, ^cc. 
 /. 256, Cont. p. 377 
 
 XJr. Paul 
 
 Mr. Thomas Froude, Ace. 
 p. 731 
 
 Mr. Fryar, Ace. />. 311 
 
 Mr. John Fuller, Ace. p. 
 36, Cow^^. 53 
 
 Mr. Francis Fuller, Ace. p. 
 497, Cont.p. 648 
 
 Mr. Theophilus Gale, Ace. 
 p. 6$, Cont. p. 97 
 
 Mr. Jofias Gale, Ace. p. 152, 
 Cont.p. 36! 
 
 Mr. John Galpin, ^cc. p. 
 6o^, Cont.p. 750 
 
 Mr. Gapin, Ace. p. 180 
 
 Mr. Gardiner of Hertford- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 361 
 
 Mr. John Gardiner, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gardiner, 
 p. 107, Cow/-, p. 
 
 Mr. Garnons, Ace. p. 354 
 
 * Mr. Richard Garret, Ace. 
 
 p. 689, Cont.p, 828 
 
 Mr. John Garret, Ace. p. 156 
 
 Mr. John Gartfide, Ace. p. 
 135, Owf. p. 174 
 
 Mr. Simon Gawen, Ace. p. 
 760 
 
 * Mr. John Gay, Acc.p^',6, 
 
 Cont. p. 381 
 
 Mr. Robert Gaylard, ^cc. 
 />. 253, Cont.p. 374
 
 ly the A 'ft for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Allen Geare, Ace. f. 
 220, Cont. f. 249 
 
 Mr. James Gedney, Ace. f. 
 
 483 
 
 Mr. Gerrard, Ace. p. 108 
 
 Mr. John Gibbon, Ace. f. 
 13, Cont. p. 15 
 
 Air. John Gibbs, Ace. f. 
 1 08, Cont. f. 144 
 
 Mr. Gibfon, yfcc. f. 371, 
 Otf.f. 534 
 
 Mr, John Gidley, Ace. f. 
 257, Cont. f. 395 
 
 Mr. Gilbert of Eling, Ace. 
 p. 467, Cont. f. 6 n 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gilbert of Ox- 
 ford, Ace p. 109, Cont. 
 p. 146 
 
 Mr. William Gilbert, Ace. 
 p. 542, Cont. p. 71% 
 
 Mr. John Gill, Ace. p. 252, 
 Cont. p. 3^2 
 
 Dr. Richard Gilpin, Ace. p. 
 154, Cont. p. 22,6 
 
 Mr. Gilpin of Brinckjow, 
 Acc.p. 750, Cont. p. 863 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gi'fon, ^cc./. 
 305, Cont. p. 471 
 
 Mr. John Gipps, Ace. p. 72" 
 
 Mr. John Glanvil, Ace. p. 
 577, Cont. p. 730 
 
 Mr. John Glendal, Ace. p. 
 123 
 
 Mr. Hugh Glover, Acc.p. 
 307, Con/. /. 474 
 
 Mr. Clyde of Surrey, 
 
 p. 673 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Goddard, Af& 
 p. 75, Cont. p. 106 
 
 Mr. Godbok, Ace. p. 4^7 
 
 Mr. Henry Godman, Ace. 
 p. 691, Cont. p. 829 
 
 Mr. Thomas Goldman, Ace. 
 p. 680 
 
 Mr. John Goldwire, SV*.' 
 Acc.p. 686, Cont. p. 821 
 
 Mr. John Goldwire, ?." 
 ^cc. ^. 688, Cont. p. 825 
 
 Mr. Henry Goodeare, Ace. 
 p. 109, Cow/. *. 146^ 
 
 Mr. Goodman, Acc.p. 472 
 
 Mr. William Goodricjge, 
 -rfcc. p. 378, Cwi#.'/. 536" 
 
 Dr. Thomas Goodwin, Ace. 
 p. 60, no, Cont. p. jo, &c 
 
 Mr. Richard Goodwin, Ace) 
 p. 401 
 
 Mr. John Goodwin of Lon- 
 don, Ace. p. 5 3, Cw/. />.7 8 
 
 Mr. John Goodwin o/ De- 
 von, Ace. p. 252, 'Cont. 
 p. 36z 
 
 Mr. Philip Gpodwin, Ace. 
 p. 360, Cont. p. 525 
 
 Mr. John Gofhold, yfcr. p- 
 53, Cont.p. 77ll % 
 
 Mr. Gofs, Acc.p. 351 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gouge, Acc.p; 
 8, Cwtf. ^.12 
 
 Mr. Robert Gouge, -4ce.^. 
 
 645 
 Mr.
 
 24 An I N D E X of Thoje e}efted orfilenc^d 
 
 Mr. William Gough, Ace. p. 
 100, Cent. p. 136 
 
 Mr. Thomas Goulfton, Ace. 
 7.467 
 
 Mr. Alexander Gourdon, 
 Ace. p. 520, Cont. p. 685 
 
 Mr. William Grace, Ace. p. 
 437, 625, Cowr. p. 594 
 
 Mr. Gracecourt, ^4cc.^.634 
 Mr. Grandorge, Ace. p. 306 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Granc, Ace. 
 7-447 
 
 Mr. Samuel Crafty, Ace. p. 
 131, Cont. p. 171 
 
 Mr. Graves of Durlatn, Ace. 
 p. 290 
 
 Mr. Graves of Hertford- 
 foirc, Ace. p. 368 
 
 Mr. Alexander Green, Ace. 
 p. 85 
 
 * Mr. William Green of Bath, 
 
 Acc.p 599, Cont. p. 746 
 
 Mr. William Green ofCnm- 
 
 bridge, Ace. p. 86, Cowf. 
 
 p. 120 
 
 Mr. John Green, Sen. of 
 Norfolk,, Ace. p. 483 
 
 * Mr. John Green, Jun. of 
 
 Tunjled, Ace. p. 481, 
 Cont. p. 624 
 
 Mr. John Green of Leice- 
 fierjhire, Ace. p. 437 
 
 Mr. Green of Ejfix, Ace. 
 7.308, 314 
 
 Mr. William Greenhil, Ace. 
 p. 471, Cont. p. 613 
 
 Mr. John Greenfmith, Ace. 
 7.619 
 
 Dr. Daniel Greenwood , 
 Ace. p. 58 
 
 Mr. Greenwood of ffeft- 
 moreland, Ace. 7.751 
 
 Mr. Gregg of Ejfex, Ace. p. 
 307, Cont. p. 47 5 
 
 Air. Thomas Gregge, ^or. 
 7.413 
 
 Mr. Hierom Gregory, Ace. 
 p. 107 
 
 Mr. A'exander Gregory , 
 Ace. p. 329, Cont. p. 504 
 
 Mr. Gretorix, Ace. p. 330 
 
 Dr. Otadiah Grew, yfcc.7. 
 736, Cont. p. 850, G?c 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Grew, Ace. p. 
 751, Cont. p. 863, 864 
 
 Mr. George Griffyth, Ace. 
 7. 51, Cont. p. 74 
 
 Mr. John GrifFy th, Acc.p. 1 3 3 
 
 Mr. Gri fines, alias Cham- 
 bers, Ace. 7. 57 
 
 Mr. Thomas Grundy, Ace. 
 7.690 
 
 Mr. Grove, Ace. p. 252, 
 Cont. p. 363 
 
 Mr. Thomas Grove of So- 
 merfet, Acc.p. 614 
 
 Mr. Martin Grundman, Ace. 
 p. 7a 
 
 Mr. George (or Ranal) 
 
 Gvieft, Acc.p. 131, Cont. 
 
 p. 171
 
 ly the Aft for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Peter Guillam, Ace. p. 
 330 
 
 * Mr. H u gh Gundery, Cent, 
 p. 430 
 
 Mr. Thomas Guns, Ace. p. 
 382, Cont.p. 543 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Gumer, Ace' 
 f. 69 
 
 Mr. John Gumer, Acc.p.%20 
 Mr. Gunvil, Ace. p. 457 
 
 Mr. Richard Gyles, Ace. p. 
 381 
 
 Mr. John Gyles, Ace. p. 
 777, Cent. p. 896 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gyles, Ace. p. 
 119 
 
 Mr. Gyles of Wilts, Ace. p. 
 765, Cont.p. 883 
 
 H 
 
 Mr. Samuel Habergham , 
 Ace. p. 647, Cont. p. 796 
 
 Mr. John Haddefly, Ace. p. 
 337, Cont. p. 507 
 
 Mr. James Hadderidge , 
 Ace. p. 253 
 
 Mr. Haddock, Ace. p. 418 
 Mr. Haddon, Ace. ^.518 
 Mr. Haines, Ace. p. 835 
 
 Mr. Hales of Lincoln/hire, 
 Ace. p. 458, Cont. p. 606 
 
 Mr. Robert Hall, Ace. p. 
 109 
 
 Mr. Thorn as Hall, Ace. p. 
 765, Cont. p. 884 
 Vat. II. 
 
 * Mr. Ralph Hall, Ace, p. 631 
 
 Cont. p. 782, 783 
 
 * Mr. Samuel Hall, Ace. f 
 
 631, Cont. />. 785 
 
 Mr. Hall of Sbropjhne, Ace. 
 
 p. 571 
 
 Mr. Haller, Ace. p. 255 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Haller, Ace. p. 
 169, Cont. p. 427 
 
 Mr. Hallet of Shafton, Cont. 
 p. 427 
 
 Mr. Thomas Haller, Ace. p. 
 689 
 
 Mr. Cutbert Halfall, Acc.p; 
 418 
 
 T f f ^ \ t 
 
 Mr. Halfell tf Cumberland, 
 Ace. p. 159- 
 
 Mr. Jofeph , Halfey, Ace. p. 
 148, Otf. p. 216 
 
 Mr. George Hammond, Ace. 
 p. 258, Cont. p. 409 
 
 Mr. Samuel Hammond, Ace. 
 p. 498, Cont. p. 651 
 
 Mr. Rowland Hancock ^ 
 
 -rfcc. p. 786 
 . . , ' : 
 
 Mr. Edward Hancock, Ace 
 p. 605, Cent. p. 756 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hancock, Ace". 
 p. 147, Cont. f. 215 
 
 Mr. Stephen Hancock, Accl 
 p. 623 
 
 * Mr. Jonathan Hanrner ,' 
 
 Ace. p. 244, Cont. p. 299 
 
 &c. &e. 
 
 * Mr. John Hanmer, of- D?- 
 
 von. Cent. p. 398, &c.'(3c} 
 
 D Mr;
 
 26 An I N D EX of Thofe e jetted or filtnCd 
 
 * Mr. John Hanmer of Wales, 
 
 Cent. f. 839 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hardcaftle 
 Ace, f. 8 10, Cont.p. 947 
 
 Z)r. John Harding, Ace. f. 
 
 754 
 Mr. John Harding, ^cc. />. 
 
 760 
 
 Mr. John Hardy, ^cc. f- 
 a6i, C0rtf. />. 414 
 
 Mr. Samuel Hardy, Ace. f. 
 281, Cent. f. 436 
 
 * Mr. Emanuel Harford, Ace- 
 
 f. 604, Cont.p. 752, 6?c- 
 & 
 
 Mr. John Harmar, Ace. p. 
 
 339 
 Mr. Harris of Ejfex, Ace. f. 
 
 312 
 
 Mr. Francis Harris of Clou- 
 ceftcr/hire, Ace. p. 330 
 
 Dr. Thomas Harrifon, Ace. 
 p. izt, Cont. f. 169 
 
 Mr. John Harrifon of Hamp- 
 fhire, Aec. p. 351 
 
 Mr. John Harrifon of Lan- 
 
 cafhire, Ace. p. 396, Cont. 
 
 p. <>6z 
 
 Mr. John Harrifon of Wa.1- 
 
 tham, Ace, p. 306, Cone. 
 
 p. 47* 
 
 Mr. 'Thomas H ar rifcm> Ace* 
 p. 331 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Harrifon, Ace. 
 p. 411 
 
 * Mr. Cutbert Harrifon, Ace. 
 
 p. 417, C0w. 
 
 Mr. Harrold, ^cc. />. 460 
 
 Mr. Harvy of EJJex Ace. p. 
 ^_ j ._ 34, Cow/-. /. 468 
 
 Mr. John Harvy of Chefter, 
 
 Ace. p. 135, Cont. p. 173 
 
 Mr. Elias Harvy, Ace. p. 
 
 733, Cow/-, p. 848 
 
 Mr. John Hasbart, Ace. p. 
 
 473 
 Mr. Lewis Hatch, Ace. p. 
 
 153 
 Mr. Hathway, Ace. p. 543 
 
 Mr. Henry Havers, Ace. 
 p. 303, Cont. p. 465 
 
 Mr. Matthew Haviland , 
 Ace. p. 23, Cont. p. 36 
 
 Mr. William Hawden, Ace. 
 p. 790, C0f. p. 940 
 
 Mr. Richard Hawes, Ace. 
 f- 354 
 
 Mr. George Hawes, Ace. 
 p. 381 
 
 Mr. Adam Hawkins, Acc.p . 
 717 
 
 Mr. Hawks of Effex, Acc.p. 
 
 . 37 
 
 Mr. John Hawks, Acc.p. 386 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hawkfworth, 
 Acc.p. 80 1, Cont.p. 946 
 
 Mr. William Ha worth, Ace. 
 p. 360 
 
 Mr. Hayes, Ace. p. 88 
 
 Mr. Matthew Hazard, ^cc. 
 />. 609 
 
 Mr.Jofiiua Head/. ;to./. 
 33Z 
 Mr.
 
 by the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 27 
 
 Mr. Henry Hean, Ace. p. 
 33 i 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hearne, Ace. 
 f- M5 
 
 Mr. Richard Heath, Ace. f. 
 548 
 
 Mr. Heath of Huntingdon- 
 Jhire, Ace. f 371 
 
 Mr. Camfliaw Helmes, Ace. 
 f. 318, Cont. f. 501 
 
 Mr. Hemmyngs, Ace p. 386 
 
 Mr. William Henderfon , 
 Ace. p. 514 
 
 Mr. Phillip Henry, Acc.p. 
 698, Cont. p. 834 
 
 Mr. Hugh Henfluw, Ace. 
 p. 133 
 
 Mr. William Herborne, Acc> 
 f- 537 
 
 Mr. Sampfon Herne, Ace. p. 
 381 
 
 Mr. Herring of St Brides, 
 Ace. p. 44 
 
 * Mr. Richard Herring, Ace. 
 p. 2^, Cont. p. 315, & c . 
 
 Mr. John Herring, yfcc. p. 
 145, Cw. p. 318 
 
 Mr. Oliver Hey wood, Ace. 
 p. 804, Cont. p. 947 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Heywood , 
 ^cc. ^. 394, Cont. p. 560 
 
 Mr. Gafpar Hickes, Ace. p. 
 136, Conf. />. 175, 176 
 
 Mr. John Hickes, Ace. p. 
 148, Cont. f. 336, C?c. 
 
 Mr. Henry Hickman, Ace. 
 p. 69, Cont. p. 101, lox 
 
 Air. John Hieron, ^cc 1 . p. 
 162, Cent. p. 130 
 
 Mr. Samuel Hieron of Der- 
 lyjhirc, Ace. p. 168 
 
 Mr Samuel Hieron o/ >*- 
 
 vcn. Acc.p. 154, Cont. p. 
 
 375 
 
 Mr. James Hiet t ^cc./>. 408 
 Mr. Higginfon, ,/fcc. p. 133 
 
 Mr. Daniel Higgs, Ace. p* 
 719, Cow*, p. 846 
 
 Mr. Samuel Hiderfham , 
 Acc.p. 560, Cont. p. 713 
 
 Mr. Edward Hill, Ace. p. 
 793, Cont. p. 941 
 
 Mr.Jofeph Hill, Ace. p. 81 
 Mr. Ralph Hill, ^cc. /. 311 
 
 Mr. Matthew Hill, \4cc. ^. 
 831 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Hill, Ace. p. 
 
 745, Cont. p. 855, ^c. 
 
 * Mr. John Hill, Ace. p. 244, 
 
 604, Cont. p. 193, Cfc^ 
 
 * Mr. Hill of Jfcflr/fo/4, ^cc. 
 
 /. 834, Cont. p. 956 
 
 * Mr. St Hill, ^cc. />. 834, 
 
 Cont.' p. 957 
 
 Mr. Richard Hilton, vfcc.^. 
 618 
 
 Mr. Hilton o/ Gloucefter- 
 /hire, Ace. -p. 330 
 
 Mr. Triftam Hinchfield , 
 Acc.p. 457 
 
 D l M^
 
 28 An INDEX of Thoje ejected or 
 
 Mr. Richard Hi neks, Ace. 
 f. 62,4, Cont. p. 768 
 
 Mr. Hind of Berks, Ace. p. 
 9-V 
 
 Mr. Hind of Devon, Ace. -p. 
 252, Cont. p. 363 
 
 Mr. H'n'-on, Ace. p. 48 ^ 
 Mr. Hitchcock, Ace p. 75 
 
 Mr. Leonard Hoar, Ace p 
 312, COM/-, p. 490 
 
 Mr. John Hobfon, Ace. p. 
 790 
 * 
 
 Mr. Paul Hobfon, Ace. p. 
 
 1 10, Cont. p. 148 
 
 Mr. John Hodder, ^cc. p. 
 266, COM*. />. 42,0 
 
 Mr. Hodges of the Tower, 
 Ace. p. 44, Cont. p. 6z 
 
 Mr. Alexander Hodges or 
 
 Hodge, Ace. p. 22,0, 
 
 Cont. p. 2.43 
 
 Mr. William Hodges cf 
 Glcuccfterjhire, Ace. ^.330 
 
 Mr. Martin Holbitch, Ace. 
 
 p. 309, Cont. p. 184 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Holborough, 
 
 Ace. p. 647, Cont. p. 789 
 
 Mr. Richard Holbrook.^cc. 
 /. 396 
 
 Mr-. Francis Holer aft, Ace. 
 p. 86, Cont. p. 118 
 
 'Mr. Holdfwcrth of Durham, 
 Ace. p. 288 
 
 Mr. Jofkh Holdfwonh o/ 
 
 Pcppletcn, Ace. p. 8 1 o 
 
 Mr. Jofiah Holdfworth ' of 
 Sutton, Ace. p. 822 
 
 Mr. Thomas Holland, ^icc. 
 />. 396, Cent. p. <j6z 
 
 Mr. Robert Holland, Cont. 
 p. 561 
 
 Mr. Hollingfliead, Ace. p. 
 
 205 
 
 Mr. James Holm, Ace. p. 
 396 
 
 Mr. Holmes, Ace. p. 819 
 
 Dr. Kathanael Homes, Ace. 
 p. 16, Cont p. 17 
 
 Mr. Hoods, Ace. p . 33 1 
 
 Mr. Richard Hook, Ace. p. 
 496, Cont, p. 643 
 
 Mr. William Hook, Ace. p. 
 33, Con*, p. 36 
 
 Mr. John Hook, Ace. p. 
 345, Gw*./>. 515 
 
 Mr. John Hooker, Ace. p. 
 483 
 
 Mr. George Hopkins, Ace- 
 p. 770 
 
 Mr. Henry Holcroft, Ace. 
 p. 386 
 
 Mr. William Hopkins of 
 Somerfetfhire, Ace .p.6oi 
 
 Mr. William Hopkins of 
 Cumberland, Ace. p. 159 
 
 Mr. Richard Hopkins, Ace. 
 p 571, Cont. p. 729 
 
 Mr. Hopkins of Dorfet, Ace. 
 p. 281 
 
 Mr. Hopper, Ace. p. 159 
 Mr.
 
 by the Att for Uniformity 
 
 29 
 
 Mr. John Hoppin, Ace. p. 
 257, Cont. p . 394 
 
 Mr. Horn, Ace. p. 457 
 
 Mr. Walter Hornby, Ace. 
 P- 43 7,497, Cont. p. 646 
 
 Mr. John Home, Ace. p. 
 484, Cont. p. 632 
 
 Mr. William Homer, Ace. 
 p. 3*1 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Horrockes , 
 
 Ace. p. 305, Cont. p. 468 
 
 Mr. John Horfeman, Ace. p. 
 232 
 
 * Mr. Horsford, Ace. p. 252, 
 
 Cont. />. 363 
 
 * Mr. John Horfliam, Ace. p. 
 
 249, Cont. p. 349 
 
 Mr. Charles Hotham, Ace. 
 
 Mr. James Hounfel, Ace. p. 
 760 
 
 Mr. John Howe, Acc.p.iH, 
 Cont. p. 257 
 
 Mr. Francis Howel, ^cc. ;>. 
 59 
 
 Mr. Morgan Howel, -4cc. p. 
 716 
 
 Mr. Henry Howler, >*cc. p. 
 497, Ccnr. ^. 645 
 
 Mr. Robert Howlet, Ace. p. 
 647, Cont. p. 796 
 
 Mr. Francis Hubbard, ^cc. 
 
 Mr. John Hubbard, Ace. p. 
 308, 311 
 
 Mr. Hubbarr, Ace. p. 765 
 Mr. Hudlbn, Ace. p. 425 
 
 Mr. George Hughe?, Ace. p. 
 2*2, (#c. Cwr. />. 25 3,254 
 
 Mr. Obadiah Hughes, Ace. 
 p. 232, Cont. p. 257 
 
 * Mr. William Hughes, Ace. 
 
 p. 761, Cont. p. 875, 876 
 
 * Mr. Evan Hughes, Ace. p. 
 
 716, Cont. p. 839 
 
 Mr. Stephen Hughes cf 
 Wales, Ace. p. 716 
 
 Mr. Stephen Hughes ofSuf- 
 fex, Ace. p. 697 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hughes, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Hull, Ace. p. 150 
 Dr. Edward Hulfe,^cc./>.84 
 Mr. Hulfton, Ace. p. 834 
 
 Mr. Abraham Hume, Ace. 
 p. 511, Cont. p. 6-^ 
 
 Mr. John Hume, Ace. p. 
 520, Cont. p. 6b r : 
 
 Mr. John Humphrey, Ac: 
 
 p. 615, Cont. p. i'--> 
 Mr.Charles Humphreys,/! 
 />- 36, 57- 
 
 Mr. WUlkm Hunt of Cc.:.- 
 
 bridgcfoire, Ace. p. 1 1 - . 
 
 Cont. p. 15'; 
 
 Mr. Hunt <?/ Devon, Ace. r> 
 246, Cont. p. 31-; 
 
 Mr. John Hunt, yto. p. 612 
 ' X'
 
 An INDEX of Thofe ejected or/tlenc'd 
 
 Mr. William Hunt of Sa- 
 rum; Ace. p 844 
 
 Mr. Philip Hunton, Ace. p. 
 190, 754, Cont. p. 864 
 
 Mr. Henry Hurft, Ace. p. 
 41, Cont. p. 60 
 
 Mr. John Hutchinfon, Ace 
 p. 88, Cont. p. 124 
 
 Mr. Hufley, Ace. p. 180 
 Mr. Hutton, Ace. p. 190 
 
 Mr. Arthur Jackfon, Ace p. 
 3, Cow*. />. 7 
 
 Mr. John Jackfon of London, 
 
 Ace. p. 33, 670, Cont. p. 
 
 36, 814 
 
 Mr. Jackfon of Lincolnshire, 
 Ace. p. 457 
 
 Mr. John Jackfon of D<rrty- 
 yfr/r?, .4ec. p. 2-04 
 
 Mr. Jr hn Jackfon of Cum- 
 berland , Ace. p. 159, 
 Cont. p. 226 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jackfon, Ace. 
 p. 685, Cont. p. 821 
 
 Mr. John Jackfon of Not- 
 tingham/hire, Ace. p. 516, 
 Cont. p. 689 
 
 Mr.^Peter Jackfon, Ace. p. 
 *59 
 
 Mr. "Chriftorher Jackfon, 
 Ace. p. 753 
 
 Mr. Nathan Jacc;b, Ace. p. 
 244, Cent. p. 290 
 
 Mr. William Jacob, Ace. p. 
 387, Cont. p. 547 
 
 Dr. Thomas Jacomb, /fcc 1 . 
 f. 45, Ccf. ;>. 65 
 
 Mr. John James o/ Berks, 
 Ace. p> ic-9, Cont. p. 134, 
 
 Mr. Thomas James, ^cc /?. 
 654, C0f. ^>. 803 
 
 Mr- Jchn James of Notting- 
 
 hamjhire, Ace. p. 524, 
 
 Cont. ^.689 
 
 * Mr. William Janeway, J. 
 
 CoKf. f. 533 
 
 * Mr. James Janeway, Ace. p. 
 
 838, Cont. p. 962 
 
 * Mr. Abraham Janeway , 
 
 Cont. p. 964 
 
 Mr. Henry Jeanes, Ace. p. 
 585, Cont. p. 736 
 
 Mr. Samuel Jefferfon, >4cc. 
 /> 343 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Jellinger, 
 Ace. p. 242, Cont. p. 279 
 
 Mr. William Jenkyn, Ace. 
 p. 17, Cont. p. 17 
 
 Mr. Jenkyns of //<?.*, .^ce. 
 p. 313 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jennings, Ace. 
 p 330, COH*./>. 505 
 
 Mr. Richard Jennings, Ace. 
 p. 649, Cont. p. 800 
 
 * Mr. John Jennings, Ace. p. 
 
 345, Cont. p. 514
 
 by the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Jennifon, Ace. p. 835 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Jephcot, Ace. 
 p. ll^,&c.Cont.p.l<\<),&c 
 
 Mr. Henry Jeffey, Ace. p. 
 35, Cent p. 45 
 
 Mr. James Illingworth, Ace. 
 p. 84, Cent. p. 116 
 
 Mr. Perer Ince, Ace. p. 759, 
 Cont. p. 869 
 
 Mr. Ingham, Ace. p. 819 
 
 Mr. Richard Inglec, Ace. p. 
 76, Cont. p. 107 
 
 Mr. Inman, Acc.p.'j^ 
 
 Mr. James Innis, Ace. p. 
 144, Cont. p. 176 
 
 Mr. John Ton of Wapping, 
 Ace. p. 33, Cont. p. 36 
 
 Mr. Francis Johnfon, Ace. p. 
 59, Cont. p. 89 
 
 Mr. Peter Johnfon, ^cc. /. 
 387 
 
 Mr. John Johnfon, Ace. p. 
 67, Cont. p. 10 1 
 
 Mr. Thomas Johnfon, .4cc. 
 p. 949, CW. /. 817 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jollie, Ace. P. 
 393, Cont. p. 557, fcfr. 
 
 Mr. John Jollie, Ace. p. 114 
 
 Mr. John Jones, Ace. p. 131 
 
 Mr. Jones <?/ Hampjhtre, 
 
 Ace. p. HI 
 
 Mr.Jenkyn Jones, Ace. p. 
 731, Cont. p. 847 
 
 Mr. Edmund Jones, Ace. p. 
 398, Cont. p. 561 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Jones, Ace. 
 f. 694 
 
 Mr. William Jones of Car- 
 marthenjhire, Ace. p. 710 
 
 Mr. William Jones of Den- 
 bigh, Ace p. 71.5 
 
 * Mr. Watkin Jones, Cont. p. 
 
 Mr. David Jones o/ C*r- 
 nmr then/hire t Ace. p. 719 
 
 Mr. David Jones of Cardi- 
 
 gan/hire, Ace. p. 716, 
 
 Cont. p. 840 
 
 Mr. Gabriel Jones, Ace. p. 
 711, Cent. p. 845 
 
 Mr. Samuel Jones of Gla- 
 morgan/hire, Ace. p. 711 
 
 Mr. Morgan Jones, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Richard Jones, Ace. p 
 
 8 44 : 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jones, Ace. p. 
 760 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Jones, Ace. p. 
 
 763 
 
 Mr. John Jordan, Ace. p. 
 144, Cont. p. 195 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jordan, Ace. 
 f 331 
 
 Mr. Henry Jordan, Ace. p. 
 696 
 
 Mr. Timothy Jordan, Ace. 
 P- 777 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Jofceline, 
 Ace. p. 480, Cent. p. 613 
 
 Mr
 
 32 An INDEX of Thoje ejefted orjilenCd 
 
 Mr. Thomas Jofeph, Aec. f. 
 732, Cont.f. 847 
 
 Mr. Thomas Juice, Acc.f. 
 769 
 
 Mr. Ireland, Ace. f. 99 ; 
 falfly pag'd 90 
 
 Mr. Izott, Acc.f. 8 18, Cow J. 
 ;>. 950 
 
 K 
 
 cc.^. 417 
 Mr. John Keck, Ace. f. 329 
 Mr. Francis Keeling, Ace. P. 
 565, O^. f. 74 7^5 
 Mr. John Kempfter, Acc.f. 
 245, Cont.f.w 
 
 Dr. George Kendal, Ace. f. 
 239, Cent. />. 259 
 
 Mr. Richard Kenner, Ace. 
 f. 1 1 8, Cent. f. 158 
 
 Mr. Richard Kentifli, ytfcc. 
 ^>. 34, Cont. p. 40 
 
 Mr. Thomas Kentifli of 
 Mtddleton, Ace. f. 290 
 
 Mr. Thomas Kenrifli of O- 
 
 verton, Acc.f. 351, Cont. 
 
 M*8 
 
 Mr. John Ker ridge, ^cc. />. 
 266, Cont.f. 420 
 
 Mr. Kerridge, Sen. Ace. f. 
 280, Ozf. f. 419 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Keftin or Ke- 
 
 ftion, Ace. f, 422, Cont. 
 
 f. 586 
 
 Mr. Kighdy, Ace. ^.314 
 
 Mr. William Kimberley, 
 Ace. f. 766 
 
 Mr. King ofCambritigeJhirc, 
 Ace. f. n 8 
 
 Mr. King, Ace. f. 5 j 
 
 Mr. Simon King, Acc.f. 371, 
 
 Ci*. ^.534 
 
 Mr. Ifaac King, Ace. f. 1 18 
 
 Mr. King of Dorfctfhire,Acc. ' 
 f. 281 
 
 Mr. Benjamin King, Ace. f. 
 544, Com. f. 720 
 
 Mr. Daniel King, Cent. f. 
 229 
 
 Mr. John King of Suffolk^ , 
 Ace. f. 654 
 
 Mr. John King o/ Hcrtford- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 368, Ccwf. 
 
 Mr. Hezekiah King, ^cc. 
 p. 119, Cont. p. 164. 
 
 Mr.ThomasKing of Suffolk., 
 Ace. p. 64$, Cowf. / 797 
 
 Mr. Henry K'ng, AT. /. 
 649, Ccttf. />. 790 
 
 Mr. Mark King, ^ar. />. 
 765, Ccnt.p. 883 
 
 Mr. Kiplin, /^cc. p. 290 
 Mr. Kippax, //cc. ^>. 418 
 Mr. Jofliua Kirby, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr, Kitchin, 
 
 -^<rc. ^7. 44, 
 Cont. f. 62
 
 the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. William Knapman, Ace. 
 p. 253, Cont. /.3<54 
 
 Mr. John Knight, Ace. />. 
 Z53, Cont. p. 364 
 
 Mr. Ifaac Knight, Ace. p. 
 467 
 
 Mr. Knighr ofSomerfet, Ace. 
 p. 613 
 
 Mr. John Knowles, Ace. p. 
 605 
 
 MrT Philip Lamb, Ace. p. 
 279, Cont. p. 428 
 
 Mr. Lamvet, Acc.p. 413 
 
 Mr. Lancafter, Ace. p. 339, 
 Conr. ;>. 507 
 
 Mr. Lane of I\ent, Ace. p. 
 386 
 
 Mr. Samuel Lane of North- 
 umberland, Ace. p. 5 1 1 
 
 Mr. John Langdale, Ace. p. 
 604, Cont. p. 752 
 
 Mr. Thomas Langden, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Langhorne, 
 Ace p. 753 
 
 Dr. Henry Langley, Ace. p. 
 59, Cont. p. 88 
 
 Mr. John Langs ford, Ace. p. 
 150 
 
 Mr. John Langfton, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Larkham, Ace. 
 p. 246, Cent. p. 329 
 
 Mr. George Larkbam, Ace. 
 p. 15* 
 
 Mr. John Larkin, Ace. p. 
 306, Cent. p. 47 a 
 
 Mr. Latham, Ace. p. 381 
 Mr. Paiil Lathum, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. John Lavender, Ace. p* 
 306, Cont. p. ^T i 
 
 Mr. Laughthorne, Acc.p. 834 
 
 Mr. Law of Lincoln/lyire> 
 Ace. p. 457, mt. p . 484 
 
 Mr. Robert Law, Cont. p. 
 406 
 
 Mr. Law of Torksbire, Ace. p. 
 834 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Lawrence, 
 Ace. p. 264 
 
 * Mr. Lawrence of Devon, 
 
 Acc.p. 157, Cont. p- 38* 
 
 * Mr. Richard Lawrence, Ace- 
 
 p. 483, Cont. p. 617 
 
 Mr. Edward Lawrence, Ace. 
 p. 557, Cont. p. 722 
 
 *Mr. George Lawrence , 
 Cont. p. 1002 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Lawfon, Ace. 
 
 p. 357,483, Cont. p. 629 
 Mr. Lax, Ace. p. 307 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Lea or Lee, Ace' 
 p. 572, Cowr. f . 719 
 
 Mr. Lea ofTorJ{sblre t Ace. f. 
 
 Mr.
 
 34 An INDEX of Thofe ejefted cr 
 
 Mr. Thomas Beadbeater , 
 Ace. f. 425 
 
 Mr. John Leaver, Ace. p. 399 
 
 Mr. Robert Leaver, Ace. f. 
 514, Cont. p. 61^ 
 
 Mr. Henry Leaver, Ace. p. 
 500, Cont. />. 651 
 
 Mr. Robert Lecefter, Ace. 
 P- 351 
 
 Mr. Samuel Lee, Ace. f. 36 
 Gf. /. 53 
 
 Mr. Peter Lee, Ace f. 123, 
 
 C072. f. 169 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Lee, Ace. f. 456 
 
 Mr. Lee of Lincoln/hire, Ace. 
 f. 456, Com. f. 604 
 
 Mr. Tobias Legg, >4cc. ^. 
 644, Cowf. f. 787 
 
 Mr. William Leigh, Ace, f. 
 412, CoMf. p. 567 
 
 Mr. John Leighton, Ace. f. 
 537, Cont. f. 699 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Leverton, Ace. 
 
 f- 137 
 
 Mr.Levefly, Ace. f. 135 
 
 Mr. John Levington, Ace. f 
 
 Mr. John Leviflbn, Ace. f 
 150 
 
 Mr. Philip Lewis, Acc.f. 721 
 Mr. Light, Ace. f. 281 
 
 Mr. Edward Line, Ace. f. 
 381 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Lifle, Ace. p. 
 252, Cont. p. 363 
 
 Mr. George Lifle, Ace. p. 
 304, Cont. p.. 468 
 
 Mr. Jercm Litilejohn, Acc.f. 
 612 
 
 Mr. Thomas Lock, Ace. p. 
 88, Cont. p. 127 
 
 Mr. William Lock, ^fccr./>. 
 382, Cont. p. 541 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Lockyer, Ace. 
 p. 37, no, Cont. p. 56 
 
 Mr. John Loder, Ace. p. 30, 
 
 Cont. p. 29 
 
 Mr. Loe, ^4cc. />. 36 
 
 * Mr. Ifaac Loefs, Ace. p. 33 
 
 360, Cont. p. 36, 524 
 
 * Mr. Lloyd of Yorkshire, Cont. 
 
 p. 960 
 
 Dr. George Long, Ace. p. 
 632, Cont. p. 768, 784 
 
 * Mr. William Lorimer, Ace. 
 
 p. 840, Cont: p. 965 
 
 Mr. Lo feby, Ace. p. 750 
 Mr. Lovel, >fcc. ^.565 
 Mr. John Lover, Ace. p. 687 
 
 * Mr. John Lougher, Ace. p. 
 
 . 481, Cont. p. 624 
 
 Mr. William Low, Ace. p. 
 
 352 
 
 Mr. Lowder, Ace. p. 30 
 
 Mr. Lowe, yfcc. ^?. 418 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Lowry, Ace. p. 
 
 436, Cont. p. 593 
 
 Mr. Lucas of EJfix, Ace. p 
 311 
 
 Mr. John Lucas, Ace. p. 480 
 Mr.
 
 by the AH for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Hamphrey Lucas, Ace. 
 
 f- 496, 497, Cant. f. 644, 
 
 647 
 
 Mr. Lucks, Ace. ^.834 
 
 Mr. Luddington, Ace. f. 
 834, Cent. f. 957 
 
 Mr. Thomas Lude.uEter, Ace. 
 p. 313, Cent. f. 490 
 
 Mr. John Luff, Ace. -p. 108 
 
 Mr. Henry Luk'n,, Ace. f. 
 314, Cont. p. 492 
 
 Mr. Edward Lulham, yfcc. 
 ^. 693 
 
 Mr. John Luntley, Ace. f. 
 717 
 
 Mr. John Lydfton, Ace. p. 
 150, Cont.f. 223, 3*c. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Lye, ./to. p. 
 24, Cof. ^>. 21 
 
 M 
 
 Mr. Mabifon, yfrc. ^p. 94, 
 Cont. f. 1 3 1 
 
 Mr. John Machin, ^ce. p. 
 125, Cow/. ^>. 170 
 
 Mr. William Maddocks , 
 ^fcc. p. 746, Cof. ^. 860 
 
 Mr. John Maidwcll, Ace. p. 
 491 
 
 Mr. Samuel Mail, Ace. p- 
 659 
 
 Mr. George Mainwaring , 
 Ace. p. 123, Cont. p. 169 
 
 Mr. Gabriel Major, Ace. p. 
 544 
 
 * Mr. Jofeph Maifters, Cont. 
 p. 107, &c. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Malbon, Ace. p. 
 659 
 
 Mr. John Maiden, Ace. p. 
 563, Cent. p. 724 
 
 Mr. Maiden of Hereford/hire* 
 
 Mr. Malkinfon, Ace. p. 495, 
 Cont. p. 639 
 
 Mr. Themas Mall, Ace. p. 
 220, Cont. p. 244 
 
 Mr. John Mallinfon, Ace. 
 p. 411, Cont. p. 566 
 
 Mr. Thomas Mallory, Ace. 
 p. 36, Cont. p. 53 
 
 Mr. Samuel Maltby, Ace. 
 p. 483 
 
 Mr. Robert Malthus, Ace. p. 
 467, Cont. p. 611 
 
 Mr. Thomas Malcus, Ace. p. 
 696 
 
 Mr. John Man, Ace. p. 309, 
 Cont. p. 485 
 
 Mr. Samuel Manning, Ace. 
 f. 648 
 
 Mr. Daniel Manning, Aoc. 
 p. 468, Cont. p.6n 
 
 Mr. John Manning, Ace. p. 
 649 
 
 Mr. William Manning, Ace. 
 p. 659, Cont. p. 806 
 
 Mr. Mar.fel, Ace. p. 746 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Mansfield," 
 Ace. p. 631, Cont. p. 782 
 
 E z Mr.
 
 3 6 An I N D E X of Thofe ejetfed or filenc'd 
 
 Mr. John Manfhip, Ace. p. 
 669, Cont. p. 814 
 
 Dr. Thomas Manron, Ace. 
 p. 42, Cant. p. 60 
 
 Mr. George Manwaring, 
 Ace. p. 123 
 
 Mr. John Marigold, ^cc. ^. 
 133, Cont. p. 173 
 
 Mr. John Marriot, Ace. p. 
 108 
 
 Mr. Marryoc of Hampshire, 
 Ace. p. 345 
 
 Mr. Samuel Mar ("den, ^cc. 
 />. 130, Cow. />. 171 
 
 * Mr. Jeremy Marfden, Ace. 
 p. 796, Cont. p. 942 
 
 Mr. Gamaiiel Marfden, ^cc. 
 />. 8 10, Cowf. ^. 947 
 
 Mr. Jofiah Marfden, Cont. 
 p. 960 
 
 Mr. Le Marfli, Ace. p. 340 
 Mr. Walter Marfhal, yfcc. 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Marfhal, 
 v^cc. p. 80 1 
 
 Dr. William MarfhaJ, Ace. 
 p. 414 
 
 Mr. Adam Martcndale, Ace. 
 
 135, 
 
 173 
 
 * Mr. John Marrin, Ace. p. 
 
 340, Cont. p. 514 
 
 ^lr. George Marcyn, Ace. 
 p. 490, Cont. p. 635 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Martin ofNcr- 
 
 cnfhire , Ace. p. 
 400 
 
 Mr. Thomas Manyn o 
 
 mcuth, Ace ^.231, Cowf. 
 /> 
 
 Mr. Samuel Martyn, Cont. 
 p. 256 
 
 Air. William Manyn, Ace. 
 p. 685, Cent. p. 820 
 
 Mr. Richard Msmn, ^cc, 
 /- 75 
 
 Mr. Mariyi'i o/ Dorfctjhire, 
 Ace. p. 281' 
 
 Mr. Jo!:-a MafTey, Ace. p. 
 76,0, Crnf. jf. 875 
 
 Dr. Inc eafe Mather, yfcc. 
 />. 317, OM^./.494, ^c 
 
 Mr. Samuel Mather. Ace. 
 />. 415, Cent. p. ^x 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Mather, ^cc. 
 /. 238, Cent. p. 257 
 
 Mr. Mathum, ^cc. ^?. 90 
 
 Mr. Marmaduke Matthews, 
 Ace. p. 73$ 
 
 Mr. Edmund Matthews , 
 Ace. p. 49 1 
 
 Mr. Richard Maudefly,yfar. 
 p. 104 
 
 Mr. James Maulden, Ace. 
 p. 311, Cont. p. 485 
 
 Mr, Henry Maurice, Ace. p. 
 567 
 
 Mr, John Mawdit, Ace. p. 
 242, Cont. p. 281 
 
 Mr. Samuel May, Ace. . 
 53, Cont. p. f6 
 
 ' Mr. Mayhew, Ace. p. 648 
 Mr.
 
 by the Aft for Uniformity. 
 
 37 
 
 Mr. John Maynard, Ace. p. 
 683, Cent. p. 818 
 
 Mr. Maynard of North 
 Tttunton, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Richard Mayo, Ace. f. 
 66& 
 
 Mr. Matthew Mead, Ace. 
 p. 471, Cent. />. 614 
 
 Mr. John Meadows, Ace. 
 p. 641 
 
 Mr. Alexander Medcalf, 
 Ace. />. 834 
 
 Mr. William Meen, Ace. p. 
 518 
 
 Mr. Mekal, Ace. p. 834, 
 Cont. p. 958 
 
 Mr. Mofes Mells, Ace. p. 
 458 
 
 * Mr. Francis Mence, Ace. p. 
 840, Cont. p. 999 
 
 Mr. Robert Mercer, Ace. 
 />. 654 
 
 Mr. Thomas Merrett, Ace. 
 t- 33* 
 
 Mr, Thomas Micklethwait, 
 
 Ace. p. 811, Cont. ^.833, 
 
 95 
 
 Mr. Miiburn c/ Bedford- 
 Jhirc, Ace. />. 94 
 
 Mr. Luke Mil bur i ^rc. *. 
 746, Cont. p. i6o, Cc 
 
 Mr. Thomas Miles, Ace*, p. 
 6^^ 
 
 Mr. John Miles, Ace. p. 
 73 r, Cont, p. 847 
 
 Mr. Mills of Somerset, Ace. 
 p. 623 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Mills, Ace. p. 
 280, Cont. p. 429 
 
 Mr. George Mills, Acs. p. 
 697 
 
 Mr. John Mills of Devon, 
 Ace. p. 2,53 
 
 Mr. Jofljua Miller, Ace. p. 
 
 73* 
 
 Mr. Millington, Ace. p. 94 
 
 Mr. Milman, Ace. p. 475, 
 
 Cont. p. 615 
 
 Mr. William Milner, 
 
 Mr. Jeremiah Milner, Acc^ 
 p. 796 
 
 Mr. John Milward, Ace. p. 
 66, Cent. p. 96 
 
 Mr. Nathanael 
 />. 480, 
 
 * Mr. John Mitchel, Ace. p. 
 
 268, Cof. f>. 42Z 
 
 Mr. Thomas Mocket, Ace. 
 p. 368, Cowf./>. 531 
 
 Mr. John Mony, Ace. p. 482 
 Mr. Jofeph Moor, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Simon Moor, Ace. p.} 3, 
 769, Cent. p. 77, 884 
 
 Mr. Richard Moor, Ace. p. 
 774, Cont. p. 894 
 
 Mr. Archibald Moor, 
 p. 513, Cont. p. 
 
 Mr. John Moore of Suffex, 
 
 Ace. p. 693, Cent. p. 829 
 
 Mr.
 
 38 An I N D E X of Thoje e]eBsd 
 
 * Mr. John Moore of Dorfet, 
 
 Ace. p. 261, Cont. p. 412 
 
 Mr. Robert More, Ace. p. 
 203, Cont. p. 235 
 
 Mr. Edmund More, Ace. p. 
 88, Cont. p. 113 
 
 Mr. John More of EJfix, 
 Ace. p. 309, Cont. p. 483 
 
 Mr. Thomas More of Mag- 
 
 Aden-College, Cambridge, 
 
 Ace. ^.83 
 
 Mr. Thomas More of Dor- 
 
 fet/hire, Ace. pAjo, Cont. 
 
 p. 417 
 
 Mr. Richard More, Ace. pi 
 481, Cont. p. 625 
 
 Mr. Martin Moreland, Ace. 
 p. 338 
 
 Mr. Owen Morgan, Ace. p. 
 473 
 
 Mr. Morgan of Dorfet, Aec. 
 p. 281 
 
 Mr. Roger Morrice, -4cc./>- 
 1 66, Cof. />. 231 
 
 * Mr. George Mortimer, Ace. 
 
 p. 244, Cont. p. 198 
 
 * Mr. John Mortimer, Ace. p. 
 
 49, Cont. p. 349 
 
 Mr. Charles Morton, Ace. 
 p. 144, Cont. p. 177 
 
 Mr. Daniel Morton, Ace. 
 p. 256, CVwf. p. 377 
 
 Mr. Richard Morton, Ace. 
 p. 625, Cont. p. 772 
 
 Mr. James Morton, Ace. p. 
 457, Cont. p. 605 
 
 Mr. William Mofes, Ace. p< 
 83, Cont. p. 115 
 
 Mr. Thomas Mott, ^cc. />. 
 650 
 
 Mr. John Mott of Effex, 
 Ace. p. 6x8 
 
 Mr. John Mott of Stafford- 
 Jhlre, Ace. p. 628 
 
 * Mr. Mark Motce, Ace. p. 
 304, 659, Cont. p. 467 
 
 Mr. James Mowbray, Ace. 
 
 f- 531 
 Mr. George Moxon, Ace. 
 
 p. 128 
 
 Mr. George Moxcn, Jim. 
 Ace. p. 313 
 
 Mr. John Murray, Ace. p. 
 513, Cont. p. 673 
 
 Mr. William Murrel, ^c<r. 
 
 ?-33i 
 
 Mr. Murrow, Ace. />. 520 
 
 Mr. Lawrence Mulgrave 
 Ace. p. 253, 602, Cont. p. 
 
 365 
 Mr. John Mulgrave, Ace. p. 
 
 623 
 
 Mr. Muffon, Ace. p. 438, 
 Cont. p. 505 
 
 Mr. Samuel Mufton, ^cc. 
 
 Mr. Francis Mutal, Ace. p. 
 281 
 
 N Mr.
 
 by the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 N 
 
 Mr. Samuel Nabbs, Ace. f. 
 670 
 
 Mr. William Naden or Na- 
 
 ding, Acc.p^o<j, Cent. 
 
 7.236 
 
 Mr. James Nakon, Ace. f. 
 2, Cont. f. 6 
 
 Mr. Peter Naylour, Ace. f. 
 407, Cont. p. 564 ' 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Needler,^cc. 
 f. 24, Cont . p. 2 i 
 
 Mr. Edward Negus, Ace. p. 
 119 
 
 Mr. Strickland Negus, Ace. 
 p. 496, Cont. p. 642 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher NefTe, Ace. 
 p. 799, Cont. p. 945 
 
 Mr. Rowland Never, Ace. 
 p.$6i 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Nevil, Ace. 
 p. 541 
 
 Mr. Henry Newcome, Ace. 
 />. 391, Cont. p. 556 
 
 Mr. Matihew Newcomen, 
 Ace. p. 294, Cont. p. 457 
 
 Mr. Thomas Newman, Ace. 
 p. 481 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ncwnham , 
 Ace. p. 340, Cont. p. 510 
 
 Mr. Edward Newton, Ace. 
 f- 673 
 
 Mr. George Newton, -rfcc. 
 /. 574, COT/, p. 73 
 
 Mr. Sampfon Newton, Ace'. 
 p. 633, CW. p. 785 
 
 Mr. Samuel Newton, Ace. 
 J>. 409 
 
 Mr. John St Nicholas, Ace. 
 p. 426, Cow*. />. 591 
 
 Mr. Ferdinando Nichols, 
 Ace. p. a 1 8, Cont. p. 239 
 
 Mr. George Nicholfon, Ace^ 
 p. 160 
 
 Mr. Nicolas, Ace. p. 471 
 
 Mr. Charles Nichols, Ace. 
 p. 381, 3 8z 
 
 Mr. John Noble, Acc.p.yyo 
 
 Mr. William Nokes, ^cc. />,; 
 384 ; falfly pag'd 381 
 
 Mr. Robert Norbury, Ace. 
 /M34 
 
 Mr. John Norman, Ace. p. 
 578, Cont. p. 731 
 
 * Mr. Richard Northam, Ace*. 
 
 p. 457, Cont.p.6o$ 
 
 Mr. Naihanael Northcrofs, 
 ^cc. ^. 483 
 
 * Mr. John Nofworthy, Ace. 
 
 p. 149, Cwtf. p. 345 
 
 2vlr. John Notr, Ace. p. 18 
 
 Mr. Samuel Nowel, Ace. 
 p. 204 
 
 Mr. Thomas Nuttal, Ace. 
 p. 649 
 
 Mr. Philip Nye, ^cc.^. 29, 
 Cont. p. 28 
 
 O Mr.
 
 40 An I N D E X of Thofe e]e&ed orfilenCd 
 
 __ 
 
 Mr. John Osbcrn, Ace. p. 
 541, Cent. p. 713 
 
 * Mr. Jofeph Osborn, Ace p. 
 
 381, Cont.p. 537, &c 
 
 * Mr. Peter Osborn, Ace. p. 
 
 244, Cont. p. 292 
 
 Mr. Robert Otty, Ace. p. 
 54, Cont. p. 803, &c 
 
 Mr. John Overhead, Ace. 
 p. 304, Cont.p. 466 
 
 Mr. Overton, ^<r. p. 386 
 
 Dr. John Owen, y^cc. />. 53, 
 &c. Cont. p. 79, 5c 
 
 Mr. Hugh Owen, ^cc. p. 
 710, Cont. p. 838 
 
 Mr. Thankful Owen, ./tfcc. 
 ;. 59, Cent. p. 89 
 
 Mr. John Owens, Ace. p. 
 505, COB*. />. 657 
 
 * Mr. Owefley, Ace. p. 281, 
 
 Cont. p. 436 
 
 Mr. John Oxenbri^ge, Ace, 
 p. n 
 
 O 
 
 Mr. John Oakes, Ace. p. 
 300, Cowf. />. 460 
 
 Mr. Urian Oakes, Ace. p. 
 349 
 
 * Mr. Henry Oafland, Ace. p. 
 
 770, Cont.p. 885, Gfc 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Oddy, ^cc.^. 
 88, Cont. p. 122 
 
 Mr. Samuel Ogden, Ace. p. 
 189, Cow/-, p. 234 
 
 Mr. Luke Ogle, Ace. p. 500 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ogle, Ace. p. 
 529 
 
 Mr. Samuel Olderfhaw , 
 Ace. p. 423, Cont.p. 587 
 
 Mr. John Oldfield, ^cc. />. 
 172, Cont. p . 233 
 
 * Mr. John Oldham, ^cc./>. 
 
 763, Cowf. /;. 880 
 
 * Mr. William Oliver of Corn- 
 
 wal, Ace. p. 147, Cont. 
 
 p. 212 
 
 Mr. Oliver of Somerfet, Ace. 
 p. 6ix 
 
 Mr. William Oliver of Lin- 
 
 coin/hire, Ace. p. 459, 
 
 Cont.p. 607 
 
 Mr. John Ollive, Ace. p. 69 6 
 
 Mr. Edward Ord, Ace. p> 
 518 
 
 Mr. Thomas Orford, Ace. 
 t- 634 
 
 P 
 
 Mr. Packwood, Ace. p. 748 
 Mr. John Page, Ace. p. 654 
 
 Mr. John or Jonathan Pain, 
 Ace. p. 360, Cont. p. 524 
 
 Mr. Pain of Someffet, Ace. 
 p. 611 
 
 Mr. Thomas Pakeman, Ace. 
 
 p. 468 
 
 Mr.
 
 by the Art for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Palk, Ace. p. 
 256, Cont. p. m 
 
 Mr. Palmer of Kent, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Palmer cf Dcr- 
 
 fyfhire, Ace. f. 53, 1^5, 
 
 Cont. ^.236 
 
 Mr. Anthony Palmer of De- 
 
 von, Ace. p. 2^5, Cont.f. 
 
 320 
 
 Mr. Anthony Palmer cf 
 Glcucejlerfhire , Ace. p. 
 316, Cont. f. 77, 493 
 
 Air. John Panton, Ace. f. 75, 
 697, Cont. p. 107, 833 
 
 Mr. Robert Park cf LeincA- 
 fhire, Ace. p. 402 
 
 Mr. Robert Park of Sujfcx, 
 Ace. p. 696 
 
 Mr. James Parker, Ace. p. 
 307, Cont. p. 475 
 
 Mr. William Parker, Ace. p. 
 60 1, Cont. p. 747 
 
 Mr. Richard Parr, Ace. p. 
 1 18, 660, Cont. p. 157 
 
 Mr. Edward Parr, Ace. p 
 248, Cont. p. 339, 810 
 
 * Mr. John Parr, Ace. p. 418, 
 Cont. p. 573, &c. 
 
 Mr. Andrew Parfons, Ace. 
 p. 555, Cont. p. ^^^ 
 
 Mr. Thomas Parfons, Ace. 
 p. 34, Cont. p. 37 
 
 Mr. Henry Parfons, Cont. 
 p. 767 
 
 VOL. II. 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Partridge, 
 Ace. p. 360, Cont. p. 530 
 
 Mr. Thomas Pafey, Ace. p. 
 761 
 
 Mr. Edward Pafton, Ace. p. 
 565, Cont. p. 714 
 
 Mr. Matthew Patchet, Ace', 
 p. 438 
 
 Mr. John Paul, Ace. p. 609 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Paxford, Ace* 
 
 p. 331, Cont. p. 506 
 
 Mr. Peachy , -^cc. ^.368 
 Cont. p. 532 
 
 Mr. George Pearce, Acc.p* 
 604 
 
 Mr. Pearch, y&r. />. 484. 
 
 Mr. Oliver Peard, Ace. p. 
 
 157 
 
 ' 
 
 Mr. Edward Pearfe, Ace. p. 
 37, Ccf. p. 57, 
 
 * Mr. William Pearfe, Ace. p. 
 
 149, Cow*. />. 340, (30. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Peck, Ace. p. 
 306, Cont. p. 473, 
 
 Mr. Pecket, Ace. p. 834 
 Mr. Peebles, Ace. p. 819 
 
 Mr.Will'am Pell, Ace. p: 
 288, Cont. p. 454 
 
 Mr. Matthew Pemberton , 
 Ace. p. 153, Cont. p. 364 
 
 Mr. John Pen, Ace. p. 539 
 
 Mr. Henry Pendlebury, Ace. 
 p. 400, Cont. p. 56 z 
 
 Mr.
 
 42 An I N D EX of Thoje ejected of pknfd 
 
 * Mr. Richard Pen ward en , 
 
 Ace. p. no, Cont. p. 148 
 
 Mr. Richard Pepys or Pepps, 
 Ace. p. 307, Co?*?. f.475 
 
 Mr. Edward Perkins, Ace. 
 f, 469 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Perkins, Ace. 
 
 f. 544, Cont. f. 720 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Perkins, Ace. 
 f. 107 
 
 Mr. Richard Perrot, Ace. f. 
 784, Cont. p. 939 
 
 Mr. Robert Perrot, Ace. t. 
 92, COM/-, p. 130 
 
 Mr. Petit, ^cc./. 457 
 
 * Mr. John Petter, Ace. f. 
 
 386, Cont. p. 545 
 
 Mr. Samuel Petto, Ace. p. 
 48, Cont. p. 796 
 
 * Mr. Pew, Ace. p. 484, Cowr. 
 
 /. 671 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Philips, -dec. 
 p. 259, Cow*. />. 841, 141 
 
 Mr. Peregrine Philips, Ace. 
 p. 717, Cont. p. 841 
 
 Mr. Thomas Philips, Ace. p. 
 544, Cof.^. 721 
 
 Mr. Pickering, .^cr. />. Sir, 
 Cont. p. 948 
 
 Mr. Richard Pigor, Ace. p. 
 842 
 
 Mr. Pinchback, Ace: p. 43 
 
 Mr. John Pindar of Notting- 
 ham/hire, Ace. p. 52 
 
 Mr. John Pindar of Suffolk: 
 Ace, p. $5 9 
 
 Mr. Pinkney ofBerks, Ace. 
 p. 99, ialfly pag'd, 90 
 
 Mr. John Pinkney cfHanip- 
 
 Jhirc, Ace. p. 347, Cent. 
 
 p. 518 
 
 Mr. Robert Pinney, Acc.f> 
 614, Cont. p. 767 
 
 Mr. John Pinney, Ace-. />. 
 
 266 
 
 Mr. Pittedate, Acc.p.^%3, 
 Cont. p. 630 
 
 Mr. Pitts, Ace. p. 253 
 
 Mr. William Pise, Ace, p. 
 689 
 
 Mr. Plackftone, Ace. p. 821 
 
 Mr. John Player, Ace p* 
 
 374 
 
 Mr. Robert Pleafance, Ace. 
 p. 288 
 
 Mr. Elias Pledger, Ace. p. 
 25, Cont. p. 21 
 
 Mr. John Plot, Ace. p. 699, 
 Ccf. f. 814 
 
 * Mr. Auguftine Plumftead, 
 
 Ace. p. 659, Ccwr. />. 806 
 
 efc. 
 
 * Mr. Simon Pole, 'Ace. p. 
 
 340, Ccf. />. 5 14 
 
 * Mr. Theophilus Polwheil, 
 
 Ace. p' 239, Cont. p. 260 
 
 * Mr. Samuel Pomphret, Ccwf. 
 
 p. icox 
 
 Mr. Pomroy, ^cc. p, 834, 
 Cowf. /. 956 
 
 * M/.Samuel Ponder, ^cc. ^. 
 
 88, Cent, p. 127 
 
 Mr-
 
 by the Act for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Matthew Poole, Ace. 
 p. 14, Cent. ^.15 
 
 Mr. Thomas Pool, Ace. f. 
 633 
 
 Mr. Ferdinando Pool, Ace. 
 f- 537 
 
 * M>: John Pope, Ace. p. 257' 
 Cont. .381 
 
 Mr. Thomas Porter, Ace. p- 
 561, Cont. f. 723 
 
 Mr. Robert Porter, Ace p. 
 180 
 
 Mr. George Porter, Ace. p. 
 70, Cont. p. 104 
 
 Mr. Guaker Poftlethwait, 
 Ace. p. 675 
 
 Mr. Thomas Powel, Ace p. 
 ii 8, Cont. p. 238 
 
 Mr. John Powel of Carmnr- 
 then/hire, Ace. p. 710 
 
 Mr. John Powel of Glamor- 
 gan/hire, Ace. p. 731 
 
 r. John Powel of EJJex* 
 Ace. f. 3i3,Cor. p. 490 
 
 Mr. Daniel .Poynte!, Ace. p. 
 
 . p. 
 /8 
 
 58 
 
 * Mr. John Poynter, ^fcc. p. 
 70, Cow. />. 101 
 
 Dr. John Pratt, Acc.p. 88, 
 Cont. p. 127 
 
 Mr. Gabriel Price, Wr. p. 
 469, Cont. p. 611 
 
 Mr. Henry Price, yfec. />. 
 
 386, Cont. p. 545 
 
 Mr. Owen Price, Ace ^.841 
 
 Mr. Lewis Price, Acc.p.ji6 
 
 Mr. Charles Price, Ace. p. 
 716, Cont. p. 838 
 
 Mr. David Price, Acc.p.-j^o 
 
 * Mr. Prig, ^cc. p. 380, 
 Cow/. /. 537 
 
 Mr. Edward Prime^-rfcc. p. 
 787 
 
 Mr. George Primrofe, Ace. 
 
 Mr. James Prince, Ace. p. 
 469 
 
 Mr. John Prince, Acc.p.6il 
 
 Mr. John Pringle , Ace. p'. 
 504 
 
 Mr. David William Proberr, 
 Acc.p. 733, Cont. p. 848 
 
 Mr. Procter, Ace. p. 834 
 
 Mr. Walter Profler, Ace. p. 
 
 473 
 
 Mr. Richard Proud, Ace* p. 
 
 Mr. Rice Pruthero, Ace. p. 
 720, Cent. p. 845 
 
 Mr. George Purchas, Acc.p. 
 308, Cont.p. 477 
 
 Mr. Robert Purr, .Arc. pi 
 4.82, Or. />. 615, 631 
 
 Mr. MarkPurt, Acc.p. 482, 
 Cont. 
 
 Afr. Thomas Pyke, Ace. p. 
 398 
 
 Mr. Quarrel, Ace. p. $66 
 E * Mr.
 
 44 An I N D E X of Thofe cjctfed or flenfd 
 
 Mr. Walter Quarum, Ace. 
 ? US 
 
 * Mr. John Qiiicke, Ace. f. 
 247, Cant. f. 331 
 
 Mr. William Quipp, Ace p. 
 462 
 
 R 
 
 Mr. Richard Rand, Ace. f. 
 308, Cent. p. 476 
 
 Mr. Randall, Ace. p. 256, 
 Cont. p. 380, 765 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Ranew, Ace. 
 f. 300, Cow*, p. 460 
 
 Mr. Thomas Rafliley, Ace. 
 p. 756, Cent. p. 865 
 
 Mr. John Raftrick, Ace. p. 
 461 
 
 Mr. William Rathband , 
 Ace. p. 306, Cont. p. 471 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Ravens, Ace. 
 p. 712 
 
 Mr. John Ravenfhaw, Ace. 
 p. 134 
 
 Mr. Rawlins, Ace. p. 102 
 
 Mr. John Rawlinfon, Ace. 
 p. 664, Cow*, p. 812 
 
 Mr. James Rawfou, Ace. p. 
 28?, Cont. p. ^1% 
 
 Mr. Edward Rawfon, j4cc. 
 p. 3 8 3> Cont. p. 543 
 
 Mr. John Ray, Ace. p. 87, 
 Cow/-. /. no 
 
 Mr. Daniel Ray, Ace. p. 
 303, Cont. p. 465 
 
 * Mr. Raymond, Ace. p. 491, 
 Cont. p. 637 
 
 v Mr. Jofeph Read, Ace. p. 
 775 
 
 -Mr. Redman, Ace. p. 457, 
 Cent. p. 605 
 
 Mr. William Reeves, ^cc. 
 ^. i to 
 
 Mr. Thomas Reeves, Ace. 
 p. 96, Co^f. />. 831 
 
 Mr. Richard Resbury, Ace. 
 p. 493, Cent. p. 639 
 
 Mr. John Reve, Ace. p. 304, 
 Cowf. p. 467 
 
 * Mr. Stephen Revel, Ace. p. 
 
 149, Cow*, p. 216 
 
 Mr. George Reves, y4cc./>. 
 57* 
 
 Mr. Edward Reyner, ^cc. 
 p. 439, Cowf. /. 595 
 
 * Mr. John Reyner, Ace. p. 
 
 84, Cont. p. 117 
 
 Mr. John Reyner of Nor- 
 folk., Ace. p. 483, Cowf. 
 /. 629 
 
 Mr. Daniel Reyner, Ace. p. 
 
 99, fa'fly pag'd 90, and 
 
 693 
 
 Mr. William Reyner, Ace. 
 p. 660 
 
 Mr. John Reynolds of Nor- 
 ., Ace. p. 480, Cont. 
 p. 613 
 
 Mr.
 
 the AB for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr.William Reynolds, Ace. 
 f. 511 
 
 Mr. John Reynolds cf Staf- 
 
 ford/hire, Ace. f. 6x4, 
 
 Cont. f. 769 
 
 Mr. Jofliua Richardfon, Ace. 
 f-tfl 
 
 Dr. Edward Richardfon, 
 Ace. p. 817, Cont. f. 948 
 
 Mr. Richardfon of Mancbc- 
 Jicr, Ace. f. 393 
 
 Mr. Chviftopher Richard- 
 fon, Ace. p. 795 
 
 Mr. John Richardfon, Ace. 
 f- 451 
 
 Mr. John Rider, Ace. f. 
 
 448, 833, Cont. f. 601, 
 
 955 
 
 * Mr! John Rider, Jim. Ace. 
 
 ^ 
 
 6o:r 
 
 Mr. Dudley Rider of War- 
 wickshire, Ace. f. 748 
 
 Mr. John Ridge, Ace. f. 
 684, Cent. f. 819 
 
 Mr. John Ridge of Hamp- 
 Jhlrc t Ace. p . 3 5 i 
 
 Mr. Ridwater, >*cc. p. 635 
 
 Mr. Thomas Rifley, Ace. 
 f. 66, Cow/. ^. 98, &c 
 
 Mr. Roate, ^cc. p . 458 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Roberts, Ace. 
 p.fi6, Cont. p. 838 
 
 Mr. Timothy Roberts, Ace. 
 p. 751, Cont. p. 864 
 
 Mf. Richard Roberts, Ace. 
 p. 670, Cont. p. 816 
 
 Mr. Robins, Ace. p. 473 
 
 Air. Alexander Robinfon, 
 Ace. p. 604 
 
 * Mr. John Robinfon, Ace. f. 
 347, Cont. p. 517 
 
 Mr. Robinfon o/ Mcnmoutb- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 473 
 
 Mr. Robinfon of Torkfhire, 
 Ace. p. 818, 834 
 
 Mr. John Robotham, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Jofiah Rock, Acc.f 
 516, 625, Cont. p. 
 
 Mr. William Rock, Ace. f. 
 
 Mr. Rocket, Ace. p. 45 7, 
 Cow/-. />. 605 
 
 Dr. Chriftopher Rogers , 
 Ace. p. 63, C<?*. />. 96 
 
 Mr. John Rogers, Ace. p. 
 151, Cont. f. 
 
 Mr. Hugh Rogers, yfc 
 
 Mr. Edward Rogers, Ace. 
 p. 33* 
 
 Mr. Rogers of Htmp/hirc, 
 Ace. p. 351 
 
 Mr. Rogers of Monmouth- 
 Jkire, Ace. p. 473 
 
 Mr. Robert Rogers, Ace. p. 
 543, Cont. p. 719 
 
 Mr. John Roll, ^cc. /. 469 
 
 Mr. Samuel Rolls, Ace. p. 
 1 08, Cowf. p. 144
 
 4<5 An I N D E X of Thofe ejetfed 
 
 Mr. Rolt, Ace. f. 94 
 
 Mr. Onefiphorus Rood, Ace. 
 f. 52, Cent. f. 74 
 
 * Mr. Henry Roofe, Cont. 
 f- 497 
 
 Mr. Henry Root, Sen. Ace. 
 f. 809 
 
 Mr. Thomas Rofewell, Ace. 
 
 f. 756, &e. Cont. f. 
 
 867, &c 
 
 Mr. Thomas Rowe, Ace. 
 f. 170 
 
 Mr. John Rowe, Ace. p. 39, 
 Cont. f. 59 
 
 Mr. John Rowel, Ace. f. 
 
 35 
 
 Mr. Ellis Rowlands, Ace. 
 
 * Mr. Rowlec, Con*. />. 648 
 Mr. Rowley, -4ce. /. 571 
 
 Mr. Rowfwell, Ace. f. 764, 
 Cont. f. 88 1 
 
 * Mr. Job Royfe, Ace. f. 53, 
 
 Cont. f. 78 
 
 Dr. Gilbert Rule, ^fcc. f. 
 514, Cont. f. 67 6 
 
 Mr. Rusbitcb, ./fcc. f. 571 
 
 Mr. Rutten, Acc.f. 33, 
 Gont.p. 36 
 
 Mr. Thomas Rutty, >fcc. />. 
 761, Cont. p. 877 
 
 Mr. Timothy Sacheverel, 
 
 /fee. f. 169, Con?. />. 
 
 424, &c 
 
 Mr. Philologus Sacheverel, 
 >icc f. 313, Cowf. /?. 490 
 
 Mr. John Sacheverel, Ace. 
 f- 597, Cont.f. 74^ 
 
 Mr. John Sadler, Ace. f. 
 83, Cont.f. 116 
 
 Mr. Richard Sadler, ^cc. p. 
 86?, COM<-. /). 713 
 
 Mr. Thomas Safford, Ace. 
 f. 604, 694 
 
 Mr. Charles Sager, Ace. f. 
 105 
 
 Mr. Salaway, Ace. p. 280, 
 C0r. ^. 418 
 
 Mr. James Sales, Ace. p. 
 798, Cont. p. 945 
 
 Mr. John Salkeld, Ace. p. 
 641, Cont. p. 786 
 
 Mr. John Samms, Ace. p. 
 303, Cont. p. 465 
 
 JDrv Henry Sampfon, ^cc. 
 p. 85, G?Mf. />. 118 
 
 Mr. Sampfon, Ace. p. 9,66 
 
 Mr. John Sanders of Lin- 
 coln fkire, Ace. p. 457 
 
 Mr. John Sanders of Suf- 
 Ace. p. 654 
 
 Mr,
 
 ly tfie Afi for Uniformity. 
 
 47 
 
 Mr. Sandford of Lanca- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 418 
 
 Air. Sandford of EJfex, Ace. 
 f. 311,471, Cent. ^.48 5 
 
 Mr. Sandford o/ Middlefcx, 
 Ace. f. 471 
 
 Mr. Gabriel Sangar, Ace. 
 f. 17 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Saunders, 
 Aec.f. 140, Cont. p. 274 
 
 Mr. John Saunders, Ace. p. 
 108 
 
 Mr. Richard Saunders, Ace. 
 p. 245, Cont. p. 311 
 
 * Mr. Giles Say, Ace. p. 347, 
 Cont. p. 517 
 
 Mr. Sayer, Ace. p. 7 5 
 
 Mr. John Saxton, ^cc. />. 
 
 159 
 
 Mr. Stephen Scanderet , 
 Ace. p\ 655, Cont. p. 805 
 
 Mr. Jeremy Scoales, ^cc. 
 /. 179, Cont. p. 133 
 
 Mr. Scoffin, jtfcc. p. 461 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Scolfield, ^cc. 
 p. 411, Cone. p. 566 
 
 Mr. George Scortwre:h , 
 ^cc. ;. 445 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Scott, Ace. 
 p. 309, Cont. p. 485 
 
 Mr. Scott of Hutingdonjhirc, 
 Ace. p. 371 
 
 Mr. Leonard Scurr, ./frc. p. 
 800, Cowr. p. 946 
 
 Mr. George Seal, Ace. f. 
 731 
 
 Dr. Lazarus Seaman, Ace. 
 p. 1 6, Cont. p. 17 
 
 Mr. John Searl,yfcc. ^. 
 Cont. p. 
 
 Mr. Henry Setrl, ^cc. ^: 
 497, 
 
 Mr. John Seaton of Nor- 
 
 tbamp ton/hire, Ace. /.' 
 
 497, Cont. p. 646 
 
 Mr. John Seaton of North- 
 umberland, Ace. p. 5 1% 
 
 Mr. Robert Seddon, Acci 
 t- 167, Cont. p. ^}^ 
 
 Mr. William Sedgwick, Ace. 
 f. 117 
 
 Mr. William Segary, Ace: 
 p. 70 
 
 Mr. Thomas Senior, Accl 
 p. 88, C0Hf./>. iir 
 
 Mr. Richard Serjeant, Aec. 
 p. 772, Cwjf./. 895 
 
 Mr. Thomas Se-yer, Ace. p. 
 33', Cont. p. 50$ 
 
 Mr. Thomas Syliard, Ace. 
 ^.38* 
 
 M/. Samuel Seyliard, Accl 
 
 p. 383, Cent. p. 544 
 
 Mr. Sharp o/ J&nt, Acc.p. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Sharp of Ad- 
 dle, 
 
 Mr. Samuel Shaw of Lcice- 
 
 Jtcrjhirc, Ace. p. 416, 
 
 Cont. p. 591, 593 
 
 Mr;
 
 48 An I N D E X of Thofe ejetfcd or fane* d 
 
 Mr. Shaw of Ba.net, Ace. p. 
 369 
 
 Mr. Shaw of Warfpur, Ace. 
 p. 812 
 
 Mr. Shaw of Hull, Ace. p. 
 823 
 
 Mr. John Sheffield of Lon- 
 don, Ace. ^.38, Cent. p. 
 58 
 
 Mr. Edward Sheffield, Ace. 
 p. 148 
 
 Mr. Sheffield of Norfolk, 
 Ace. p. 483 
 
 Mr. William Sheffield of 
 Leicefterjhire, Ace. p. 41 1 
 
 Mr. John Sheldreck, Ace. 
 p. 119, Cont. p. 164 
 
 Mr. William Sheldreck, 
 Ibid 
 
 Mr. Thomas Shelmerdine, 
 Ace. p. 166 
 
 Mr. Francis Shelmerdine, 
 Ace. p. 133 
 
 Mr. Daniel Shelmerdine, 
 Ace. p. 1 66 
 
 Mr. Shemhold, Ace. p. 834 
 
 * Mr. William Shepherd, Cont. 
 
 p. 131 
 
 * Mr.Thomas Shepherd,Cof. 
 
 p. 131 
 
 Mr. Shepherd of Norfolk, 
 Ace. ^.483 
 
 Mr. Robert Sherborn, Ace. 
 p. 814 
 
 Mr. Edward Sherman, Ace. 
 
 e. p. 
 , &c 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Sherwil, Ace. 
 p. 257, Ccnt.p.wj 
 
 Mr. William Sherwin, Ace. 
 p.^6i, Cont. p. 531 
 
 * Mr. Jofeph Sherwood, Ace. 
 
 148, Cent. p. 213 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Shewel, Ace. 
 
 p. 382, Cont p. 540 
 
 Mr. Shewel of Woldhsim, 
 Ace. p. 386 
 
 Mr. Shilton of Warwick: 
 /hire, Ace. p. 751 
 
 Mr. Ifrael Shipdam, Ace. p. 
 483 
 
 Mr* Shirley of "Buck*, Ace. 
 p. 109 
 
 * Mr. Ames Short, Ace. 
 
 266, Cont. p. 416, 
 
 * Mr. John Short, Cont. p. 
 
 420 
 
 Mr, John Shuttle wood, Ace. 
 ^.423, Cont. p. 587 
 
 Mr. John Simmonds, vfcc. 
 />. 696 
 
 Mr. Simmons cf London, 
 Ace. p. 53, Cont. p.n 
 
 Mr. Simmons of Devon, 
 Ace. p. 245 
 
 Mr. William Simms, Ace. 
 p. 422 
 
 JVfr. imms of Mcnmoutb- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 473 
 
 Mr. Sioims of Wilts, Ace. 
 p. 765 
 
 Mr-
 
 by the Aft for Uniformity. 
 
 49 
 
 Mr. Simons of Suffolk., Ace. 
 p. 648 
 
 Mr. Sinclere, Ace. p. 834, 
 Cent. f. 958 
 
 Mr. John Singleton, Ace. f. 
 7* 
 
 Mr. Sin?!e:on of Kjtnt, Ace. 
 ' p. 386 
 
 Mr. Thomas Singleton, Ace. 
 p. 841 
 
 Mr. Skingle, Ace. p. 370 
 
 Mr. John Skinner, Ace. p. 
 
 354 
 
 Mr. Samuel Slater, Sen. of 
 
 St Catherines, Ace. p. 
 
 34, Cont. f. 39 
 
 Mr. Samuel Slater Jun. of 
 
 Bury, Ace. p. 646, Cont. 
 
 p. 787 
 
 Mr. Samuel Slater of Che- 
 jkire, Ace. p. 130, Cent. 
 
 p. 172 
 
 Mr. Anthony Sleigh, Ace. p. 
 161 
 
 Mr. James Small, Ace. p. 
 307, Cont. p. 474 
 
 Mr. Robert Smalley, Ace. 
 p. 515, Cont. p. 689 
 
 Mr. Smallwood of Berks, 
 Ace. P. 103 
 
 M 
 
 Mr. Thomas Smallwood , 
 Ace. p. 804, Cont. p. 947 
 
 Mr. Samuel Smith ofShrop- 
 
 fhire, Ace. p. 567, Cont. 
 
 p. 718 
 
 ' 
 VOL. IL 
 
 MK Samuel Smith o/ Herr- 
 
 ford, Ace. p. 99, falfly 
 
 pag'd 90 $ and 351 
 
 Mr. John Smith of Berks, 
 Ace p. 99, falflf pag'd 90 
 
 Mr. Samuel Smith of Wind.- 
 for, Ace. p. 13, Cont. p. 18 
 
 Mr. Smith of Che/hire, Ac*, 
 p. 134 
 
 Mr. Timothy Smith, Ace. p. 
 411, Cont. p. 567 
 
 Mr. Robert Smith, Ace. p. 
 649 
 
 Mr. Jofhua Smith, /&. .p. 
 809 
 
 Mr. Zephany Smi'h, Acd p. 
 660, Cent. p. 6 it 
 
 Mr. Zachary Stniih, Ace. p. 
 
 673,690, 691, Cont. p. 
 
 816, 829 
 
 Mr. Richard Smith, Ace. p. 
 613, Cow*, p. 766 
 
 Mr. John Smith of Lanca- 
 
 Jhire, Acc.f.^rt, Cont, 
 
 f- 573 
 
 Mr. John Smith of Ejfcx, 
 Ace. p. 306, Cont. p. 473 
 
 Mr. John Smith of Norfolk, 
 
 Ace. p. 483, Cont. p. 619 
 
 Mr. John Smith of Leiccftcr- 
 
 /hire, Ace. p. 41 x 
 
 Mr. Samuel Smith of Effex, 
 Ace. p. 313 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Smith, Ace. p. 
 330
 
 50 An INDEX of Thofe ejected or 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Smith of Leicc- 
 
 Jlerjhirc , Ace. f. 437, 
 Cont. P. 593 
 
 Mr. Thomas Smirh ofGlcu- 
 
 ceftcrfoirc , Ace f. 330 
 
 Cont. p. 505 
 
 Mr. George Smith, Ace. f. 
 2,95, Cont. f. 458 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Smirh, ^cc. f. 
 418, CcKf. />. 573 
 
 Mr. William Smith of Lei- 
 ceftc/hirCf Ace. p. 423 
 
 Mr. William Smith cf Ox- 
 ford/hire, Ace. p. 541 
 
 Mr. Smith of Warwickshire, 
 Ace. p. 751 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Snead, Ace. p. 
 
 623, Cont. p. 767 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Snell, Ace' 
 p. 693 
 
 Mr. Robert Snow, Ace. p. 
 240, Cent. p. 272 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Saowden , 
 Ace. p. 476 
 
 Mr. Edward Sond, Ace. p. 
 697 
 
 Mr. Francis Soreton, Ace. f. 
 2,41, Cont. p. 174 
 
 .Mr. Jofeph Sound, Ace. p. 
 *6i6, Cont. p. 77 2 
 
 Mr. Compton South, Ace. p. 
 761, Cont. p. 879 
 
 * Mr. Richard South we!, Ace. 
 
 p. 634, Cont. p. 785, 862 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Southwood, 
 Ace. p. 438, Cont.pT, 595 
 
 Mr. Thcmas Spademan , 
 
 Ace. p. 446, Cont. p. 
 
 595 
 
 Mr. John Spademan, y/cc. 
 p. 460 
 
 Mr. William Sparrow, Ace. 
 p. 305, Cow*. ;>. 471 
 
 Mr. Sparrowhawk, Ace. f'. 
 312 
 
 Mr. Ambrofe Sparry, Ace. p. 
 : 770, Cont. p. 885 
 
 Mr. Sp-a,cher, Ace. p. 648 
 
 Mr. John Spawford or Spof- 
 
 ford, Ace. p. 791 f Cent. p. 
 
 940 
 
 * Mr, William Speed, Ace. f 
 
 685, Cont. />. 819 
 
 * Mr. Robert Speere, Cont. 
 
 p. 106 
 
 Mr. Spencer of Kent, Ace" 
 p. 386 
 
 Mr. John Spilsbury, Ace. p. 
 772, Cont. p. 893 
 
 Mr. William Spinage, Ace. 
 f- 53, 7^i 
 
 Mr. Edmnnd Spinks, yfcc. 
 p. 37', Cowf.^. 534 
 
 * Mr. Ralph Sprake, Ace. p. 
 
 257, Cont. p. 382 
 
 Mr. Samuel Spring, Ace. pi 
 653 
 
 Mr. Samuel Sprint, Ace. p. 
 
 34 
 Mr. John Sprint, Ace. f. 
 
 261 
 
 Mr.
 
 ly the Ad for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Sprint . of Hampftiad, 
 A:c.p.^6g t Cont. p. 61 1 
 
 Mr. Sprint of Mc.gdnlen Ha 'I 
 Oxon, Ace p. 72 
 
 Mr. Spurdane, Ace. p. 648 
 Cont. p. 798 
 
 Dr. WiRiam Spurftoyv, Ace. 
 p. 471, Cont.' p. 13 
 
 Mr. Squire, Ace. p. 290 
 Mr. Stable;, Acc.p.%i% 
 Mr. Sra.Tord, Ace. p. 70 
 
 Mr. John Sralham, ^cc. p. 
 304, Cowf. ^. 468 
 
 Mr. Samuel Standing Ace' 
 p. 470, Cont. p. 61 1 
 
 Mr. William Srandine, ^cc. 
 ? 697 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Sranlfonh , 
 Ace. p. 168 
 
 Mr. Naihanael Scaniforth, 
 Ace. p. 542 
 
 Mr. Timorhy Sranifonh , 
 Ace. p. 1 68, Cowf. p. 232 
 
 Mr. William Sraninoogh , 
 Ace. p. 697 
 
 Mr. Thomas Stanley, Ace. 
 p. 179, Cont. p. 233 
 
 Dr. Edmnnd Sraunton, Ace. 
 p. 63, Cow*. />. 97 
 
 Mr. Henry Staples, Ace. p. 
 694 
 
 Mr. John Starke, Ace. p. 
 484, Cont. p. 631 
 
 Mr. John Starky, ^cc. p- 
 446, Cowf. />. 597 
 
 Mr. Comfort Starr, Ace. -p. 
 150, Cent. p. ^^6 
 
 * Mr. Samuel Statham, Acc.f. 
 34, 438, Cont. f. 42 
 
 Mr. Rowland Stedman, Ace. 
 P-9* 
 
 Mr. Steed, Ace. p. 383 
 Cont. p. 544 
 
 Mr. Richard Sree!, Ace. p. 
 708, C0*. p. 835 
 
 Dr. Philip Stephens, Ace. p. 
 '75 
 
 Mr. Anshony Stephens, Ace. 
 f- 543 
 
 Mr. Her.ry Stephens efSuf- 
 
 folk^ Ace. p. 660, Cont. p' 
 
 816 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Stephens , 
 An. p. 41 9, Cont. f. 577 
 
 * Mr. John Stephens of Devon* 
 
 Ace. p. 241, Cont. p. 274 
 
 * Mr. James Stephenfon, Ace. 
 
 p. 6 10, Cont. p. 756,^. 
 
 Mr. John Stern, Ace. p. 53, 
 761, Cont. p. 879 
 
 * Mr. Anthony Stevenfon , 
 
 Ace. p. 834, Cent. p. 
 956 
 
 * Mr. William Stidfon, Ace. 
 
 p. 242, Cont. p. 275 
 
 Mr. Samuel Stileman, Ace: 
 p. 669 
 
 Mr. Owen Stockton, Ace. p. 
 291, Cont. f. 455 
 
 G 2 Mr.
 
 5 2 An INDEX of Thofe ejetted or filenc'd 
 
 Mr. Samuel Stoddcn, Ace. 
 p. 613, Cont. p. 767 
 
 Mr. Stone, Ace. p. 572 
 
 * Mr. Benjamin Stoneham > 
 
 Ace. p. 646, Cont. p- 
 
 787 
 
 Mr. John Stoneftreet, Ace. 
 
 Mr. John Storer, Ace. p. 
 659 
 
 Mr. Story, Ace p. 673 
 
 Mr. William Stoughron, Ace. 
 p. 72, Cont. p. 104 
 
 Mr. Stephen Street, Ace p. 
 
 387,691, Cont. p. 547, 
 
 829 
 
 Mr. Ralph Strethill, Ace. p. 
 33, Conf.p. 35 
 
 Mr. Richard Stretton, Ace. 
 
 . p. 676 
 
 Mr. John Strickland, Ace. p. 
 755, Ccnt.p.%6^ 
 
 Mr. Strong, Ace. p 519 
 
 Mr. Stroughier, Ace. p. 
 648 
 
 Mr. Henry Stutbs, Ace. p. 
 318 
 
 Mr. Lewis Stucley, Ace p, 
 219, Cont. p. 240, $c. 
 
 * Mr. William Stuke, Ace. p. 
 
 140, CVf. /. 273 
 
 Mr. Charles Summer, Ace. 
 p. 483 
 
 * Mr. James Sutton, Cont. p. 
 
 Mr. Paul Sutton, Ace. p. 
 109 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Swaffield, Ace. 
 P> 758 
 
 Mr. William Swaine, Ace. 
 p. 740, Cont. p. 853 
 
 Mr. Swaine of Uttdncrfoirc, 
 Ace. p. 734, Cont. p. 849 
 
 Mr. John Swan, Ace. p. 
 381, Cent. />.537 
 
 Mr. Swayne of Suffolk , 
 Ace. p. 659 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Swetnam, Ace. 
 p. 164 
 
 Mr. Thomas Swetnam , 
 Ace. p. 203 
 
 Mr. Richard Swift of Edg- 
 
 worth, Ace. p. 470, Cent. 
 
 p. 6iz 
 
 Mr. Henry Swift of Tork: 
 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 791, Cont. 
 
 p. 941 
 
 Mr. George Swinho, Ace. 
 p. 108 
 
 Mr. George S win nock, Ace. 
 p. 104, Cent. p. 137 
 
 Mr. Richard Swynfen, Ace. 
 
 p. 629, Cont. p. 779 & c 
 Mr. Matthew Sylvefter , 
 
 Ace. p. 449, Cent. p. 603 
 
 Mr. John Syms, Ace. p. 245, 
 Cont. p. 318 
 
 Mr. Edward Symmes, /frc. 
 ;>. 306, Cont. p. 473 
 
 Mr.
 
 by the Aft for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Richard Svmmonds , 
 Ace. p. 349, Cont. p. 5 18 
 
 Mr. Symons, Ace. p, 53 
 
 Mr. Henry Symons, Ace. p. 
 381, Cont. p. 543 
 
 Mr. Marryn Sympfon, ^cc. 
 P- 3i3 
 
 Mr. James Talbot, Ace. f. 
 418 
 
 Mr. Francis Tallents, Ace. 
 f. 548, Cif. p. 711 
 
 Mr. Samuel Tapper, Ace. 
 p. 149, Cont. p. 217, &c 
 
 Mr. Richard Tarrant, (or 
 
 Farranr,) Ace. p. 148, 
 
 Cow/-. ^. 340 
 
 Mr. Robert Tatnall, Ace. p. 
 30, Cow/, p. 29 
 
 Mr. Philip Taverner, Ace. 
 p. 470, Cow/, p. 6iz 
 
 Mr. William Taylor, /tfcc. 
 />. 30, Cow/. />. 58 
 
 Mr. V k !! : am Taylor of De- 
 
 vcn, Ace. p. 153, Cent. 
 
 p. 364 
 
 Mr. Taylor p/ Northumber- 
 land, Aec.p. 513 
 
 Mr. Taylor of Cumberland, 
 Ace, p. 159 
 
 Mr. Thomas Taylor of $. 
 . Ace. p. 646, Cow*. 
 
 Mr.Thomas Taylor of Wilt* 
 
 foire, Ace. p. 756, Cof. 
 
 /. 865 
 
 Mr. Samuel Taylor, 
 
 Mr. Zachary Taylor, 
 
 ? 399 
 
 Mr. Taylor o/ Longbaugh- 
 ton, Ace. p. 793 
 
 Mr. Edmund Taylor, 
 
 * Mr. Robert Taylor, Ace. p. 
 
 353, Cent. p. 510 
 
 Mr. Francis Taylor, Ace. p. 
 374 
 
 Mr. Taylor of Lancajhire, 
 Ace. p. 417 
 
 Mr. Richard Taylor of 
 Wales, Ace. p. 716 
 
 * Mr. Michael Taylor, Ace. 
 
 p. 244, Cowr. p. 
 
 Mr. Richard Taylor ofYork.- 
 
 Jhirc, Ace. p. 793, Cent. 
 
 p. 94 
 
 Mr. Marmaduke Tenant, 
 Ace. p. 361 
 
 * Dr. Faithful Teate, Ace. 
 p. 351, Ccf. /. 519 
 
 Mr. Edward Terry, Ace. p. 
 76, 471, Cent. p. 614 
 
 Mr.
 
 54 An I N D E X of Thoje ejetted 
 
 Mr. James Terry, Ace. p. 
 347, Cont.f. 516 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Terrey or Tar- 
 
 rey, Ace. p. 496, Cont.f. 
 
 641 
 
 Mr. Thelwell, Ace. f. 817 
 Mr. Thomas, Ace. f. 53 
 
 Mr. Edward Thomas, Ace. 
 f. 313, Cof./>.49i 
 
 Mr. William Thomas of 
 Vbleigb, Ace. f. 587, 
 Cont.f. 745 
 
 Mr. William Thomas of 
 Briftol, Ace. p. T 10 
 
 Mr. William Thomas of 
 
 Glamorgan/hire, Ace. p. 
 
 731 
 
 Mr. William Thomas of 
 Carmarthen/hire, Acs. p. 
 
 Mr. Zachary Thomas, Ace. 
 p. 564 
 
 Mr. Robert Thomas, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Howel Thomas, Ace. 
 p. 731, Com. p. 847 
 
 Mr. Morgan Thomas, Ace. 
 p. 717 
 
 Mr. Timothy Thomas, ^fcc. 
 f- 565 
 
 Mr. Thomas / Stilting- 
 fleet, Acc.p.%w 
 
 Mr. Titus Thomas, Ace. p. 
 565, Cmt.f.w 
 
 * Mr. Roderick Thomas, 
 . />. 840 
 
 Mr. George Thomaflbn , 
 Ace. p. 401 
 
 Mr. John Thompfon of Bri- 
 ftol, Ace. p.Ti 
 
 Mr. John Thompfon of Nor- 
 thumberland, Ace. p. 504 
 
 Mr. Matthew Thompfon, 
 Ace. p. 530, Cont. p. 698 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Thompfon, Ace. 
 ^.411, Cont. p. 566 
 
 Mr. Robert Thompfon, Ace. 
 p. 313 
 
 Mr. George Thorn, Ace. 
 p. 263 
 
 Mr. John Thornton, Ace. 
 
 t- 94 
 
 Mr. Andrew Thornton, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Thoroughgood, 
 
 Ace. p. 387, Cont. p. 
 
 548, & 
 
 Mr. Edmund Thorp, Ace. 
 p. 678 
 
 Mr. Richard Thorpe, Ace. 
 p. 469, Cont. p. 4<5z 
 
 Mr. Richard Thorps, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Tickner, -Ace. 
 
 />-749 
 
 Mr. Tobias Tidcomb, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Tilden, Ace. p. 381 
 
 Mr. John Tilfley, Ace. p. 
 402, Cont. p. 56$ 
 
 Mr.
 
 by the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 55 
 
 Mr. John Tincomb, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Theophilus Tincomb, 
 Ace. p. 150 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Tincomb, 
 Ace. p. 147 
 
 Mr. Robert Todd, Ace. p. 
 
 796 
 
 Mr. Cornelius Todd, Ace. 
 
 Mr. John Tombes, Ace. p. 
 353 Cont.p. 521, 53,2, 
 
 * Mr. William Tombes, Ace. 
 
 P- H7, Cont. p. 212 
 
 Mr. Tombes of Wilts, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Tomlyns, 
 
 Mr. Toogood t>f Stafford- 
 fare, Ace. p. 634 
 
 Mr. Matthew Toogood of 
 
 Wilts, Ace. p. 765, Cont. 
 
 p. 883 
 
 * Mr. Job Tookey, Ace. p. 
 
 480, Cont.p.6i% t & c 
 
 Mr. Robert Torey, Ace. p. 
 26, Cont. p. ix 
 
 Mr. Robert Town of Lan- 
 ca/hire, Ace. } 
 
 Mr. Robert Town of 
 
 fare, Ace. p. 809 
 
 Mr. Henry Townley, Ace. 
 
 p. 219 
 
 * Mr. Sampfon Townfend, 
 
 Ace. p.tf$, 'Cont. p. 631 
 
 * Mr. Robert Traile, 
 
 ^. IOOJ 
 
 Mr. Thomas Travers, Ace. 
 p. 145, Cont. p. Hi 
 
 Mr. William Tray, ^c. /: 
 318, C<?<-. ^>. 502, 
 
 * Mr. John Tredcrofr, Acc.p: 
 
 693, Cont.p. 830 
 Mr. Thomas Tregofs, 
 /. 142, Cont.p. 
 
 * Mr. William Treis, Ace. p; 
 
 149, Cont. p.nz 
 
 Mr. Edmund Trench, ^cc: 
 f 389* Co^.^. 556 
 
 Mr. Caleb Trenchfield ; 
 Cont. p. 816 
 
 Mr. Thomas Trefcot, ^ w ; 
 /.' 24, Cow^. p. x 7I 
 
 Mr. William Trevithiack; 
 -4cc. ^. ^40, Cowr. />. 275 
 
 Mr. Mark Tricket, Ace. p. 
 
 448, Cont.p. 60 1 
 
 Mr. William Triggs, ACC. 
 
 p. 148 
 
 Mr. Andrew Triftram, ^c. 
 /* 565 
 
 Mr. Thomas Troir, Ace. p; 
 
 ^$l, Cont. p. 414 
 
 Mr. George Trofle, Ace, p. 
 
 257, Com. p. 383, dc" 
 
 Mr. Trottle, Ace. p. 280 
 
 Mr. John Tnnighton, Ace. 
 
 Mr. -William Troughron ; 
 Ace. p. 756, Cont. p. 865 
 
 Mr.
 
 56 An I N D E X of Thofe ejetfed 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Trueman, Ace. 
 p. 527, Cont. p. 691, &c 
 
 Mr. Thomas^ Trurant, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Tucker, Ace. 
 p. Z46, Cow*. /> 317 
 
 Mr. Tucker of Dorfetfhire, 
 Ace. p. 2,81 
 
 Dr. Anthony Tuckney, Ace. 
 p. 77, (5c. Cont. p. \i Of 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Tuckney, ^cc. 
 ^r. 90, Cont. p. 127 
 
 Mr.Tuke, Ace. p. 530 
 
 Mr. John Turner of London, 
 Ace. p. 470 
 
 * Mr. John Turner of Somer- 
 
 fet, Ace. p. 605, Cont. p. 
 
 754 
 
 Mr. Turner of Nottingham- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 539 
 
 Mr. Richard Turner ofSuf- 
 fex, Ace. p. 696 
 
 Mr. Thomas Turner of 
 Cumberland, Ace. p. i 5 9 
 
 Mr. William Turton, Ace. 
 p. 62,6, Cont. p. 772 
 
 Mr. John Tutchin, Ace. p. 
 146 
 
 Mr. Robert Tutchin, Ace. 
 p. 340, Cont. p. 508 
 
 Mr. Robert Tutchin, Jun. 
 Ace p. 349 
 
 Mr. Samuel Tutchin, wicc. 
 f 345 
 
 Mr. William Tutty, Ace. p. 
 369, Gwf. />. 531 
 
 U 
 
 Mr. Thomas Valentine, Ace. 
 . f- i4 
 
 Mr. Vaughan of %ent, Ace. 
 ' p. 3*6 
 
 Mr. Henry Vaughan cf 
 
 Grant ham, Ace. p. 446, 
 
 Cont. p. 596 
 
 Mr. Edward Veal, Ace. f. 
 57, Cont. p. 91, dc 
 
 * Mr. William Veicch, Cent. 
 p. 686 
 
 Mr. Ralph Venning, Ace. p. 
 ^^, Cont. p. 18 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ventrefs, Ace. 
 
 Mr. Richard Vin, Ace. p. 
 480 
 
 Mr. Thomas Vincenr, Ace. 
 p. 32, Cent. p. 30, &c 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Vincent, 
 
 Ace. p. 104, Cont. p. 
 
 137, &c 
 
 Mr. William Vincent, Ace. 
 p. 150 
 
 Mr. Perer Vinke, Ace. p. 
 51, Cont. p. 74. 
 
 Mr; Vintrefs or Ventris,' 
 >4cr. p. 497, Cw/; ^>. 648
 
 ly the Att for Uniformity. 
 
 57 
 
 Mr. Voice, Ace. p. 66c, 
 Cont.p. 811 
 
 Mr. William Voylc,^cc./>.3 5 z 
 Mr. Thomas Voifey, Ace. p. 
 
 iOi 
 
 Mr. William Upcor, Acs. p. 
 148 
 
 Mr. Upjohn, Ace. p. 351 
 
 Mr. Thomas Upton, Ace. p. 
 123 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Usborne, Ace. 
 p. 381 
 
 Mr. James Votier, Ace. p. 
 48, Cent. />-798 
 
 Mr. William Vowfden, Ace- 
 p. 688, Cent. p. 811, 822 
 
 W 
 
 Mr. Thomas Waddington, 
 Ace. p. 418 
 
 Mr. Thomas Wadsworth , 
 Ace. p. z6,Cont.p.zz,&c. 
 
 * Mr. Wai: c/ Torkshirc, Ace. 
 
 p. 834, Con?, /?. 955 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Wz\:c > Accp.^6o 
 
 * Mr. Nicolas Wakely, Ace. 
 
 p. 156, Cent. p. 380 
 
 Mr.JohnWakely ofSomerfet, 
 Ace. p. 604, Cont.p. 751 
 
 Mr. Wakely o/ Northumber- 
 land, Ace. p. 510 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Waldron , 
 Ace. p. 634 
 
 Mr. Gilbert Waldron, /fee. 
 />. 750, Cont.p. 863 
 VOL. II. 
 
 Mr. Elkanah Wales, Ace. p. 
 80 1, Cont.p. 946 
 
 Mr. William Walker, ^cc. 
 414, Cant. p. 567 
 
 Mr. Thomas Walker, Ace'. 
 p. 650 
 
 Mr. Daniel Wall, Ace. p' 
 651 
 
 Mr. Wall of Worcejlerfloire, 
 Ace. p. 777 
 
 Mr. William Wallace, Ace. 
 p. 693, Cont.f. 830 
 
 Mr. James Waller, Ace. p< 
 640 
 
 Mr. Thomas Walley, Ace. 
 p. 32, Cont.p. 34 
 
 Mr. John Wallis, Ace. p. 
 753 
 
 Mr. Thomas Walrond, Ate. 
 p. 253, Cont.p. 365 
 
 Mr. Ker.ry Walter, -dec. f * 
 473, Cow*, p. 615 
 
 Mr. Walton of. Bethnal 
 Green, Ace. p . 301, Cent. 
 
 p. 46/1 
 
 Mr. James Walton, Ace. p. 
 4 it 
 
 Mr. Walton of Torksbire ," 
 ^cc. p. 835 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Ward, ^cc.' 
 p. 313, Cent. p. 491 
 
 Mr. Ward of Suffolk, Ace. p. 
 
 659 
 
 Dr. Ward, ./to. p. 543, Cowf. 
 
 M 
 
 Mr:
 
 58 An I N DEX of Toofe ejetied or filenc'd 
 
 Mr. Ralph Ward, Ace. 
 505, Cont. p. 659, 
 
 Mr. Noah Ward, Ace. p. 
 835, Cont. p. 958 
 
 Mr. John Ward of Worce- 
 fterfhire, Ace. p. 777 
 
 Mr. Ward of Hertford/hire, 
 Ace. p. 370, Cont. p. 531 
 
 Mr. Francis Wareham, Ace. 
 p. 470, Cont. p. 613 
 
 Mr. John Warner, Ace. p. 
 
 351 
 
 Mr. Edward Warr, 
 
 c. p. 
 614 
 
 Mr. Matthew Warren, Ace. 
 
 p. 60 1, Cont. p. 747, C?c. 
 
 ?c. 
 
 Mr. John Warren of Ejjex, 
 Ace. p. 298, Cont. p. 460 
 
 Mr. John Warren of Hamp- 
 
 Mr. Thomas Warren, Ace. 
 f- 339, Cont. p. 508 
 
 Mr. Warren ofThorby, Ace. 
 p. 369, Cont. p. 532 
 
 Mr. Warren of Suffol^ Ace. 
 p. 654 
 
 Mr. Edmund Warren, Ace. 
 p. 293, Cont. p. 457 
 
 Mr. Waters o/ //.* ytfcc. p. 
 313 
 
 Mr. Jonas Waterhoufe, ^cc. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Waterhoufe, 
 
 Ace. p. 659, Cont. f. 
 
 809 
 
 Mr. Stephen Watkins, Ace. 
 p. 2,5, Cont. p. 21 
 
 Mr. Watts, Ace. p. 53, 131 
 
 * Mr. Henry Watts, ^cc p* 
 
 425, Cont. p. 589, &c- 
 
 Mr. John Watts, Ace. p. 
 761, Cont. p. 877 
 
 Mr. Thomas Watfon, Acc.p. 
 37, Cw*. p. 57 
 
 Mr. Watfon o/ Effex, Ace. 
 f- 3H 
 
 Mr. Robert Watfon, Acc.p. 
 483, Cow?. />. 630 
 
 Mr. Richard Wave!, Ace. p. 
 58, Cont. p. 85, &c. 
 
 Mr. Way t>/ /*, ^cc. p. 
 
 313 
 Mr. Benjamin Way, Ace. p. 
 
 264 
 
 Mr. Way fun. Ace. p. 281 
 Mr. John Weaver, Acc.f. 
 
 733 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Weaver , 
 -4cc. />. 337, Cont. p. 507 
 
 Mr. Noah Webb, Acc.p. 
 350, Cont. p. 518 
 
 * Mr. Robert Webb, Cow/-. /. 
 
 518 
 
 * Mr. Nathanael Webb,- Ace. 
 
 760, Cont. p. 875 
 
 Mr. Bartholomew Webb,' 
 Acc.p. 760 
 
 * Mr. Robert Webber, Ace. 
 
 p. 386, Cont. p. 546 
 
 Mr. John Weekes , Ace. 
 p. 262, Cont. ^.41 5 
 
 M r .
 
 ly the Aft for Uniformity. 
 
 59 
 
 Mr. Henry Welch, Ace. p. 
 
 404 
 
 Mr. John Weld, Ace. p. 654 
 Cont. f. 803 
 
 Mr. Thomas Welde, Ace. p. 
 288, Cowf. />. 454 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Wellman, Ace. 
 f. 253, Cont. f. 365 
 
 Mri Samuel Well?, Ace. p. 
 540, Cof. ^. 706 
 
 Mr. John Wells o/ Tcwksbu- 
 
 ty, Ace. p. 328, dnt. p. 
 
 503 
 
 Mr. John Wells of London* 
 Ace. p. 39, Cont. p. 58 
 
 Dr. Walrer Wells, Ac. f. 
 313, Cont. p. 49 1 
 
 * Mr. Martin Wells, ^cc. /> 
 
 340, Cont. p. 513 
 
 Mr. John Wenbourn, .^cc. 
 ;>. 654 
 
 Mr. Edward Weft, Ace. p. 
 58, 100, Cont. p. 134 
 
 Mr. Willoughby Weft, Ace. 
 p. 88 
 
 Mr. Bartholomew Weftley, 
 Ace. p. 280, Cnt. p. 429 
 
 * Mr. John Weftley, Cont. p. 
 
 437 
 Mr. Weftloc, Ace. p. 6 1 3 
 
 Mr. William Weftmacor, 
 Ace. p. 776 
 
 Mr. Wcfton ofLeiceflcrJkire, 
 Ace. p. 438 
 
 Mr. Wefton of Lincoln/hire, 
 
 Mr. Thomas What ely, Ace. 
 p. 742, Cont. f. 854 
 
 Mr. Whearam, Ace. p. 835 
 
 JUr. Jeremy Wheat, Ace. p' 
 
 205 
 
 Mr. Wheeler of Cambridge, 
 Ace. p. 90 
 
 Mr. Wheeler of Bedford- 
 /hire, Ace. p. 93 
 
 Mr. Francis Whiddon, Ace- 
 p. 244, Cont. p. 283 
 
 Mr. Edward Whifton, Ace. 
 f. 302, Cowf. p. 464 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Whifton, Ace. p. 
 375 
 
 Mr. William Whitaker, Ace'. 
 p. 25 
 
 Mr. Robert Whitaker, Ace. 
 p. 91, Cowf. /. 128 
 
 Mr. Thomas White, Ace. f. 
 31, Cont. p. 19 
 
 Mr. Alexander White, ^cc. 
 
 Mr. Jeremy Whire, .rfcc. '/> 
 57, C<mf. f. 85 
 
 Mr. John White, Ace. f. 
 281, Cent. p. 430 
 
 Mr. White o/ Lancafkire, 
 Ace. p. 418 
 
 Mr. White o/ Lincoln/hire, 
 Ace. p. 459 
 
 Mr. Nathanael White, ./fee. 
 /. 761 
 
 Mr. Whitebourh, ^cc.^, 
 605, Co*. f. 754 
 
 G i Mr.
 
 60 An I N D E X of Thoje ejetfed or filcw?d 
 
 Mr. Thomas Whitehead, 
 Ace. p. 413, Cont. />. 567 
 
 * Mr. Otto Whitehorn, Ace. 
 
 p. 149, Cont. p. 213 
 
 Mr. Richard Whhehurft, 
 ^cc. p. 817 
 
 Mr. Richard Whiteway , 
 Acc.f. 75 
 
 Mr. Whiting of Suffolk^, Ace. 
 p. 660 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Whiting , 
 Ace. /> 495, Cont. p. 6^0 
 
 Mr. John Whitlock, Ace. p. 
 
 510 
 
 Mr. George Whitmarfli, 
 yicc. />. 350 
 
 Mr. Jofliua Whitton, ^cc. 
 ^.795, Cont. p. 942 
 
 Mr. John Whitwick, Ace. 
 p. ^^ 
 
 JAr. Wickham, Ace, />. 669 
 
 Mr. Ralph Wicclitf, Ace. p. 
 505, Cont. p. 617 
 
 
 
 Mr. Wigan, Acc.p.wz 
 
 Mr. William Wiggans, ^4cc. 
 *>. 34, Cowf. /. 37 
 
 Mr. Wilcox, <rfcc. ^.159 
 
 Dr. Robert Wilde, Ace. p 
 486, Cont. p. 633 
 
 Mr. Wildbore, Ace. p. 86 
 
 * Mr. John Wilkins, Ace. p. 
 
 253, Cont. p. 36? 
 
 Dr. Henry Wilkinfon, Sen. 
 Ace. p. 6 1 
 
 Dr. Henry Wilkinfon, fan* 
 Ace. p.6z, Cent. p. 91 
 
 Mr. John Wilkinfon, Ace. 
 ;>. 654 
 
 Air. Henry Willes, Ace. p. 
 496, Cont. p. 640 
 
 Mr. James Wilier, Ace. f. 
 307. Cont.f. 475 
 
 Mr. Perer Williams, Ace. p. 
 783, Cont. p. 939 
 
 Mr. Henry Williams of Gla- 
 morgan/hire, Ace. P. 732 
 
 Mr. Henry Williams of 
 MontgvmcYyJhire, Ace. p. 
 
 7iz 
 
 Mr. Williams of Devon, Ace. 
 p. 253, Cont. p. 370 
 
 Mr. Williams cfMonmouth- 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 473 
 
 Mr. John Williams, Ace. p. 
 710 
 
 Dr. Daniel Williams, Ace. 
 p. 840, Cont. p. 968 
 
 Mr. William Ton, Ace. p. 
 290 
 
 Mr. Thomas Willis of M*W- 
 dlefex, Ace. p. 470, Cont. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Willis of So- 
 merfet, Ace. p.6il, Cont. 
 ^.765 
 
 Mr. Willis, Jun. of Scmer- 
 
 fet, Ace. p. 623, Cont. 
 
 p. 767 
 
 * Mr. John Willis of Suficx, 
 Cont. p. 832 
 
 Mr.
 
 by the Act for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. John Willis of EJJex, 
 Ace. f. 306, Cent. p. 472 
 
 * Mr. Willows, Ace. f. 94, 
 Cent. f. 1 3 1 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Wills, Ace. p. 
 146 
 
 Mr. Wills cf Nortbampton- 
 Jkire, Ace. 7. 496 
 
 Mr. Obed Wills, Ace. p. 
 761, Cont. p. 878 
 
 Mr. Samuel Wills, Ace. p. 
 741, Cont. p. 854 
 
 Mr. Samuel Wilmer, Ace. 
 p. 688 
 
 Mr. Thomas Wilmer, Ace. 
 p. 689 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Wilmot , 
 Ace. p. 378, Cont. p. 536 
 
 Mr. Thomas Wilfley, Ace. 
 p. 626, Cont. p. 773 
 
 Mr. John Wilfon of Bucks, 
 Ace. p. 109 
 
 Mr. Robert Wilfon of Cam- 
 bridge/hire, Ace. p. 1 1 8, 
 Cont. p. 157 
 
 Mr. Thomas Wilfon, Ace. 
 p. 288, Cont. p. 454 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Wilfon of Be- 
 
 verley, Ace. p. 822, Cont. 
 
 7.952 
 
 Mr. William Wilfon, Ace. 
 p. 688, Cont. p. 823, G?c 
 
 Mr. John Wilfon o/ C^- 
 
 yfc/re, ^cc. /. 127, Cont. 
 
 7.170 
 
 Mr. John Wilfon of Here- 
 
 fordjhire, Ace. p. 360, 
 
 Cont. p. 523 
 
 Mr. John Wilfon of Leice- 
 Jlcrjhire, Acc.p.^j 
 
 Mr. George Wilfon, Ace. p. 
 834 
 
 Mr. George Wilfon of Ef- 
 fex, Ace. p. 307 
 
 Mr. Wilfon of Stafford/hire, 
 Ace. p. 635 
 
 Mr. Wilfon of Peterborough; 
 Ace. p. 370 
 
 Mr. Wilfon of Warwick 
 /hire, Ace. p. 751 
 
 Mr. Wind refs, Ace. p. 473 
 
 Mr. Robert Wine, Ace. p. 
 284, Cm*, p. 339 
 
 * Mr. Wingfield, Acc.p.^S f 
 
 Cont. p. 554 
 
 Mr. Samuel Winncy, 
 /. 05, Cont.p 
 
 * Mr. Laurence Wife, 
 
 />. 386, Cont. f. 546 
 
 Dr. Samuel Winter, Ace. 
 p. 544, Cont. p.jzi 
 
 Mr. Peter Witham, Ace. p- 
 44, Cont.p.6z 
 
 Mr. Seth Wood, ^cc./>. 39, 
 Cow*, p. 59 
 
 Mr. Timothy Wood, Ace. 
 7.792 
 
 Mr. Robert Wood, Ace. p. 
 66 
 
 Mr. John Wood of Magda- 
 len College, Ace. p. 84
 
 62 An I N D E X of Thoje ejetted wJiknC 
 
 Mr. John Wood of St Johns, 
 Ace. p. 90 
 
 Mr. John Wood of EJJex, 
 Ace. p. 314, Cont.f. 491 
 
 Mr. John Wood of Suffcx, 
 Ace. p. 684, Cont. p. 819 
 
 Mr Wood o/ Gloucefter- 
 fhire, Ace. p. 329 
 
 * Mr. Frederick Wood all , 
 
 Ace. f. 649, Conf . />. 799 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, 
 Ace. p. 95, Cent. p. 131 
 
 Mr. John Woodbridge, -^cc 
 / 97 
 
 Mr. Thomas Woodcock, 
 
 Acc.f.Mt Cent. p. 62 
 
 Mr. John Woodhoufe, Ace. 
 
 p. 539, C**.p. 79 
 
 * Mr. Matthew Woodman, 
 
 jcc. p. 694, Cont. p. 830 
 83* 
 
 Mr. James Woods, S?. -^ce. 
 />. 408 
 
 Mr. James Woods, Jun' 
 Ibid 
 
 Mr. John Woods, Ace. p. 
 654 
 
 Mr. William Woodward of 
 Gloucefterjhire, Ace. p. 70 
 
 Mr. Enoch Woodward, ^cc. 
 /> 473 
 
 Mr. William Woodward of 
 
 Hereford/hire, Ace. p . 3 5 3 , 
 
 Cow/". />. 104, 520 
 
 Mr. Woodward of Suffolk., 
 Ace. p. 648 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Woodward, Ace. 
 p. 321, &c 
 
 Mr. Thomas Woodward, 
 
 Aec, p. 99, falfly pag'd 
 
 90, Cont. p. 133 
 
 Mr. Woodward of Worce- 
 Jlerfhire, Ace. p. 777 
 
 Mr. Robert Woolcomb , 
 Ace. p. 149, Cont. p. 349 
 
 Mr. Woolrich, Ace. ^.635 
 
 Mr. Richard Woclley, Ace. 
 p 775, Cont. p. '894 
 
 Mr. Wooliley, ^cc />. 256 
 Mr. Wootton, Ace p. 623 
 
 Mr. Worth, Ace. p. 495, 
 Cont. p. 639 
 
 Mr. Richard Worrs, ^cc. />. 
 481, Cont. p. 625 
 
 Mr. Thomas Worts, Ibid 
 Mr. Wotton, Ace. p. 359 
 
 Mr. John Wo wen, >4cc. p, 
 777, Cont. p. 896 
 
 Mr. Chriftopher Wragge' 
 ^cc. )>. 305, Cont. p. 471 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Wretfe], Ace. 
 p. 503 
 
 Mr. Abraham Wright, Ace. 
 p. 119, Cont. p. 158, &? 
 
 Mr. Samuel Wright, Ace. 
 p. 167, Cow*. />. 232 
 
 Mr. John Wright of Lanca- 
 
 Jhire, Ace. p. 408, Cont. 
 
 p. 564 
 
 Mr. John Wright of Leice- 
 
 Jlerjhire, Ace. p. 437, 
 
 Cont. p. 594, 
 
 Mr.
 
 ly the Aft for Uniformity. 
 
 Mr. Wright of Derby/hire, 
 Ace. f. 207, Cont. p. 236 
 
 * Mr. James Wright, Com. f. 
 
 565 
 
 Mr. James Wright of iVtir- 
 
 wickshire, Ace. ^.749, 
 
 Cent. f. 862 
 
 Mr. Wright of Surrey, Ace. 
 f, 673 
 
 Mr. George Wright, Ace. 
 f. 424, Cont. f. 587 
 
 Mr. Thomas Wright, Ace. 
 f. 565, Cont. p. in 
 
 Mr. Wright of Edal, Ace. 
 f. 236 
 
 Mr. Dofitheus Wyar, Ace. 
 f. 764, Cont. f. 88 1 
 
 Mr. James Wyar, Ace. f. 
 541 
 
 Mr. Jofiah Wyat, Ace. f. 
 6 n, Cont. f. 766 
 
 * Mr. Edmund Wyncop, Ace. 
 
 f. 649, Cont. f. 799 
 
 Mr. John Yardley, Ace. f. 
 314, Cont. f. 491 
 
 Mr. John Yates, w&c. f. 
 343 
 
 Mr. Robert Yates, Ace. pi 
 409, Cowf. />. 566 
 
 Mr. William Yates, Ace. pZ 
 360, Cont. p. 530 
 
 Mr. Yawe, Ace. p. 53 
 
 Mr. John Yaxley, /* cc. />. 
 421, Cont. p. 586 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Yeates, Ace. $'. 
 53 
 
 Mr. William Yeo, Ace. p. 
 243, Cont. p. 283 
 
 Mr. Bartholomew Yeo, ^cc. 
 p. 246, Cof. />. 327 
 
 Mr. Richard York, Ace. p. 
 
 Mr. Young, 
 
 Ace. p. 360, 
 Cont, p. 524 
 
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