on to undertake it; and tho' he had no notes, as he com. monly had, nor any expectation of preaching when he came thither, his performance was such, that he had the applause of those that heard him; and, it was said, he did not use notes in preaching afterwards. At another time, being to preach at his usual place on the Lord's-day, the Prince of Orange's fleet appeared that very day near the island, when he was coming to save the nation from popery and slavery in 1688. Upon this occasion he left the subject which he intended to have preached upon, and took another, suited to such an event of providence, on which his extemporaneous discourse greatly affected his people.

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Mr. Newnham met with much trouble on account of his Nonconformity, being prosecuted, fined, &c. but he bore all with invincible patience, courage, and constancy of mind. Being threatened by a justice of peace, that his books should be taken from him, he replied to this effect: "That he blessed God, if he had no book but the bible, he questioned "not but he should be able to preach the gospel."-When the Conventicle-act passed, he for some time preached in a house by the road side, where the auditory, without fear of incurring the penalty of that act, came boldly to hear him, standing in the high-way, during the time of the service. As his preaching was acceptable and useful, so his conversation was a living epistle, known and read of all 'men.' He was a man of great seriousness and exemplary piety, and his words did continually minister grace unto the hearers.' He died of the small-pox, at Whitwell, and was interred in the parish church there, in 1689, about the 58th year of his age. On his death-bed his faith was lively and strong, and he manifested a remarkable degree of resignation to the will of his heavenly Father.

WELD. MARTIN MORELAND, M. A. Fellow of Wadham Col. Oxford. He was emient in the university and afterwards. In his younger years he was Terræ filius in the Oxford-act, as his brother (who was afterwards Sir Samuel Moreland) was Prevaricator in the Cambridge commencement. Both of them came off with honor and esteem for their ingenious performance, and their innocent and pleasant entertainment. He was a man of a clear understanding and great reading; an accurate and affectionate preacher; moderate in his principles, charitable in his temper; serious and remarkably upright in his life and conversation. He spent the latter part of life at Hackney. WINCHESTER

WINCHESTER. FAITHFUL TEATE, D. D. In a discourse which he published, entitled, Right Thoughts, he has the following passage, accommodated to his own ejected and destitute state: " The righteous man, in thinking of his present condition of life, thinks it his relief, that the less money he has, he may go the more upon trust; the less he finds in his purse, seeks the more in the promise of him that has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. The 'Lord is his shepherd, and he shall not want; and therefore he will trust in the Lord, and do good, [believing that] verily he shall be fed;' or (as some read) truth shall be his feeding; so that he thinks no man can take away his livelihood, unless he can first take away God's truth.”

WORKS. A Scripture Map of the Wilderness of Sin; and Way to Canaan...Ter Tria; or the Doctrine of the Sacred PerSons, Father, Son and Spirit: Principal Graces, Faith, Hope and Love: Main Duties; Prayer, Hearing, and Meditation...Right Thoughts, the righteous Man's Evidence; a Discourse on Prov. xii. 5. The thoughts of the righteous are right.

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Mr. Cook. Ejected from the same place. As also

Mr. THEOPHILUS GALE. See the account of him in the university of Oxford. He died minister of Moston, in the Isle of Wight.

WORTLINGTON. Mr. JOHN HARRISON.

YARMOUTH (Isle of Wight) Mr. JOHN MARTYN. He had been Fellow of Exet. Col. Oxf. He was an eminent preacher, and a great scholar. The old incumbent (a mere reader of homilies) had the profits of the living, amounting to 187. a year; but Mr. Martyn had 100l. per ann. allowed him. When he was ejected, he offered to have continued preaching for nothing. He afterwards frequently preached at Newport, where he lived, and in several other places, in the Island, till he went into Wiltshire, which was his native county, and there died at about 70 years of age.

YAVERLAND [R.] Mr. MARTIN WELLS. He was a man of great integrity, tho' not reckoned so eminent as the other ministers ejected in the Isle of Wight. He afterwards continued to exercise his ministry here in private. He brought up his son Mr. Samuel Wells to the ministry, who was chaplain to Mr. Grove, of Fern, in Wiltshire, and died

in that family. He was one of those who signed the Address of some ministers in the Isle of Wight, and county of Southampton, to the people of their respective charges, to discharge their duty in catechising, &c. Mr. Martin, last mentioned, was another.

It does not appear that any of the ministers ejected in this county afterwards conformed, except Mr. HUMPHREY ELLIS, of Winchester.

MINISTERS

MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED

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HEREFORDSHIRE.

SHTON. Mr. J. BARSTON. Of Oxford university. A Born in this county. He was an Israelite indeed,

good scholar; an able, solid divine; a judicious, methodical, practical preacher, and a good casuist. He was also a man of exemplary conversation; a great pattern of self-denial, humility, submission, resignation and patience under all his afflictions, of which he had a large share. He was esteemed by all that knew him for his learning and piety, especially by that ornament and support of religion Sir Edward Harley. Nothing could be objected against him by his enemies, but his Nonconformity. He had a small estate, which he spent, as he did himself, in the service of his Master. He had but very little from the poor people among whom he laboured; but he laid by a tenth part of all his income for charitable uses. He died pastor of a congregation in Ledbury, A. D. 1701.

ASTON. Mr. FARRINGTON. Too well known about London, for the scandal he brought upon religion by his immoralities.

HEREFORD CATHEDRAL. Mr. WILLIAM VOYLE, Mr. WILLIAM LOW, Mr. GEORGE PRIMROSE, and SAMUEL SMITH, sen. M. A. These four were all joint pastors, who administered the Lord's-supper by turns. They lived in great peace among themselves, and with great unanimity carried on the work of the gospel in that city. They ordained many ministers both for England and Wales, in the cathedral. Four mornings in every week they publicly expounded in the same place, beginning between seven and eight o'clock.

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They also kept up a constant weekly lecture on Tuesdays, with the assistance of the most eminent ministers in the county, and stemm'd the tide against the sectaries of those times, till the Restoration, when they were all cast out.—Mr. SMITH, after his ejectment here, had a living in Berkshire, and was cast out by the Act of uniformity in 1662, and silenced at Stamford-Dingley, where Dr. Pordage had been before. He afterwards mostly resided in Gloucestershire. After the turn of the times, he met with great unkindness from several of the episcopal party, whom he before had screened, and to whom he had shewn great kindness.-He died in Herefordshire in 1681.

Mr. PRIMROSE had his education in Scotland. His mother was nurse to prince Henry. He studied also at Saumur, in France. He was an excellent scholar, and a judicious, successful preacher. He was of a grave, even, and composed temper. Once as he was discoursing with Bp. Crofts, after he had been released from imprisonment, the Bishop attempted to persuade him to conform; but when he heard his objections, his lordship told him, He wished the churchdoors had been wider. He retired for some time from Hereford, but preached constantly about the country; and when K. James gave liberty, he returned to Hereford again. his growing weakness forced him back into the country, and there he died.

LITTLE-HEREFORD [V.] Mr. GARNONS.

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LANTWARDINE [100%.] RICHARD HAWes, M. A. Of Camb. University. His father, a religious man, dying when he was very young, his mother soon after married a man wholly carnal, intent upon nothing but the profits of this world, and utterly negligent about instilling the principles of religion into his family, who remained grossly ignorant of God and his will. However, he put this youth to school, when he was about nine years of age, at Ipswich; where he happened to hear the famous Mr. Ward, on a lecture-day, and was so affected, as to request leave from his master constantly to attend that lecture, which he was permitted to do; and by this means he received lively impressions of religion in that early age. Having a very strong memory, he was able to repeat good part of the sermon, which he commonly did to his father-in-law's mother, with whom he lodged at Ipswich; and this happily proved the means of her conversion.

Being determined upon the work of the ministry, he went to Cambridge, where he studied some years, but lost that deep

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