living peaceably with all, as far as was in his power. Something in Episcopacy, Presbytery, and Independency he liked, and some things he disliked in all. He was true to his conscience, and valued not the interest of a party or faction. If all the Nonconformists in England had refused, he would have conformed alone, if the terms had been reduced to what he thought lawful. He managed his ministry with faithfulness and prudence. He had no worldly designs to carry on, but was eminent in self-denial. He was not apt to speak against those by whom he suffered, nor was he ever pleased with ripping up their faults. He was very careful to preserve the reputation of his brethren, and rejoiced in the success of their labours as well as of his own; and a most careful avoider of all divisions, contentions, or offences. He was very free in acknowledging by whom he profited, and preferring others before himself. He was much in the study of his own heart, as is evident from the little thing of his that is published, called Notes for Himself, &c. He had good assurance of his own sincerity, and yet was not altogether without his mixture of fears. He had the comfort of sensible growth in grace. He easily perceived a notable increase of his faith, and holiness, his heavenliness, and humility,: and contempt of the world, especially in his latter years, and under his affliction, as the fruit of God's correcting rod; and died at last in great serenity and peace."-There is no occasion for wonder that such a man should fall under the censure of Mr. Wood. His commendation had really been a disgrace.

WORKS. An Historical Relation of the military Government of Gloucester, from the Beginning of the Civil War to the removal of Col. Massie to the Command of the Western Forces, 4to. 1645; (which Mr. Baxter much commends in his Preface to his Confession of Faith.)..A Vindication of the Magistrates of Glou cester from the Calumnies of Robert Bacon; to which is added, The Discussion of ten Questions, tending to the Discovery of close Antinomianism...The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion; in two Parts, 1661, 8vo. (an admirable book, where any man may clearly see the spirit and design of those called Presbyterians, at and after the Restoration.).. The Kingdom of God among Men; a Tract of the sound State of Religion: to which is added, A Discussion of the Point of Church Unity and Schism. ..A Discourse of the Religion of England...Self Employment in Secret, containing Memorials for his own Practice, his Evidences

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upon Self-Examination, &c.t..And his REMAINS; containing a Discourse of the Church, of the Ministry, of Certainty and Infallibility; and the true State of ancient Episcopacy; a Consideration of the present State of Conformity in the Church of England. A Discourse of Divine Worship. An Exposition of Jonah, ii. 1-4. An Exposition of John xvi. 33. An Enquiry into the Oxford oath; A Plea for Communion with the Church of England, &c. With a modest Defence of his ministerial Nonconformity, and the Exercise of his Ministry, in Answer to the Bishop of Chichester's (Gunning's) Charge against him. An Explication of the Decrees and Operations of God, &c. And an Account of the Principles and Practices of the Nonconformists; shewing that their Religion is no other than what is professed in the Church of England...He had also a considerable hand in compiling Mr. Rushworth's first Volume of Historical Collections; which, by compe tent judges, is reckoned a master-piece of the kind.

BROKENHURST [C. or D.] Mr. ROBERT TUTCHIN, Second son of Mr. Robert Tutchin, of Newport, in the Isle of Wight. After his ejectment he had a separate church: in the New Forest, and a lecture at Lymington, where he died, and was buried in the chancel of the church.

CALBOURN [R. 2021.] Mr. EDWARD BUCKLER. He was much the gentleman, a good preacher, and a good writer. He had been one of Oliver Cromwell's chaplain's, and preached before him four times a year, for which he received 20/. After he was ejected he lived privately at Bradford Abbis, in Dorset, where he followed the business of malting, and preached but seldom; except in and about the year 1672, at a gentleman's house, where few if any were admitted besides the family. He frequently attended at the public church.

A very small, but excellent piece, recommended by Mr. Howe, of which there has been a new edition, by the Rev. Mr. UNWIN, a respectable clergyman, in consequence of the character given of it by Mr. Job Orton, in a letter to Mr. Steadman, communicated by the late Sir James Stonehouse. "There is no book (says Mr. Orton), I have so often read as Corbett's Self Employment. It is always upon my desk: my vade mecum in travelling: by my bed-side in sickness. I can read a little in that, when I can read nothing else. It is the best manual I know for a christian minister. His prudential maxims are excellent, founded on much experience and knowledge of mankind. And, excepting a few phrases common in those days, there is great sprightliness and strength in it. It is indeed (as Mr. Howe in his preface calls it) the anatomy of the heart: and happy the heart that can trace his image in itself. It will furnish excellent materials for addressing conscience, and directing your hearers to judge of their spiritual state, and for preaching experimentally, which is the life and soul of preaching."-This letter has lately been published in a Collection of Mr. Orton's Letters to a young clergyman.

WORKS.

WORKS. A Catechism.-A Treatise, entitled, God All in All. And an Assize Sermon.-He also left some things in manu script.

CHRIST-CHURCH [V.] Mr. JOHN WARNER.

CLANFIELD [two parishes] Mr. DYMAN.

COWES West (Isle of Wight) Mr. SIMON POLE. Of Oxf. University. He was born in Somersetshire, and after his ejectment he went thither, where he was seized as he was preaching, and imprisoned seven years. This long confinement brought distempers upon him, which, it was believed, shortened his days. He was a bold spirited man, and an ex-cellent preacher. He had a large family, and was very poor. Samuel Dunch, Esq. (who was a great friend to all the suffering ministers whom he knew) often relieved him.'

CRAWLEY [R. 300l.] SAMUEL TOMLYNS, M. A. Of Trin. Col. Camb. He was born at Newbury, in Berks," and was qualified for the university at thirteen years' of age. When he quitted it he officiated some time as a chaplain; and at length was presented to this living of Crawley, in 1655, from which he was ejected with his brethren in 1662. He afterwards preached privately as he had opportunity, till he was called by a congregation to the city of Winchester; where, for nine years, he continued exposed to great hardships and difficulties, on account of his nonconformity." From thence he removed to Hilcot, in Wiltshire, and there he preached to a few people in his own house, till K. James published his Declaration for liberty of conscience; upon which he was chosen by a congregation in Andover, with whom he spent a few years. In the beginning of the reign' of K. William and Q. Mary, he removed from thence to Marlborough, where he continued his ministry for many years. And there, after having been for several months under great pains and bodily infirmities, he at length finished his course, June 18, 1700, in the 68th year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Benj. Flower, of Chippenham, on Isa. lvii. 1. He was a good critic in Greek and Hebrew, and an excellent textuary: A man of great gravity and wisdom, and a good casuist. He was mighty in the scriptures; for his head, memory, heart, and tongue were full of them. And he had a general reputation, as a scholar, a preacher, and a divine.

WORKS. A Funeral Sermon for Mr. Walter Marshal, of Hursley...Another for Mr. Richard Moor, of Hungerford... The Justification of Believers by the Righteousness of Christ only... The humble Sinner's Supplication for Pardon...The preaching of Christ, and the Prison of God, on 1 Pet. iii. 19...The necessity of breaking up our Fallow-ground, &c...The great Duty of Christians to go forth without the Camp to Jesus; on Heb. xiii. 13. --Supplication to the Sovereign Judge, the Duty of the best of Men...Christ's second Coming, and the Purging of his Kingdom; two Sermons, on Matt. xiii. 41...And a Discourse on 2 Cor. iii. 6, at a Meeting of Ministers.

CRUNDEL (V.1 Mr. HUMPHREY WEAVER. Of Oxford University. After his ejectment from this valuable living, he continued preaching in his own house, in the parish of Crundel, to the time of his death, to an auditory of serious Christians, of whom he would take nothing for his labour; God having blessed him with a large increase of his estate, after his ejectment. But he met with a great deal of trouble from his enemies, on account of his Nonconformity, and his preaching so constantly. At the time of the Five-mile-act they sought to take him up; but he bought an house at a little above five miles distance, whither his auditory followed him: and he continued preaching to them to the very last Sabbath of his life. He died in 1696. He was a good scholar, a great preacher, a zealous Nonconformist, and a man of a generous and a very public spirit.

DROXFORD [R. S. 300l.] Mr. ROBERT WEBB. The former incumbent, immediately upon the Restoration, came to take possession of this living, and thrust out Mr. R. Webb and his family with their goods in a rough and violent manner. A gentleman in the neighbourhood, tho' a Roman catholic, was so concerned at such severity, that he humanely received them for the present into his own house, till in a little time the wife of Richard Cromwell, Esq. sent a coach for them, and brought them to a house of theirs. Mrs. Webb, being big with child, fell in labour in the carriage. Mr. Webb had a large family, and was very poor. S. Dunch, Esq. of Badsly, was kind to him as long as he lived; and at his death left him 10l. a year during life. He was a good scholar, and an eminent preacher. He died Aug. 14, 1675,, aged 42.

N. B. For Mr. NOAH WEBB, see Upton Grey.

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ELLINGHAM (or Milbrook) Mr. THOMAS BROWN. A man of great piety and learning, who died soon after he was ejected.

EWHURST [Chap. to Basingstoke] JOHN HARMAR, M. A. Of Winchester-school, and Magd. Col. Oxford. He was Greek professor in that University, and was ejected soon after the Restoration. He was so excellent a scholar, that even Wood gives him this character: "He was a most "excellent philologist, a tolerable Latin poet, and was happy "in rendering Greek into Latin, or Latin into English, or English into Greek or Latin, whether in prose or verse. Upon his ejectment he retired to Steventon, in this county, where he died in 1670.

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WORKS. Praxis Grammatices: Verum et genuinum Declinationum et Conjugationum usum liquidò indicans, &c...Janua Linguarum; sive Methodus et ratio Compendaria et facilis ad omnes Linguas ad Latinam verò maxime aperiens...Eclogæ Sententiarum et Similitudinum, e D. Chrysostomo decerptæ: Gr. et Lat. cum Annot ..Protomartyr Britannus; seu Elegia Sacra in Conversionem et Martyrium S. Albani...Lexicon Etymologicon Græcum, junctim cum Scapula...Epistola ad D. Lambertum Osbalstonum, Cui intexitur Apologia pro honoratiss. illustrissimoque viro ac Dcmino, D. Johanna Williams Archiep. Eborac. et Anglia Primate. --Oratio Oxoniæ habita, in Schola Publica Linguæ Græcæ assignatà, 15 Aug. 1650...Oratio, Serenissimi Protectoris Elogium Complectens, Oxoniæ habita 30 Kal. Maii 1654, 4to. Ad Protectorem Carmina de Pace, cum Belgis sancitâ. Vindicia Academiæ Oxoniensis; sive Oratio Apologetica qua Exercitiorum Academicorum in Trimestre vacat. a Crimine vindicatur, 8vo. 1662. ..M. Tulli Ciceronis Vita, ex optimis quibusque Scriptoribus delibata, et in Compendium reducta, 8vo. 1662. Oratio Panegyrica in honor, Car. 2. &c. in Angliam, Plaudente Orbe Britannico, remigrant. Habita Ox. 27 Maii, 1660. He also translated the Assembly's Shorter Catechism into Greek and Latin, &c.

EXTON [R.] Mr. JOHN RIDGE.

FARLINGTON [R.] Mr, ROBERT LECESTER.

FORDINGBRIDGE [V. S.] Or some place near it, Mr. CROSSIN. Mr. Cuff, the old incumbent, was reinstated at the Restoration; tho' he was a person of so little seriousness, that he took the liberty to jest in the pulpit. Mr. Crossin afterwards went into Devonshire, where he found so much favor with the Bp. of Exeter, as to be continued in a living there some time after 1662, without re-ordination.

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