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PREFACE.

DR. CALAMY has been long distinguished by his Defences of English Protestant Nonconformity, and by his very interesting biographies of Nonconformists. The Historical Account of his Life and Times, now first printed, is taken from a copy of his autograph which had remained in the family of Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. for more than half a century.

Of the existence of another copy, in the possession of the Author's immediate family, I was informed, several years since, by the late Edmund Calamy, Esq. whose son, the Rev. Michael Calamy, at my request, has favoured me with the use of it; though he is not, in the least, responsible for this publication.

Both MSS. were, no doubt, correct and early copies of the Author's autograph. Mr. Calamy's MS. (which is in complete preservation,) was collated with the original by the Author's son, the Rev. Edmund Calamy, who died in 1755. Sir Walter Stirling's MS. has every appearance of having been as early a copy.

After a minute comparison of these MSS. I have found a very exact verbal agreement. Yet I am greatly indebted to the liberal courtesy of Mr. Calamy, whose copy has enabled me to supply several deficiencies; and thus to complete the Historical Account, as left, in 1731, by his pious and learned ancestor.

In fulfilling what may be not unjustly regarded as Dr. Calamy's purpose, I have endeavoured to exercise a discretion peculiarly requisite on a work of so much variety, and which concludes abruptly, when the author's rapidly declining health forbade the obvious advantage of his revisal. I have, in the notes, (while occasionally correcting, though more frequently confirming and illustrating the Historical Account,) availed myself of that "true liberty," to the exercise of which, all the great interests of mankind have been largely indebted, and which Milton, after Euripides, has asserted for "free-born men," that they " may speak free:" yet I have not, I trust, in any instance, designedly separated those congenial associates, Truth and Freedom.

Clapton, Oct. 22, 1829.

J. T. R.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.-1-51.

EPISTLES. Erasmus. Melancthon. Grotius Thuanus. Ca-
saubon. Calvin. Lives. Father Paul. Christian Fathers.
Forgeries. Tacitus. Agricola. Cæsar. Britain. Augustus.
Tiberius. Marcus Antoninus. Josephus. Gregory. Austin.
Cardan. Vanini. Thuanus. Eneas Sylvius. Scaligers.
Francis Junius.

Schultetus. Synod of Dort. John Hales.
Huetius. Bochart. Bassompierre. Rohan. Montluc. Mon-
taigne. Bayle. Giraldus. Castalio. Machiavel. Commines.
Buchanan. Melvill. Bishop Hall. Forbes. Bishop Parker.
Baxter. Burnet. Hearne. Bodley. Wallis. Temple. Scom-
berg. Author's Autobiography.

Of my family and parentage; birth and education; until

the time of my entrance upon academical studies; with

an addition of some passages relating to the court and

ministry, in the latter part of the reign of King

Charles II. 52-132.

Family from Normandy. Edmund Calamy. Declines the
Bishopric of Coventry. Silenced. Imprisoned. Benjamin
Calamy. Jeffreys. Delaune. Cornish. James Calamy. John.
Edmund, the author's father. Fire of London. Author's birth,

1671. Duchess of Orleans. Cabal. Triple League. Duchess
of York. Charles and Louis. James and Louis. King's De-
claration. Solemn League and Covenant. Kidder. Sampson.
Busby. Exchequer shut up. Sale of Dunkirk. Et cætera
Oath. Marriage of Princess Mary. Prince of Orange. Popish
Plot. Test Act. Sir E. Godfrey. Black Sunday. Executions.
Mock processions. Danby. Protestant Plot. Oxford Parlia-
ment. Ministers confined in Newgate. Meetings shut up.

Three last Parliaments of Charles. Declaration. Ba-
rillon. Exclusion Bill. Scottish Act. Lauderdale. Samuel
Johnson. Hobbes. Dauphin. League of Augsburgh. Lord
Shaftsbury. Locke. Lord Clifford. Test Act. Bucking-
ham. Rochester. Wilkins. Arlington. Lauderdale and
Baxter. Danby. King's revenue. Doolittle. Emlyn. Boyse.
Old Mr. Case. Charles II. a covenanted King. Lord William
Russel. Earl of Essex. Tillotson. Sidney. Oxford Decree..
Prince of Denmark. Lady Ann. Hard Frost. Vienna. Turks.
Tangier. Death of Charles II. Inscriptions at Rome.

James II. proclaimed. Dr. Sharpe. Charles II. a papist.
Oates. Cornish. Edict of Nantz revoked. Vaudois. Au-
thor's Father dies. Merchant Taylor's school. Annual elec-
Matriculation. Morton. Cradock.

tion for Oxford.

CHAPTER II.

1686-1691.

OF
my
academical education under Mr. Cradock, in Suf-
folk; my crossing the sea, afterwards, to Holland;
course of life and remarks there; and return from
thence, back again, into England. Together with some
touches relating to the reign of King James II.; and the
Revolution under King William and its consequences.
132-220.

Course of education. Associates. Goodwin. Author's first
communion. Vice-Provost Gearing. Argyle. Monmouth. Wes-
tern Inquisition. Howe. Author sails for Holland. Rotter-

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