Mr. THOMAS LOCK, Scholar. A very sober and pious

young man.

JOHN PRATT, M. D. He has a copy of Latin verses in the Zaspa Cantabrigiensia.

WILLIAM DISNEY, M. A. A very solid man, and studious, but sickly. He also has a copy of Latin verses in the same congratulatory poems. Mr. Disney was senior fellow of this college, and proctor in the year 1655. He was of the family of the same name then seated at Norton Disney in Lincolnshire.

WILLOUGHBY WEST, M. A.

CROSSLAND, B. A. Fellow. [Theodore Crossland, M. A. was inducted to Trumpington vicarage in 1636; and, having resigned that, to Bottisham in 1640, when he was B. D. In 1661, to Chesterton, where he died, 1665. These are all Trinity livings, and therefore it is most probable this was the person intended.]

Mr. ALCOCK, Fellow. [John Alcock, M. A. Fellow of Trinity, was inducted to Over in 1630, and died vicar of that parish 1664; probably the same.]

Mr. HAYES, Fellow.

Mr. JOHN CASTLE, Fellow,

TRINITY HALL.

JOHN BOND, LL.D. Master.

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EJECTED OR SILENCED MINISTERS, &c.

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BEDFORDSHIRE.

RLESEY, [V. 261. 3s. 6d.] Mr. ASHHURST. His case was particular. He had been episcopally ordained, but he could not comply with the new impositions in the Act of uniformity, and therefore would have quitted his living; but being rather advised by some respectable friends to continue in it, he did so without molestation. He was old, and his vicarage small, even below a competency. Judge Brown was his parishioner, and was his great friend and patron. The whole parish was well affected towards him for his worthy behaviour amongst them, and was entirely under the influence of the judge, and of another gentleman who was also his friend. And so, though he was legally silenced, he continued in his church a Nonconformist. He read part of the morning and evening service, viz. the Confession, scripture-hymns, the creed, and some of the collects. He was a considerable scholar, and a hard student to the last: greatly esteemed and loved by all sober persons who knew him, for his extraordinary piety, humility, meekness, self-denial, and integrity. His contempt of the world, and contentedness with a very small income, were very remarkable. He took for his small tithes just what his parishioners were pleased to give him. He lived to a very great age. Mr. Read of Henlow, his near neighbour and intimate friend, preached his funeral sermon.

CARDINGTON. Mr. MILLINGTON. However worthy and well esteemed in his day, his name only remains in this record. In his parish it is long since forgotten. But there is a name associated with that of Cardington, which will never be forgotten. The Editor cannot pass this pleasant village, in the vicinity of his native place, without requesting the reader's indulgence while he stops for a moment to pay his respects to the memory of his much respected friend, and the friend of the human kind. Here resided the

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late JOHN HOWARD, Esq. to whose taste and munificence what is most pleasing in the appearance of this village is to be ascribed. Great and lasting as is the fame he acquired on the public theatre, here in this humble retreat his true character was to be sought; and the writer of this esteems it one of the greatest felicities of his life that he had much opportunity of observing it*. This parish is also honoured as the birth place of the late SAMUEL WHITBREAD, Esq. who was likewise a great benefactor to itt.

CRANFIELD, [R.] Mr. WHEELER. His parsonage was one of the best in the country, and yet he chearfully quitted it for the peace of his conscience. His memory was precious there long after his death.

DEAN, Mr. ROBERT PERROT. Born at St. Ives, Huntingdonshire. He was a serious, lively, useful preacher. He took great pains in visiting his flock; and was remarkable for starting, and prudently managing, spiritual discourse in common conversation. Indeed his whole carriage was exemplary. He practised physic, and after his ejectment he attempted to settle as a physician, first at Kettering, and then at Nottingham: but the breaking out of the plague, by the coming of some Londoners in 1666, prevented the one, and many inconveniences the other. About this time he had an opportunity of preaching in Huntingdonshire, for one Mr. Rede, in a public church near Bugden. Though this was just under Bp. Laney's eye, he met with no molestation. Here he continued three years, and then, on the death of Mr. Rede, he came to London and Hackney, where he got some occasional employment while it was safe. At last he went to Maidstone in Kent; where, besides practising physic, he preached twice on the Lord's-day, and held a weekly lecture; and there he died aged 87. In his last sickness he was very composed and resigned; neither desirous of life, nor yet afraid

*See a Sermon preached on occasion of Mr. Howard's death, intitled THE TRUE PATRIOT, by the Editor; who has by him some Memoirs of this excellent man, with many of his Letters, which may possibly sometime sec the light. Justice has not yet been done to his character as a man of piety; and some things which have been reported of him are untrue. The account given of his life in the British Plutarch contains several inaccuracies.

Besides repairing and beautifying the parish-church (to which Mr. Howard gave a handsome clock,) he settled an annuity on the meeting-house at Cotton-end. There are many Dissenters in this parish, and he himself was brought up among them.

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of death. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Durrant, who succeeded him.

WORKS. The sole and sovereign Way of England's being blessed and saved. Some Account of Mrs. Lucy Perrot his Wife.

HOUGHTON CONQUEST, [R. 240 l.] Mr. Samuel FAIRCLOUGH, of Caius Col. Camb. Son of Mr. Sam. Fairclough, of Ketton in Suffolk. He was a good scholar, an excellent preacher, and a man of an admirable temper. He died Dec. 31, 1691. His funeral sermon was preached and printed by a worthy conforming clergyman, Mr. Parkhurst, of Yoxford in Suffolk; who gave him this character: "He was a man of no common qualifications; eminent in parts, in learning, and in piety; not of the Laodicean temper, nor of the Sardian complexion, but strictly holy, and having zeal for God and religion. Great in wisdom, of much moderation, abounding in charity, a lover of God and men, full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. One that had a clear head and a warm heart; who understood and lived the gospel; a pattern of goodness, a blessing to his acquaintance, and an ornament to his family. In his sickness, he was exemplary in patience, and filled with peace. He was a preacher of righteousness; a clear, judicious, fervent preacher. And in this province he shined very openly, while laws permitted him; and when that protection failed, this light was unhappily obscured from public view: very unhappily, for it had been alone worth an act of comprehension, to have included this one so valuable man."

§ MILTON, Mr. JOHN HIND, of Syd. Col. Camb. Mr. Daniel Bocking, who married a distant relation of Mrs. Hind, has collected from some of Mr. Hind's manuscripts still in the family, the following account of him, which is substituted in the room of the former. He was born at Potton in Bedfordshire, Oct. 16, 1631, and admitted into Sydney College Feb. 25, 1651. After he was ejected from Milton (it is not certain whether Milton Bryan or Milton Ernys) he became chaplain to John Gurdon, Esq. at Assington, Suffolk, with whom he continued till the year 1681, and on June 17 of the same year he married Mrs. Damaris Day, of Monk's Eleigh, widow, a lady of handsome fortune; and bought the house which Mr. Miles Burkitt had occupied*, called Monk's Eleigh Hall. He kept up a good

* See the account of Mr. Miles Burkitt's purchase of this place, and the subsequent difficulties in which he was involved, under the article Netishead in Norfolk.

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correspondence with Mr. William Burkitt of Milden, Suffolk, the conformist, who wrote the Exposition on the New Testament. He preached occasionally, when his health permitted, at one of the Colne's in Essex. It is believed that he did not preach at Hadleigh, as related by Dr. Calamy, and it is very certain that he was not " in mean circumstances." He lived very comfortably at Monk's Eleigh, where he died May 1, 1702, aged 71 years, and was buried in that church-yard, where on his grave-stone is inscribed John Hind, Clarke &c. He was a very eminent christian.

PERTENHALL, [R.] Mr. JOHN DONNE, of King's Col. Camb. This living was of good value; he therefore would not trouble any of the parish for his tithes. He was very charitable to the poor, and a hearty lover of all good people. After his ejectment he lived at Keysoe, in the neighbourhood; where he had a congregation, among whom he took great pains; preaching constantly at his meeting every Lord's-day, and sometimes also on week-days. Being disturbed, he did not desist, but preached in the wood, and other obscure places. At length he was imprisoned at Bedford, and continued there some years, which occasioned an ill habit of body, and hastened his end. He left a widow and five children, with but little to support them; but the providence of God kept them from want. He was a man of great faith and courage, though such was his natural timidity, that he would say, "Were it not for Christ the shaking of a leaf would affright him.”

ROXTON, [V. 287.] Mr. MABISON. He was a grave and pious person, well fitted for the work of the ministry, and successful in it.

TEMPSFORD, [R. S.] Mr. ROLT. Upon the Restoration, he resigned to Mr. Hughes the former incumbent. He afterwards lived at Graffham. He had an estate of about sixty pounds per annum. For some time he preached publicly in a church near Bugden, and was connived at by Bp. Laney, having been episcopally ordained, and reading a little of the liturgy. He was a man of a good presence, much of a gentleman, and of great prudence. He was very free and communicative, and his company was very delightful. He died about the year 1677.

* There has been a good congregation of Dissenters at this obscure place ever since. ED.