And many a dark night hath he travelled in dirty and dangerous roads, from his regard to the good of their souls. When one of his hearers came to visit him, a little before his death, he said to him, "Never did any one go with more joy "to his most pleasing recreation, than I have gone to Long"croft-fields to preach to you."-At Mansfield he attended on the public worship, in the establishment, and held his meetings before or after it, that he might not interfere; for his principles were moderate. Such love did he conciliate there, by his blameless and pleasant conversation, and his discreet management of himself, that when others were clapped into prison, upon what was called Lord Russel's plot, a considerable person who constantly kept to the parish church, went to the lord-lieutenant, and offered to be bound for his good behaviour. The offer was accepted; and Mr. Porter continued in his own house without disturbance or suspicion. -He was looked upon as a great blessing in those parts, and highly valued by his brethren, who used to consult him upon difficult cases, and paid a great deference to his judgment. He died at Mansfield, Jan. 22, 1690.

WORKS. An Account of the Life and Character of Mr. John Hieron, and other Derbyshire ministers.-—A Farewell Sermon, in England, Remembrancer, on Zeph. iii. 18. [§ This is the xvith. in the Country-collections, and contains ample proof of his great moderation, and his aversion to an unnecessary separation from the church of England.]

SANDY-ACRE. Mr. JOSEPH MOORE. He was born at Nottingham, and educated in St. John's Col. Camb. when the pious Dr. Tuckney was master. He was sober-minded from his youth, and entered young into the ministry; but his youth was not despicable, as he was grave, serious and savoury. After his ejectment he spent the rest of his time in different private families, in praying, preaching, and catechizing. He was a hard student, an inquisitive man, and a pertinent useful preacher. He lived well, and he died happily, Nov. 25, 1684.-In the Collection of Country farewell sermons, the xvth is his. [The text is 2 Peter i. 15, a very suitable and useful discourse.]

SHELDON [C.] Mr. JOHN BEEBY. A man eminent for his close walking with God. He was at Tidswell till the Restoration, when he removed to Sheldon, and there was ejected byth e Unifrmity-act, in 1662.

SHIRLY [V. 351.] Mr. SAMUEL HIERON, who was brother to Mr. John Hieron, of Bradsall. He made no great figure in the world, but was an honest man, and a useful preacher; much beloved by those amongst whom he laboured. Few men's outward circumstances more strongly urged their conformity than his; yet he followed the dictates of his conscience, and left a pretty good living, at Bartholomew-day, 1662, when he threw himself, and all his affairs into the hands of God's providence. Tho' he removed from place to place, and everywhere met with great difficulties, he experienced the divine tenderness and compassion, and had enough to carry him to his journey's end, at which he arrived March 24, 1687.

TURNDITCH [C.] Mr. THOMAS SWETNAM. Of St. John's Col. Camb. He was the son of Mr. Joseph Swetnam, who was preacher at Alhallows in Derby. He had the Bishop's licence to preach, which was never recalled.

WORKS. A small Piece in 8vo. consisting of three Sermons, viz. The Grand Question; on Psal. xv. 1. The Holy Man's Honour; on Mal. iii. 17. The Heavenly Conversation; on Phil. iii. 20.

Mr. JEREMIAH WHEAT preached as a candidate in this county in 1662, when the uniformity-act silenced, tho' it did not eject him. He was afterwards chaplain to Sir John Bright, Bart. of Badsworth in Yorkshire. He was a good scholar, a hard student, and an eminently pious man. He died most comfortably in the Lord, about the year 1667.

Mr. CHARLES SAGER. Of St. John's Col. Oxf. He was born near Burnley in Lancashire, in 1635. While he was at the university, the most religious students were his companions. At the age of twenty, he was chosen master of the public school at Blackbourn, in which station he was highly useful, and met with general respect, as appears from his being connived at by the governors of the school and the gentry thereabout, till the year 1668 or 1669, tho' he could not conform to the established church. He began to preach in the year 1660, and tho' he set about the work with trembling, God owned him in it. After he was turned out of the public school, he betook himself to the teaching of a private one in the town, and had many gentlemen's sons and others under his care. In this employment, at the same time frequently preaching, he continued till 1683, when Major

Nowel,

Nowel, his great enemy, sent him to Lancaster prison by a capias, and there he remained near six months. During his confinement, he was useful among the prisoners, and several persons also of the town, by setting up a conference on the Lord's-days. His prison comforts and improvements were very great. In the year 1687, he was chosen pastor to a people at Darwen, in Lancashire where he laboured in the work of the Lord, with great acceptance and success, till God removed him by a paralytic stroke, on Feb. 13, 1697. He was a good scholar, very affable, blameless in conversation, and generally beloved. He had a peculiar way of reproving sinners in private, and was so successful in it, that the guilty either heard him with patience, or came under some restraints. Much of his discourse in the families where he visited, was about spiritual concerns, and particulary directed to young persons; the good fruit of which he lived to see, in that not a few of them solemnly gave up themselves unto the Lord, in which he much rejoiced.

Mr. BUXTON.-Mr. FINCH.-And Mr. FORTH.-The. places of their ejectment are uncertain.

The following persons afterwards conformed:

Mr. MATTHEWS of Edlaston.-Mr. Pool of Muggington. Mr. JAMES LAUGHTON of Dower chapel.-Mr. JAMES SUTTON, of Crich.-Mr. EDWARD HOLLINGSHEAD, of Ashford chapel.-Mr. EDWARD BUXTON, of Swetenham.

ADDENDA.

ADDENDA.

AVING met with the life of Dr. MANTON,* by Dr. William Harris, since the greater part of this volume was printed, the following abridgment of it is with pleasure presented to the reader, in addition to the short account given of that great man, page 175, &c.

Dr. THOMAS MANTON had his grammar-learning at the Free-school in Tiverton, and was placed in Wadham college, Oxford, in 1635; where he made such proficiency, that he was ordained at the age of twenty, by the excellent Bp. Hall, then at Exeter; who took particular notice of him, as likely to prove an extraordinary person. He himself, however, ten years afterwards, lamented his entrance on the ministry so early, as a rash intrusion. (See his Expos, on James v. 19.) The times were then perilous, and he was confined in Exeter when it was besieged by the king's forces. After its surrender he went to Lime. He preached his first sermon at Sowton, near Exeter, on Matt. vii. 1, after being sometime unsettled, he was chosen at Colyton, to preach a weekly lecture; and was much respected. On his coming to London he was soon noticed, and frequently employed. He soon after married Mrs. Morgan, of a genteel family at Sidbury, Devon. His first settlement was at Stoke-Newington, about the year 1643; to which living he was presented by the Hon. Col. Popham, in whom he had a kind patron, whose pious lady also highly esteemed him. Here he continued seven years, and was often not only engaged in preaching, but on other affairs in the city. The second of the sermons before the Sons of the Clergy was by him. He delivered several before the parliament, in which he discovered great prudence, particularly in that preached after he had borne his testimony against the death of the king, on Deut. xxxiii. 4. 5. This however gave great offence, and some in the house talked of sending him to the

* It is prefixed to the second edition of his Sermons on the 119th Psalm. Dr. Calamy was highly censurable in making so little use of this excellent piece of biography.

tower,

tower, when his friends advised him to withdraw; but he never flinched, and the heat abated.

Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, of Covent Garden, being disabled for his work, several persons were proposed to succeed him, but he would not resign till Dr. Manton was mentioned, and then he readily yielded. He was presented to this living by the Earl, afterwards Duke of Bedford, who esteemed him highly to his dying day, and sent him a key of of the garden which belonged to Bedford-house. In this situation he had a numerous and grand audience, among whom frequently was the excellent Abp. Usher.—Dr. Manton had a great respect for Mr. Christopher Love, who was beheaded in 1651 for assisting the royal family, and attended him on the scaffold; when, as a token of respect, he gave him his cloak. The government finding that the Dr. intended to preach his funeral sermon, expressed displeasure, and the soldiers threatened to shoot him. But he was undaunted and preached at Mr. Love's church, in St. Lawrence Jury, to a numerous congregation, tho' without pulpit cloth or cushion. The sermon was sometime afterwards printed.-Tho' he was far from courting the favour of that government, they professed at least to esteem him, and Cromwell sent for him to Whitehall on the morning of his installment, telling him, not till he came, that it was to pray on the occasion; and when he begged to be excused, urging the shortness of the notice, he said, that such a man as he could not be at a loss to perform the service, and put him into his study for half an hour to premeditate.* The Protector made him one of his chaplains. He was also appointed one of the committee for trying ministers; and he seldom absented himself from that troublesome service, as he himself was heard to say, in order that he might do all in his power to keep matters from running into extremes. One remarkable instance of his kindness is worth recording. A clergyman of respectable appearance, somewhat in years, appeared before the commissioners, when Dr. Manton called for a chair, at which some of them were displeased. This minister, after the Restoration, was preferred to a bishopric in Ireland; and he retained so affectionate a remembrance of Dr. Manton, that he charged Bp. Worth when he came

* Whitlock, who was present, mentions Dr. Manton's prayer on this 'occasion (Mem. p. 661.) and says, "He recommended his Highness, the "parliament, the council, the forces, and the whole government and peo"ple of the three nations, to the blessing and protection of God."

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