"Where is the Lord thy God," &c.] The same story is related of Mr. Norman of Bridgewater.

BUNWELL [R.] Mr. PITTEDate.

CARLTON [R. 2.] Mr. JAMES GEDNY.

DENTON [R.] THOMAS LAWSON, M. A. Of Kath. Hall. Camb. where he was so well esteemed as to be chosen afterwards to a fellowship in St. John's. After his ejectment he lived in Suffolk. He was a man of ability, but had not a good utterance. He was the father of the unhappy Mr. Deodate Lawson, who came hither from New-England. DICKLEBOROUGH [R. S. 2001.] Mr. ELIAS CRABMr. Christopher Barnard, of whom Dr. Walker gives a high character, was sequestered from this place, and appears to have been treated with great cruelty. But nothing is said of Mr. Crabtree.

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DIS [R. 2001.] RICHARD MORE, M. A.

DRAYTON [R. 351.] Mr. RICHard Vin.

ELMERTON [C.] Mr. JOHN SMITH. In the Attestation of the ministers of this county, he signed as Minister of God's word at Almerton.

ERSHAM. Mr. THOMAS BAYES.

FELTWELL [R. 2001.] Mr. JOHN BUTLER. A man of a sound judgment, an unblameable life, and most healthful constitution. When he subscribed the Attestation of the Norfolk ministers, in 1648, he was minister at Oldton. After his ejectment, he for some years preached but seldom, and was prevailed with to travel to Smyrna. On his return he preached oftener; and after some time, more statedly at Harwich, whence he removed to Ipswich, where he preach ed occasionally and in the country round. He died in 1696, in the 84th year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by. Mr. Fairfax, upon those words, 2 Tim. iv. 7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,' &c. Mr. Stancliff here wrote in the margin, Desiderantur quamplurima: but the author knew not how to supply the deficiency.

FORNCET [R.] Mr. WILLIAM HINTON.

FOULSHAM [R.] and GUESTWICK. Mr. RICHARD WORTS. A very worthy man, and a great sufferer for Nonconformity. He was imprisoned by a writ de excom. capi

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endo, taken out Nov. 15, 1664, and was continued in the common jail till Sept. 3, 1665, when the plague was at the height in London. He was kept close prisoner till Nov. 9th, not knowing by whose order, or for what additional offence. On Feb. 2, he, with six more, was put into the castle, in a narrow hole in the wall, which had neither door, window, nor chimney; and only room for one truckle-bed: the others, lay in hammocks. This place had three wickets into the felons yard, one of which was necessarily kept open night and day, otherwise they must have been stifled with the steam of the charcoal. For five weeks the door below this vile place (which was about forty steps high) was kept locked night and day. The keeper usually went away with the key about four o'clock, to a village, a mile and half from the head jailer's house, and did not return till eight in the morning, so that no one could come to the prisoners, whatever occasion there might be; and they were not permitted, for five weeks, to go out into the yard. If a prisoner's wife came to see him, he was called down to the door, and the keeper used to set his back against one side of the door-way and his foot against the other, so as to prevent her entrance any farther. After about two months continuance here, they were removed to another prison. They were wonderfully preserved this year from the contagion, while the arrows of the Almighty fell mortally very near them on all sides, there being only a narrow lane between the prisons, so that they could see some that were shut up in the other, and hear them crying for bread. In this situation they fled to their strong Tower, the name of the Lord,' where they found safety and peace.-Some time after, a great man then in power, told the jailer, he must carry them to the castle, and put each in a place alone. The jailer answered, "It cannot be done; the castle is full, and I daily fear the plague should break out amongst them." He replied, "Then put them into a place together: what do I care if the plague be in it?" However they were preserved in that filthy hole, at whose wickets the odious smells of the common yard of the felons greatly annoyed them. One of them was almost suffocated by it, and the physician could give him no relief, so long as he was confined there. Upon which an account was sent to the sheriff, of his miserable situation, with a petition to remove him for a little time, as his life was in danger. The sheriff answered, He durst not meddle, he must abide it.

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The poor man however recovered. Mr. Worts continued a prisoner seven years. (Conformist's Fourth Plea, p. 66.)

[It seems from Mr. Harmer's account, that Mr. Worts had been pastor of a congregational church before he possessed this living, and was so afterwards, viz. at Guestwick, as appears from the church book; where it is said, "that the Dissenting.church in and about Guestwick sat down in gospel order in the end of 1652, and chose Mr. Richard Worts for their pastor; who with fidelity and success laboured among them till his death, about May 6, 1686. He was succeeded by Mr. Giles Say, (father of Mr. Samuel Say of Westminster) who died Ap. 8, 1692." From whence it should seem there had been a mistake in the date of Mr. Worts's death, in 1697, as also with regard to his given

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FUNWELL. Mr. SHEPHERD.

GORSTON [Spelt Godnaston R.] Mr. ROBERT Purt. Dr. Walker says he was presented to this living in 1654. Mr. PEW. He had a flourishing school many years at Beccles in Suffolk; and in the latter part of his life he preached occasionally in several public churches.

* GREATWICH. Mr. JOHN HOOKER.

HARDINGHAM [R. 120] Mr. NATHANIEL JOCELYN. [He published a funeral sermon for the Rev. Robert Peck, M. A.]

HEYDON [R.] Mr. THOMAS NEWMAN,

INTWOOD [R.] Mr. SHEFFIeld.

LOPHAM [R.] Mr. THOMAS ELLIS. [He was a Baptist, and as such deprived in 1663, by six justices. Bloomfield's Essay towards a Topogr. Hist. of Norfolk, Vol. I. P. 157.]

LYNN, Alhallows [V.] Mr. JOHN HORNE. Of Trin. Col. Camb. where Mr. Henry Hall, B. D. was his tutor. Born at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. He preached first at Sutton St. James's, and afterwards [1647] was beneficed and settled at Alhallows church in Lynn Regis †, from whence

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+ Dr. Calamy (Contin. p. 634.) desires Bullingbrook to be inserted here instead of Lynn; from whence the reader might imagine Mr. Horne's ministry

he was ejected in 1662. But he lived in the town till his death. He was an Arminian in the point of Redemption, and contended earnestly for the universality of it; but carefully guarded men against supposing that they might live in sin, because Christ died for them; and taught that Christ therefore died for all, that they which live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them and rose again,' 2 Cor. v. 14. 15. He was a man of most exemplary and primitive piety, and blameless conversation; very ready in the scriptures, excellently skilled in the Orien tal languages, and very laborious in his private capacity after he was cast out of his living. He went constantly to church, and yet preached thrice at his own house every Lord's-day; first, in the morning before church-time, again after dinner, and in the evening. On the other days of the week, beside lecture-sermons, he constantly expounded the scriptures in order twice a day, to all that would come to hear him, as some always did. He was a man of such great charity, that he commonly emptied his pocket of what money he had in it among the poor, when he went into the town; giving to any such miserable object as presented, the first piece of silver that came to hand. He shewed peculiar compassion towards such as were in any affliction; and was generally very much honoured and esteemed for his goodness, both in town and country. He was a man of wonderful meekness, patience, and dispassionateness-The circumstances of his marriage were particular. Three young women, who were sisters, coming to hear him preach at Hareby, a village near Bullingbrook in Lincolnshire, the clerk after sermon insinuating himself into their company, took the liberty to ask them, which of them would like such a man as Mr. Horne for her husband? The two elder, tho' they could not but commended his preaching, exclaimed against such a connection, and urged as a reason, the poor circumstances in which ministers' widows were often left: but the younger said, she would think herself happy if she might but have such a man, tho' she begged her bread with him. This was carried to

was exercised wholly in Lincolnshire. But it appears, from the list of his works, that several of his printed sermons were preached in Norfolk, and two of them at Lynn. And it is very observable, that one of these is, A Farewell to his Neighbours, the Parishioners of LYNN.' No date indeed is here mentioned, but this sermon is placed after a tract printed in 1662. So that after all, it is most likely he was ejected from LYNN; moreover, from two following pieces, dated 1667 and 1669, that he continued there after his cjectment. LD.

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Mr. Horne, and he married her. She survived him, but never wanted while she lived. He died Dec. 14, 1676, aged 61.

WORKS. The Righteous Man's Hope in his Death; at the funeral of Capt. W. Conyers of Walpole.---The Life of Faith in Death, at the fun. of Mr. Thomas Slaney, mayor of King's Lynn, Jan. 10, 1649, on Heb. xi. 13, 14.---The Open Door; or a Vindication of the Extent of Christ's Death: in answer to John Owen of Coggeshall, [afterwards D. D.]--A brief Discovery of some Pieces of close Idolatry, in some pretending to Religion, both Indepen dents and Presbyterians.---A Caveat to all true Christians, against the Spirit of Antichrist.---A Consideration of Infant Baptism, ag. Mr. Tombes; with an Answer to Mr. Kendal.---A Catechism.--Christ exalted in the Sufficiency of his Scripture-Doctrines; in answer to Dr. Kendal's Fescue for a Horn-Book.---Essays in 4to.--A brief Discovery of the Quakers.---A fuller Discovery, &c.--Quakers proved Deceivers.---Truth's Triumph.---A Discourse of the New Heavens and Earth; at the funeral of Mary, wife of Philip Neave, of Rockland, June 19, 1660.---The Reviewer reviewed.--An Appeal, &c. 1662.---A Farewell to his Neighbours, the Parishioners of Lynn Alhallows, a sheet.---Balaam's Wish; on the Decease of Mrs. Barbara Whitefoot, of Hapton, April 11, 1667.--A gracious Reproof to Pharisaical Saints; on Luke xv. 30, 31.-The Reward of Murder; or a Relation of the penitent Behaviour of Rose Warne, of Lynn, a condemned Malefactor.---The best Exercise for Christians in the worst Times; on Jude 20, 21.---The Reward of the Wise, &c. at the funeral of Mr. T. Moore of Whittlesey; on Dan. xii. 3----A Comfortable Coroborative Cordial, against the Horrors of Death; on the Death of Mrs. Rebecca Jackler.---The Brazen Serpent, on John iii. 14, 15.---The Cause of Infants maintained; a Reply to Thomas Grantham.---Essays about general and special Grace; 2d Part, 8vo.---The Divine Wooer, a Poem.---Paraph, on Rev. xiii. against Popery.

Mr. FENWICK, and Mr. JOHN DOMINICK.

MUNDESLEY [R.] Mr. PAUL AMYRAUT. In 1648 he was vicar of East Deerham in this county. More of him may be known from a little piece, entitled, Lutheri Posthuma; being prefatory to a large work, translated out of Dutch: in which it appears that Mr. Amyraut was an old man when he was ejected. Sir Edward Deering, in the year 1644, says of him, "He was a learned minister, beneficed in Essex; but was born in High Germany in the Palatinate. He was desired by a committee of parliament to compare the original and translation of the said work of Luther, and he gave a certificate of their agreement under his hand." He

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