left his benefice he spent most of his time about those parts, and freely bestowed his labours upon such as would attend upon them, especially in Hatherly; in the next parish to which, and in a kinsman's house, he resigned his soul to God, in February, 1693.

MONKTON. Mr. THOMAS LISLE. After his ejectment he lived in the family of General Monk, duke of Albemarle, and was tutor to the young duke his son, and to Sir Walter Clarges, his kinsman. He lived privately in the latter part of his time, first at London, then at Clapham, in Surrey, and afterwards at Honiton, where the author saw and conversed with him in 1713, and there he soon after died.

MORCHARD BISHOP [R. 361] ROBERT SNow, M. A. Some time Fellow of Exeter Col. Oxf. where he continued twelve years. He married a daughter of Mr. Francis Whiddon, of Moreton Hamsted. By the death of his elder brother, Mr. Simon Snow, merchant, burgess of Exeter, an estate worth above 20,000l. fell to him, which he enjoyed but a little while. After he was ejected, Mr. Pridham, who succeeded him, shewed him great respect, and boarded with him for some time. At length he removed from Morchard to Exeter, where he preached in his own house after attending worship at the parish church. He took the Oxford oath, and so was not prosecuted as some others were, nor driven from his habitation. He died about 60 years of age.

MORETON. Mr. JOHN MILLS.

MORETON HAMSTED [R. 50l.] ROB. WOOLCOMB, M. A. A native of Chudleigh, where his grandfather was minister. He was presented to this living by the grandfather of Sir William Courtney, and was ordained at Dartmouth, Nov. 11, 1657. He was a hard student, a great philosopher, and a sound solid preacher. He was a glorious confessor for the cause of Nonconformity, losing by it not only a good benefice, but a good estate; for his father on that account disinherited him, and made his son his heir, ordering in his will that he should not have the care of his education. However he lived comfortably and contentedly, and found 'a good conscience to be a continual feast.' He died at his house in Chudleigh, 1692.

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MUSBURY [R.] RICHARD FARRANT, M. A. Fellow of Brazen Nose College, Oxford. Born at Manchester. He was a very modest, prudent and learned man; eminent for humility, charity and piety; well qualified for an exalted station, but chose to continue in this obscure corner. Being once taken up for preaching, after his ejectment, and carried before the justices in Honiton, Sir Courtney Poole told him he should be discharged if he would promise to preach no more. He replied," he would not promise that, because he could not answer it to his great Lord and Master." He died of a consumption. Mr. Moore preached his funeral sermon in his orchard, on 2 Kings xviii. 20.

NEWTON-ABBOTS [or Woolborough, where the church stands] WILLIAM YEO, M. A. A native of Totness, brought up at Exeter school, and cotemporary, both there and at Oxford, with Dr. Manton. Having pursued his studies for some time in Exeter Col. he removed to Eman. Col. Camb. On leaving the university, he became chaplain in Col. Gold's regiment; but being soon weary of that station, he settled for some time at Brighthelmstone, in Sussex. From thence he was removed by an order of the committee of parliament, to Newton Abbot, where he lived in good repute and did much service, by his serious affec tionate preaching and exemplary life. He found the town very ignorant and profane, but by the blessing of God upon his labours, the people became very intelligent, serious and pious. He had a great authority among them, and was a terror to loose persons, so as to put a stop to the open profanation of the Lord's-day, by walking with a constable round the town, after the public worship was over. He was highly esteemed by his brethren in the ministry, and well respected by the neighbouring gentry, being a genteel man, and very facetious in conversation. He was of a generous spirit, an affectionate preacher, and a close student; who had well digested what he had read.

While he was in his living, he lost an augmentation of 8ol. per annum for refusing to take the Engagement, After he was silenced in 1662, he continued firm to his principles, and preached as the times would bear it. In consequence of on order of sessions offering a reward of 40s. to any one that should apprehend a Dissenting Minister, a malicious constable attempted to seize him, so that he was forced to hide himself in the fields, in a time of deep snow. He was often obliged to leave his house and family for safety, but providentially

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providentially he was never apprehended. Once it pleased God to touch the heart of a man who came to hear him with an ill design, who afterwards became very serious, and continued his hearer, and a communicant with him, to the day of his death.-His judgment, imagination, memory and chearfulness, continued to admiration, even to the last. He never discovered the least repentance for his Nonconformity, but much satisfaction in it. When his end drew near he had no timorous apprehensions. He was satisfied with long life, and used to say, 66 My soul is continually in my hand, ready at God's call." He had discharged his office in the parish, in public and private, about 53 years. He died in Oct. 1699, aged 82. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Richard Evans, his son-in-law.

NEWTON FERRERS (or North Molton) [V. S. 45. 12s. 1d.] JOHN HILL, M. A. JOHN HILL, M. A. Of Lincoln Col. Oxf He was born in Bristol, about the year 1611. He was or- · dained by Dr. George Cook, Bp. of Hereford, in 1635. In 1637 Dr. William Pierce, Bp. of Bath and Wells (whom Dr. Walker commends as very vigilant and active for the good of the ecclesiastical and civil state,*) granted him a licence at Wraxall in his diocese, upon condition of his observing the constitution and injunctions, and wearing the surplice in celebrating divine service. In the same year he was at Bitton, and in 1643 at Elberton, both in the diocese of Gloucester. In 1645 he was at Langridge, near Bath : in 1649 he became vicar of North-Newington, in Wilts; in 1650, of Newish, in Somerset; and at last, in 1652, he became rector of Newton Ferrers. Dr. Walker commits many mistakes in this matter. (See Cal. Contin. p. 293) A few months after the Restoration, Mr. Hill was threatened to be turned out of his living. To secure himself he took out the broad seal forit, Sept. 6, 1660, as per Mortem nat. ult. Incumb. ejusdem jam vacatum, and the king's presentation, per Lapsum. Now another game is played, A prosecution against him for seditious words is set on foot; articles are exhibited, and depositions taken, at Modbury, Oct. 23, 1660, before Sir T. Hele, &c. He is summoned, Dec. 20, to appear at Morley to make his defence. In order to this, he had testimonials, among others, from the mayor and several clergymen of Bristol, who certified, that, "to their knowledge, in and after the wars, he was well *See some examples of it in the account of his conduct towards Dr. Conant, Vol. i. p. 123. &c.

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affected to K. Charles I. and was for his loyalty ejected out of divers places, as Elberton and Horfield, in Gloucestershire; and, for not taking the Covenant, out of Langridge and Cleven, in Somerset and therefore they believed he was grossly abused by desperate swearers against him." It seems the justices or commissioners were of the same mind, for they discharged him. However these accusations and depositions served Mr. Anthony Clifford's turn; for the duke of York being his friend, on Feb. 20, 1660, he got a broad seal for the living, in which Mr. Hill's presentation, granted not six month's before, is repealed, and this reason given, "That his words and behaviour, during the late distractions, rendered him incapable of any ecclesiastical preferment. So that on p. 23, 1661, Mr. Hill covenanted to yield up the living, and went to Exeter. He afterwards settled at Newton Abbot, where he died, and was buried in the chancel of Woolborough.

NORTHAM [V. 30l.] Mr. ANTHONY DOWNE. He was brother to Mr. Mark and Mr. Thomas Downe, of Exeter, of whom an account was before given. He survived both of them, and lived to be about 80 years of age. He was remarkable for neatness in his compositions, and exactness of expression. These three brothers were all remembered with great respect by the good people of Exeter, both on account of their ministerial labours, and christian conversation.

East OGWELL. Mr. JOHN STEPHENS. A most emiWhile he continued nent preacher, and a very pious man. in his living he took great pains with his people, holding meetings in the church on the week-days, to instruct young persons in the principles of religion, when he was used to propose questions to them in order to try their knowledge. He lived to a great age, and continued to preach after he was

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PETROCKSTOW [R. S.] Mr. WILLIAM TRIVITHWICK. Dr. Walker owns that Mr. A. Gregory, the sequestered minister, died before the Restoration, and therefore Mr. Trivithwick, his successor, had a legal title to the living. After being silenced he went abroad with Col. Rolle, as his guardian and tutor. He died in July, 1693. It doth not appear that he printed any thing but a funeral sermon for his patron.

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PINHO Mr. GROVE. SHe was grandfather to Mr. Henry Grove, an eminent dissenting minister, and tutor of an academy, at Taunton; in the memoirs of whose life, prefixed to his posthumous works, is the following account of his ancestor : "It was Mr. Grove's happiness to be descended, both by father and mother, from families of considerable repute, and which, for several generations, had been remarkable for strict piety, sincere goodness, and a steady attachment to religious liberty and the rights of conscience: the Groves, of Wiltshire, and the Rowes, of Devon. His grandfather Grove was, soon after the Restoration, ejected from a good living in Devon, for Nonconformity, at that distinguished period, when so many ministers gave a noble proof that their religious profession was not the result of secular policy, but of conscience, by giving up the most considerable worldly interests, to preserve the peace of their minds. His father [the son of the above] suffered much and chearfully in the same cause, for Lay-Nonconformity under Charles and James II.——————”

PLYMOUTH. GEORGE HUGHES, B. D. Of Corp. Christi Col. Oxf. Born in the Borough of Southwark, in 1603, when his mother was 52 years of age, who never had a child before, tho' she had three husbands before Mr. Hughes's father; and whose age was as remarkable afterwards; for she lived to her 96th year. He had so general a reputation in the university, for his proficiency in his studies, that Dr. Clayton being made master of Pemb. Col. upon the first erection of it, procured Mr. Hughes to be one of the first fellows. Several persons of great eminence afterwards were his pupils here. He was ordained about the year 1628. For some time he preached in and about Oxford; and afterwards was called to be lecturer of Alhallows, Bread-street, London. The incumbent being sickly and aged, Mr. Hughes, with his consent, performed almost all his work. After four or five years continuance in London, his great popularity there (being constantly attended by a very numerous auditory) and some instances of his nonconformity to the ceremonies, being complained of to Abp. Laud, he silenced him. Upon this, he retired for some time to Mr. Dod's, the famous old Puritan minister, at Fausley, in Northamptonshire, desiring his advice in his present circumstances, particularly about going over to New-England, which he had some thoughts of. The good old man dis

suaded