ever he observed it; and when any told him of their great experiences, he would say, "It is good news, but take heed "that it is true." He held a correspondence with many worthy ministers and valuable christians by letter, in which he took great pleasure, and was very useful. When his goods were seized for his preaching contrary to law, he took it joyfully, and heartily prayed for his enemies.

His last removal was to Epping, to which place however he did not wholly confine himself. He was of a strong constitution, but at length was worn out by labour, study and travels. He was very charitable to the poor, and much concerned for the public, especially for the church of God. His patience in his last illness was exemplary, while he languished some months in a consumption, and in much pain. He still gave serious counsel to such as visited him, and was much in prayer for the church, particularly in England, and heartily lamented the great breaches among Protestants. Protestants. To a neighbouring minister who was with him, he said, "I bless God "I never conformed: I have now the comfort of it." He told a friend who enquired what his thoughts were when he was turned out of his living, "That he was then supported "by God's promises, and ever since by his providences." He died, as he had lived; as penitent as if he had been the greatest sinner upon earth, but in the exercise of a lively faith; relying only upon Christ the mediator for pardon and acceptance with God. And he had this character from all that were acquainted with him, That he was one who laboured much for God, walked closely with him, and lived in great contempt of the world. He died Sept. 18, 1681, in the 58th year of his age.

WORKS. Spiritual Bondage and Freedom; (a good, serious, practical book.)..He left his papers with his good friend Mr. Thomas Gouge, who did not long survive him.

SHENLEY [R] ISAAC LOEFFS, M. A. Fellow of Peter-house, Camb. Mr. Stephen Jones resigned this living, in the year 1650, when Mr. Loeff's succeeded him, being presented by three of the parishioners, upon whom the patron (John Crew, Esq; of Crew in Cheshire) had conferred the right of presentation for that time. Dr. Calamy has given a copy of Mr. Jones's resignation of the living, of Mr. Loeffs' presentation to it, &c. which are too long and too uninteresting to be here inserted. After the Act of uniformity passed, Mr. Loeffs came to London, and was assistant to

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Dr. Owen. [Dr. Savage, the late pastor of that church, writes, That from his church-book, Mr. Loeffs appears to have been soine time co-pastor with Dr. Owen or Mr. Clarkson; standing in the list of pastors after the latter: and that he died July 10, 1689. Nothing more particular appears concerning his character than what is contained in the following recommendations of him.] The first is, that of Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Lazarus Seaman, Sept. 9, 1648." These are to certify whom it may concern, that Isaac Loeff's, M. A. of the last year, and Fellow of Peter-house, Cambridge, is of a godly life and conversation, orthodox in judgment, and well-affected to the parliament. In witness whereof I have subscribed my hand. La. Seaman, Magr. C. S. P." After this follows a Latin testimonial of Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, &c. &c. one of his Majesty's most honourable privy. council, and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge: and of the Masters and Scholars of the said University; certifying, that Mr. Isaac Loeffs was admitted to the degree of M. A. at the appointed time, and annual commencement in the year 1648; and that he was a discreet person, whose learning, good life, and laudable conversation, qualified him for that degree, and could not be called in question by the envy of slanderous, or malice of insidious persons, &c. Given at Cambridge, Dec. 9, 1648.

§ WORKS. The soul's ascension in a state of separation, 8vo, 1690.

STORTFORD Bishop's [V.] Mr. JONATHAN PAINE. He is mentioned in Newcourt's Rep. Eccl. It is uncertain where he preached after his ejectment. But a congregation of Dissenters was gathered in this place, of which the eminent Mr. Craddock became pastor, and it continues in a flourishing state to this day. The worthy Mr. Angus lately died there, having been pastor above half a century. See his funeral Sermon by his colleague, Mr. W. Chaplin, which contains a just character of him.

THERFIELD [R. 350l.] Mr. MARMADUKE TENNANT. He was an acceptable preacher, and an exemplary liver; eminent for piety and charity. He prefixed an epistle to the life of Mr. John Janeway, who died in his neighbourhood in 1657.

THORLEY [R. S.] Mr. WARREN. A very hopeful young man. § In 1654 Mr. John Warren was appointed one of the Triers of this county.

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TOTTERIDGE. WILLIAM TUTTY, M. A. He was ordained by Dr. Curle Bishop of Winchester, in 1640. Dr. Calamy produces a copy of the testimonials of his ordination, in which however there appears to be nothing singular. Mr. Tutty, after his ejectment, went first into a farm; but soon became chaplain to Col. Markham. He afterwards preached at Newgate-street, in the parish of Hatfield in this county, and died in 1678. He was a man of great abilities, good learning, and eminent piety; a follower of love and peace. He had great satisfaction in his Nonconformity, from his ejection to his grave. §In 1642, Mr. Tuttey (so his name is sometimes spelt) was vicar of South Mymms, not six miles distant from Totteridge, where Chauncy mentions him as curate in 1646. In 1654, he was appointed one of the Triers of this county.-He published a funeral sermon, and something on Sol. song, in prose and verse.

WALDEN (Paul's) [R.] Mr. PEACHY. Dr. Calamy supposes him to be the person of that name who practised physic in London, and wrote several medical pieces. § But according to Wood, JOHN PECHY M. D. who wrote the medical tracts, was only six years of age when the act of uniformity passed.

WALLINGTON. Mr. SHERWIN. See Baldock.

WARE [V.] Mr. JOHN YOUNG. He kept up a considerable meeting for some years at Kimpton, in this county, where bis name was long remembered with respect. § He was one of the Hitchin Lecturers in 1642, and a Trier for this county in 1654.

WATFORD [V.] PHILIP GOODWIN, M. A. Of St. John's Col. Camb. He was among the Triers appointed in this county. He most probably quitted this living at the Restoration, as Newcourt enters his successor June 1661, tho' Chauncy's date is 1659. He is supposed afterwards to have conformed, as one of this name was rector of Liston in Essex in 1673, and there died in 1699. But as this might possibly be another person, and if it was the same, he might have been twelve years a nonconformist, his name is retained in our list.

WORKS. Family religion revived; a discourse on Family prayer. The Lord's day revived.-Evangelical communion; a treatise on the Lord's Supper.-The History of Dreams.

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§ WELWYN [R.] NICHOLAS GREAVES, D. D. of Oxford university. He is not mentioned in Dr. Calamy's account, but there is the best authority for placing him among the ejected ministers, and his name will do honour to the list. He was the son of Mr. John Greaves, rector of Colmore, near Alresford, Hants. His elder brother, Mr. John Greaves, was the celebrated mathematician and traveller. His younger brothers were also men of eminence: Thomas in divinity, and Edward in physic. Nicholas was first a commoner of St. Mary's Hall Oxford; elected fellow of All Souls, 1627, and junior proctor of the university, in 1648. He took his degree of B. A. Nov. 1, 1642. and was created D. D. in the year following. He was afterwards promoted to the Deanry of Dromore in Ireland. It is probable that he fled into England in the time of the rebellion. Chauncy has his name at Welwyn in 1651. Bp. Kennet, in his Register and Chronicle, has the following extract from the Lincoln Registers, from whence it is plain that he was deprived of this rectory by the act of uniformity.—“ 1662. "Die ult. Octob. Gabriel Towerson, clericus. A. M. ad"miss. ad Rect. Eccl. de WELLWYN, Com. Hertford. per privationem NICOLAI GREAVES, S. T. P. ult. Incumb. "virtute ACTUS UNIFORMITATIS legitime vacantem, ex "Pres. Custodis et Sociorum Coll. Omn. Animarum. Oxon." N. B. This is the valuable living of which the celebrated Dr. Young was many years Rector.

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WILLIAN [V.] Mr. ISAAC BEDFORD. He was the son of an excellent father of the same name, who was first a school-master at Sutton in Bedfordshire, and afterwards many years minister of Clifton, four miles distant. This his son, after his ejectment, retired to Clifton, and lived upon a small farm of his own. He took scholars to board, and employed a Conformist to teach them. He died there about the year 1667. § He was one of the Triers in 1654, and a Lecturer at Hitchin. His name in the list is spelt Bedforde.

The following afterwards conformed.

Mr. HALSEY, of Broxborn.-Dr. HICKS, of Hertingfordbury, afterwards rector of St. Margaret-Pattens in London.Mr. OWEN, of Brandfield.-Mr. STALLYBRASSE, of Essingdon. Mr. THORNTON, of Hempsted.-Mr. GODWIN, of Eastwick.

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LUNTISHAM [R. 2001.] JAMES BEDFORD, B. D. The worthy son of Mr. Isaac Bedford, the excellent minister of Clifton in Bedfordshire; and there he was born. Mr. Bedford of Willian, in Hertfordshire was his brother. He was much applauded for his ability and faithfulness in the work of the ministry. [There was a Mr. Bedford a dissenting minister at Royston, early in the last century, who was probably a relation of his. There was also a clergyman of the same name, who held the living of St. John's in the town of Bedford, who was supposed to be of the same family.]

WORKS. A Sermon on Heb. ix. 27, at the funeral of a daughter of his eldest brother Samuel Bedford, Esq.

BOTTLEBRIDGE. Mr. SIMON KING. He was some time a schoolmaster at Bridgnorth in Shropshire, where Mr. Barter and he lived together in the same house: they were afterwards fellow-labourers in Coventry. Mr. King was minister of Trinity parish in that city from 1642 to 1645. After 1662, he lived at Long-Orton near Peterborough. It pleased God to try him by many afflictions; and among others, with the burning of his house to the ground, in August 1689, by which he was in a manner deprived of all his substance, and that at a time when he and his wife were both of them above eighty years of age. He was an able scholar, a man of a solid judgment, of an honest heart and unblameable life; inclined to no extreams.

ELTON. Mr. COOPER. He was the patron of this valuable parsonage, which he held till 1662, when being

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