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 his name was long remembered with respect. § He was one of the Hitchin Lecturers in 1642, and a Trier for this county in 1654. Of St. WATFORD [V.] PHILIP GOODWIN, M. A. 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. § WELWYN § 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 Socioruin Coll. Omn. Animarum. Oxon.” N. B. This is the valuable living of which the celebrated Dr. Young was many years Rector. 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. - MINISTERS MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE. LUNTISHAM [R. 2001.] JAMES BEDFORD, B. D. 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. Baxter 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 unable unable to keep it himself, on account of the new terms of conformity, he gave it to Mr. Ball, who married his daughter, the son of the worthy Mr. Ball of Northampton; and a son of his afterwards possessed it. Mr. Cooper was a grave, venerable person, of the Puritan stamp; and a man of great note in this country, for the piety of his life, the prudence of his conduct, and his ministerial abilities. HEMINGFORD. Mr. HEATH. There are in this place two Rectories and a vicarage. HUNTINGDON. Many SAMUEL BROOKS, B. D. years Fellow of Kath. Hall. Camb. He was turned out for refusing to take the Engagement. He was a learned man, a great school-divine, and a laborious tutor, who always had a numerous company of pupils of good rank. He died at an estate of his own in Essex. OVERTON Longvill. Mr. EDWARD SPINKS. He was also ejected at Castor in Northamptonshire, (a living reckoned worth 300l. per ann.) most probably at the Restoration, as it seems that living belongs to the Bp. of Peterborough. Which of the two was the sequestration doth not appear. Mr. Spinks was an able preacher, and a man of great note. After he was silenced, he lived near Mrs. Elmes, his wife's mother, who had a good estate, and made all nonconformist ministers welcome at her house. * ORTON (Cherry). Mr. GIBSON, M. A. He was many years Fellow of Pemb. Hall, Camb. and was presented to this parsonage, by that college, and it is one of the best belonging to it. It lies near Peterborough. Mr. Gibson was a good scholar, and an eminent preacher. -Mr. SCOTT. The place of his ejectment is uncertain. Mr. RICHARD KIDDER of Standground, after some time conformed, and was made Bishop of Bath and Wells. § He is well known as the author of a valuable work entitled "The Messiah." MINISTERS MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED IN KENT.* ADDISHAM [R.] Mr. CHARLES NICOLS. A clergyman in a MS. note says, "He only had some estate in this parish, but never was Rector. Dr. Du Montin had the living before the Restoration, and was collated a-new by Abp. Juxon. Nicols settled there after the Restoration, and held a meeting." Probably the place of his ejectment was Barming, as a person of this name is there mentioned.. ASH. Mr. WILLIAM NOKES. Of Camb. University, where he was cotemporary, and very intimate, with Dr. Stíllingfleet. After his ejectment he continued preaching here and there as opportunity offered, but died in a few years, He was esteemed a man of good abilities. § Hasted spells his name Noakes, and has the date 1659. ASHFORD [V.] Mr. NICOLAS PRIGG. (Hasted writes it SPRIGG.) He was a man of eminent abilities, and a celebrated preacher. He married one Mrs. Scott, with whose marriage-portion he bought some land, which maintained them after his ejectment. He was so melancholy for many years afterwards, that he was unable to preach. But he grew better, and at length died in comfort. BARHAM [Chapel, to the R. of Bishopsbourn.] Mr. JOHN BARTON. In the diary of Mr. Thoroughgood of Monkton, there is an account of some members of parliament, * Several additions, in this county, are communicated by Mr, Isaac James, particularly from HASTED'S History of KENT. and |