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his publications, it should seem that he took his degrees in medicine; and it is probable practised it occasionally after his retirement in the country. A catalogue of his publications, as far as they can be ascertained, shall be inserted below. (1)

After the dissolution of Mr. Rudd's society, the meetinghouse was engaged by Mr. John Wesley. In his journal for the year 1743, he has the following paragraph: August 6. A convenient chapel was offered me in Snow'sfields, on the other side the water. It was built on purpose,

(1) WORKS.-1. A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Martha Clarke, who died June 14, 1729-30, preached at Devonshire-square.-2. An Elegy on the Death of the Rev. John Noble. 1730.-3. A Sermon on the Death of Mr. Matthew Madden, preached in Devonshire-square, January 16, 1731.-4. An Essay towards a new Explication of the Doctrines of the Resurrection, Millennium and Judgment; being the Substance of several Discourses on the 20th Chapter of the Revelation by St. John. vol. 1. 1756.-5. Three Letters to the Calvinistical Board; the first remonstrating on the Difference subsisting between that Body and the Author, with Proposals for an Accommodation. The Second, containing important Reflections on the Minute received from those Ministers, as an Answer to his first Letter. Aud the last, occasioned by their uncharitable and false Insinuations, concerning the Author's Application to the Quakers, and his Attempts of Conformity to the National Church. 1737.-6. Two anniversary Sermons for the first of August, 1736 and 1737.-7. A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Elizabeth Ginn, who deceased June 11, 1738, in the 60th year of her age.-8. The Mediator; an anniversary Sermon at Snow's-fields. 1738.-9. A Defence of the plain Account of the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper. Anon. 1741.-10. A Negative to that Question, Whether is the Archangel Michael our Saviour? explained and defended. An Argument designed to prove the real Humanity of Christ. To which are annexed, Observations for illustrating the Doctrine of those Appearances under the Old Testament which are generally termed Angelical: Together with a full Interpretation of such of those Narratives as are particularly referred to by the Author of the "Essay on Spirit." In a Letter to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Clogher. 8vo. 1753.-11. ПPОAPOMOƐ: or, Observations on the English Letters. Being an Attempt to Reform our Alphabet, and regulate our Manner of Spelling, particularly in such words as admit the Aspiration. Written originally for the Use of Messrs. Norris and Randolph. 1755.

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seems, by a poor Arian misbeliever, for the defence and propagation of her bad faith. But the wisdom of God brought that device to nought, and ordered by his overruling providence, that it should be employed, not for crucifying the Son of God afresh, but for calling all to believe on his name." The society in this place, having embraced many extravagant sentiments concerning perfection, chiefly through the agency of George Bell, one of their preachers, proceeded in a manner rather unbecoming persons who had attained to perfection.-They excluded their spiritual father, John Wesley, from their society, and engaged THOMAS MAXFIELD, who had espoused Bell's notions, to be their stated preacher. This was in 1763, and in the following year, Mr. Wesley opened another place in the same neighbourhood, where he is said to have had a numerous congregation. The above division, however, was a great blow to him, as it occasioned him a loss of no less than six hundred of his members. Mr. Maxfield, after preaching about two or three years in Snow's-fields, removed to Rope-makeralley, Moorfields, and from thence to Princes-street, where he closed his labours.

Mr. Maxfield was succeeded about the year 1767, by Mr. THOMAS CHARLTON, who had been a Methodist preacher, and was very popular. During the former part of his ministry here, he used a surplice, and read the church prayers; but these, after a time, he dropt, and embracing the sentiments of the Baptists, was baptized by Mr. Hughes, about 1772. After this, he still continued his ministry at Snow's-fields till removed by death, Dec. 19, 1774, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Towers, and afterwards published together with an oration at his interment, and contains a particular account of his dying experience, and religious character. Mr. Charlton is said to have been a very valuable and useful minister in his station, and is respectfully noticed by Mr. Toplady, as the means of awaken

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ing his aged father.* Mr. Charlton published a sermon on the death of the Rev. John Hughes, preached at Jewinstreet, June, 1773.

Mr. Charlton's successor was Mr. JOSEPH CARTWRIGHT, who preached here for several years. At this period he was a Baptist, but afterwards attempted to get into the national church, which not being able to effect, he took a place in Lant-street, where he read the common-prayer, and preached till his death.

After the departure of Mr. Cartwright, the people chose Mr. MARTIN READY, of the Baptist denomination, for their pastor. After a time, he declined preaching, and opened a school at Peckham in Surry, where he died suddenly on Monday, Feb. 11, 1805, aged fifty-one years.

Mr. Ready was succeeded by a Mr. MANSIL, who preached here several years. He was of the Arian persuasion, and wrote two or three pieces against the doctrine of the Trinity. Since his time, the meeting-house in Snow'sfields has been occupied by the Welch Calvinistic Methodists.+

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PARTICULAR BAPTIST.- -EXTINCT.

THIS is one of those places, occupied by the Baptists in

the early times of their history, of which but little information can be now obtained. It is not improbable that it may have belonged to some congregation already noticed in this work, perhaps to Mr. Wilcox's, mentioned under the article

* Toplady's posthumous Works, p. 119.

+ Private information.

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THREE CRANES. In an old manuscript we find mention made of a Mr. Warburton, who preached near Tooleystreet in 1695. He was a Baptist, and was living in September, 1708; but must have been dead before 1711, as in the same manuscript, the church is there said to be under the care of a Mr. Warren. We know nothing of either of these persons, nor are certain that they preached at this place; but it is not improbable. Maitland notices it in his list of licensed meeting-houses in 1738.

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MAZE-POND, and the surrounding neighbourhood were

in former times occupied by a palace belonging to the Abbots of Battle. It was their city mansion, to which they used to resort when they attended their duty in Parliament. These Abbots maintained a bridge called " Battle Bridge," lying over a water-course, that passed through their grounds over the river Thames. The name is still preserved in Battlestairs. The several streets raised upon this estate, which bear the name of the Mazes, or Maeses, were so called from the luxuriant windings and intricacies in the magnificent gardens of those mitred priests.

The church now meeting in Maze-Pond assembled originally in an old wooden building, in Flower-de-luce Court, Tooley-street. It originated in a separation from Benjamin Keach's church in Goat-street, Horsleydown, occasioned by a difference of opinion amongst his people upon the subject of singing in public worship, which Mr. Keach had in

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troduced. Those who disapproved of that religious service withdrew in 1691, and formed themselves into a separate church. In a short time they chose for their pastor a Mr. Samuel Mee, and were admitted into the body of Particular Baptist churches. They continued to adhere stedfastly to the principle of their original constitution till after the death of Mr. Edward Wallin, when Mr. West, who was chosen to succeed him, in 1736, made it a condition of his accepting the pastoral office, that singing should form a part of the public worship. The present meeting-house was built for the elder Mr. Wallin, and opened a few years before his death. It is a neat, substantial brick-building, with three galleries, and has a burial-ground adjoining, where are interred the former pastors, together with a considerable num-ber of persons of the Baptist denomination. The church has long been in a flourishing state, and may vie with the most respectable congregations of the same persuasion. The ministers who have served the society as pastors have been as follows:

SAMUEL MEE.--Of this person we possess but slender information. He was the first pastor of this society, and most probably had been a member of Mr. Keach's church. His name occurs in the list of Baptist churches that joined the general assembly in London, in 1691. His worldly circumstances appear to have been in a low state, for we find