during his continuance among you, when he became, not able to carry on his wonted service among you. What you have done to him, you have done to a prophet of the Lord."

LONGSTOCK [V.] Mr. JOHN PINCKNEY. Of Magd. Hall, Oxford. He was of the ancient family of the Pinckneys, of Russel, near Marlborough. His father Mr. Philip Pinckney, was minister of Denton, in Wilts, between twenty and thirty years, having a small maintenance, but a large family. He had thirteen children, who lived to be men and women. From Denton he removed to Bemerton, near Sarum, (a good parsonage) and there he died, leaving behind him a good reputation for piety and learning. This son of his was observed in his tender years to be very religiously inclined. When he went to school, he was so diligent, that he attained to more than common skill in the Latin and Greek tongues, and especially the latter; insomuch that his master used often to boast of his young Grecian. He went to Oxford at the age of fourteen, where he studied so hard, that he often allowed himself, but four hours sleep. This however impaired his health, and brought him into an ill habit of body, which was afterwards a great hindrance to him in his work. When he first entered on the ministry, he succeeded his father at Denton, and afterwards at Bemerton: from whence, about half a year before the Restoration, he removed to Longstock, where he was much beloved, and found his preaching very successful. And here, in 1662, he was ejected.

He was very diligent in all the parts of ministerial service, and would not have left his place, if he could have satisfied his conscience as to the terms of conformity; for what estate he had, would do but little towards the maintaining himself, a wife and three children. After he was silenced, he continued with his family at Longstock, and attended on the ministry of his successor, whom he found to be an honest good-humoured man, but not very able to study two sermons a week; he therefore advised him one part of the day to adopt some good printed sermons, and lent him a volume for this purpose, the whole of which he delivered. While Mr. Pinckney was in this place, he not only taught his people by public preaching and catechizing, but instructed them privately from house to house; and in this way he continued to endeavour to promote serious piety, when he was denied the liberty of preaching in the church. They that were often in his

company observed, that he took a singular pleasure in talking of heaven, and in such discourse as might help men forward. in the way to it. The points which he chiefly insisted on, were not the comparatively little things that unhappily divide the christian church, but the essentials of religion; and particularly the divine original and authority of the holy scriptures, in the belief of which, he urged all to take care to be well established; and he endeavoured to help them in it, by discoursing in a manner suited to the capacities of those with whom he conversed. His extraordinary humility and exemplary meekness, procured him the good opinion of many fron whom he dissented. He was very seldom seen in any heat or commotion; and when he was, the affairs of religion were always the occasion. He ever discovered a most com-, passionate concern for the Jews, and upon all occasions prayed earnestly for their conversion. He died May the 6th, 1680, being about 67 years of age.

MICKELMARSH [R. 300l.] Mr. JAMES TERRY. He was a very popular preacher, and continued the exercise of his ministry at Odiham, in this county, gratis, till sickness disabled him. He died Sept. 23, 1680, aged 71. He left many children; the eldest of whom, Mr. Peter Terry, conformed, and was minister in New-Sarum, a prebendary in the cathedral there, and rector of Upper-Clatford, near: Andover.

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MOTTON. Mr. JOHN CROFTS. After his ejectment he was chaplain to Lady Fiennes, at Newtontony, in Wiltshire.

NEWPORT (in the Isle of Wight) Mr. ROBERT TutCHIN. He was so well beloved by the inhabitants of this town, that when he was turned out, they allowed him the same stipend as when he was their minister: so that they paid two ministers till his death. He had three sons, John, Robert and Samuel, all considerable men, and all silenced on the same day with himself. His successor, Mr. Goldsmith, preached his funeral sermon, and such was his respect for him, that he would not suffer him to be interred in the common burying-place, but ordered a grave for him within the church. It is supposed that this Mr. Tutchin is the person referred to in Hutchins's Note, as having been lecturer at Bridport. See WHITCHURCH.

ODIHAM [V.] Mr. SAMUEL TUTCHIN. He was the third son of Mr. Robert Tutchin, of Newport. After his ejectment he went to the East-Indies, and was chaplain to the factory, at Fort St. George. He died there, and was buried by the factory, and his grave was adorned with a monument. The company also settled an annual pension upon his widow after his death.

OVERTON [R.] Mr. THOMAS KENTISH. Of Pemb. Col. Oxf. He was the son of Mr. Thomas Kentish, who was cast out of Middleton, in the bishopric of Durham, soon after the Restoration. Upon his ejectment, he came to London, and was pastor of a society in Canon-street. He was taken at Mr. Janeway's, and for some time confined in the Marshalsea. He was a very serious, useful, friendly, candid person. He died in 1695, and was succeeded in his congregation by Mr. Thomas Reynolds. He left two sons in the ministry; the one in Southwark, and the other at Bristol; who neither of them long survived their father.

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PORTSEY [V.] WILLIAM BICKNEL, M. A. Of Oxford University. He was born at Farnham, in Surrey. When he left the university, he became assistant to Mr. Robert Tutchin, at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, and afterwards preached in Porstey island, from whence he was ejected in 1662. He lived afterwards at Farnham, and preached many years there and at Alton, as he could. Upon the Act of Toleration, he was chosen by the Dissenters of Farnham to be their pastor, and continued labouring among them till his death, in Feb. 1696. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Prince, of Ockingham. He was a man of good learning, and serious religion. A laborious, methodical, but plain preacher.. He carefully watched over his flock, and would wisely and seriously rebuke their miscarriages. He was a faithful friend, and in his whole deportment very sin-` cere and upright. He was free in discourse, and ready to give his advice wherever he thought it might be of use. He was a great sufferer for conscience-sake, which he bore with much patience. When he was reviled, he reviled not again.' He behaved like one who was very desirous that his 'moderation might be known unto all men.'

PORTSMOUTH [V.] Mr. BENJAMIN BURGESS. A wise man, and very active, especially at the time of the Restoration. He preached a famous sermon before the Parliament, at Westminster-abbey, in that juncture, which discovered remarkable prudence.

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*REANER [Q. Rowner.] Mr. GEORGE WHITMARSH. RIPLY Mr. UP-JOHN.

ROCKBORN [C. or D. 2001.] JOHN HADDESLEY, M. A. Of Corp. Chr. Col. Cambridge. "He was born at Wardt in Hertfordshire, in 1624. He was first minister of Poole in Dorsetshire, where he was committed to prison by Col. Read the governor, for refusing to observe a Thanksgivingday appointed by Cromwell. After he had been some time confined, there came down an order of council, requiring him to leave the town. Hereupon he went to Sir Thomas Trenchard's, and lived in his family till Rockborn parsonage was given him by Sir Wm. Darrington. Here he was ejected by the Act of uniformity, but he continued for some time to live in the parish. At the coming out of King Charles's Indulgence, he was chosen by the Dissenters at Salisbury to be one of their ministers; and there he continued the remaining part of his life. Soon after the Declaration was called in, he was seized in his own house, and committed by the mayor and recorder of the city to the common prison; but one of his friends very confidently asserting in all companies that Mr. Haddesley's imprisonment was illegal, a person who had a principal hand in it, was induced to consult with some who understood law better than himself, by whom he was told, that he could not answer for what he had done. Whereupon he sent privately to the keeper of the prison, and ordered him to let Mr. Haddesley out; which was done very silently, for the sake of those who committed him. This was a very seasonable deliverance; for his health was so much impaired by his confinement, that it is likely, if he had continued there much longer, it would have proved fatal.

Being set at liberty, he preached to his people as he had opportunity for several years; but in the latter end of K. Charles's reign, he very narrowly escaped being taken again, as he was preaching on a Lord's-day; but he was privately conveyed away, just before the assailants had forced open the doors of the meeting-place. Being disappointed, they vented their rage on the pulpit and seats, which they broke to pieces. After this he concealed himself, and was so nar

† WARD is in Hampshire. Perhaps the place intended is WARE.

rowly watched, that he was forced to leave his house for several months. But upon the liberty in 1687, he returned to his people and to his work. He usually preached twice every Lord's-day, and sometimes on the week-day also, till about eight months hefore his death; when the congregation called another minister to be co-pastor with him; after which he preached once a day, till within a week of his death. On June the 4th he preached with a very remarkable animation, and died the next Lord's-day morning, June 11th, 1699, in the 76th year of his age. He was very much of Mr. Baxter's sentiments in the quinquarticular points, and of a catholic healing spirit, with reference to church controversies. He was pious, prudent, and humble; had an excellent gift in prayer, and was a very useful preacher. But so excessively modest, as to be under some restraint when any of his bre thren were present, tho' they were much his inferiors.

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RUMSEY [V.] Mr. JOHN WARREN. [Probably a relation of Mr. Thomas Warren, who was ejected from Houghton, and who afterwards preached at this place.]

SELBORN [V.] JOHN FARROL, M. A. Fellow of Magd. Col. Oxford. He was a humble, peaceable, laborious divine; prudent and inoffensive in his conduct: Of a healthful constitution of body, and of a meek and even temper of mind. He did not much resent the injuries of his adversaries, nor was he soon cast down under the apprehension of trouble attending his duty. He was of an active disposition; and made his garden his diversion, when his labouring mind called for a relaxation from his studies, so as to become a noted botanist. After the Restoration, he voluntarily resigned this living to the former incumbent, as he was advised to do, and retired to Guilford in Surrey, where he boarded young gentlemen who went to the free-school. When the Corporation-oath was imposed, not being satisfied to take it, he removed to Farnham. On June 14, 1669, he was taken up near Godalming, and sent to the Marshalsea in Southwark, for being found within five miles of a corporation, and for preaching at Godalming. He continued six months in prison, and sometimes said, "That was one of the most comfortable "parts of his life, thro' the kindness of friends whom God "raised up to administer relief to him in his troubles." His enemies said, that they would not send him to prison again, because he lived better there than at home. Perhaps this might be one reason why the religious meetings in his own

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