cise moderation, he would frustrate the hopes of many worthy persons, considering the good character that was given of him, &c. Mr. Frankland afterwards went, by his desire, to make him a visit; when he treated him with great civility, and shewed him the petition that was drawn up against him, aud the number of subscribers to it. After this, tho' a fresh citation was sent from the ecclesiastical court, a prohibition was sent down to stop the proceedings. Still however his troubles were renewed and continued. And indeed it was observed, that from the Revolution in 1688, there was scarcely a year in which he had not some fresh troubles, till by his death God delivered him out of them all.

BOWDEN. Mr. ROBERT PLEASANCE. After his ejectment he never would preach to a greater number than the Act against conventicles allowed. He had a pretty good estate, and left some considerable legacies for the support of the gospel.

COTHAM. Mr. KIPLIN.

DURHAM (City) ST. NICHOLAS, [C.] Mr. JONATHAN DEVEREAUX. He died soon after his ejectment.

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HELVETH PARISH in the same city. Mr. HOLDS

ELWICK [R.] Mr. JOHN BOWY. He was a native of Scotland, and when he was silenced here, he returned to his own country.

GATESHEAD. St. Mary's [R. 27l. 13s. 8d.] Mr. THOMAS WELD. His living was in the bishopric, tho' parted from the town of Newcastle only by the river. He was turned out by Mr. Ladler, who had a dormant presentation to the living from Bishop Morton. He had been formerly minister at Terling, in Essex ; but not submitting to the ceremonies, the place was too hot for him, and he was forced to quit it, and go over to New-England. Whether he returned or not doth not appear. He is not mentioned by Cotton Mather, otherwise than by an occasional reference to the first of his books, and in a list of Graduates, in Harvard College, 1671.

WORKS. The Rise, Reign and Ruin of Antinomianism, &c. in New-England.-An Answer to W. R.'s Narration of the Opinions and Practices of the Churches lately erected in NewN 3.

England,

England, vindicating those Churches.-He, with three others, wrote The Perfect Pharisee under Monkish Holiness, against the Quakers. He also, with Mr. Samuel Hammond, &c. was concerned in a tract, intit. A False Jew, &c. upon the Discovery of a Scot, who first pretended to be a Jew, and then a Baptist, but was found to be an impostor.

HARTLEPOOL [V.] Mr. BoWEY.

HEIGHINGTON [V.] Mr. SQUIRE.
JARROW. Mr. FRANCIS BATTY.

KELLOW [R. 20l.] Mr. THOMAS DIXON. He was in a tumultuous manner turned out of his church by one Pearson, whom Dr. Cozens, then Bishop of Durham, had presented to the place, and afterwards continued a Nonconformist.

LAMSLEY. Mr. THOMAS WILSON. He was, as is supposed, the son of Mr. Thomas Wilson, a native of Cumberland; a very eminent minister, whose life is published in Clark's last volume of Lives, and who died in the year 1657, leaving ten children, He had several removals, and it doth not appear where this his son was born or educated.-After K. Charles's Indulgence, in 1672, he and Mr. Robert Leaver (formerly of Bolam, in Northumberland) for two years carried on a meeting for divine worship, in his house, preaching by turns to all that came.-Mr. Wilson, in the latter part of his life, was afflicted with such violent pains, either of the stone, or some other complaint about the urinary passage, that he was utterly disabled for service, and was rendered an object of great compassion.

MIDDLETON [R. 2001.] Mr. THOMAS KENTISH. He was betimes thrown out of his place, and severely harrassed soon after the Restoration; of which a narrative was printed in 1662. He brought up three sons to the ministry, and died in London full of years.

NORTON [V.] Mr. BROUGH.

Great STAINTON [R. 300l.] WILLIAM PELL, M. A. Of Magd. Col. Oxf. Born at Sheffield, in Yorkshire, and sent to the college in 1650, of which he was afterwards chosen a Fellow. He had formerly been at Easington, to which the old incumbent returned in 1660, and was ejected from Stainton, in 1662. He was a tutor at Durham, when Oliver

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Oliver was attempting to set up a university there. After his ejectment, being occasionally at Durbam on a Lord's-day, he preached in a house not far from a tavern, where some justices of the peace were drinking together, who overheard the people as they were singing a psalm. Thereupon one of the company made a motion to go and disturb them. To which another replied, "That if any of them thought in "their consciences, that singing psalms and hearing a sermon upon such a day, was a more improper employment than drinking in a tavern, they might go and make them for"bear; but that for his own part he would not be one of "them" and so the proposal was quashed. However, some time after, Mr. Pell was imprisoned at Durham for his Nonconformity; but removed himself to London by an Habeas corpus, and was set at liberty by judge Hale. He then retired to the northern parts of Yorkshire, and practised physic. Afterwards he preached publicly at Tattershal, in Lincolnshire, as Mr. Young had done before him; and by being entertained in the earl of Lincoln's family as a steward, he was preserved from the violence that others met with, and to which he had otherwise been exposed.

Upon K. James's liberty he was called to a congregation at Boston. After seven years continuance there he removed to Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was assistant to Dr. Gilpin; and there he finished his labours. His friends often urged him to teach academical learning, for which he was wonderfully qualified; but they could not prevail with him, because of the oath he had taken at the university, at his commencing M. A. None that knew him could, without the greatest injustice, deny him the character of a very learned pious man, and a grave solid preacher. He was particularly eminent for his skill in the Oriental languages. He had three reams of paper bound up, purely for collections out of eastern authors; but they were unfinished, thro' the many disturbances and avocations which attended his unsettled con. dition. He would repeat off hand the various readings and interpretations of scripture given by Jewish writers. Indeed he was fit to have been professor of the Oriental languages, in any university in Christendom. In preaching and praying he was excelled by few. He died in Dec. 1698, aged 63. He often preached in London, where he providentially became acquainted with one Mr. Pell, a merchant, who was very kind to him for his name's sake.

WASHINGTON [R. 1307.] Mr. WILLIAMSON. WEREMOUTH (Bishop's) [R. 200l.] Mr. GRAves. WITTON GILBERT. Mr. HUTTON.

The following afterwards conformed :

Mr. JOHN WELD, of Riton, son to Mr. T. Weld, of Gateshead.-Mr. RICHARD BATTERSBY, of Haughton.Mr. LUKE COATES, of Sedberg, who afterwards had a living in Yorkshire. Mr. JOSIAH DOCKWRAY, of Lanchester, afterwards LL.D.-Mr. JOHN KID, of Ridmarshal.-Mr. SCOT, of Wickham.-Mr. JOHN BERWICK, of Stanhope. afterwards lecturer of St. Nicholas's church, in Newcastle. -Mr. BICKERTON, of Wolsingham, the same.-Mr. PARISH, of Darlington, afterwards in Yorkshire.—Mr. JOHN TIMSON, of Hellen's Aukland.-Mr. THOMAS BOYER, of Mugglewick.-Mr. DANIEL BUSHEL, of Eglescliffe.

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BREY-HATCH. Mr. KIGHTLY. § Nothing more can now be ascertained concerning him than that, after his ejectment, he preached at Billericay, in this county, where there has long been, and still is, a considerable body of Dissenters. It does not appear that his name occurs in Newcourt's Repertorium Eccles, or that it was subscribed to either of the papers so often referred to in the accounts of the ministers in this county: viz. The Testimony of the Essex Ministers, printed in 1648; and the Essex Watchman's Watch-word, in 1649.* This however was the case with several others, concerning whom there is no doubt of their having been ejected in this county. Many came to their livings after that period, and some refused to subscribe any paper. See the account of Mr. Cole, at Wethersfield.

ALPHAMPSTON [R.] Mr. SAMUEL BRINSLEY. Some time Fellow of St. John's Col. Camb. He was a pious and laborious minister of Christ. After his ejectment he resided

* Dr. Calamy generally takes notice whether the ministers ejected in this county are mentioned by Newcourt or not, and whether or not they subscribed either of the above papers. The editor of this work has not generally introduced these circumstances, unless they appeared of importance to ascertain their true names, or the length of time they had been in their livings. In this county there is an unusual number of mere names of persons and places. But this is a defect in the original work: nothing of any moment contained in that being here omitted. Some small articles are now inserted which were not in the former edition; but few additions of any moment have been communicated or could be procured.

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