SHIPTON MOIGNE [R.] DANIEL CAPEL, M. A. Some time Fellow of Magd. Col. Oxf. He was a native of Gloucestershire, and the son of the eminent Mr. Richard Capel. Dr. Walker mentions him as ejected by the Oxford visitors. He was successively minister of Morton, Alderly, and Shipton, in this county. On parting with this living at the latter of these places, in 1662, he practised physic at Stroud, as long as he lived.

SLAUGHTER [R. there are two places of this name, Upper and Lower] Mr. JOHN KECK. It does not appear that he preached after his ejectment. He had a place in the Custom-house, in London.

SLIMBRIDGE [R. 287. 2s. 4d.] Mr. PETER GUILLIAM. He was ejected at the Restoration, and died soon afterwards.

STOW in the Would [R.] Mr. WILLIAM BEAL. He died in London not long after his ejectment.

STOWEL [R.] Mr. THOMAS JORDAN.

STROUD. Mr. BUTT.

TEWKSBURY. Mr. JOHN WELLES. Of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, where he was colleague with Mr. Clement Barksdale, to whom he was a most eager opponent in the disputation (before mentioned, in the preceding page) at Winchcomb, in 1653. It is to be wished that something better could have been related concerning him. ED.

THORNBURY [V. 25l. 15s. 8d.] Mr. HAINE. He was brother to Major General Haine.

WESCOT [R.] Mr. EDWARD ROGERS. He was ejected also at Medley, in Herefordshire. Probably one of the two was a sequestered living; but it is uncertain which of them. He was afterwards at Chelmsford, in Essex, and died pastor of a congregation there,

WESTERLEIGH [C.] Mr. RICHARD FOWLER. He was father to Dr. Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester. He had another son who lived and died a Nonconformist minister. He was a great man, both in ministerial abilities and labours.

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WESTON (Sub-edge) [R. S.] Mr. RICHARD COOPER. In the year 1648, he subscribed the testimony of the ministers in this county, as minister of Tewkesbury. § He is mentioned by Atkins, at this place.

WHITMINSTER [V.] See MORTON VALANCE.

*** WILLERSLEY [R. S.] M. RICHARD FLAVEL. Father of Mr. John Flavel, of Dartmouth. He was an eminent and laborious minister, first at Broomsgrove, and then at Hasler, in Worcestershire; from whence he removed to this place, where he continued till 1660, when the old incumbent was restored. The loss of this living didnot so much affect him as his want of a fixed place for the exercise of his pastoral function. He lived some time with his son at Dartmouth. A little before the Bartholomew ejectment, being near Totness, in Devonshire, he preached on Hos. vii. 6. The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence 6 are come; Israel shall know it.' The application of this sermon was so close, that it offended some of his hearers, and occasioned his being carried before a justice of the peace; but they could not convict him, so that he was discharged. He afterwards quitted this country, and came to London; where he continued in the faithful and acceptable discharge of his office, till the time of the plague in 1665; when he was taken and imprisoned in the manner following:-He was at Mr. Blake's house, in Covent-garden, where some good people had met privately for worship. While he was at prayer, a party of soldiers broke in upon them, with their swords drawn, and demanded their preacher; threatening some, and flattering others; but in vain. Some of the company threw a coloured cloak over Mr. Flavel, and in this disguise he was carried, with his hearers, to Whitehall. The women were dismissed; but the men were detained, and forced to lie all night upon the bare floor; and because they would not pay five pounds each, were inhumanly sent to Newgate, where the plague dreadfully raged. Here Mr. Flavel, and his wife, who went with him, were seized with this distemper. They were bailed out, but they both died.*

*The above account of Mr. Richard Flavel is extracted from the Life of his Son, Mr. John Flavel.

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Of thirty-eight persons taken and committed at the same time, nine died of the plague in Newgate, and nine or ten more after their discharge. In the same year, while the king and parliament were at Oxford, many of the old officers were clapped up, and several Nonconformists with them, (of whom old Mr. Flavel was one) upon pretended suspicion of a plot. It was suggested to the court, that while the city was forsaken by reason of the sickness, and the parliament on that account sitting elsewhere, the malecontents might take that as an opportunity to give some disturbance to the government; and that therefore it was adviseable to be beforehand with them. But neither in Mr. Flavel's case, nor the case of others, who suffered at that time, and on that occasion, was there any thing like a proof of guilt.

He was an affectionate preacher; [and a man of such extraordinary piety, that those who conversed with him said, they never heard a vain word drop from his lips.] He had another son besides him of Dartmouth, viz. Mr. Phineas Flavel, who was chaplain in the family of the right honourable Edward Lord Russell. It doth not appear that he ever had any settled congregation. He preached occasionally about London, and died in Westminster. He printed, The deceitful Heart tried and cast.

WINCHCOMB. Mr. CAMSHAW HELMES. After his ejectment he came to London, and died pastor of the church which was formerly Mr. Freak's. Dr. Walker relates something to his disadvantage, which may be as true as some other of his stories, which, upon enquiry, are found not to have the least shadow of a foundation.

WITCOMB. Mr. GRETORIX. There are two Rectories in this town.

WOOTON under Edge [V.] Mr. BODIN. After his ejectment he for some time preached privately at Bath. YANWORTH A Chapelry to Hasleton) Mr. FISHER.

Mr. JOSHUA HEAD. The place of his ejectment is uncertain. He afterwards preached at Bourton on the Water. He was a worthy man, of the Baptist denomination. Crosby has nothing to add to this short account, which he quotes from Calamy, nor any reflection to make upon it.

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The following persons afterwards conformed:

Mr. WILLIAM MEW, of Easington. He preached his farewell sermon, as the rest of the ejected ministers did; but on the Lord's-day following, he read, "I A. B. do declare "my unfeigned assent and consent, &c." without mentioning his own name. A minister (from whom the author had it) discoursing afterwards with him, told him that he must also go to the bishop, and subscribe as well as read; to which he replied, That by his subscription he should only declare that he did read, “Í A. B. &c." This [shameful equivocation] brought in him, who had been one of the Assembly at Westminster. Mr. BRITON, of Biesley, and several others of this county, to their great reproach, followed upon like grounds.

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Mr. ALWAY, of Upper-Grayling.-Mr. FIDO, of ColdAston. Mr. HALL, of Beverston. Mr. NATH. HALL, of Avening.-Mr. SHENE or SHEVE, of Old-Sodbury.-Mr. C. SUMNER, of Alveston.-Mr. BARNSDALE, of Frampton. Mr. JOHN LEE, of Barnsley, all conformed.

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HAMPSHIRE.

LRESFORD [R.] Mr. TAYLOR. Whose character and history are now irrecoverably lost.

BADDESLEY. Mr. LANCASTER. All that is now known concerning him is,. that he was a person of eminent skill in the Oriental languages. N. B. There are in this county two places of the name of Baddesley.

WORKS, Vindicia Evangelicæ ; or a Vindication of the Gospel, yet with the Establishment of the Law, &c.

BEADLEY. Mr. SAMUEL JEFFERSON.

BINSTED [Chap. to Alton.] Mr. JOHN YATES.

BISHOP'S STOKE [R. 2001.] Mr. HENRY Coxe. Of Pemb. Col. Oxford. He was cast out to make way for Mr. T. Gawen, who is owned by Dr. Walker, to have been a Papist (Attempt, part ii. p. 77.) Whether it was in 1660 or 1662, the Dr. and Mr. Anthony Wood are not agreed. Mr. Core, after his ejectment, retired to a farm-house called Boyett Farm, in the parish of South Stoneham, where his old friends and hearers resorted to him, and there he preached to them some years. Upon the Five-mile-act, he removed to Botly, and afterwards to Southampton. While he lived in this latter place, he preached about a mile out of town, towards Stoke, and there also many of his old people attended him, among whom he continued his labours to his death. He was buried at Stoke church. From the inscription on his grave-stone, it appears that he died June 13, 1679, aged 56. He was an agreeable preacher, a courteous man, of good address, and congregational in his judgment.

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