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THE

FRUITS OF ENDOWMENTS;

BEING

A LIST OF WORKS OF UPWARDS OF TWO THOUSAND AUTHORS,
WHO HAVE, FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT TIME, ENJOYED
PREBENDAL OR OTHER NON-CURE ENDOWMENTS OF

THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND.

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US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, AND OUR FATHERS THAT BEGAT US. THE LORD HATH WROUGHT
GREAT GLORY BY THEM THROUGH HIS GREAT POWER FROM THE BEGINNING. SUCH AS DID BEAR
RULE IN THEIR KINGDOMS, MEN RENOWNED FOR THEIR POWER, GIVING COUNSEL BY THEIR UNDER-
STANDING, AND DECLARING PROPHESIES: LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE BY THEIR COUNSELS, AND BY
THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF LEARNING MEET FOR THE PEOPLE, WISE AND ELOQUENT IN THEIR INSTRUC
TIONS. RICH MEN FURNISHED WITH ABILITY, LIVING PEACEABLY IN THEIR HABITATIONS: ALL THESE
WERE HONOURED IN THEIR GENERATIONS AND WERK THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES."---ECCI.. xliv. 1--7.

"BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM."-MATT. vii, 20.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. M'DOWALL, PEMBERTON ROW,

GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET.

M.DCCC.XL.

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