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decayed our pastor, and his straining his voice in prison to preach (which he would every Lord's-day) that the people who thered together under the prison walls might hear, (he being about four pair of stairs high from them) that when he came out of prison after the first sermon he preached abroad, he fainted away, and declined continually, till it hastened his day. He died Ap. 26, 1670, having faithfully served his Lord and master Jesus Christ near twenty years in this city. He was interred in James's yard, Ap. 29, accompanied with many hundreds to his grave. The like funeral had not been seen long before in Bristol. He left so good a savour behind, for faithfulness to God, and humility towards man, that his very chief persecutor, Sir John Knight, said, "He did believe he was gone to heaven.'

St. James's [R.] Mr. JOHN PAUL.

--St. Nicholas's [V. S.] Mr. RALPH FARMER. The old incumbent (Mr. Toogood) surviving, he presently gave place to him in 1660, and preached in another parish till Bartholomew, 1662. He then retired three miles out of town, and preached to the colliers at his own house at Hannam. He died about 1669. He published a piece against the Quakers, entitled, The Mystery of Godliness and Ungodliness.

Ratcliff Parish and St. Ewen's. Mr. MATTHEW HAZARD. A venerable old man. He was often sadly disturbed in the pulpit by the Quakers.

Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS. Of Oxford university. He was a minister and school-master in this city in Oliver's time, and he continued so afterwards, tho' he had no fixed place. He was tempted to conform by considerable offers in Wales, but refused to the last. He trained up many for the ministry. He died at Bristol in 1693.

We may here also mention some who lived in Bristol, tho' they had been ejected in other places; as

Mr. RICHARD BLINMAN, who had been minister of Chepstow, but whether ejected there or not is uncertain. Mather, in his Hist. of N. England, has this account of him, "After a faithful discharge of his ministry at Glocester and at New London, he returned into England; and living to a good old age, he who, wherever he came, did set himself to do good, concluded his life at the city of Bristol, where one of the last things he did was, to defend in print the cause of Infant

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Infant Baptism," in an Essay tending to issue the controversy. Part III. p. 213.

ICHABOD CHAUNCEY, M. D. He was chaplain to Sir Edward Harley's regiment at Dunkirk, when the UniformityAct took place. He afterwards became a physician in Bristol, and was of good note. He was prosecuted on the 35 Eliz. and upon that act suffered banishment. In 1684* he was compelled to abjure the realm, and removed himself and his family into Holland; but upon K. James's liberty, he returned to Bristol in 1686, and there died July 25, 1691. In 1684 was published in 4to. Innocence vindicated, by an impartial Narrative of the Proceedings of the Court of Sessions in Bristol against Ichabod Chauncey, physician of that city.

BRUTON [C. or D.] Mr. WILLIAM PARKER. An able, diligent and pious preacher; a man of great humility and peaceableness.

BUCKLAND, SAMUEL STODDEN. It is said, that after his ejectment he practised physic. However he did not lay asside the ministry. He was a laborious and exact preacher. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Walrond of Ottery. Mr. James Peirce, in his Western Inquisition, p. 44, intimates, that he altered his sentiments in the latter part of his life respecting some doctrines of Christianity; but this is contradicted in an answer to that piece.

WORKS. The Voice of the Rod.-A Supplement to the same.--The Pastor's Charge; and the People's Duty; preached at the Exeter Assembly, June 7, 1693;-Gemitus Sanctorum; or the Saint's Groans for Deliverance from the Body of Sin and Death; several sermons on Rom. vii. 24, 25. 1702.-An Answer to Mr. Burscough of Schism; and some other practical treatises.

CADBURY (North) [R. 3ool.] SAMUEL CRADOCK, B. D. Of Eman. Col. Camb. of which he was Fellow, and to which the presentation to North Cadbury belonged. When he kept the Batchelor of Divinity's act, at the public commencement in 1651, his performance was highly applauded, and reflected honour on his Puritan-college. What he left for the sake of his conscience, in quitting his valuable living

In the Church-book of Broadmead meeting, the date of his indictment is 9th April, 1664. He was sent to Newgate Aug. 15, where he was confined four months. But it was said, "The Doctor was very chearful under of Aug. he went privately to London in order to go to

"all. On the 29th "Holland."

Samuel Stodden

original Painting in the Possession of WE Stodden of Trull, near of Trull, near Tvuntea.