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Memoirs of the life and writings of Mr. William Whiston : containing memoirs of several of his friends also / written by himself.

  • William Whiston
Date:
1753
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Credit: Memoirs of the life and writings of Mr. William Whiston : containing memoirs of several of his friends also / written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eighty-feven or eighty-eight years of age, I remem¬ ber to have heard thefe few things only, viz. That he was under the famous Camden, fecond mailer of Weftminfler fchool j that he refufed to read king Charles's Book of Sports on the lord’s day ^ how¬ ever, when he heard he was beheaded, he fell a weeping ; and that in his very old age, when he went to bed he ufed to fay; I go to my bed as to my ,grave. Now rny father had been admitted into Queen's college, Oxford3 tho5 he did not I believe flay there long. He had been approved by Peter Watkinfon, moderator, and feven others of the claffical preibytery at Wirkfworth, in the province of Derby, and ordained a preaching prefbyter June 21, 1653, by failing, and prayer, and impofition of hands. He was after the reiteration kept in his living of Norton by the favour and intereft of Mr, Merrey, his great friend of Gopjhill, in his neigh¬ bourhood ; and was Inflituted into that living by faiihop Sanderfon^ November 9, 1661. He was married to Mrs. Katherine Roffe^ May 13, 1657, by Mr. Francis Shute, ajuftice of peace at Upton; as was the practice at that time. The originals of all which inferuments I have now by me. However, finee there is fornewhat very remarkable relating to my father, in a note I lately made upon a paffage in Sir William Dug dale's Short View of the late Frou¬ bles of England, page 473, I (hall here add that note. He there lets down my father’s name in a lift of clergymen of the county of Leicefter, that addrefs’d fare of Ills notions by the convocation; arid his profecution be¬ fore the court of Delegates, and its upfhot are here omitted ; as already at, large publifhed after his Hiforical Preface, pre¬ fixed to the firit of his four Volumes of Primitive Christi¬ anity Revived, with fome additions there ; and at the end of the Yth Volume. Where the reader will find compleat ac¬ counts of them all. See alfo the Memoirs of Dr. Clark’s Life, per tot. and many other places of his writings hereafter fpedfied.
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