Volume 1

The works theological, medical, political, and miscellaneous : of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S. With memoirs of the life of the author / by John Disney.

  • Jebb, John, 1736-1786.
Date:
1787
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    reputation of the univerlity of Cambridge, was referved for a private gentleman, except his election into the fmall living of Oving- ton, before-mentioned. On July lo, 1769, he was inftituted to the vicarage of Flixton, near Bungay, in Suffolk, on the prefenta- tion of William Adair, efq. of Flixton-hall. And, on the 4th of April, 1770, was infti- tuted to the united redories of Homersfield, and St. Crofs, parlfhes contiguous to Flix- ton, upon the fame prefentation. Being alfo, in the fummer of the fame year, no- minated chaplain to Robert earl of Harbo- rough. In confequence of the acceflion of thefe preferments, though not confiderable in themfelves, he refigned, fome time in the month of Odober, 1771, the redory of Ovington, which he had received from the univerfity; and Mr. Sheepfhanks, fellow of St. John’s college, was eleded in his place. The fummer of 1770, he again fpent at Bungay, and was chiefly employed in per- feding his harmony of the gofpels, and in fuperintending a houfe of induftry, then lately eflablifhed in his neighbourhood in Suffolk. Dr.
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