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2 Ike - L 1 iG E of the Part III money was all put into the hands of Mr. 7ho. Stalkya- tanle a. worthu fs.fficient Citizen in Breadlfreet, who undertook the care and Disburfement, for 1 never touche one penny ofit my fete, nor anyone for me : Nor did I think meet to make a publick Collectionfor it in theplace where I Preached. ) The Lady /rmine- -óo 1. (onher death-bed Sir John Maynerd -4a 1. Mr. Brooke Bridddes--zo I. Sir 'fames Lan - ham zo 1. (at firth time. ) The Conntefs of Clare -t o 1, The Conntefs of Tee- colonel - -61. The Lady Clinton-51. The Lady Eleanor Hollis - -5 1. The Conntefs of Warwickvol. 1. Mr. French---and Mr.Brandon ( Non conformableMinigers)--zo L The LadyRickards --5 1. -- -Mr. fleniy ( a Parliament man) 51.---Sir Edward Har- 1 - -so 1. --Mr. Richard Hambdon and Mr.'iohn his Son--81.--The Lady Fitcyames and her three Daughters---61.---Sir Richard Chiverton--t 1. Mrs Reighnolds r I. Alderman Henry Pfburlt and his Son-in -law Mr. Booth (the firth Undertakers) tooL Cptlefled amongall their City Friends, and Ours whom they thought meet to move in it. And thatwe might do the moregood, my Wife urged the Building of another Meeting-place inBloomsbury, for Mr. Read (to be furthered by my fometime help- him ) ; the Neighbourhood being very full of People, Rich and Poor, that could not came into the Parifh-Church, through the greatnefs of the Parilh (and Dr. Bozeman, the Parilh-Parfon, having not Preached, Prayed, Read, or Admini- Itred Sacraments thefe Three or Four Years. § 307. This Week Glue. 14.) many Bi(hops werewith the King, who, they fay, granted them his Commands to put the lows againit us in Execution : And on Tuefday about Twelve or Thirteen of them went to Dine with the Sheriff of London, Sir Nathanael Herne ; where thebnfinefs being mentioned, he told them, that they could not Trade with their Neighbours one Day, and fend them to Goal the next, S 3o8. Dr. Th. y, by his book called y'ufiftcatio Paulina conikrained me to Putililb Two BOOks to Vindication of the Truth and my felf, viz. Two Dif- potations of Original Sin, and a Treatife of Jultifying Righteoufnefs ; in which I poblilhcd my Old Papers to Mr. Chriftopher Cartwright. Dr. Tully prefently fell lick, and (toour common. Lofs) ehortly died. too. I was fo long wearied with keeping my Doors that agaief them that catnt to difrcin on my Goods for Preaching, that I was fain to go from my lfóofe , and to fell all my Goods, and to hide my Library firth, and after- wards to fell it; So that if Books had been my Treafüre, (and I vaned little móre an Earth) I bad been now without a treafisre. About Twelve Years I was driven an Plundred Miles from them ; and when I had paid dear for the Carriage after Two or Three Years 1 was forced to fell them. And the Prelates, to hinder ene from Preaching, deprived me alfo of thefe private Com- forts: But "Gçd fate that they were my Snare: We brought nothing into the World, aitel we muft carry nothing out. TheLofs isvery tolerable. § gso. I was the willinger to part with Goods, Books, andl all, that I might have nothiing,to be diftreined, and fo go on to Preach : And accordingly re- movingmy Dwelling to the New Chappel which 1 hadbuilt, I pnrpofed to ven- ture thereto Preach (there beingForty Thoufand Perfons in the PLrifh (as is fep- pofed). more than can hear in the Parifh-Church, who have no Place to go to for God's P,ublici Worlhip: So that I fet not up Church againft Chnrch, but preached to thofe that mutt elfe have none, being loth that London lhonldturn Atheifts , or lice worfe than Infidels. But When I had Preached there but Once, a Refolution was taken to Eirprize me the next Day, and fend me for Six Mouths to the Common Goal, upon the Aft for the Oxford Oath. Not heapwing of this, it being the hoteeft part of the Year, I agreed to go for a few Weeks into the Countrey Twenty Mites off: But the Night before I f%enld go, I fell fo ill, that I was fain to fend to difappoint both the Coach and. my intended Companion_ (Mr. rylvefler): And when I was thus fully refol- ved. Lo fray, it. ?leafed God, after the Ordinary Coach-Hour, that Three Men, from Three pacts of the City, met at my Doofe 'accidentally , jug at the fame time (alrsoft to a minute) of whom, if allyOne had not been there, I hadnet gone ; via. the Coachman again to urge me, Mr. Sylvelter, whom I" had putoff, and Dr. Coxe, who, compelled me, and told me, elfe he would carry me into the Coach. It proved a i becial merciful Providence of God ; for after One Weak of Languilhingand. Pain, I had Nine Weeks greater Eafe than ever I ex-

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