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ADDENDA. 531 JOHN FOXCROPT, A. M. was educated in Magdalen-hall, Oxford, and afterwards minister at Gotham in Nottingham- shire ' where, according to Wood, he continued a puritanical preacher several years. Upon the commencement of the civil war, he joined the parliament, Was molested by the royal party, and chosen one of the assembly of divines, and he constantly attended. Removing to London, he became a frequent preacher in the city ; and he, preached sometimes before the parliament. One of his sermons is entitled, "The Good of a Good Government, and Well-grounded Peace, being a Fast Sermon before the House of Commons, on Isa. xxxii. 1, ."-1646.. RALPH MARSDEN was a pious minister of puritan prin- ciples at West Kirby in Cheshire, where he was succeeded by Mr. John Murcot, another puritan, who married his daughters He died minister of Great Neston in the same county, January 30, 1648. He had four sons in the minis- try ; Samuel, Jeremiah, Gamaliel, and Josiah, all silenced nonconformists at the restoration.# NICHOLAS DAILTON, A. B. was born in Cornwall, in 1603, and educated in Exeter college, Oxford. Having entered into holy orders, he became minister of Killesby in Northamptonshire. He was always accounted a puritan ; so that, on the commencement of the civil war, he joined the presbyterians, and espoused the cause of the parliament§ He published " The true and absolute Bishop, with the Converts Return unto him," 16,41.-" Ecclesia Anglicana ; . or, a clear and protestant Manifesto, as an evangelical Key sent to the Governor of Oxford, for the opening of the Church-doors there, that are shut up without prayers or preaching," 1649.-And " Several Sermons." HENRY Rononouthi was chosen one of the scribes to the assembly of divines, and, about the same time, appointed rector of St. Leonard's, East-cheap, London, which he held to his deathdi He was one of the committee of divines appointed to examineand ordain candidates for the ministryOf 4 Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. i. p. 827. + Ibid. vol. ii. p. 112. Palmer's Noncon. Mem, vol. i. p. 340. iii. 421, 436,475. § Wood's Athena, vol. ii. p. 68. 11 Ibid. p. 116. 4 Neal's Puritans, vol. iii. p. 140.

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