532 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. and he united with his brethren, the London ministers, in their declaration against the king's death.. The profits of printing the Directory being given to him and Mr. Byfield, the other scribe to the assembly, they are said to have sold the copy-right for several hundred pounds.i. Mr. Roborough died in the year 1650, and was succeeded in his living by Mr. Matthew Barker, one of the silenced nonconformists in 16624 ABRAHAM PEIRSON was born in Yorkshire, where he probably laboured in the ministry, but was driven by the severity of the times to New England. On his arrival, about the year 1640, he was invited to be first pastor of the church at Southampton on Long Island, where he continued about eight years. He then removed, with part of the church, to Brainford, where he probably continued the rest, of his days. He left behind him the character of a pious and prudent man, and a true child ofAbraham.§ HOwEL VAUGHAN was a pious minister, of the baptist denomination, in Wales. A baptist church having been formed at Olchon, about the year 1633, which is said to have been the first separate church in Wales, Mr. Vaughan, being one of its members, was chosen to the pastoral office. His name was Vaughan, but wrote by some Ychan, or Fychan, which is the Welsh spelling of Vaughandi He attended the associations of ministers in the Principality ; and his name is among those who signed the minutes of the association at Abergavenny, in the year 1653.5 ROBERT MATON, A. M. was born at Tudworth in Wilt- shire, in the year 1597, and educated at Wadham college, Oxford. Having entered upon the ministerial work, he was probably beneficed in his native county. He was a zealous millenarian ; and upon the commencement of the civil wars, the press being open, he published his sentiments to the world in the following articles:-" Israel's Redemption ; or, a Prophetical History of our Saviour's Kingdom on Earth," I642.-" A Discourse of Gog and Magog, or the Battle of Calamy's Contin. vol. ii. p. 749. + Fuller's Church Hist. b. xi. p.222. t Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. i. p. 196. § Mother's Hist. of New England, b. iii. p. 95. II Thomas's MS. Materials, p. 11. 5 Thomas's MS. Hist. p. 45.
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