CARTMEL. Mr. PHILIP BENNET. He subscribed * the Harmonious Consent of the ministers in this country, in 1648, as minister of Ulvertson.

Mr. CAMERFORD, before mentioned as ejected in this neighbourhood. His name was Gabriel. See STAVELY, Westmoreland.

CHORLEY. Mr. HENRY WELSH. A very humble, mortified man. Tho' he did not excel in gifts, it was made up in grace. His very enemies had nothing to say against him. He was of so blameless a conversation, that most gentlemen had a good word for him; and was esteemed so faithful, that Mr. Standish of Duxbury (a person of great estate) left the tuition of his children to him, after his own and his wife's death. And he discharged his civil as well as ministerial trust so faithfully, that the most critical adversary had nothing to lay to his charge. He died in 1665, aged 64.

CHOWBENT Chapel, in Leigh parish. Mr. JAMES WOODS. He was the son of Mr. JAMES WOODs of Ashton. He followed his father's steps, and imbibed his spirit. § He continued pastor to a congregation of dissenters here many years, and had a son who succeeded him. The Woods preached here above a century. J. O.

COCKEY Chapel. Mr. JOHN LEAVER. Of Braz. No. Col. Oxf. Born in Bolton, and brought up in the free-school there. His father was a Papist. How he himself became a Protestant does not appear. He was a man of great integrity, and a useful preacher. In 1672 he preached to a good number in his own house; and after K. Charles's Act of indulgence, he kept an open meeting in Bolton, where he administered the Lord's-supper every month to some hundreds. He was silenced in 1662, and died July 4, 1692, aged 58. He was succeeded by Mr. Robert Seddon.

CROFTON. Mr. Law. He was only an Assistant here or at Ecclestone.

CROSBY. Mr. JAMES HIET. He was a native of London, and was educated at Cambridge. He had been minister

*N. B. Dr. Calamy in the Contin. observes of most of the ministers in this county, that they subscribed this paper; which circumstance is here omitted. except when, as in the case above, their subscription discovers the place they were in at the time.

here many years when he was ejected in 1662. He had been: before ejected for refusing the Engagement, which was the case of many others in this county. He died in 1664, about 70 years of age, leaving no children. He was an able preacher, had a considerable estate, and was given to hospitality.

DALTON, near Lancaster. [V.] Mr. THOMAS WHITEHEAD. A pious, laborious and faithful minister, who studied to do good in his place, and preached as often as he could to his people after his ejectment. He died in Feb. 1679, aged 73; and Mr. Benson succeeded in his congregation.

DEAN. [V.] JOHN TILSEY, M. A. Of the university of Glasgow. He was born in Lancashire. When he left Scotland he preached with Mr. Horrocks at Dean church, and was to him like Timothy to Paul, a son in the gospel. He possessed uncommon abilities: a retentive memory, which made whatever he read his own; a solid judgment, a ready invention, a fluent delivery, and warm affections. He was very strict in his life, free and familiar in conversation, and eminently charitable: Of a bold and active spirit, fearing nothing when once satisfied as to the grounds upon which he proceeded. When the assembly of Boston had suspended a prophane and dissolute preacher at Rochester, and most others were afraid to preach at the place and declare the suspension, Mr. Tilsley readily went, and did it with great courage, yet with a becoming candour and meekness. He succeeded Mr. Horrocks at Dean; where he was ejected no less than three times. The first, for refusing the Engagement, but he was soon restored. The second, by the Act of uniformity in 1662. After which, tho' he forbore preaching, he continued in the house adjoining to his church, which being in the hands of trustees, was still allowed him. When the excellent Dr. Wilkins became Bp. of the diocese, he allowed him to preach in his church again as lecturer, when the new vicar read the prayers. When the Bp. was dead, he was indicted at the assizes for his Nonconformity, and by the influence of several gentlemen in the neighbourhood, ejected a third time, in 1678. He spent the rest of his days in a private life at Manchester, where he died, Dec. 12, 1684, aged 60. Tho' his abilities were such as seldom meet in one man, such was his modesty, that he was not sufficiently satisfied with his own performances to print any thing. He preached funeral

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DENTON. Mr. JOHN ANGIER. Of Eman. Col. Camb. He was born at Dedham in Essex, and lived some time with Mr. John Cotton at Boston in Lincolnshire. His first settled ministerial work was at Ringley. He had episcopal ordination from Dr. Lewis Bayly, author of The Practice of Piety, who ordained him without subscription. Being a Nonconformist to the ceremonies, he had some adversaries, who brought many complaints against him to Dr. Bridgman, Bp. of Chester, who lived near him at Great Leaver. Upon which he sent for Mr. Angier, and gently expostulated with him, expressing great respect for him. The Bishop's wife, being at that time under great trouble of conscience, frequently conversed with Mr. Angier, who was an instrument of much good to her by his counsels and prayers. His lordship however, on the pressing solicitations of Abp. Laud, was forced to suspend him. After continuing a year and a half at Ringley, he removed to Denton, in 1632. When the Act of uniformity took place he continued in his public station without conforming. Warrants were sometimes issued to apprehend him, but even the worst men had no heart to meddle with him. Some times they searched for him, but professed they would not see him for a hundred pounds. The Bp. of Chester often enquired of his son, "How doth the good old man, Mr. Angier do?" Most of the justices had a great respect for him, some of whom were nearly related to his wife and by the special providence of God, he continued preaching in his public chapel to the last. It was the common saying, " He is an old man, and cannot live long; let him alone while he does live." He died Sept. 1, 1677, aged 72, having been pastor of this people 46 years. He was of a sweet, moderate, catholic, healing spirit; an excellent casuist; a man mighty in prayer; a hard student; of an exact conversation; very affable and courteous; full of charity and good works; and, in general, a pattern of holiness. He had been an instru ment of great good to many. Some remarkable passages of his diary, and his judicious resolution of some cases of conscience, are added at the end of his printed life.

WORKS, A treatise concerning God's worship, entitled, A Help to better Hearts, for better Times; recommended by Mr. Calamy and Mr. Case...An Epistle prefixed to Mr. Newcome's. Sinner's Hope...Another to Mr. Bell on Patience,

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Mr. JAMES HOLM. He was assistant to Mr. Angier, and lived with him. He often changed his habitation, and at last had a call to Kendal in Westmoreland, where he died in 1688. He had a son brought up for the ministry, with whom he went into Holland; who, having finished his studies, was some time pastor of a congregation at Uxbridge, but died young.

DOWGLES. Mr. JONATHAN SCHOLFIELD. He had many years been minister at Haywood chapel, from whence in 1659 he removed to this place, where he was ejected in 1662. In the course of his life he met with a great variety of family afflictions. When he was silenced he had many children, and no visible way of subsistance for them; but God raised up friends to him and his, so that they were never brought to extremity. He died in 1667, aged 60. Mr. Scholfield of Birmingham, is a descendant of his.

DUCKENFIELD. Mr. SAMUEL EATON. Of Oxford university. The son of Mr. Richard Eaton, vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire, [and brother to Mr. Theoph. Eaton, the renowned governor of New-Haven. Wood says of him, "After he had left the university, he took orders according to the church of England, and was beneficed in this coun try; but having been puritanically educated, he did dissent in some particulars thereof. Whereupon, finding his place too warm for him, he revolted and went into New-England, and preached among the brethren there."-But upon his dissent from Mr. Davenport, about the narrow terms and forms of civil government then imposed upon that infant colony, his brother advised him to a removal. Calling at Boston in his way, the church there gave him a pressing invitation to settle with them; but he was fully bent upon coming back to Old-England, where God had most work for him to do. Upon his return, he gathered a congregational church at Duckenfield, and afterwards removed to Stockport, where he preached in the free-school. Some of the people here ran things to a great height, and grew wiser than their minister, so that they occasioned him much difficulty. After he was ejected in 1662 he attended on the ministry of Mr. Angier at Denton, as did many of his old hearers; who by difficulties and sufferings were wrought into a better temper. Mr. Eaton died Jan. 9, 1664, aged 68. He left no children, but left a good name among persons of all persuasions. [He was a very holy man, a person of great learning and judgment,

judgment, and a most incomparable preacher; of eminent note and influence in this and the neighbouring counties.] Mather's Hist. New-Eng. p. 213.

WORKS. The Mystery of God incarnate; against Knowles... A Vindicat. of it against the same...[He assisted Mr. Tim. Taylor in writing The Congregational Way justified.]

ECKLES. [V.] Mr. EDMUND JONES. His father had been vicar of this place many years, and brought up three sons to the ministry, of whom this was the only Nonconformist. He was one of the first classis of Manchester. A man of excellent abilities, and an able scholar, naturally very rhetorical. When he was ejected, he preached in private; and when authority allowed it, more publicly. He died May 2, 1674, aged 48.

ELHILL Chapel. Mr. PETER ATKINSON, sen. A man of such singular ability and general interest, influence and usefulness, that he was called the apostle of the North. He had so much favour with the gentry, that he preached quietly at his chapel for a considerable time after the Act of uniformity took place. His income there indeed was but small; but his encouragement, in the success of his ministry, very considerable. He died July 17, 1677, aged 75.

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—Mr. PETER ATKINSON, jun. GARSTANG [V.] Mr. ISAAC some time minister of Preston; from whence he removed to this place, where the Act of uniformity found him in 1662. Soon after the Restoration, there was a meeting of above twenty ministers at Bolton, to consult what course to take. Mr. Ambrose and Mr. Cole of Preston declared before them all, that they could read the Common-Prayer, and should do it, the state of their places requiring it, in which otherwise their service was now necessarily at an end. ministers, considering the circumstances of their case, approved their proceeding. Mr. Cole (afterwards Dr. Cole) declared that he had got to his Ne plus ultra, and could comply no farther. Accordingly he was turned out of Preston; but found some stronger motives in other parts, for he afterwards conformed, and was lecturer at Dedham in Essex. But Mr. Ambrose lived and died a Nonconformist; and was a man of such substantial worth, such eminent piety, and such an exemplary life, both as a minister and a christian,

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