: affected to K. Charles I. and was for his loyalty ejected out of divers places, as Elberton and Horfield, in Gloucestershire; and, for not taking the Covenant, out of Langridge and Cleven, in Somerset and therefore they believed he was grossly abused by desperate swearers against him." It seems the justices or commissioners were of the same mind, for they discharged him. However these accusations and depositions served Mr. Anthony Clifford's turn; for the duke of York being his friend, on Feb. 20, 1660, he got a broad seal for the living, in which Mr. Hill's presentation, granted not six month's before, is repealed, and this reason given, "That his words and behaviour, during the late distractions, rendered him incapable of any ecclesiastical preferment." So that on Ap. 23, 1661, Mr. Hill covenanted to yield up the living, and went to Exeter. He afterwards settled at Newton Abbot, where he died, and was buried in the chancel of Woolborough. NORTHAM [V. 30l.] Mr. ANTHONY DOWNE. He was brother to Mr. Mark and Mr. Thomas Dorne, of Exeter, of whom an account was before given. He survived both of them, and lived to be about 80 years of age. He was remarkable for neatness in his compositions, and exactness of expression. These three brothers were all remembered with great respect by the good people of Exeter, both on account of their ministerial labours, and christian versation. con East OGWELL. Mr. JOHN STEPHENS. A most eminent preacher, and a very pious man. While he continued in his living he took great pains with his people, holding meetings in the church on the week-days, to instruct young persons in the principles of religion, when he was used to propose questions to them in order to try their knowledge. He lived to a great age, and continued to preach after he was blind. WICK. PETROCKSTOW [R. S.] Mr. WILLIAM TRIVITHDr. Walker owns that Mr. A. Gregory, the sequestered minister, died before the Restoration, and therefore Mr. Trivithwick, his successor, had a legal title to the living. After being silenced he went abroad with Col. Rolle, as his guardian and tutor. He died in July, 1693. It doth not appear that he printed any thing but a funeral sermon for his patron. PINHO. Mr. GROVE. He was grandfather to Mr. Henry Grove, an eminent dissenting minister, and tutor of an academy, at Taunton; in the memoirs of whose life, prefixed to his posthumous works, is the following account. of his ancestor: "It was Mr. Grove's happiness to be descended, both by father and mother, from families of considerable repute, and which, for several generations, had been. remarkable for strict piety, sincere goodness, and a steady attachment to religious liberty and the rights of conscience: the Groves, of Wiltshire, and the Rowes, of Devon. His grandfather Grove was, soon after the Restoration, ejected from a good living in Devon, for Nonconformity, at that distinguished period, when so many ministers gave a noble proof that their religious profession was not the result of secular policy, but of conscience, by giving up the most considerable worldly interests, to preserve the peace of their minds. His father [the son of the above] suffered much and chearfully in the same cause, for Lay-Nonconformity under Charles and James II. PLYMOUTH. GEORGE HUGHES, B. D. Of Corp. Christi Col. Oxf. Born in the Borough of Southwark, in 1603, when his mother was 52 years of age, who never had a child before, tho' she had three husbands before Mr. Hughes's father; and whose age was as remarkable afterwards; for she lived to her 96th year. He had so general. a reputation in the university, for his proficiency in his studies, that Dr. Clayton being made master of Pemb, Col. upon the first erection of it, procured Mr. Hughes to be one of the first fellows. Several persons of great eminence afterwards were his pupils here. He was ordained about the year 1628. For some time he preached in and about Oxford; and afterwards was called to be lecturer of Alhallows, Bread-street, London. The incumbent being sickly and aged, Mr. Hughes, with his consent, performed almost all his work. After four or five years continuance in London, his great popularity there (being constantly attended by a very numerous auditory) and some instances of his nonconformity to the ceremonies, being complained of to Abp. Laud, he silenced him. Upon this, he retired for some time to Mr. Dod's, the famous old Puritan minister, at Fausley, in Northamptonshire, desiring his advice in his present circumstances, particularly about going over to New-England, which he had some thoughts of. The good old man dis suaded suaded him from that design, and recommended him to Lord Brook, at Warwick; where he resided for some time, and married a lady of Coventry. During his residence here, old Mrs. Maynard, mother to the famous lawyer Sir John Maynard, solicited him to accept of a presentation, which she had obtained for him of the Earl of Bedford, to Tavistock, in Devonshire. This he accepted from a desires of more public service, tho' he had but a very small stipend, and the aforesaid Earl made him his chaplain. This was a very ignorant and profane place before he came; but by the blessing of God upon his endeavors, a great reformation was wrought, and many persons were brought to seriousness, the fruit of which appeared long after.-He set up a Wednesday-lecture, which was much frequented. The first serious impressions made by his ministry in this place were on three persons who afterwards proved useful ministers; Mr. John Rowe, Mr. Ralph Venning, and Mr. John Tickell, a pious conformist, rector of Withicomb, in Devon. When the civil war broke out, Tavistock being made a garrison for the king, the governor being his wife's relation, gave him a pass for himself, his family and effects to Exeter, then a parliament garrison. Soon afterwards the king's forces besieged and took the city; but he obtained the favor of a safe conduct to Coventry, where (being a widower) he resided for some time with his wife's relations. Not long after his coming thither, upon the vacancy of St. Andrew's, at Plymouth, the magistrates of that town, who were before acquainted with him at Tavistock, presented him to that church, and he had institution and introduction from Dr. Brownrigg, Bp. of Exeter; which happily prevented his ejection at the Restoration, when one had got the king's title to that vicarage, on pretence it was lapsed, not knowing he had been admitted by the bishop. He came to Plymouth in 1664, where he found, to his satisfaction, the liturgy already laid aside, by means of Mr. Porter, minister of another church newly erected in that town; though he adopted it again in 1661, rather than lose his living. Plymouth being besieged by the king's forces soon after, many of the Puritan ministers in that neighbourhood took refuge there, and were frequently employed in prayer and preaching, till the raising of the siege gave them opportunity to return to their respective charges. Here Mr. Hughes was indefatigable in his labours, most generous in acts of hospitality and charity, and was universally reverenced and beloved. He contsantly constantly maintained a good correspondence with the magistrates of the place, and an harmonious accord with people of different persuasions. After enjoying a long calm of eighteen years, commissioners cane down to Plymouth, in August, 1662, and after they had put out all the magistrates of the town, excepting one, the same day they summoned Mr. Hughes before them, and told him that he was dismissed from his ministry at Plymouth, which was a week before the fatal Bartholomew. He still continued, however, in the town; but this could not be borne where he was so much esteemed; and therefore he was summoned, with his assistant and brother-inlaw Mr. T. Martin, his son Mr. Obadiah Hughes and Mr. N. Sherwill, to appear before the Earl of Bath, governor of Plymouth. However, they were not suffered to see the Earl, but were committed by the deputy-lieutenants of the county, tho' nothing was objected against them. Mr. Hughes, senior and Mr. Martin were sent, with two files of musqueteers, to St. Nicholas island. Mr. Hughes, junior, Mr. Sherwill, and others, were confined at Plymouth. The latter were first set at liberty; but on condition that they should not return to Plymouth without leave of the Earl of Bath or his deputy. The old gentleman and Mr. Martin remained in the island nine months, till at length his health was much impaired, and an incurable dropsy and scurvy were contracted, as supposed, by the saltness of the air, when he was offered his liberty, upon condition of his giving security of 2000l. not to live within twenty miles of Plymouth. This his friends did without his knowledge. Hereupon he retired to Kingsbridge; where he continued, in great weakness, to study hard, and spend his time in private devotion, and in pious counsels and conferences. with the many friends that came to visit him. He hardly cared for any discourse but what was serious and heavenly; and he had such an affecting sense of the cloud that was upɔn the church of God, by the ejection of so many eminent ministers, that he was scarcely ever seen to indulge any mirth after that day. When a young minister, who was much with him in this his retirement, was speaking to a person, in his hearing, of his infirm state; Mr. Hughes replied, "Nature would not willingly go where it must and shall "yet I will wait all the days of my appointed time for my change. Oh when will it once come, that I shall put "off this earthly tabernacle, and be cloathed with my 66 go: "house |