doubted, resolved in conference ing, and again on every Tuesday and Thursday. He died 1671. to set up a printing-press and print tracts against the established system, in spite of the legal prohibition of the Star Chamber. Mrs. Crane, at Midsummer, 1588, provided a place here for the work, where Penry at this time spent a few weeks. Here, at the close of the year, he passed the short time that remained to him before imprisonment and a martyr's death. His leading object, in pursuit of which he gave his life, was the evangelization of Wales. Narborough, Leicestershire. Mr. Matthew Clarke, of Trinity College, Cambridge, ejected from this parish, continued to preach about the country whenever he could get an opportunity. He suffered imprisonment, hid himself in Charnwood Forest, and ultimately became minister at Harborough. He was an able, indefatigable man, and a plain, useful preacher. Nately Scures, Hampshire. A parish near Winchfield Station, remarkable in possessing the smallest parish church in the South of England, now that the church at St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight, has been lengthened. Newark, Nottinghamshire. Dr. Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough, gave by will in 1690, money, since laid out in land, upon trust to distribute £10 yearly among twenty poor families or persons of forty years of age, who should, before the receipt thereof, "exactly and distinctly repeat "the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed, and the Ten Commandments, without missing or changing one word therein." This is still administered. A husband and wife are to be reckoned as one in the portion, but must both make the repetitions, otherwise they are not entitled to the gift. as In 1760, Thomas Lee, one of Wesley's lay-preachers, was saulted here, dragged from his horse, beaten, and drenched with water. The mob offered to let him go if he would promise not to preach here again. but he refused, and in the end the truth triumphed. Dr. John Lightfoot, the Hebraist, was born here in 1602. Newbury, Berkshire. In the early days of the Reformation this place was a centre of Lollardism. Thomas Man, a martyr burnt at Smithfield in 1518, terms the fellowship here". a glorious and sweet society of faithful favourers." An event occurred here in 1556, the account of which is thus recorded by Foxe: "The history and martyrdom of a learned and virtuous young man, called Julius Palmer, sometime Fellow of Magdalen College, in Oxford, with two other martyrs, John Gwin and Thomas Askin, burned together in Newbury, at a place there called the Sand-pits." Mr. Palmer was an interesting and noble character, and all were men of more than average piety and intelligence. gregation by announcing as the hymn after sermon Why dost thou, tyrant, boast thyself, Thy wicked words to praise? His majesty, however, was not to be sung at in this fashion without an effort, for he stood up and called for the fifty-sixth Psalm, beginning Show mercy, Lord, to me, for man Would swallow me outrightwhich hymn was actually sung. Wesley, on his first journey to the north, entered this town, and was shocked at the unparalleled profanity of the people on Sunday morning. He walked down to Sandgate, the lowest quarter of the town, and standing at the end of the street, began to sing the hundredth Psalm. Hearers came round him, and he preached from the text, 66 He was wounded for Our transgressions." He announced that he should come again at five o'clock, and an enor mous multitude assembled at that hour. "I will heal their backThen the slidings," was the text. great work began, and when Wesley left they were eagerly beseeching him for more of the bread of Life. Thomas Binney, one of the most vigorous of evangelical writers and workers in this busy age, was born here in 1798. His contributions to theology consist mainly of his sermons on Hebrews xi. To the service of song he added at least one choice hymn, but his greatest power lay in his teaching and in his life. His consistent conduct set an example of Christian integrity and faithfulness to a large circle of merchants and young men. Newhouse, Lincolnshire. - A house of White Canons was founded here in 1140. New Passage, Gloucestershire. -Whitefield, on his journey to Cardiff in March, 1739, was detained here for twelve hours. The clergyman of Cardiff, who happened to be also delayed, refused at first to go into the boat with Whitefield; the latter and his companion sang hymns, until the pilot complained that he could not hear the voice of the look-out man. became intelligent, serious, and Newton Longueville, Buckinghamshire. The rectory of W. Grocyn, the first Greek professor at Oxford, and tutor to Erasmus. Nibley Knoll, Gloucestershire. commemoration of William Tyn- Newport Pagnell, Buckingham--Here stands the tower erected in shire. "Cowper's Bull," the Rev. William Bull, was pastor of the Independent congregation here from the year 1764 to his death in 1814. He was a wise, witty, faithful minister, and a friend of Cowper, Newton, Toplady, and Ryland. Mr. Bull and Mr. Newton not only exchanged visits, but thoughts, topics, and heads of sermons. Their friendship was a realization of true Christian brotherhood in the work and service of our Lord Jesus Christ. Cowper's letters show the playful affection with which he regarded his friend. In the church here, in the year 1647, was held a public disputation respecting baptism, before a great assembly of ministers and others, presided over by Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Richard Carpenter. Newton Abbot, Devon.-William Yeo, M.A. of Oxford and Cambridge, was incumbent during the Commonwealth. "He found the town very ignorant and profane; but by the blessing of God upon his labours, the people King of England, October 6, 1536. Shall want her trump, to glorifie a name, And when the latest breath of fame Norham, Northumberland. At this place the Culdees, mishave first preached the gospel in sionaries from Iona, are said to Northumberland. It was anciently called Ubberford. Northampton. In 1267 there was a great gathering of nobles here, and one hundred knights became crusaders, and assumed the cross in the presence of Henry III. and his court. St. Sepulchre's Church, near the old north gate, is one of the four churches in England built under the direct influence of the description brought by the crusaders of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. It has been restored under the charge of the late Sir Gilbert Scott. The other three imitations are at Cambridge, Little Maplestead, and the Temple in London. The shire only records one martyr, thanks, says Fuller, to Pool, the merciful Bishop of Peterborough. This one was John Kurde of Syresham, a shoemaker, condemned by the archdeacon in All Saints' Church, and burned to death in the stone pile outside the north gate. The vicar of St. John, standing by, offered him his pardon if he would recant, but he said he had received his pardon by Jesus Christ. The name of good Dr. Doddridge (born in London, 1702) is associated with this town, where he resided during the greater part of his active busy life, and preached in the chapel standing near St. Peter's Church. When he was considering the proposal that he should come here in 1729, he was minded to decline it; but he says, "I passed through a room of the house in which I lodged where a child was reading to her mother, and the only words I heard distinctly were these, 'And as thy days, so shall thy strength be." He preached his last sermon to his congregation here in 1751, from Romans xiv. 8. Doddridge left a valuable legacy to the Church of Christ in his fervent hymns, which express a deep sense of gratitude for spiritual benefits, and a reverent appreciation of the grandeur of his theme. Celestial Spirit, teach our tongue Sublimer strains than Moses sung, Proportioned to the sweeter name Of God the Saviour, and the Lamb. All Saints' Church contains the monument of Sir James Stenhouse, who came to the town a young infidel physician, and was converted under Dr. Doddridge's influence. He afterwards took orders, and rendered good service by writing and preaching in favour | of the great evangelical revival. In 1739, young Whitefield (then aged twenty-four) visited this place. He was most courteously received by Dr. Doddridge, and preached on the Common to 3000 hearers. Two days afterwards, he preached on a Thursday in the the same place, at about eight in the morning, to a much larger audience. Again, on May 7, 1750, Whitefield records that he had a private interview here with Dr. Doddridge, Dr. Stenhouse, the Rev. James Hervey, and the Rev. James Hartley. On the following morning he preached to Dr. Doddridge's students, and in the afternoon to above 2000 hearers in a field. Lady Glenorchy in her Journal, in 1777, writes in June, "I arrived safe at Edinburgh; was much comforted on my way hither by a sermon from Mr. Ryland, junior, at Northampton, on Psalm cxix. 117, "Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe; and I will have respect unto Thy statutes continually." This town, at the close of the last century, became associated with the origin of modern missions, owing to the residence and pasto- | rate here of John Ryland the elder, one of the pioneers in this noble work. He was an accomplished scholar, a wise and witty man, and an energetic preacher. He also wrote a few good hymns still in use. (See Achurch.) North Petherwyn, Devon. Mr. Thomas Rowe, M.A., the son of an attorney in this parish, through the persuasion of an old servant in the family, entered the ministry from Exeter College, Oxford. He became incumbent of Litchett, but was ejected after the Act of Uniformity. Thenceforward he preached in Dorsetshire, principally at Wimborne, during the remainder of a long life. He was a holy, active man, an admirable practical preacher, and the means of the conversion of many. Norwich, Norfolk. - In the chamber still existing beneath the Guildhall, Bilney was imprisoned, before he was led out to his martyrdom in the Lollards' pit. Cicely Ormes, wife of Edmund Ormes, worsted-weaver, dwelling in St. Lawrence's parish, aged thirty-two, was apprehended for sympathizing with a sufferer at the Lollards' pit on occasion of a martyrdom there. She was tried and condemned for heresy, and on the 23rd September 1557 was burned, after a clear devout ex pression of her faith and hope in Christ. Matthew Parker, the second Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, was born here in 1504. He became chaplain to Queen Anne Boleyn, and rapidly advanced in preferment, but was degraded under Queen Mary. He was elected Archbishop by Queen Elizabeth in 1559, and published at his own expense the Bishops' Bible. He ruled with great severity against the rising Puritanism, and died May 17, 1575, leaving a literary reputation which has given his name to the Parker Society, and a religious reputation damaged by his yielding to the imperious dictates of his royal mistress. This was also the birthplace of Thomas Goodwin, one of the greater lights of Puritanism, and a man of learning, breadth, and power of mind. He was appointed president of Magdalen College, Oxford, in January, 1659, and was a member of the Westminster Assembly. On the Restoration he was deprived of his office, but continued to preach in London until his death in 1679. His works occupy 4 vols. folio. Here Sir Thomas Browne settled in 1636, wrote his works, and died in 1682. He was buried in the church of St. Peter Mancroft. The experience of this keen and accomplished free-lance in the field of philosophic thought is worth recording. "There are, as in philosophy, so in divinity, sturdy doubts and boisterous objections, wherewith the happiness of our knowledge too nearly acquainteth us. More of un |