was examined no less than thirtytwo times; he was versed in the Scriptures, and could not be persuaded to believe in transubstantiation. The martyrs were chiefly of his own household: Hosman, his servant, Thomasin à Wood, his maid, with Margery Moris, and James Moris, her son, and others.

The epitaph on the well-known hyper-Calvinist preacher, William Huntington, written by himself, and placed in the chapel in which he ministered, is as follows :WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S.S., d. 1813. Here lies the Coalheaver, Belov'd of his God, but abhorred of men. The Omniscient Judge at the grand Assize Shall ratify and confirm this, To the confusion of many thousands: For England and the Metropolis shall know That there hath been a Prophet among them. W. H., S.S.

Leytonstone, Essex. Here, in 1739, was born Miss Bosanquet, afterwards the spiritually-minded Mrs. Fletcher, of Madeley. (See Madeley.)

Lichfield, Staffordshire.— In a field called "Stitchbrcok," several hundred Christians are said to have been massacred in the reign of Diocletian, A.D. 303.

Thomas Miles, the incumbent, was ejected in 1662, and was obliged to hide in fields and woods. He preached in constant danger of imprisonment, and had stated income, but it is said that he was never suffered to want.

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Lincoln. Robert Grosseteste, bishop, who died in 1253, may properly be termed a precursor of the Reformation. He possessed a knowledge of Hebrew, translated fluently from the Greek, and was

a decided advocate for giving the Scriptures in the vernacular to the people. This was a century before Wycliffe carried the project into partial execution, and two centuries before Tyndale gave the Gospel to the English, printed in their mother-tongue.

Foxe, writing of Bishop Longland's persecutions in the eastern counties, leaves off enumerating, pithily exclaiming, "Why stand I here numbering the sand!"

Linkinhorne, Cornwall.—About 1790, the incumbent was the Rev. James Coffin, who was induced by the writings and personal influence of the Rev. John Newton to become a faithful minister of the gospel, and a consistent advocate of evangelical truth. His teaching and example produced a beneficial effect upon at least two generations throughout the east of Cornwall.

Linslade, Buckinghamshire. In the 13th century, a well here was the centre of frequent pilgrimages, and processions of devotees. In 1299, the Bishop of Lincoln stopped these, as they had become scandalous, and accused the vicar of having encouraged them for his own emolument.

Little Baddow, Essex.-In 1628, John Eliot, afterwards the fervent apostle to the North American Indians, was assistant to Mr. Thomas Hooker, a clergyman who had been silenced by Laud, and kept a school here.

Little Gidden, Huntingdonshire.-It was here that, about 1630, Nicholas Ferrar, a pious gentleman of property, a scholar

and friend of George Herbert, ruled his family and large establishment somewhat in conventual style as a house and household of God. Perpetual watch was kept in the chapel for purposes of devotion, and every detail of daily life was ordered by strict rule, although hospitality was exercised with a peculiar grace and charm. Moderation, not asceticism, was enjoined, common prayers were said daily, and successive companies at the sound of the watch-bell relieved each other in reading aloud, so that the Psalter was gone through once in every twenty-four hours. Mr. Ferrar died in 1639, and his establishment, which in other hands would probably have degenerated into mere cold ritualism, was broken up.

Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire. -Tyndale was chaplain and tutor to Sir John Walsh of this place, in 1521. Here he opened up the Scriptures to the visitors at the hall; here he formed the resolution to give them to the people in the mother-tongue. The manor house, which is thus authentically connected with the grandest movement in all modern history, is still almost intact.

Taylor, to preach in the church where he was buried.

Battersea. In December, 1802, at a meeting of the Religious versation on the scarcity of Welsh Tract Society, after some conBibles, the Rev. Joseph Hughes of Battersea, who was their sethat it would be desirable to cretary, stood up and suggested awaken the public mind towards a general dispersion of the sacred Scriptures, in all languages, throughout the world. This was the germ of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Bedford Row. This remains, but the large unsightly brick chapel, near the top of the Row, called St. John's, has totally disappeared, having been pulled down in 1856. Notwithstanding its plain exterior it was the scene of the most continuously successful evangelical ministry that was probably ever known in the metropolis. Its pulpit was sometimes occupied by Thomas Scott, the commentator, regularly filled until 1810 by Richard Cecil, then by Daniel Wilson (afterwards Bishop of Calcutta), until 1824, and then by the most famous of all— the Honourable and Rev. Baptist Wriothesley Noel, who for many years made it a centre of Christian work and evangelical power. Hither came to share not only in public services, but in benevolent work, several of the most eminent religious men of the time. Mr. Noel seceded from the Church, and continued to be a popular and useful preacher until his death, which took place at the age of seventy-five, on January 19, 1873.

Bishopsgate. In the church porch of St. Botolph's, the young wife of Dr. Rowland Taylor, with his child and an adopted orphan, watched all the night preceding the 5th of February, 1555. They suspected that he would be carried away from the city prison, and they were right. Soon after two in the morning, the eldest child discerned her father on horseback, and the wife cried out in the dark, "Oh, Rowland, Rowland, where art thou?" Dr. Taylor replied, "Dear wife, I am here," and requested the officers to stay. He was allowed to alight; and there in the dark street they all knelt whilst he prayed for them. The sheriffs and bystanders wept as he took a loving farewell of each for ever in this world.

In St. Botolph's was buried in 1622 John Welsh, son-in-law of Knox, and an eminent preacher. He returned from exile ruined in health by excessive work and hardships. He was denied by King James the privilege which he sought of going home to Scotland to die. He was allowed to preach once in London, and died two hours afterwards, leaving the reputation of a good soldier of Jesus Christ. He had the true missionary spirit, for on his banishment to France he learned the language, and became an eloquent and successful preacher in that tongue.

Blackfriars.-Wm. Gouge, B.D., a devout Puritan, was minister in 1626. He wrote an exposition of the Lord's Prayer, called A Guide to goe to God, and other devotional works.

St. Anne's was the church of William Romaine, an accomplished scholar, who preached in the most evangelical manner to crowded audiences with great earnestness and power. His services were reckoned among the London exhibitions, which it was the fashion to attend, and widespreading good resulted from his labours. He died in 1795, leaving his Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith as his legacy to posterity.

Bow Churchyard. — On the night of New Year's Day, 1555, during the persecution under Queen Mary, a minister named Rose, and thirty of his congregation were apprehended for meeting at a communion service, and committed to prison; Rose was sent to the Tower. They were taken whilst on their knees in prayer.

Bunhill Fields. Here is the Campo Santo of the nonconformists. A host of names honoured and beloved occur in the records of this narrow "God's Acre;" whilst very near, in the Friends' Burial-ground, lie the remains of George Fox, and hard by, behind the Wesleyan Chapel, is the grave of John Wesley. The graveyard at Bunhill Fields contains the dust of a greater number of those whose memories have become historic property than perhaps any similar place of interment, except Westminster Abbey. The sacred associations connected with the names of those who were buried here would form far too wide a field for our limits; we need only refer to a few, such as John Bunyan,

Exeter Hall.-Opened in 1831, and used for religious meetings. The assemblies here became so regular and numerous, and so strongly characterised by efforts to promote evangelical religion,

that the name of Exeter Hall was soon identified with this phase of Christian activity. It has been associated with great men and great movements in the religious world during half a century of important progress, and has now been purchased for the use of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. -The old Moravian chapel, so noteworthy in the history of the eighteenth century revival of religion, was the place where Hart, the hymn-writer, when a wandering freethinker, was converted by hearing a sermon on Rev. iii. 10.

Fleet, The.—The site of the demolished Fleet Prison recals the pathetic lament of poor old Bishop Hooper, who, just before his martyrdom at Gloucester was consigned to a dungeon here, and compelled to lie on a rotten straw pallet, moaning vainly in his sickness for human aid or sympathy. On the Monday before he died, he slept most of the day, but was heard to repeat in an undertone, "There is no way into the holiest but by the blood of Jesus."

Foundry The, City Road. -Here stands the first Methodist chapel ever opened, within whose walls the first congress of the

Friday Street. In the first persecution for heresy in the reign of King Henry VIII., Ralph Carpenter was accused for having certain books of the Apocalypse in English, and for that he, with his wife, went "to a corner-house. of Friday Street, where the good man of the house, having a stumpfoot, had divers such books, to the intent they should hear them read."

Fulham.-The mansion, outbuildings, cellars, and orchard of the Bishop of London, whilst occupied by Bonner were the theatre of his frightful injustice and cruelty. The stocks, the coalhouse, the rod, all figure in the discipline of the terrible bishop, and were usually the preliminaries of

worse treatment to follow.

Gray's Inn. The worthy Puritan, Dr. Richard Sibbes, author of The Bruised Reed, and other expositions, was preacher to the Society here. Concerning him Dr. Doddridge wrote: of this blest man let this just praise be given,

Heaven was in him before he was in heaven.

Guildhall. Here Anne Askew was tried before Bonner for heresy. She was interrogated as to the real presence, and declared that the sacrament remained bread only, as it would