with relation to whom I am favoured with copies of several entries in the registers, by the Rev. Edward Hill, the present rector of that parish. Warde is reported in 1650 as, 'an able preaching minister.' He conformed in 1662, and died before May, 1671.

The return for Cranham in 1650 is, Robert Watson, by order of the Committee for Plundered Ministers, an able, godly minister.' The Rev. C. Rew, the present rector of the parish, obliges me with the information that there is a difference in the handwriting of the register in 1652. This is probably the date of the admission of Yardley. In that year also there in an entry of the burial of Ralph Yardley, October 8. Yardley was ejected under the Act of Uniformity. The admission of his successor is thus given in the MS. extracts from Juxon's register in the British Museum, 21st February, 1662(3): 'Jonathan Devoraux, M. A., per inconformitatem John Yardley, ult. incumb.' This shows Hardley in Newcourt to be a misprint. In 1672 (p. 340) there are entries of two houses in this parish being licensed to be Presbyterian meeting places, that of John Petchey and that of Phil. Pixon. The licenses bear date July 16. At the same date a license is also granted to 'John Yardley, of Weald, to be a Presbyterian teacher in any allowed place.' *

DANBURY.-Richard Man. His ejection refts on the authority of Calamy. But if he was ejected he must have died immediately afterwards, as his successor is thus entered, not only in Newcourt, but in the MS. extracts from Juxon's register, among the Harleian MSS.: 6th October, 1662, Gul. Clutterbuck, S. T. B. per mort. nat. Richard Man.' The living had been sequestered from Clement Vincent, for that he is a great practicer of the late illegal innovations, and doth not only encourage sports and playing on the Sabbath day before his own doore, but hath also been a practiser himself thereof, giving ill example thereby, and neglected the keeping of the

Cal. Acc. 314; Cont. 491; Jour. H. of C. iii. 355; Lands. MSS. 459; License Book, S. P. O. See p. 340.

monthly fast, and instead of fasting, suffered on the fast day foot-ball playing in his own ground, himself being a spectator thereof; and is a common drunkard and a common swearer; and hath expressed great malignity against Parliament.' The living was sequestered to the use of John Chandler, who having relinquifhed the cure before June 13, 1646, it was sequestered at that date to the use of Richard Man, minister of the word.' The return in 1650 is, 'Richard Man, by sequestration from Clement Vincent, an able preaching minister.' It is clear that Vincent died before the restoration, and that Man was then regularly presented to the rectory, which was in the gift of Humphery Mildmay. If at all, Man would therefore have been ejected in August, 1662. Calamy confounds him with John Man, of Rawreth. *

DEDHAM.-Matthew Newcomen. He was a native of Effex, probably one of the same family with Thos. Newcomen and Stephen Newcomen. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1625, and took his degrees, that of Bachelor in 1629, and that of Mafter in 1639. On the death of John Rogers, in 1631, he was recommended by his friend, John Knowles, as his successor in the lectureship at Dedham, which was then, as it had been for generations, sustained by the voluntary contributions of those who attended it. Here his duty was to preach on the morning of every Tuesday, and in the afternoon of every Lord's day. He married Hannah, daughter of Robert Snelling, of Ipswich, and widow of Gilbert Raven, rector of St. Mary's Stoke, in that

town.

Newcomen soon more than justified the expectations he had encouraged during his University career, and proved a not unworthy successor of the venerable Rogers. He is frequently referred to in the first part of this volume. He was one of the Smectymnians, a member of the Assembly of Divines, Xa frequent preacher before the House of Parliament, and

Cal. Acc. 309; Cont. 485; The First Century, 36; Chandler, p. 357; Add. MSS. 15669, Feb. 6, 1644; 15670,

408; Harl. MSS. 6100; Lands. MSS. 459; Newc. ii. 205; John Man, p. 270.

throughout the whole of the eventful period in which his lot was cast, second to but few of his brother minifters in character or influence. For such a man to declare unfeigned assent and consent,' as required by the Act of Uniformity was impossible. He preached his last sermon at Dedham, as y lecturer, August 20, 1662, on Rev. iii. 3. His concluding sentences were these: It was a good speech of a gracious woman, now with God, when Mr. Rogers was silenced, 'Well,' said she, by the grace of God the world shall never have those houres that I was wont to spend in hearing heretofore,' her meaning was she would spend them in her closet in holy duties. It was an excellent resolution, and worthy of our imitation; and if I might, after twenty-six years' labour here in the ministry, now at my parting obtain this much of you, that you, that have been pleased to be conftant hearers here, would lay a law on yourselves, that so much time as you formerly spent in coming hither, sitting here, and in returning home, that ye will spend that time at home, either in praying and reading and meditating in your closets, or else in praying in and with your families, and inftructing of them . . . . if I might obtain this of you. . . . I should believe that the devill and his kingdom would be losers by this our parting. And the last advice I have to give you is this, that you would still continue your reverence of and love to the Lord's holy sabbath. . . . and when you have not publick ordinances, and publick helps, for the sanctifying of the Lord's day at home in your own congregations, if you can have the word and ordinances in any comfortable manner abroad, I say travel for it; and when you have them not at home nor abroad, be so much the more earnest and fervent and abundant in your family and secret duties. . . . so do, and the blessing of God shall be on you all the week long.'

Newcomen well knew that England was no longer safe for him. He therefore went over to Holland, but before he did so, he once more addressed his flock at Dedham, in a sermon on Acts xx. 32, which was afterwards published. His last words. were, I am now, by the providence of God, on the point of

leaving not only you but the land, and I know not whether I shall see the face of this assembly any more. I would fain, before we part, commend ye to God, and leave you in the arms of His comforting mercy. O that I could thus commend you all . . ... I charge you that none of you dare to appear before me in the day of judgment in an unconverted condition. .. O that God would make this last warning, this last charge, more effectual than a hundred others have been, that, as Samson slew more Philistines at his death than in all his life, so I might be the happy instrument to save more souls at my departure from you than in all my life before.' On his arrival in Holland he was soon invited to become the pastor of a church at Leyden.

Richard Cromwell also was now an exile in Holland, as were several others, and when the war broke out between England and that country, on pretence that the fanatics' who had fled from this country afforded facilities to the Dutch for acquiring intelligence to the prejudice of their countrymen, a clause was procured to be inserted in an act for attainting Thomas Doleman, Joseph Barfield, and Thomas Scot, of high treason, to the effect, 'That all and every person who now are beyond the seas, and whom his Majefty by any of his royal proclamations shall name and require to return to England by a certain day, and shall not return accordingly, shall stand attainted of high treason, and shall suffer such penalties as persons attainted of high treason ought to do.' Acting on this clause, on the 26th of March, 1666, the King issued a proclamation. naming fourteen persons, and among them are Richard Cromwell, Sir Robert Honeywood, jun., and Newcomen, minister.' Nothing however came of this, as Newcomen was sufficiently on his guard.

Soon after his death, John Fairfax, one of the best and nobleft of the ejected minifters, preached a funeral sermon for him at Dedham. The returns that were made to Sheldon in 1669, thus refers to this: On the 16th of September last, ye occafion of the death of Mr. Newcomen, in Holland, an outrageous conventicle was kept (at Dedham) and dangerous words

said to be there spoken by Mr. Fairfax, late minister of Barking, in Suffolk.' The sermon was afterwards published under the title of The Dead Saint Speaking. A sermon preached upon the occasion of the death of that eminent man, Mr. Matthew Newcomen, sometime minister of the gospel at Dedham, in Essex, who dyed at Leyden; wherein is sincerely discoursed, to a populous auditory in Dedham, what inftructions are given and sealed to the living by the death of the righteous servant of God. By J. F., minister of the gospel.' London, 1679, 8vo. Heb. xi. 4.

There are published of Newcomen's: 1. Irenicum;' 2. 'A Sermon on Neh. ii. 4, 11.' Lond. 1642, 4to.; 3. 'Sermon on Is. lxii. 6, 7.' 1643, 4to.; 4. Sermon on Josh. vii. 10, 11.' 1644, 4to. ; 5. Sermon on Phil. i. 27.' 1646, 4to.; 6. Sermon on Heb. iv. 13.' 1647, 4to.; 7. 'A Sermon preached at the Funeral (sic) of the Reverend and Faithful servant of Jesus Christ in the Work of the Gospel, Mr. Samuel Collins, pastor of the church at Braintree, in Essex.' Lond. 1658, 12mo.; 8. His Farewell Sermon at Dedham ;' added to the second and last collection of the late London Ministers' Farewell Sermons.' 1663, 12mo. This sermon was preached August 20; 9. Ultimum Vale; or, the Last Farewell of a Minister of the Gospel to a beloved People. By M. N., M.A., late preacher of the Gospel to the Church of Christ at Dedham, in Essex, now to the English Church at Leyden, in Holland.' Lond. 1663.*

DEDHAM.-George Smith. He appears to have been of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and to have matriculated there in December, 1619. He was admitted to the vicarage July 2, 1631, and was therefore contemporary with Newcomen. He was on the 'Classis,' and his name also appears among the subscribers to the 'Essex Testimony' in 1648, and to the 'Essex Watchword' in 1649. He is also mentioned by name in the Parliamentry return for 1650. He was ejected under the Act

Cal. Acc. 293; Cont. 457; Palmer iii. 195; Tho. Newcomen, pp. 203, 227 ; Stephen, p. 160; Rogers, pp. 146, 148;

Knowles, infra; Baker, MSS. Harl. 7046, ́ 292; Athenæum, Ap. 12, 1862; Fairfax, p. 365; Returns of 1669, p. 344.