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    from the genuine benevolence of his mind , evinced ih a desire to make every one with whom he had intercourse happy . He always appeared calm and cheerful , and from the sincerity and simplicity of his mind , sometimes playful as a child ; he could be humourous and witty , but by the exercise of it never gave pain to any one ; in short , the uniform tenor of his whole life and conduct was formed fromfthe model of that Christian spirit and temper of his Great Master which he so ardently laboured

    to recommend to others . As a proof of the esteem in which his character was held by those most capable of * appreciating its just value , the following shock one was given by a most accomplished and amiable literary character , who was personally acquainted with Mr . E . and than whom there is no one better able to estimate the value and

    importance of his writings . It was given in a note to a friend who had just sent him the first account of Mr . E / s death : " I thank you , my dear Sir , for your obliging information of the melancholy intelligence from Colford , which excited much regret * but little surprise . A great man is fallen in Israel ! a man of stricter integrity never breathed , arid few of superior talents and acquisitions . How unfortunate that he should have chosen to bury himself in such obscure and inaccessible retreats

    his usefulness was much diminished by it !" By the death of this great and amiable man the Christian world has lost one of its brightest ornaments ! jts best instructors ! but he will long live in the remembrance and affections of his surviving and sorrowing friends ; and in ttk > one ' s more than in those of the writer of this memoir ! Hackney . J . S . Ereata . —Page 4 , line a , for r 777 read r 771 . —Page 5 , line 19 , for oWrcad b ^ gum

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    CAMBRO-BRITISH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES * WILLIAM JONES , of North Wales . —So called to distinguish him from another nonconformist and ejected minister in South Wales of the same name ; he was a Merionethshire id an , and received a liberal education , which was not bestowed upon him in vain . For some time he was the master of the school — - v 1 ¦ 1 ¦ ¦ ^~— ^^ f lV ^ ^^ B ^ f ^ tt ^ T ^^ B ^> jp ^ ^ r ^ tf ^^ B ^^^^^ *^^ W ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^™ ^^^ ^^™ ^^^ ^^^^ 1 » — — ^— — — ~*~ ~ ^^^ ^^^ — —

    ^^^^ of Rhuthin , from whence he removed to Denbigh , where he was chosen by the governor , Colonel Twisleton , to be preacher in the castle or chaplain to the garrison ; and ajoout 1648 he became the minister of the parish , in which situation he acquitted himself with diligence and fidelity . There the Act of Uniformity found him in 1662 , and as he could not accede to its ternas he was of course ejected . When the Five Mile Act forced him from the town , he retired into Flintshire , wheje he found a comfortable retreat at PI as Teg , a seat belonging tp

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/7/