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that neighbourhood , and hold a reputable station among its present inhabitants . One of them , Dr . Hovvell , a physician , went some years ago to India , from whence he returned bj * land , by the way of Constantinople ; an account of which journey he has since published . He lives now , I think , in the vicinity of
Caermarthen , John Owen , the father of the subject of this sketch , was a respectable farmer ^ and highly esteemed among his neighbours as a man of the strictest integrity . Both he and his wife belonged to the established church , anc } were very firmly and zealously attached to it ; and yet their large family of nine children , who lived to be men and women , all seceded from that
church , and became conscientious and zealous Dissenters . Their father was a considerable sufferer during the civil war , being himself a decided royalist , and in arms for the King . He was one that managed his domestic affairs with singular discretion , . and the measures he adopted were remarkably successful
Though he had not much to bestow on his numerous offspring , yet he endeavoured to make up that deficiency by a more recommending portion : he took particular care to give them all a good and pious education . He lived to see them all married and settled to his comfort and credit ; and would often acknowledge the
kindness of providence in giving him so many children , and inspiring them all with sober and serious sentiments . To more than one of his sons he gave , I believe , the very best education the country could afford , Tbis seems to have been the case with James and Charles , at least . The latter became a verv
distinguished character among the English Dissenters ; and though he has been long dead , his name has not perished ; he is still often remembered and mentioned , as the very learned and eminent Dr . Charles Owen ^ of Warrington . The late venerable council . In 1643 all his papers "were seized by order of a Committee of Parliament , and his p erson secured , and soon after he was committed close prisoner to the
Fleet . I-Jebore liis confinement with cheerfulness , and having nothing to trust to but his pen , he now applied himself wholly to write and translate books , by which means he obtained a comfortable subsistence during his long stay in that prison , which was till sometime after the King ' s death . As lie got nothing by his discharge from thence but his liberty , he was obliged to continue still in the same em * ployment . Though always a firm royalist , he does not seem to have approved the
measures pursued by Buckingham , StrafFord and Laud ; and was far from approving the illegal measures of the court . At the restoration , Charles II . thought him ¦ worthy of his notice and favour , and Jus former post in the council being otherwise disposed of , a new place was created , by the grant of which he became the first Historiographer Royal in England . He died in Nov . 1666 , and was buried in the Temple Church . He was said to * be master of more modern languages , and
author of niore books than any Englishman of his time . —Of his brother Bishop Howell , Fuller says , that ** he was a most meek and excellent preacher . His Sermons ^( says he } like the waters of Siloah did run s oft ly , gliding on with a smooth stream . King Charles I . made him Bishop of Bristol . He died m 16 4 6 , leaving many opp iuin children behind him , ** He adds , «« I have been told that the honourable cifT f > £ Bristol hath taken care for their comfortable education /'
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Biographical Sketches . 173
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/5/
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