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Mr . Hughes prevailed with himself to part with a person so en ^ tirely agreeable to himself and the people . He writes of . biro , on this occasion , as follows : C 4 That he was a most precious
godly young man , of good repute and report among persons tearing God : not only a person of holy conversation , but also a very good scholar of his age , and of good gifts for preaching , . ? . I have suffered myself to be persuaded , " says he , " to let him accept of the invitation given bin * by Mr , Henry
Maurice . ' * The great reputation he had now acquired made the charitable and pious Thomas Gouge desirous of being acquainted with so promising a young man , and he was agreeably surprized to find that the report he bad heard did not exceed his real worth *
so that he often spoke of his admirable accomplishments witb an air of no small pleasure and admiration . The ; memory of this very excellent man , and of the other two above-mentioned j ( Stephen Hughes and Henry Maurice ) deserve to be carefully preserved and venerated among the good people ofWajes ^ for
the sii&gular services they rendered to their ancestors ^ The great pains they took to propagate divine knowledge and practical religion in the obscurer parts of that country , and tlve va&t treasures of cfiarity they expended , are almost incredible i nor
ought those English worthier to be for&otten who were the original source of those pious and bountiful distributions ; such as > John Tillotson , Benjamin Whichcat , Simon Ford ^ William Bktes , William Outran * , Simon Patrick , William Durham ,
Edward Stillingfleet , John Meriton , Hezekiah Burton , Richard Baxter , Thomas Gouge , Matthew Poole , Edward Fowler , William Turner , Richard Newman , James Readings Thomas Griffith , John Short , William Gape , Thomas Firaiin ; who undertook to contribute , during their pleasure , towards printings buying and distributing the c < Practice of Piet 3 ^ " with certain other Welsh books ; and also towards teaching poor Welsh children to read English , write and cast accounts , in those towns where schools were * not already established by the charity of others . This induced a number of the better sort of tfee Welsh gentry to engage in the same good cause ; so that
fram Midsummer 16 T 4 to Lady-day 1675 , about IS 56 Welsh children were put to school to learn to read English , Welsh sfchoorls , it seems , were not thought ofy which would perhaps ^ in some respects at least , have answered a better purpose . Thirty 4 wo Welsh bibles were also distributed , being all that could then b-e procured in Wales vr London ! A new edition , 1 think , was sometime after printed under the inspection of Mr . Stephen Hughes . Two hundred ami forty WeJsh N ^ w Testaments were m the course of the same year-given away wtth 6 < M >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/6/
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