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From such a stock was Gyles descended , who having received only what learning the grammai * school in the town could give him , and-wiigt he hirnself had privately added to it , which chiefly consisted , perhaps , in some knowledge of the fronch and Hebrew
was judged sufficiently qualified to be admitted to the vicarage of Clatherington , about the age of twenty-three , or even younger , if we follow the style of the Church of England , for the presentation is dated the 24 th of March , J 655 ; from whence as it appears , by the like presentation , he was removed to the vicarage of St . Michael , in Southampton , the 23 d of Now 16 * 57 ^ which being no sufficient maintenance was to be improved
by the addition of 601 . a year , out of the chauntry of St . Mnry ' s ; but that he did not continue in this living till the time of the ejectment seems certain . There having been some mistake committed in the application of this money to his injury ; upon complaint of it , and to make him satisfaction , he had the promise of , and even the presentation to , a more considerable living of 130 / , per annum . He had preached to the people , was accepted by them , had received their call , and had actually removed some of his effects thither , in order to a settlement among them , when affairs took a turn , and probably put a step to any further proceedings . It is likely it was to qualify him for tho pastoral charge , or rcctoruto , over this people , that ho was ordained to the work of
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the ministry by laying br i t >( the hands of the Presbytery , at Bishop Stoke , * the 8 th of May , 166 ( Xj as appears by the original paper of his ordination , ; but the name of the place which had given him the call could never be found out , by all the enquiry in his sonV power to rtfake ; but this is certain , that he was ejected and silenced by the act of uniformity , on Black Bartholomew day , Aug . 24 , 1662 . In imita-ion of his
pious mother and other relatives ^ and like another Moses , he chose rather to suffer persecution with the people of God , than to hold his living with the violation of hisconscience . He had two wive ? . By the first he had Martha , born Jan .
12 , 1659 , and Francis , born March 1 . 6 9 l 66 l 9 both baptized by Mr . Henry Cox , of Bishop Stoke . She died the 7 th of April , in the same year , and immediately under he notes , " Brother John Caimcs departed this life , April 5 , lti 59 , " who , it is probable , was Mrs . Say ' s brother . By his second wife he had four daughters , Mary ,
Elizabeth , Sarah and Martha ; ( Mary , the eldest , was born at Plate Ford , m Wiltshire , Sept . p , 1666 , in Sir Trustinu Barrow ' s house , near Newbridge , ) and three sons , Thomas , Samuel , and John . Samuel , the second son
was born March the 23 d , * J () 75-6 , in All Saint ' s Parish , in the house against the well , in the Castle Green , Southampton , and baptized by Mr . Francis Mence , minister at Fnirhaun . Mr . Gyles Say , in his family
* His preaching frequently at Stoke , which was about five or six n > Hes from Southampton , was owiug only to the great friendship and intimacy which was between Mr . Co ; x and him . -
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476 Memoir of Mr . tiyles Sati .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/2/
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