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register , < has this note : " A plague be ^ an in Southampton the latter end of May or . beginning of June , 1665 , and continued till November , l 6669 before it fully ceased . It is concluded by the common vote , that there died in it 1 , 000 and somewhat over ; but there
are that do affirm ^ that there died betwixt 15 and 16 hundred . It began in the buildings below Bull Hall , being the lower end of the Back-street , by the Walnut Tree . The last that was reputed to die of the plague , was a youth that died over St . Michael ' s pri&on . "
Comparing the date of this distructive malady , with the time and place in which his daughter Mary was born , it appears probable , that his honoured friend
Barrow ' s house , proved a safe refuge to him and his family , from that grievous calamity , and not Wellow , as Mr . S . Say had been informed .
He is said to have been the first that opened the meeting at Gosport , and it is not improbable . Notwithstanding the discpuragcments attending the ministry
among non-conformists , Mr , Samuel Say , from early life , discovered a great inclination to it , and his pious father took care to have him educated in the best manner he could with that view . He was
placed at school with his brother John at * Southwick , Hants , His father went over to remove him
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from thence in the year 16 S 9 > ajt which time he was about the age of thirteen . One reason of hi § being placed at school at South * wick probably was , that it was the seat of Colonel Norton , in
whose family Mr / Gyles Say Jhad received much friendship , Mr . R . Symonds was ejected frorn this parish . He joined Mr . Cose in Mr . S , Say's ordination . His widow informed Mr . Hicks that
this Colonel Norton offered him the living of Wellow , aqd gave him the respect of recommending a minister to it , which made his son conjecture that it was Wellow itself , to which he had the
call after quitting St . Michael ' s , Southampton , and previous to Bartholomew Day , and the rather because it was at this place that he continued to preach , and was pastor of a dissenting
congregation , after the ejectment , and because his interest in the family of Col . Norton was certainly greater during the life of his Lady , which makes it probable that thf ; Colonel djd but repeat the oflfer he had
made him before , when he tempted him to f conform , with the promise of this living , Sarah Say , horn Sept . 4 , 1 ^ 69 , arkj Samuel , the 23 d of March , 16 . 75-6 , were at
b ^ ptizjed Wellow , though Mr . Say continued tq iiye at Southampton , which makes it appear likely that he had a particular connection at that time at Wellow
• Not Southward as Mr . Gillingwatcr , in his , History of Lowestoft , writes . t He was twice imprisoned upon the score of non-conformity , ana having a numerous family , and but a small estate , was soon reduced to very great straits . In those circumstances , as his widow related , he was tempted to conform by Col . Norton , ( in whose family he had formerly met with a greaj dpat of respect , during the life of his lady , ) who offered him Wellow , a Jivjrig ; ( if she did not mistake ) pf about 8 ol . a year . He confessed his circumstances , ^ u ^ re fused the temptation , ^ 4 cast himself upon Providence , He removed from , Southampton on occasion f Uie plague , as soon as he was reitea $ e 4 from prison .
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Memoir of Mr . Gyles Say . 477
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/3/
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