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and probably agreeably to family report ^ as a dissenting teacher and pastor . On the 24 th of May , 1672 , his own house , at Southampton , was licenced at the court of Whitehall . The original deed
is still in gdod preservation . * From that time it is probable his labours were divided between We ] low and Southampton . It was at this Sourliwick ^ by some occasional sermon at the
parish church , that God blessed his ministry , to the remarkable conversion of a woman . JNlr . S . Say giving an account of it to Mr . Hicks , says , I thought it had been at the time when my father ftrst placed me to school
at this town , because of the frequent -kindness I had all along received from her , but since my brother has retained so particular a remembrance of what passed $ it that interview , -between my father and the woman , he must also be
in the right , that it was when he came to -fetch us from thence . He went upon this occasion to visit her . No sooner had he set his foot over the threshold of her house , but she rises up , runs to him and embraces him , and with the utmost passion of joy , salutes him with the words of Ps . cxixJ
130 . The entrance of thy word givetA light ; it givetli under-
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standing to the simple ; acknowledging that she had lived forty years in a state of utter ignorance till God sent him , thirty years before this interview ,. to preach on that text . "
How Mr . S . Say was disposed of , from his removal from Southwick , in 1689 , f till after his father ' s decease , we are -wholly ig norant , and can gather no
particulars whatever concerning him in his early years , but fmm the relation he gave of his father ' s sufferings to Mr . Hicks , which shall be related in his own words . —
u As to his sufferings , ^ though they were not all owing to the cause in which he was engaged , yet they may truly be said , to have all been the consequences of the hardships that were put upon him ,
by the Bartholomew Act . He was twice imprisoned upon the score of non-canformity . i have heard * that he preached in prison , to those that were with him , upon the same account , or to others who found means to assemble
themselves in the house , in which he was under a milder confinement . By means of his imprisonment , and by the treachery of a person related to him by a former marriage , as well as the- still growing charge of a numerous family , he was at last reduced to
inex-* Fora literal copy of this instrument , see M . Repos . ( present vol . pp . 7 > & •) f F orn 91 to the end of 169 a , he boarded at Norwich , for ill . a year , in a good family . At that ; time , the ladies wore very hi ^ h head dresses . The youth thought none looked well but the quakers , and one old lady , who was distinguished by th e closeness of her dress . She proved to be the mother of the lady he afterwards chose as the beloved" partner of his life . -Me must have been here , at this
time , ' as a scholar ; for a letter written by hTs mother , after his father ' decease , ( April 8 , 7693 , ) to a gentleman ,, to whom Mr . Say owed jcl . mentions , that she had nothing to pay him with but her husband's books and when her son Samuel came from school , he should make out a catalogue of them and send them to him ; biut the gentleman would not accent them , but generously forgave the debt . The ratine of oar benefactor is now lost ; fyuta knowledge of the liberal act calls fartn gratitude . ' l ' - ¦ "• ' , ,.,- ¦ .
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47 $ Memoirs of Mr . Gyles Say .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/4/
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