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pressible straits , from which it was Tar above the capacity of bis small congregation at We How and Southampton to relieve him , This , I suppose , might occasion his leaving Southampton , which he did with the consent of the
church to which he was pastor , and going to London , whither he removed himself , with part of his family , in the year 16 SO . * " This journey , and the circumstances of it , would be a very melancholy story among some of his children ,-if tl * e remembrance
of the cheerfulness ot his temper , and the pleasantness of his discourse upon the way , when his heart must have felt all the anguish and pangs of a compassionate father , did not sweeten the
memory of their own part in those sufferings . For that he was far from being insensible to affliction , I had once myself , in my younger years , too convincing a proof ; having been a melancholy witness , after what manner he
sometimes past his nights : in sighs , that were a lively signification ot the quick sense he bad of the circumstances himself and his family were rn , and in urgent and
repeated applications to God as his Father , and such as sufficiently spoke the vehemency of his passion . Vet nothing of all this appeared to others . He never suffered it to dishonour his profession ^ 6 r in-
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terrupt thfc pleasures of coiivecsa * tion . All who knejtv him ^ spoke of him as a person of a pleasant ,, easy , cheerful disposition , which , made him generally both beloved and desired .
" There was ohc ihni £ more * which admirably fitted him for the times he liv d in . He seemed
to be above the assaults of fear , I was with him in the west , near to a town which was said to be vrry deeply engaged in the interests of the Duke of M on mouth . We saw persons running from the town in the greatest consternation ,
who reported that the king ' s dragoons were come into it , and were actually cutting the throats of the inhabitants . I knew not myself what temper to be in , and looked , with equal surprise and amazement , to observe nothing but
terror in the countenances , voices and actions of others , and the utmost serenity and calm in my father ; who answered their questions , gave them his advice , and
assisted them in person how to dispose of their richer effects , upon so sudden an alarm , with an air and voice which plainly declared , that he both despised and derided their fears . -f
u lie was at this time only upon a visit in the county , and was returned to London before the surprize of Mr . Ilooke % and his fellow sufferer at the Lady Lislc ' a ,
* The family register shews , that Mrs . Say was at South amp ton years after , oy the following note in Mr . G . Say ' s own'hand writing . In Southampton , ^ Martha Say , junior , was born the eighth of December , in the parish of > 1684 , in Lord's JLane , next to the Blue Anchor , on . the St . Michael . . ) east side . t This must have been about the . year 1685 , and consequently before S . Say was taken from school at Southwiclc ¦ fit not this a misnomer ? Mr . John Hicks was apprehended there , and sxifc Jered death for joining with the Duke of Monmouth , in 1685 ; or , was Mr . Hicks Mt . Hooked fellow sufferer ? Vid . Non . Con . Mem . vol . i . p . 7 , 89 . and vol . ii . P * 498 . The pious -old X , ady Lisle was bsheaded for admitting Mr ; H . into her 1 * > ¦ \
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Memoir of Mr . Gyles Say . 4 < T 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 479, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/5/
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