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months . Mr . Anstis , who for many years laboured as a most approved instructor of youth , and then resident at Bridport , kindly engaged to supply Golyton , where he had for a short ; ;
time been pastor . Mr . Humphries , an attorney , was married to the eldest daughter of the great Dr . Doddridge , and was the leading supporter of the Dissenting cause at Tewksbury , and at his house J . Cornish was most ,
hospitably entertained during his stay . Dr . Doddridge ' s widow , with her two daughters , and Mr . Philip Doddridge , her son , then resided also in the town , and with other worthy hearers , three months were most happily spent .
< c In 1792 , in consequence of repeated applications , J . Cornish preached two Lord's days at Banbury , in Oxfordshire , Mr . Hampton , * a worthy minister , wanting assistance , and not likely to continue his useful services
much longer . Mr . Hampton ' s sentiments well accorded with his , and the principal hearers were desirous of his settling there . Many of the common people , however , were inclined to Methodism , and as nothing would have inclined J . Cornish to remove
but a very unanimous invitation from some larger society , with a fair prospect of greater usefulness , he declined the offer made . The large church at Banbury had fallen down , and for some years the ministers of | the Establishment were accommodated with
Mr . Hampton ' s spacious place of worship , marriages and every service being carried on there , authorized by an Act of Parliament . The hours for worship were so ordered that the
different congregations had both morning and afternoon services , and occasionally an evening lecture . On one of the sabbaths J . Cornish preached three times , and besides the usual
services , the sacrament was administered to the members of the Establishment . The same , as J . Cornish has been informed , was soon after done at Buckingham , an Act of Parliament consecrating these Dissenting places sufficiently for the temporal uses of the adherents to the Church of England . ? See Mon . Repos . XV . 631—633 .
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" After this , J . Cornish regarded himself as fixed at Colyton for life , and no situation was so well adapted . to the comfort of his declining age . 4 t The Monthly Repository for November , 1816 , ( XI . 649—652 , ) gives
an account of a moat extraordinary attempt made by some over-zealous Calvinistical ministers to deprive his society of their place of worship , and to set himself aside as unfit for
attempting any farther service as a minister . This proposal was considered by many of their own party as a very presumptuous one , but from the ministers who signed , no apology
ever came . " When a boarder at Mr , Slade ' s , he took the grandson of that gentleman under his care for classical instruction . In 1782 , several boys were taught by him as day-scholars , and many friends wishing to place their sons with him
as boarders , he left Mr . Slade ' s family at Midsummer , 1783 , to reside in a house of Mrs . Stokes , who had boarded forty boys , some of whom were J . Cornish's pupils . Twelve , and afterwards fifteen , had separate apartments under J . Cornish's particular care ,
several more attending during schoolhours . This continued till Christmas , 1796 , when he bought a house , and accommodated pupils with board and instruction till Christmas , 1800 . His charge for board and every , part of instruction was , with one guinea entrance , £ 18 per annum , which after
some years was raised to twenty guineas . The expenses of housekeeping greatly increasing , and the prejudices against the friends of liberty operating to his disadvantage , he declined taking domestic pupils . Dayscholars he continued instructing till Christmas , 1819 , when , entering on
his 70 th year , and wishing to be quite master of his time , he wholly declined the employment . A school-master , especially one who takes boarders , must expect various disappointments , but J . Cornish never repented engaging in the business . Numbers of
his pupils , as well a 3 their relatives , appeared thoroughly satisfied with the endeavours used to fulfil his trust . Hia old age is rendered also much happier than it would otherwise h ^ ve been , frorri the kind and respectful attention shewn him by those whom l *
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620 Memoir of the late Rev . Joseph Cornish , of Colyton .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/4/
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