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List of Dr . Hotieram ' s Pupils . s 427
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33 . James JBenn , Settled first-. at JForton in the Fylde , a district of Lancashire N . E . from Preston , whence he removed to Blackley ,-near Manchester , and thence to Smarbur
Hall , in Swaledale , Yorkshire , where a chapel had been built and endowed by Philip Lord Wharton , for the use of his miners . The endowment , from the want or through the loss of deeds , was in great danger of being lost ; but
was secured by happening to pass successively through the bands of three ministers , — -Mr . Taylor , whose only daughter married his successor , Mr . Gardner , whose only daughter married Mr . Benn , who , on his father-in-law ' s death ,
for this express purpose left Blackley , 1766 , and settled in Swaledale , where , haying just completed an undisputed possession of sixty
years , ( through Taylor , his daughter , and grand-daughter , ) he died In April , 1782 ; when his daughter , now Mrs- Stewart ^ of Low Row , in S waled ale , most honourably fulfilled her father ' s intent
Uons by making over the estate in Jrust to the trustees for the time being of Lady Hewley ' s fund , to be managed for the benefit of the Congregation . IVfr . Benn was a
jvarm friend to civil and religious liberty , and greatly contributed io excite a spirit of free inquiry both at Blackjey and in Swaledale . 34 . ¦ LA . ZETSBY .
35- John Helme r Appears to have settled for a sport time at Penruddock , but juobably spent , the greater part of his life at Walnhsley , near Bohon , in Lancashire ; where he was very useful , not only a » a minister , but also as a physician , am 6 ng the numerous country people in his
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neighbourhood . He was a man of great humour ; and many stories are still current ia the neighbourhood of his encounters with the Methodists , who were then beginning to gain grsund in Lancashire . He was drowned in
attempting to cross a bruige at the Folds , about a mile from Bolton , during the prevalence of a great flood , in the latter end of the year 1760 . 3 <> . Richari > Godwin .
Of this gentleman , as well as of his intimate friend , Mr . Mather , of Rainford , ( No . 18 ) it is hoped you may receive some more full and accurate memorials , from the nephew of the one , and the siicces - sor of the other , the Rev . \ 5 £ .
Shepherd , of Gatacre . But the writer of this is unwilling to : lose the opportunity of paying his tribute of grateful remembrance of Mr . Godwin ' s kind , encouraging , liberal behaviour towards . His youthful friends ; of the happy skill with which he contrived to
dniw them forth into notice , " bring forward whatever might shew them off to advantage , aiid to conceal or excuse their defects ^ which yet in private he did not fail to notice to tbemselve ^ but in the kindest and most
unoffending manner , and to give thorn tbe most judicious advice for their re ^ moval . To this amiable condaCt he was impelled by that native benevolence , itnpi-oved
andrrfined by religion in its purest iorhr , which . rendered his sock-ty universally acceptable to persons of all ages , profession * , and ranks i iti his intercourse with whom he displayed , in happy cbfobination , the intellig ^ ti ce of tftp 1 - Scholar , the politeness of the genth man , and the goodness i > f the CJhrisiiaiu
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/3/
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