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    self , he removed at the age of % 3 to Fakeribam , where he remained only a year . Being very desirous of * 'knowledge ,- he had husbanded a small income derived from

    preaching and tuition , and he left Fakenham tp . put himself under Mr * Walker ^ tutor of aa acadeniy at Northaurum , near Halifaxy at which he was able to maintain

    friinself for some time . By bene ,, factions and by the fees of occasional preaching , Mr . B . was furtfer enabled to go over his second year in the academy 5 when , at

    the age of 26 * , he accepted the pastoral charge of a congregation at Suttonj in Ashfield near Mansfield , Here he faithfully studied his Bible and gained a conviction of the falsehood of the

    Calvinistic system . Though modest and timid ) he deemed it right to disclose his ^ ie ws to his congregation ; the rest may be conjectured- — He was abused , calumni ^ ted j and driven as a plague from their meeting-house /'

    Under the patronage of a proprietor of some cot ton * works in the neighbourhood , he opened anojther house for worship at SuU ton , in which he continued to preach for four years ; but having during this time married the lady who survives , him , heNfound his

    salary ^ although improyed by the profits of tuition , inadequate to his wants , and therefore contem - plated a removal .

    About this time he gained the acquaintance of the late Rev . Gecu Walker , who besides furnjs uiijg ^ him with other useful t ^^ stro ngly recommended him to the congregation at Gaiasbo-

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    £ 0 U { jl \ j whose pastor he became in the year 17 ^ 5 , on the death of Mr , Gillj to whom he was for a short time an assistant . " Here he continued till his death , which took place , under circumstances of peculiar distress , en the 19 th of March last , before he had reached his 43 th year .

    He has left behind him awip dow and one son . The son is at the York academy , as a divinity student ; and it deserves to be recorded ., as an instance of commendable liberality and as a

    testimony of the esteem in which Mr . Brettell was held , that the inha - bitants of Gainsborough , on ieanv * ing that the youth ' s dependency at York was taken away by the death of his father , instantly raised amona themselves a sum

    suffito carry hum through the remaining course of his studies : the name of the vicar of Gainsborough , and that of another clergyman , stand among the subscribers . —It is melancholy to find that the widow ,

    infirm and at an advanced age ^ is wholly unprovided for : the ob * ject of Mr . Worsley in this pub - lication , and our ' in this brief notice of it , is to engage the assistance of the benevolent for

    this respectable old lady- Sub * scriptions are advertised to be received by Mr . Worsley ; Mr * Well beloved , York ; Mr . Kentish , Birmingham ; Mr . Tayler ^ Not - tingham ; Mr . Christie , Hackney , and the publisher . It only remains to say , that the Memoir abounds with manly reflections and the $ erinon with se * nous ones *

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    Review . '—Worsted ' s Memoirs of Brettell . 599

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2411/page/27/