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    A List of the Students educated under the Rev . Richard Franks xi ^ m ^ A ;^ 0 ^ 0 ^ ^ co mti in , the Academy which he first ¦ ¦ rMrectml' a&ft&ttimel % m * -Vork- * : shire . Mr . Frankland , who was born at Rathmcil , A . D . 1630 , had his education at Christ ' s College ,

    Cambridge , and was first settled at Bishop Auckland , in the county of Durham . When Oliver Cromwell erected a college in that city , he fixed on Mr . Frankland to be a tutor in it , for which office he was well qualified by his eminent learning ; and abilities . But that college being demolished , at the Restoration * he missed the

    situation designed for him and soon afterwards was ejected , with a number of his brethren , from his living in the church , on account of his non-conformity . Upon this he retired ta his native place , where he had an estate , and there

    he was persuaded by many of his friends to set up a private academy , in which he met with so much encouragement ., that in the course of a few years he educated near 300 pupils . Notwithstanding his eminence both for clfaracter and literature , he met with much disturbance in those

    troublesome times , so that he was obliged frequently to change his situation . In the year 1674 ? he removed his academy to Natland , near Kendal . After two or three other removals by the Five-Mile Act , he fixed at AttercliflTe , near Sheffield , from whence he returned to

    Rathmell , where he died in the year 1 (> 98 , aged 68 . The academy was afterwards removed back to Attercliffe , where Mr . Jollie was the tutor . In the following list of pupils the time of their com-

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    mencement is specified , and a number is prefixed to each name , to render the reference t ! i # iKbre easy , m any future anecdotes ; many of ' -which if it hopM" < dur readers will communicate , to supply the great deficiency of bibgraphical informa tion .

    STUDENTS AT RATH 1 VIELL , 1 . George Lidde ( lyr M ^ ch 1 . 1 , 1669 . He was" Ae ^ on of Sir

    Tbps . Li < WelL : h ^ died single . 2 . Anthony Proctory April 7 , 1670 . 3 . Thomas fVkitaker ^ July 6 . — Probably the father of Mr . Whitaker , many years minister at Cal U Lane , Leeds , whose son , M r . Wil liam Whitaker , succeeded him , about the year 1764-, and died young . 4 . Henry Ormorett * 5 . Thomas Els ton . 6 . Thomas Bayliff * Nov . I .

    7- John HuZdsworth , Feb . 20 , 167 % - 8 . Jeremiah Farrer , July 2 Q . 9 . Samuel Yates , Aug . 23 , 1673 . 10 . Robtrt Whitakery Aug . 27 . 11 . Timothy Jollie . He was the son of Mr . Thomas JoJhe , who

    was ejected from Althorne in Lancashire , in 1662 and died in 1703 . He succeeded Mr . Frankland as tutor in-the academy at Attercliffe , where Air-Oliver Heywood notes in his

    Diary , A . D . 1700 , he then had twenty pupils , and had sent out forty more , who were employed in the ministry ^ see No neon . Mem . vol . II . p . 350 . last edit . note . He was pastoi

    of an independent church at Sheffield , but preached also at Attercliffe , where the interest has been revived by Mr . Phillips , assistant to Dr . WiUiarns , ia b ^ 11

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    List of the Rev . Richard JFrankland's Students . 0

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    VOL . VI . C

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/9/