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persecution , he would never marry— 'nor take any benefice , because he would still say my head is too big to g& into a church door * * ' He served " a chapel in
Lancashire / ' and became " domestic chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire / ' who was raised to the Peerage , the first of the Cavendish family , in 1618 , and died in 1626 . This nobleman had
appointed Hobhes to be tutor to his son , when both were about twenty years of age * ItJs probable that the young philosopher ^ afterwards so famous , and our puritan divine might often meet at their patron ' s hoard . The friend and ^
biographer of Master Rothweli came at this time into his acquaintance , attributing to him his conversion , being able to ascertain the very 3
" serinon aud point" which produced it » He also accompanied Master R , during eight years u eye-witness of the great success he had in his ministry . ' '
" There now ran nothing more in his mind but why the Bishop should forbid him preaching upon those scriptures before mentioned , and he began to conceive that there was sure something there ,
could he f * nd it > which would mightily batter down their hierarchy . He prayed , therefore , much to God , ( wherein he was mighty ) and studied then *; and
God opened those mysterious passages of his book to him more than to other men , that he seldom preached abroad out of any other scriptures , and did write an
exact commentary upon Moses * i £ P * which he unveiled with yery mucji profit and delight to the reader , " Id , p . 454 . While Master It . wa $ thus essay . * & to batter down the hierarchy ;
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the Episcopalians were not asleep upon their watch . THey ex . changed with him some hard blows . He had especially a rough . contest with Neale . of
Litchfield , King James ' s courtly prelate ^ of time-serving memory . Our divine , at length , resided chiefly in the bishopric of Durham , under the patronage of the pious and munificent Lady Bowes ,
afterwards Darcy who allowed him forty pounds per annum , a large annuity in those days . Besides this , he would receive nothing except from " such as God wrought upon by his ministry /*
Master Rothwell * s " contests \^ ith the prelates' * were nothing compared to his contests with Sat&n , who exhibited himself in every way short of an appearance
in his proper costume . Sttch , at least , is his biographer ' s account of " a strange sickness , a vertigo capiti $ 9 which he once had" at Bernard ' s Castle . He would have
forty fits , at least , in an hour , and every one of them accompanied with mischievous teciptations , which , whea the fit was over , ' [ says ^ biographer ] he dictated and I writ down / 1 He
adds . " that sickness did so weaken his brain that ever after he was inclining to some infirmities , which love must coter . " Thus is inintroduced Cc his dispossessing of the-devil , " a relation which , the biographer had " from himself and from divers others to whom
thef story was known / though he does npt say whether it preceded or followed the vertigq capitis . This ( relation I must reserve for another letter , should you favour me vvith the insertion of this . ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ - . .. . R » Q # . 5 k ¦ .
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Account oft * Master Rothwdl , ' the Exorcist . ** 77
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/13/
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