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LifH + fJohn JBiddlefbff Anthony Wood , in Athence Ooconiensts , 1699 . Clapton * Sir , ilfaySl , 1818 . AM aware that the circumstances I of Biddle ' s Life must be well
known to most of yqtur readers , by a $ venl biographical accounts of him , and especially by Dr . Toulmin ' s Review . ' or In * ijife and Character . Yet I have supposed that the ^ Article Bid - dle , in the Athene Oxoni&ws of his
contemporary Wood * may be a docUment worthy of ypur preservations 1 have , therefore , seut | t verbatim , supplying some farther information , in notes , chiefly from " A Short Ac-Cpunt of the Life of John Biddie , M M * A A ~ «« ome time of M M aed . Hall * . * ome time of $ gd . Hall
, , Ox 6 » , which ia prefixed to his pieces , in the first volume of quart * tracts , f 691 , and appears to have been first written in Latin , by Mr . Farrington , of the Inner Temple . My edition of Wood * whoae fe v * note * 1 have cHstin *
guished fry his initial , 19 that published by himself in 1 Q $ Z > . The Life of Bid die niay be easily divided into two parts , the # r $ tcouciMclUig with the decline of the Presbyterian influence m the Long Parliament , vvfoklj prpcjiw ^ d an abatement of religious persecution .
J . T- RUTT \ JOHN BIDDLJS , or JBidJeUus , as he is by some authors written , sou of Edward Biddle , a taffy * , * vyas born
at WottoHMfKlcr edge , in ( i laucenterbbire , baptized Qiitbe 14 th of January , I 6 l 5 , and afterwards being a youth of great hopes , was , by the benevolence and exhibition of George Lord
* He « w « s of » middle fort at yoonww , «* 4 hU <> dealt in woollen olotb m * ^ H ^ &pp « 9 JrB to hnvf » « ti # d before hi « sqo « reu »^ l to CQlIeg * ^ wtifr # Joh o B iddl ? i » said to * lmv « ffiv « n " 4 nlifkil awiat » Bce to Mi WQrthff , b ^ ioo t iridow . ^ \ -&k # ri 4 t 4 < mnt % pp . 3 , * .
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Berkeley ** educated ia graaimar leamiugin the Free-school t ^ CT ^ t by Jehu Ru £ g and John Tamer * successive uialters thereof . Under thefcs * h « made m great proftcieooy ' ifrhm studies , that he Englished Virgtla Bucolics and the two first Satires of
Juvenal . Both which were printed at London , in 1034 , in Bvo . and dedicated to John Smith , of Nlbtey , in the said cauuty , Esq ., Jfiec&nits of the WoU < miai % Mwes * In the hegmnipg of that year t ( baying , % littlebefbre composed and recited * before a full
auditory , aa elaborate oration in JLatm , for the gracing the funeral of an honourable school-fellow ) , he was entered a student of Magd . Hall , and for a time , if I mistake not , was put under the tuition of John Oxen bridge , a person then noted to be of no good principles . ! _ _____ ¦ ¦ ¦ 1 ___
. * < . ? Who , in respect to tto € » rly blpsBQ «® pf a r ^ re wit , great probity and iugenuity ia ^ k young- scholar , conferred upon him the exhibition of £ 10 per annum , among other thtf poorer scholars 5 although fyy
bi » ag : e , being- not of ten years , he was mt qualified , according to common m *~ tbq ^ , for thafc donation . And t&U favour , it seems , added greater vigour andVinduatry to th « youth ' s studies j for , after thisi , Ue did not only with ^ as < 5 imrpa $ s thoge Hi * school-feUo \ v $ of the sana $ rank , but , \ n tiui ^ evtitt outriMi his instructions , a »< l became tutQK to himself . " 3 ^ or ^ A vwwi t *
P . 4 * • " - ^ It was 1632 , for , accordiftgr tQ % h $ Short Account } <( the want of fit teaching Qn the one hand , and the benefit of | b « at pxhibitioji on the other , or , p ^ r ^ pjj , the want of fit provisions for a « tt | d ^ at m tb ^ University , detained him lovigeip in tl » at
« cUool , then tyas otberwis * for hi » improvei » 0 at ; for here he < jomtinned till he was Jabout « eveot « 0 U y ^ wr ? of ft ^ o , ifAtif .- p « 4-. In th ^« stiaiMiaa of Church and Kin& . 3 Vwd » fty ^ Ihut Jobn Qi « nbrid ^ ^ Wcame a comnioqer A > f JPue . C 4 U in 16 . ^ 3 , Hf ? d ^ i fhl ^ eii yo * t *» pud ; ih ^ M ? tr ^ insliato ^ hfamrif \< i M ^ H * Hv tect lr the
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No . CL . T JUNE , 1818 . [ Vol . XlII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/1/
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