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Before he ha < l taken the ( Jegree of Master of Jiris , ^ ( being about that time a tutor in the said Hall , )* he was invited to take upon him . the . care . of teaching the school wherein he had been educated , by the overseers thereof , but refused it ; and after he had completed the said degree , which was in 1641 , he became master of Crypt School , t within the city of
degrees m arts , and soon after became a tutor there : but being found guilty af a strange , singular and superstitious way of 'dealing with his scholars , by persuading and causing * some of them to subscribe , as votaries , to several articles framed by him
self , as he pretended , for their better go-. verument , as . if the statutes of the place . wherein he lived , and the authority of the J , nea present government , were not sufficient , he was distiitored in the month of May , 1634 . * ' He retired to Bermuda , till " 16 ' 4 i , when he returned and became "Fellow of Eaton . On the Restoration he
< went to Berwick ) <* where ttie Act of Conformity silenced him , an . 1662 . " After * wards he went to the West Indies . Having received a call , he went to New England , " where " he died , at Boston , ' in 1674 . " li In the church or chapel belonging to
Eaton College , was a monument with a largfe canting inscription set up by this D . Oxenbridge , for his first wife , Jaiie Butler , wherein , it is said , that while he preached abroad , she would preach' and hold forth in the house . But the said
inscription- or epitaph giving great offence to the Royalists at the restoration of King diaries TI ., they caused it to be daubed or covered over with paint . " Atken * Oxctn . II . 891 , 392 . Mr . Oxenbridge , on his ejectment , went to Surinam , and from
-theiice , in 1456 L 7 , to > Barbadoes : " He appears to have projected the christianizing of the natives , foremong his few publications is " A Proposition of Propagating the Gospel by Christian Colonies , in the Co <* 4 k * ent of Guiana . " See Calamy ^ s Account , p . 110 . Noncon . IMem . Ed . 2 , I . pp . 299 , 300 .
* ** He proceeded M . A . with g-ood applause , and was reckoned among those * of his rank , that did in an especial manner commend the learning of that -academy . Here he did so philosophize , -ask might -be observed , he was determined more by
reason than authority : however , in divine -things he did not much dissent from the convmon doctrine , as may be collected from a little tract he wrote against dancing ; . ** Short Account i \> . A . » f Attached to the Churcli of St . Mary vdte' Cript * 0 free ^ schooh erec te d by Mrs .
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Gloucester , where , .. for a ttaje , * he was much ' esteemed for Jiis tfiligciice in his profession , severity of manners and sanctity of life . _ , „ At length the nation being brought
into confusion by the restless -Presbyterians , the said city garrisoned for the use of the parliament , and every one vented his or their opinions as they pleased , he began to be free of his discourses of what he had studied
there at leisure hours , concerning the Trinity , from the holy Scriptures having riot then , as he preteuded , conversed with Socinian books . But the Presbyterian party , then prevalent there , having notice of these matters , and knowing full well what mischief he might do among his disciples , the
magistrate summoned him to appear before him ; and after several interrogatories * a form of confessibri , under three heads , was Joroposed to him to make , which he accordi ng ly did , May 2 , 1644 , but not altogether in the Words proposed . Which matter giving then no satisfaction , he made another confession in the same month more evident than the former , to avoid the danger of imprisonment , ' which was to follow if he should deny it . *
Cooke , who endowed the master with £ 10 per ann . if a priest , and £ 9 a-year if a layman . ' * Mag . Brit an . 1720 , II . pp .
767 , 768 . It was , " upon ample recommendations of the University , " Biddle was appointed to this office by the magistrates of Gloucester . u At his approach thither he was met and received by them
with much joy and honour . Neither did he deceive their expectations—whilst he discharged that employment with such skill and faithfulness , that they thought themselves not a little happy in that behalf , who could commit their sons to his
instruction . Whence it came to pass , ' that not so much hy the salary , which is riot great , but by tiie gratuities of parents , he reaped considerable profits . ' * Short Accounty p . 4 . ? u Diligently read ing the Holy Scripture , ( for Socinian books he had * read none , ) and fervently imploring- Divine
illumination , he perceived the common doctrine concerning the holy Trinity was not well grounded in revelation , much less in reason . And being as generous in speaking , as free in J udg-ing , 'he did , as occasion offered , discover his reasons of > questioning * it : -which some zealots not 1 being able to bear , they accused hint to the wra-
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346 Life of John Eifflle , by Anthony Wood .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/2/
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