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ing speech at their condemnation , which was since printed , and at last saw Derwentwater and Kenmure beheaded on Tower-hill . These and
some other things , which happened during my stay , such as Lord Mayor ' s days , the King ' s going to Paul ' s , concerts of music , both public ( especially Purcell ' s Te Deum at St . Paul ' s ) and
private , &c , made my time pass very agreeably , so that I had nearly lost a great many of my country ideas . Before I came away , my father would have had me go down to Edinburgh , but , on consulting my friends , I found I should gain nothing by the journey , and therefore I made the most of my
time where I was . I left London in the beginning of April 1716 . The country at first seemed as strange to me as the Town did when I first came to it . I was
received with great marks of respect and affection by my father and friends , and I lived very easil y- As I was intended for a minister , I thought it time to receive the sacrament , which I
had not done at London . I applied to Mr . Harding , who received me with great outward civility . He did not examine me as he used to do all new communicants , nor propose me to the Society a month before hand as usual , but told me , if I would please
to come , he would only tell the Society that I was present . This was very civil ; but , in some discourse we had afterwards , he told me it was very extraordinary that I should have been examined and passed for a candidate in London without being a
communicant . This embarrassed me ; I found he suspected , and was artfully sifting me ; so I told him I went to no church constantly , and therefore received with none . He thought nothing in that , and I was reduced to the necessity either of deceiving him or of telling
the truth . I presently concluded it would be best and safest to engage his honour to keep the secret , and therefore I frankly told him my whole affair with Williams and Calamy , what my friends
advised me upon it , and what steps I had since taken . Upon this he seemed satisfied , and said he thought I had ill usage , and added , that I might depend on much better if I wouldf apply for examination in the country . Thus things went on quietly till towards the end of the summer , when
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I perceived my father growing again uneasy because I made no advances to the pulpit , though he had promised not to expect me to preach till I was 24 , But this was forgot , and I found there would be a new storm unless I
took the first opportunity to comply in this matter . It was not long before " offered . Old Madam Vinson , who was well known for her generous hospitality and strong attachment to Dissenting Ministers , had bred up one Cudmore > a distant relation , to that profession . She at the same time maintained his
youngest sister , and was a great help to his mother . Being intimate in the family , I naturally became acquainted with Mr . Cudmore , who had great respect paid him , and who soon began to think he had a title to it from every person who came there . He was there with his mother and sisters towards
the end of summer , when he invited me to go with them to Chumleigh , where his mother lived , ^ nd to tak e a tour to Biddeford and the north of Devon . I very readily accepted the offer , not only for the sake of the journey , but because it was very consistent with my scheme of preaching .
Accordingly I preached at Chumleigh for the first time , having been heartily invited to the pulpit by Mr . Walter Furse , the minister of the place , who then appeared to me to be an honest and unprejudiced man . A day or two before I preached , I received a letter from my father , which told me that Mr . Sandercock had been at our house
and told my mother that there was a whispering and grumbling among the ministers , who suspected I was gone to preach without examination , and that he advised me not to venture , because it might be a precedent for some young feJlows to get into the ministry that were not fit for it .
I immediately suspected that Mr . Harding had said something of nay affair at London , and wrote so to my father , desiring him to ask whether he had or not . He did , and was assured that he never had or would discover
what I had said to him in confidence , and at the same time made an handsome offer of all the service he could do if I would apply to the Assembly . Soon after this , he had an opportunity of talking both with Enty and Baron on the same subject , and did ask ft ever Mr . Harding had hinted any thing
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ig 6 Memoirs of Himself > by Mr . John Foar .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/4/
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