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friends . He had the good fortune to outlive both his antagonist and the controversy , and he had above twenty years afterwards the enjoyment of his peace , power and reputation , which last was firmly established by his steady adherence to the party in which he
engaged . And this I take to be the top of the ladder which disappeared to Mr . Kellow , of Fovvey , in the advice he drew for a painter in Plymouth . In that satire , ( which I had given me by his own daughter , and which few or none besides ever saw , ) Mr . Enty
is set forth in all his natural pride and ambition , and very nimbly mounting a ladder , part of which was out of view , in full assurance of getting to the top of it . It is very evident by this , that this gentleman had a very mean opinion of him , and I believe this was
generally the way of thinking of all who knew him , that were biassed by no interest or party . He was never given to pleasure or any kind of exercise besides what he had in the pulpit , and enjoyed ,
notwithstanding , very good health till May 1743 , when the epidemical disorder which was then going , quite broke him . He lived , still declining , till the latter end of the year , when he died , as I heard , with great decency , having taken a distinct and solemn leave of his
family when he thought the agony was upon him . He was not maintained abroad by Mrs . Boseawen , but by one Mrs . Fortescue , her relation , as Mr . Baron assured me . [ Mr . Enty did not succeed Mr . Byfield , who was only an assistant , but , I believe , Mr . Sherwill . ]
When he lost his first wife , who was an agreeable woman , hi 3 grief seemed immoderate for about three weeks ; for on the least mention of her , he always broke into tears . His old friend Mrs . Vincent fearing the good man '' s health mifirht be impaired bv mans health might be impaired by
giving way to so violent a passion , thought of putting a stop to it , by proposing a new match , and accordingly persuaded the Shilston family to bestow on him their eldest daughter . She was a young , fine girl . She was averse to him a long while , but persuasions , commands , promises , and such arts as he could use , at last prevailed , and in less than a . month his tears for his first love * yere dried up
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and forgot , and he was in high and eager pursuit of his young Mrs . Ann Savery . Mr . ISAAC GILLING was a gentleman I knew from infancy His mother and my father ' s were two sisters , consequently they were related , and always kept a correspondence as relations .
His father , Richard Gilling , was by profession a baker , and lived at a place in Somersetshire , called Stokegummer , where Mr . Isaac Gilling and his younger brother Joseph were both born . They lived reputably , as appears by their being able to educate their
eldest son in the manner they did ; for after he had passed the grammar school , he was sent to the Taunton Academy , where he went through his courses with a very good reputation . When he begun to preach first , he preached often in the churches , though he was
never a regular conformist , but always a very moderate man . When that was over , he settled for some time in Axminster , where he was an usher in a Latin school , and at the same time concerned in a Dissenting congregation . From hence he was chosen as a
pastor to the Nonconformists at Silferton , where he had the good fortune to get acquainted with my wife ' s mou . ther at Braropford , by whom he got an estate , which he could never have hoped for any other way . In some time he had another call to serve at
Newton Abbot , where he succeeded old Mr . Yeo , grandfather to Captain Yeo , now of Plymouth . Here he set down for his life , and lived with as much decency , and had as much re ^ - sp ^ ct , as any *> f his profession jand character .
In this place he kept a Latin school , and had for many years a very encouraging one ; for once from Exeter and other places he had no less than nineteen boarders in his house , besides such as came from the town and
country . He met with considerable trpuble in Queen Anne ' s reign , from thye minister of the parish , who prosecuted him for keeping the school without the bishop ' s licence . He was obliged more than ouce to abscond , by the advice of his friepds , to preyent an arrest , and the lust time he came disguised in a long wig to Plymouth , from whence
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Mr . John Foaf * Biographicul Sketches of some of his Contemporaries 327
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1821, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2501/page/3/
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