[498] Life of Calamy, i. 313–318.
[499] Life of Calamy, i. 348–350, June 22, 1694.
[500] Thoresby, i. 246.
[501] Ibid., i. 246–253.
[502] This was in 1699, but the change began in 1694. Diary, 284–329.
[503] Calamy’s Life, i. 301. “When Mr. Harrison removed to Pury, a Mr. John Warr, who formerly lived in the neighbourhood of Caversfield, came with him to enjoy the benefit of his ministry. And connected with this circumstance is another, which will show something of the spirit of the times. When Mr. Harrison came to Pury he brought a pulpit with him, which he deemed it necessary to conceal; therefore, to prevent it being known, Mr. Warr, being a shoemaker, contrived to fill it with shoe-pegs, and brought it among his own goods in a waggon from Bicester.”—Memorials of Independent Churches in Northamptonshire, by T. Coleman, 276.
[504] Thoresby, i. 256. April, 1694.
[505] See correspondence in Thoresby, iii. 177.
[506] Present State of Parties, 319.
[507] The whole of the above account is rendered necessary by controversies respecting these academies. I have examined what is said by Samuel Wesley, Palmer, De Foe, and other contemporaries, and have consulted the opinions of modern writers who have gone over the whole ground. My notice of the course of study is taken from Palmer. Further particulars may be found in Nonconformity in Cheshire, 491, and Milner’s Life of Watts.