[19] As before, pp. 141, 142.
[20] Account, vol. ii. 157.
[21] The ‘Life’ of this singularly original and inventive Prelate is so scanty and unworthy of his fame, that we do not wonder at no notice of his Savoy ministry, or of Gilpin as his assistant. Calamy is rarely wrong in his facts.
[22] 2 Vols. folio, 1708.
[23] Walker, ‘Sufferings,’ page 306.
[24] Ibid.
[25] Ibid. In various authorities the ground of Moreland’s ejection is given as ‘ignorance and insufficiency’—whatever the latter may mean; but as Walker, who is usually referred to for it, makes no such statement, I have not adduced it. It is sufficient that the Commissioners were picked men for intellect and character; and that wherever data remain, their decisions are almost invariably warranted by the premises.
[26] ‘A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mr John Noble of Penruddock, near Penrith, in Cumberland, March 14, 1707-8. By Samuel Audland. To which is added a Postscript concerning the Deceased, by another hand.’ London (reprinted) 1818, pp. 37, 38. The little ‘Chapel’ wherein this Sermon was preached still remains, and has now as its minister the Rev. David Y. Storrar, who occupies it as a mission-charge of the United Presbyterian Church (of Scotland). This congregation originated, it is believed, from those who could not remain in the Parish Church of Greystoke after Gilpin left and Moreland returned; and thus is of the oldest of the Presbyterian congregations in England. See above tractate, whence we learn that on Dr Gilpin’s ‘motion,’ the Nonconformists of Greystoke ‘called’ another to fill his place for them. Then the Narrative continues: ‘Mr Anthony Sleigh, a native of the same parish, and bred in the College of Durham, was obtained to become their minister, and so continued about forty years, though he had only slender [pecuniary] encouragements there. Their meeting was held mostly in the house of John Noble, and sometimes under covert of the night, as Christ’s disciples sometimes did,’ (page 44.)
[27] As before, pp. 3, 4.
[28] Ecclesiastical History of England, from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the Death of Oliver Cromwell. 2 vols. 8vo. 1867. (Jackson, Walford, and Co.) See vol. II., c. viii., et alibi.