Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . no Crown, whichably treats the subjects of a future life and the immortality of the soul. of ministers while performing: divine service. In 1666. he was liberated from prison by on]er of CharlesII., and immediately commenced the task of forming liis followers into a formal and united 1669, he manied the wid«w of Judge Fell,
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . no Crown, whichably treats the subjects of a future life and the immortality of the soul. of ministers while performing: divine service. In 1666. he was liberated from prison by on]er of CharlesII., and immediately commenced the task of forming liis followers into a formal and united 1669, he manied the wid«w of Judge Fell, and soon after came over to America, for the expresspurpose of making proseKt R. On his return he was again thrown into prison, but was soon released,and went to Holland Reurnin? to England, and refusing to pay tithes, he wns cast in a suit for <herecov- iv ot them, and again visited the continent. His health had now become impaired by the inces-sant toil and unftering he had ^ndured. and he asnin revisited his native land, living in a retired rr»nner till his death, in 1690 He was sincere in his rvliginae opinions, and a rijrid observer of the g-**tmoral dutie*. His writings cousiat of his Journals, Epistles, and Doctrinal Pieeeu. LORD SOMERS. 221. LORD SOMERS. JOHN SOMERS, chancellor of England, son of an attorney, was born at Wor-cester, in 1652. He was educated at a private school in Staffordshire, andthen entered at Trinity college, Oxford, from which he removed to the MiddleTemple. He united here the study of polite literature with that of the law,and in 1681 he assisted in the publication of A Just and Modest Vindicationof the Proceedings of the last two Parliaments, which Charles II. had dissolved O * with dissatisfaction. He afterward highly distinguished himself as an able andeloquent pleader, and was in 1633 one of the counsel for Pilkinton, Lord Gray,and others, who had caused a riot in London, and in 1688 for the seven bish-ops. In the convention parliament o
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