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    the ancient and honourable family of the Trevor ^ and wherS some land was generously allowed him by Mr . Trevor . Having lived there several years , he removed to Hope , where he died * and was buried in February 1679 , in a good old age . I > r *

    Maurice , of Abergeley , a conforming minister , preached his funeral sermon , and spoke highly of him ; he also composed a Latin inscription for his gravestone , no less honourable to his memory . He was a person of a cheerful and pleasant countenance , of unquestionable learning , moderation , prudence and pietv . He met with many hardships , and endured them as a

    good soldier of Jesus Christ ; one time he suffered three months imprisonment only for performing family duty in a gentleman ' s house after he had been silenced . He could not think himself discharged from the duty of preaching the Gospel by the laws of

    men , and therefore continued his ministry in private as often as he had opportunity . Being solicited by his wife and rela * tions to conform , on account of his family , he answered—* " God will provide : none of you will go with me to jud g * rtient . " 4 * He had a good report of all men , " says Calamy * " and of the truth itself ; and he appears indeed to have been

    one of those excellent men of whom the world is not worthy . " When he had no opportunity to preach he would employ his , time in writing and translating good books into his native lan ^

    guage , for the use of the poor inhabitants ; among those were Mr . Gouged Word to Sinners and Saints , and his Principles of the Christian Religion ; which have doubtless been of n

    be said of him , that though dead he yet speaketh . JONATHAN ROBERTS . —Where he was barn does not appear ; he had his education at Oxford , where he received the degree of M . A , He afterwards became vicar of Llanfair m

    Denbighshire , from whence he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity , " He was , " says Dr . Charles Owen , an excellent scholar , a warm disputant , and a trul y upright man . " The venerable Mr . Philip Henry also describes him as a learned

    man , an Israelite indeed for plainness and integrity , a silent sufferer for his nonconformity , for which he quitted a good Jiving , and died with comfort in the review , September % 6 r 1684 /* The summer before he died he had visited Oxford , Cambridge , and London , where he heard and saw what greatly confirmed him in his dissenting principles . After his ejection , he exercised his ministry in private , as opportunities offered ,

    which was probably not unfrequent , though it could not be done without considerable risk , as the rage of persecution was very violent in that part of the country . He was one of the disputants in that memorable debate concerning nonconformity , held in the towa-toUl of Oswestry , September 27 , 1631 , between &q

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    64 Biographical sketches .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/8/