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    fhe ^ ProteStantDissentingChurches in Cambridgeshire , drawn up bjr Mr *^ Robinson . Dr . Toulmin mentions it- as communicated to biin by Mr # Thompson , without being- apparently aware of Mr . ^ Thompson having collected

    similair accounts from nearly all ihe counties in the kingdom * About 80 years since , Mr . Thompson showed me a l&rge folio volume , containing these little histories , very fairly transcribed ; and if I am not much mistaken it was

    deposited ifi Dr . Williams ' s library , in Red Cross Street . About the time Mr * Robinson sent his Historical Sketches , Mr . Towgood anAMn Bad cock sent similar accounts of different congregations in Devonshire . Mr . Badcock

    gave-me . a copy of what he communicated ; and his history of Barnstaple , \^ here he was settled fot many years , is drawn up in such a vein of pleasantry and pointed appositeness of expression as ^ will amnse your general read-&& , ' and will forcibly recall tq the recollection of those who were

    personally acquainted with him , tfeatfcriWiancy of style , and liveliness df ^ disposition * which have o& 4 n sdelightqd them , i Mn Badcock -was < a native pf this county , and was born at ScmthiMoillto rj in , 1747 . He

    receiVedJiis grar&matical education aiuder Mtv Palk , the minister of < foei £ ottg £ regatmn * On the death 4 G $ 3 Mr . FaiK :-, lie was placed under the cSurc of My . Coleridge * at © tteryu ^ yJkt . 16 he became a pupil 3

    4 « i Mr * JJavi » gtoiiis academy at t © tt € « yf and ; on . the death of Mr . JaaVaigtea removed to Bridport , -ttSfere nc Hniiiheiihis studies . He 4 ^ egan ? to ipre ^ ch ) in l $ 65 f when : faetw&s oaiyal 9 ^^ nc ^ fit ^ o ^^ at Winbourne in Dorsetshire

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    Here he continued till the year 1770 , at which time he removed to Barnstaple . The congregation at Barnstaple were much pleased with his public services ; buthig private character became at last

    so very exceptionable , that it was judged prudent of him to retire . He accordingly left Barnstaple in 1 ^ 7 ^ , and was chosen at South Moulton . Not finding , however ,

    his situation among tbe dissenters , through his own conduct , so eligible as he could wish , he quitted the congregation in 1786 ^ and soon ai \ er conformed to the

    Church , and had a curacy within four miles of Exeter , His health soon obliged him to relinquish this situation , and he afterwards engaged himself as an assistant to Dr . Gabriel , at the Octagon chapel at Bath , and had a very considerable share in

    writing the Bampton Lectures , published by Mr . White . He died -May 19 ) 1788 . He was a man of very extraordinary talents . His education ' was confined , but his own attainments were

    wonderful and various . There was scarcely a subject he was not in some measure acquainted with , nor any branch of literature that he had entirely neglected . The reader being acquainted with these circumstances , which

    were publibhed , I believe , in some periodical paper about the time of his death , will read with more interest the following short narrative . v JAMES MANNING .

    "BARNSTAPLE . € t Tile dissenting congregation in this pl ^ ce was orig inally gathered by Mr . Jonathan Jianiner ( grandfather \ of Qay th ^ , pog ) * n 4 M ^ ' Ph ^ t ^^ - ^ anmer was a man of very con-

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    202 , Historical Account of ihe Dissenting Congrsgathny Barnstaple

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/10/