10 Benefits of Godly Conference

In his Lives of eminent men the ejected minister Samuel Clarke (1599-1683) says of the godly conference arising from the ejection

1. First, Hereby knowledge was wonderfully increased so that I was ncver acquainted with more understanding Christians in all my Life though the best of them went but in Russet Coats and followed Husbandry
2. Secondly, Holy affections by this mutual whetting of them each in other were excecdingly kindled and kept alive in thcm.
3. Thirdly, Lovc by frequent Society was nourislied and increased so that all the Professors though living ten or twelve miles asunder were as intimate and familiar as if they had been all of one household.
4. Fourth is Thc necessities of the poorer sort being made known there was plentiful provision made for them.
5. Fifthly, Thc wcak were strengthened
6. the mourning comforted
7. the erring reclaimed
8. the dejected raised us
9. and all of them mutually edified in thcir most holy Faith
10. Sixthly, Under the pretence of thesc Meetings we enjoyed the opportunities as occasion was offered of private Fasts and days of Thanksgiving which otherwise quickly have been taken notice of and suppressed.

Ejected men in the ODNB 'T-W'

T

Derbyshire born Francis Tallents 1619–1708

William Thomas 1592/3–1667

Lancashire born John Tilsley c1614–1684

John Tombes 1602-1676 the celebrated Baptist

Robert Towne 1592/3?–1664

William Troughton 1613/14–1686/90

Joseph Truman 1631-1671 religious writer

V

Edward Veal or Veel 1632/3–1708 who became a Nonconformist Tutor in Wapping after being silenced in 1662.

Ralph Venning c 1622–1674 author of Sin, the Plague of Plagues in 1691.

W

Monmouthshire born Henry Walter 1611–1678? ministered there both before and after 1662 despite strong opposition.

John Warren 1621–1696 was a friend of Baxter's based in Hatfield Braod Oak. Camy quotes him saying that ‘he would not leave Hatfield Christians for any place in England’.

Another graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, William Whitaker (d 1672) was ejected from Bermondsey in 1662.

Henry Wilkinson was the name of two ejected men, neither of whom is to be confused with a Roman Catholic apologist of the same name. Henry Wilkinson 1610–1675 was a renowned preacher in Camberwell and Clapham. In his Oxford days he was known as Long Harry to distinguish him from Dean Harry, Henry Wilkinson 1616/17–1690, then head of Magdalen Hall but after ejected, imprisoned and fined for nonconformity.

There were also two men called Thomas Willis, one of whom was more moderate and later conformed. They are Thomas Willis fl 1618-1673 and Thomas Willis d 1692

Ejected men in the ODNB 'R/S'

R
Nathanael Ranew 1602?–1677
Yorkshire born Christopher Richardson 1619-1698
John Robotham (d 1664?)
John Rogers 1610–1680
Somerset born Thomas Rosewell 1630–1692
John Rowe 1626/7–1677
York born John Ryther 1631/5–1681

S

Nottinghamshire born Henry Sampson c1629–1700, historian of dissent

Wiltshire born Gabriel Sangar 1608–1678

Stephen Scandrett 1631?–1706

Lazarus Seaman (d 1675)

Northamptonshire born John Sheffeild or Sheffield (d 1680)

Nottinghamshire born William Sherwin 1607–1690

John Shuttlewood 1632–1689, nonconformist tutor

Norfolk born John Stalham (d 1677)

Edmund Staunton 1600–1671, college head

Shropshire born Rowland Stedman (d 1673)

Wiltshire born Nathaniel Stephens 1606/7–1678

Andrew Stewart 1614/15?–1671

John Strickland 1601?-1670

Gloucestershire born Henry Stubb[e]s [Stubbs] 1605/6–1678

Kent born George Swinnock c1627–1673 a well known Puritan author.

Nottinghamshire born Matthew Sylvester 1636/7–1708

Ejected men in the ODNB 'O/P'

O

New England Urian Oakes c 1631–1681 returned to New England in 1671 to be head of the infant Harvard College.

Midlands preacher Henry O[a]sland 1625-1703

Lancashire born Samuel Ogden 1627/8–1697 who ‘thought the idolising the Common Prayer, and placing all religion in it, was a provocation to the good spirit of God’.

Derbyshire born John Oldfield 1626/7–1682 who wrote about his nonconformity and was later quoted by Unitarian Elizabeth Gaskell in Chapter 4 of her novel North and South. Oldfield wrote

When thou canst no longer continue in thy work without dishonour to God, discredit to religion, foregoing thy integrity, wounding conscience, spoiling thy peace, and hazarding the loss of thy salvation; in a word, when the conditions upon which thou must continue (if thou wilt continue) in thy employments are sinful, and unwarranted by the word of God, thou mayest, yea, thou must believe that God will turn thy very silence, suspension, deprivation, and laying aside, to His glory, and the advancement of the Gospel's interest.

P
Thomas Pakeman c 1614–1691

Anthony Palmer 1616-1679 of Bourton on the Water

Bolton born Robert Parke 1600-1668

London born Thomas Parson 1631- c 1668

Edward Pearse c 1633–1673

Lancashire born Henry Pendlebury 1626–1695

Samuel Petto c 1624–1711 who wrote on coveannt theology

Pembrokeshire born Peregrine Philips 1623–1691

Lavenham born Abraham Pinchbecke 1626-1681/2

London born John Poynter 1600–1684

Ejected men in the ODNB 'L-N'

L

John Langston 1640/41–1704 ejected from Gloucesterhsire in 1660 he eventually ministered in Ipswich.

George Lawrence 1613-1691 or 98 originally in London, became a hospital chaplain in Winchester and after ejection 1660 ministered again in London.

Silenced Henry Lukin 1628–1719 was ‘of great note and eminence … a judicious and learned divine’ says Calamy

M

John Machin 1624–1664

Thomas Mallory (d 1689) from Northamptonshire

William Manning 1630 or 33–1711

Walter Marshall 1628–1679

Swansea born Marmaduke Matthews c1606–1683, in New England for a period

Sussex born John Maynard 1600–1665

Richard Mayo c 1630–1695

Bedfordshire born Matthew Mead[e] 1628/9–1699

John Meadows 1622–1697

Luke Milbourne 1622-1668

Somerset born John Milward 1619/20–1680/83

Thomas Mocket c 1602–1670 controversialist from Kent

Richard Morton 1637-1698, physician

George Moxon 1602-1687 whose son became a Unitarian

N

James Nalton c 1600–1662

Benjamin Needler 1620–1682

Henry Newcome 1627-1695

Ferdinando Nic[h]olls 1597/8–1662

Ejected men in the ODNB 'H'

 H

Thomas Hall 1610–1665

Joseph Hallett I 1620-1689

Samuel Hammond (d 1665)

George Hamond 1619/20–1705

Jonathan Hanmer 1606–1687

The brothers John Harrison 1614–1670 and Thomas Harrison 1617/18–1682.

Richard Hawes 1603/4–1668

Gaspar Hickes 1605–1677

The rebel John Hickes 1633–1685

The controversialist Henry Hickman 1629-1692

Martin Holbe[a]ch 1597-1670

Francis Holcroft 1628/9?–1692

Antiquary William Hopkins 1647–1700

John Horne 1616-1676

Charles Hotham 1615–1672 author

George Hughes 1603/4–1667

Scot Abraham Hume 1614/15–1707

John Humfrey 1621-1719

Henry Hurst 1629–1690

Ejected men in the ODNB 'F/G'

F

John Fairfax 1623/4–1700

Henry Finch 1633-1704

Samuel Fisher 1605/6–1681

Devon born Thomas Ford 1598–1674

Christopher Fowler 1613/14–1677

Timothy Fox 1629/30–1710,

Francis Fuller 1636?–1701

Martin Fynch or Finch 1628/9–1698

G

Theophilus Gale 1628–1679, theologian

Allan Geare 1622–1662

Thomas Gilbert 1609/10–1673

Thomas Gilbert 1613-1694 of Shropshire

Philip Goodwin (d 1667)

Robert Gouge 1629/30–1705

Ejected men in the ODNB 'D/E'

Thomas Danson 1629-1694 of London

William Dell (d 1669), an educational reformer

Nathan Denton 1635-1720

Timothy Dod (d 1665) the son of John Dod 1550–1645

Thomas Doolittle 1630/1633?–1707 a very well known Puritan minister.

Thomas Douglas (d c1684), who became a medical doctor.

William Dyer 1632/3–1696

Richard Eedes 1610-1686

Ejected men in the ODNB 'C'

Thomas Calvert 1605/6-1679 of York
Daniel Cawdr[e]y 1587/8–1664
Oxford born Francis Cheynell 1608-1665
Nicholas Clagett 1610-1662
Matthew Clarke c 1630–c 1708.
David Clarkson 1622-1686 John Owen's last assistant and successor in London.
William Cooper, fl 1640–1681
Bolton born John Crompton 1611-1669
William Crompton 1630/1633?–1696
Scot Francis Crow 1627–1692/3

Ejected men in the ODNB 'B'

John Ba[t]chiler/Bachilor (d 1674), an Emmanuel College graduate, was ousted in 1660 but took the Oxford oath in 1666.

Thomas Baldwin (d 1693) Baxter's assistant and successor

Nathanael Ball of Somerset c 1623–1681

Father and son William Bartlet 1599-1680 and John Bartlet 1609/10–1682 were both based in Exeter.

Thomas Baylie of Wiltshire 1581/2–1663

Suffolk born John Beadle 1595–1667

Cumbrian William Benn 1600–1681

Robert Bennet[t] (d 1687) ejected from Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire, a chaplain to Philip, Lord Wharton 1613-1696.

John Billingsley 1625–1683 who established a dissenting academy in Mansfield.

Derby born oriental scholar John Bingham 1612/13–1689

Samuel Birch 1620/21–1680 who ran a school and also became a chaplain to Lord Wharton.

John Bisco[e] 1605/6–1679 of High Wycombe ejected from Abingdon in 1660

William Blackmore 1616–1684

Samuel Blower (d 1701)

Pomeranian Mauritius Boheme or Bohemus fl 1646–1662

Also two sets of synonymously named fathers and sons: James Bradshaw Sr 1613-85, James Bradshaw Jr 1635-1702 of Bolton and John Brinsley Sr 1581–1624, John Brinsley Jr 1600–1665 of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.

Andrew Bromhall 1608-1662

Benjamin Brunning 1623-1680

John Bryan (d 1676)

Daniel Bull 1633?-1697/8

John Burgess 1622/3–1671

Edward Burghall 1600-1665

Richard Byfield 1598-1664.

Cornelius Burges[s] (d 1665), Anthony Burges[s] (d 1664) Unrelated both had Watford connections and were published authors.