THE

NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL:

BEING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINISTERS,
Who were EJECTED or SILENCED after the RESTORATION,
particularly by the ACT of UNIFORMITY, which took
Place on Bartholomew-day, Aug. 24, 1662.

Containing a concise VIEW of

THEIR LIVES AND CHARACTERS,

THEIR

PRINCIPLES, SUFFERINGS, and PRINTED WORKS.
Originally written

By the Reverend and Learned EDMUND CALAMY, D.D.
Now abridged and corrected, and the Author's Additions inferted,
with many further Particulars, and new Anecdotes,

By SAMUEL

PALM E R.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

An INTRODUCTION, containing a brief HISTORY
of the TIMES in which they lived, and the GROUNDS of
their NONCONFORMITY.

Embellished with the HEADS of many of those venerable Divines.

VOLUME I.

ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος

HEB. xi, 38.

'" Bartholomew-day was fatal to our Church and Religion, in throw-
"ing out a very great number of worthy, learned, pious, and
" orthodox Divines."

LOCKE.

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THE

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

EMOIRS of the lives and characters of wife and good men, have been generally esteemed fome of the most entertaining and ufeful publications. Perhaps no body of men ever lived who better deserved to have their history handed down to pofterity, or the accounts of whom are more adapted to please and profit ferious minds, than the ministers ejected out of the church of England, soon after the restoration of Charles II. and particularly by the Act of Uniformity; the whole number of whom was upwards of two thousand. * "I do not believe (fays "Mr. Pierce +) that any where in hiftory an equal "number of clergymen, voluntarily leaving their all "for a good confcience, can be produced."--" If they "If "did not act from a principle of confcience, they were "the weakest people in the world, for they were active "in their own ruin :" when, had they but roundly declared their affent and confent to the new terms of conformity, they might have continued in their livings, as well as others, and avoided the poverty, difgrace,

The enemies of these men have affected greatly to reduce their number. One of them, having counted the names in Dr. Calamy's Index to his first edition, (in which all those are omitted whofe names only are mentioned in the account) reports, with triumph, "that the 2000 fufferers, fo much cried up, cannot be made more than 696, of whom a 4th part afterwards conformed." See Cal. Pref. to Contin. p. 19. But from the accurate manufcript catalogue, which is mentioned in the 14th page of this Preface, it appears the number really was 2257.

+ Vindication of the Diffenters, p. 232.