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Excerpt from Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen, From Alfred the Great to the Latest Times, on an Original Plan
In 1725 he was nominated a preacher at Whitehall, by Dr Gibson, bishop of London; and from 1725 to 1729..held the curacy of Yelling in Huntingdonshire In 1731 he was presented by his college to the Vicarage of Hitchin In Hertf'ordshire. At Hitchin - the value of 'which would not admit the expense of a curate - he began that course of strict attention to the duties of his office which he exhibited throughout life; and having advanced a considerable sum to repair the Vicarage-house, he was obliged to add to his labours by undertaking the education of a. Few pupils. In October, 1735, he was presented to the neighbouring rectory of Holwell, in the county of Bedford. He was selected by the duke of Athole as a proper person to succeed the excellent and vener able Bishop Wilson, who died in 1755; and was accordingly consecrated in Whitehall chapel, after being created D.D. By Archbishop Herring; and on the 6th of August, 1755, was installed in the cathedral of St German on Peel, in the Isle ofman.
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