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person lived to be restored in 1660, and continued vicar for 

 eighteen years ; but was so impoverished by his misfortunes, 

 that he left the vicarage-house and premises in a very abject 

 and dilapidated state *. 



July 1678. Richard By field, who left eighty pounds by 

 will, the interest to be applied to apprentice out poor children: 

 but this money, lent on private security, was in danger of 

 being lost, and the bequest remained in an unsettled state for 

 near twenty years, till 1700 ; so that little or no advantage 

 was derived from it. About the year 1759 it was again in 

 the utmost danger by the failure of a borrower; but, by 

 prudent management, has since been raised to one hundred 

 pounds stock in the three per cents reduced. The trustees are 

 the vicar and the renters or owners of Temple, Priory, 

 Grange, Blackmore, and Oakhanger-house, for the time being. 

 This gentleman seemed inclined to have put the vicarial 



* [John Ferrol, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. That the 

 interloper had his turn of persecution on the change of Government 

 appears from the following account taken from Oalamy's l Nonconformists' 

 Memorial : ' " He was an humble, peaceable, laborious divine ; prudent 

 and inoifensive in his conduct. Of an healthful constitution, and of a 

 meek and even temper, not much resenting the injuries of his adversaries. 

 He was of an active disposition, and, being a noted botanist and herbalist, 

 made his garden his diversion when his labouring mind called for a 

 relaxation from Jiis studies. Upon Mr. L(ongworth)'s sequestration he 

 was settled in his place ; but after the Restoration he was advised to 

 resign his living to the former incumbent, which he accordingly did, and 

 then retired to Guildford, in Surrey, where he kept boarders who went to 

 the free school. When the corporation oath was imposed, not being 

 satisfied to take it, he removed to Farnham. On January 14, 1669, he 

 was taken up near Godalming, and sent to the Marsh alsea in Southwark, 

 for having been frmnd within five miles of. the corporation of Guilford 

 and Godalming, and also for preaching at Godalming. He continued six 

 months in prison, and sometimes said that this was one of the most com- 

 fortable parts of his life, through the kindness of friends whom God raised 

 up to administer relief to him in his troubles." It appears that Bishop 

 Morley was very kind to him, and certainly Ferrol was no bigot, as " his 

 custom was to go to the public church as his people also did." After 

 some changes of residence he finally " retired to Lymington, in Hamp- 

 shire, where he was not idle, but preached frequently . . . till by a gentle 

 decay, the candle of life burning down to the socket, he expired, not with 

 a stink, but a sweet savour ... in the 80th year of his age." T. B.] 



