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[28] The Rev. David Baddy Jardine, one in the 

 succession of pastors of the old Nonconformists of 

 Bath. He was the immediate predecessor of the Rev. 

 Thomas Broadhurst, who was an excellent scholar as 

 well as very worthy man, the author of the transla- 

 tions of the Greek panegyrists on the military heroes 

 of former days. Mr. Jardine died in quite early life, 

 leaving a son, the present Recorder of Bath, who is to 

 be reckoned among those who by their writings have 

 done honour to the place, by his critical inquiries 

 into various points of English history or constitutional 

 practice. 



[29] Thomas Cogan, M.D., and the Rev. John 

 Simpson. Mr. Simpson was a Nonconformist minister, 

 and never quite laid aside the character, though, 

 having an easy fortune, he had for many years no 

 regular charge. But he bated not one jot of labour 

 in the higher duties of his profession, his whole time 

 being devoted to the critical study of the Holy Scrip- 

 tures and consideration of the grounds of the Christian 

 faith and hope, not for his own gratification only, but 

 for the benefit of the public to whom he preached by 

 the press. Dr. Cogan left the profession in early 

 life, and betook himself to medicine, which he prac- 

 tised in Holland for many years. The same political 

 changes which drove his friend Dr. Maclaine back to 



