A HISTORY OF SURREY 



deprived of their benefices from February, 1691, and considering them- 

 selves the true exponents of the Anglican tradition tried to perpetuate 

 their society. Their numbers were not very considerable, except in the 

 diocese of Chester and the neighbourhood, though there were many 

 names of note among them. Only six are recorded in Surrey. These 

 were Thomas Bradley, rector of Walton on the Hill and vicar of Car- 

 shalton ; Alexander Mackintosh, rector of Woodmansterne and chaplain 

 to the first troop of the Life Guards under the Earl of Feversham, who 

 was obviously a Scot, and therefore if a churchman at all would be a 

 high churchman, and his military chaplaincy shows his party ; John 

 Holbrook, rector of Titsey ; Jeremiah Oakley, rector of Sutton ; Dr. 

 Matthew Brian, curate of Newington Butts and rector of Lymington in 

 Somerset, an author and poet in a small way, who gathered a secret 

 Jacobite congregation in St. Dunstan's Court, Fleet Street, which was 

 discovered in 1693, when he was imprisoned"; William Higden, lec- 

 turer and curate of Camberwell, who in the reign of Queen Anne, 

 when allegiance to a high church Stuart proved possible to several of 

 the nonjurors, took the oaths, and in 1709 published a book on the law- 

 fulness of acknowledging her Majesty. He was quickly rewarded under 

 the Tory regime, got his D.D. in 17 10 from Oxford, and a stall at Canter- 

 bury in 171 3. How, if at all, he settled matters between his conscience 

 and his allegiance in 17 14 I do not know ; but he certainly acknow- 

 ledged George the First, for he did not abandon his preferment. Canon 

 Overton [History of the Nonjurors, Appendix) adds Henry Johnson, 

 master of Wandsworth School, and Henry Jones, master of the same, 

 possibly one man really. The most illustrious of the nonjurors. Arch- 

 bishop Sancroft, not a Surrey clergyman but a Surrey resident, left his 

 houses in Surrey, retiring from Lambeth with the same dignity with 

 which he had headed the Seven Bishops against the king to whom he 

 still considered his allegiance due. David Lindsey, curate of Croydon, 

 and Dr. Winford, a rector in Surrey, have been added, but are not given 

 in Kettlewell's life, and I cannot discover the name of the latter among 

 beneficed clergy in Surrey at any time. 



The history of every diocese tends to become more and more a part 

 of general ecclesiastical history, as local differences disappear. A county 

 like Surrey containing no cathedral city has few distinctive ecclesiastical 

 records after the successive great changes of the Reformation and Revo- 

 lution periods are passed. That Dr. Mews, Bishop of Winchester in 

 succession to Morley in 1684, reverted to his former military profession 

 at the time of Monmouth's rebellion, put his horses to drag the royal 

 cannon, and, it is said, himself directed the artillery fire at Sedgemoor, is 

 not Surrey ecclesiastical history. His successor. Sir Jonathan Trelawney, 

 Bishop of Winchester in 1707, one of the Seven Bishops who took the 

 oaths to William and Mary, is equally unconnected with Surrey. Hoadley, 



» Life of the Rev. John Kettkwell, prefixed to his worb, Appendix V. He himself was a non- 

 juror of note, and no doubt knew all his brethren. 

 ^ Diet, of National Biography. 



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