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■ the Vindication of his sermon at Dr. Tillotson's Burial p. 62 saith ' Mr. Martin 

 was oontinued by mo in his living to his death, which happened two years ago, 

 and I still paid him the income of his prebend out of my purse.* He would 

 not indeed take the oaths, but he would never join in the schism with the rest 

 of the nonjurors, whose principles and practices he said to me he detested.' 



He hath written and published several sermons as (1) Hosanna A Thanks- 

 giving Sermon intended to have been preached 28 June 1660 and on Psalm 118 

 . 22—25 Oxon 1660, qto. It is dedicated to William Marquis ol* Hertford, and 

 Lady A. P. meaning, I suppose, Arundella Penruddock mother (wife) to Col John 

 : Penruddock. (2) Lex pacirica: or God's own law of determining contioversies 

 on Deut 17, 12 Loud 1664, qto. It was preached at the assizes at Dorchester 

 j for the County of Dorset the 5th of August 1664, and is ded : to Sir Matthew 

 • Hale Lord Chief Justice of the Exchequer (Common Pleas) Sir Jon Archer one 

 i of the Justices of the Com Pleas (the Judges of Assize) and to Tho Freek Esq. 

 '■ High Sheriff of Dorsetshire (Doubtless his Patron Mrs. Penruddock's brother). 



Go in Peace : containing some brief Directions for young Ministers in their 

 [ yisitation of the sick, useful for the People in their state both of health and 

 sickness Lond : 1674 in large 6to. 



Mary Magdalen's Tears wip'd off: or the Voice of Peace to an unquiet Con- 

 I science &c. Lond: 1676 octavo. Written by way of a letter to a person of quality, 

 ' and published for the comfort of all those that mourn in Zion. He hath written 

 other things fit for the press, which perhaps may in time see light. At length 

 this worthy divine dying at Compton Chamberlayne before mentioned on the 

 , third day of Novemb : 1693, was buried in the chancel of the church there, 

 leaving there behind him the character among those that well knew him of a 

 modest learned divine, and altogether fitting of a greater station in the Church 

 than he enjoyed after the restoration of his Maj : King Charles II. &c. as I have 

 been informed by that primitive Christian, faithful and generous friend Nich. 

 Martin, Master of Arts and Vice Principal of Hart Hall, near of kin to the said 



John Martin/ 



Sir Richard Hoare (Modern Wilts, add. p. 64, pub. 1837), adds 

 that Mr. Martin, of Stour Provost, having referred him to this 

 memoir, remarked : — 



"That although he is said to have had but little to keep him at the time of 

 j his death, yet the Court Roll of Gillingham proves he had a tolerable estate 

 there, and Mr. M. is happy to say it is now (1823) in the possession of a great 

 granddaughter of the celebrated Hugh Grove of Chissenbury, and who is the 

 widow of a great grandson of the above John Martin." 



Sequestration followed — stern and grievous. Mrs. Penruddock 

 and her children were obliged to leave their home, either from want 



* This fact is mentioned by Dr. Burnet's Biographer. See Burnet's Hist, of his own Times, 

 toI. vi., p. 323 (ed. 1823). 



