3 
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for their butter, eggs, and chickens. 
Springs of woud are fubftituted for thofe 
of iron, or fteel, by which a heavy duty 
is avoided. So averfe do even the pea- 
fants here feem to travelling on foot, that 
I have frequently obferved them riding 
en jack-affes, either becaufe they found, 
jt Inconvenient, or, perhaps, it was out 
ef-their power to*keep a horfe and cart. 
[To be continued. | 
See Ee 
For the Monthly Magoxine. 
List oF DissentiING CONGREGA- 
TIONS (CONTINUED). 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
Congregations. 
Bese eney - - - 
Brittol - < - - 
Bourton - - 
Cam i = a zi 
Chalford’s Bottoms 
Cheltenham = - 
Fairford . - 
Fifhponds ° Pee 
Foreft Green - © 
French Hay - * 
Gloucefter - = 
Grittleton . - 
Hampton = ite 
Harham ~ i 
Hilfley - - 
Hortley = - 
Kingftanley ae ve = 
Matchfeld - - 
Mitchel Dean = = 
Moreton = ~ 
Natton * = = 
Newport - Bates = 
Painfwick - - 
Rangworthy fe -* 
Sodbury - - = > 
Stow - - : 
Stroud 2 - 
Tetbary - ~ - 
‘Fewkefbury ev Gane - 
Thornbury he = = 
Wotten under Edge - - 
In Gleucefterfhire, young men have 
been educated for the miniftry, among 
proteftant diflenters, for more: than a 
century. Abort the commencement of 
the prefent century, the rev..Samuel 
Jones was tutor to an academy in Glou- 
cefter, which afterwards removed to 
Tewkefbury, ten miles north of Glou- 
cefler. Mr. Jones appears to have been 
eminent for his learning and piety, by 
the fketch which is given of his charac- 
ter, by archbishop Secker, then one of 
Lift of Diffenting Congregations. 
one to believe 
eek Doe eae ie ee Oe ee ee oP we re ee er Ne er Det ove 
i [Aug. 
his pupils, in a letter to Dr. Watts.— 
This letter is publifhed in Dr. Gibbon’s 
Memoirs of the Rev. Ifaac Watts, D.D. 
p. 346. That part of the letter which 
relates more.immediately to Mr. Jones’s 
charaéter is extra¢éted and interwoven 
with many juft end liberal remarks, in 
an eflay'of Dr. Kngx’s, in’ his Lucubra- 
tions, which I fhall here tranfcribe, asa 
monument to perpetuate the worth of 
one on earth, who will be had in ever- 
laiting remembrance in heaven, end as 
it does fo mich credit to two of the dif- 
tinguifhed ornaments of the eftablithed 
church, who concurred in its ereétion. 
.. The foundaticn of that fingular emi- 
nence and dignity to which arehbifhop 
Secker arrived, was certainly laid at the 
academy of Mr. Jones, of Gloucefter, 
who had the honour to educate another 
moft excellent divine, that fhining orna- 
ment of the church and nation, bifhop 
Butler. 
it may reafonably be concluded, that 
the perfon who trained two charaéters fo 
dittinguifhed, was himfelf refpeétable ; 
and he certainly deferves the efteem of 
pofterity, if it were only that two fuch 
lights of the church, as Secker and Bat- 
ler, derived fome of their luftre from 
his lamp. 
The charafter of Mr. Jones could not, 
I imagine, have been perfeétly known to 
the biographers of the archbifhop, Dr. 
Porteus, and Dr. Stinton, whofe re- 
puted benevolence and liberality forbid 
that they would have 
{poken rather flightingly ‘of Mr. Jones, 
if they had known how much he was ef- 
teemed by the archbifhop, and how well 
he appears to have deferved the moft 
honourable mention. Their words are— 
‘« The archbifhop received his education 
at feveral private {chools and academies 
in the country. In one orother of thefe 
feminaries, he had the good fortune to 
meet, and to form an acquaintance with 
feveral perfons of great abilities. Among 
toe reft, in the academy of ONE Mr. Jones, 
kept firft at Gloucefter, then at Tewkef- 
bary, he laid the foundation of a ftriét 
friendthip with Mr. Jofeph Butler, af- 
terwards bifhop of Durham.” 
They fay nothing of improvements 
made at Mr. Jones's academy ; but only 
of a connection which he had the good 
fortune to form there. _I am convinced, 
from their charaéters, that they could 
not intend to undervalue Mr. Jones, be- 
caufe he was a Diffenter, and his academy 
was not honoured with the diftinétion of 
the two alzie matres: but I believe, 
1 -. iehey 
