1805-] - 
Green, M.A. Fellow, From King’s Col- 
leze, George Duncome, Fellow. From 
Magdalen College, John Sadler, M.A. 
Matter; Jofeph Hil, B.D. Proétor ; 
Thomas More, M. A.3 and John 
Wood, M. A. both Fellows, with 
Mr. Robert Whitaker. From Pembroke- 
hall, William Mofes, M.A. Matter; 
Alexander Green, M.A. 3 Henry Samp- 
fon, M. A. and Abraham Clh:fford, B. D. 
all Fell IWS. 
Ray, M.A. Bellow, and F_R.S.; Jofeph 
Oddy, M. A. 3 Thomas Senier, B. D, ; 
Edmund Aina, M.A.3 John Hutchin= 
fon, B. A. iJon Davis, M-A. ; 
Crofsland, B.A.; Mr. Nicsele: Mr. 
Hayes, and Mr. John Caftle, all Rellown 
From the fame College were alfo ejected 
Samuel Corbyn, M.A. 3 Mr. Robert 
Eikins ; Mr. Samuel Ponder; Mr. Tho- 
mas Lock, fcholar; John Pratt, M.D.; 
William Difney, M, A. ; and Willoughby 
Weft, M.A. 
Of_thefe gentlemen, the moft diftin- 
guifhed was Do&tor Tuckney, who was 
firtt Mater of Emanuel Coilege,and after- 
wards Matter of St. John’s. A very 
handfome and faithtul account is given of 
him by Baker, in his Manu(cript Hiftory 
of St. John’s College: he was a man ge- 
nerally efteemed and refpected, and the 
author of feveral religious publications. 
The following anecdote recorded of 
Tuckney fhews that he was not over-run 
with bigotry. When, as the Prefident of 
Si. John’s, he was called ypon, according 
to the cant of the times, to have regard ie 
the godly, he replied, ‘* No one fhould 
have greater regard to the truly godly than 
himfclf ; but he was determined to choole 
none but {cholars: they may deceive me 
(continued he,) in their godlinefs, they 
cannot in their {cholarfhip.”’ 
Another perfon of diitinguifhed cha- 
racter aineng thefe Cantabrigians was Mr, - 
Holcroft. ‘After his deprivation he be- 
came the Superintendant of all the Non- 
‘conformift, Churches ‘in Cambridgefhire, 
affitted by Mr. Oddy; on account of 
which, befide bis ejeétment from his Fel- 
lowfhip, he underwent imprifonment in 
Cambridge Caltle for twelve ‘years.— 
Holcroft was chamber-fellow, or chum, 
to ufe acollege-term, to Tillotfon, after- 
wards Archbithop of Canterbury, who 
during Holcroft’s confinement fhewed him 
much attention and civility. Of Hol- 
croft, and of his progrefs i in bringing his 
difperfed brethren into congregational- 
churches in Camibridgethire, there is 
an account in the D.ffenter’s Church- 
book in St. Andrew’s parith, Cambrilge, 
- Cantabrigiana 
From Trinity College, John . 
227 
which may be feen in Dyer’s Memoirs of 
the ingenious Mr. Robert Robinfon,: for- 
merly minifter of that Congregation. 
Another perfon of confiderable charac- 
ter was Mr. John Ray, the well known 
naturalift: his works are numerous, and 
ee 
many of them held in high eftimation.— 
Ray, though as a Minifter he became a 
Nonconformilt, yet did not become pro- | 
perly a Diffenter, but continued to attend 
the Eftablifhed Church. 
Or Dr. William Dell, Mafter of Cait 
College, an account has been given in a 
former article. 
Whoever defires more information con. _ 
cerning thefe Puritans, may confult Mr. 
Samuel Palmer’ s Nonconformitt’s Memo- 
rial, 
XCIII.—METHODISTS. 
This fect originated at Oxford ; the foun- 
der was Mr. John Welley, of Lincoln Col- 
leze, who was a few years afterwards joined 
by Mr. George Whitfield, of Pembroke 
College. They appear not t (OlAeCenaRIGe 
ed any views either openly hoitile or infi- 
dious againft the E‘tablithed Church, but 
were very clamorous and dogmatizing 
again{t the doétrines and want of zeal in - 
‘their clerical brethren. 
The firft perfon at Cambridge who 
feems to have been much influenced by 
Methodifm, was a Fellow of Clare-hall, 
Mr. John Berridge, who  occafionally 
preaching in the pulpit at St. Mary’s, 
gave great offence to the Untverfity.— 
The fellows of Clare Hall, it feems, were 
happy to difpofe of him in a way that was 
at once creditable to themfelves and very 
acceptable to Berridge, by giving him a 
college-living, which was Everton, a vile 
lage in Bedfordfhire. This was in1755. 
“john Berridge was characterized by 
great peculiarities; a man of learning, 
but always preaching againft human lite. 
rature ; difmally hypochondriac, yet overs 
flowing with drollery ; a preacher in the 
Eftablithed Church, yet a great encou- 
rager of Diffenters : 
forth lay-preachers, and many Diffenting 
Congregations in Cambridgefhire were 
compoled of John Berridge’s 5 dilciples. 
He ufed to fign himfelt Old Everton 5 
and to fay, ‘‘ that when he was at college, 
and preached, looking on himfelf as God 
Almighty’s almoner, he expected to be 
admired for his preachments ; but that on 
his becoming a Methodift preacher, he 
was taught to confider himfelf as Jefus 
Chrift’s riding pediar, travelling with a 
wallet at his back, containing nothing 
of.en but a mouldy cruit; that the Lord 
G g2 would 
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