See also:EDMUND See also:CALAMY (1671-1732)
, See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, the only son of See also:Edmund See also:Calamy " the younger," was See also:born in See also:London, in the See also:parish of St See also:Mary Aldermanbury, on the 5th of See also:April 1671
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He was sent to various See also:schools, including See also:Merchant Taylors', and in 1688 proceeded to the university of See also:Utrecht
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While there, he declined an offer of a See also:professor's See also:chair in the university of See also:Edinburgh made to him by the See also:principal, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Carstares, who had gone over on purpose to find suitable men for such posts
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After his return to See also:England in 1691 he began to study divinity, and on See also:Baxter's See also:advice went to See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he was much influenced by See also:Chillingworth
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He declined invitations from See also:Andover and See also:Bristol, and accepted one as assistant to See also:Matthew See also:Sylvester at Blackfriars (1692)
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In See also:June 1694 he was publicly ordained at Annesley's See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:house in Little St See also:Helen's, and soon afterwards was invited to become assistant to See also:Daniel See also:Williams in See also:Hand See also:Alley, Bishopsgate
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In 1702 he was chosen one of the lecturers in Salters' See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, and in 1703 he succeeded See also:Vincent See also:Alsop as pastor of a large See also:congregation in See also:Westminster
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In 1709 Calamy made a tour through See also:Scotland, and had the degree of See also:doctor of divinity conferred on him by the See also:universities of Edinburgh, See also:Aberdeen and See also:Glasgow
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Calamy's See also:forty-one publications are mainly sermons, but his fame rests on his nonconformist See also:biographies
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His first See also:essay was a table of contents to Baxter's Narrative of his See also:life and times, which wassent to the See also:press in 1696; he made some remarks on the See also:work itself and added to it an See also:index, and, reflecting on the usefulness of the See also:book, he saw the expediency of continuing it, as Baxter's See also:history came no further than the See also:year 1684
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Accordingly, he composed an abridgment of it, with an See also:account of many other ministers who were ejected after the restoration of See also:Charles II.; their See also:apology, containing the grounds of their See also:nonconformity and practice as to stated and occasional communion with the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of England; and a continuation of their history until the year 1691
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This work was published in 1702
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The most important See also:chapter (ix.) is that which gives a detailed account of the ministers ejected in 1662; it was afterwards published as a distinct See also:volume
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He afterwards published a moderate See also:defence of Nonconformity, in three tracts, in See also:answer to some tracts of See also:Benjamin, afterwards See also:Bishop, See also:Hoadly
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In 1713 he published a second edition (2 vols.) of his Abridgment of Baxter's History, in which, among various additions, there is a continuation of the history through the reigns of William and See also:Anne, down to the passing of the Occasional See also:Bill
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At the end is subjoined the reformed See also:liturgy, which was See also:drawn up and presented to the bishops in 1661
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In 1718 he wrote a vindication of his grandfather and several other persons against certain reflections See also:cast upon them by Laurence Echard in his History of England
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In 1719 he published The Church and the Dissenters Compar'd as to Persecution, and in 1728 appeared his Continuation of the Account of the ejected ministers and teachers, a volume which is really a See also:series of emendations of the previously published account
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He died on the 3rd of June 1732, having been married twice and leaving six of his thirteen See also:children to survive him
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Calamy was a kindly See also:man, frankly self-conscious, but very See also:free from See also:jealousy
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He was an able diplomatist and generally secured his ends
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His See also:great See also:hero was Baxter, of whom he wrote three distinct See also:memoirs
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His eldest son Edmund (the See also:fourth) was a Presbyterian See also:minister in London and died 1755; another son (Edmund, the fifth) was a See also:barrister who died in 1816; and this one's son (Edmund, the See also:sixth) died in 1850, his younger See also:brother See also:Michael, the last of the See also:direct Calamy See also:line, surviving till 1876
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