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FULLER  . W.-FULLER, THOMAS generation, disappeared for the most part in his subsequent discourses . About 164o he had married Eleanor, daughter of Hugh Grove of Chisenbury, Wiltshire . She died in 1641 . Their eldest child, John, baptized at Broadwindsor by his father, 6th June 1641, was afterwards of Sidney Sussex College, edited the Worthies of England, 1662, and became rector of Great Wakering, Essex, where he died in 1687 . At Broadwindsor, early in the year 1641, Thomas Fuller, his curate Henry Sanders, the church wardens, and others, nine persons altogether, certified that their parish, represented by 242 grown-up male persons, had taken the Protestation ordered by the speaker of the Long Parliament . Fuller was not formally dispossessed of his living and prebend on the triumph of the Presbyterian party, but he relinquished both preferments about this time . For a short time he preached with success at the Inns of Court, and thence removed, at the invitation of the master of the Savoy (Dr Balcanqual) and the brotherhood of that foundation, to be lecturer at their chapel of St Mary Savoy . Some of the best discourses of the witty preacher were delivered at the Savoy to audiences which extended into the chapel-yard . In one he set forth with searching and truthful minuteness the hindrances to. peace, and urged the signing of petitions to the king at Oxford, and to the parliament, to continue their care in advancing an accommodation . In his Appeal of Injured Innocence Fuller says that he was once deputed to carry a petition to the king at Oxford . This has been identified with a petition entrusted to Sir Edward Wardour, clerk of the pells, Dr Dukeson, " Dr Fuller," and four or five others from the city of Westminster and the parishes contiguous to the Savoy .

A pass was granted by the

House of Lords, on the and of January 1643, for an equipage of two coaches, four or six horses and eight or ten attendants . On the arrival of the deputation at Uxbridge, on the 4th of January, officers of the Parliamentary army stopped the coaches and searched the gentlemen; and they found upon the latter " two scandalous books arraigning the proceedings of the House," and letters with ciphers to Lord Viscount Falkland and the Lord Spencer . Ultimately a joint order of both Houses remanded the party; and Fuller and his friends suffered a brief imprisonment . The Westminster Petition, notwithstanding, reached the king's hands; and it was published with the royal reply (see J . E . Bailey, Life of Thomas Fuller, pp . 245 et seq.) . When it was expected, three months later, that a favourable result would attend the negotiations at Oxford, Fuller preached a sermon at Westminster Abbey, on the 27th of March 1643, on the anniversary of Charles I.'s accession, on the text, " Yea, let him take all, so my Lord the King return in peace." On Wednesday, the 26th of July, he preached on church reformation, satirizing the religious reformers, and maintaining that only the Supreme Power could initiate reforms . He was now obliged to leave London, and in August 1643 he joined the king at Oxford . He lived in a hired chamber at Lincoln College for 17 weeks . Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to John Saltmarsh, who had attacked his views on ecclesiastical reform . Fuller subsequently published by royal request a sermon preached on the loth of May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and Prince Charles, called Jacob's Vow .

- The spirit of Fuller's

preaching, always characterized by calmness and moderation, gave offence to the high royalists, who charged him with lukewarmness in their cause . To silence unjust censures he became chaplain to the regiment of Sir Ralph Hopton . For the first five years of the war, as he said, when excusing the non-appearance of his Church History, " I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to be made a history, and shifting daily for my safety . All that time I could not live to study, who did only study to live." After the defeat of Hopton at Cheriton Down, Fuller retreated to Basing House . He took an active part in its defence, and his life with the troops caused him to be afterwards regarded as one of " the great cavalier parsons." In his marches with his regiment round about Oxford and in the west, he devoted much time to the collection of details, Island beach on the 16th of June, and the Ossolis were among the passengers who perished . Life Without and Life Within (Boston, 186o) is a collection of essays, poems, &c., supplementary to her Collected Works, printed in 1855 . See the Autobiography of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, with additional memoirs by J . F . Clarke, R . W . Emerson and W . H .

Channing (2 vols., Boston, 1852) ; also Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli), by Julia Ward Howe (1883), in the " Eminent Women " series; Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Boston, 1884), by Thomas Went-worth Higginson in the " American Men of Letters " series, which is based largely on unedited material; and The Love Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846 (London and New York, 1903), with an introduction by Julia Ward Howe .