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congregation in Little Wild Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, he succeeded
him as pastor in 1758. He was a man of very broad views and a person of
"considerable public influence" (D.N.B.).
Mr Edwards: Morgan Edwards (1722-1795), pastor of the noted
Baptist church of Philadelphia 1761-71 and a major contributor to
Baptist church history. He was a prime mover in the founding of Rhode
Island college, later Brown University (see the following entry). In
1767-68 he was fairly successful in raising funds for the college in Great
Britain. Among the Baptist ministers he was one of a few who supported
the British cause in the American war for independence (D.A.B.).
a College in Rhode Island had been granted, in 1764, a charter which
was drafted by that hammer of the Episcopalians, Ezra Stiles [W.G.
McLoughlin, Isaac Backus and the American Pietistic Tradition (Boston,
1967), p. 102], and Thomas Hollis had contributed funds. The college,
founded on the principles of full liberty of conscience and prohibition of
religious tests, altered its name to Brown University in 1804.
Act 13 Eliz c. 12: see fol. 73.
FOLIO 90 (1767-68)
Mr Allen: William Allen, B.A., who was collated to Little Chart, Kent
on 20 January, 1768 (L.P.L. Seeker Register II, p. 334).
Mr Rice: George Rice (1724-1779), of a leading Whig family of
Camarthenshire, who married Cecil (1735-1793), daughter and heiress
of William, first earl Talbot, on 16 August, 1756 [Gentleman's Magazine,
XXVI (1756), p. 450 says 31 August]. He served as M.P. for
Carmarthenshire 1754-79 and lord lieutenant of his county, and was
lord commissioner on the board of trade and foreign plantations 1761-70
(Namier and Brooke, H.C., III, pp. 350-52).
Bp of London: Richard Terrick.
FOLIO 91 (1768)
Dr HinchclifFe: John Hinchcliffe (1731-1794), former fellow of Trinity
college, Cambridge. Through the patronage of the duke of Grafton
whom he had met in 1763 he was presented to the living of Greenwich
and became a royal chaplain. He was installed as master of Trinity on 3
March, 1768, and chosen vice-chancellor of the university the same
year. In 1769 he was consecrated as bishop of Peterborough which he