Univerfity, 10 April 1674 Mr. George Walls (afterwards Dr. Walls *) was his Tutor. He was (being then A. B.) ordained Deacon at Chrifts-Church, by the pious and learned Dr. John Fell, then Bishop of Oxon, and (as Commendatory Dean) Governor of that Royal College,† on the 21st of Sept. 1679. He commenced A. M. 5 July 1680 +, and, the next Year, received the Order of Priesthood in Buckden Church, from the Hands of Dr. Thomas Barlow, the then Right Rev. Bishop of Lincoln, as appears from the following Certificate, the Original of which is in my Hands, by which the World will fee what Hopes that Prelate then entertained of this young Divine,

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Nov. 2 1682. HESE are to certify those whom it may concerne, that Mr. Lewis Atterbury, Maister of Arts, of ChriftChurch, in the Universitie of Oxon, was ordained Prieft by the now Bishop of Lincolne, Sept. 25. 1681. When it did * appear by his good Testimonials, and his A 4 Ex

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Examination, that he was a Perfon (both ⚫ for Life and Learninge) capable and worthy of Orders, and it did further appeare, by a good and pious Sermon he then preached before the faid Bifhop, that he was ' able to execute the minifteriall Function ' with Benefit to any Congregation, to the 'Cure of which Providence should call him. This Truth beeinge well knowne to me, is teftifyed under the Hand and Seale of

Thomas, Lincolne.

IN the Year 1683, he performed the Office of Chaplain to Sir William Pritchard, Knt, then Lord Mayor of London,

In the Month of Feb. 1684, + he was instituted Rector of Sywell, in the County of Northampton; which Living he afterwards refigned, upon his accepting of other Preferment.

On the 8th of July 1687, he took, by Accumulation, the two Degrees of Batchelor and Doctor in the Civil Law.

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THE Year after this, he changed his Condition, and, on the 27th of December 1688, married Penelope, the Daughter of Mr. John Bedingfield, Brother to Sir Robert Bedingfield, Knt. Lord Mayor of London, in the Year 1707. They were Sons of John Beding field of Halfworth, in the County of Suffolk Gent, who was the third Son of Thomas Beding field in the faid County, Efq;

THE Mother of the faid Penelope was Widow of John Porter, Efq; and Daughter of Sir Francis Williamfon, Knt.

Or this Marriage came two Sons, who died in their Infancy. A Daughter, named after her Mother, born 15 June 1699, who married Mr. George Sweetaple, of St. Andrew's Holborn, Brewer, and died in August 1725, leaving one Daughter, who lived to be Heir to her Grandfather's Fortune, but died about feven Months after him, 3 June 1732, in the 11th Year of her Age.

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A THIRD Son he had, named Beding field Atterbury, who was born 8 Jan. 1693. and, after a School Education at Westminster, was admitted at Chrift-Church, Oxford, and matriculated †, 9 April 1712. There he ftudied, till he commenced A. M. 20 June 1718, and took Deacon's Orders. Thofe, who knew him, give him the Character of a fober, modeft, and ingenious young Gentleman; But the Hopes, which his Parents and Friends conceived of him, were foon difappointed, for he died of the Small-Pox, 27 December 1718.

THE Mother, grieved for the Lofs of her favourite Son, did not many Years furvive him, for fhe died the first of May Anno Dom. 1723.

HAVING thus given fome Account of his Family and Off-fpring, in one View, I return back to the Father of them, whom I find, in 1691, Lecturer of St. MaryHill, in London, and, not long after his Marriage, fettled at Highgate, where he fupplied the Pulpit of the Rev. Mr. Daniel

Lathom,

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Lathom, who was very old, and laboured under the Misfortune of the Lofs of his Sight. Upon the Death of this Gentleman, our Doctor was, 16 Jun. 1695, by the unanimous Votes of the fix Governors, or Trustees, of Highgate Chapel, elected to be their Preacher; and this Office he held to the Time of his Death.

BUT before this he became one of the fix preaching Chaplains to her Royal Highnefs the Princess Anne of Denmark at Whitehall and St. James's, which Place he continued to fupply after he came to the Crown, and likewife during Part of the Reign of King George I.

WHEN he first refided at Highgate, he obferved what Difficulties the Poor in the Neighbourhood then underwent for the Want of a good Phyfician or Apothecary, and therefore he fet himself in good Earneft to the Study of Physic, and, having attained a good Skill therein, practifed it (gratis) occafionally amongst his poor Neighbours,

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