3. _John Goodwin_ when invited to Lynn held the living of _Rainham_ in the same county: yet he accepted that invitation, took up his residence here, and became the successor of Mr. Nic. Price, as chief minister of St. Nicholas’ chapel. But his settlement here was not long, scarcely exceeding one year; for he was chosen July 31. 1629—acceded to that choice on the 10th of the next month, and within a year, or very little more, from that period, he was, as the MS. says, _inhibited for preaching here_, [by the _bishop_ we presume; but _on_ what account does not appear;] and Dr. Arrowsmith was appointed to succeed him, at the michaelmas following, i.e. 1630, for further particulars concerning him, the reader is referred to the historians of the succeeding period, and to our general biographers. {994} With all his singularities and imperfections, he must have been in his day a very considerable and highly distinguished character. 4. _John Horne_—was another of our townsmen of former times, whose name deserves to be rescued from oblivion, and retained in the memory of the inhabitants. He was born at _Long Sutton_, _Lincolnshire_, in 1615; and educated at Trinity College in Cambridge, where he had Henry Hall B.D. for his tutor. He probably went into orders before 1640; and we are told that he _preached first at Sutton St. James_, in his native neighbourhood. It has been also supposed that he had afterwards a curacy at or near _Bullingbrook_, in the same county, and it seems somewhat probable that he married during his residence at that place. {995} Be that as it might, it is certain that his stay there was not very long, for he took up his residence at Lynn in 1646, {996} where he continued ever after to the day of his death, which was full thirty years. His coming hither was in consequence of having obtained the living or vicarage of Allhallows, or All-saints, in South Lynn, where he succeeded Mr. _John Man_, whom we noticed before, at p. 702 of this work, and who had resided here, first as _usher_, then _master_ of the Grammar School, and afterwards as _vicar of South Lynn_, for the long space of between 50 and 60 years. {997a}