{1061} He lived, as did also his son afterwards, in that house in Spinner Lane, now occupied by Mr. _Dennis_, behind which stood the chapel, both of which, if we are not mistaken, were his own property. He left behind him several things in MS. some of which, beside the volume above noticed, are now in the possession of the present writer. The whole is written in a very small hand, and with singular neatness, for he, as well as his son, was an admirable penman. He was doubtless an eminent scholar, and reckoned a very good mathematician, which is not unlikely, as he was cotemporary and of the same college with _Barrow_: nor is it very probable that that generation of Dissenters had among them many if any names of superior learning and respectability. Of his writings not much went through the press, which we may presume had not been the case had he lived in later times, or under more auspicious circumstances. Of his printed works the present writer has not heard of any except the following: 1. “An Account of the Nonconformity of _John Rastrick_, A.M. sometime vicar of _Kirkton_, near _Boston_, in Lincolnshire; containing the occasion and circumstances of his secession from that place. In a Letter to a Friend.” [It was printed in London, in 1705; and the friend to whom it was addressed was Dr. _Edmund Calamy_.] 2. “A Sermon at the ordination of Mr _Samuel Savage_, at St. Edmund’s Bury, April 22. 1714. With an exhortation to him at the close.”—3. “Two letters to Mr. _Ralph Thoresby_ of _Leeds_, giving an account of a great number of _Roman_ coins found at _Flete_ in Lincolnshire, and other antiquities found at _Spalding_, &c. and printed in the _Phil. Trans._ No. 279, p. 1156, &c.—4. “A _supplement_ to the latter, printed in the same work, No. 377, p. 340.”—His unprinted, or unpublished works appear to have been much more numerous and considerable; but they got into different hands after the son’s death, and most of them perhaps have been since lost. Some of them were in the possession of the son’s successors Messrs. _Mayhew_ and _Warner_, and some in that of the late Dr. _Lloyd_. What became of them we know not. The two following articles with some other loose papers came into the possession of the present writer—1. The MS. volume before mentioned, entitled “PLAIN AND EASY PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND OBEDIENCE; or the necessity of keeping Christ’s Commandments, in order to our preserving an interest in his favour, demonstrated.” [It would make a duodecimo volume of 250 or 300 pages, and may be called an ingenious and elaborate piece, written out with great care and singular neatness.] {1063} 2. “A SHORT CATECHISM; containing the chief heads of the christian religion, and faith of Christ.” It is carefully and neatly written like the other MS. volume, yet it does not appear to have been intended for the press, but rather as a present, or new-year’s gift to