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THE

CORRESPONDENCE

AND

DIARY

OF

PHILIP DODDRIDGE, D. D.

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

VARIOUS PARTICULARS IN HIS LIFE HITHERTO UNKNOWN:

WITH

NOTICES OF MANY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES;

AND A SKETCH OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE

TIMES IN WHICH HE LIVED.

EDITED

FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.

BY HIS GREAT GRANDSON,

JOHN DODDRIDGE HUMPHREYS, ESQ.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

C. Whittingham, 21, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

It will be observed that many of the LETTERS here headed in the usual manner have a different Address in the text; a circumstance arising from the shorthand having been exactly copied in such particulars. It may also be remarked, that where the dates of Letters, in the same year, were unimportant, they have in this volume been sometimes transposed to obtain advantages in point of arrangement.

PREFACE

Page

xvii

SECTION I.

RECORDS of the Family, and Circumstances attending the
Birth of Dr. Doddridge; with a Consideration of some
Causes which had an Influence on the early Develope-
ment of his Character....

Richard Doddridge, notice of..

1

3

Sir John Doddridge, his great legal work, "The Touchstone," fraudulently assumed by Sheppard

9

Pentecost Doddridge

11

....

John Doddridge, Member for Barnstable in the Long Parliament, opposes the Independent Party, his Works, &c.

12

....

The Rev. John Doddridge ejected from the living of Shepperton.... Daniel Doddridge, the Doctor's Father, a man of genuine piety, his marriage, &c. .

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The Rev. John Bauman, the Doctor's maternal Grandfather; hazards to which he was exposed in his flight from Prague, on account of the persecution against the Protestant religion

Birth of Dr. Doddridge, June 26, 1702

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Suffers a total loss of property by the failure of his guardian

22

Noble offer of patronage from the Duchess of Bedford....

23

His view of becoming a Nonconformist Minister discouraged by Dr. Calamy
Paternal offer from Dr. Clark.....

24

26

1719.

Becomes a student at the Academy at Kibworth, under the care of the
Rev. John Jennings..

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