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LIFE

OF

WILLIAM LAW.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

WILLIAM LAW,

NONJUROR AND MYSTIC :

83916

AUTHOR OF A SERIOUS CALL TO A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE' &c.

FORMERLY FELLOW OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

A SKETCH of HIS LIFE, CHARACTER, and OPINIONS.

BY

J. H. OVERTON, M.A.

VICAR OF LEGBOURNE, NON-RESIDENTIARY CANON OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL ;

FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD;

AND JOINT-AUTHOR OF THe english cHURCH IN THe eighteenth CENTURY.'

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1881.

All rights reserved.

BV 5095 • 242

096

PREFACE.

A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS have elapsed since the death of Mr. LAW; but happily there are still living several of his name and lineage, without whose sanction and assistance this work could never have been written. I desire, therefore, to express my thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Law, of the Hall Yard, King's Cliffe, to Miss Law, also of King's Cliffe, and to Mr. Farmery Law, of Stamford, all lineal descendants of Mr. George Law, the eldest brother of the subject of the present biography; to the Rev. Henry Law, Vicar of Clacton-on-Sea, a lineal descendant of Mr. Thomas Law, second brother of the same in a word, to all the Law family, to whom I am indebted, not only for valuable information, but also for full permission to make use of all the private documents which bear upon my subject; also to the Rev. Richard Massey, Curate in sole charge of King's Cliffe, who has helped me in various ways in my researches at Cliffe; also to the Master (Dr. Phear) and the Librarian (Dr. Pearson) of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; also to my late colleague, the Rev. Charles John Abbey, who might

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