By LEWIS ATTERBURY, LL. D.
One of the Preaching CHAPLAINS

To their Late MAJESTIES
Queen ANNE and King GEORGE I.

In TWO VOLUME S.

Now first Published from the ORIGINALS;
With a BRIEF ACCOUNT

OF THE
A U T H o R.

By EDWARD YARDLEY, B.D.

Archdeacon of Cardigan.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
Printed for THOMAS OSBORNE, in Gray's-Inn:

M.DCC.XLIII.

. 875680-190

A Brief ACCOUNT

OF THE

AUTHOR

OF THE

. Following SERMON S.

YY YHILST I comply with

the Request of the Bookseller; in saying something

of the late Rev. Dr. Lewis Atterbury, whose SERMONS are here prea sented to the World: I must request the Reader not to expect a compleat Life of him, but only a short Relation of such Particulars, as a personal Conversation with him for several years, and the Papers I have by me, have furnished me with.

THE

The Family of Atterbury hath flourished for many Years in Northamptonshire : The Grandfather of our Author was one of the many Children of Lewis Atterbury, of Great-Houghton, in the said County. This Person, whose Name was Francis, was a Reverend Clergyman, Rector of Middleton-Malfor, in his native County ; he was an eloquent, judicious, and useful Preacher, as appears by what I have seen of his Writings, and left behind him the Character of a worthy and good Man,

His Son, Lewis Atterbury, was educated at Christ's-Church, in Oxford, * became A. B. 23 Feb. 1649, and was i March 1651, + admitted or created A. M. by Virtue of a Dispensation from the Chancellor of that Üniversity. He was admitted in the Year 1654, Rector of Great or Broad-Rihngton, in the Diocese and County of Gloucester, and, after the Restoration, took a Presentation for that Benefice under the Great-Seal, and, was instituted again to confirm his Title to it I.

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