Fenton
_ The brevity with which I am to write the account of Elijah Fenton, is not the effect of indifference or negligence. I have sought intelligence among his relations in his native county, but have not obtained it.
He was born near Newcastle, in Staffordshire, of an ancient family[22] whose state was very considerable； but he was the youngest of eleven children, and being, therefore, necessarily destined to some lucrative employment, was sent first to school, and afterwards to Cambridge[23], but with many other wise and virtuous men, who, at that time of discord and debate, consulted conscience, whether well or ill informed, more than interest, he doubted the legality of the government, and, refusing to qualify himself for publick employment by the oaths required, left the university without a degree； but I never heard that, the enthusiasm of opposition impelled him to separation from the church.
By this perverseness of integrity he was driven out a commoner of nature,

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