{ 178a} Dr. Ridgley published a sermon on his death, preached at Fetter-lane, Nov. 9, 1749.
{ 178b} When the chapel was re-built in 1812, several gravestones were laid down in the floor of the entrances, and amongst them Mr. Tingey’s. This accounts for the partial obliteration of the inscription. Two or three are almost entirely effaced. There is one to the memory of “Mrs. Elizabeth Playters, relict of Mr. Richard Playters, who departed this life December the 22nd, 1727, aged 44 years.” And another which pointed out the resting-place of “Joshua Nunn, who departed this life Feb. ye 27th, 1729, aged 80 years.” Surely a more respectful mode of disposing of these memorials of the departed might have been adopted.
{ 179a} He had a daughter married to the Rev. W. Parry, the late divinity tutor of the Academy at Wymondley.
{ 179b} Mr. Samuel Hurrion being obliged, by an impaired state of health, to resign his ministry, retired first to Bungay, and then to Beccles, where he died Oct. 25th, 1763, aged fifty-three years. He was buried at Denton, his native place. Wils. Diss. Ch. iii. 296. He is described on his tombstone as “late of Beccles.”
{ 184} Prot. Diss. Mag. v. 1—6. 355. vi. 112. Aikin’s General Biography.
{ 190a} His father, in consequence of this step, disinherited him, and never saw him but once afterwards. Theol. Mag. iii. 179.
{ 190b} His academical certificate is dated 6 Kal. Junii 1771, and is signed by Drs. Conder, Gibbons, and Fisher, and by Messrs. Barber, Hitchin, Watson, and Stafford.
{ 191} These were Thomas Ebbs, afterwards a highly respectable deacon, and whose daughter Mr. Heptinstall married; Wm. Leabon [Leavold]; and John Dann.
{ 192} Mr. Heptinstall’s ordination took place on the sixteenth anniversary of Mr. Bocking’s.
{ 194} It appears that these two excellent ministers and the late Rev. John Carter of Mattishall, Norfolk, all commenced their labours, at the respective places in which they so long adorned the gospel, upon the same sabbath. They enjoyed an unchanged friendship till separated by death—a friendship which has been renewed in heaven, never more to be interrupted by distance, or severed by calamity.
{ 196} Theological Magazine, iii. 177–181.
{ 202} Those who are acquainted with Mr. Jay’s “Life of Winter,” will understand this reference to his cruel treatment with regard to the ordination he desired to obtain in the church of England,—treatment, however, which was so overruled by Providence, that he possessed, as Mr. Whitfield predicted, “the greatest preferment under heaven,—to be an able, painful, faithful, successful, suffering, cast-out minister of the New Testament.”