resentatives. In our
day it has a population of 4,052. When I was a lad it was one of the
first towns to welcome the Plymouth Brethren into Suffolk, and they are
there still. The Independent Chapel for awhile suffered much from them.
The pastor was a very worthy but somewhat dry preacher. His favourite
quotation in the pulpit, when he would describe the attacks of the enemy
of God and man, was

'He worries whom he can't devour
With a malicious joy.'

Suffolk had its great lawyers as well as Norfolk. The first to head the
list is Ranulph de Glanville, a man of great parts, deep learning, for
the times, eminent alike for his legal abilities and energetic mind. He
was said, by one account, to have been born at Stowmarket. It is certain
he founded Leiston Abbey, near Aldborough, and Bentley Priory. As Chief
Justice under Henry II. he naturally was no favourite with Richard I.,
who deprived him of his office and made use of his wealth. He lived,
however, to accompany Richard to the Holy Land, and died at the siege of
Acre. His treatise on our laws is one of the earliest on record. It
must be remembered also that Godwin, the author of 'Political Justice,'
and 'Caleb Williams,' a novel still read--the husband of one gifted
woman, and the father of another--was at one time an Independent minister
at Stowmarket.

But to return to Dr. Young. He, like Mr. Newcomen, had become an East
Anglian, and Smectymnuus may therefore more or less be said to have an
East Anglian original. As the living of Stowmarket was at that time
worth 300 pounds a year, and as 300 pounds a year then was quite equal to
600 pounds a year now, Dr. Young must have been in comfortable
circumstances while at Stowmarket. A likeness of him is hung up, or was
preserved, in Stowmarket Vicarage. 'It,' wrote an old observer,
'possesses the solemn, faded yellowness of a man much given to austere
meditation, yet there is sufficient energy in the eye and mouth to show,
as he is preaching in Geneva gown and bands, that he is a man who could
write and think, and speak with great vigour.' One of Milton's
biographers terms him, contemptuously, a Puritan who cut his hair short.
The Rev. Mr. Hollingsworth writes that it is an error to suppose that
Young remained long as chaplain to merchants abroad. 'He must have
remained generally in constant residence, because we possess his
signature to the vestry accounts, in a curious quarto book, which
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