Susanna Wesley

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BIRTH AND ANCESTRY. 7
Uniformity was passed, he refused to subscribe
and, like Howe and Baxter, and two thousand of
the best and most prominent clergy of the time, was
ejected on St. Bartholomew's Day. The Earl of
Anglesey strove hard to persuade his kinsman to conform,
and promised him preferment ;
but it was impossible
to move him, and he frequently preached in
private, though ten years elapsed before the Declaration
of Indulgence made it safe for him to get the Meeting
House in Little St. Helen's licensed, where he officiated
to a large and affectionate congregation
death. He was a remarkably handsome man, tall and
dignified, and of a very robust constitution, and several
of his children resembled him in personal beauty.
till his
Comparison of his portraits with those of living
types, show that his aquiline nose, short upper lip,
wavy brown hair, and peculiarly strong and durable
sight, have been largely transmitted to his descendants.
Few of them, however, have been tall, although the
majority have been strong and hardy.
He was devotedly fond of his wife, and their family
increased annually and even oftener. There were two
boys, Samuel who died in India, and Benjamin who
was executor to his father's will, but most of the children
were girls. Judith was a very handsome and
strong-minded woman, whose portrait was painted
by Sir Peter Lely ;
Anne was a wit as well as a
beauty, and married a rich man ; Elizabeth, who
married Duntoii, the eccentric bookseller, was very
pretty, sweet-natured, and perhaps as near perfection
as any mortal can be. There was also a Sarah and
three others, of whom all we know is that they grew up
to womanhood and married. Susanna was slim and
very pretty, and retained her good looks and symmetry