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Title	March 31, 1795 letter from E[dward] Kilvington to Thomas Haweis
Post Date	March 31, 1795
Author	Kilvington, Edward (fl. 1793)
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas (1734-1820)
Date	1795-03-31
Physical Description	4 pp. total; 3 pp. text; 1 p. address
Dimensions	37.8 x 23 cm
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 2, File 10
Address To	Bath, Somersetshire
Country To	England
Address From	Fenstanton [Cambs.]
Country From	England
Transcriber	Gareth Lloyd
Plain Text Transcription	From Edward Kilvington at Fenstanton near St Ives, Huntingdonshire, to T.H. at Bath, Somerset. T.H. will rejoice to hear that Kilvington’s continuance here is highly probable. Mr Cowling has acted on his threat and brought an action for non-residence against the Vicar [John] Cook and the result is that Cook has decided to move to the parish regardless of the effect on his health. Kilvington’s continuation here means of course that the gospel will continue to be preached in this parish for the duration of Cook’s life and indeed despite the difficulties the work is prospering. The only difficulty that Kilvington has at the moment is meeting the cost of the legal expenses etc – more than £130. Kilvington is very grateful for T.H.’s kind offer to assist but is unable to accept in the shape that T.H. has proposed. Kilvington’s expects to one day inherit a fortune that most people would consider considerable, but for the moment, his income is not large. He thinks that he will need £200 to clear his obligations. His friend has not come forward in the way that he anticipated – Kilvington expected that he would willingly underwrite the whole sum, but that has not happened. Kilvington asks that T.H. not reveal the following to anyone else – he has just written to Mr [Henry] Venn to ask him to contact [William] Wilberforce on Kilvington’s behalf – Wilberforce kindly offered his assistance at the onset of this business and asked to be kept informed. (1 sheet, 3p.) 31 March 1795
Notes	Henry Venn (1724-97) was born in Surrey, the son of the distinguished Anglican clergyman Richard Venn. He was educated privately and at Jesus College Cambridge. After graduation, Venn was ordained into the Church of England and in 1749, was elected a fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. After serving a number of short curacies, he was appointed Curate of Clapham Parish Church near London in 1754. In the years that followed, Venn adopted evangelical opinions and became known to the leaders of the movement. In 1759 he became Vicar of Huddersfield and commenced a remarkably successful ministry. His powerful extempore preaching attracted large crowds and he estimated that in one three year period, there were nine hundred conversions in his parish. At about this time also, he abandoned his earlier Arminianism and adopted a mild form of Calvinism. This led to a distance between himself and John Wesley, which was exacerbated when Wesley insisted on allowing his itinerants to work in the area, despite the presence of an Anglican evangelical. In 1763 Venn published his highly influential The Complete Duty of Man. He also established a Yorkshire Clerical Club where like-minded clergymen could meet at regular intervals for study, prayer and mutual encouragement. In addition to his active parochial ministry, Venn travelled as an itinerant preacher for part of each year in support of the Countess of Huntingdon's movement, although he withdrew in 1780 when the Countess registered her chapels as dissenting. Venn left Huddersfield in 1771 due to a breakdown in health and was appointed to the rural parish of Yelling near Cambridge. He took under his wing a succession of students at the university, of whom Charles Simeon was the best known.
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2012
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4030 pixels in height or width
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1790-1799