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814 important services of his life, however, were those rendered in connexion with the, which was formed at in , and of which he was  until his death on the 7th of. The he maintained, the journeys he undertook, the pamphlets he  in defence of the, and the discourses he  on its behalf, imply an amount of work which few men could possibly have overtaken, and which ultimately proved too heavy even for his naturally powerful constitution. Several editions of his collected works have appeared, and a Memoir, principally compiled from his own papers, was about a  by DrRyland, his most intimate friend and coadjutor in the affairs of the. There are also biographies by his son, the Rev. A.G. Fuller, and by the Rev. J.W. Morris.  FULLER,. See.  FULLER, (–), the ty  and, eldest son of a father of the same  who was  of , , was  at the   of  in  , and was baptized on 19th  in. and, s of , were his uncles and s. The boy’s was influenced by the position of these s and of other friends of his father, who was , and had held the position of  in Trinity ,. The  under the care of the, and of his cousin , the. According to Aubrey, Fuller was &ldquo;a boy of pregnant .&rdquo; At an early age he was admitted of Queen’s, , then presided over by. He was apt and quick in ; and in – he became, and in    Being overlooked in an  of fellows of his , he was removed by  to Sidney Sussex ,. In he received from Corpus Christi, in the , the  of , which he held for a short time, and where he had for a ioner the celebrated. Fuller’s quaint and ous, as displayed in his sermons on Ruth, soon attracted attention. He also attained a certain fame in the as a  of s, and as the  of a poem,, on the subject of  and. In of the  his uncle gave him a  in, where his father, who died in the , held a. The of, , then in the  of , was his next preferment ; and 11th   he proceeded  For about six  he devoted himself to his rustic , and meanwhile compiled The Holy War, being a  of the  ( in ), and The Holy and Prophane States, being a  of character  , both which deservedly popular works went through several editions. At this time Fuller was well known as a man of engaging manners, of good connexions, and of tastes. Being, moreover, a cordial lover of the, and of its discipline as fixed by the of , he was in    for  in the memorable  of , which assembled with the. On the sudden dissolution of the, he united himself to those who urged that should likewise dissolve as usual. That opinion was overruled; and the assembly continued to sit by virtue of a, and to frame, amongst its , the much-ridiculed Etcetera Oath. Fuller has left a valuable account of the proceedings of this, for sitting in which he was d 200, but was never pressed to it. Meanwhile he in some of the &ldquo;voiced s&rdquo; of, and was followed for his excellent gifts. His first  of s appeared in  under the title of Joseph’s parti-coloured Coat,, which contains many of his quaint utterances and odd conceits. His grosser mannerisms of, derived from the of the former generation, disappeared for the most part in his subsequent discourses. About he  Eleanor, daughter of  of ,  Their eldest child, John,  at  by his father, 6th  , was afterwards of Sidney Sussex , edited the Worthies of England, , and became  of , , where he died in. At, early in , Thomas Fuller, his  , the  s, and others, nine persons altogether, certified that their , represented by 242 , had taken the Protestation ordered by the  of the. Again Fuller is met with in, interested in the. He is said to have foreseen whither the commotions were tending; and he directed his efforts, as events developed, in advocacy of peace and in preservation of the interests of. For a short time he with success at the, and thence removed, at the invitation of the master of the Savoy  and the brotherhood of that foundation, to be  at their  of. Certain of the ioners would have one Thomas Gibbs, whose claims were put forward in the  by ; but the greater number earnestly desired Fuller, whose better title was upheld in the  by,  for. Some of the best discourses of the ty were delivered at the  to audiences which extended into the -. In one, he set forth with searching and truthful minuteness the hindrances to peace, and urged the signing of s to at, and to the , to continue their care in advancing an accommodation. In his intercourse with persons of influence who attended upon his, or who resided in the neighbourhood of his , Fuller, with all the earnestness of in that direction, laboured to promote the same peaceful views. With these able efforts an circumstance of some significance connects itself. With, of the , , and four or five others, Fuller was  to take an influential peace- to , emanating from the  of  and the es contiguous to the. To carry it with fitting circumstance, a pass was granted by the, 2d , for an equipage of two , four or six s, and eight or ten attendants. On the arrival of the deputation at, 4th , of the ary  stopped the  and searched the ; and they found upon the latter &ldquo;two ous s  the proceedings of the ,&rdquo; and  with  to  and the. A message was then sent to acquaint the with the matter, and it was complained that the  had given the pass. Ultimately a joint order of remanded the party; and Fuller and his friends suffered a brief. The Westminster Petition, notwithstanding, reached ’s hands; and it was with the  reply. When it was expected, three later, that a favourable result would attend the negotiations at, Fuller  a remarkable sermon in the old  of , 27th  , on the text 2Sam. xix.30, the occasion being the anniversary of ’s , and the subject, his return to &ldquo;our  .&rdquo; This loyal discourse, in accord with the loyal text, brought the  into disfavour in. Domestic trouble likewise overtook him in the death of his. On 19th the  gave him a pass to and from  to carry her remains thither, to be