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AMONG a certain clafs of perfons (and that too a very diftinguilhed one)
no name, perhaps, is better known or more familiarly ufed than
that of
JOE PULLIN.
The fame of this good man, the greater part of whofe life was
pafied in the retirement and privacy of a college, has been preferved to
us chiefly by a very fimple, yet interefting circumftance, namely, that of
his being the reputed planter of an elm-tree, which, Handing as a marked ter-
mination of a publick walk in one of our juftly celebrated univerfities, has
ferved hitherto to keep up the remembrance of a name, which, we fhall
hope to fhew, is, on other accounts, intitled to our refpedt and veneration.
The few anecdotes now to be cohered of this old acquaintance of the mufes,
(fuffer us to call him fo) cannot, we fuppofe, be unacceptable, more
efpecially as they tend to prove (even fcanty as they are) that he was a very
upright and worthy character, deferving and enjoying the confidence
and countenance of fome of the belt men of the time in which he lived,
and moil eminently diligent and punctual to the day of his death in the dil-
charge of his duties both as a tutor and as a parifh prieft. Though it muft
be confefled to be almoft an abfurd deviation from the common order of bio-
graphy to begin with an account of the death of the perfon we would com-
memorate, yet in this cafe it fo happens that we have not been able by any
other way to get at the date of Mr. Pullin’s birth, but by calculating
backward from the time of his deceafe, of which we have authentic records,
not without the mention of circumftances highly honourable to his memory.
Jofiah Pullin, A. M. minifter of St. Peter’s in the eaft, and vice principal
of Magdalen hall, is related to have died December 31ft, 1714, in the 84th
year of his age, and to have been buried about four o’clock in the afternoon
no name, perhaps, is better known or more familiarly ufed than
that of
JOE PULLIN.
The fame of this good man, the greater part of whofe life was
pafied in the retirement and privacy of a college, has been preferved to
us chiefly by a very fimple, yet interefting circumftance, namely, that of
his being the reputed planter of an elm-tree, which, Handing as a marked ter-
mination of a publick walk in one of our juftly celebrated univerfities, has
ferved hitherto to keep up the remembrance of a name, which, we fhall
hope to fhew, is, on other accounts, intitled to our refpedt and veneration.
The few anecdotes now to be cohered of this old acquaintance of the mufes,
(fuffer us to call him fo) cannot, we fuppofe, be unacceptable, more
efpecially as they tend to prove (even fcanty as they are) that he was a very
upright and worthy character, deferving and enjoying the confidence
and countenance of fome of the belt men of the time in which he lived,
and moil eminently diligent and punctual to the day of his death in the dil-
charge of his duties both as a tutor and as a parifh prieft. Though it muft
be confefled to be almoft an abfurd deviation from the common order of bio-
graphy to begin with an account of the death of the perfon we would com-
memorate, yet in this cafe it fo happens that we have not been able by any
other way to get at the date of Mr. Pullin’s birth, but by calculating
backward from the time of his deceafe, of which we have authentic records,
not without the mention of circumftances highly honourable to his memory.
Jofiah Pullin, A. M. minifter of St. Peter’s in the eaft, and vice principal
of Magdalen hall, is related to have died December 31ft, 1714, in the 84th
year of his age, and to have been buried about four o’clock in the afternoon