penances and pilgrimages. He was also one of the disputants in certain 'conferences' held with Roman Catholics, on 7 and 13 February 1735, at the Bell Tavern, Nicholas Lane. He died on 5 September 1744. He had been married with a distant relative of Lardner, who preached his funeral sermon at Pinners' Hall. Exactly three months later, his entire library was sold by a four-day auction at Paul's Coffee-house, in St. Paul's Churchyard. Hunt was succeeded as pastor at Pinner's Hall by James Foster. Publications Lardner gives a list of eleven separate sermons by Hunt, published between 1716 and 1736; eight of them are funeral sermons. Apart from those, Hunt published also: Mutual Love recommended upon Christian Principles, 1728, An Essay towards explaining the History and Revelations of Scripture - Part I., 1734, (deals with Genesis; no other part published; appended is a 'Dissertation on the Fall of Man') Sermons, 1748, 4 vols. (posthumous, edited by George Benson) See also Thomas Bradbury References Attribution 1678 births 1744 deaths English religious writers 18th-century English clergy English Presbyterian ministers Alumni of the University of Edinburgh