gallery in the parish church for his scholars. On the passing of the Toleration Act 1688, he licensed his schoolhouse for nonconformist worship, preaching only between church hours (at noon), and attending the parish church with his scholars. Shaw was noted for extempore prayer, lasting two or three hours. He died on 22 January 1696. Works His first publication was a funeral oration (1657) for Thomas Blake, vicar of Tamworth. He published, besides sermons: ‘The Voice of One crying in the Wilderness,’ 1666; 1674, (includes ‘A Welcome to the Plague’ and two other pieces). ‘Immanuel,’ 1667; 4th edit. Leeds, 1804 (with memoir from Calamy). ‘The Great Commandment … annex'd the Spiritual Man in a Carnal Fit,’ 1679. ‘Words made Visible, or Grammar and Rhetoric,’ a comedy, 1679. ‘The True Christian's Test,’ 1682 (consists of 149 meditations in two parts). ‘Grammatica Anglo-Romana,’ 1687. ‘Ποικιλοφρόνησις: or, The Different Humours of Men represented at an Interlude in a Country School,’ 1692. ‘An Epitome of the Latin Grammar,’ 1693 (Calamy). His farewell sermon at Long Whatton is the eighth in ‘England's Remembrancer,’ 1663. Family He married a daughter of Ferdinando Pool (died 1676), ejected from Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire. His son, Ferdinando Shaw, M.A., was ordained 14 April 1698, became minister of Friar Gate chapel, Derby, on 25 March 1699, published several sermons, as well as ‘A Summary of the Bible,’ 1730, 12mo, and died in 1744. References Notes Attribution 1635 births 1696 deaths Ejected English ministers of 1662 Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge