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Biographical Sketch
be attributed to the gentle teachings of this kindly master.
Summoned home to attend the Assembly of Divines, Dury was one of those who drew up the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechism.
He had met with some success and made some friends in Ireland, among them Lady Catherine Ranelagh, and in the spring of 1645, when nearly fifty years old, he was married to an Irish lady, aunt to this Lady Ranelagh, who took much interest in his work, and who owned an estate worth £400 a year, most of which went, when it was forthcoming at all, toward providing a garrison for Parliament against
