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After the loss of his Camdenian Professorship of History, he lived among his nonjuring acquaintances at Shottisbrooke, immersed in abstruse studies.
Nelson was more or less intimate with several other Nonjurors; such as were Francis Cherry, of Shottisbrooke, a generous and popular country gentleman, whose house was always a hospitable refuge for Nonjurors and Jacobites; Brokesby, Mr.
'He has set his heart, said William of him, 'on being a martyr, and I have set mine on disappointing him. He died at Shottisbrooke in 1711. After Kettlewell's death, no one was so intimate with Robert Nelson as Dr. George Hickes. They lived near together in Ormond Street, and for the last eleven years of Nelson's life met almost daily.
When, therefore, this hindrance no longer existed, he was of opinion that political differences, however great, should be no bar to Church Communion, and that the State prayers were no insurmountable difficulty. Nelson gladly agreed, and the bells of Shottisbrooke rang merrily when he and Dodwell, and the other Nonjurors resident in that place, returned to the parish church.
First in order among Nelson's friends not in intimacy, but in the affectionate honour with which he always remembered him must be mentioned Bishop Ken. He was living in retirement at Longleat; but Nelson must have frequently met him at the house of their common friend Mr. Cherry of Shottisbrooke, and they occasionally corresponded. Nelson may have been the more practical, Ken the more meditative.
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