WILLIAM, a pious English divine, was born at Hartlepool in Durham in 1714, and was educated for the church at Oxford. No sooner had the young man received orders than he appeared in the character of a Calvinist. The long time which he was compelled to drag out as a country curate did not make him adapt his creed to the principles of the dispensers of ecclesiastical promotion. After he had settled in London in 1748 his consistency came out more prominently than ever. So emphatically did he preach the doctrine of justification by faith alone, that on several occasions he found himself opposed in an outrageous manner by his superiors. During his career as lecturer at St Dunstan's-in-the-West, he was frequently denied the use of lights, and was obliged to hold a candle in one hand while he gave effect to his sermon with the other. In 1755 he was deprived of his office of morning preacher at St George's, Hanover Square, after he had officiated for four years with great success. In 1757 he was refused admission to the university pulpit at Oxford on account of a discourse which he had formerly delivered there on the text, "The Lord our righteousness." It was not until he had been appointed, in 1764, to the rectory of St Ann's, Blackfriars, that he was allowed to discharge his ministerial functions without any violent opposition. Romaine died in 1795. His works, consisting of sermons, letters, and religious pamphlets, accompanied with a memoir, were published by the Rev. W. B. Cadogan, in 8 vols., 8vo, London, 1796.