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to the new ministry, was offered to him early in 1692 but declined, and as he preferred to live in
England, he resigned his provostship of Trinity College (September 1692). In the same autumn (19 August 1692) Huntington was instituted, on the presentation of Sir Edward Turner, to the rectory of
303:(1683) and accepted it. An Irish translation of the New Testament had already been printed, but Marsh and Huntington superintended a translation into the same language of the canonical books of the Old Testament, which was printed at the expense of
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and was elected on 1 August 1670. In the following month, he sailed and arrived there in
January 1671. Huntington remained in the Eastern Mediterranean for more than ten years, paying visits to Palestine,
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on 2 September 1701, when he was buried near the door of
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35 more. A much larger number, 646 in all, was purchased from him in 1693 for the
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No. 161 (20 July 1684). Edward
Bernard inscribed to him his paper on the chief
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visited Aleppo in 1676 and recorded
Huntington's life there in his diary.
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