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The Professed Design Of This " Appendix/...
Now > the congregation did not receive either of the legacies , previously to Mr . Griffiths * s settling in this town . All the legatees were living when he came hither ; and I appeal to an impartial
public , whether Jl was not justified in asserting , that three gentlemen , while Mr . Griffiths was minister , bequeathed legacies to the amount of 5 QOL I stated things as , after diligent examination , I found them seated . Mr . John Inlander ' s representation
of the business , in his letter to Mr . Bransby , may or may not be correct ; but o £ this I am certain , that we have no documents ; whatever , in . any book belonging to the Meeting House , which , show that any sum was irrevocably appropriated , before Mr ..
Cole left Wolverhampton . Mr . John Mander affects to give atn air of great consequence to his manner of elucidating these circumstances , and schools Mr . Brans by about examining , the accounts so carefully / ' telling him , that had he given them for a
few succeeding years , it might have saved him ( Mr . John Mander ) the trouble of explaining it . And in what , I would ask , does this explanation differ from Mr . Bransby ' s statement—that no money or interest was received by the Society , until the
decease of the individuals by whom it wa 3 bestowed ? Besides , even according to Mr . John Mander himself , 4 OO / . of the S per cents was not appropriated till June 178 O , nine months
before Mr . Cole resigned ; and JVfr . Mander adds , ( because such an assertion was necessary to complete his argument , ) that * - was before Mr , Cole jiiad any thoughts of leaving /'
I beg permission here to introduce an extract from a very curious letter , addressed to Mr . Cole by Mr . John Mander and » two other young members of the Society , only four months after this last appropriation . This letter clearly proves , what is abun- * -
dahtiy evident from other documents , that Mr . Cole had long been made uncomfortable in his situation , and tjiat his retirement was owing to the troublesome interference of the Mander family , at
that time . Mr . John Mander ( who was , I apprehend , even in his youthful days , " a friend and a promoter of peace !* ' ) and his two worthy coadjutors begin their letter with saying " You have no doubt heard a report of a Meeting House being
