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Wolverhampton ; James Cooper , West-Bromwich ; John Hudson , West-Bromwich ; J . Hammond , Handsworth ; John Berry , Handsworth ; John Richards , Stourbridge ; J . Dawson ,
Dudley . Subscriptions received in aid of this good , this great undertaking , by Mr . James Pearsall * , Cheapside , London , and John Maneier , esq . Wolverharripton . " In subsequent addresses and appeals , the name of W . Thorpe , Bristol , does not appear
It may be , that gentleman has found reason to be ashamed of the cause ; or he wishes no longer to be seen in company with some of his former associates .
As to the fundamental charge against me , of having furnished Mr . Bransby with-what I knew to be a false statement , in respect of the monies belonging to the Meeting House ; I answer , The statement which I gave to Mr . Bransby , so far as relates to
AOOl . y was grounded on the written representation of one who was a most worthy and respectable inhabitant of this town , Mr . John Hickcox , a trustee , and an attendant at the Meeting House , for , I believe , forty years . He was the chapel-warden , knew
every transaction well , and was respected by all parties . Mr . Hickcox thus expresses himself to the Rev . S . Griffiths , on the 23 d of May 1782 , ( fourteen months after Mr . Cole had left W ^ olverharnpton , ) in a letter which accompanied the invitation
from the Society : There are likewise two legacies of 200 /* each , left by two persons of the congregation , at their decease to the interest ; one is in the eighty-eighth year of his age , and the other is near seventy / ' These are precisely Mr . Hickcox ' s
words- The other 100 / . mentioned , was bequeathed by the late Mr . Corson , in a will dated 15 th October 1799- Mr . Cole had then resigned the ministry at Wolverhampton eighteen years ,
and Mr . Corson had sat seventeen years under the ministry , of Mr . Griffiths . Our opponents—in other words , the family of the Manders—have sworn in their affidavits that Mr . Griffiths came to Wolverhampton , in 1782 , an avowed Antitrinitarian * ^
• Mr . Pearsall is the son-in-law ofMr , Benjamin Manner . .-f- Verax , to-serve bis particular purpose , denies that Mr . Griffiths was an arowed Antitrinitarian .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1819, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1709/page/2/
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