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What can the writer of the " Appendix" mean , when in speaking ( p . 80 ) of the original deed , he says , " which they carefully conceal from us . " " However loosely the deed maybe
expressed /' it was produced in the Court of Chancery ; the plaintiffs , Messrs . Manderand Steward , were furnished with a copy of it : and at mere 60 , in the very " "A Appeal" " to which the " " Ap Aof it ; and at page 60 in the very ppealto which the p-
, pendix" is attached , the nine Ministers say The deeds have at length been produced in court ; " and the nine ministers moreover are driven to the confession—a confession which they ought
to have made with bitter feelings of remorse for the part they have acted , — that these deeds are not so explicit as they might have been . " Previously to the Trustees putting new locts upon the doors , every attempt was made to induce Mr . Steward to withdraw
quietly and peaceably . The Congregation , at a general meeting , deputed Mr . Taylor and Mr . Bradshaw , who were at that time his intimate acquaintances , together with myself , to prevail on him to retire , or at least to fix some specific time for going . At this interview , he told us that his friends were endeavouring to procure a situation for him ; but fie hinted that he would suit
his own convenience- We had a good deal of conversation with him , and before we parted he said he would see us again on the subject within a few days . " I acknowledge , " said he , " that I have behaved very ill , and had I been in the hands of the Cal vinists I should not have been treated so liberally / 7 We left him
under the pleasing idea that the affair would be settled in an amicable manner . Accordingly , I received the following note from him , dated Tuesday morning , 8 th October , 1816 , five days after this interview : ¦— " Sir , This is to say , that I shall have no objection to see you next Friday , on the subject upon which you
and your friends called on me , last Friday , My only wish is your happiness John Steward ;"
Mr . Bradshaw and myself went , as Mr . Steward had appointed , in the hope that every thing might be arranged to the satisfaction of all parties . But what was our surprise when we found Mr . Benjamin Mander summoned on the occasion ; and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1819, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1709/page/8/
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