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reader will admit that it was pardonable * If further evidence be required to prove that it was simply a mistake , and not " a glaring misrepresentation of facts /'* that it was the
purrent opinion upon the subject , and not ; what has Been so yngenerousty insinuated , a story invented for the occasion , such further evidence is at hand . In a Deed which assigned two Leasehold Tenements , adjoining the Meeting-house , from . Mr . Jotitf Manobr to the Trustees , and which was executed in
the month of June , 1807 , occurs the following -passage * - * - ' ** Which said purchase money , it is hereby agreed , by and be * tween the said parties ,, shall be paid out of the following monies now vested in the hands of the said Trustees , for the use of the said Society—that is to say—the sum of ^ 62 OO * heretofore given and bequeathed to and for the use of the said
Society , % the wi ( l of John Marshall , heretofore of Wolverhampfoii aforesaid , banker , deceased ; the sum of j 620 O . given and bequeathed to and for the use of the said Society , by Abraham Hill ,
heretofore of Wolverhampton , aforesaid , gentleman , deceased , and the sum of £ 99- 15 s . given or left at different times , by other persons to or for the use of the said Society , which said several sums of , £ 200 . , £ 200 . and £ 99 ' 15 s . were invested in
the purchase of , £ 800 * stock , in the 3 per cenU annuities , in the name of John Hickcox , heretofore of Wolverhqmpton . aforesaid , mercer , deceased , "
To this Deed , ( could the reader have supposed it ?) the name of Mr . John Mandeh is affixed , in his own hand writing ! I now leave the public to judge of the candour which could dictate suph & communication as I received from Mr . John Mander . It would , I must think , have been well for that gentlainan , if instead of c * recognizing his ; letter to me , as Mr .
* These candid expressions , which Mr . Charles Mander adopts with triumph , ^ ere originally employed "by ** VERAX — ia Mr . Charles Maader ' a opinion , ** ft # io $ t respectable gentleman ; " in mine , a mirror of accuracy tfhd politenetal
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 22, 1819, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1710/page/9/
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