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    ftis amiable tenfrper , not wishing For thisostentatious triumph , ancj finding persuasions would not make them desist , through the medium of a friend , bribed them to give over on the second d ay * Soon after the suit was finished Mr . Havard vented his spleen in a pamphlet , entitled , " A Narrative of tjie Origin and Progress of the Prosecution / * which with the mixture of very little truth contained a tissue of falsehoods . On this pamphlet , in the

    year 1778 * Mr . E . wrote remarks , and published them with an epistle dedicatory to the inhabitants of Tewkesbury who ha 4 so generously supported him , to whiqh he added ( he Easter Sermon , with the affidavit annexed of its being verbatim as it was preaqhed and delivered into the Bishop ' s Court * This pamphlet has been long out of print , having been read with great interest at the time , particularly in Tewkesbury and its *

    neighbourhood . In the course of his defence , besides Mr * jenner , a respectable proctor in the commons whom he employed to conduct it , he was gratuitously asssisted with the legal advice of Mr * Wedderburn , at that time Attorney General . After the suit was over , Mr * E , who was a

    lover and always a promoter of peace , finding these few hotheaded people would not come to church , was willing to . try a mode of conciliation , and instead of preaching constantly as he used to do , at Tewkesbury , while his curate officiated at Longdon , he took the duty alternately at each place ; but finding

    this expedient would not allay the violent spirit of his opponents , contrary to the wishes and request of the great majority of the inhabitants he took the duty of Longdon : altogether . In 1771 , Mr . E . published three sermons , on different subjects , tohich were preached and much admired at Tewkesbury , but are

    now out of print * Dr . Hurd , Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry , to whom Mr . E . was well known , having published his highly polished sermons preached at Lincoln ' s Inn chapel at the first Warburton lecture , in which one of the chief objects was , to prove that the church of Rome was exclusively anti-christ , Mr *

    E . in Nov . 1777 , published a letter , addressed to the Bishop , designed particularly to refute his Lordship ' s argument , and at the same time giving his reasons to the Bishop ior his intention of quitting the churdh . At Longdon he was so much beloved by his parishioners that in the year 1778 ^ when he communicated

    to them his intention of resigning the living , they were much afflicted , and pressed him to continue amongst them , assuring him that they should be perfectly satisfied wit h ^ any al terations he should think fit to make in the liturgy ; bat Mr . E . had decided in his own mind , and his judgment was too clear , and his resolution to firm , to be diverted from any thing which appeared to him an important duty , and he wrote a letter to the Bishop

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/5/