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    observed the correction he speaks of in his list of errata , it would not have satisfied me , for it does not in fact correct the error I complained of , it only substitutes one error for another ^ for the John Evans he speaks of in page 496 , could no more be the grandfather of Dr . Evans than hie could be his father . Tha real grandfather of Dr . Evans was the rector of Penegos iri Montgomeryshire ^ a regular cerlgyman , episcopally ordained * a great zealot for the hierarch y ^ and lived and died in that communion ; the other lived in a distant part of the country *

    and was only an intruder in the church from the first ; he had never received episcopal ordination , and so far was he from being a great stickler or zealot for the hierarchy , that he actually withdrew from its communion , and took an active part among the non-conformists . What Mr * P . says of the errors of this edition in the figures and dates does not palliate those errors , or

    extenuate the above mentioned blunder * They are real ble-v mishes certainly ; and I am sorry to find so many in this last

    edition * I highly respect the work , and should have been glad to see it without blemish . Should it go to another edition , its blemishes , I hope , will be much fewer . Mr . P . should have placed in his list of errata , vol . iii . p . 497 5 grandfather ^ for the Mr . Jenkins he there mentions was the grandfather and not the father of Dr . J . of Walworth . Wishing you , Sir , to admit this

    communication into yournextnumber , I remain Your very humble servant , Lynn , jFeb 9 l 3 1806 . W . Richarps *

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    AUTHOR OF THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN . In addition to the information communicated on this subject by Mr . Richards , theEdkor begs leave to state that the Author of the Whole Duty of Man is commonly considered to be unknown . He was so considered , as we ^ learn from the enter- *

    taming Boswell , by Dn Johnson , than whom no one evet possessed a greater veneration of his several tracts , and to whom few have been superior in the knowledge of books . In a blank leaf of a volujme in the Editor ' s possession * containing the Government of the Tongue , the Art of Content * xnent , and the Lively Oracles , which all bear the name of the author of the Whole Duty of Man , are the following remarks : ic

    William Chapel , Bishop of Cork and Ross , is supposed by very many to have been the author of The Whole Duty of > lan , &c .

    * ' The author , as appears to me from the seventh chapter of the Lively Oracles , paragraph two , was driven abroad it * the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/17/