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    spence ' s recantation . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , If the following Recantation , which will show the spirit of

    the times in which it was written , is worth a place in your Miscellany , it is much at your service . It came to light a few years since by the following accident : a clergyman , who has now been dead about 3 O years , left his library to his nephew , who one day turning to a passage in a concordance , found between the leaves a small piece of paper , which I now have in my possession , the color of which , as well as the ink , appears coeval with its date * It is probable the concordance was origir nally the property of some one at that time at College , who copied the recantation as it was publicly made in the University ,

    I am , Sir , your ' s , &c > ; February 14 , 1806 . H , L . Cantabrigite , Nov . 6 , —86 . Cum ego Edvardus Spence , in oratione a me coram celeber * rim a hac Academic in templo B . Marise hesterno die habit £ L

    xnultis calumniis probrisque Rom . catholicam religionem ,, ejusque professores , violenter magts quam prudenter , oneraverim , ac beatissimum Romanae sedis pontificem indignis modis tractaverim , idque pra&ter mitem placidamque Christi Domini le * gem , praeter bonos mores , et officium meum invietissimo regi

    Jacobo 2 do debitum , ista omnia quae dixi , nunc dicta nolo , subduco et revoco , et pro subductis et revocatis haberi volo et peto , atque ea propter veniam a Deo imprimis , deinde a serenissima regia majestate , amplissimoque hoc senatu obtestor pollicitus quod linguam ab omni id genus culpS , in posterum abstinebo .

    Cambridge , Nov . 6 P 1686 . Whereas I Edward Spence , in a sermon preached by me yesterday before this most renowned University , in the church of St . Mary , loaded with many calumnies and reproaches , the lioman Catholic Religion , and its professors , with violence more than prudence , and unworthily treated the most blessed Pontiff of * he Roman see , and that contrary to the mild and

    gentle law of Christ our Lord , to good manner ' s , and to that duty which I owe to the most invincible sovereign James the Second , I now wish unsaid , withdraw and retract , and wish and beg to be considered as withdrawn and . retracted , all that 1 then said , and on this account I implore pardon , first from God , then from the King ' s most serene majesty , and this most honorable senate , promising that I will in future restr ^ n ipy tongue from every offence ot this nature .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/22/