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    MR . WILSON ' S INQUIRY AFTER THE PORTRAITS A ^ D BIOG RAPHY Or DISSENTING MINISTERS . i

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *

    sin , March 8 , 1 80 ^ . As your periodical work circulates principally among Protestant Dissenters , who , from the nature of their principles ^ are the only rational advocates for free inquiry , I take the liberty of soliciting from your readers

    information concerning somij original portraits to illustrate a \ ydrk in which I am engaged . The following Dissenting ininisters have never been engraved : it is possible ) th £ re may be paintings if * existence a £ at least some of them .

    Simon Browne , > Jabez Earle , D . D- Philip Furrieaux , D , D . Moses Lowman , John Barker , Samuel-Pike , Francis Spilsbury , Richard Rawlin , John Hubbardj John Brine , Thomas Towle , Martin Tomkins , John Milner , D . D . William May , Daniel Wilcox , Obadiah Hughes , D . D , Daniel Mayo , John Hill , Hugh Farmer , Samuel Burford , Thomas Toller , Daniel Noble , Joseph Jeffries , JL . I-. D . Robert Traif , Samuel JLawrence , D ; D . Stephen Lobb , Zephaniah Marryat , D , D » William KUng , D . U . John Hurrion , William Prior , D . D , Charles BulkTey , Thomas Rowe , John Sladen , Henry Miles , X ) . TX Mordecai Andrews , Sec . &c . 8 cc .

    The portraits of Dr . Lardncr , Dr , Savage and Dr » Fordyce , though engraved , are so badly done , that it would be expedient to engrave them again , could the original paintings be procured .

    I also take the liberty of soliciting from your readers any articles , of biographyy or ^ communications that may illustrate my work , ( the History and Ahtitjiuties of Dissenting Churches , &c . )

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    Mr . Wilson ' s Inquiry after Dissenting Ministers . 19 ?

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    The governor had scarce ondecL when one of the eldest Sachems got up and answered * < k that in the name of all the Indians , he thanked their gracious good

    queen and mother , for the fine clothes she had sent them ; but that in regard to the ministers , they had already had some among them / ' ( whom he likewise named ) * ' who instead of preaching the holy gospel to them had taught

    them to drink to excess , to cheat , and to quarrel among themselves . " He then entreated the governor 44 to take from them these preachers , and a number of Europeans who resided &mong them ; for be-

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    fore they were come among them ^ the Indians had been an honest , sober and innocent people , but most of them became rogues now . That they hud formerly had th «*

    fear of God , but that they hardly believed his existence at present . That if he" ( the governor ) ** would do them any fevouiy he should send two or three blacksmiths among them , to teach them to forge iron , in which they were

    unexperienced / ' The governor could not forbear laughing at this extraordinary speech , I remain , your ' s , &c . , JOSHUA BROOKES .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/21/