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    of Tombes , who was of Oxford University , the following account of their disputations . *< Tombes was the Coryphceus of the Anabaptist ? , and Baxter of the Presby- „ terians * Both had a very great

    company of auditors , who came many miles on foot round about , to admire them . Once , I think oftener , they disputed face to face , and their fojlowers were like two armies ; and at last it came so to pass that they fell together by the

    ears , whereby hurt "was done , and the civil magistrate had much ado to quiet them . All scholars there and then present , who knew the way of disputing and managing arguments , did conclude that Tombes got the better of Baxter by far . "— Athenac . Oxon . ii . 557 ,

    Baxter , however , in h » s own opinion , had the advantage of his opponent ; this disputation having * ' satisfied all his own people and the country that came in , and Mr . Torabcs ' sown townsmen ,

    except about twenty whom he had perverted - * ' According to Wood , Tombes afterwards appeared as a champion of Antipoedobaptists , in a very different situation .

    " In 1664 , he was present at the Oxford Act , and there in th « vespers he did modestly challenge to maintain against any person certain anabaptistical tenets , but none there did think . it

    convenient then to grapple with him , and the rather fur this reason , that he had made these matters his study for more than 30 years , and that none ever before went )» eyond him . "—Athen , Oxon . ii . 558 . Of Denne , the other divine

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    KEBIAKKS ON A SUPPOSED MISTAKE IN THE MEMOIRS OF THE J , ATli REV . W . WOOD ,

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    West Ixfding of Yurk sir , June 6 " , 1809 . In the Repository for April last , page 22 o , your reviewer in his account of the Memoirs of the Bev . \\\ Y ^ oodj alter expressing

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    mentioned by Lady Hutchinsoh , there is probably an account in " Crosby ' s History of the Bap , tists , " a work which \ never saw . I have found the name . introduced

    by Wood in his account of Bishop Gunning , to whom he attributes the following publication . * ' A contention for truth in two several public disputations before thousands

    of people in the church of St . Clement Danes , without Temple-bar , on the 19 th and 26 th Nov . ( 1657 ) , between Mr . Gunning on the one part , and Mr . Hen . Denne on the other , concerning the baptism of infants , whether lawful or unlawful , "— -Athen , Oxon . ii . 766 .

    Such disputations were not unusual in those times . From 'his Life , by Dr . Toulmin ( p . 91 ) , it appears that Biddle was challenged to one which , but for the tolerant principles or policy pf Cromwell , would have ended fatally for that Christian Confessor . His

    challenger , worsted ii > the first onset , adjourned the debate , and in ths mean time contrived to have his opponent detained in Newgate , In the words of Jortin , on another occasion , this exemplified , " the

    true agonistic style and intolerant spirii , the courage of a champion who challenges his adversary , and then calls upon tfre corr stable to come and help hitn /* Yours , N . L . T

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    his hope that the Protestant Dissenters , " wil ( never agajn repea $ their request for a repeal of the Test Laws , " concludes the sentence with the following very singular expression , bearing ths

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    3 C 8 The late Rev . W . TVood .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/14/