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      Bristol , August 15 , 1815 . Sir , HMHE reporter of the Proceedings JL of the Western Unitarian Society held in Bristol , July last , ( see Repository for that month , p . 459 )

      speaking of Doctor Carpenter ' s proposal to the Committee of the Book Society for reprinting of " works which might have great efficacy in weakening the influence of religious bigotry , ' * and particularly " Bishop Taylor ' s Liberty of Prophesying and

      Whitby ' s Last Thoughts / ' &c . which " proposal was withdrawn on the representation of Mr . Rowe and others , " —that the funds of the Society could not with propriety be applied to such an object , an allusion is made to " a gentleman who suggested that what could not be well done by the

      Society , might by individuals ; and that he liberally offered the loan of 100 / . towards accomplishing the object , if others could be found to unite in it . " As a friend to free inquiry , and wishlng success to such an undertaking-, 1 cannot content myself by acting as directed by a note at the bottom of the above pa ^ e . The subject deserves ^ e attention " c # f the liberal of ; ill

      denominations of Christians . To that part of the community , and to the Worth y Doctor in particular , I submit—if jt win not be the best way to toscusg the subject more at larere in J ° ur Repository , and to lay down some general outline for the formation a club or society for carrying not

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      only the present object into effect , but whose views shall from time to time be directed to similar subjects ? Were I to address myself to Dr . Carpenter for the name of the gentleman alluded to for the purpose of addressing myself to him on the subject ,

      and to beg of the Doctor any plan he might have for effecting his views , and he should obligingly comply , still the business would rest between myself and those two gentlemen : whereas , I think the subject is highly deserving publicity , and therefore

      ( through the medium of your Repository )! beg to press this subject on the attention of gentlemen who may feel disposed to join in this laudable pursuit . The Doctor , no doubt , will be

      so obliging as to give his plan and his opinion as to the necessary funds , &c . which I think will tend greatly to facilitate the proposed end . I am Sir , Yours respectfully , A . Z .

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      Mr . Fiennes . —New Book Society . —Wickli ffe ' s Bones . 540

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      Sir , Aug . 12 , 1815 . IN the work which I quoted ( p . 429 . c . 2 . ) is a passage which shews how Mr . Fiennes ( p . 430 , c . 2 . ) might appear , in character , as a theologian in the Long Parliament .

      Sir P . Warwick ( p . 259 ) says , " In this year , ( 1664 ) in the west the king reduced that most important trading town , Bristol , which was garrisoned by the parliament and commanded by a gentleman , Mr . Nathaniel Fiennes , who had more of the

      learning of the gownmen , ( whether we consider them as lawyers or divines ) than he had of the sword *" BREVIS .

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      readers may be able to give a farther account of Canne , and to mention the vear when he died . y N . L . T .

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      Sir , Aug . 14 , 1815 , IT is remarkable that the Reformer Wickliffe lias been the innocent occasion of a legend as marvelous as those which Protestants impute to Papists .

      Exactly four centuries have now elapsed since the Council of Constance wreaked their puny vengeance on the Parson of Lutterworth by disinterring and consuming his bonesu iC

      Le Concile declare , " says \ JEnfant , 1415 , ( i- 157 ) " qu ' ayant su par une information tres-exacte , que le dit Wiclefetoit mort heretique obstine , il condamne sa memoire , et ordonne

      de deterrer ses os , si on peut les disccrner d ' avec les os des fideles , afin d ' etre jettez a la roirie . " A Protestant divine , " Dr . Hoyle , Professor of

      Divinity in Dublin College , " relates these wonderful circumstances as following the execution of the Council ' s magnanimous decree . * ' I cannot but signify to the world

      a strange accident not yet observed ( in print ) by any , and which myself learned of the most aged inhabitants , and they , within a very few hands from the very eye-witnesses , and is a common tradition in all J ^ utterworth .

      A child , finding one of Wickliffe ' s bones , which in haste was ] eft or forgotten , running with it to carry to the rest in the bonefire , broke his leg . Here was lex taliwtis , bone for bone .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/17/