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Heylin , objecting to this authority , ( which was indeed only a translation from the English editions , ) sent a friend to a neighbouring bookseller ' s , who furnished him with an English
copy of the Articles with the clause , and this he has recorded as a triumphant silencing of his opponent . The very next year , Heylin tells us , Latin copies of the Articles were printed at Oxford without the clause , but Laud , then Chancellor of the
University , interposed , and " the printers were constrained to reprint the book , or that part of it at the least according to the genuine and ancient copies . " Still the printers persisted , and . Latin copies from the University press are extant so late as 1636 , without the
clause . Hales did not know of the clause , or rejected it as spurious , at least so it has been inferred from the following passage in his letter to Laud , 1636 : " 1 count in point of decision of church questions , if I say of the
authority of the church that it was none , I know no adversary I have , the Church of Rome only excepted . For this cannot be true , except we make the church judge of controversies ;
the contrary to which we generally maintain against that church . " Language so directly opposed to the commencement of the Twentieth Article , would scarcely have been employed , had its authority been recognized
The accusation against Laud and the bishops of Charles I . of being the original forgers of this clause is manifestly unjust . Of its omission , if genuine , no rational account can be given ; the evidence % seems considerable against its ever having received
regularly the sanction of the Convocation till 1604 , and its surreptitious introduction appears to me to lie at the door of Parker , or of Elizabeth herself . But it is probable that there are many facts tending to ' illustrate the subject , besides those which have been now adduced . Either fraud or
forgery certainly has been committed , and either is a serious imputation upon the sovereign or primate or clergy , who acted as the founders of tc the best-constituted church in the world . "
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The late Mr . Meadley . 465
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Sir , July 7 , 1819 . AM rather inclined to apprehend I that your estimable Correspondent V . F . and some others , ft » p . 5—8 ; 137—142 ; 281— 286 , ] in tbeir biographical notices of the late Mr . Meadley , have not a little overdrawn
his claims to literary eminence . Although I am perfectly willing to admit that the discussion which has occurred at the Sunderland Library , as far as it respected his religious views , was a very forced and needless intrusion of topics , utterly unconnected with the circumstances which called for
the monumental memorial of his services to that institution ; yet , on the other hand , it seems to ine that his friends are claiming for him an elevation of character which his talents had in fact never reached .
Much of this , indeed , may be in a chief measure owing to an assumption of his intimacy with the late Archdeacon Paley , which in reality never existed , at least at all beyond the common civilities of occasional
intercourse , this eminent man was accustomed to shew his parishioners in general during the periods of his residence at Bishopwearmouth . Nor were these intercourses of a nature by any means sufficient to qualify Mr . M . as an adequately competent historian of that great man ' s life , his sentiments or his views—or
will the execution of the task , as it has been accomplished by him , ever , I conceive , compensate the irreparable loss the Archdeacon ' s friends have sustained in the ampler Memoirs of bis Life , with which , but for M . ' s
undertaking them , they might have once been gratified . * V . M . H .
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Ser , July 6 , 1819 . HAVE observed something very I like a charge of Unitarianism preferred against Thomas May , the Continuator and Translator of Lucan and
* To this circumstance I have already alluded in a preceding * Volume of the Monthly Repository . [ Although we possess a copious g-eneral Index in MS . of all the Volumes of our Work , we are unable to discover the communication to which our Correspondent refers . Ed . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/5/
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