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Inquiry respecting a passage in Tomasini-de Tesseris Hospitalitatis . 601
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S ' Sir , July 10 , 1819-GIVE me leave to ask if any of your readers , especially those who have visited Rome , can account for the following * extraordinary
narfound by the title-deeds that it stands on the site of Leather Hall , where the congregation used to meet prior to the year 1700 .
* Ob . Mnsson appears also to be a Dissenting * minister at Coventry at the same time , and probably to the same people ; for I have seen a work by Dv . Bryan ia verse , entitled u Harvest Home : being ' the Sum me of certain Sermons upon Job v . 26 , one whereof was preached at the Funeral of Mr . Oh , Musson , an aged Godly Minister of the Gospel , in the Royally Licensed Rooms in Coventry ; the other since continued uj ) on the subject , by J . B ., D . D . late Pastor of the Holy Trinity in that smcicnt and honourable City . The first Part being a Preparation of the Corn for the Sickle . The latter will be the Reaping-, Shocking- and inning- of that Corn winch is so Fitted . London ; printed
for the Author , 1674 . " "t It vvilL be seen by the dates that tlie congregation bad always two ministers to the period of Mr . Jackson ' s death , when MY , Emons became sole pastor .
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ration . I fir it quoted in Tomasini de Tesseris Flosjntalitatis , Amst . 167 O , ( p . 218 , ) from a description of Jerusalem , ( p . 173 , ) by Adricomius , who died in 1585 , at Cologne , where , in 1643 , was published his Theatrwm Tcitcb Sunctce . The passage , which is in . Latin , I have thus literally translated . The author i . s . speaking * of the field purchased at Jerusalem with the reward of Judas ' s treachery .
From this field the Empress Helena procured as much earth as several ships could contain , to be conveyed . to Rome . This earth was deposited near the Vatican Hill , on a spot now called , by the natives , Campo Santo . Though in a different climate , its pe- ^ culiar properties remain , as is shewn by daily experience : for , to the exclusiou of Romans , it is devoted solely to the burial of strangers ; whose flesh is , in twenty-four hours , entirely consumed , nothing remaining but their bones . Tomasini was an Italian , who died in 1670 , Bishop of Citta Nova . J 3 e says , indeed , of Andricomius , and the authors whom he followed , rnirurft . e $ t quotf de hoc agro scribuntp ( it f&
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and galleries , and continued to assemble till the year 1700 , when , finding the place inconvenient , they built a meeting-house ia Smithford Street ,
which is their place of worship to this day ; a large substantial building , 40 feet 6 inches wide , and 65 feet 6 inches long , clear measure .
MINISTERS . FROM DIED REMOVED TO _ , , _ ,. _\ ¦ i ¦ ¦«¦¦ ¦¦¦ 11 1 1 ¦ . - - , ** m ^«^ mtmm ^ m ^ tm Afttt *«« M * ta » Dr . Obadiah Grew - - Coventry - - - 1672 1689 . Or . John Bryan * - - Coventry - - - 1672 1675 Bev . Jarvis Bryan - - Old Swinford ^ - 1675 1690 Thomas Shewell - Leeds , Kent - - 1689 1693 William Tong- - - Knutsford , Cheshire , in - - - - 1690 1727 Sailers ' . Hall , Lon-Dr . Joshua Old field - - Christ College , Cam- don , in - - 1704 bridge , in - - 1693 * * London , to succeed Ker , John Warren - - Prestwood , near , T . Kentish - 1700 Stonrbridg'e - 1700 1742 Joshua Mersel - - Uttoxeter , Staffordshire , in - - - 1704 1716 Richard Rogerson - Duffield , Derbyshire , in - - - - 1717 ¦* ? Alcesttr , in - - 1723 John Parting-ton - ' * # " # 1724 * * Hampslead - - 1730 Francis Blackinore * * * 1730 1761 Worcester - - 1742 Ebenezer Fletcher - * # # 1742 1763 Robert Atkinson - * . * * 1744 * * * * * 1756 Thomas Jackson f * * * 1756 1785 Posthumous Lloyd - Thame , Oxfordshire 1763 1777 Peter Emons - - Nottingham , - - 1777 1810 Timothy Davis - - Liwyn-rhyd-owen , " Cardiganshire - 1810 Erersham - - 1819
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 601, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/13/
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