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Memoirs of tht Rev . T . Thfeckeld . tTS
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wfoo had fallen under his notice ; of all his brethren in the Ministry ; his neighbours ^ hearers , Friends ; of ecclesiastical men in all their several offices and honours ; of authors and literary men of every description ; of generals ^ admirals , statesmen ; and in fine ^ of all persons with respect to whom , by the help of books monuments , grave-stones , or oral communication , a date could be known . If the writer of this account were to speak what . he firmly believes , as to the number of those records , he would probably appear to his readers so very ere
dulous , and the sum would appear so very extravagant , as hardly to deserve a hearing . And yet he speaks with seriousness and full conviction , when he avers , that hie believes these entries to amount to many tens of thousands : and he is bold and confident when he peremptorily marritains his belief , that of all these Mr . T . never forgot one : and that he had every name , fact , and date , which he had ever read or heard of , ready at hand , to be produced at any moment , with an exactness which was never known to fail him *
Of Mr . TVs passion for studies of this nature , the writer can mention many instances , from his own knowledge . Mr . 1 \ once wrote to him , informing him , that in a certain book-Seller ' s catalogue , at Manchester , was an inestimable book , of which the title was , Godwinus Franciscus de Pr , esu-J . IBUS Anglic , &c . " and desiring him to examine the book , and if it were , ( as far as he recollects ) the Cambridge edition , of such a year , to secure the precious treasure immediately . — - He went do < vn directly , and found that it was the very book ,
of the very edition , and date , which his mend had described . ; he paid for it , and brought it home . He then wrote word to Mr . T \ that he was in possession of this rich jewel . Soon afterwards Mr . T- came to his house , and upon seeing the book , literally . embraced it , with a rapture almost equal to that with which a father would have received an only son returning from the East Indies . He took it up into his chamber at night , and could with great difficulty be prevailed on not to carry it in his arms to Rochdale , twelve miles , the next day * For how could he bear to be separated from it , till the slow-paced unfeeling earner might think fit to bring it ? A lover coutd hardly be more attached to the object of his affections . And this book , Mrs . T . says , was a frequent and favourite companion , and friend , to his death ?
This turn for biographical research naturally opened the way to that study of Heraldry , in which probably no man living was half so' well conversant as Mr . T . He could a : t once trace every distinguished family in Great Britain , of which htf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/5/
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