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It is in the recollection of m any ^ that the venerable Prelate ^ who shewed friendship to Mons . Pilloniere ^ had , in the very de- < cline of life , a remarkable suit with another convert from Popery , Bernard Fourniere ; who had the audacity and villainy to set up a note , written over a frank * of his Lordship ' s ^ and bearing
date the 4 th of September , 174 O , against theBp . of Winchester , for 8 , 800 / . This note underwent a strict examination in the Court of Chancery : and after a long trial , which took up several hours of two days , judgment was given on July 23 ., 1 , 752 . That the said note appears to beyandis 9 a gross fraud and contrivance of the defendant Fourniere . But , as after this decree , this man
had the villainy to add to his former perjuries new acts of chichan * ery and iniquity , and continued to be troublesome to the ! Bishop , his Lordship found it necessary to publish a detail of the proceedings in this business and his reasonings upon them ? in 1754 . He did this in " A Letter to Clement Chevalier , Es q * of Aspal-Hall , in Suffolk , the Patron of Fourniere , a gentleman before esteemed of good character . This was looked upon as ^ n as t on i shing performance of a Divine of eighty-one years of age . Mr . Horace Walpole , of Strawberry-Hilly after Lord Orfdrdy humorously said , " THe Bishop had not only got the better of . his adversary , ( Fourniere f ) but of Jiis old age . "
This affair , however ^ brought some reflections on the Bishop ^ on account of Pilloniere as well as Fourniere , as too easily prevailed upon to take designing men into his friendship and con * fidejice . This led his Lordship to give that account of Pillo- ^ niere , which now offers itself for a republication in your MisceU lanv .
' Birmingham , Feb . 26 , 1807 . Joshua Toulmin * Bishop Iloadly onM . Pilloniere < 4 As Fournia ^ e ' s affair has given occasion to many to make very ¦ pa rticular enquiries about another convert from Popery , ( I mean Mi * * Pilloniere ) who once lived with me ^ with regard ta his character and whole behaviour ; it may not be improper to speak a word or two
about him ; by which I may satisfy the curiosity of some and rectify * the mistakes of others , who , I find , have confounded themci Mr . P . was of the Society of Jesus ; and a Priest . lie came trf England at the end of the year 1714 ; but not in such haste , as to forget his instruments of orders ; or , as if he was flying from justice , He was recommended by several learned and great men abroad ^ to their friends here ; and to mey by themost unexceptionable persons at home ;
* At that time a mem " bcr was required onljr to write his nq . mc ; the direction might be added by any persorr . Notes and Bills not then being oa stamps , such a fraud as this on the Bishop might be easily acCor » j > lishexi . Ed .
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£ 32 Further Account of M . Pilloniere , hy Dr . Touhntrts
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/8/
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