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    This marvellous tale ( evidently a fabrication of the monks of Glastenbury , to establish the reputation of their house ) was afterwards considerably improved , as appears by the following extract , said to have been taken out of the archives of the church of Glastenbury : — They were six hundred men and women who were to come over , and had taken

    a vow of abstinence till they should come to land , which vow they all broke , except fifty ( one hundred and fifty says another account ) who came over the sea upon the shirt of Josephes , the son of Joseph . But the rest having repented of the breach of their vow ^ a ship was sent to convey them over , which had been built by King Solomon , With them came over a Duke of the Medes , called Nacianus ,

    formerly baptized by Joseph , in the city of Saram ; the king of which , called Mordraius , was also of this party , and afterwards valiantly killed a king of North Wales , by whom Joseph was kept in prison . " ( This must doubtless be acting quite in character , like one of the primitive christians , to

    resist and kill a persecutor /) This notable story has been differently told : one of its circumstances is , that Joseph had been imprisoned by the Jews at Jerusalem , but miraculously delivered by four angels , who took up the very house where he was imprisoned , and conveyed him to his own city of Arirnathea . Christ is also said to have appeared to him ., 3 nd carried hkn to the place where he had buried him , and shewed him the linen cloth about his head : after which

    h-e was baptized by Philip , and was , present with him at the assumption of the blessed Virgin ; and fifteen years after he came to Philip , in Gaul , who sent him over to Britain , as was before related . Another additional circumstance of this curious tale is , that at the time of the

    persecution mentioned in Acts viii . when most of the christians of Jerusalem were scattered abroad , Joseph of Arimathea , Lazarus , and others of the disciples of Christ , were taken up by the Jews , and put into an open boat , without oars , sails , or rudder , at Joppa , or somewhere thereabout in the Mediterranean . In that dismal situation they were

    wonderfully preserved , and under the care of an invisible pilot s happily conducted over the mighty waters , so that in a very short time they all safely arrived in the south of France , where they found Philip , the apostle , engaged in disputation with the Druids of that country . Shortly after , it was thought proper that Joseph and twelve more should be sent as missionaries to this island , as has betu already stated .

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    292 The first Introduction of the Gospel into Britain .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/4/