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Dr . Franklin presents his respects to Lord L » e Despencer * , and acquaints him , that Mr . Lindsey ' s Church opens this Day at 11 o ' clock , in Essex House , Essex Street , Strand f ; and that if his Lordship continue ; his intension of being there , Dr . F . will be ready to attend him .
Craven Street , Sunday morning , 8 o ' clock .
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ANECDOTE RESPECTING DR . CLARKE .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Rejjository .
London Institution ^ sir , Sep . 27 , 1808 . I have met with a book in the
library here , which was once in the possession of the late Mr , Jsaac Reed . It is a collection of Biographical Tracts" on Kinlyn and Clarke . On the first page is the following information .
This volume formerly belonged to Sollom Emlyn , Esq . Editor of the State Tryals , and author of the Memoirs of his Father . Th ^ E | 8 && | v notes are by him . See particularrj ^^^^ tfecdote at the end of Emlyn ' s Mlemoirfpof Dr . Clarke . The MS . note to which Air .
Reed refers , is the following : When the king went over to Hanover , having left the queen guardian of the realm , ( by virtue of which authority she had power to fi . lL up vacancies * which might happen in his absence , ) he expressly gave her in charge , that
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I have just sent my I ^ ord Lc Despencer Word , that the Place is JEssex House , m Essex Street , Strand ; the Hour Eleven . —I shall be glad to meet you there . —Thanks for the Pam phlet &c . Your ' s affectionately , B . FRANKLIN . G . Whatley , Esq .
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in case the Archbishoprick of Canterbury should become vacant -while he was abroad , she should immediately bestow it upon Dr Clarke , without writing or sending to him about it , and so as not to leave room for any applications to be made to him against it .
This I had from Arthur Onslow , Esq Speaker of the House of Commons , who assured me he knew it to be true , and further added , that the queen thou ' ght hereby to gain the like reputation , as Q ^ Mary had done by preferring Dr . Tiilotson . He also told me that Sir
Robert Walpole strove to divert her from this purpo . «? e , and with that view was very desirous to give Dr . Clarke the ma > ter : > hip of the mint , hoping that would put a stop to any expectation of ecclesiastical preferment . S * Em .
There are a , few other MS . notes , chieitv consisting of dates and nuimus . Your ' s , 1 . O . 17 .
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540 Anecdote respecting Dr . Clarke .
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* This nobleman had been a member of the House of Commons when Sir Francis Dashwood . He is honourably mentioned by Mr . Burgh for proposing " a paragraph against undue influence to be inserted in the address ' in 1 745 . Pol . Disquis . 1 , 386 . Ed . ¦ t See * ' A Sermon preached at the opening of the Chapel in Essex Hou ^ e , Essex Street , in the Strand ; on Sunday , April 17 , 1774 . by Theophilus Undsey , M . A . "—This temporary chapel , which had been an auction room , chiefly employed for the sale of books , was occupied for public worship , till March 29 , 177 ^' when the present chapel was opened . See Mr . l . indsey ' s Sermon on that occasion . * Ex > .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/16/
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