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    jfagazine for April , 1797 p . 266 — -268 , and inform him and the public , that a new edition of Mr . palmer ' s Prayers for the use of fa- milies and persons in private- has

    been several months in the press , and the publication of which soon may be / expected "; * which will be prefixed a biographical sketch of the author ' s life and writings . As to the " Letters to the

    Prelates , ' ^ the writer of this has always heard them ascribed to the late Mr- Ebenezer Radcliffe . They are not in the manner of Mr . John Palmer ; and it is p , t least a pre - sumption , that they did not pro

    ceed from his pen , that they do not appear in the list of his publications annexed to the last piece he published on Christian Baptism , though another Tract , which made its appearance at nearly the same time with the u Letters to

    the Prelates , is inserted in that list . Iii the Repository for February last , E . thinks it probable , that the gentleman characterised by Dr . E&rle , in a dedicatory epistle

    prefixed to a small volume of verses , printed in 1724 , as th&good Mr . Billipgsley , was the same excellent person , who afforded an asylum to Dr . Foster and Mr . Stogdon . It seems to me more probable , that the former person

    was the Rev . John Billingsley , fifteen years one of the ministers of the congregation in Crutched Friars , London , who died May , 1722 , and was son of the minister ejected from Chesterfield , Derbyshire . *

    In the Obituary for last January , the latfcMr ^ Joh n Alexander , ° T Rochester- is said , on the fide-

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    ] ] lity of the writef ' s memory , to have been in the habit of speaking of < Dr . Savage and Dr . Kippis

    j as his fellow pupils , The writer will not take it amiss , to be-told , that his memory , in this instance , is not accurate . Mr . Alexander

    might mention those respectable gentlemen as having been his friends ; but they were by too many years his seniors to be his colleagues at the academy . In

    fact , the former was one of his tutors ; and the other became a tutor of Coward ' s seminary in 1763 ) on the new arrangements made in it a * fter the death of Dr .

    Jennings , when he v / as of established reputation and years . In the Obituary for February p . 88 , Mr . Philip Davies , who died at Hackney , on the 11 th of

    last November , is represented as having commenced academical studies under his father , continued them under Dr . Jennings , and finished them under Mr . Eames .

    The last circumstance is a mistake . By a list of Cowardian students , now before me it appears , that Mr . P . Davies was enrolled among them in 1742 or 1743 ; when the

    seminary was under the direction of Mr , Eames , who died in 1744 and was succeeded by Mr , and afterwards Dr . Pavid Jennings ; so that Mr . Davies must have

    finished his academical studies under that gentleman . Some of your readers ^ Mr . Editor , may perhaps think , that your pages shotild not be occupied by

    such minutiae of a ^ mendment ^ to tUe exclusion of / ii > teresting topics , with whicrti they might otherwise be wholly filled . But correct * ness , when it can be attained , will

    * Sec Dn W . Harris ' s Funeral Discourses , " p , %$% — %$ $ ,

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    Biographical Minutiae . 4 , 79

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 479, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/7/