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gross more than a page of yotir letter-press ^ aricf yotir publication would prove * an insurance against the disadvantages which itiight arise from the accidental loss of
such records . If you admit rio eutogium , however excellent the characters of the respective miT nisters , all suspicion of partiality or unnecessary comparison will be avoided . As an unadorned
statement * not as a vehicle of posthumous fatrie , the entry appears desirable . If when all the societies have been enumerated ^ yau fchihfe proper to arrange the names bf the several ministers in alphabetical order , subjoining to each
a list of his publications , much information , not otherwise easily to b& acquired ^ will be presented to yotir readers ; atfd , in my opinion , a valuable legacy will be secured
to posterity . Permit ij&e to embrace this < lpportuirity 6 f recommending that a more circumstantial history than ihis plan proposes be drawn up by some member in eacB society , as
a private narrative accessible on occasion to the respective members . ' Mr . J . Taylor , of Norwich , the grandson of Dr . John Taylor , ( the author of a publication oh Original Sin , &e . &c . and to whose labours we are not a little
indebted for the restoration of un . ^ corritpted Unitarianism ) presented if he Unitarian Chapel in that city with such a detail ; atid I am at this time collecting the fragments of information respecting the place with which 1 am
connected-The deficiency of accurate intelligence will appear by the asterisks employed in the sketch . The lapse of one hundred and ten years hlsts Rendered difficult the sicquir&neht 4 qf a \ 11 ; ke particular in the ckse
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before you ; may irfr riot rea ? dn » ably apprehend that in SeVeifctt instances loilger deliy in ascer . taming the chronological arrattge ment $ iv may rendet the obj ^ tt more unattainable ?
The arigiii of tbfe Dissenters in this kingdjom is not getierdll ^ tui - derstood * Many persons are Ifed to corisid ^ r ill d eviation from the established Church h& originating
in caprice , uniiecesfeary scrupulosity , or the love of distiticjtioti . They are not awatre that tnany ntcsii of the first abilities , atid of the
greatest oirnkment to the church , were ejected from Vtieit things 9 because they ccmsidfefe& it tlieit duty to obey Got * rather thaiii man . To the Hd ^ oxra ft * Ti&ttn
MEMOitY , be it rfecprd ^ d , that iij the midst of terete tfiab they jpos * sessed the fdrtitude of Christiads , aiid , alfhoiigh redtipM to f ^ trty ^ were still rich eddti ^ i to u faffitti to keep a conscience . "
Since Writing th ^ aboie / f have been referred to the Say J&p ^ s , Monthly Eepositdry , vt > U IV * p . 66 . That list of m ® tainisrters at Yarmouth terminates ^^ ith the
ajyppiattnent of the Rev . Mr . Beynon , and states his continuance ih 1795 ^ but such account will appear erroneous when it is noted that Messrs . Rev . G-, C . lilorgan and M . Maurice , &i } d if Iwistaie not ¦ , - MartiW were to-ietn * poraries with Mr . Beynbli , previous to tjhe ye ^ r , 1 ^ 95 . T . DRU »» MO ^ 1 > . Unitarian Ckap £ l > St . Nicholas Street , Ipsxoich Suffolk .
Rev . j , Fairfax , expelled from Cbrp . C \ xt \ iX . Coll . pxfohl , f 6 t its * fdiittg the &ngiighfi ^ h ! t 9 atid ejected Irotti his liVihg ( R . W * - ) M Ba ^ ifig , ip Sit » y in 1 ^ 6 ^—
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/10/
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