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been generally managed . As he knew no one so well qualified , in every respect , ' to undertake this matter , he earnestly requested him , and strongly recommended it to him- to perform this task : the
request was obligingly met by Mr . Fool , and the task soon executed . iC I then thought , and have ever since , ' ' said Mr , Thompson , in a letter to the writer of this article , " been of your opinion , that when many occasional pieces , in a = controversial strain , shall be fomottcn ,
these Letters will be a standard book on the subject . " * The moderation ^ candour , and simplicity , so apparent in these Letters , were eminently exemplified in the mind and manners
of the writer . Piety , integrity and benevolence were conspicuous through his whole character . No worldly interest or temptations of any kind , ever , in a single
instance , overpowered those virtues . To the editor of the last imprestion of the Letters on Baptism , the mutual friend of both , Mr , Thompson , wrote thus on the occasion of this republication . —
" l&th Oct . 1786 . " Dear Sir , " Your favour of the 30 th September , together with the preface to the intended edition of Mr . Foot ' s Letters , gave me peculiar
ana pleasure . n intimacy with the worthy author , between thirty and forty years , enables me to bear testimony to every tittle you have said of him at the conclusion of the Preface . The longer I knew him , the more I venerated , estcenied and loved
* My edition of Foot ' * Letters . Preface , p . xiv , xt .
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him . The simplicity of his mand ners , the sweetness of liis temper his unconfined benevolence and
unaffected piety , never failed to fill all who conversed with him ( who were capable of feeling ) with the highest admiration of his character . And to ha-vemy namt mentioned in anv connection witi , mentioned in any connection with
Mr . Foot ' s , is an honour I set much greater value upon , than to be known to * those , whose rank and titles make a ~ more splendid figure in the world . ' It should > he added , that Mr ,
Foot ' s purse was open to aid schemes of public utility and tore lieve distress ^ and that the kiadnesj and hospitalities of friendship , were cheerfully enjoyed under hit roof . J . T . Birmingham- 18 April , 1811 .
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Additions to the Notices of Mr , FranklandPs Pupils , ^ o 1678 . 1670 . No . 3 . Thomas Whitahr , died minister of Call-Lane , Leeds , Nov . 19 , 17 ] 0 , aged 65 . 1672 . No . 7 . John Holdstoort ^
died minister of Cleck Heaton , ( between Leeds and Halifax , ) Dec . 15 , 1711 . —No . 9 , Samuel Yates , of Rob . Yates , ejected fromWarrington . Calamy ii . 409 . I 1674 . No . 16 . John Bey woody I
—No . 17 . Eliezer Hey vsood . Eli-j ezer was son of Oliver H eywoodJ ejected from Coley , Yorkshire Cal . Cmt . QVr . ProbablyJ" » also ; or he and others in a < list might be sons of Nathan * lleywood , ejected from Wf kirk . Eliezer Hcywood *" jninister of Dronfield , V « 1 shire . His son or g » n * J was minister of Mansfield , J 17 g— - educated at U > - 1
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260 Additions to the Notices of Mr . FranJcland's ' Pup its .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/4/
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