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frend Dr . Tonlrnin , I could never p rocure—I am , therefore , unable to say how the fact , with regard
to Fox ' s birth-place , is there stated ; but from his general accuracy , I am inclined to think , it is correctly stated . If , however , I am mistaken , and the venerable
historian should have occasion , in his forth-coming History of the Dissenters , to allude to G . Fox , he will not , I am certain , be displeased at my setting him right . Should Mr . Parsons publish a
third edition of his Abridgment of Neal ' s Book , the information here conveyed may not be unworthy of his notice . In looking into my edition of Hume ' s History of England ( that of 1807 ) , I percvive the same error defaces that
elaborate work . The birth-place of G . Fofcis correctly fixed by Dr . Calamy in his Account of the Ejected Ministers , published in the year 1713 ; aisd by the lnte excellent and Rev . Samuel Palmer , of Hack .
ney , in his Nonconformists' Me * morial , printed in 1803 , both of which are before me . It seems surprising , therefore , that Mr . Parsons should not have availed
himself of these sources of information , which are open to all . Although there is not a Quaker in the village of Dray ton at the present day , yet the inhabitants ttre not backward in informing
strangers , tbat G . Fox was born , and preached his first sermon , there , —and they would not wish to be deprived , by the blunder of history-writers , of the honour , which they derive from these
circumstances . I am , Sir , Your obedient servant , J . B . BRISTOWtf .
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Blundering Bigotry in Storeys Cathedrals . 553
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Blundering Bigotry in Storer s Cathedrals * August 13 , 1814 . Sir , As 1 have been just casting my eye over the 6 th Number of Storer ' s Cathedrals , I have observed the following curious note , not without some degree of surprise r } Gibbon , in his famous Chapter on Monastic Life , observes with more truth than usual , * a cruel unfeeling temper has distinguished the monks of every age and country ; their stern indifference , which is seldom mollified by
personal friendship , is influenced by religious ( superstitious ) hatred , and their merciless zeal has strenuously administered the holy office of the inquisition / We concur , however , with a most inge . nious and learned defender of the Christian faith , who has ably exposed the puerilities of Unitarian * ism , that Gibbon ' s work ,
independent of us gross obscenity— - * appears not a faithful impartial history , but a disgusting tissue of
misrepresentations and falsehoods , disguised under studied embellish- ' meiits of language , and dictated by pride , ignorance and malice . * —Jones ' s Ecclesiast- Researches ,
proving Philo and Josephus Christians . We hope this writer will not forget that orthodoxy and sound judgment , in every department of knowledge ,, are much more nearly allied than [ is ] vulgarly supposed . "
Now , Sir , it so happeps that the able writer of the Ecclesl Res .
is ^ himself an Unitarian ^ and that the main object of his book is to demolish that Gothic and barftafbiis system ^ of Chrisuaiuty miscalled orthodoxy- —a system
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/29/
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