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. the election of each individual . He knows every book that has been brought into the library since he became Fellow .
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346 Mary Ryan *—Extracts from Friends * Writings .
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— Birmingham , 7 th of 4 th Mo . 1817 . IT was with some degree of surprise that I observed in a late Number of the Monthly Repository , [ XT . 595 , 2 an attempt to prove that the earJy members of the Society of Friends were Unitarians . Being myself a member of that Society , and having endeavoured to obtain a correct knowledge of its principles , by a perusal of its publications , I think that such an opinion is not founded in truth . I therefore
annex some extracts from the writings of its early and most approved members , which I think clearly and unequivocally prove , that they believed in the Divinity or Deity of Jesus Christ , although they rejected the idea of three distinct and separate persons , and also the term Trinity , as not to be found in the Sacred Writings . With respect to William Penn ' s " Sandy Foundation Shaken , "
on a review of the circumstances under which it was composed , it appears to me to have been written on the negative side of the question onty , and the sentiments advanced in the apology * for that work , published a few months aterwards , confirm me in this opinion . Indeed W . Penn himself , about five years afterwards , asserts that this was the case . ( See 12 th extract annexed . )
In judging of the sentiments of any writer whose publications are numerous , I conceive wq should not confine ourselves to one composition only j for if this mode of deciding were fair and correct , it would be no difficult task to adduce numerous ex . tracts from the works * of professed * lunocency wfm ^ ier Open Face .
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—¦^^^^—Sir , June 2 nd , 1817 . IN your very just and useful account of Mary Ryan ' s deplorable case , in your department for Intelligence , in the last No . [ p . 314 , j you have named three elder heroines , who risqued every thing in obedience to natural affection . The case of Madame Lavalette is recent ; JLord Byron has given it wide circulation and permanence amongst the English people , by his beautiful stanzas on her conjugal virtue : I wish he or some other of our bards would commit the name of Mary Ryan to neverdying song .
Mrs . Walkinshaw has . been introduced to the knowledge of the public , by the biographer of JLord Kames , whose account is as follows : " Mr , Walkinshaw having been engaged in both the rebellious , 1715 and 1745 , was confined for some time in the castle of Stirling , from whence he escaped by the courage and address
of his wife , a sister of Sir Hugh Paterson , of Bannockburn , who exchanged clothes with him , and remained a prisoner in his stead . This remarkable woman , splendida mendax , et in omne cevum nobiLis , lived to the age of ninety , in the full possession of her faculties and of the esteem of all who knew her . " Tytler ' s Memoirs , &c \ 8 vo . 2 nd ed . 1814- Vol . I . p . 2 . Note .
Of Lady Nithsdale I know of no good account , and should be glad to be referred to some book which relates her magnanimous adventure . Sir James Mackintosh , in the debate in the House of Commons , on the 7 th of May , described her as the wife of the Farl , but Smollett in his History of Kiigland ( 8 vo . 1803 . 11 . 338 , ) seems fo consider her as his mother : " Nithsdale , " he says , •* made his escape in
woman ' s apparel , furnished and conveyed to him by his oivnjnother . " The relation in my copy of HoweWs Mefiulla ( 8 vo . 12 th ed . 17 ( 36 [ by a typographical error } 666 ] p . 503 ) is as follows : — " the Lord Nithsdale found means to escape out of the Tower , disguised as a wojtnan in a riding-
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hood , the night before the execution . " Perhaps some of your correspondents can clear up tjhis matter ; and having pen in hand , I beg leave to ask whether any certain information has been received in England of the
place to which Lavalette fled on his escape , so honourable to the British triumvirate , Wilson , Bruce and Hutchinson , or of that in which he now is ? CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/26/
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