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high in his profession before 1710 . This King may have been one of the four sons of the Chancellor , who was a native of Exeter . Prior . Probablv Dr . P . who , at his death , was minister of a
congregation meeting in Goodman ' s Fields , which , several years ago , was dissolved . The following short letters to Dr . Birch , which I transcribed from the originals among his manuscripts in the Museum , will serve to shew
Dr . Prior's connexions . " Dear Sir , 4 t I was guilty of a mistake with respect to the books . 'Tis the Parliamentary History ,. and not the Journals , Mr . Harris [ the historian ] wants to consult . The words of his letter are :
* Have any of your friends the Parliamentary History of England , j list published . ? I had need see those volumes , whichf elate to Charles ' s reign , though I am loath to buy them , as they are very expensive j and I have a promise of the Journals of the House of
Commons , from Sir George Yonge . I would be very glad to borrow the volumes above-mentioned , or pay for the reading of them , if they are to be borrowed of any bookseller for two months /
' * If you can procure the books for my friend , you will greatly oblige him and " Your humble Servant ,
" WILLIAM PR 1 OK . & € Well-Close Square , August 16 , 1756 . " To the Rev . Dr . Birch , in Northfolk Street , Strand . *
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" Dear Sir , " Mr . Arnorv , Flexman and self , intend to breakfast witlji you to-morrow morn at 9 o ' clock . From " Your humble Servant ,
•• WILLIAM PHIPR . [ " 11 June . I 757 . ] " Tuesday afternoon , 4 o ' clock . % "To the Rev . Dr . Birch , in Norfolk Street "
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May . fn 1730 , he became minister at Gravel Lane , Houndsditcfi : In 1738 he preached a funeral sermon for his friend Mr . Grove . See Prot . Diss . Mag . VI . 179- HI- 84 . Stogdon . Be must have been the author of the following pamphlet ,
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which I have in a volume of tracts : 4 € A Defence of the Caveat against the New Sect of Anabaptists , ift Answer to Mr . Reed ' s Reply . " Exon . 171 & It appears among Mr . Nicholls ' s Anec dotes , that in 1711 * " Mr . Laurence ,
a learned layman , baptized and bred among the Dissenters , was not satisfied concerning the validity of his own baptism , and was baptized by a Clergyman of the Church of England , and wrote in defence of what he had
done , * Lay Baptism invalid , 1711 J a defence of it the same year ; and m 1712 , ' Dissenters' Baptism null and void . Against this notion appeared , in 1713 , * The State and Importance
of the present Controversy , &c . in a Letter to the Author of Lay Baptism invalid . By a Country Clergyman j ' * who , according to Mr . Nicholls , was tfc "PI- T » . « T 7 \ : — ~ J * /~ 11 £ * . /^« 1 * - —^ t € f Dr Vicar of Christ Church
_ , _ . Turner , , London , and of Greenwich . " Lit . Anec . IV . 22 ? , 228 . I have this pamphlet in the volume before-mentioned , also , " A Caveat against the New Sect of Anabaptists lately sprung upatExon . " 1714 . Attributed , in M ^ . on th . e title-page , to Mr . Withers . This
Caveat was occasioned by the following circumstances : " One Mr . Benjamin Read , of the City of Exeter , was designed fora Dissenting minister : his parents gave him a suitable education , and he was for several years at a private academy . All this time , he seemed to be a resolute Nonconformist , but
about two or three months since he left the Dissenters , and on a sudden declared himself a zealous Clmrchmaru A little after he conformed , he was persuaded to renounce his former baptism , as absolutely null and invalid ,
because it was administered by one who was not episcopally ordained * He submitted to be rebaptized , and the sacrament was solemnly repeated in the parish church of Heavy tree * within a mile of Exeter . The person that officiated was one Mr . Jenkinson .
The godfathers were two clergymen , Mr . King and Mr . J , Walker , ' * Caveat , pp . S , 4 . Mr . Read appears to have replied in " A Letter to a Friend . " This produced the " Defence , ' * in which , and the 4 t Caveat , " the arguments also * , of Mr . Laurence are
considered . See more of Mr . Stogdon m the Repository , IV , 57—6 $ , and 181 —125-J ^ # m / , Thomas . He was , no doubt ,
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Biographical Notices . % 57
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VOL . XIII . % I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/33/
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