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the next scfcsiprts of parliament . I arri often asked by my ffteiids after it . My wife joins with me in all good ivfehes for Mrs . Harris and yourself and niece , and due compliments to them , and to Miss Hawker , when you see her .
With all affection and esteem , I remain , dear Sir , most sincerely , Yours , THEOPHILUS Ll ^ DSEY . I hope your valuable neighbour * at Syiriondsbtify is well . Rev . Dr . Harris .
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From the Same to the Same . Catterick , Dear Sir , May 27 , 1766 . MANY things , joined to q . lazy disposition in letter-writing ,
concur to make me a bad correspondent ; but none can make me forget or drop the most affectionate regards I have for you , and the high estefem I must ever bear to the author of
" The Life of Charles II . " for his bold and honest testimony to the truth , in the most dangerous times . For a present of this noble work , I was highly obliged to you some time ago , and should have thanked the donor sooner ,
had not the book been , as it were , seized from me by the importunity of a friend or two , before I could look it calmly through myself . Some of these think it preferable to any other
of your works : I own , I am partial to Oliver Cromwell's History * which seems to me more finished , and to have a greater variety in it \ but your Cromwell is not so instructive nor so
bold . One wonders how you could have picked up so much excellent and noble reasoning and sense from authors that one has never heard of . I hope Bishop Burn ett s History will now have more credit with many , for the good support you have lent it . One public attestation of the value and truth of
your History , has appeared in the barking against it of those great scoundrels , the Critical Reviewers : a good word from them would have made one look at it again , to see if there was not something very inauspicious to freedom in it . Give me leave mow
to express my hope that yoi ^ Jhealth is bettejr established . X wijl hppe » 9 » , because a co * nmou friend , yrho WK 9 % * J > r . Syndetcombe , a clergyman .
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lamented your want of health , has , in a letter lately received , said nothing to the contrary . What a man is he \ and what might not ten such men in this nation effect ! But no more : he loves not to be talked of : he loves and endeavours to help each man to act his part , as he does his own .
I congratulate you , and us all , on the repeal of the Stamp and Cyder Act , and condemnation of general war * rants . May I congratulate you tenor years hence on a continuation of l * uch public-spirited useful measures ! But
that is said not to be likely to come to pass ; for , that the man behind the curtain still continues his sway , afid may , probably , dismiss the present M—st—y , if they do not answer his beck and direction . It is said , that a
great inmate of his , the Lord C h r , has , by his roughness and blunt freedoms in speaking , won much upon the K—g , so as to have become a great favourite ; otherwise he must have gone out , and Ch—s Y—ke have come in
in his place , who is all in all with the D . of Newcastle , and is said never to have offended the Court in any of the late struggles of his party for freedom against the last Ministry , Soine men will always , in all changes , light on their feet ; but the dirt sticks to them the more for it , and will ever stick .
The Archdeacon , our friendi and my wife ' s father in-law , is often speak * ing of you , and always desiring to be remembered to you . Our great friend
presented him with a copy of yobr work , which he read with great pleasure and satisfaction , and has given it a place amongst his worthies and benefactors of mankind . It is in vain to
wish to see you , but we are dften ? wishing it . Perhaps this may find you by the sea-side at Lyme , in ydttlr summer retreat at that place , wh £ re we once passed an evening , Whereveif
you go , you are careful , I know , to spread the principles of truth and * integrity , and I wish you succ ess * ' pat ^ ticularly amongst us of the Church of England , with many of whom the
spirit of Popery is increasing , and which lends a fatal and dangerous support to actual Popery , that lias gained so many converts from us for some years past . We think we sometimes se ^ the signature of our frie ^ fTs J > and , of Honiton ,, ip tbe p » Wic printo * against the common adversary , as he
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JFWwi Rev . Theophilus Lindsey to Rev * W * Harris . 3 fci
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/13/
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