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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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death , and it was probably in that letter , for in your last you seem not to have known it . I am very glad that an edition of Castalio ' s Bible , such as you describe ,
is proposed for publication among you . I doubt not its ready acceptance by the learned among us . After so long a rustication , my late return to town has brought me as yet to the society of only a few of the literati ;
Master of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , who died May 27 , 1693 , in the 63 d year of his age ; See his Article in the Biographies aud Masters ' s History of C . C . College , 163—170 . Dr . S . is now
chiefly known by his Discourses concerning Prodigies and Vulgar Prophecies , pub ^ lished in 1663 and 1665 , and his great work , De JLegibus Hebraiorum ^ &c . published in 1685 . This work excited a controversy concerning the Jewish ritual , ¦ which is not yet decided . The works of Dr . S . were printed at Cambridge , 1727 , in 2 vols . folio 5 and a French Roman Catholic biographer discovers in them , * beaucoup d * erudition ^ et plusieurs observations singulieres ^ our . Diet . Hist . Art . Spencer .
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J > r . Williams ' s Exhibitions for Academical Students . June 4 j > 1818 . IN many important respects Dr . Williams ' s Foundation may be considered as the most valuable institution
amongst the Dissenters . The Library is a noble collection of books , continually increasing . It cannot be made too public that the trustees are ready to receive and to acknowledge with thanks any presents of books or manuscripts . Dissenting authors should not forget to lodge in the library one
copy of each of their publications . Many valuable works are presented -cyery year , and there are occasional presentations of the portraits of eminent nonconformists , of which , indeed , the number in the library is very considerable . Gifts of money have been also made for the enlargement of the Library .
The ; Institution is under the management of the Presbyterians , and some of Dr . Williams ' s charities are appropriated to this denomination ;
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As occasion offers I shall introduce the subject ; nor can 1 doubt that so elegant an edition of such an elegant Version , enriched with the notes aud other writings of such a learned man , must be generally acceptable , j "
I hope your beloved daughter , who , when you wrote , was severely afflicted with a fever , is now restored to your society in perfect health , I rejoice that the rest of your family and our friends are well . To all of them re * member me most kindly . May
uninterrupted health and prosperity abound among them . May the Almighty and most merciful God preserve you especially . Farewell , and continue to regard me as Yours , affectionately , J . LOCKE .
f Castalio published a Latin and French translation of the Scriptures . His Latin Version was reprinted at London , in 172 & , in 4 vols . 12 mo , without notes , but with the original Dedication to Edward the Sixth . See an account of this Dedication audits arguments against Protestant presecution , Vol . VIII . pp . Ill—113 .
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but the use of the library is willingly extended by the Trustess , on application , to any of their brethren ; the large room , in Red-Cross Street , is lent to the general body for their public meetings , and the Deputies are accommodated with the use of the
house for their important registry of births . On these grounds , the institution deserves the attention of the Three Denominations . To the English Presbyterians , one of the most important of Dr . Williams ' s charitable provisions is his
exhibition for students at Glasgow . The estates appropriated to this object now admit eight students upon the foundation , who receive forty pounds per annum for three years , in which period the course of education may be completed , and the students entitled
to graduate as Masters of Arts . The students must be natives of South Britain , and can be received only on their declaration of their purpose of exercising the ministry amongst the Protestant Dissenters in England or
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426 Dr « Williams ' s Exhibitions for Academical Students .
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/18/
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