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title-page is written , " R . Disney , 1753 . " The sole reason of my noticing it to
yourself . Sir , is on account of a MS . narrative , written on an otherwise blank leaf prefixed to the title-page , of which MS . the following is a literal copy . - —
" The author of this book was once a practising attorney at Newark-upon ^ Trent , Nottinghamshire . € t The place of town ^ clerh becoming vacant , this truly great man , and my
cousin Richard Twells , ( a man of no despicable parts , and well-learned too , ) were competitors for this little employment ( for it is not , comrnmtibus annis , worth above 40 / . per annum ) . Twells having the better interest in that mean corporation , ( for Mr . Cooke , who had been twice mayor , made shoes for all our family , and used to bring them home himself , ) had a majority in that despicable body , and obtained the place . Warbwrton was so piqued at
the disappointment , that he fell hard to his studies , got into orders , and having good friends , is now one of the greatest divines we have , quoad critical erudition . R . D . " I have given you a copy verbatim , and I believe literatim , for I have copied his abbreviations and parentheses . Thinking that almost any information , which is authentic , relative to such a man as Warbnrton , is too valuable to be lost ,, and supposing that the " /?• Disney * ' referred to , may have been a paternal ancestor of the late worthy Dr . Disney , * are my reasons for troubling you with this communication . JOSEPH LAMB .
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tability . All that could be accom * plished by talents , industry , example , and by controversy , has been nobly performed by the champions of the cause : they have planted , it is ours to water , that the fruit may be more speedily brought to maturity . The Fellowship Funds certainly appear well calculated to effect this desirable
object . Warmed with this persuasion , I may perhaps be hurried by impatience , since I cannot suppress a feeling of great disappointment at finding , that
in the course of two years , not more than twenty Fellowship Funds have been announced , whereas , a very imperfect and scanty list of Unitarian societies reaches to one hundred and
fifty . Either I must delude myself with a prospect of imaginary benefits to result from these funds , or their utility has not been duly considered by many societies ; for nothing but the absence of the strong conviction which I feel of their high importance , can account for tardiness or indifference as to a
measure which appears so simple in its detail , so powerful in its operation , and so completely within the reach of the most circumscribed means . 1 may assert with confidence that there is not an Unitarian in the kingdom , who does not either personally suffer from , or see abundant cause to
lament the non-existence of that which it is so entirely in their power to create , and still we go on year after year , in a state of suffering and inactivity , permitting the cause to languish under the chilling influence of poverty , societies in some cases without ministers ,
in others without proper places of worship j or if these be at length obtained , exposed to the certainty of a heavy debt , inextinguishable by any other means than private charity . I must own , that looking to the zeal , t 1 c
the resolution and perseverance , required < to produce an Unitarian , and at < the same time to the simple measure which has now been for two years submitted to consideration , I feel at a loss to account for the existence of the * *
'above evils and deficiencies , being quite unwilling to suppose that the moment of conversion , the act of profession , or the comfortable establishment of any individual society , is the signal for returning apathy , or of indifference ;
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686 On Fellowship Funds .
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Swansea , Sir , October 10 , 1818 . HAIL the establishaient of various I Fellowship Funds as the dawn of more successful times for Unitarianism , little else being now required to enable it to keep pace with the present rapid march of knowledge and improvement , tban a general fund for the removing of certain impediments which retard its progress , and diminish its respeo
* Of whose upright and truly honorable life and happy death , an interest ing * sketch was given in a , recent number of your work fXII . 257—2611 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 686, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/22/
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