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close reasoning and enlightened views ^ ia their closets /* / P . 259 . t € Old Mr . Flamank , die Minister of Tavistock ; " where he died in 1692 . Mr . Henry Flammajk "had been chaplain ta Sir Hard ^ ss "Waller , Governor of Pendennis , "' fo * the Parliament . He was ejected in 1662 , from Laninet , in Cornwall ,
See Calamy ' s Contin . p . 211 ; Noneon . Mem . I . p . 353 * . P . 260 , coL 1 . " Mr . Walrond , " in " the Western Inquisition" ( p . 168 ) . " Mr . JohnWalrond of Ottery , " is named by Mn Peirce as one of the ' * seven ministers" who * met at
Exeter ^ January , 1719 /* and wiw > m he entitles " The troubiers of our Israel /* They were " called in" by €€ the citi-. zens" in consequence of the advice of " some eminent ministers of London . The name of Mr . Wairond appears far more frequently than any other in the West . Inquis ., and not always to the . credit of his liberality or justice .
Ibid . " Old Sir Francis Drake /* great grandson of the navigator ' s brother . He was M . P . for Tavistock from 1661 to 1700 . P . 270 . In mentioning Seeker ' s obligations to Watts , I ought not to
have omitted the respectful notice of his early patron , thirty years after , when Seeker was Bishop of Oxford . The following short letter , on receiving the " Improvement of the Mind , " is in this view worthy of being quoted ( from Gibbons ' s Mem . p . 353 ) ,
Cuddesden , near Oxford , Sir , June 19 , 1741 . I am extremely obliged to you for the agreeable present of your book , which is peculiarly well adapted for the direction and improvement of students in the
University ^ where yo logic is by no means the only piece of yours that is read with high esteem . You have been a diligent promoter of useful and especially religious knowledge , of Christian faith , and Christian morals . On these accounts I
have always respected you from the time that I had , so many years ago , the advantage of your conversation , and always rejoiced in the just honour that has been universally paid you ; and ag this
opportunity of expressing my regard gives me much pleasure , so , if the favour of letting me see you next winter will not be inconvenient to you , it will be a great satisfaction to , Sir , . Your affectionate humble Servant , THO . OXFORD .
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P . 271 , col . 2 .. It is rendered pro bable that Seeker passed four years m Mr . Jones ' s academy * from a circum- * stance related by Dr . Porteus . Having mentioned Mr . afterwards Bishop Butler ' s Letters , written . from the academy at Tewke&bury , € t to Dr
Samuel Clarke , " he adds , €€ This correspondence was intrusted in confidence to Mr . Seeker , who , in order to keep it private , undertook to convey Mr . Butler ' s Letters to the post-office , at Gloucester , and to brine : back Dr . 11 1 tJ
-m _ Clarke ' s answers . " Of this correspondence , now annexed to Dr . Clarke on the Attributes and Evidences , Mr . Butler ' s first letter is dated Nov . 4 r 1713 , and Dr . Clarke ' s concludingletter , April 8 , 1714 .
P . 273 , col . 2 . "One Lorimer . " The first of the 23 Trustees nominated by Dr . Williams , for the execution of his will , is "Mr . William Lorimer . " ( Calamy ' s Cont . 986 . ) P . 276 , col . 1 . To the account of
" Withers" may be added the titles of his publications , now in the British Museum : Defence of the true and impartial Account of what occurred at the late Conference in Exon . Lond . 1707 .
The History of Resistance , as practised by the Church of England , 1710 and 1715 . The Whigs vindicated , 1715 . Remarks on Dr . Walker ' s late Preface
to his Attempt , [ " towards recovering an account of the numbers and sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England , — - who were sequestered , harassed , &c , in the late times of the grand rebellion , " ] 1716 and 1717 .
A Vindication of the Dissenters , frdni the Charge of Rebellion , and being the Authors of our Civil Wars , 1719 . A Charge given to Mr . Towgood at hte Ordination , 1723 . P . 329 , col . 1 . "The Papers of the late Mr . Moyle . " These appeared in
1726 , edited by Thomas Serjeant , in 2 Volumes " , ' as " the works of WaJLtejr Moyle , Esq ., none of which were ever before published . " This publication dissatisfied the author ' s friends , whx >
added , in 1727 , a 3 rd Volume , consisting of pieces which had been published separately by M * . Moyle himself . Among these is " an Arjpment agamst a Standing Army / written ja conjunction with Mr ~ Trenchar $ . Mr , Moyle was ' the cousin and comspon-
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722 Note * on the Memoirs of Mr . J * Fbjtu
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/26/
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