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^ ent of iRean Prideaux ; he appears also to have been intimately acquainted with Dr . Davena ! nt , ( for whom " he translated Xenophon ' s tract upon improving the Revenue of the State of Athens , " ) and with Fletcher of Saltoun . To toauy of your readers he is known by some of his writings , as no credulous inquirer into ancient Ecclesiastical History . I refer to " the Miracle of
the Thundering Legion examined , " in Vol . II . of his Works , and the conclusion of his argument in " A Discburse to prove Marcus Antoninus a Persecutor . " The latter was first printed in Theoh Repos . I . 77—99 , 147—173 . From an " Introduction" to- the
3 rd Volume , by his friend , Mr . Antony Hammond , it appears that Mr . Moyle was the sou of Sir Walter Moyle , of Bake , near Lqo , in Cornwall ; that he studied at Oxford , and thence " removed to the Temple , where he applied himself chiefly to the general
and more noble parts of our law , such as led him into the knowledge of the constitution of our government ; there was a drudgery in what he called Law-Lucrative , to which he could
never submit . " He appears , indeed , to have been incapacitated for drudgery by succeeding early to his paternal inheritance of Bake , where he died in 1721 , aged 49 . See pp . 444 , eol . 1 , 445 . col . L
" Mr . Moyle came into Parliament /* for a short time ; '•• but he had made so great advances in the most polite branches of learning , and was so bent upon those studies , that he never had any relish for that station / ' The only
remaining trace of this scholar in his senatorial capacity , is the following passage quoted by his biographer from his speech on a Poor-Billy in 1704 : " Though religion and interest govern the world , and when these happen to interfere , the most part of mankind sacrifice their religion t © their interest ;
yet in relation te providing for the poor , we in England act contrary to both , in not relieving all that are really impotent , $ nd in not employing all that are capable of employment . And , in my opinion , the Government is respousible for all those who atfe reduced to the hard and criminal necessity of begging or stealing . " P . 329 , col . 2 . " Old Mr , Tros&eS * George Trosfce , M . A . / a native of I « ixe- >
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ter , where he died in 1713 , aged 81 . He was silenced in 1662 . Sfee < 5 alar my ' s Adcount , p . 257 > Cont . pp . 383 —394 . ¦• , P . 330 , col . 2 . Mr . Peirce disco s vered that he had very partially adapted " the true principle of Nonconformity , " as we understand the terfus , and that he was likely enough to have believed ^ the 39 Articles' * or " all
excepting one , " when in 1718 he dedicated , as remarked p . 223 , the 2 d edition of his Vindication * to the Church of Scotland , which , though an imposing- orthodox establishment , as really as the Chureh of England , he commends , in unqualified terms , " for Christian' discipline and pure religion . "
P . 331 , col . 2 . "Mr . JamesPeirce ' s tomb . " Dr . Benjamin Avery , in the Preface to Mr . Peirce ' s € t Fifteen Sermons , * 1728 , has preserved the Latin epitaph which " the Rev . Mr . Gey , " rector of " St . Leonards , near Exon , " where Mr . Peirce was buried in 1726 , would not permit to be inscribed on his tomb . "It . was afterwards
requested , that he would give leave to have inscribed on the tomb— ' Here lies the reverend , learned and pious Mr . James Peirce . * But the reverend rector would joy no m £ ans be
persuaded to consent to that ; saying : that JV € r . Peirce could not be reverend ; because he was not lawfully ordained ; and that he was not pious , because he taught errors . "
P . 441 , col : 2 . " Chief Justice King . " Sir Peter King , appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , on the accession of Geo . I ., and Chancellor in 1725 . See p . 222 , col . 1 . P . 445 , col . 1 . "© r . Dillenius . "
John James Dillenius , a native of Darmstadt , who died in 1 747 * aged 66 * He was the first botanical professor at Oxford on the foundation of Dr . Sherard , whom he had accompanied to
England in 1721 . P . 505 , c 6 L 1 . " The learned Boerbaave ; " who in 1701 * became "lecturer upon the institutes of physic , " and in 1709 , Professor " of Medicine
and Botany / ' aad " of the Practice of Physic $ " resigning the ^ e offices in 1731 ; Dr .: Button , his biographer , mentions the * ' great number of students from different and distant parts for many years successively , who ' at *
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Notes on the Mfcmoiri of Mr . J . Fo& . f % 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/27/
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