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ed death for certain libels , was the Rev . Mr . UdaL" The historian proceeds to relate the case of this individual , who died in goal , as the consequence of his long and close imprisonment . Warburton is pleased to be
extremely severe on Neal for using this language , which the Prelate censures as i < unworthy a candid historian or an honest man . " " But , " observes Dr . Toulrnin . " " when Udal died quite Dr . loulmin when UdaL died quite
, heart-broken with sorrow , and grief through imprisonment and the severe treatment he met with on account of the libels , his death was as much the consequence of the prosecution commenced against him , as if it Lad been
inflicted by the executioner . " At most there was only an inaccuracy in the expression . —In illustration of the editor ' s plea for his author , I may be permitted to make a few remarks . The late Bishop Percy ? having occasion to mention the death of the fourth
* Reliqucs of Ancient Poetry , ( 5 th ed .,, ) Vol . I . p . 97 .
Earl of Northumberland adds , " who fell a victim to the avarice of Henry the Vllth . " Are we then to conclude from these words that the Earl had been put to death by this monarch ? The truth is . the noble in an was slain
in a popular insurrection produced by his attempt to carry the royal designs into execution . But is Bishop Percy ' s language " unworthy a candid or an honest man" ? More accurate , it , assuredly , might have been .
In 1629 , Sir John Elliot was illegally committed to pr ison for his parliamentary opposition to the measures of the court : and Hume informs us ( VII . 277 ) , that " because Sir J . Elliot happened to die while in custody—lie was universally regarded as a martyr to the liberties of England . "
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Now I ask every individual , who has sense and feeling , whether he was not justly regarded as a martyr to those liberties , and whether such expressions were " unworthy of candid and honest men" ?
By the answer let Neal in this ia . stance stand or fall : his faithfulness and integrity endure even the present accusation ; upon which I have dwelt the longer , because it is by far the
most serious and plausible of the charges framed against him by the Prelate , and because it needs only to be investigated , in order to be refuted . JOHN KENTISH .
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Fragments of the History of Religions Denominatiojis in Dukinjield during the last and to the middle of the preceding Century * AN ancient Episcopal Chapel is yet remaining in this place , now much dilapidated ; the architecture of which shews it to have been erected
as early as Henry the VII . ' s reign . Not long- after this period it became attached , as a domestic place of worship , to the mansion-house of the Dukinfield family , as the gabled front and the frogged pinnacles of the hallf denote it to be a structure of the suo
t A SONNET TO DUKINFIELD HALL , Seat of long ancestry , the wise , the brave , Tlie generous , the determiii'd to be free , How much , neglected mansion , now the grave Of former greatness , owe we viuto thee ! Mow much of legal right and liberty ( lufj ' ing'd by sov ' rtign rule ) was then inaintainM When civil discord and dissension reign'd , And Patriot valour kingly power withstood , And Freedom ' s rr > 1 > e was stain'd by patriot blood ! Mere where oft met the Sabbath multitude To pray j to praise , and hear heaven ' s high behest—Ah , how profan'd ! Now beasts obscene intrude ) And bats , and fowl , the sty ' s obstreperous guest Pollute ( sepulchred dust , and violate its rest .
ceeding reign , and a part of the roof of which rests upon the western end of the chapel . After the reformation of the church it probabLy never had its episcopal jurisdiction renewed , the Dukinnelds then using it for family
devotion , and appointing * their own chaplains to officiate therein . In 1649 , Colonel Dukinfield was G overnor of Chester and High Sheriff of the cbun-
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518 Fragments of the History of Religious Denominations in Dukinfield .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 518, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/6/
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