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      sincerely religious prelate . His zeal betrayed him into frequent instances of bigotry , with regard both to members of his own communion and to Protestants . The controversy in which he was engaged at the time of his death , relating to Bishop Halifax and other Protestant

      Divines having died Roman Cai holies , is by no means honourable to him , and is in reality a proof that his statements ought to be verified before they are trusted . His learning and talents were considerable ; and his controversial dexterity and skill have been rarely equalled . The following are his principal publications :

      An Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Existence and Character of St . George , Patron of England , &c , in a Letter addressed to the Right Hon . George , Earl of Leicester , President of the Antiquarian Society . London , 1792 .

      The History , Civil and Ecclesiastical , and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester . 4 to . Winchester , 1798 . Letters to a Prebendary , being an Answer to Reflections on Popery , by the Rev . J . Sturges , LL . D ., Prebendary and Chancellor of Wiuchester , &c . 8 vo . London , 1800 .

      Authentic Documents relative to the Miraculous Cure of Winifred While , of Wolverhampton , at St . Winifred ^ Well , alias Holy well , in Flintshire , June 28 , 1805 . 8 vo . London , 1805 . An Inquiry into certain Vulgar Opinions concerning the Catholic Inhabitants and Antiquities of Ireland , in a Series of Letters addressed from that Island to a

      Protestant Gentleman in England . Second Edition . Revised and Augmented . 8 ro . London . A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England during the Middle Ages . London , 1811 .

      The End of Religious Controversy—addressed to the Right Rev . the Lord Bishop of St . David ' s . 8 vo . London , 1818 . Vindication of " The End of Religious Controversy" from the Exceptions of the Right Rev . Dr . Thomas Burgess , Bishop of St . David ' s ,-&c . London , 1822 .

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      May 19 , after a few days' illness , in the 67 th year of his age , the Rev . Robert Burnside , for upwards of forty years pastor of the church of Sabbatarian Baptists ,, formeily meeting in Red-Cross Street , but more recently at Devonshire Square . He

      was educated at Marischal-College , Aberdeen , on Dr . Ward ' s Foundation , and was engaged for the greater part of his life in private tuition . He was zealous for the observance of Saturday or the Seventh Day , as the Sabbath , and continued to preach on this day to it congre-

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      gation of not more than a dozen persons An endowed place of worship , in $ /[[\\ Yard , Good man ^ s Fields , which had been for several years shut up , was laielv reopened by Mr . Burnside and his friends and he had proposed delivering a course of lectures in defence of his distinguishing tenet as a Sabbatarian , but his ljfe was not spared for more than one

      lecture . He published , besides single sermons , " Essays on the Religion of Mankind , " in 2 Vols . 8 vo ., and cc Table Talk , " in 3 Vols . 12 rao . In other points he ranked with the Calvinistic Baptists .

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      Additions and Corrections . Ebenezer Johnston , Esq . ( p . 297 ) . The ordinati < fn of the Rev . Ebenezer Johnston , at Lewes , took place on the 21 st of July , 1742 . In the Obituary narrative relating to his excellent son ,

      the late Ebenezer Johnston , it is said , or rather supposed as exceedingly probable , that Mr . Mason , then of Dorking , took a part in the pulpit services of that solemnity . it is now ascertained by an authentic memorandum , preserved at Lewes , fully to be relied on , that the justmentioned minister was on that occasion

      actually engaged in the pulpit , as were the ministers mentioned in the narrative as so engaged , and others . Mr . Jennings , not till afterwards Dr . Jennings , delivered the sermon from 2 Cor . iv . 5 , and Dr . Poddridge gave the charge . The Rev . at

      William Johnston was then settled Wisbeach , which place he sometime after left for Turibridge Wells , where he spent the remaining part of his life , and sustained till his death the office of pastor to the Dissenting congregation on Mount Sion .

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      370 Obituary * -Rev . Robert Burnside . —Rev . William Davis Shipley .

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      — 21 , at Norwich , Mr . Thomas Martineau , the head of a numerous , respectable family in that city , and one of the oldest and most valuable members of the Octagon congregation .

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      . 23 , in Staffordshire , in consequence of aii accident in travelling , at an advanced age , Mr . John Taylor , of Norwich , looted up to as a patriarch bv a

      wide-spread and respectable family and by the congregation speci&ed in the last memorial of death , which has thus within a few days been deprived of two of its supports and ornaments . [ We hope to be allowed to insert some further account of Mr . Taylor . ]

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      June 7 , at Bodryddan , Flintshire , Wil « liam Davis Shjpley , the Very Reverend the Dean of St . Asaph , in his 81 st year .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/54/