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by the different use and exercise of their own naturall powers and free will . I should be glad to know more distin ctly what is the notion you form to yourself in this matter , and then I shall be ready , according to the best
of my ability , to give you an answer . I don't pretend that what I have said is at all an accurate stating of the case ; I am a ^ * haste , and have not time to think , or so much as to write
legibly . It is with the greatest sincerity that I give my most affectionate respects to your good parents and brothers ; and my dear love to your sister , cousin Ann , who , I am sorry to hear , has been again much indisposM . I thought to have written a letter ( if it were not for this hurry ) to her and to cousin Hannah Mort , who , I hear , is going to be married ; pray make my excuse to both . I am your most affectionate cousin ,
and obedient , humble servant , JOHN LELAND . My love and service to all friends , as if particularly nam'd * Addressed " To Mr . Ralph Astley , Jun . y near Chowbent , in AthertonP *
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Dublin , Decembery 1722 . Dear Cousin , I received yours of November 27 th ,
in which you complain of my long silence ; and I own I have given you too much ground for such a
complaint . The letter you sent about three or four months ago came safe to our house , but happening to be then in the country , where I was about five weeks , the latter end of last summer I did not receive it till a
considerable time after it came , and it being mislaid , occasioned my delaying to answer it . I heard of the affair of } our Meeting-house-f from cousin
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* The father of the late Rev . Thomas ^ tley , of Chesterfield , Derbyshire . Some account of the Rev . Ralph Astley will be found in the " Memoir of the late Rev . J nomas Astley , " Mon . Repos . XIII . 81 T and 155 —157 . Other notices of late be
' ^ Rev . T . Astley will found , *¦ 203 and XII . 688 . The Rev . R . £ * y > late Unitarian Minister at Halix , now at Gloucester , is the son of the ^ ove Rev . T . Astley . T At Atherton , " a township in the
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Hough ton , before you gave toe any account of it , and think that so laudable a zeal as . you have expressed , deserves all the encouragement that Protestant Dissenters and true lovera
of their country are capable of giving ' it ; I should be very glad that you could get any thing here that wou'd answer the trouble of an application , but can ' t help expressing my fears that any endeavour of that kind will
be at present to little purpose . It has happen e d that there have been collections in this city for building * five or six meeting-houses this last summer in the north of Ireland , so that our people here seem to be almost jaded and angrv at applications
of this kind : and at this very time , while I am writing this , I find some gentlemen are come to town to obtain contributions towards building a meeting-house , the case of which is very pressing and extraordinary . But all this would not discourage me , if there were not another affair that seems
more directly to clash with that which you propose , and that is , that those of our congregation design immediately to set about building a new meeting-house , our present one being inconvenient , and , besides , our lease
being within three years of its expiration . The expense we shall be at on this occasion is computed to amount to £ 2 , 000 ; it will be expected of me that I shou ld apply to all those over whom
I have any influence , for very large donations on this occasion , which will render it very improper for me to concern myself about your affair , as I fain wou'd . But if Mr . Woods * sends over
the memorial you mention , Mr . Boyse is the properest hand you can send it to , and as far as I can assist with any conveniency or hope of success , my endeavours shall not be wanting , tho *
for the reasons already mentioned , I am afraid you can hope for little assistance from this side at present . I cannot but highly applaud the noble zeal and forvvardness your father has
shewn , as ail that have any regard to honour or common honesty cannot but detest the base methods of the parish of Leigh ; Chowbent is a village in the township of Atherton . " * See " A Short View of the Life , &c , of John Mort / ' by H * Toulimn , pj >* 7 , 8 o ,
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Origimi Litters of Dr + John LclumFt * " 23
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/23/
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