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    ^ . Richard Corrie 9 £Tq , —Rev. ' Y. Sc...

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    _attachment to the Church , to which however he attributes some need © f a further reformation . _Hii manner of treating dissemers , also displays an amiable spiiit of moderation and justly ranks him among low churchmen . _Besides single sermons he published a volume of _discourses " on the Evidences of _Natural .

    and Revealed Religion , " and Reflections on Popery , * in _answer to Dr Milner _^ s _Fii _^ tcry of Winchester . Two other publications of his called forth replies which exhibited his own candid and courteous style of writing . In 1779 , soon after the appeal ance of the Rev . R . Robinson ' s " Plan of Lectures

    on the Principles of Nonconformity , " & c . Dr . 8 . published " _Considejations -on the Present State of the Church Establishment , in Letters to the Lord Bishop of London . " He here brings forward the usuui arguments for an establishment , but recommends that «* all

    unnecessary impediments should be removed , * ' and confesses as to the articles , that cc the subjects _<* f some of " them are of a most obscure and disputable kind . " These ' * tender points of hi _' s subject , " as has been well observed , Ci he only touches in a ver _^ soft and gentle manner . " The c * _Considerations" were

    noticed by Dr . Toulmin , in " Letters to tl _^ c Rev . John Sturges , " in which the worthy author shews the important reasons for nonconformity drawn by _Dissenters , and especially Unitarians , from the forms and doctrines of the Church of England .

    In 1790 , appeared u A New Translation of Isaiah , " with Notes , by Mr . Dodson . Dr . S . soon published Short Remarks on a New Translation of Isaiah . * _vindicating BishoD Lowth from Ian 1 * _vindicating Bishop Lowth from

    , the objections offered to several passages » f _hi-i translation by Mr . _Dodson . That learned writer replied in * A Letter to the Rev . Dr . Sturges . " The letters on both sides were , as Mr . Dodson describes

    that of his opponent , " worthy of the gentleman , the scholar , and the Christian * \ Oct . 5 , at Amsterdam , after a . few days illness , aged _$$ _, the Rev . JOSHUA

    JEANS , D D . Rector of Sheviac in Cornwall , Chaplain to the Duke of York , ft ad Minister of the English Episcopal Church at Amsterdam , where he had keen settled about four _years _^ and was so _$ _oj » _uUw . _si _prewcher tkat _« b * place of wor-4

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    ship required a considerable _enlargement * For some time before his death , _DrVT . had collected materials for a new account of the States of Holland , & c . but "Ms papers * are not sufficiently arranged for publication . He has left a widow _aftd daughter , to lament hi _unexpected death , whom he had committed , last spring , to the care of his friends hf England .

    Nov . 3 , at his house , South Audley Street aged 88 , Dr . WILLIAM MARKHAM , Archbishop of York , Primate of _England , Lord High Almoner to the King , and Visitor of Queen ' s College , _Oxford . He was of a Nottinghamshirifc family , but born in Ireland , where hu

    father , a ' milkary officer , resided . After an education at Westminster school , \ rc reaioved to Christ Church , Oxford , ancl in 1745 , distinguished himself ihere by a oopy of elegant Latin verses . About 1750 , he wi 6 appointed first _masrer q £ _thdi school where he had received hu

    education ; a charge which , as a most _accomplished scholar , he was well pre _* pared to undertake . During this en > _^ agement he had , in 1759 , been _promote cdto a stall in Durham C 3 athedral , and

    after quitting Westnninster , in 1 765 to the _Deanry of Rochester , soon _exchanged for that of Christ Church , an office invo _. ving the care both of a college and a cathedral , yet preferred to Rochester , no doubt , for substantial reasons *;

    hi 1769 , Dr . M . preached the Con do act Clerumy before the Convocation or Synod of Canterbury , -which he published ac _* companied with a Latin speech on pre _* seining Dr . Thomas as prolocutor to _tht

    h gher house of Convocation . At the end of his Concio _^ he had paid some hig h _, compliments to the memory of Arch * bishop Seeker , then lately deceased , winch drew upon him the strictures of Archdeacon Blackburn , who is well

    known to have _entertained a low opinion of Seeker . He also attacked Dr . M . ag an enemy of _Reformers , a charge not likely' to prejudice the advances of a Churchman . " To better thence again and better still . In clerical progression . ' V

    In 1771 , he was promoted t _^ th f bishopric of _Chester , ' and at the same time appointed prc < cptor to the Prince of Wales . In the diocese of Chester then resided the . £ U _* f _TheophUus JLiBt « U _*) r _^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/43/