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    minister , Tiad made the trustees acquainted with their desigig erf leaving ^ , 200 . each , towards the support of public worship in the Meeting house * I was confirmed in this idea by the language employed in the invitation to Mr . Griffiths . ct There

    are two legacies of , £ 200 . each , left by iwo persons of the Congregation at their decease , to the interest . One of th « persons is in the eightieth year of his age , and the other is near seventy /'

    Mr * Mander ' s letter convinces me , though I had previously no means of gaining a knowledge of the circumstance , that Mr . Marshall and Mr . Hill had actually placed ^ £ 400 . in the hands of Mr Hickcox , while Mr Cole was the minister of the

    Congregation ; but I have seen no evidence which is sufficient to prove either that these sums were «* irrevocably given , " or that they were given 4 < before Mr Cole had any thoughts of leaving Wolverhampton : " still less has it been shown that " they contributed for the support of Trinitarian

    were wor * ship . " Mr . Mander admits that Mr . Marshall and Mr . Hill received the ptoceeds of these sums , during their lives . That they retained a controul over the principal is , in my judgment ,

    rendered highly probable by two facts . First ; there is no entry of these sums in the Chapel wardens * accounts , till Mr . Marshall and Mr . HiH respectively died . Secondly ; as soon as both these individuals were dead , and not before , Mr . * Hickcox gave the congregation his Security for the amount .

    Mr . Mander informs tis , that of the money given by Mr * Marshall , and Mr . Hill , one portion was invested in the public Funds , November ^ , 1778 , and the other , June 7 , 1780 . I shall lay before the public , at the end of this paper , a copy

    of a letter—Mr . Hickcox describes it as " aa extraordinary epistolary address "—to Mr . Cole , dated September , 1780 ; from which , among other important facts , it will abundantly afn pear tliat long before be resigned , Mr . Cole , b ^ d ceased to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 22, 1819, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1710/page/6/