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    three years past , and produced the work you will favour me to jannounce in your literary department * , I now , Sir , leave these bints with you ; and if , in perfect charity with all men , I may be admitted at any time to co-operate with you in the great work of promoting truth , peace , and goodwill on earth , I shall conceive it my duty ^ and you will confer a real

    obligation upon Yours &c . London ^ Jan . 15 , 1806 . W , Hamilton Reid .

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    A UTHOR OF THE WHOLE DUTY OF A ^ AN , —MR , RICHARDS * REPLY TO MR . PALMER . T 0 the Editor of the Monthly Repository , Sir , In answer to the inquiry of your correspondent Episcopus I beg leave to observe * that it seems to be a point not fully ascertained or agreed upon ^ who was the real author of that good old book . The Whole Duty of Man . Like the celebrated

    JLetters or J unius ^ it has been ascribed ^ with no small confidence , and with much plausibility / to different persons ; but as far as I can now recollect , the claim of no one of them has been yet clearly made out , or decisively established . One of its earliest reputed authors was the learned and pious Dr . William

    Chappel , Bishop of Qork , Cloyne , and Ross , who was born in Nottinghamshire in 1582 , and died in 1649 at Derby , after having suffered a great deal from the Anti-episcopalians during the former years of the Long Parliament , Another of its reputed authors was Dr . Richard Sterne , Archbishop of York , of whose character and history any further I have not at present the recollection . It has also been ascribed to Dorothy the

    youngest daughter of the Lord Keeper Coventry , and wife of Sir John Packington ^ of Westwood , in Worcestershire * Her piety and her parts are said to have been fully equal to such a production , but what has been thought to make the strongest in her favour is ^ that a copy of the said book , in her own handwriting , was found at Westwood after her death ; and to suppose her to be the real author of the book has been considered

    as the most natural , reasonable , and likely way of accounting for that circumstance , Aitejall , it cannot be said to amount to a full or decisive proof of the fact , I have myself seen manu-* * £ lleS P 5 rlt of all the Prophets , or the Poctrme of the Millennium reconciled with Reason and Religion . In a Scries of Letters begun in 1803 , in which the ; received Opinions of Antichrist , the personal R « ign of the Messiah , the Roman Junpirc , mystical Babylon ; the Dryingsp of the Euphrates , the Battle < Arm ** geddon , &c . ar « controverted , and set in a new Point of View ,

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    The Whole Duty of Man . 71

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/15/