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    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.

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    apprehended at Vienne > by virtue of William Trie ' s letters , 6 t rather Calvin ' s . The Papists did not appear to have any inclinaticno . to destroy Servetus till they were thus set upon it by Calvin * Servetus was not ill-used in the popish prison : the Jailor was ordered to use hiin kindly , on account of his rank ; but no such order had afterward the protestant jailor of Geneva . Servetus was not long confined at Vienne * The two next days after he had been taken up , he was interrogated * On the foU

    lewing day he arose at four o ' clock in the morning , and asked the jailor leave to walk in the garden . The man , observing he had a cap on his head , and was wrapped in his morning gown * gave him the key , and soon after went with his servants to work in his vineyard * As soon as the , Doctor found the coast was clear , he took off the black velvet cap , and the furred nigjht

    gown , laying then ) at the foot of a tree , and putting on a hat * which he had concealed under his gown , he jumped from the terrace , got into the court , quickly passed the gate of the bridge « f the Rhone , and escaped . His flight was not known till JOfiore than two hourshad elapsed ; orders were sent everywhere to apprehend him , but he could not be found * The process * feaving begun before his departure ., , was carried on in his absence ; and he was condemned to be burnt alive in a slow fire *

    The sentence was executed , in effigy , on the nth of June * The effigy ^ of Servetus was set in a dung cart , with five bales of his books , and all burnt together by th ^ common executioner or tangman , for the glory of God , thS defence of the faith , and the safety of the church * [ To be concluded in our next . }

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    ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM ARCHBISHOP NEWCOME TO THE REV . DR . TOULMIN . REV . SIR , I return you my best thanks for the very obliging manner in which you have acknowledged the humble present of my comment on Ezekiel . It was no less due to your rank in the

    literary world , than an act of justice and gratitude for sending me more than one of your own valuable publications . Yon are very good in giving me encouragement to re-print the Observations on our Lord ' s conduct and character . I could make many improvements in that book ; and am obliged to your dissertations for some good hints . I have also been long persuaded , that an index would be useful , particularly of text ?

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    456 Original Letters of Archbishop New come * $ * .

    Miscellaneous Communications.

    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/8/