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      Mr- William Whitaker died of a consumption , and left two seripons with a preface , about consumptions , which Mr . S- Palmer published . ^ , I am credibly informed that the old geptlenvan was wider in his opinions than the young one . QUERCUS .

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      raonly received Doctrine of the Human Soul / ' For all I know of Mr . B ' s theology oi > metaphysics I am indebted to Archdeacon

      Blackburne ' s Hist . Viewy ( cfc . 29 <) and Biog * Brit . 2 d . ed . ( iu Pre f * ix . ) Dr . Kippis , whose accuracy of research need * not my commendation , brought Dr . Coward into hi *

      edition of the Biog . Brit . ( iv . 3 . 58 ) apparently under the disadvantage of not having immediate access to the publications of his author ,. On referring to the General Bi . ography / ' far my present design .

      I am disappointed , not to find $ xx article of GovyarcL- Considering the extent of literary information and the liberality of seuitiment justly attributed to the conductors of that work , I can refer to acciJ ^ Jent alone an omission which I

      regret for my own sake and that of your readers . I trusty however , th ^ t even the imperfect account of this author and his writi ngs which 1 shall be able to offer you ^ will secure him a place in their Appendix .

      As Dr . Kippis discovered no authority , except Wood , for J ) i $ biograp hical notice ^ of Dr . Cow . aj \ J , previous to the . publication

      of hjs Secqnd Thoughts / ' I have verifie d my highly , - respected friend ' s correctness , of which in * deed 1 had no doubt ,-by app lying to the same source .

      William Cowaed , according to A then . Oxon . ( ii . 947 , 8 . ) the " son of a father of both hi * names , " was " born in l 6 & 6 in th « citvof Winchester . ^ His mo .

      ther was daughter of an apothjeca- * ry in that city , where , Dr . Kippis conjectures ^ that Coward might be educated at Wykeham ^ school * In 1674 , at the age of eighteen *

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      Writers on Materialism . —Dr . Coward *—Letter II . Sir , * April 4 , 1811-I now proceed * as I offered in a former letter , ( p . 10 . ) to give you soiije account of two Christian MjUjerialisjtei Dr . Coward and Mr .

      Laytoru As Dr * C . was the earliest writer and by far the most publicly known ob the questions they discussed * I shall state in this letter what I h ^ ve been able to

      learn of that author ' s life , previ . ~ ous to the appearance , in 1702 , of his " Second Thoughts con ~ ccraing Hunaan Souls /*

      Dr . Coward has been unaccomuably overlooked by the brrjed purveyors , of biographical information . Anthony Wood , in his i \ then . Oxon . gave him a * hon article brougb-t down to ' lfi 9 § , where that work ? closed with tKe

      to nutbors d ^^ th . In first edition of the Biog . Brittan . pub'ishvd in l 750 ,, CQward had no place . This is more rejuarkable 15 Mr . Brougbton , a principal wri

      ter in that work , has mention-^ Wm incidentall y ^ as I shall have occasion to shew .. Mr . B . "ad alsp considered the questions ^ cusst d by our author , as , like tow ards opponent of the same ^ ame , he maintained the opinion 01 a . separate state , and published a a » nst Bishop Law , and the ^ riters of « his sjchopl , among other f ^ ti 8 e » , a Defence of the cam

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      ffZtyters on Ma $ eTiQ \ % *™> +- ~ -Dr ' . Coward . —Letter //• 233

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/21/