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      This was afterwards removed to Vork , under the able direction of the Rev . Charles Welibeloved , and since that time an annual collection has been made for its support , and several individual members

      have become "annual subscribers . In 1802 he printed a short tribute to the memory of his excellent friend , the Rev . Edward Prowitt , who , having been led to a change

      of sentiments with respect to the doctrine of the Trinity , had been obliged to relinquish the pastoral charge of a congregation of Cal - vinistic Baptists at Oxford , and was encouraged ^ in the year 1788

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      Eastern Origin < yf Lancaster s Improvements in Education . Sir , Sept . 18 , 1811 . There is now carrying on in the newspapers , with rather more than " due Christian animosity , " a controversy on the comparative merits of Dr . Bell and Mr .

      Lancaster . Among other writers , I observe one in the Times , of yesterday , who maintains that neither of those candidates for public favour < c has a claim to the merit

      of having invented the system which they practise for the education of the infant poor . " That writer in proof of his point refers to Shaw ' s Travels , Harrner ' s

      Observations ( on Job . xix . 24 . ) and especially to De la VaL I have had the curiosity to look for the latter in Harris ' s " Collection /' Francis Pirard de hk < tfal sailed from St . Maloes in May 1601 , on

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      by a few Unitarian Baptists w \ l 9 had long met together for wor , sbip without a stated minister , to settle in Newcastle as a teacher of youth * In this line he met with great encouragement , and- on the

      Lord ' s days generally preached to the worthy friends above . men . tioned ; but was always ready , in case of need , to supply for the minister of Hanover Square . At

      length in 1797 5 the two societies , differing only in a few circum . stances in which they could readil y u agree to differ , " united ; and have ever since continued as one religious association .

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      a commercial expedition to the East Indies . In June , 1602 , he was shipwrecked on the coast of the Maldives ) in the Indian Sea . He was sent to Maid the principal island , where he acquired the Ianguage of the country , and had by

      44 long stay an opportunity to inspect their constitution , customs , laws , &c . " Speaking of the children , Eh la Fa * says , " When they are nine years old , they commence the pursuit of the studies and exercises of the country . Their lessons are writ down on white

      tables of wood , which they clean and whiten again , after they have got their lessons by heart ; for durable and lasting writings are done upon parchment , made o the leaf of a tree called ****

      queau , that leaf being a fathom and a half long , and a foot broad . To teach the children to wfU « > they make use of no p * P er m

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      5 QQ Eastern Orig in of Lancaster ' s Improvements in Education ,

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/14/