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    steady Dissenter and a firm Whig , and who used to speak with a virtuous glow of his descent , on the maternal side from the Rev . and

    learned Thomas Sampson , Dean of Christ Church * Oxon , the bold opposer of superstition and tyranny in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , g ee Monthly Magazine for April , 1 S 06 p . 285 , 286 .

    To these supplementary hints for the list of the students educated at Warrington , permit me to observe , that 1 have the mortification to find , on examination

    that , contrary to the honourable expectation of your correspondent , Mr . Bristowe , ( p . 552 ) entertained from his * friend ' s" accuracy , I have twice fallen into the error

    concerning the birth-place of George Fox , which he considers as " highly culpable" in the abridger of Mr . Neal : both in my edition of the " History of the Puritans / ' and my late original work , entitled , * An Historical View of the State of the Protestant Dis&enters in England , " p . 407 » Impartiality must dispose Mr . Bristowe to think his friend

    more highly culpable" than Mr . Parsons , for he avowedly was , in drawing up his account of the Founder of the Society of Friends , writing not from Neal only , but from Gough , their historian : yet he carelessl y overlooked , or neglected to refer to him for the birth . place of Mr . Fox : who precisely states that " he was a native of

    Leicestershire , being born at Dray ton in the Clay , in the said county , * in the year 1624 . " Vol . I . p . 1 . In excuse of Mr . Parsons ' s error it may be pleaded , that it was scarcely theprovinceof theabridger of a work to examine the accu-

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    racy of every date , or even every statement of the author , whose general correctness has not been impeached , and whose work went through a second impression

    tinder the eye of his son , a very respectable lawyer . Whether this plea will palliate the error of him , who professes as an editor to ex . amine the statements o ! Neal , and in the execution of a new work

    had before him the biography of George Fox , must be submitted to the candour of his readers . They , and his fiiend Mr .

    Bristowe , will have the goodness to allow for tl > e great variety m \ d number of minutiae , included in these publications , and iortheincUm Wtf arid slips from which so u elaborate a work , " as Mr . Hume ' s History was not exempt : while they will consider that it can be

    the lot of a few only to enjoy the advantage for accuracy in this case , which Mr . Bnstowe bas derived from a few years' residence in the vicinity , of the

    Drayton in Leicestershire ; and tbe writer of this has no fear , but the inhabitants of that village ., should they hear of the blunder" of writers in this instance , will

    acquit them of all design to deprive Dray ton in Leicestershire of tbe honour arising from having been the birth-place of the celebrated

    George Fox . I thank , however , my friend for having noticed this error , and would not doubt but Mr . Parsons will think it very proper that it should have been pointed out j to

    prevent the reader from being misled , and as a warning , not to depend implicitly on the correctness of any authors , though of such reputation as attach to the names of Neal and Hume . , While the pen is in my haIld >

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    772 Supplementary Particulars , &c .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 772, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/44/