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    your kindness has fixed me in a place where I may be very happy , and spend mv time to good purpose , and where , if I do not , the fault will be all my own . " ( Mem . of JVatts , p . 346 . ) Seeker describes Mr . Jones ( p . 347 ) as a man of real piety , great learning , and an agreeable temper ; one who is very diligent in instructing all

    under his care , very well qualified to jrive instructions , and whose well-managed familiarity will always make him respected / ' He afterwards says , ( p . 351 , ) " We pass our time very agreeably betwixt study and conversation with our tutor , who is always ready to discourse freely of any thing that is useful , and allows us either

    then or at lecture all imaginable liberty of making objections against his opinion , and prosecuting them as far as we can . In this and every thing else he shews himself so much a gentleman , and manifests so great an affection and tenderness for his pupils , as cannot but command respect and love . " The students , " sixteen in number /' 6 i

    were obliged to rise at 5 of the clock every morning , " ( whence , probably , Seeker acquired his habit through life of rising " at six the whole year round , " ) and * ' to speak hatin always , except when amongst the family /' Seeker ' s " bedfellow , Mr . Scott / ' he

    describes as " one of unfeigned religion , and a diligent searcher after truth . " This was " Dr . Daniel Scott , with whom" Dr . Gibbons ce was intimately acquainted . —In 1741 , he published a new Version of St . Matthew ' s Gospel , with Critical Notes , and an Examination of Dr . Mills ' s various

    Readings . He published also in the year 1745 , an Appendix to H . Stephens ' s Greek Lexicon , in two volumes . He dedicated them to Dr . Seeker and Dr . Butler . " The other students named , are " the two Mr . Jones ' s , Mr . Francis , Mr . Watkins , Mr . Sheldon" and " Mr . Griffiths . "

    Seeker says of " the elder Mr . Jones , " that he would " in all probahility make a great scholar . " This was , I apprehend , Jeremiah Jones , author of the Canon , who , in 17 \ 9

    dedicated " to Mr . Samuel Jones , " with the respectful gratitude of a much-indebted pupil , his " Vindication of the former Part of St . Matthew ' s gospel from Mr . Whiston ' s Charge of "dislocations

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    Seeker , when he wrote this letter , must have been in his second academical year , at least , as I judge from the following passage ( p . 349 ) : " I began to learn Hebrew as soon as I came hither , and find myself able now to construe , and give some grammatical account of about twenty verses in the

    easier parts of the Bible , after less than an hour ' s preparation . We read every day two verses a-piece in the Hebrew Bible , which we turn into Greek ( no one knowing which his verses shall be , though at first it was otherwise ) . And this , with Logic , is our

    morning ' s work / ' He had before said of Logic , " I was utterly unacquainted with it when I came to this place . ' * He describes the course as occupying C ( about four years / ' he might , therefore , have left the academy near the time of Mr . Fox ' s arrival ii * Ixmdon .

    To this letter , which I have had occasion to quote so largely , Dr . Gibbons annexed the following note ( p . 352 ) : " This very sensible letter was written by Mr ., afterwards Archbishop ,

    Seeker at the early age of eighteen . It does honour to himself , at the same time it pays such distinguished and deserved respect to his learned , vigilant and amiable tutor , the Rev . Mr . Samuel Jones . Had Dr . Porteus and

    Dr . Stinton , the authors of the Archbishop ' s Memoirs prefixed to his Works , [ in 1769 , ] been acquainted with Mr . Jones ' s eminent merits , they certainly would not have passed him over so slightly as one Mr . Jonesy who kept an academy at Gloucester . But they will undoubtedly give him his just

    honours in all subsequent editions . " This confident expectation was worthy of a guileless Christian such as I knew Watts ' s biographer to be , one not restrained by prejudice or policy from paying " honour to whom honour" is due . It was , however , hastily indulged in the present instance . " Mr . Jones " was in future substituted for < f one

    Mr . Jones ; " and this appears to have been all the use made of this letter , of which it is scarcely possible to suppose that Bishop Porteus could be uninformed , especially so late as 17 ^ 7 > when publishing his " fifth edition , corrected . " Besides notices in

    Reviews , I well remember to have made a reference to Seeker ' s letter in a short communication to the Gentleman ' s Magazine , in 1784 ( LIV . 84 ) . Of Mi \

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    Notes on tne Memoirs of Mr . J * Fox . 271

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/15/