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    the profession of a Protestant Dissent , and been attended by many of the most respectable citizens , merchants and manufacturers of the town ; for a long time by almost all of them .

    " George Hughes was at that time Vicar of St . Andrew ' s , in Plymouth , of whom the highest character has been given as a man and a preacher of the gospel , some of whose blood may flow in the veins of him who here would record

    his sufferings and his worth . There are those who boast their descent from noble ancestry ; there are those who pride themselves in progenitprs famed in bloody war , or rolling in corruptible riches . Let my boast be in the purity of the principles , in the firmness of the conduct , and

    iu the consistency of the lives of those who through six generations have advocated the Nonconformist cause , not a link of which has failed to shew , both in its direct and its collateral branches , some men who have been open advocates of its purity : nor , when I pass the Old Church ,

    and view that venerable pile , let me fail to think on the virtues of my ancestors , and to seek to retain their spirit , and to emulate their virtuous Nonconformity . At the age of almost seventy years , George Hughes was dismissed from his ministry , by Commissioners sent down by the King ,

    a week before the fatal Bartholomew ^ day ; and soon after was thrown into a damp dungeon in Nicholas' Island , where he remained nine months , under the direction of the Earl of Bath , the then Governor of Plymouth . In consequence of this imprisonment he suffered so much in his health as to be never more free

    from disorder , and after five years of suffering he died at Kingsbridge . His son Obadiah was just then finishing his studies at College , but being found in the town , was imprisoned , together with his father , Mr . Sherwill , and Mr . Martin , who held the Lectureship of St . Andrew ' s . Obadiah preached for some time about

    the town and neighbourhood in a private way , as he found opportunity , but being no longer safe in a place where he was well known and held in great esteem , he went to London , and there became the minister of a large congregation ; he also left two sons in the ministry . " *—Pp . 212 ,

    213 ( C . * One of whom was father to my father ' s mother . If this be egotism , let my readers pardon it , and even excuse another family tradition : that , in the first link of the chain downward from

    Richard Hughes , was one Nonconformist minister , in the second two , in the third four , either by < Jirect descent or by marriage , in the fourth were four , in the fifth

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    Lect . XL , which concludes the series , is " On the Peculiar Grounds of Unitarian Dissent , and the Restoration and Progress of the Unitarian Doctrine , which is Primitive

    Christianity /* This useful epitome of the Unitarian controversy has been published separately . —We hear with pleasure that the whole of the impression of the Lectures has been sold , and that a new edition is forthcoming .

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    418 Review . —Musa Solitarice , a Collection of Original Melodies .

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    Art . II . —Musee Solitaries , a Collection of Original Melodies , adapted to various Measures of Psalms and Hymns ; with Words at Length , and a full Accompaniment for the Piano-Forte or Orga n * Intended as a Help to Devotion , in the Closet or the Domestic Circle . 12 s *

    IN introducing Mr . Jowett ' s pleasing volume to our readers we believe we shall do an acceptable thing to many of them ; and meet their according opinion , in regarding the present work as the happiest effort of its

    kind , to assist the devout affections and aid domestic piety * In apology for this particular notice of a musical publication in a theological miscellany , it is scarcely necessary to remark the increasing power and influence of music in combination with our

    religious rites and devotional feelings ; the general call there seems for something superior to the homely , humdrum psalmody of our forefathers ; something that shall match , the higher species of sacred poetry familiar to great numbers of Christian worshipers , and more suitable to the very

    great advance of the age in the general science of musical language . And , conceiving as we do , that Mr . Jowett has supplied a desideratum in sacred harmony , and that man ' s best interests and purest pleasures are promoted by the ministering agency that draws out the devout affections of his soul

    three , in the sixth three ; and the writer with pleasure adds , that in the next generation below himself there are two who have devoted themselves to the cause of Nonconformity * May such as these never

    fail in his line , so long as error finds support from the throne , and Nonconformity continues to be a virtue \" * Communicated by a musical friend , on whose taste we place grejtt reliance . Ed .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/34/