"Sir, I received your letter to-day, inclosing a list of gentlemen as candidates for the vacant lectureship of my parish, also a proposition to have a joint lectureship. The latter I totally disapprove of, and in pursuance of my predecessor, Dr. Hotham's plan, have returned a list of six gentlemen (and who are equaly alike to me) from which the gentlemen of the parish may make their choice...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, John, 1747 or 1748-1801.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, John, 1747 or 1748-1801--Correspondence--Early works to 1800.

Blake, John.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 sheet ; 1/4⁰

Place of Publication:

[South Molton?] : [publisher not identified], [1796]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

The letter is signed: J. Blake, and is in reply to a letter "sent by order of vestry, held the 23d. of February".

Includes a list of the names of the six candidates approved of by Blake to replace the late lecturer, the Rev. James Grant.

Dated at head: S. Molton, February 25, 1796.

Docket title: Mr. Limming, Shoreditch Church-Yard, London.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T198900.

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