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Mr. Lindsey^" I see almost every day. He and 

 Mrs. Lindsey are both in good health and spirits. 

 His Hturgy is almost ready for the press, but we have 

 not yet got him a place of worship. I am afraid we 

 shall find great difficulty in it. Sir John Pringle^' and 

 many of his acquaintances are very cool now that the 

 thing is going to be put into execution, being ashamed 

 to appear in it. They take great pains to dissuade 

 him from it, but he is really inflexible. I have seen 

 the York paper, and we ascribe the excellent answer 

 to Erasmus"'- to you. 



With my most respectful compliments to Mrs. 

 Turner, and love to your boys, I am. 

 Dear Sir, 



Yours most sincerely, 



J. Priestley. 

 London, 19th February, 1774. 



My respects to Mr. James Milner. I am pro- 

 moting a subscription among my friends to defray 

 Mr. Lindsey's necessary expenses in hiring a place of 

 worship and the things requisite to his entering upon 

 his scheme. Probably Mr. Milner will be pleased to 

 be told of it and choose to contribute to it. 



[This letter bears no address, but is, as its contents 

 show, addressed to William Turner.] 



*" Theophilus Lindsey (1723 — iSoS) resigned the vicarage of Catlerick 

 (Yorkshire) in November, 1773, came to London and opened a place of 

 worship on April 17th, 1774, in Essex Street, devoted entirely to Unitarian 

 principles. Later on he became the preacher and owner of the first 

 Unitarian Church, opened in Essex Street in 1778. 



=*! Sir John Pringle (1702 — 1782), Physician and President of the Royal 

 Society. His religious convictions apparently attracted him towards the 

 Unitarian movement. 



"2 William Turner (i 714-1794), dissenting divine, answered, under the 

 nom de plume ' Erasmus," some attacks on Lindsey, by Dr. W. Cooper, a 

 dignitary of the Cathedral at York. 



