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ever happened to the Jewish temple. In the mean time, till the world shall be blessed with such a monitor, I have presumed to claim some freedom of thought, and liberty of speech, against the tyranny of prevailing fashion: and you will pardon me if I confess to you, upon this occasion, the mean opinion I have long entertained of some modern refinements; insomuch that I could wish many of them were exchanged for a little of that religious simplicity, which placed the seven works of charity upon the shoeing-horn of the Abbot of Glastonbury.

I am, dear Sir,

Your's, most faithfully, and affectionately.

N. B. An Abbot of Glastonbury was hanged at the place, for denying the supremacy of Henry VIII, when his effects were confiscated; and perhaps this article might have been found amongst them.

END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

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