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Title	April 7, 1810 letter from William Griffin to Thomas Haweis
Post Date	April 7, 1810
Author	Griffin, William
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas (1734-1820)
Date	1810-04-07
Physical Description	4 pp. total; 3 pp. text; 1 p. address
Dimensions	21.1 x 33.9 cm
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 1, File 48
Address To	Bath
Country To	England
Address From	Thrapston
Country From	England
Transcriber	Gareth Lloyd
Plain Text Transcription	From William Griffin at Thrapston in Northamptonshire, to T.H. in Bath, Somerset. Griffin is pleased to be able to write on a subject that he is sure will please T.H. Soon after he posted his last letter to T.H., he was visited by [Frederick] Powys. It was a very easy and pleasant conversation. Powys related that ‘It could not be expected he could be so explicit, nor so perfect in teaching those doctrines, the people had been taught so many years by so much abler hands, but thus far, he might be allowed freely to declare that he hoped nothing would be wanting on his part, as far as he was able to instruct the people for the good of their souls and in the faithful discharge of his duty as a minister.’ Griffin had seen the people three days before and was able to reassure him that some of his sermons were highly approved of and to gently hint at some areas that were in Powys’s power to improve upon – Powys agreed with the comments. Encouraged by his openness, Griffin ventured to also say the following: ‘Mr P. you will allow me to say Dr H. has been by his brethren in the ministry sadly misunderstood and of course shockingly misrepresented. I am persuaded it will give pleasure to a generous mind to do justice to the injured. The Dr’s religious sentiments are at the bar of the public in a volume of sermons in the year 1762 (Thomas Haweis, 'Evangelical Principles and Practice: being fourteen sermons preached in the parish church of St Mary Magdalene Oxford...(London: J and W Oliver, 1762) and now in my possession and at your service, which offer Mr P. gladly accepted, and would have taken them home in his pocket, which I refused, begging leave to convey them without any trouble to him which I have done accompanied with a letter to Mr P. wherein I have assured Mr P. so long as he and his brethren preached those important truths contained in the articles and homilies of the Church of England, you and your brethren would not scruple to give them the right hand of fellowship…’ Reference is made to Francis Coales in a passage that is very difficult to interpret. Spiritual matters are discussed in detail with particular regard to differences of opinion within the English Church. (1 seet, 4p.) 7 April 1810
Notes	William Griffin may have been a parish official at Aldwincle.
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2012
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4030 pixels in height or width
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1810-1819