"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 ... from which the gentlemen of the parish may make their choice. ...
Blake, John,1747 or 1748-1801.
[South Molton?,
1796]
Dated at head: S. Molton, February 25, 1796.
Docket title: Mr. Limming, Shoreditch Church-Yard, London.
Includes a list of the names of the six candidates approved of by Blake to replace the late lecturer, the Rev. James Grant.
The letter is signed: J. Blake, and is in reply to a letter "sent by order of vestry, held the 23d. of February".
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