Author: CROSSE (John):
Title: A Letter to the Author of Remarks on Two of the Most Singular Characters of the Age. With a Reply by the Former.
Description: London Printed; and Sold by G. Kearsley..., 1790. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 190 x 120 mms., pp. vi [vii section title, viii blank], 98 [99 adverts, 100 blank], disbound; title-page and last blank leaf soiled. John Crosse (1739 - 1816) came under the influence of John Wesley at an early age, and Wesley occasionally preached at his church in Bradford. In this pamphlet, he is responding to a personal attack by Edward Baldwyn (1745 - 1817). He had been appointed master of Bradford Grammar School in 1784, but, as Oxford DNB notes, "Baldwyn's time in Bradford was, however, dominated by his quarrel with the vicar of Bradford, John Crosse, and with the Sunday lecturer at the parish church, William Atkinson. Since 1703, the master of Bradford grammar school had, save for four years, also held the post of lecturer. Baldwyn regarded the post as a perquisite, but Crosse, who became vicar in the same year that Baldwyn took over the school, appointed Atkinson instead. Baldwyn attributed this to a grudge, for Crosse had also been a candidate for the job as master of Bradford grammar school, but there were also theological differences. Crosse, like Atkinson, was an evangelical, with sympathies for Methodism." ESTC T45640 locates 7 copies in UK libraries and a copy at Duke University.

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