The Fellows of the Collegiate Church of Manchester Volume 23 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1891 Excerpt: ... In 1755 Mr. Clayton published a little volume, entitled, "Friendly Advice to the Poor; written and published at the request of the late and present officers of the town of Manchester." This was replied to jocularly, and not without some talent, in a work of similar dimensions, under the title of "A Sequel to the Friendly Advice to the Poor of Manchester, by Joseph Stot, cobbler, 1756." (See Byrom's Rem., vol. i. part 2, p. 509, note.) In 1757 appeared "Truth in a Mask, a Shude Hill Fight, by Tim Bobbin." It was a profane squib, aimed at the trustees of the Grammar School mills in Manchester, attempting to imitate the style of the sacred writings. It is not unlike Southey's Ogham Fragment and his Book of the Prophet Jehephary, although Southey's reverence for the Bible and his sincere piety were very different from Collier's. Collier's satire lacked point, his wit finish, and his fun the true Attic salt. Unredeemed vulgarity and personal rudeness are everywhere conspicuous, and nothing but melancholy reflections arise upon reading his coarsely imagined attack upon the Holy Scriptures, and next upon two such men as Byrom and Clayton. A specimen may be given here: "And behold there entered into the assembly Clatonijah the Priest and Byromah the Psalmist, whose pen is the pen of a ready writer. And when the assembly saw them the young men were abashed and the aged men stood up, they refrained talking, and laid their hands on their mouths: yea, the chief men of the city held their peace, and their tongues cleaved to the roofs of their mouths, so awful was the approach of those men to those sons of Belial. And Clatonijah, being full of the spirit, lifted up his voice and cried aloud, saying, O ye men of the city, &c. And Claytonijah said to Byromah, write the wor...