OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE REV. WILLIAM RICHARDS, LL. D. WHO Died at Lynn, September 18, 1819, IN THE SIXTY-NINTH YEAR OF HIS AGE. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE REV. ROGER WILLIAMS, Founder of the State of Rhode Island, as well as First Assertor of complete Religious BY JOHN EVANS, A. M. Cui Pudor et Justitiæ soror Incorrupta Fides, nudaque Veritas, HOR. WELL DONE-GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, ENTER, THOU JESUS CHRIST. CHISWICK: Printed by Charles Whittingham, SOLD BY SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER ROW; T. WICHE, BEECH-STREET, BARBICAN; AND D. EATON, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 1819. TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, EARL OF WYCOMBE, SHELBURNE, &c. F. R. S. MY LORD, ACCEPT my best thanks for the permission of inscribing to you the Memoir of AN HONEST WELSHMAN, the intrepid advocate of civil and religious liberty. You, MY LORD, are one of that august band of BRITISH SENATORS, who exult in the enlargement of the boundaries of Christian freedom. An odious statute, enacting the infliction of pains and penalties upon individuals maintaining their own conscientious views of revealed religion, hath, through the enlightened zeal of a patriotic 1 |