A.D. 1706
The supposed original MS. of The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, by the author of The Whole Duty of Man, was given by Mr. Keble, the London bookseller. It is now numbered Bodl. MS. 21. Dr. Aldrich was of opinion that it is not in the author’s own hand, but copied in a disguised hand by Bishop Fell. Hearne thought it to be in a disguised hand of Sancroft’s; but the resemblance is very slight indeed166.
Notes
166 See Letters by Eminent Persons, vol. ii. pp. 133-4.