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poraneously with the classic tongue, constituting a Somersetshire dialect of Anglo-Saxon, as they do of modern English: in short, that they are as old as anything in the county, except its natural features, and a few of the names they bear, and date back to the Continental seats whence Somerset was originally peopled. Of course, it would be out of place to do more than to allude to such an argument at present. Enough if I have succeeded to any extent in establishing the proposition with which I started, and have been able to bring forward any facts to show that the characteristic sounds of the Somersetshire dialect are neither unmusical nor without authority.

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DEATH OF JOSIAH PAINE,

WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR SHEEP STEALING, ON PENENDEN HEATH, ON THE 2nd APRIL, 1829.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CONVERSION TO GOD,

AFTER THE AWFUL SENTENCE OF THE LAW WAS PRONOUNCED; AND THE REALITY OF A DIVINE CHANGE HAVING TAKEN PLACE SATISFACTORILY EVIDENCED BY HIS SUBSEQUENT DEEP HUMILITY, CONTRITION OF HEART, AND TRUE PENITENCE FOR HIS NUMEROUS SINS:-ALSO, HIS FIRM TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN THE MERCY OF A COVENANT GOD THROUGH THE BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.

BY HENRY HEAP,

Minister of the Tabernacle, Brighton, late of Bury Street Chapel,
(formerly Dr. Watts') St. Mary Axe.

"Is not this a brand plucked out of the fre?"-ZECH. iii. 2.

ELEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

SOLD BY HAMILTON, AND BAYNES,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

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