Genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie

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repetitions of what is already made public>
and to collect what is relative to him or his
father, that hath escaped the observation of
others.; and that for the information; arid use
of the curious among their posterity, s This
being my chief design, I shall refer those
who have a desire to have a full account of
all his writings,, to the general preface to all;
his works, wrote by his intimate friend Wil-
liam Penn, s^n to- Admiral Penn, and pro-
prietor of Pennsilvania ; and to Bayle, in
his large Dictionary, who largely treats of
them.
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He not only defended his principles by
his writing, but laid himself out to procure
ease for his suffering friends. Voltaire- says,
it was surprising how his Apology, wrote only
by a private, gentleman, should have such an
effect as to procure almost a general release
to the whole sect, from the sufferings they
then underwent. . <
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In February, 1 669-70, he was married to
Christian Mollison, : daughter to Gilbert