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J Winthrop {Esquire}
20 {November} 1783.

{Reverend} William Bentley
Salem __

Cambridge 20 Nov. 1783

{Reverend} Sir,

Several Letters from you I must with
gratitude acknowledge the receit of; but not
of a bundle mentioned in one of them. When
the Criticism is completed I will either Sub-
mit or reply in due form.

Dr. Kennicott's bible was printed in 1776.
When I am in the Library, I will look of
Don Quixote.

I have lately been reading the trials of
the Regicides. The Principal ones behaved
nobly under such a change of circumstances
The smaller gentry were not executed, as they
had the meannes to attempt to throw the
blame on others & condemn their own pro-
ceedings. But at present I shall only give
you a specimen of Hugh Peters's preaching
as it appeared in the course of Evidence