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leader, and was chiefly employed in itinerating through H ampshire and the West of England upon propaganda work. The Western As- sociation became very important, and, until .it divided in 1823 into four associa- tions, it held complete sway over the West of England. In this year, at a meeting held at Chard, in Somerset (The Baptist Magazine for 1823, pp. 519-20), it is stated, under the heading ' The Western Association' :

" This ancient association of Baptist Churches, having existed with very little interruption for ^nearly a century and a half, was dissolved by mutual consent at the last meeting held in the Whitsun week at Chard, Somersetshire. The principal reason for this was that the association .having grown so large," &c.

With special reference to the work of the association in Cornwall I refer your corre- spondent to The Baptist Magazine, nrol. xxxviii. p. 630. I have before me a .scarce pamphlet which is not in the British Museum, entitled ' A Brief History of the Western Association from its Commence- ment,' by J. G. Fuller (Bristol, I. Hemmons). The preface is dated Stogumber, 1843, and In a postscript the author says :

" The acknowledgments of the writer are especially due to Mrs. Ivimey of London, and to John Cooper, Esq., of Trowbridge, for the loan of tibout fifty manuscript -letters ; the whole of 'which were afterwards generously presented to the /Bristol Association. He has also to acknowledge .the more recent loan of a valuable document from W. D. Horsey, Esq., of Wellington, compiled by the late Rev. Richard Horsey, many years a "highly esteemed member of the Association."

In 1911 Prof. G. Lyon Turner published his ' Original Records of Early Nonconformity oinder Persecution and Indulgence.' This work is the most valuable book upon the history of Nonconformity ever issued. Its summaries and its indexes make it a most important topographical work as well as a contribution to Church history. The materials from which it is compiled are taken from State papers and from Lambeth Palace manuscripts. I specially refer your correspondent to vol. i. pp. 184-91 ; vol. ii. pp. 1053-1193 ; vol. iii. pp. 1-32 and lop. 35-151. Other sources of information are the Library at the Baptist College, Bristol, and at the Baptist Church House, Southampton Row. The Baptist Historical Society has begun within the last few years an important series of contributions to Baptist history, and I refer particularly to Mr. W. T. Whit ley's 'Minutes of the -General Assembly of the Baptists,' 1909.

A. Jj. HUMPHREYS. 187 Piccadilly.

Space does not permit of a complete account of the literature of the controversy among the Nonconformists of Exeter, in the second decade of the eighteenth century, on Arianism.

The controversy may be said to have had its origin in ' The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity,' a book brought out by Samuel Clarke, Rector of St. James's, Westminster, in 1712 (see ' D.N.B.'). James Davidson in his ' Bibliotheca Devoniensis ' (1852) men- tions some of the books and pamphlets on this subject which appeared at Exeter and elsewhere (see pp. 99, 100). ' N. & Q.' (1 S. v. 296, 351, 499) may also be referred to. The collections now being made by the Devonshire Association for a new county bibliography contain many additional re- ferences.

Some of the minutes of the General Asso- ciation of the Ministers of the County of Devon were printed in Trans. Devon Assoc., 1877. Others may be found at Dr. Wil- liams's Library, Gordon Square, London.

M.

WILLIAM BULLOCK (12 S. iii. 149). There is a coloured engraving, size 13i by 17| in., in the, Picton Reading-Room in Liverpool, containing a portrait of William Bullock. It is in the Binns Collection, H. 69, folio, vol. xxvii. p. 20. The inscription is " The Laplanders' return to their native country under the care of Mr. Bullock and his son " (London, 1822). Notes about William and George Bullock appeared at US. v. 410, 514 ; vj. 92, 158. THOS. WHITE.

Liverpool.

THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE U.S.A. (12 S. iii. 170). New York was never the capital of the United States ; it is not even the capital of the State of New York, the seat of whose government is located at Albany.

The centre of Revolutionary activity from 1763 to 1774 was Philadelphia, then the capital of Pennsylvania, where the first Continental Congress was held in the latter year, and where the celebrated Declaration of American Independence was drafted and issued to the world. Except during the period of 1776-7, when the city was occupied by English troops, Philadelphia remained the capital of the newly formed Union down to the year 1800. Previous to this date Congress decided to found Washington as the newcapital,in the District of Columbia, a tract of land taken from the two States of Virginia and Maryland, so as to prevent the, engendering of any jealousy between the