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

indeed[166].

[166] See _Letters by Eminent Persons_, vol. ii. pp. 133-4.

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