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Tighe, Richard. A Short account of the Life and Writings of . . . Law. . . . 1813.
[Walton, Christopher. ] Notes and Materials for an adequate Biography
of . . . Law. . . . 1854.
[A mine of information in all that relates to Law and Boehme, as well
as to many other mystics,
principally of the eighteenth century. The part
more directly relating to Law will be found imbedded in a footnote, which
runs from p. 334 to p. 628. ]
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II. FOLLOWERS OF LAW
A. John Byrom
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Enthusiasm; a Poetical Essay. 1751.
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Francis Okely collected and printed those of Byrom's poems which
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Seasonably Alarming and Humiliating . . . Truths . . . in a Metrical Version
of certain select passages taken from the works of . . . William Law. . . .
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(Contains a
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tracts and pamphlets. ]
Stephen, Sir Leslie. John Byrom. , Studies of a Bibliographer, vol. I. 1898.
B. Henry Brooke
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in one vol. Routledge, 1906. [All references are given to this latter edn. ]
and The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland. 1781. [Abridged and edited by
John Wesley. ]
I Poetical Works. 3rd edn. 4 vols. Dublin, 1792. [With life of Brooke. ]
Brooke, Richard Sinclair. Article on Henry Brooke in Dublin University
Magazine, Feb. 1852.
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III. OTHER ENGLISH MYSTICS AND FOLLOWERS OF BOEHME IN THE
SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
A. Thomas Bromley (d. 1691)
The Way to the Sabbath of Rest, or the Soul's Progress in the work of the
New-Birth. . . . 1710. [First published c. 1678? , a 2nd edn in 1692. ]
B. George Cheyne (1671-1743)
Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion. . . . 1705; 2nd edn, corrected
and enlarged. . . . 1715.
Dr Cheyne's own Account of Himself and of his Writings. . . . 1743.
C. Jane Lead (1623–1704)
[For list of works, published between 1681 and 1704, see D. of N. B. See,
also, art. in British Quarterly Review, vol. LVIII, pp. 181-7. ]
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D. Francis Lee (1661-1719)
ANOAEITIOMENA, or, Dissertations. 2 vols. . . . 1752.
[A paraphrase or enlargement of Boehme's Supersensual Life, printed
in 'Law's edn’ of Boehme, and said by the editors to be by Law, Fol. 19,
1781, q. v. , below. The MS of this, in Lee's writing, is in Dr Williams's
library, 11. 8. ]
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E. Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659)
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у
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Lazarus and his Sisters Discoursing of Paradise: . . . 1655. [A MS copy
of this in Francis Lee's writing was found among Law's papers, and
is now in Dr Williams's library. ]
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from the Three Birds, see Palmer, A. N. , A History of the Older Non-
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Theosophical Transactions of the Philadelphian Society. Nos. 1-5. . . . 1697
See a good article on the Philadelphian Society in The Dawn (London),
Dec. 1862, pp. 236-42.
[This society, founded in 1697, and dissolved in 1703, was formed in order
'to cultivate spiritual and practical piety, founded on the study of Jacob
Behmen. Its principal members were Mrs Jane Lead; Dr Francis Lee, q. v. ,
and Thomas Bromley. For Law's views on it see Animadversions, Works,
VI, p. 313, and Walton's Notes, p. 370, also letter to Langcake, ibid. pp. 45-6.
See also correspondence of Henry Dodwell and Francis Lee, 1698-9, in
Walton's Notes, pp. 188-232. ]
G. Richard Roach (1662-1730)
The Great Crisis. . . . 1725. [Published 1726. ] [Interesting for an account
of contemporary mystics, the Philadelphian Society, etc. ]
The Imperial Standard of Messiah Triumphant. . . . (1727. ]
H. Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)
The Way to Health. . . . 1691. Tryon's Letters. .