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Notes
Howes was born at Thorndon, Suffolk, where he was baptized on 19 October 1728 (DNB erroneously gives his date of birth as 1729). By 1776 he was rector of Morningthorpe, Norfolk, and of Thorndon. He ordinarily resided in Norwhich, where he died in 1814. Little is known of his life.
A third announced article, "Observations also on Herodotus, Ctesias, Diodorus . . . [etc.]," does not appear with a separate heading but seems to have been absorbed into a previous article, "The same Error of one Year in our Systems of Chronology."
Because of the confusing repetition of the title "Doubts . . ." on the title page of "Number VI," discussed below, it can be initially a little unclear where this number begins. It was undoubtedly at p. 127, however. The run of CO owned by Dr Williams's Library, London, conveniently starts with this number, and other copies preserve the title page of "Number VI" between pp. 126-127. Catchwords and signatures point to the same conclusion.
On the "Number VI" title page it appears as "Doubts concerning the Bishop of London's Translation and Notes to the First Five Chapters of Isaiah."
Parr seems to have privately disagreed with Howes: The Works of Samuel Parr, LL.D, ed. John Johnstone, 8 vols (London, 1828), VIII, 192-193.
Monthly Review 71 (1784), 319. The Bodleian copy, which was that of its publisher, Ralph Griffiths, marks this as Parr's review. For the fact of its being a voluntary submission, see p. 400.
Parr's review gives as the publisher of the Discourse "Berry, Norwich." The Bodleian copy has the MS addition "White, London."
John Towill Rutt, Life and Correspondence of Joseph Priestley, 2 vols (London, 1831-32), I, 408; hereafter cited as Rutt.
Monthly Review 78 (1788), 458-459. The Bodleian copy shows the reviewer of Priestley's Defences to have been William Enfield (1741-97), the de facto head of the Dissenters in Norwich, who was probably known to Howes. Enfield, who frequently criticised Priestley's love of disputation, here suggested that all parties should "retire" from "these fruitless inquiries" (459), a criticism which may have influenced Howes' subsequent silence.
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