Clarke, mystic

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15.1.1795 Clarke, mystic at Thelwals.

'avec lui' at the end of this day's diary entry has been coded in GD website to Thelwal but alternative readings could be Clarke mystic, or Jennings himself (as another way of saying tete a tete). Godwin's only other use of avec lui is for revising with William Nicholson, 25.12.1792, 2.11.1793, 10.1.1793

Probably Richard Clarke (Literary memoirs of living authors p99) author of various mystical works published between 1750 and 1795, was Rector of St Philip's Charleston, South Carolina in the 1750s then came to England, was curate of Cheshunt of Stoke Newington and of Hackney, Lecturer of Stoke Newington and St James Aldgate, and Rector of Hartley, Kent, died 31.7.1802 in his 83rd year (Morning Chronicle 4.8.1802)