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Updated: June 5, 2025
Manchester politics then were just the opposite of its present Liberal tendencies, and it was Byrom, a Manchester man, who wrote the quaint epigram regarding the Pretender and his friends which has been so often quoted: "God bless the King I mean our faith's defender! But who Pretender is, or who is King God bless us all! that's quite another thing."
A few of his hymns and short meditations rise to a higher poetical level. They are referred to with much praise by Mr. G. Macdonald, who adds the just remark that 'The mystical thinker will ever be found the reviver of religious poetry. Like Law, John Byrom was a great admirer of Behmen.
Nothing easier, for here was Edward Purcell, a clothier, one of our own young men, who afterwards became a city alderman, having a good business in Byrom Street, Liverpool.
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