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1844 THOMAS McCRIE. Fascinating Letter on Scottish Free Church & Original Secession Church Merger! Spurgeon which is the privilege ofAlas, lacking the first, sheet, but still with substantive content and apparently unresearched and unpublished. The substantial 1. 5pp ALS dates to February of 1844 and is from Thomas McCrie [1797 1885] to Robert Shaw. Both were leaders in the Original Secession Church, an earlier iteration of Scottish Presbyterianism opposed to the formal ties between land, political office, and the church that was common in Scotland. This was in essence the same