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E. BERGSTRÖM
. 1181
only three persons, viz. Mr. Peter Provo, of the Minories, repothecary;
Mr. William Bonington, of Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, clockcase
maker; and myself of Clerkenwell Close, printer."
The Rev. Edward Madeley in a footnote to the above gives the
following few additional particulars respecting Mr. Provo : "Mr. Provo
afterwards resided at Pentonville. He is mentioned by Mr. Noble
in his Appeal, (second edition, p. 207,) as having supplied him with an
original anecdote respecting Swedenborg therein printed. Other
anecdotes collected by him were printed in the ’Intellectual Repository’
for January, 1836, p. 27. Mr. Provo published a work, called ’
Wisdom’s
Dictates,’ printed in the year 1789, and advertised to be sold at
Mr. Chalklen’s, 49, Gracechurch Street. Swedenborg also, at one
time, lived in the Minories, prior to residing in Clerkenwell."
The full title of Provo’s book is as follows : "Wisdom’s Dictates :
or a collection of maxims and observations concerning Divine and
spiritual truths ; and that process of regeneration, or renewal of life ,
from the Lord, which only is truly saving. Extracted from the
works of various spiritual writers, and particularly from those of
Emanuel Swedenborg," London, printed for the author, 1789. In
the Introduction the author states that "the collection itself is a
summary of a twelve years ’ enquiry and research after Divine know
ledge, in the acquirement of which the writer spared neither costs
nor pains." The book consists of 911 most pregnant maxims
and observations ; and in the appendix follows a list of Swedenborg’s
works, with a succinct and clear statement of the contents of each.
The book was published anonymously.
That Mr. Provo was a precise and accurate scholar is proved by
the fact that the London Printing Society instructed him to translate
for their use from the Latin the "Doctrine concerning the Lord,”
and also that concerning the "Sacred Scripture;" of which the former
was published in 1786. Mr. Provo also, with the assistance of Mr.
R. Hindmarsh, translated the "New Jerusalem and its Heavenly
Doctrine," which was published in 1784 at the joint expense of the
London and Manchester Printing Societies (see Hindmarsh’s "Rise
and Progress," Appendix, p. I).
NOTE 224.
E. BERGSTRÖM.
Eric Bergström, who kept the King’s Arms Tavern, in Well
close-square, London, was personally acquainted with Swedenborg,
and he furnished Mr. Provo223 with the anecdotes and information
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