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lent old tetdy $ who bad originally bee * r the companion and Bijrmble friend of the * eminently pious lyady Be ! ty Mayings , formerly well known in a larae and txtensive
neighbourhood in the West Riding ofthi < county , tor her numerous charities , and wh" » e younger sister , Lady Anne Hastings , was J \ lr . I-indseyV earliest patron * ss * . He was <> n a visit 4 it her bouse , where my mother accidentally met him . He had read with great inferest
some of the Archdeacons celebrated publication * , and finding my mother wa * acquainted with the family , afck « d her many questions re&p < ciing it ; and she happened incidentally to mention , among other particulars , that Mrs . Black .
burn * had a daughter by ^ former marriage of uncommon talents . The thought immediately struck l&r . Li ndsey , as he afterwards tpl'd my mother , that a young person so endowed and so edu * cated , would be a most desirable
Companion for life ; he did not , hawever , at that time make any acquaintance in the Archdeacon ' s family , but went soon afier to reside ill Dorsetshire , on a living given him by the late Lord Huntinyton . He corresponded , after
flab , for * ome time * with the Rev . l > ani » 1 Watson , who was warmly patronised by the late Bishop Law . and had afterwards the living of MutdU ton Tyas , in York .
$ bire « Mr . Watson , in one of his iHters , speaking of a visit he bod lately made at Richmond ^ happenvd to mention Miss Efeworth jp » possessing uncommon talents ; and this little circumstance con .
firming the prejudice in her favour unlade upon his mind by the accr » d 4 &m&t istovei micni already ffaentioned some yean * before , he wrote
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inWedi&leJy % inquire " of Mr . Wetson ^ ( who was atHtvat trni e tKft tufbr-of ' my brother , % nd resident in our family , ) if he kilfe ^ , Wiethet the young lady was disinvg | igcS r and in con ^ -quetice of' &Jr . Wit ^
son ' s reply , Mr . ^ mdse ^ <^ m ^ % Richmond ; and on ^ ^ co ^ vi «» fi ( in the latter end of that sumrile ^^ on Ihe 9 gth of September , l f ^ O , the marriage took place , Mrs ^ li * having just- completed ber &&& year . How little w ^ s it then foreseen that a sense © f duty ^ btiltf at length compel Mr . Littdse ^ ^ i make a sacrifice , which ncri oHfV required his own utmost fortitii dN ^ but the aid and assistance likewiik
of such a coadjutor ! ^ They continued to reside itf Dorsetshire , until the' death ^ of my father , three years afterwards ; when Mr- Lindsey obtained an exchange of the living he then possessed , for that of Catteridk ; not
with any view to greater emolument , but solely from the desire of being nearer Richmond . At Catterhrk , in the following year , I had the happiness of being first introduced to Mr . Li ndsey . Residing with my mother at that
time in the neighbourhood , I was i n vi ted by my aid friend to spe n d a few days with them , and never can I forget the itnpression hiada upon my mind , by ( heir conversation , their plan of life , the habits of self-denial it included , the g ? efejt objects they had constantly in ' vieti ,
and the admirable means thejr adopted to secure the attftinmettt of them . This was probably itfe more striking , from the circumstance of my having been for s 6 rae time , after the death of my fither , in the family of some distant relflu ticms of my mothers , who lived in great $ plendour ^ but whose cha-
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110 Memoir of Mrs * Li&d * cy . , y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/46/
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