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Sept . 12 , at Wewptitt ) Isle cf Wight , aged 31 , Mr . Samuel Pricf , Jun ., eldest son of Mi * . Pricey of Portsmouth , esteemed by his relations and numerous friends for his well-cultivated mind and amiable
disposition . From education , confirmed by a careful investigation , fie was impressed with the truth a ad importance of Unitarian views of Christianity , and was & zealous friend of institutions for promoting their spread . He felt peculiar satisfaction in those views of Divine Providence
usually termed Necessarian , which evidently aided him in hearing with firmness a painful disease of eight years' * continuance , and at length in yielding- up his breath with resignation and goo $ hope .
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——17 , at Streltcn - under - Foss } in the county of Warwick , Mr . William Walton , aged 66 , a respectable farmer and grazier ; a man highly esteemed for strict integrity and universal benevolence . Mr . Walton ' s ancestors , for three generations , have been the steady friends and firm supporters of the dissenting interest at Stretton-under-Foss ; at this , time under
the pastoral care of the Rev . J . Robertson . The ancestors of . Mr . Walton resided at Hopsford , in the parish of With ^ hrook , and were eminent for piety and Christian benevolence . About the yea / 1770 ^ Mr . Samuel Walton , father of the deceased ,
removed from Hopsford to Str ^ tton-tnider-Foss , at which place he shortly after died , leaving- a family of five children . William , the oldest of them , married about tlie year 1780 , Elizabeth Bradford , daughter of Mr . John Bradford , of Street Ashton ; a family eminent for pietv and zealous
supporters of the Dissenting" interest at Stretton . During * the forty years Mr . and Mrs . Walton lived together , they were mutually employed in dojng g-ood . Providence blessed them with a large increase of their worldly substance , and they re ^ went be red , and practised , the command of their divine Master , Freely ye have received * freely give . "
Mr . Walton had no family , but he was the father of the poor of the village in which he live . < l ; no institution or plan * which had for its object the moral and religious improvement of the poor , or the alleviation of human misery , ever passed unregarded by ~ him ; his hand and his purse were always ready to aid and assist
every good work . The young" in particular have lost in him a valuable friend , and beneficent benefactor . Be watched ° v « ifo them with parental solicitude , and never experienced more real pleasure than when he saw the symptoms of piety and
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virtue ' springing up in the hearts of his young * friends . - Mr . ttfalton was in principle a decided Unitarian ; and never were the happy effects of Unitarian sentiments more conspicuous than in the free and benevolent disposition , unruffled temper , and pleasing manners , of this good man .
About the year 1787 , through the instrumentality of Mr . Walton , a book society was formed , consisting of tweirty-one members . Among other books , some of a controversial nattire were introduced : of this class we may include the Monthly Repository . Mr . Walton vv&s si man foriiied tor
society . Such was iBe sweetness of bis temper , the urbanity of his manners , and his liberality of sentiment to others , th&t he was not the less endeared to those whose opinions were widely different from his own , than to the friends whose views were the same * It . was delightful to observe and to share the ineoeent gaiety with Which he continued to mi # in the
enjoyments of the young . There was about him all the kindftess of human nature in ifs hest form , and an unassuming * simplicity , the attraction o £ which few , if any , could resist . He was generally known , and those who knew him best , loved him most ; there are jfcot a few who in him have lost a kind and valuable
friend , 1 His inestimable values as a friend , they who were admitted to share his benevolent and good heart alone can tell . His best record is in the hearts of those that loved him . Whilst they call to mind his sympathy upon all occasions , his valuable
advice and assistance upon others ; and whilst they feel bereft of this" counsellor and guide , they know that the confidin ^ s of friendship were , in his bosom , a safe and sacred deposit ^ and that all that was entrusted to his keeping' and to his honour , will be huried with him in his grave .
When death snatches such a man from die bosom of friendship , aud frotn the church , even the religion' which affords us consolation become * a mourner over his grave . The solemn event was improved in a
funeral sermon pr *» achdd by the ReV * J . Robertson , on Sunday , the S 0 th orf the same month , to a numerous congregation "of weeping * friends , from Kcclcs . f ii . 4 z The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning . " C . N . S . ilincMey , Oct . 19 , 1819 .
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ObiHiaryt—Mr . Priee . —Mt-. WttltQn . —Mr . Ellis . 651
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and the measure of my days , \ vhat it is , that I may know how frail I am . "
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wm ^ ^^ a ^^ Km ^^ m ^^^ Sept . 21 , Hi ftis hou * # In- Bedford Rowy in the 58 feh jreitr of hi * » ge , Mr . John Ehus , many years a member of the Stock Exchange : those persons who favoured him with their confidence , and the nume-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/63/
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