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sound of the bells hung round the neck of their leader , followed with solemn step by a long train of his compeers , as they passed stately along the shady lane by my father ' s garden ; all of them
seeming to enjoy , equally , with . myself , this Simple music . If this noble aninnii could compose and write , what petitions and remonstrances should we not daily re ~ cejye against the unfeeling speed of flying diligences ,, h ^ ckn ^ y pp ^ t-chaiges and mail coaches 1
" The native inhabitants of ttysTrilly country , were then as uncivilised ^ s their mountains were rude and uncultivated . When , my father first went tjiere , (^ b put the year 1729 , ) almost all the country was divided among a number of small freeholders , or lease-holders , holding
grants of nine hundred or a thousand years , made over in feudal times by the great barons in exchange for military service . The ground almost every where remained jn its primitive state , wholly uninclosed ; and notwithstanding every
man knew his own , yet their property being so Intermingled , various subjects for endless debate apd lUigatipu Were coptinually arising among them ; and tjeing proud from mdepehaence , and obstinate from extreme Ignorance , i $ was almost impossible to arbitrate or to com-4
pose thendifferences . TKis herculean Xabour however , my father courageously attempted ; and , that he might do it -with greater success , he took upon himself t { ie office pf a justipe of peace , which l > e exercised among them * nany yeftrs with the happiest effects . ' " - —Ppl 5 , 6 %
< c In the township of Long Prestop ^ , the greater part of tfte inhabitants who did not earn their living fcy ( l aity labour , or by some little trade * , Were , as we have Already observed , the rfinall proprietors oJf land , possessing property from genera * tion to generation ; to the amount , p «* rl ^ aps , of from tea to one hundred founds per annum * These are denominated
statesmen * , ** & * & $ 4 faftte < J into two classes , great * nd Jfotie mtfmm ; the former of whom consider tbems ^ Jves as among the first personages iu tbe world . The usual etiquette oa calling uppu the lady of a great statesman is as Fallows : ayfitfcr iriviting iier guest ^ to cOm ' e In ¦ ' apd make free , she dusts the chairs with the to
oorrter of her apiioti , desiring t ^ em be fixateA >; ahe ne ^ takes a brush fo aw ^ ep ttoSflor , apologising alL the time that It w& ^^ She then ac (| lwil ;^ - her ^ wa apl ^ arel , and not u » fre ^ ttf % gtiea tkrough the whole cer « iDOELy of > tim entire change of u ^> pcr gavjjieot ^ ataqding by her oo $ * paii y wltk g ^ reati unfioncerti am xd ^ felag m& htet 6 ry of her famUv ^^ wlien Thomaff wi « borb ~
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where George goes to school—how fast bV takes his learning , Sec . See . Her dress being finished , she offers each of her visitors a glass of brandy , ' assuring them that * they are as welcome as if they
were at home ; ' and this being done , sh ^ fetches a chatr and seats herself by thettr . I do not recollect a single instance in ^ yhich any p ^ tt *> t this ceremony Was omitted , even so late as the . year 17 & 3 U **—Pp . 13 , 1 * . ¦ i
The mother of Mrs . Cappe was the daughter of the younger son of Sir Rowland Winn , Baronet of Nostel , of large property and of great influence . The eldest son , the baronet hi possession at the time to which the Memoirs refer , was much connected with Sir Robert Walpole , the torime
aaraister , through whom he obtained for Mr . Harrison the living of Oatterick , in the gift of the crown . Hither the family removed in the year 1748 . Mr . Harrison was aNrespectable clergyman and of a liberal mind . His freedom from bigotry appears in an incident , related with others by Mrs , Cappe , to
shew the effect produced upoa her mind by accidental circumstances : " When tfiy brqlher was eight years old , lie was sent to a public school at Scorton , of which my father was one of the governor ? . Tnere were many children there . who $ e parents were members of the Kirk of Scotland , one of whom , who came from Dumfries , happened to be ray brother ' s bed-fellow . * 'I charge
you , ' said my father to him , * if you earer hear any of your companions laugh at little Wilson for not saying the same prayexs or - repeating th $ frame catechlsma which you hare Jbe ^ n tau ^ t , that you do not join fihejai j Pre ^ byt ^ riaag , if |^ ey art ? virtuous and pious , ougb £ | 4 > be as much OOfillima / 1 # ku 5 * ^ VkAW nvO ** f > ' S » Vk 1 ¦ «•*'«) - » TkO ^> T \ lck ' virtuous and pious , ougb ^ t p $ be aa much esteemed \ h ' i ^ \ iurc } i led
as n $ yere , c peop 1 kpew x ^ ot yfh ^ t ; flie tp Vm ^ Wapt , bnt | I set it down In my mind W&f Pre ^ yferi ^ ns wer 6 not ^ 6 be < fesmsed fpr bSng such ; and ifterWfrdd , when I becam , ^ a % le to generalize niy irfea ^ , I Whence derived an important lesson of candour respecting tho » e who might differ from myself in reUgioua opinions . l ^ Ma cir-Qumatauc ^ , together with the following
conver ^ atipn , which \ b ^ ppen ^ d tp h ^ ftr a fflp > mm ^ 49 m msmF % > wH \\ vr * % d ^ WBp 4 w I ^ % ^ 5 R ' ne ^ u ^^ m ^^ d ^ mikem ^ mr ^
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164 Review . —Memoirs of the I fi / e $ f thy late Mrs . Catharine Cappe ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/36/
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