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    dieted npon authority * ' as a " ridiculous rumour !" The remains of the Duke of Richmond -were interred in the Cathedral of

    Chichester , in the family vault—the inscription upon which , * Domus Ultima * produced the following Epigram from the Rev . Mr . Clark , a learned antiquary , formerly Chancellor of the Diocese of Chichester . € Did he who thus inscrib'd the wall Not read , or not believe St . Paul , Who says there is , where ' er it stands , Another house , rot made with hands : Or , may we gather from the words ,

    That house is not a House of Lords . ' * J an . ist , at Charmouth , aged 6 9 , the Rev . P . GOOD . He was the younges-t of three children , ( all sons ) of Mr . W . Good , of Romsey , in Hampshire , one of the most extensive shalloon

    manufacturers of that town , in which the family had resided at the date of his birth , for about a century and half , in its different generations . He was born in June , 1737 . A retired and studious disposition inclined him to the ministry at an early period of life ; and his father indulging the bias of his heart , he was regularly trained up for its functions , first in Dorsetshire , under the care of a very worthy and excellent tutor , Mr . Lavington , who has not yet paid the debt of nature ; afterwards , in the dissenting academy or college at Daventry , in Northamptonshire ; and , again , under Dr , Conder , at Mi ! e-end .

    At the age of twenty-two , he accepted an invitation to become pastor to the dissenting congregation at Epping , Essex , where he soon formed a close and intimate friendship with that truly pious and liberal , as well as justly celebrated character , the Rev . John Mason , A . M . ofCheshunt ; with whom , in the

    ensuing year , he became personally connected , by a marriage with Mi ^ s S . Peyto , his niece and adopted daughter , Mr . Mason ' s sister having been -married to the Rev . II . Peyto , of Coggeshall , in the same county . In this situation he continued fo about nine or ten years ; but , at length , on an unanimous and

    flattering invitation from the congregation of Presbyterian Dissenters , in Wellenborouplu Northamptonshire , he removed from Epping to this last town . He was here , as in hi former connexion , highly respected , and universally beloved ; and here it is probable , he might have continued till the day oi his death , had not

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    the decease of his elder , and , at that time , only brother , Mr . John Good , of Romsey , rendered it necessary for him to remove to the place of his nativity , in consequence of the manufacturing" concerns and property of the family havings by this event , unexpectedly devolved upon his hands . For some time anterior

    to this period , he had been habitually troubled with a spasmodic affection of the chest , which often rendered his respiration difficult , and at times almost prevented , him from speaking , and consequently , from discharging * the duties of the pulpit * , and having been strenuously advised to relinquish for a time ,

    the functions of his ministerial life , he now complied with the advice ; and , arranging his family concerns , devoted himself altogether to the education of his three sons ; during whose instruction he also consented to receive , under his care , a small number of boys , from respectable families in the

    neighbourhood-The education of his sons being- completed , and his own health , ameliorated , he again resolved to return to the duties of the ministry , and about the year 1777 , accepted an invitation from the Dissenting congregation at Havant , Hants . The congregation was small , but affectionate ; and the natural debility of his constitution rendered him

    incapable of fulfilling , to his own satisfaction , the duties of a larger sphere . He continued at Havant tiil his family ( consistingof three sons and a daughter ) had ail married and settled at considerable distances from himself ; when , not chusingto be so remote from all of them , and feeling the infirmities of a ^ e attack him

    at an earlier period than is common , he again removed ; or , rather retired to a village , named Bishop ' s Hull , about a mile from Taunton , and not many miles from Charmouth , Dorset , at which last place his daughter resided . To a small , but warmly attached congregation , in this village , lie still devoted himself as long : as he was able to ascend into the

    pulpit , or even into the desk , anxious to dedicate the lust moments of his life to the service of his God , in his public capacity and employment ; and constantl y lamenting that the possession of a weakly constitution had , from year to year , prevented him from equalling those more highly favoured and active efforts evinced by various other ministers of the gospel with wjiom he was intimately acquainted . About two years ago he

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    44 Obituary .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/44/