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Irayteryfirfeabte in paying'Mr . W . what you are so kind to collect for him , I ^ haU ' wlth pleasure observe any-ctiree * tions you shall give ; for I know not a more deserving object than he is , though we have numbers of poor clergy in these parts , nor a more charitable office that a person can be employed in . Letter from Mr . Walker to Mr . Collinson . sir , Jan . 31 , 1
755-Your ' s of the 16 th instant was communicated to , me by Mr . Cooperson , and hould have returned an immediate answer , but the hand of Providence then lying heavy upon an amiable pledge of conjugal endearments , has » ince taken from me a promising girl , which the disconsolate mother too
pensively laments the loss of ; though we have yet eight living , all healthy children , whose names and ages are as follows : Zaccheus * aged almost eighteen ; fcliza , sixteen a ^ k ten months ; Mary , fifteen ; MoseJ ^ thirteen and three months ; Sarah , ten and three months 1 Mabel , eight and three months ;
William Tyson , three acd eight , months ; and Ann Esther , one ^ nd nine months : besides Ann , who died two years and six months ago , and was then between nine and ten ; and Eleanor , whb died 25 th of this "instant Jariiiary , ajged six years and ten months . 2 Saccheus , the eldest , is now learning the trade of a
tanner , and has two years and a half of his apprenticeship to serve . The annual income of my chapel at present , as tfear as I canr compute itj niay amount to 17 I . ten of which are paid in cash , 5 L from the governors of the bounty of Queen Ann ,
al , from Mr . Penny * of Penny-bridge , out of the annual rents , he "~ being lord of the manor , and 3 L from the several inhabitants of Seathwaitc , settled upon their tenements as . a rent charge . A house and gardens 1 value at 4 I . yearly , and not worth , more . I believe the
surplice fees and voluntary contributions , one year * witfa the other , may be worth 3 L value , as the inhabitants are few in number and the fees very , low : thfc . ; l | sjtmentioned article consists chiefly in free *
will offerings . 1 am 'situated greatly to my satisfaction , with regard to the conduct and behaviour ojf my auditi ^ y , who npt onW live ip a nappy ignpraijcc of the follies and vices of the age , but in teutuaJ peace ^ ndgood-wiii onb with
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smother , and are ' all seemingly ( and I hope reall y too ) sincere Christians , and sound members of the Established Church , not one Dissenter of any denomination being amongst them all . I have got to the value of ^ qI . for my wife ' s fortune , but had no real estate of ] cash of my own , being the youngest •©§ twelve children , born of obscure parents , arfd though my income has beerH&ut
small , and my family large , yet by a providential biasing upon our diligent endeavours , the kindness of my friiSHis and a cheap country to live in , we have always had the true peace of life . By what I have written , ( which is a true
and exact account to the best of my knowledge , ) I hope you will not think your favours to me , out of the ^ fate worthy Dr . Stratford's effects , quite misbestowed ; for which I must ever grate- ; fully own myself your most obliged humble servant ,
ROBERT WALKER , Curate of Seathwaitc ^ Mr . 'Whatley was very naturally * interred by the character of ttu ' ^ clergymau , , and more than Uyeqty , years after the dates of these let * ters , communicated them to hid
fricne ? , the Rev . D . Watson , RVctor of Middtjeton-Tyas , near Rich * mond , Yorkshire , who c ( ie < i not many years ago . Mr . Watsbiiy 'in his reply , dated June 15 , 1776 * says , ,:
" I thank you for the copies of the curious letters you seat me . I have ; since I received them , met with a clergyman who knew the man about thirty years ago , but does not know whether he is living , but $ ays , a son of his i * brought up to the church , and in hi *
journey to some bishop , he could not tell which of them , tor orders , had lately the misfortune to break his leg . I have no acquaintance in that part of the country , though I am in the same diocese * It is at least eighty mile * from .
hence . The character is an amiable one ,-and deserves to be handed down to posterity , Blush \ ye © tailed prebendaries and fat pluralisms ! how does such a character , when contrasted with ahyinthci higher spheres , shine iin th <» micfot of a crooked and pei ^ vc rsc generation . ** v . Stlfeb is tlie account which : 'f
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Account of Mrf ^ thtt Walker , i ^ ufitte of $ eatkwaite . H
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/11/
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