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    Mtnej Memoir of Mrs . Jones of Man-Chester , by Mrs . Cappe * Important as 1 may deem it to the living ^ sbaf a character so admirable as that © lithe late Mrs . Jones should be long * remembered bj them for their benefit , I should hardly h&readventured upon writing her memoir , conscious of being- in com pete at to do justice t © the subject , had I not been desired

    to snake the attempt by her excellent hustj&ftd ^ whose sorrow for her loss will end ®© Sy with his life ^ who wel l knew her wo&tfaf and whose great consolation ft now i % that for a long * series © f years foe was most itappy , to the utmost of his power , in e&nstantly promoting * and in enabling 1 her to execute chose extensive plaits of benevolence and charity to which her life was demoted .

    Mrs . Jones was the eldest daughter of the Rev . Joseph Bourne , minister of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters at Hindley , in Lancashire ^ whose life was published , together with that of bis highly-respected father , by the late Dr . Toulmin , in the yea ? 1808 , and who died m die year 1705 leaving a widow and six children . Mrs . Jones spent the foll&wiftethree years under

    the fiare of her grandmother , Mrs . Bcrorne , at Birmingham , of whom she always spoke with affection and gratitude for the benefits ; she received from . her excellent religions ami moral instruction , and which probably first formed in her mind those just principles of rational and fervent piety for which she was afterwards distinguished , and which were still further cultivated and confirmed

    by her great intimacy with the Rev . Philip Holland , of Bol ton , who , together will * Mrs . Holland took great pains to render permajieat those Just and important affections . Slse was married in June 1785 , to Samuel Jones , Esq . of Green Hill , near Manchester , a gentleman whose views and principles faatmonized perfectly with her own . But

    thoug h * placed by this connexion in circumstances of great affluence , she was ; not ambitious of being' distinguished by any species of vain display , or af engaging- in a round of fashionable dissipation , where she might perhaps have figured with some eclat . It was not her desire to attract admiration , but ^ on the contrary , to make it her daily study ! how most effectually to shew her

    eratstssde , far the advantages she possessed , to the great Giver of all g * ood by supplying * - tfre wants : and alleviating- the distresses tothe utmost of tier power , of every member rf hi& large ftnmily with whom » hcwaseo « - Mectte'd ^ - or to wfeo m . h eir kindness could possibly- extfcii *! , mmdi this i » the wisest and m&ik jjixdwiwis manner . Not one of her early ftufcadsjoe foTiiier associate s' did sh ^ j ever frtrget op ^ e ^ iect ; ftlways' mmidevirtg

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    Itow best to promote their interests witaout taking them out of tbatsteuioit in tvbicli Frovidence had pia ^ d them / I had nstt the privilege of h $ t acquaintance ¦ till the year 1805 , tvhcrij to in ^ instrumenlal \ ti bringing forward tlie effn&ioWiJb f && ^ unlettered muse in this city , * Mrs . Jones was

    so deeply interested iii ' her -story , that she wrote to make her the offer of becomiBjgf anistress of a schoo ! for forty gfcfe , aeai her owe house , eortducted at her stole « £ * pease , and which sfie herself daily visited ! and ever since that time I have had the Bappi ness of cultivating and enjoying an iirti * mate and confidential friendshi p *

    She suffered for ibe last two yearsfunder a very painful and distressing' disease , which , on the 27 th of last month , ^ nt a period to bei * valliable life . I bard an ? e % + cellent letter from he ? ry wrftteii mi tb © 17 ifej in quite li « r own characteristic Bftanner- ^ srearcety adverting : to lier own su ^ crin ^

    g althano'h she was fatly aware of what m&st speedily be the iettiimnation , but full of the teaderest aaxiety for a niyost ainiable jroung relative , wliose ev&ry hope af happiness M this world appeared to have been compietefy destroyed hut a vety few days pieeediRg-

    by the sudden and unexpected death of one most deservedly dear to her , and to whom she was very sooh to have beea uniteidL— -It was the leading feature of my friend ' s mind , to withdraw herself as it wem from every selfish solicitude in the timvcarred eiMlea

    voiir to alleviate , and , if possible , t <> remove the anxieties and the distresses of others ^ thereby fully evincing , that in pvaclice as well as in theory , sbe was the gremlin * di # * ciple of lliifti , who , when alwut to endure ail the indignities and agonies of the eross ^ exhorted the sorrowing daagftitets of Jerw ^ - salem not to wtep for Mifr , but for fh 6 m ^ selves , and fbr their eLildren ,

    Nor was this adfi&iT&ble state of mimf shewn oiily on great ocdasions 5 it Waig equally Apparent iit the tttore otdin ^ y transactions , and in the minuter circumstances of life , in ? whatttiaybe denominated ! the amiable , rather than the exalted instances of virtue .

    Of her extensive chanties to tfce poar aiidl a ^ ieted , in clothes , in victuals , in medicines , iff books , and in every other mode ol assisting or instructing tbems it is impossible to obtain , much less to write a parti ^ - etilar account ; the tears and lamentation ^ of a whole district far her lossy hen * testi mony !

    My friend Mrs . Jones was a firm 3 , conscientious and decided Unitarian M < i .., -. - Q . , , r ¦ - m n-. i , -i . i i . f > r rt k fi ' t m tji ' ' tn \ - n / - H - j i . ¦ f-f , - " - - jr * nr ¦ il u TJij " 4 i ~ f > iT | jj ¦ r * l * oefift » hy Charlotte Kichardsoo , h ^ subscription , of which a second edition was published itt l 6 O 0 o

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/65/