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Memoir of the late Rev , Thomcss Astley *
THE ftev * Thomas Asti . b y , whose decease was noticed in a former Number of the Monthly Repository * £ XIL 6 & 8 ?] was born at Whitehaven * ie Cumberland , September 5 th * I 7 S 8 * 0 , S . His father , the Rev , Ralph
Astley * was a native of Chowbent ^ in Lancashire ; in which county his family had resided during several generations , respectable by their stations in society , and especially by their
pious and estimable characters . Mr . Ralph Astley was born in the year 1697 , and , after pursuing his studies * with a view to the Christian ministry * he settled with a congregation of Profestant Dissenters at Whitehaven * in
which situation he remained till his death which took place March SOth * 1756 . He married , June 10 th , 173 i * Elizabeth , the daughter of Thomas Whalle y * whose wife , Mary Chorley , Was a descendant of Richard Chorley * of Walton , near Preston , in
Lancamire , the great grand-father of the Josiah Chorley whose name occurs In the Monthly Repository , Vol . VL pf > . sgs and 693 - The subject of the present memoir was the sixth in a family of eleven
jghi ldretU The e&rly part of his education he received in the grammar * school of his native place , then under file direction of the Rev . Mr . Huggledfon £ , a respectable clergyman in the Established Church . Here he
continued sjx years , and at the age of 15 , September 1753 , lie was placed under * fce care of the Rev . James Daye , a ** 'learned and amiable' * dissenting minister at Lancaster ; with whom
lie remained three years . Qf his amisfcttfe dispositions and excellent capa-(cities sit this period , a high testimony satflorae in the following extracts out 4 f a letter to his father from Mr .
Daye , dated ^ Lancaster , March iStfa * iW > 5 :- ~ 44 Rev . and Dear . Sir , •* I csiti write to you with greater pkmsuvg at this time than I could after tjte wintet of ^ tfie former year ; and
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you will rejoice with me in the goodness of God to us , that your dear son , whom I must respect as if he were my own , ( for lie deserves it by hia good qualities , ) has been free from all complaints . His improvements much please me . In Greek he is a great
proficient , j&c . I aim glad you encourage us to eicpject you here wit | i Mrs . Astley this spring . I hope t | k € journey will confirm your health , the continuance of which we all sincerely wish , and that your useful life may be spared for all the pleasure that may be expected from such a son . "
During the last year of his residence with Mr . Daye , he sustained a heavy affliction in the loss of hi * father . This event caused his mother to remove with her fatmly from Whitehaven to Preston , where she passed the remainder v of her life . After the
death of his father , the direction of his future studies appears to have devolved principally upon the excellent Dr * Benson of London . By his advice he was entered , in 1756 , as a divinity student in the academy at Daventry , then under the direction of Mr . after wards Dr . tX Ashworth , and Mr « Samuel Clark . Soon after his
removal to Daventry , he commenced a correspondence with his revered friend and relative , Dr . John Leland of Dublin , between whom and bus father a friendship and intimacy had subsisted during many years , flic following letter , independently of its
connexion with the subject of this communication , can hardly fail to be interesting to many of the readers oi the ; Monthly Repositpry , as being an original letter of one , Whose character and works have rendered , his name sq highly arid justly esteemed by the
Advocates of Christianity , especiaHj amongst the Protestant Dissenters It is add ! ressed to Mr . Astley , at the 'academy , Daventry * and ' is dated «< Dublin , October ^ th , 1756 .:- — ** Dkar CoiisiN , C 6 1 haid no account that could be
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/1/
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