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Review . —^ Dr . Evans ' s Richmond and its Vicinity . 561
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bours and the duties , which the solemn rites of dissolution have broken . Return to exemplify resignation by obedienceand to prove your trust in the lovingkindness of God , by the use which you make of the blessings which remain . Return to lay to your hearts the warning
lessons of mortality—to emulate the good deeds of those for whom you mourn—and to wait , as they have done , in faith , charity and hope , all the days of your appointed time . And let it be your prayer , that whenever your earthly change shall come , tears , as pure as those you have shed this day , may be wept by your families upon your own fresh graves . "
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Art . IV , —Richmond , and its Vici ~ nity . With a Glance at Twickenham , Strawberry Hill , and Hampton Court . By John Evans , LL . D , 12 mo . pp . 294 . Printed for J . Darnill , Richmond ; and sold by Simpkin and Marshall , London .
DR . EVANS'S active pen has here furnished us with another of those little volumes that make our walks and rides interesting . Such a vade mecuin appears to have been wanted by the visitor of Richmond , ic Imperial seat of ancient
grandeur—Rich diamond sparkling in a golden vale : " iC Richmond that sees a hundred villas rise Rural or gay . "
The author has omitted nothing that belongs to his pleasing subject , and has introduced many anecdotes and reflections that tend to put the reader in good humour and to excite candour and -benevolence .
We have room for only one extract , but that will be allowed to be a rich one . The Wakefields , already mentioned as interred in Richmond church , are the Rev . George Wakefield , M . A . together with his sons , the Rev . Gilbert 1 Vakejield % B . A ., and the Rev . Thomas JVakefield , lately deceased .
" The Rev . George Wakefield was minister of this parish , as well as vicar of Kingston . The Rev . Mr . Bailey , of Langley , Derbyshire , gave him the livings , assigning this reason to his friend , who reproached him for not taking them
himself , « No / says he , * I am satisfied with my present situation . Now were I to go to Richmond , the King would be my parishioner : I must consequently go to court . Then I shall be looking forward , of course , to a prebend or a
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canonry . As soon as I am settled in a stall , 1 shall grow uneasy for a bishopric , and then eager for a translation to a better . In due time Lambeth will be the fond object of my wishes , and when I am stationed there , I must be miserable because 1 can rise no higher ! Had I
not then better be quiet in my present condition , than be always wishing , always obtaining , but never satisfied ?• This anecdote is perhaps not to be paral - leled in the annals of clerical preferment . The worthy divine was a truly Apostolic Bishop , having learned the lesson of Christian contentment .
" The Rev . George Wakefield has a monument with this inscription : —* The Rev . George Wakefield , eighteen years rector of St . Nicholas , Northampton , and nine years vicar of Kingston and minister of this parish , died the 10 th of February ,
1776 , aged fifty-six ; and his wife in 1800 . ' It is a plain tablet , in the chancel , and the record is an appropriate tribute of respect to his memory , for he appears to have been esteemed by his parishioners . He was a man of plain good sense , benevolence , and jwety * good sense , benevolence , and j&ety *
" The Rev . Gilbert Wake / tMrtas renowned in the republic of letters . The inscription on his monument is an epitome of the history of the deceased—€ t' In the adjoining churchyard , at the east end of the chancel , lie the remains of Gilbert Wakefield , A . B ., formerly
Fellow of Jesus College , Cambridge , third son of George Wakefield , A . M ., late vicar of Kingston and minister df $ his parish ; he died September 9 , 1801 , aged forty-five . Simplicity of manners &nd benevolence of temper , united with eminent intellectual accomplishments , greatly
endeared him in private life . To the public he was known by high attainments in biblical and classical literature , and the honesty and intrepidity of his endeavours to promote the cause of truth and liberty . Sustained by the affection of numerous and estimable friends , as well
as by the testimony of conscience , he endured with fortitude a state prosecution , and two years' imprisonment , for his Reply to the Address of the Bishop of Landaff to the People of Great Britain . Returning from the county prison of Dorchester , with an unbroken spirit but impaired strength , and resuming his
accustomed exertions , he sunk under them fourteen weeks after his enlargement . The expectation of immortality by the Christian covenant , and the remembrance of his conscientious life , enabled him to meet death with complacency ! His loss , irreparable to his wife and children , was deeply regretted by all his friends and relations .
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VOL . XIX . 4 C
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/49/
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