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and " Mr . James Peirce ' s Tomb , ' though without one word of homage , looks odorous and eloquent in its sanctity . Over it a century has rolled , only to hang sweet flowers around it * and I know the care will not be wanting which shall he its guardian for generations . In a corner of this churchyard lie the ancestors of the Baring family . St . Leonard ' s was the cradle of their greatness , though now I believe they do
not possess a foot of land , except the grave of their forefathers , in the ham-t let which once was almost wholly theirs . A plain tomb covers a long list of names . It looks as if it were repaired from time to time , for there is neither moss nor lichens near it , nor has any vagrant flower crept up its side . It has the simple inscription—Beneath are buried ; and then ( beginning with John Baring , who died in 174 $ , the great grandfather of the present generation ) follow a procession of wit it led personages , of whom scarcely one
has left a vestige of his having been . This , the first of the Barings who had probably a sepulchral stone erected over him , was engaged in the serge trade , which was at that time the staple of this town and neighbourhood . The family started into eminence in the persons of John and Francis Baring , who removed to London , still retaining , however , their connexion with Exeter , and whose names may be seen in the loan lists published half a century ago , as subscribers for no considerable sums . But John and Francis
Baring were men of rare intelligence , and gradually increasing in wealth and influence , and , by their introduction into Parliament , exercising their influence in the widest field , they became the great commercial names with which the world is familiar . John Baring represented l&xeier for many years , and will be found throughout a faithful attendant on ministerial
majorities . Francis ( afterwards the Baronet , and the father of the beads of the present family of the Barings ) was a man of wider range of thought , and of a more liberal political career . The name of John Baring , Sir Francis ' s eldest brother , closes the record on the stone of fit . Leonard ' s churchyard , and henceforward more superb mausoleums are probably destined to cover the dust of this distinguished race .
The mansion they occupied adjoins the chapel and the churchyard 1 have described . A bridge- —a simple Widge—connects the abode of the living with that of the dead . The name of the former is Mount Kadford , and it overlooks the delicious valley through which , * fter the flow of a few miles among the richest verdure , the Exe enters the sea . la my remembrance no human habitation stood between Mount Kadford and the river , towards which
there was a green and gentle slope where the sheep * rlocks ranged ; but now the estate is partitioned—many an edifice has sprung up **—the park 14 vociferous with schoolboys , and the mansioa of the barings is become the scene of a ereat experiment on education .
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It was morning upon the hills . A father and son walked out in the still air , and they passed on together in silence , for each seemed intent on some object of anxious thought . At length the son broke silence . " I have been thinking , my father , of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/19/
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