Edward's first school, to which he was sent in 1801, made a remarkable impression upon the Dean's memory.

"I believe," he says, "at that period (the very beginning of the century) it was about the most retired village in England not of a mountainous district.

No turnpike road went through the parish.

It lay in the line of no thoroughfare.

The only inhabitants of education were the clergyman, a man of great simplicity of character, who had never been at the University, and my great-uncle, of above fourscore, and a recluse.