They had many children, both sons and daughters, of whom the most remarkable was the subject of this Epitaph.
He was educated under Dawes of Ambleside, Dr.Butler of Shrewsbury, and lastly at Trin.Coll., Cambridge, where he would have been greatly distinguished as a scholar, but for inherited infirmities of bodily constitution, which from early childhood affected his mind.

His love for the neighbourhood in which he was born and his sympathy with the habits and characters of the mountain yeomanry, in conjunction with irregular spirits, that unfitted him for facing duties in situations to which he was unaccustomed, inclined him to accept the retired curacy of Langdale.
How much he was beloved and honoured there and with what feelings he discharged his duty under the oppressions of severe malady is set forth, though imperfectly, in this Epitaph.
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*_Address to the Scholars of the Village School_.
Were composed at Goslar in Germany.

They will be placed among the Elegiac pieces.
501.

*_Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a Picture of Peel Castle_.