needs, and their distresses; earnest and anxious in applying the true remedies to the diseases of their souls, he saw distinctly, vividly, that in order to preserve and strengthen the consolatory and ruling influence of religion over men's hearts, it is absolutely necessary to maintain one fixed and plain standard of divine teaching and Scriptural interpretation, which they can trust.

Such a standard he believed to have been given us in the Prayer-book and Articles of our Church, and nothing distressed and alarmed him so much as any attempt (from whatever quarter it might come) to explain away positive and distinct statements in these formularies for the sake of allowing diversity of teaching on points, that are therein represented as matters of divine revelation and articles of saving faith.

The representative of an ancient and loyal race, which had suffered severely for its faithful adherence to the Church and to the Crown under the protracted and apparently hopeless trials of the Great Rebellion, he had learned from his youth to regard strict and direct truthfulness under all circumstances, and in relation to all engagements, as a principle so essentially sacred and vital, that he could not bear being by any means implicated in anything that looked to him like tampering with it.

At the same time, towards those who most entirely

differed from him in principles either of religion or politics, he always kept up a kind and friendly feeling, and was willing to make due allowance for the effects of different training and for different habits of thought, however quick he was in detecting and able in exposing with perfect good humour what appeared to him to be inconsistent, absurd, or unreal.

He completed his education at Oriel College, Oxford, where he entered as a gentleman-commoner in the year 1812. He was elected Fellow of All Souls in the year 1815, and was presented by his college to the living of Alberbury, in the county of Salop, and in the diocese of Hereford, A.D. 1829, and became Rector of Boxwell and Leighterton, his family living, on the death of his father in 1831.

In the year 1830 he married Mary, eldest daughter of the late Richard Lyster, Esq., of Rowton Castle, in Salop, by whom he has two sons.

In 1838 he returned to the dwelling of his ancestors after an absence of several years. A large proportion of his parishioners were his own tenants, and both as landlord, and in the higher relation of pastor, he made their welfare the great object of his care and labours.

In consequence of the continual and close intercourse he kept up with them, he knew what trains of thought they were capable of following, and what

language they could most easily understand, better than any one whom it has ever been the writer's lot to know. He entered into all their troubles, and was always ready to give them kind and judicious advice in such difficulties, as might at any time occasion them uneasiness or perplexity.

Living on the Cotswolds, at a place where the old dialect of that part of the country had been preserved more pure and entire than in almost any other, it was his principal relaxation to study it, and to compare many expressions still in common use in that district with the language of poets and popular writers of two or three centuries past. Indeed, he had with that particular object carefully examined many works of that date, some of them books that are scarce and difficult to be obtained. It would be impossible for the writer to describe, how interesting it was to hear him speak on this subject, so earnest and sincere was his conviction, that amongst the poor in these agricultural districts were to be found remains of a genuine Saxon language, both purer and more forcible than any now in use amongst the wealthier classes of society.

Indeed, one marked and beautiful feature in his character was his heartfelt respect, or, I would rather say, his reverence, for the homely but sterling virtues of the honest English farmer and peasant. It was

his thorough appreciation of their character that enabled him to exercise so great an influence as he undoubtedly did exercise over almost all persons of that class with whom he came into contact; while at the same time there have been few persons whose society has been more enjoyed and coveted by persons in his own situation in life, both laity and clergy.

To what extent he possessed the esteem and confidence of his brother clergymen will appear from the fact that at the very first opportunity after his return to the diocese, he was, in 1841, at the demise of Dr. Cooke, chosen unanimously their Proctor in Convocation.

In the movements for the restoration of that part of our constitution he always took the very deepest interest, and he spared no exertion to promote it. At the close of his life, in the month of April, in the year 1857, when decaying health and warnings of the uncertainty of his life (of which he probably knew more than he told to others) led him to resign his seat, he expressed his great satisfaction that during those few years so much progress had been made towards giving life and action to the synods of the Church. He entertained a strong conviction that Parliament, whatever it had been once, had become of late years, from various causes, a very unfit body to legislate, with so little real check or

control, in matters concerning the well-being, and even sometimes the most sacred interests, of the Church. And, though attached to the supremacy of the Crown within its due limits, he felt very strongly that this supremacy ought to be exercised by the sovereign in person, and with the advice of ecclesiastical bodies and persons, and that it ought not to be given up into the hands of the ministers assigned to the Crown by the House of Commons, who might be attached to any or to no form of religious belief.

In the Hampden question (as it is called) he was led to take a prominent part, as well from the circumstance of his being a member of that University, which had on two occasions so decidedly pronounced her distinct condemnation of Dr. Hampden, as also because he was an incumbent of a living in that diocese over which Dr. Hampden was appointed to preside, and, above all, on account of his entertaining that strong conviction, which has been already mentioned as underlying his whole system of belief, that the doctrines embodied in the Prayer-book and the Articles were of vital importance to men's salvation, and that therefore all the Church at large, but the clergy most especially, would incur a very fearful responsibility if they betrayed the trust committed to them, and allowed those truths to be in any respect tampered with or explained away.

It appeared clear and certain to his truthful and