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    sons -wplr ® qfg * < ia * igkte ^ Tfofc eJNfcs * so * (^ ipko ,. £ think * was kit fcHeExcise before he came to Devonshire ) thought prQper tp marry Ms mother ' s maid , which gave him great disturbance . His second so » , MaFtin , ke get mto the post-office &t As&buston , wkere ^ Us kep t an inn ; but . lie was a rake , and killed himself soon . His third son ,

    Christopher , was his ttarfing , and bred at Oxford , and intended for the gown , but he unfortunate *}* died before he took orders , emd thus all hopes conceived of him perished . His only- daughter was bred like a lacjy : she sung charmingly , Hved kmg in London , and was

    extremely poHte and agreeably , and just a § he was in hopes of settling her to his liking , she took it into her head one morning early to get out of her chajnber vyindow , with as many of her clothes as she could gefr together , and ran away with one Tapper , a worstedcomber of the town , and married him :

    antj thug he wa $ , disappointed in all his children , more or less , but his eldest son , who succeeded his brother m the post-office , turned , out- a very sober , care , ftil m&n , was reconciled ta his

    father , and there was always a good understanding between then * to the yery last . As for his daughter , he woufrl n ^ ver see her , or give her any assistance , though she had several children , and was driven to some

    extremities . He enjoyed a fortune sufficient to support his independence , and he lived in . a house of his own building , m * d laid out a garden in his own particular taste adfioijiing to it , both which he enjoyed with as mucfc content and

    good * humour , as any I ever met with . Kfe entertained hfe friend * with great heartiness , an& you might discover in hfo way of living , an air of grandeur mixed with a kind of frugality which

    seemed somewhat incompatible . He never conversed with any of the town , nor visited or kept company , and he has often told me he avoided seeing even the town , itself a » much as possible , and for- that reason turned the

    front- or his house ( juitoe- from it ? . H ^ had no taste foe $ ay

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    how tfee&e diff ^* J £ *<>** a } L Qttters , oiay easily foe , $ em by W& mm ^ ao : de& in Ashburton , or mine in Plymouth . He ba 4 also a very high ta § te bx pointings pad engravings , the truth of whicb is evident from that collection which he ma . de , especially of the latter * which I think shews his judgment to be equal

    to his curiosity . Hs was very entertaining about these thiflg s ,. and was furnisned with many stories and accounts of some great masters . He had also an acquaintance with many of the moderns , especially with the famous Mr . JWiall , the Swede , whom he

    was at nr $ fc the principal means of bringing over to England . All his family pieces wer § drawn by him , ami are now extant , though set up to no advantage , and very badly kept * He was a very entertaining companion ; for haying been well acquainted , with the Court of Sweden , and afterwards with Court of Swedenand afterw ^ rds with

    , those of James the Second * and Kuig WilKarn and Queen Mary , he had abundance of stories , which he toM with great mirth and huniour . He loved a cheerfiil glass , in which he was usually very regular , unless he happened where the company and punch

    ( for that was his beloved liquor ) pleased him , and then he had' but little government of himself . He was so fond of it , that nothing could preventing taking it at the usual hour in the evening . He was once at our house of a Sunday , when his hour of drinking punch and

    my father ' s hour of repeating a sermon and going to prayer in the family happened to be the samq ; he drank and smoked on very comfortably as my father was reading , but when it came to prayers he did vouchsafe to drop the pipe , which , with hfe glass , he resumed with great relish as soon as he

    got up from his knees , and went on as if nothing had interrupted him . He did not trouble hinaself mucft about religion . He thought it was a kind of science , which had l ^ een garbled : and cooked up l * y a set of men for interest ,

    and all he cured to say about it was , that he believed as much as ; ever he could fbr-ltfs life . He always behaved decentl y to the Establishment , but he would neveu go tQ Church ; on at Sunday I 6 renopn because , fee sai& when they

    tj ^ adi made an end tfaey ; ibega » ag ^ > wjiiei * is the . c # s ^ whe n Ijie ^ otDiw tiniow service is read ; « n * thfe very ff > u ot «* nded him . He had a Jfodd ta « te tbr

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    442 Biogruphieai Sketches of some af hit Contemporaries 9 by Mr * John Fox

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/2/