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    l 8 ° N April 11 , after a severe illness nf five days , aged 52 , Mrs . B . Bristowe , AVife of the Her . J . B . Bristowe , pastor of the Presbyterian congregation at Uingwood , Hants . She was born at Works © p , Ifotts , and was descended from the ancient and respectable family of the Brisjovvcs of Beestliorpe Hall , in the said county , and was the only cbild of Thomas

    Bristowe , Esq ., of that town . When a mere girl , she was puzzled at the doctrine of ( he Trinity , which she could not comprebend , and applied to the Rev . E . Otter ( clianlain to the late Duke of Portland , and an intimate friend of her family ) for n solution of its difficulties . The worthy divine always evaded the subject by telling her that it was a mystery , and not for hi hi and her to talk about : and when . she

    again recurred to it , he used to reply , " Come , let us change the subject ; we cannot understand it , " &c . After the death of her father , she removed with lier mother from Worksop to Nottingham , nnd soon after , they left that town , then disturbed by frequent riots , and settled at Mansfield , and became regular attendants

    at the Unitarian Chapel , to the minister of which she was afterwards married , and had one child , who died very young . Some years after , the family removed to Hinck-Icy , where she sustained a heavy loss in the demise of her mother . In that town she laboured under a bilious affection , and

    nftcr a residence of above six years , she left it , being advised by her medical attendant , and especially by the liberal and friendly Catholic priest , head of the College at Douay during the storm of the French revolution , to try a milder climate ; ami hi July 1817 , she came to Ringwood , where her husband was shortly after cho * * H ) to be the minister . Here she gained

    more strength , and enjoyed comparative better health . She was much esteemed for her many good qualities , particularly her wakeful prudence and presence of «»« d , her gentle and peaceable disposition , her scrupulous regard to truth , her unbending integrity , lier high sense of honour , and her anxious attention not to

    mislead or to allow others to mislead the mselves by her actions or words . At her own repeated request , her remains were carried to Caunton , beyond Newark , Notts , near to Beestliorpe Hall , and were < ttp osited , in a chapel adjoining the church , I winch was the property of her direct

    tivl c' now heI ° ngs to her relate , fcamuel Bristowe , Esq ., ) near those lier father , mother , child and progeiiior » tor more than 300 years . —She took

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    great interest in the cause of genuine Christianity at Ring wood ; and , soon after her husband ' s settlement here , endeavoured to establish a Female Fellowship Fund , similar to those which have arisen , with so much advantage , from the recommendation of Dr . Thomson , the writer ' s fellow-student and friend . By the young

    persons in the society she was held in great esteem , and justly , for she was very anxious about them , and when any were leaving their native homes , she never failed to give them good advice , and exhorted them to be true to their religions principles , and to withstand the temptations to which they would be exposed in

    great towns . To the poor of the congregation , considering her limited means , she was bountiful , especially to the aged . On Easter Sunday , only a week before she expired , she attended public worship three times , and with the sermon , On the Peace of the Tomb and the Resurrection , " the singing , and the whole service

    . she was singularly delighted , and seemed to wish that her latter end , if it pleased her Maker , might not be far off . In three days after , she was seized by a fever , uncommon to her , and which the skill of her usual medical attendant , aided by an eminent physician of Salisbury , whom she had before . consulted with advantage , could not completely subdue . On the

    morning of the day of her death , she sat up in the library , and conversed with two kind female friends and her family , still anxious concerning an amiable youth of the congregation , then on the eve of departing for London , and lamenting the loss his removal would occasion . Feeling herself weak and restless , she went with little assistance to that bed from which

    she arose no more . About half an hour before her spirit fled , she expressed her thanks for the attentions paid to her , and her conviction that all had been done for her by her family that could be done . Many and anxious were the inquiries that were made , by all parties , during the short term of her sufferings , and sincerely and generally was her unexpected death lamented . Numerous are the testimonies

    which were borne to her virtues , acid to the exemplary manner in which she discharged the duties of her station and relations in life , by persons belonging to the congregation with which she was more immediately connected , by friends at a distance , and by those of other religious denominations in the town . To express their sense of her worth and regret at lier removal , the society put on

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/39/