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    * « Enough ^ th& llsfeniiig crowd ' implied- ? * l # adtf * i fo the attack : Its oafeetr ribs sfc&fl stfoi * be tried , Its treasures sdon we'll sack /

    " All in thejjeatf of darkest m ' gTit They march to City Hall , And there , in gates and bars' despite , Thev enter one and all . * Where Catnerarius sits , t * expound The ifiunicipal law , Th' importan * long-lost chest is found , And r < mnd the squadrons draw .

    " Soon as a breach was fairly made , In poured the nibbling crew , And leases , long in slumbers laid , Upon the floor they drew . " Old leathern bags , in parcels tied , Long time in peace to slumber ; Remnants of scarlet robes , twice dyed , And more such kind of lumber .

    "Rye laws , to rule St . George ' s guild ; Receipts for * herring pies ; Election bills , by thousands piled , And hid from vulgar eyes . " Orders from ministers of state , To aid the Crown ' s pretensions ; Sir + Robert on th' Excise debate , With lists of . promis ' -d pensions .

    " Laws for preserving geese and swans For Corporation dinners ; The Five-mile Act against Non Cons And such audacious sinners . " A hiltless rapier that was ta ' en From Kett the tanner ' s side : The pad on which Old England ' s Queen Did once to Norwich xide . "

    He then goes on to describe the alarm created in the Corporation by this unexp ected attack , the speculations of its members as to the authors of it , and the measures necessary to be taken to preserve in existence those wholesome penalties which are intended to exclude Presbyterian and other Nonconforming rats from corporate honours .

    The other poem was written in consequence of an attempt made by some of the Norwich clergy to get up a petition to Parliament for an augmentation of their livings ; but which being opposed by the citizens , and not being generally

    supported by the clerical body , failed of sue ^ ss . It was called " The Saints in a Hustle , " and contains a humourous account of the assembling of such of the cl ergy as were supposed to be favourable

    v ° ^ t * ie P * es a sent every yeai 10 the king by , the sheriffs of Norwich . t Sir Robert Walpole , whose brother ** tw enty * two years member for Norwich .

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    to the scheme , ifc tVhieheacte » 4 s 4 eAigtiated by the name of hi * par&h « &ttrt and his manner and character € e $ SdtQ < with equal liveliness and aceiHracyv Qf ill nature U contained not a particle ;

    and though there was nothing in h at all calculated to move the anger gvgn &t those to whom it alluded , he so effects ally concealed himself as the author , that one only of his own family was aware of the fact .

    Iu both these poems the Church was the object of his satire . He felt , lik « a true Nonconformist , 'how unholy , how mischievous , was the union between Church and State . He dissenied from the Established Church * not merely because he believed its creeds to be a »~

    scriptural , but because it teas established . He was well read in the klstor-y of Nonconformity , and therefore he venerated the characters of that illustrious band of heroes who broke the bonds of regal and priestly usurpation and brought the

    tyrant Charles to merited punishment , as well as of that noble army of confessors who sacrificed all their preferment and their worldly hopes , and who " took joyfully the spoiling of their goods" for the sake of a . good conscience . But his wellknown and decided attachment to the

    principles of Protestant Dissent , never embroiled him with the clergy , by all the respectable portion of whom he was esteemed as he deserved , and with seve ^ ral ( particularly the worthy and learned minister of -his own parish , the JRev . Francis Howes ) he lived on terms 4 > f cordial friendship .

    But I must hasten from this digression to speak of the brief span of his life which remained * I have said that he continued in the exercise of Ms powers , as he did in the enjoyment of his mental faculties , with unabated zeal and energy . After the death of my-mo *

    ther , I had the happiness ot again living Glider the same roof with him , and oi witnessing the unceasing and useful employment of his time . In 1825 , Mi % Madge ' s -removal from Norwich toak place , an event which gave my father much concern . The congregation had enjoyed fourteen years of tranquil pros-4

    perity , and he hoped that no f&rtheu change would take place during liis life . Mr . Tagart ' s election to the pastoral efw fice took place in January ; and > on my removal to London in the following Au ^ gust , . he complied with m . y father ' s wish

    that he would occupy a part of his housec This arrangement contribn&ied Very tfnuch to his own comfort , whiie , 1 ita > pe * from the similarity of 'uiaiwy < of tkeiv pvBmu \ t& and objects of interest , and . ftom niy ] fa ^ t her ' s experience as a aaember' of kibe < cougi egat ioit , aud his willinguess . to . tiv ^ >

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    Obit % « trif" * -Mr > J&hn f % iter . 491

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/47/