upon-Tyne," in 2 vols. quarto, embellished with numerous engravings. After his decease, a new edition, or rather a new work, "On Popular Antiquities," was published, "arranged and revised, with additions, by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S." prepared by Mr. Brand some years before his death. He died at his Rectory-house, St. Mary Hill, Sept. 11, 1806, æt. 63.

His prose works are very generally read; I shall be pardoned for making a short extract from the above-mentioned poem, now out of print. It is an

"O hallowed haunts! where genius loves to stray,
Where silver Isis winds her murm'ring way,
When seen from far, aspiring to the skies,
The awful fanes of British Athens rise:
Where through her reeds, a path as we explore,
Some startled Halcyon seeks the farther shore:
And all her woods, and winding groves among
The lonely Philomela swells her
song:
Around, thy verdant olives, Peace! arise;
Thy radiance Learning ! shines to distant skies'
"Pleas'd I renew my walks by Isis' stream,
Indulging Fancy's sweet extatic dream:
In learned ease with devious steps I stray,
Where lonely Contemplation points my way:
The sedgy margin of her step retains,
When sober Ev'ning frees the servile swains
A soften'd smile unbends her brow austere,
Serenely grave and pleasingly severe !
Retarded now 'mid Godstow's walls she stands;
Walls fam'd of yore! the work of pious hands!
Of ages past each distant deed appears,
And rise the scenes of long elapsed years
In her revolving mind. Tears fill her eyes,
While Henry's woes and Rosamund's arise:
Woes that still warn us from this wreck of time;
A frailty fam'd and far renowned crime."

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8. 1784. MOSES MANNERS, M. A. of Lincoln

College, Oxford, now Lecturer of St. Ann's Chapel, succeeded Mr. Brand.

List of Under-Ushers.

1. RICHARD STEWARDSON.

2. 1726. GEORGE CARR, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge; and a native of Newcastle. On his resignation, he removed to be Minister of the Episcopal Chapel at Edinburgh. He was a man very highly respected. After his decease three volumes of his Sermons were published by his widow.

EPITAPH.

"Near this place are deposited, the remains of the Rev. GEORGE CARR, Senior Clergyman of this Chapel, in whom meekness and moderation, unaffected piety, and universal benevolence, were equally and eminently conspicuous. After having faithfully discharged the duties of his sacred function, during thirty-nine years, he died on the 16th Aug. 1776, in the 71st year of his age, beloved, honoured, lamented! His congregation, deeply sensible of the loss they sustained in the death of this excellent person, by whose mild and pathetic eloquence, by whose exemplary yet engaging manners, they have been so long instructed in the duties, and animated to the practice, of pure religion, have erected this monument, to record the virtues of the dead and the gratitude of the living."

3. 1742. JOHN WIBBERSLEY, B.A. [See before.] 4. 1764. WILLIAM HALL, M. A. [See before.]

5. 1766. WEAVER WALTER, M. A. Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; afterwards Rector of Brisby, and Vicar of Gateley, in the county of Norfolk. He died Jan. 2, 1814.

6. 1778. JOHN BRAND, A. B. [See before.]

7. 1781. ROBERT WILSON, A. B. of All Souls College, Oxford; Lecturer of St. John's, Newcastle;

The Rev. JOHN BOLD, B. A. *

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air."-GRAY.

The private and retired virtues which flourish in the shade, which improve the waste, and make the moral wilderness to blossom as the rose, though they meet with little respect or gratitude from the world, are yet those by which happiness is best promoted, and social order and harmony maintained. Their influence, like the rooting of a tree, though secret, is yet progressive, and even to a considerable period perceptible in the distant branches, and in their fruits. "If you would preach Christianity in the true spirit of its Divine Author," said the pious and eloquent Mr. Law, "you will be as prompt and zealous to spread the knowledge of it in the Peak of Derbyshire, as in places of the greatest celebrity."

In the retirement of an obscure country village in the county of Leicester, unambitious, unnoticed, and content with the slenderest means of subsistence, the learned, exemplary, and Reverend John Bold passed half a century, from the year 1702, till his death in 1751, in the performance of every pastoral function required of a Minister of the Christian Church; in every duty and office of charity enjoined by his Divine Master.

Mr. Bold was born at Leicester in 1679; and was the descendant of a respectable family, nearly related to the Wigleys of Scraptoft; of which one branch represented the borough of Leicester in Parliament, and another sat for the city of Worcester.

* For this interesting Memoir I was indebted to the Rev. R. B. Nickolls, Dean of Middleton, and Rector of Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire, of whom some particulars will be found in a future Memoir.

At the early age of fifteen, the subject of these simple annals had made such a progress in letters as to be matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge; and having taken the degree of B. A. 1698, when he was only nineteen years old, retired to Hinckley, in his native county, where he engaged in teaching a small endowed school*, and was admitted into holy orders to serve the curacy of Stoney Stanton near that place. It appears from the parish register, that he commenced his parochial duties in May 1702; and the care of the parish was confided to him, his rector then residing on another benefice. His stipend was only £30 a-year, as the living was a small one, being then in the open-field state. Nor does it appear that he had made any saving in money from the profits of his school; all the property he seems to have brought with him to his curacy was, his chamber furniture, and a library, more valuable for being select than extensive.

When Mr. Bold was examined for orders, his Diocesan (Dr. James Gardiner, Bishop of Lincoln,) was so much pleased with his proficiency in Sacred learning, that he had determined to make Mr. Bold his domestic chaplain: but the good Bishop's death soon after closed his prospect of preferment as soon as it was opened in that quarter; and Mr. Bold framed his plan of life and studies upon a system of rigid economy and strict attention to his professional duties, which never varied during the fifty years he passed afterwards on his curacy. Remote from polished and literary society, which he was calculated both to enjoy and to adorn, he never cast any "longing lingering looks behind," but girded up the loins of his mind for diligent service in his narrow sphere.

To

say

that Mr. Bold was an able and orthodox

* In 1698 Mr." Bowles" (Bold) was schoolmaster at Hinckley, at the salary of 10l. per annum. It appears he continued master

there till 1732.

Divine, a good writer, an excellent preacher, an attentive parish priest, is the smallest part of his praise. He appears, from the early age of 24 years, to have formed his plan of making himself a living sacrifice for the benefit of his flock; and to have declined preferment (which was afterwards offered to him), with a view of making his example and doctrine the more striking and effective, by his permanent residence and labours in one and the same place. His ministerial labours were such as, I apprehend, his own sense of the pastoral office and its high importance to the salvation of mankind directed. He read the Fathers, and the early writers of the Reformation. What they prescribed, he fulfilled. As he held, with many of the latter, the moral obligation of the Lord's day, he began the preparation for it on the evening before, and at that time instructed the children of the parish in the elementary principles of Christianity; for the Sunday duties, consisting of prayers, and a lecture, both morning and evening, baptisms, &c. allowed but little time for catechetical instruction on that day.

During the whole of Lent, on holidays, and on every Wednesday and Friday, he had service in the church; and he had engaged the people to attend so generally and regularly, that it is related of one farmer particularly, that whenever he was absent from his business he was to be found at church.

To ground the young people thoroughly in the elementary principles of the Christian faith, was an important object, which Mr. Bold particularly regarded, in a distinct service." I have often," said an old man to me," at the ringing of the bell on "at Saturday afternoon, left my plough for half an hour for instruction, and afterwards returned to it again.'

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Besides the stated duties of the Lord's day, and engaging his flock to the most religious observance of it, the remaining part of the week did not pass without the offering of incense in the temple.