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[THE much-esteemed writer of the following Memoir, was born at Lowick in Northamptonshire, July 30th, 1726. He early distinguished himself by a love of learning; and having been sent to the Charter-house, under the patronage of the Duke of Dorset, and subsequently, to University College, Oxford, he well fulfilled the expectations which had been formed of him at the commencement of his studies. It was at Oxford that he became acquainted with the venerable Author of the Commentary on the Book of Psalms. The friendship there commenced continued through many years; and a long series of useful labours contributed equally to the happiness and spiritual improvement of both. Mr. Jones took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1749, and shortly after entered holy orders. His talents, his learning and piety, would have shone in any station to which he might have been called; but he obtained only sufficient professional preferment to secure him from the approaches of necessity. The perpetual curacy of Nayland in Suffolk, with the living of Paston in Northamptonshire, were all the rewards which he received for exertions in the cause of the Church which had been acknowledged as of the highest value by ministers of state, bishops, and archbishops. But he had the best reward for which so wise and holy a man can strive-the uniform testimony of the world and of his flock to the usefulness of his labours. Mr. Jones wrote many works, but his Sermons, and the Tract on the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, are those by which he is best known. His death took place at Nayland, shortly after he had reached his seventy-third year.]

MEMOIR

OF

BISHOP HORNE.

DOCTOR George Horne, late Bishop of Norwich, and for several years President of Magdalen College in Oxford, and Dean of Canterbury, was born at Otham, a small village near Maidstone in Kent, on the 1st of November, in the year 1730. His father was the Rev. Samuel Horne,' M. A., rector of Otham, a very learned and respectable clergyman, who for some years had been a tutor at Oxford. This gentleman had so determined with himself, to preserve the integrity of his mind against all temptations from worldly advantage, that he was heard to say, and used often to repeat it, he had rather be a toad-eater to a mountebank, than flatter any great man against his conscience. To this he adhered through the whole course of his life; a considerable part of which was spent in the education of his children, and in a regular performance of all the duties of his parish. He married a daughter of Bowyer Hendley, Esq. by whom he had seven children, four sons and three daughters. The eldest son died very young. The late

1 He died in 1768, aged 75

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bishop was the next. His younger brother, Samuel, was a fellow of University College; where he died, greatly respected and lamented. He inherited the integrity of his father, and was an Israelite indeed,' who never did or wished harm to any mortal. Yet his character was by no means of the insipid kind : he had much of the humour and spirit of his elder brother; had a like talent for preaching; and was well attended to as often as he appeared in the University pulpit. His death was announced to an intimate friend by his elder brother in the following short and pathetic letter:

"My dear Friend,

(No date.)

"Last night, about half an hour past eight, it pleased God to take from us, by a violent fit of the stone in the gall-bladder, my dear brother Sam. He received the blessed sacrament, with my mother and myself, from the hands of Dr. Wetherell ;' and, full of faith, with the most perfect resignation, departed in peace with God, the world, and himself. It is a heavy stroke to my poor mother; but she and my sisters bear up with great fortitude. I have lost a very dear friend, and pleasant companion! Pray for us-All join in every affectionate wish for the happiness of you and yours, with

G. H."

The youngest brother, the Rev. William Horne, was educated at Magdalen College in Oxford, and is the present worthy rector of Otham, in which he succeeded his father, as also in the more valuable rectory of Brede in the county of Sussex.

The present Master of University College, and Dean of Hereford, &c.

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