MEMOIRS AND LETTERS

OF

RICHARD AND ELIZABETH SHACKLETON,

LATE OF BALLITORE, IRELAND,

COMPILED BY THEIR DAUGHTER,

MARY LEADBEATER.

INCLUDING

A CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, AND SOME LETTERS, OF HER
GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM SHACKLETON.

"My boast is not that I deduce my birth
From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth;
But higher far my proud pretensions rise,
The child of parents pass'd into the skies."

CowPER.

A NEW EDITION,

Containing many valuable Letters never before published.

LONDON:

CHARLES GILPIN, 5, BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT.

J. B. GILPIN, DAME STREET, DUBLIN.

1849.

LONDON:

RICHARD BARRETT, PRINTER,

13, MARK LANE.