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numan infirmities, which compelled him, early 

 in life, to withdraw himself from its active duties, 

 entitle him to notice on the present occasion. 

 He was born in the parish of Holy-Trinity, on 

 the 1st day of April, 1766, and after having been 

 for some years a pupil of the late Rev. Joseph 

 Milner, he went to Cambridge, where he took his 

 degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1 788, having been 

 placed, by his previous examination, the eighth 

 on the list of Wranglers.* He subsequently 

 obtained the Curacy of Sigglesthorne, in Holder- 

 ness, which he held for many years, but the deaf- 

 ness, with which he had long been afflicted, hav- 

 ing increased to a painful degree, and his sight, 

 at all times defective, having almost totally failed 

 him, he resigned the ministerial office about the 

 year 1799, and retired into privacy and seclu- 

 sion. Not long after his separation from his 

 flock, having become impressed with the feeling 

 that he had not been fully aware, while they 

 were under his Cure, of the importance of the 

 relation in which he had once stood towards 

 them, he laid before them a summary of the 

 Fundamental Truths essential to Salvation, in 

 " An Address to the Inhabitants of the Parish of 



* Daniel Sykes, Esq., of Raywell, at present one of the Members for 

 the Borough of Beverley, and a Representative, in the two preceding Par- 

 liaments, of his native Town of Hull, also took his degree, at Cambridge, 

 in 1788, when his name appeared, in the list of Wranglers, with that of 

 his fellow- townsman, Mr. Slaiaton. 



