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Collector of the Customs at this port, in the 

 year 1696 ; and his father, the Rev. William 

 Mason, from whom, according to the suppo- 

 sition of Chalmers, he received the rudiments 

 of his education, was the Vicar of the Holy- 

 Trinity Church, from the year 1722 to the 

 year 1753, when he died. Our poet, as 

 appears from the Parish Registry of the Holy- 

 Trinity, was baptized on the llth day of 

 March, 1724 5; and on the 25th day of 

 September, 1765, his connection with Hull, 

 which he had quitted about the year 1754, on 

 his appointment to the living of Aston, in York- 

 shire, was revived by his marriage, at St. Mary's 

 Church, with Mary, the daughter of William 

 Sherman, Esq. of this town. This lady did not 

 long survive her marriage, having died at the 

 age of 28 years, on the 27th of March, 1767, 

 She was buried at Bristol, where, as the pathe- 

 tic and justly celebrated epitaph, inscribed on 

 her tombstone by her husband, informs us, she 

 had been borne, in the vain hope that its waters 

 might preserve her life against the fatal effects of 

 consumption, whose attack had already shown 

 itself in her " faded form/' Mr. Mason died on 

 the 7th of April, 1797, at the advanced age of 

 72 years, and his memory is honored by the 

 following inscription, placed on an elegant marble 



