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in the same cause, afforded an additional 

 bond of conciliation to many other healing 

 circumstances, which had slowly prepared 

 the way for friendship. 



Her beloved Kanieri would have found 

 some difficulty in clearing himself with his 

 Pisan rulers but for the fortunate event of 

 tl)L Florentines taking unjust possession of 

 the territory in question, which afforded 

 him (the youth having been reduced to 

 hide and seek for some time past) a glo- 

 rious opportunity of winning the city back 

 for Pisa. Since it must have a master, 

 his conscience determined that he might 

 as well suit his own convenience as to who 

 should bear the sway ; and by this timely 

 exercise of patriotism, he rescues his cha- 

 racter from every shadow of distrust, and 

 his person from apprehended durance, 

 while his mother ana Ildegarda, his pre- 

 sumed advisers, are purified in him. 



The characters are -extravagantly drawn 

 the public events operating clumsily upon 

 individuals ; and a monstrous underplot, 

 which entangles itself with the history of 

 Montesctijado, the murderer of Ildegarda' s 

 brother, is too troublesome to be under- 

 stood ; while from the perpetual interfe- 

 rence of this man with the main story, and 

 of two queer beings, whose rights of pro- 

 perty and rank he usurps, and who are 

 finally to be righted by a tedious denoue- 

 ment of fresh and unguessed circum- 

 stances, (would they were all in the Red 

 Sea!) render the whole novel heavy im- 

 probable inflated complicated. 



Shrewd remarks are, however, scattered 

 about, and a simpler frame- work would 

 have left the natural powers of the autho- 

 ress no common ones a much more ad- 

 vantageous action. 



Two Charges delivered to the Clergy of the 

 Archdeaconry of Derby, 1825 and 1826, Inj 

 the Rev. S. Sutler, Archdeacon of Derby, 

 and Hend Master of Shrewsbury School ; 

 182G. Charges delivered by archdeacons 

 and bishops are seldom remarkable for any 

 thing that can concern the general reader : 

 but one of these before us contains some 

 statistical information, certainly of some 

 value, as exhibiting the state of the church 

 with respect to its property ; and of some 

 value also to those, who, while they respect 

 the church, are too often left unfurnished 

 with materials for a valid defence of defects 

 charged upon the clergy, which really ori- 

 ginate not with the clergy, but in corrup- 

 tions, with which they have nothing to do. 

 These charges too are the production of a 

 very able, and a very learned individual- 

 learned not merely in the knowledge of 

 Greek and Latin, but of the state and spirit 

 of his own times ; to whom his avocations, 

 as a highly and deservedly popular school- 

 master, must have rendered the undertake:;; 

 peculiarly onerous. 



On entering upon the office, he conceiv- 

 ed it to be his duty, as it undoubtedly was, 

 to visit his archdeaconry thoroughly, and 



lie has accordingly visited it thoroughly. 

 He has not only collected valuable informa- 

 tion, but he has taken active measures for 

 reforming abuses, and repairing dilapida- 

 tions, to the full extent of his limited 

 power. 



The archdeaconry of Derby is, as you know (says 

 the archdeacon, addressing his clergy), commensu- 

 rate with the county, and divided into three deaneries 

 Derby, Ashbourne, and Chesterfield There are, 

 however, about thirty churches, which, being either 

 peculiar or donative, are not under archideacon; 1 

 jurisdiction. The greatest part of these lie in the 

 north-western side of the county, from about Bake- 

 well towards Buxton and Ashbourne. 



Of those which come under the archdeacon's juris- 

 diction, being 163 parishes, there are 52 rectories, 52 

 vicarages, and 59 curacies or chapels. There are 

 also three or four small chapels in some parochial 

 townships within the archdeaconry, which, being 

 served only once a fortnight, or even less frequently, 

 by the incumbent, or curate of the mother-church, 

 and not being entered in the process paper, I have 

 not taken into the present account. 



The whole income of these 103 churches, accord- 

 ing to the returns I have received, and which I be- 

 lieve are tolerably correct, being divided by the 

 whole number of churches, gives an income of 239 

 for each, omitting fractions of pence and shillings ; 

 but as four of the churches are consolidated, their 

 number is reduced in fact to 159, instead of 163, 

 and thus the average income of each church is raised 

 to near 245 ; a sum which may be considered as 

 not much differing from the average value of churches 

 throughout the kingdom. 



Of these 159 livings, 53 are above the average of 

 245, and 101 below it. The tithes of 90 churches, 

 being considerably more than one-half the number 

 in the archdeaconry, are in the hands of lay-impro- 

 priators ; and those of ] 8 more, though in ecclesias- 

 tical hands, are not in those of the incumbent of the 

 church to which they belong. 



These 159 livings, comprising 1G3 churches, are 

 served by 135 clergymen, either as incumbents or cu- 

 rates: for 28 churches, being for the most part- 

 chapels of ease, are served by the incumbent or cu- 

 rate of the mother-church, or by the minister of a 

 neighbouring parish. 



Of the above 163 churches, 91 have houses fit for 

 the residence of a clergyman ; 20 have houses, but 

 unfit for the residence of a clergyman ; and, indeed, 

 nearly all these last-mentioned are mere cottages, 

 just capable of accommodating a labourer and his 

 family; and 52 have no heiise. So that, in fact, 

 there are 72 churches, which virtually have no place 

 of residence for their minister. 



Of the 91 livings which have houses, there are re. 

 sident 60 incumbents, and 21 curates. In the re- 

 maining ten cases, in which neither incumbent nor 

 curate appear resident, the incumbent, generally, is 

 so virtually ; either living in his own house in the 

 parish, instead of the parsonage, and doing himself 

 the duty, or residing on an adjoining living, and 

 doing also the duty of that on which he does not 

 reside. 



Of the 20 livings which have no fit houses, and the 

 12 which have no house at all, many are of small 

 value ; and being themselves insufficient for the sup- 

 port of a clergyman, and of small population, re- 

 quiring only single duty, are served by the curate, 

 or incumbent of a neighbouring parish. There are, 

 however, 5 which have their incumbent, and .5 

 which have their curate resident in the parish ; and 

 of the remaining 62, the duty, in 3D cases, is per- 

 formed by the incumbent himself. 

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