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 Mil^ire W'mx of ftricHak in n64-5. 



(Composeli tig Esci)oftfee, about 1800=25.) 



By the Eev. Che. Wordsworth, M.A. 



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P The following old short story of a poor Wiltshire Curate, 

 written in the form of one week's diary, appeared in an early 

 magazine in December, 1766. That serial was called the British 

 Magazine} It was edited by the novelist and historian Tobias G. 

 Smollett, from 1760 — 67, and was published by John Newbery, a 

 patent medicine seller, the first purveyor of children's books in 

 London, who published for Johnson, Goldsmith, Kit Smart, and 

 other litei-ary men, and who died in 1767. This Week of a Jonrnal 

 of a Wiltshire. Citrate appeared in 1766, not only in the British, 

 but (if we are rightly informed) also (reprinted) in the Boston 

 Magazine in America : ^ and, in the next year, in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, January, 1767, p. 27. 



"THE JOUENAL OF A WILTSHIRE CURATE. 



" Monday. — Received ten pound from my rector, Dr. Snarl, being one half 

 year's salary — obliged to wait a long time before my admittance to the 

 Doctor, and even when admitted, was never once asked to sit down or 

 refresh myself, though I had walked eleven miles.— Item, the Doctor hinted 

 that he could have the curacy filled up for fifteen pounds a year. 



" Tuesday. — Paid nine pounds to seven different people, but could not buy 

 the second-hand pair of black breeches offered me as a great bargain by 

 Cabbage, the taylor, my wife wanting a petticoat above all things, and neither 

 Betsey nor Polly having a shoe to go to church. 



' IBritish Museum, P.P. 5433, a i.e., Brit. Mag., 1766, vii., 623-4. 

 ■ N. S( Q., 2 S. iii., 173-4. Note by W. J. Thoms, 1857. 

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