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more, did not effectually wake up the Dons, 

 not only of Exeter, but of Lincoln and Jesus, 

 they, too, must have swallowed a magnum of 

 port, or they never could have slept through 

 such a din. 



Once more, before he quits the University, 

 but this time with a light and elastic step, if not 

 "with pride in his port," he crossed that same 

 Quadrangle, where 



" Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head," 



to put on his Bachelor's gown ; and being soon 

 afterwards nominated by the Rev. W. B. Stawell 

 to the curacy of George Nympton — a rural 

 parish, with a sparse population, near South 

 Molton — he was ordained a deacon in 1819, and 

 priest in the following year. George Pelham, 

 then Bishop of Exeter, performed the ceremony, 

 in the Chapel Royal, London, where, notwith- 

 standing the long double journeys by coach, 

 and the expenses incidental thereto — a serious 

 tax on a salary of ^^60 a year — the young 

 candidate was summoned to attend on each 

 occasion. 



" The railway between Exeter and London 

 has been a great boon to me," said the late 

 Bishop of Exeter to his son, Charles Phillpotts, 

 " for by it not only do I save time, but I can 

 now travel to town with the utmost comfort for 

 a £^ note ; whereas formerly, by sleeping a 

 night in Bath, and posting it the whole way, it 



