igo MEMOIR OF 



the Perpetual Curacy of Swymbridge and Land- 

 key became vacant, and the benehce being in 

 the gift of Whittington Landon, then Dean of 

 Exeter, Russell was appointed to it in that year. 



Appropriate enough was the title of " Per- 

 petual Curacy" to such a benehce ; for the 

 whole annual income derived by the incumbent 

 amounted to less than -f.iSo, out of which sum 

 he was not only required to provide and pay a 

 curate for the annexed parish of Landkey, but 

 to meet perpetual calls from a large population 

 of poor parishioners, who naturally in the first 

 place looked to him for help in their numerous 

 emergencies. To have called it a " living " 

 would have been simply a comedy ; for, when 

 these and various other liabilities incidental to 

 Church property had been deducted, the residue 

 might be reckoned as ////, or even as some- 

 thing less than that, for the incumbent to 

 live on. 



Rightly, too, was it thus named in another 

 sense ; for there Russell was planted for forty-five 

 years — and so far he may fairly be considered 

 the Perpetual Curate of Swymbridge. During 

 that period, however, the parish has undergone 

 various and important changes for the better ; 

 its annexation with Landkey, for instance, has 

 been severed ; new schools have been established 

 and endowed ; while, at a distant hamlet called 

 " Traveller's Rest," a commodious chapel has 



