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there, that his license would not even involve induction 

 or reading-in, and that, for a great part of last century 

 and for some years in this, there was no resident clergy- 

 man, the church being served from a neighbouring 

 parish." This living, then, which may be considered, in 

 his case, a sinecure, he retained with his fellowship 

 till his death. His successor at Moreton-Pinkney was 

 presented in October 1793, and his fellowship filled up 

 at Easter the following year. 



In the year 1774 no less than three livings in the 

 patronage of his college were declined by him. On the 

 9th of March in that year he writes to his brother John 

 a somewhat amusing detail of "the dismal circum- 

 stances" in which the living of Cromhall was placed, 

 which are quite sufficient to account for his decision, 

 thus stated to his brother in a subsequent letter : " I 

 did not go to the election, but I wrote to the Provost, 

 and sent a renunciation of the living of Cromhall, as I 

 have done since of the living of Swains wick, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bath, which Ken also died possessed of." 

 Cromhall is a small parish in Gloucestershire. At what 

 time the rectory of Cholderton was first refused by him, 

 I do not know ; but in September in the same year he 

 informs his brother, "Cholderton lies again at my option." 

 This parish is situated about five miles from Amesbury, 

 in Wiltshire. 



From the time of his having thus become settled in 

 his chosen and final home, we find his time occupied in 

 the duties of his curacies, in the constant pursuit of the 

 study of nature, in the cultivation of his garden, and in 

 the most intimate and friendly intercourse with his nu- 

 merous intelligent friends. Of the manner in which 

 each of these several occupations was conducted we have 



