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peculiar circumstances. But a chapter might be written on Greenwich morality and its 

 effects on the parish rates, which nobody would care to bind up with the naval histories 

 of Brenton or James, but which would help to reconcile the reader to the break-up of an 

 institution which has had much in it to kindle the imagination and justify the pride of our 

 countrymen. 



GREENWICH PENSIONERS. 



" The break-up is, after all, one in which people will acquiesce rather than one at which 

 they will rejoice. It was a noble as well as a pious idea to gather under the roofs of a grand 

 edifice at once a dwelling-place and a naval monument, and placed on the shores of a river 

 itself one of the chief sources of our maritime strength the survivors of each generation of 

 warriors against the enemy or the storm. Here the traditions of one age blended gradually 

 with the experience of the next; stories of Shovel were passed on to those who fought undei 



