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the shadow of a beautiful and favourite Maple 

 tree of Gilpin' s a tree to which he himself refers 

 in his Forest Scenery lie the remains of this true 

 lover of Nature, who died in 1804. His wife died 

 three years later, and was buried in the same 

 grave. Gilpin had himself suggested the inscrip- 

 tion on the tombstone, and it is as follows : 

 'In a quiet mansion beneath this stone, secure 

 from the afflictions and still more dangerous 

 enjoyments of life, lye the remains of William 

 Gilpin, sometime vicar of this parish, together 

 with the remains of Margaret his wife. After 

 living above fifty years in happy union, they hope 

 to be raised in God's due time, through the atone- 

 ment of a blessed Eedeemer for their repented 

 transgressions, to a state of joyful immortality. 

 There it will be a new joy to meet several of their 

 good neighbours, who lye scattered in these sacred 

 precincts around them. 5 The dates of death are 

 given on the stone as follows : { He died April 

 5th, 1804, at the age of eighty. She died July 

 14th, 1807, at the age of eighty-two.' The poet 

 Southey's second marriage was solemnized in this 

 pretty little Church. The delightful woodlands 



