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the 29th of November 1748, aged seventy. He married Jane, the 

 beautiful 8 daughter of John Merewether, M.D., who survived him 

 until the iith of June 1761. She was buried with her husband 

 in Salisbury Cathedral, beneath a stone which is thus inscribed : 



"HERE LIES BURIED WILLIAM HAWKINS, ESQ. 



BARRISTER AT LAW 

 WHO DIED NOV. 2Q, 1748 



AGED 70. 

 ALSO LIETH JANE THE RELICT OF 



WILLIAM HAWKINS 



AND DAUGHTER OF JOHN MEREWETHER, M.D. 

 DIED JUNE II, 1761." 



Their issue were one son, William Hawkins ; and four 

 daughters, Jane, Anne, Henrietta-Rebecca, and Mary. Jane, the 

 eldest daughter, died on the nth of April 1728, to whose 

 memory her parents caused the following inscription to be placed 

 over her grave : 



"HERE LYE THE DEAR REMAINS OF 



JANE 

 ELDEST DAUGHTER OF 



WILLIAM AND JANE HAWKINS 



WHOSE CAPACITY AND DISPOSITION 



EXCEEDING EVEN PARENTS* HOPES 



SHE BECAME AN UNCOMMON LOSS 



ON THE IITH DAY OF APRIL 1728 



IN THE I2TH YEAR OF HER INNOCENCE. 



GOD'S WILL BE DONE ! 



Why should we grieve for what we must approve 

 The joys of Heaven surpass our fondest love." 



Her sisters, Henrietta-Rebecca and Mary Hawkins, also died 

 unmarried. Anne married the Reverend John Hawes, rector of 

 Wilton and Fugglestone St Peter's in Wiltshire. 



William Hawkins, the only son of William Hawkins by Jane 

 Merewether, left an only child, Frances, who married in 1790 

 the late Mr Thomas Knapp Blagden, a bookseller at Winchester, 

 to whom she was the second wife. She had no issue. 



The Reverend John Hawes died in December 1787, having had 

 issue by his wife, Anne Hawkins, who died in June 1797, four 

 children, viz., Margaret-Jane, and Anne, who both died unmarried; 

 the Reverend Henry Hawes, minister of Clifton, who married Miss 

 Brown, and died without issue in March 1 809 ; and the Reverend 

 Doctor Herbert Hawes, prebendary of Salisbury. 



8 See Bowles's Life of Ken, ii. 267. 



