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IN MEMORY 

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THE KEY. EGBERT WALKEK, 



WHO DIED ON THE 25TH OF JUNE. 1802, IN 



THE 9 3RD YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND 

 IN THE 67TH YEAR OF HIS CURACY AT SEATHWAITE. 



ALSO OF ANN HIS WIFE, WHO DIED ON THE 28TH OF 

 JANUARY, 1800, IN THE 93RD YEAR OF HER AGE." 



After the death of his wife, we are informed 

 that he whose " health and spirits and faculties 

 were unimpaired till then/' then experienced 

 "such a shock that his constitution gradually 

 decayed." These are the words of his great- 

 grandson, who adds the following touching par- 

 ticulars. " His senses, except his eyes, still 

 preserved their powers. He never preached 

 with steadiness after his wife's death ; his voice 

 faltered ; he always looked at the seat she had 

 used. He could not pass the tomb without a 

 tear of sorrow. He became when alone sad and 

 melancholy; though still among his friends 

 kind and good-humoured. He went to bed 

 about twelve o'clock the night before he died. 

 As his custom was, he went tottering and 

 leaning on his daughter's arm to examine the 

 heavens and meditate a few minutes in the 



