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[18] The Rev. Mr. Richardson, of Farley. 



[19] Mr. Townsend, the rector of Pewsey, a re- 

 markable person in several respects. The reader 

 will find in Mr. Warner's Literary Recollections an 

 interesting notice of Mr. Townsend, and notices also, 

 more or less complete, of several other persons whose 

 names occur in this paper. Mr. Warner's services to 

 literature in general, and especially to the illustration 

 of Bath, where he so long resided, can never be for- 

 gotten. 



[20] Persons connected with this Society who 

 were also much connected with Bath, and are not 

 elsewhere named in this paper, were Sir Benjamin 

 Hobhouse, who was for many years the president, 

 Mr. Henry Wansey, one of the first English travellers 

 in the United States after the separation, who pub- 

 lished an account of their impressions of the new 

 country, and Dr. C. Wilkinson, whose name is a pro- 

 minent one in the history of galvanism in England. 



[21] It is a great defect in any topographical 

 history when there is no account of the persons who 

 held that most important position in a parish, the 

 incumbency, whether rector or vicar. Even Webb, 

 who held the living for twelve years, till 1634, is not 

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