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who lived many years with her brother in the house 

 on Belmont. 



[26] Of course Samuel Badcock is the person 

 intended. The share he had in the composition of 

 the Bampton Lectures, preached by Dr. White, has 

 been closely, and, I believe, successfully investigated 

 since this paper was written. 



[27] None would fail to recognize the unnamed 

 friend, the Rev. J. J. Conybeare, Professor of Anglo- 

 Saxon and of Poetry in the University of Oxford, 

 who was then too recently deceased to admit of the 

 actual mention of his name. He had lent some 

 assistance in the measures preparatory to the open- 

 ing of the Institution, and particularly in the forma- 

 tion of its library. Bath had not long the privilege 

 of accounting him as one belonging to it. He had 

 been presented to the vicarage of Bath-Easton ; he 

 found a parsonage-house in a dilapidated state, 

 which he restored, and in a great degree rebuilt on 

 an enlarged scale ; he married ; and he died ; and all 

 within the compass of about five years. Why has 

 no person done public justice to the memory of 

 this good and highly-accomphshed man ? 



