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this purpose, being invited by Mr. Constable, the 

 then owner of Wycliffe, I visited the extensive 

 museum there, collected by the late Marmaduke 

 Tunstal, Esq., to make drawings of the birds.* I 

 set off from Newcastle on the i6th July, 1791, the 

 day on which my friend Dr. Bailes died, and 

 remained at the above beautiful place nearly two 

 months, drawing 1 from the stuffed specimens. I 

 lodged in the house of John Goundry, the person 

 who preserved the birds for Mr. Tunstal ; and 

 boarded at his father's, George Goundry, the old 

 miller there. Whilst I remained at Wycliffe, I 

 frequently dined with the Rev. Thomas Zouch,f 

 the rector of the parish. He watched my going 

 out of church on the Sundays, where I often 

 attended, accompanied by old Goundry, to invite 

 me to dine with him. On these occasions he often 

 made the character of his late neighbour, Mr. 

 Tunstal, and of George Goundry, the subject of his 

 conversation, and dwelt with great pleasure on the 

 excellence of both. Mr. Tunstal was a Roman 

 Catholic, and had a chapel in his own house ; Mr. 

 Zouch was a Church of England minister ; and 

 George Goundry was a Deist ; and yet these three 

 uncommonly good men, as neighbours, lived in 



[* The Wycliffe collection was purchased by the Newcastle 

 Literary and Philosophical Society in whose Museum it now is. 

 Many of the beautiful water colour and other drawings for the 

 "Birds," etc., were presented by the Executors of Miss Isabella 

 Bewick, to the Museum of the Natural History Society of Northum- 

 berland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in March, 1884. A 

 rough list of these will be found in the appendix to " Thomas 

 Bewick and his Pupils," 1884, pp. 223-7.] 



fThe Rev. Thomas Zouch, D.D., F.L.S., prebendary of Durham, 

 and rector of Scrayingham, Yorkshire. This venerable divine was 

 born in 1737, at Sandal, and died there on the I7th Dec., 1813. He 

 had been offered the bishopric of Carlisle, but refused it. 



