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every body that were no kin to them except their assiduous 

 attorney, Valentine Price, to whom they left nothing* " But 

 what is strange and wonderful, though their charities in 

 their life-time at Langton were a sixpenny loaf a week only, 

 which was divided into as many parts as there were petition- 

 ers, and distributed by eleven of the clock on a Sunday, 

 unless they left the town the day before, which was often 

 the case, and when the poor were sure to fail of their bounty ; 

 these gentlewomen, at the death of the last, bequeathed by 

 will upwards of twelve thousand pounds to the different hos- 

 pitals and religious institutions in the kingdom. A blaze of 

 goodness issued from them at last, and thus ended these two 

 poor, unhappy, uncharitable, charitable old gentlewomen." 



Mr. Marshall calls him, " the indefatigable Hanbury, 

 whose immense labours are in a manner lost to the public." 

 No man delighted more than Mr. Hanbury did, in describing 

 the beauty of trees and shrubs : this is visible in the extracts 

 which Mr. Marshall has made in his " Planting and Rural 

 Ornament." 



WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Esq., justly celebrated for his pure 

 and classic taste in landscape gardening. His tender and 

 pathetic feelings shine throughout most of his works ; and 

 the sweetness and simplicity of his temper and manners, en- 

 deared him to the neighbourhood and to his acquaintance. 

 Dr. Johnson says, his life was unstained by any crime. He 

 farther says of him, " He began from this time to entangle 

 his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such 

 judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy 

 of the great and the admiration of the skilful. His house 

 was mean, and he did not improve it; his care was of his 

 grounds. When he came home from his walks, he might 

 find his floor flooded by a shower through the broken roof; 

 but could spare no money for its reparation. In time his 



