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at the time of Mr Coxon's death, to set np in the parish some 

 moiiTiment to him ; the delay will not be rep^retted, since the memorial 

 has now taken such an admirable and enduring form. 



It is the middle light that gathers up into itself not merely personal 

 and family, but even historical interest. In it the Good Shepherd is 

 represented. There are no sheep in the scene ; but " the one which 

 is gone astray " is suggested, and the mountains in which it was 

 sought and found are indicated; for as Newman has it in his "Lead, 

 kindly Light!" the Shepherd is stepping down "o'er moor and crag." 

 Underneath there runs this inscription : — 



To the Glory of God and in Memory of the family of Sharp of 

 Pegswood, who here occupied farms in this Parish from the earliest 

 records. 



1680. Baptized John, son of Stephen Sharp. 



1725. Baptized John, son of John Sharp. 



1754. Baptized John, son of John Sharp. 



1795. Buried John Sharp. 



1796. Married John Sharp, who died in 1835, and Jane 



Gardener, who died at the age of 86. 

 These were the children of the above :— 



Jane Jobling, born 1798, died 1875. 



Frances Hume, born 1800, died 1878. 



Mary Campbell, born 1802, died 1893. 



Ursula Sharp, Lorn 1804, died 1875. 



Margaret Angus, born 1807, died 1877. 



Sarah Nicholson, born 1809, died 1893. 



John Sharp, born 1814, died 1893. 

 Three members of that family of seven, it will be seen, died so 

 recently as last year. They had all reached long ages. Intervals of 

 only a few days occurred between their deaths, which took place at 

 Bothal, where, too, they are buried. With Mr John Sharp, whose 

 name ends the memorial record, the male line of "the family of 

 Sharp of Pegswood " became extinct. Descendants on the female side 

 are still tenants on the Bothal estate. Messrs John Sharp and Henry 

 Jobling, agents for Messrs Lambtoa & Co., Morpeth, farm Butterwell, 

 and Miss Hume, who lives there, was till a few years ago tenant of 

 Tritlington Broom ; Mr George Angus occupies Climbing Tree ; and 

 his brother, Mr John Angus, White Held, a farm with a wide reputation 

 in his father's time as well as in his own. 



When successive members of the same family continue for a few 

 generations on the same holding, or merely change to another on the 

 same estate, the fact is remarked upon, and justly so, as a proof of 

 the happy relationship subsisting between landlord and tenant. Mr 

 Ellis has done parochial and social history a service in being the 

 means of getting such a family history placed in his church ; for it 

 is in many ways a significant story that these matter-of-fact lines, 

 spelt by the historic muse in the persons of the rectors of Bothal 



