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1790. 
AgcouNT oF 
Loxpon. 
OF IM YY ERTERA RY LIFE: 
«« Well done, thou good and faithful fervant, 
enter thow into the joy of thy Lord.”” 
He was born at St. Hermes de Rouvelle, 
in Normandy, Auguft 22, 1717; died 
at Downing, Auguft 20, 17853 and was 
interred in the Church-yard near this wall 
on the 22d of the fame month. 
Previous to this | could not, in the warmth of my heart, re- 
fift giving, in one of the Chefer papers, the following paragraph 
as a notification of his death. 
‘ Saturpay fe’nnight, in the morning, died, at Downing, in 
© Flintfbire, Louis Gold, a Norman by birth, and above twenty years 
© the faithful fervant and friend of Thomas Pennant, of that place, 
© efq. He left the favings of his different fervices, which were 
“ very confiderable, to feveral of his friends, his fellow-fervants, 
‘and to the poor; and bequeathed to his lamenting mafter, and 
© his four children, handfome remembrances of his affection for 
‘them: the remainder to be applied, at the difcretion of his ex- 
© ecutor, to charitable ufes.’ 
Tus {pring I publifhed an account of our capital. I had fo 
often walked about the feveral parts of Lowdon, with my note- 
book in my hand, that I could not help forming confiderable 
collections of materials. The public received this work with 
the utmoft avidity. It went through three large impreffions 
in about two years and a half. The firft, in 4pri/ 1790; the 
fecond, in Fanuary 1791; and the third, in the latter end of 
the laft year. Many additions were made to the fecond; toge- 
ther with three more plates by the perfuafion of that worthy 
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