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she could not live in the climate of the North, and that he must 
therefore give up the chaplaincy of the Mariners' Church. The 
result was his removal to Exeter, much to the regret of his friends in 
Liverpool. He took the deg.-ee of B.D. in 1S84. For seven years 
he remained in Exeter, busy with his favourite work, but his life was 
saddened by domestic suffering. His two sons, the children of his first 
wife, one sixteen years of age and the other ten, the former a student 
of medicine at Edinburgh, died in these Exeter days, and while 
broken by this bereavement he had a severe fall from his hurse, which 
rendered him incapable of discharging his clerical duties. In 1839 
he took his degree of D.D., and after once refusing to accept the 
position of Vicar of Bradford, at last, in an evil hour for himself, he 
consented to do so. He was installed Vicar on the 17 th July, 1839. 
Here he found church accommodation inadequate, church influence 
in the parish very small, and especially a want of discipline, arrange- 
ment and regard to ecclesiastical order, which was intensely repug- 
nant to him. Besides this, the income was very inadequate. The 
captain's instinct awoke, and he determined to set things in order. 
His parish was his ship, and he was responsible for its proper govern- 
ment. As a first, and as he believed, an indispensable step, a church- 
rate was XH'oposed. The people were as determined as the vicar, and 
it w^as refused by a majority exceeding two thousand. Rough protes- 
tors against such an impost threatened revenge, the vicar's troubles 
became greater and more various, and quarrels arose with new local 
churches on account of fees which he claimed as payable by them to 
the parish church. Dr. Scoresby believed that he was bound to 
maintain the rights of the mother church, whatever new ones might 
be erected within the parochial limits, and he refused to divide with 
them certain fees which had hitherto been shared equally with what 
were known as the " ancient chapels." This led to quarrels with the 
local gentry, and one of the new churches which had been licensed 
for public worship was closed. The Bishop was appealed to, and he 
ruled generally in favour of the vicar. But such success neither 
helped Dr. Scoresby in his real work, nor made his personal position 
more tolerable. Add to these troubles the fact that the manufac- 
turing districts throughout the North of England were in a very 
