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and his predeceffors were Mefirs, Curwen, 
Wilkinfon, Watfon, and . Williamfon. 
The vicarage houfe is a pretty good build- 
ing, and well firuated. There are few 
diffenters of any denomination ; and the 
people attend the church and facraments 
pretty regularly. 
This patifh has the advantage of pof- 
feffing three grammar-fchools, A little 
to the eaft of the church ftands the (chool 
of Crofby, which is a neat building. 
This {chool- was founded about the year 
1597 3 but the falary for its fupport did 
not, until 1784, amount to more than rol. 
perannum. At that period, however, the 
ftipend was handfomely augmented by 
fome benevolent perfons, natives of this 
parifh, who are yet living. Thefe bene- 
factors are defirous of doing good without 
the appearance of oftentation ; and afford 
the comfortable -reflection, that Divine 
Providence will, in every age, raife up 
proper advocates and fupporters in the 
caule of virtue and of religion. The annual 
ftinend of the {chool amounts at prefent 
to 26]. This fum, with what is paid by 
the {cholars, (who are feldom under 50 in 
number), will make the whole emolument 
about gol. a year. The fchool has a 
beautiful area in front ; and is well fenced 
on all fides with rows of beech, larch, &c. 
Reagill-{chool was built and endowed 
by Mr. Randall Sanderfon, a native of the 
place, who was fellow of Queen’s college 
in Oxford, and rector of Weyhill in Hamp- 
fhire; but the falary amounting only to 
xol. a year, independent of what was paid 
by the fcholars (generally forty or up- 
wards), at 1s. or 1s. 6d. per quarter, has 
been of late years augmented by the cha- 
ritable donation of a worthy gentleman, a 
native alfoof Reagill.* 
- The fchool in that part of the parifh 
which is called Birkbeck Fells, and fitu- 
ated at Greenholmé, was built and en- 
dowed by Mr. George Gibfon, in 1733. 
The income arifes from a freehold eftate 
of 30]. a year; and the children of Birk- 
beck Felis and Bretherdale are taught 
free of expence. , 
At thefe feveral feminaries, the Eng- 
lith, Latin, and Greck languages are 
taught; together with writing, arithme- 
tic, menfuration, &c. When a man pro- 
perly qualified for the employment, fub- 
mits to the drudgery of inftructing chil- 
* We are not permitted to mention the 
names of the benefactors to thefe inftitutions. 
Suffice it, therefore, to fay, that they ave 
perfons, who, ¢¢ doing good by ftealth, would 
plot to find it fame.” 
: ed Se 
dren in feyeral important branches of 
education, common fenfe muft revolt at 
the idea of his being in fcarcely a better 
fituation than the day-labourer. Wecan- 
not forbear to regret, that a body of men fo 
highly ufeful as country-{choolmafters, and 
from whofe fuccefsful labours the counties 
of Cumberland and Weltmoreland have 
derived that reputation for literature and 
Jearning, which they fo defervedly enjoy ;— 
that a clafs of men, on whofe future exer- 
tions the prefervation of that reputation, 
and the profperity of the people, muft in 
a great meature depend, fhould, in general, 
be fo ill provided for by the country. We 
may, on this occafion, not improperly 
apply to them the words of the poet, and 
fay, §* Sic vos nom vobis.” ) 
See aT ed 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
AN ACCOUNT ofthe DISINTERMENTS, ix 
the YEAR 1793, of the KINGS, QUEENS, 
- PRINCES, PRINCESSES, and other 1L- 
LUSTRIOUS PERSONS who had been ~ 
interred at the ABBEY OF ST.-DENIS, 
iz FRANCE, during a previous PERIOD 
of FIVE HUNDRED YEARS. 
N Saturday the rath Oftober, 1793, 
the members compofing the Munt- 
cipality of Franciade, (formerly St.-De- 
nis), gave the neceffary orders for carry- 
ing into execution the decree of the 
National Convention relative to the difin- 
terment of the coffins depofited in. the 
Abbey of St. Denis, which were to be 
{tripped of the lead which they contained, 
for the purpole of its being manufaétured 
into bullets. 
The firft tomb opened, was that of 
Turenne. The aftonifhment of the work-- 
men and others who prefled round the 
{por, eager to behold the remains of this 
great man, was extreme, when upon open- 
ing the coffin, Turenne was difcovered in 
fuch a perfect ftate of prefervation,' that 
not a feature of his countenance was 
altered. The aftenifhed {pe&tacors admi- 
red in thefe cold’ remains the vitor of 
Turkeim ; and forgetting the mortal blow 
which he received at Saltzbach, every one 
believed that they faw his foul again in 
arms to defend the rights of France. This 
corpfe, not in the leaft decayed, was in 
the ftate of a mummy, dry, and of a 
clear brown colour; and perfedily corre- 
fponded with the exifting portraits and 
medallions of this great warrior. Upon 
the fuggeftions of feveral perfons of dil- 
tindlion, who were prefent, this mumm 
. was entrufted to the care of the celebrated 
Host, keeper of the Abbey, who pre- 
ferved 
