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upon the living of St. George in the Eaft, 
where he refided about thirty-eight years. 
Dr. Mayo had a peculiar, but by no means 
an unimpreffive, mode of preaching, in his 
earlier years; but his labours were not con- 
fined tothe pulpit merely. He was the in- 
firuGior of the young, in the catechetical 
way; the reclaimer of the diffolute; the 
grave rebuker of the blafphemer; the ad- 
monifher of thofe who had reached the grada- 
tion of unthinking levity in the fcale of of- 
fence, and were tottering on the brink of 
vice. He was the comforter of the fick, and 
cherifher of thofe who languifhed under the 
depreiiions of poverty. He adminiftered the 
aids of religion to thofe who were pafling from 
time to eternity; and often, by the fide. of 
the grave, exerted a vigour beyond the routine of 
duty, whilt he taught thofe who attended on 
the interment of their friends to prepare for 
their latter end. He was particularly kind 
to the Negroes, and uninftruéted men of co- 
four, who, employed generally on board of 
fhip, occafionally refided in his parifh, which 
is full of fea-taring people. Perhaps no 
clergyman in England ever baptifed fo many 
black mien and Mulattoes. The attachment 
of thefe poor people to him was very great. 
Several of them never came into the port of 
Londen without waiting upon him, by way 
ef teftifying the refpe& in which they held 
him. Dr. Mayo was a magiftrate for the 
county of Middlefex, and performed the func- 
tions of that office, in his parochial relations, 
with greatattention. ‘The zealous care with 
which he watched over the charity-fchools 
in his parifh was very becoming. One of 
them is a {choel of high character ; we mean 
Raine’s Hofpital, into which young girls are 
traniplanted out of the ordinary parochial 
fchool, and are taught all forts of ufeful 
houfehold work; and then, after having lived 
five years in fervice, and bringing teftimonials 
of their good behaviour, are entitled to draw 
lots for a marriage-portion of rool. and are 
married to fome induftrious mechanic, a 
member of the church of England. Dr. 
Mayo was treafurer of this excellent founda- 
tion. On May-day (1801), in the prefence 
of a numerous aflemblage of the truftees and 
others, among whom were both the Mem- 
bers of Parliament for the county of Middle- 
fex, he delivered a purfe, containing rool. to 
one of the young women, who had been mar- 
ried by him that morning, whilf another 
fiood by, who had juft drawn a prize of a 
fimilar portion. The good old man gave the 
new-married pair a fuitable charge, in a moft 
affeGionate way- His infirmities, it is true, 
impeded his fpeech not a little; he feemed 
te feel it was the laft he fhould make on 
fech an occafion; but, there was an elo~- 
quence in his very paufes, and fomething fo 
eS Dr, Mays; 
__ {Sept. 1; 
touching in the tears which trickled down 
his cheeks, that they muft have had hearts 
of ftone who could hear them unmoved. 
Never man: was happier in all his domeftic 
relations. His children were all provided for 
in his life time. He wasa faithful freward 
for them. His ambition was to educate his 
children at his own coft, without breaking-in 
upon what was totome to them. His eldeft 
fon is a refpe€table phyfician, fettled at Don- 
cafter, and was, before he quitted London, 
phyfician to the Middlefex-hofpital. His 
younger fon is well-known to the learned 
world, Mr. Charles Mayo, the late Profeffor 
of the Anglo-Saxon tongue in the Univerfity 
of Oxford, the firft appointed profeffor upon 
Dr. Rawlinfon’s foundation. Both thefe gen~ 
tlemen were Fellows of St. John’s College, 
Oxford. Dr. Mayo was a man of true fru- 
gality ; but, as his frugality never funk inte 
parfimony, fo it was, in fome meafure, fub- 
fervient to his generofity. He has walked,with 
no {mall perfonal inconvenience to himfelf, 
through.the ftreets of London, to fave the 
expence of a hackney-coach; but then he 
gave to the fon, the orphan fon, of a clergy- 
man, before he reached home, the half-crown 
which he faved. No man better under- 
ftood the economy of charity. There are few 
public charities to which he was not a con-= 
tributor, from Chrifts Hofpital downward. 
His known probity procured him the office of 
executor tomany. Many have acknowledged 
the fervices he has done them in quality of 
truftee and guardian, The management of the. 
property which he held in truft for others, 
often called him to the Bank of England. 
He has been thotght to be bufied there on 
his own account; but, whenever this has 
been obje@tingly hinted to him, he anfwer- 
ed only with a fmile. A {mile he had, of 
peculiar benignity. He was a man of great 
good-humour, and often indulged in a fpecies 
of chaftened pleafantry ; but Iris delight was 
in that fort of wit which diftinguifhed fome 
great men at the beginning of the laft age, — 
punning. Dr, South himfelf was not fonder 
of a pun than Dr, Mayo. He was bleffed 
with a long feries of uninterrupted health. 
Rainy days, or inclement feafons, never 
ftopped him in the career of duty. Hewas a 
parith-prieft of the dld-fchool, of the fchool 
which bred John Waring,» curate of Spital- 
fields and Bifhopfgate, and, laft, clerk in or- 
ders at St. James’s, Piccadilly ; Mr. Hal- 
lings, the curate of Aldgate, late Secretary 
to the Society for Promoting Chriftian Know- 
ledge ; Dr. Markham, late reétor of White- 
chapel; Mr. Southgate, the curate of St. 
Giles’s ; and Mr. Richards, the curate of St. 
Sepuichre’s. Dr. Mayo was -in politics a 
Tory. His religious principles were truly 
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