The Life of the Rev Thomas Scott, D D , Rector of Aston Sandford, Bucks

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: more decidedly religious, we may have future opportunities of discerning. Indeed justice requires the remark, that this whole series of letters, from the very first, conveys a more favorable impression, than his own report would have led us to expect, of his social character. The constant, copious, and confidential correspondence kept up with his sisters would, of itself, be a very favorable indication upon this subject. But, in addition to this, the letters throughout breathe strong affection to all his family, and shew him to have taken a lively interest in their concerns; and to have been zealous to serve them, as well as qualified to do so by great acute- ness and sound sense. CHAPTER III. FROM HIS ORDINATION TO HIS MARRIAGE. We now proceed to contemplate the subject of our memoirs in his new and higher character of a minister of the established church. After the ordination, having officiated on two Sundays at Martin, in almost an empty church, (for service was very seldom performed there, ) I removed to Stoke. Goldington, and entered on my new curacies; boarding with a parishioner for twenty guineas a year. My regular services were at Stoke and Weston Underwood: hut my rector was sub-dean of Lincoln; and, when he went thither into residence, he procured other supplies for Weston, and I officiated at Gayhurst, where George Wrighte, Eq. had a seat. This scon brought me acquainted with the family. Mr. W. was a descendant of Sir Nathan Wrighte, Lord Keeper in the reign of Queen Anne: and Mrs. W. was the only daughter of Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls, by Lady Anne, daughter of the Earl of Halifax. They were wealthy and liberal, and lived in a most hospitable manner. They had b, een married several years, but had only one son; quite a child, who was consi.