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"In the North Aisle of this Church lie the Remains of
THOMAS COMBER, of East Newton, Esq.

Son of THOMAS COMEER, D.D. Dean of Durham,
buried near the Communion-table,

by ALICE daughter of WILLIAM THORNTON, Esq. of East Newton.
He was born Nov. 26, 1688; and died May 12, 1765.
Of ANN, his Wife, daughter of
ANDREW WILSON, Vicar of Easingwold,

who was born March 1, 1691, and died June 17, 1754.
Of THOMAS COMBER, LL.D.*

Rector of Buckworth and Morborn, in Huntingdonshire,
Eldest Son of the above THOMAS and ANN COMBER,
who was born June 16, 1722, and died April 9, 1778.
And of ANDREW COMBER, youngest Son

of the above THOMAS and ANN COMBER,

who was born July 8, 1728, and died October 15, 1747.
Also the Remains of DOROTHY, Widow of
JAMES ARBUTHNOT, of Weymouth, Esq.
Daughter of THOMAS HASSELL, of
Ampleforth, Rector of Seamer,

who was born March 1, 1701, and died April 21, 1759.
And of ANN AREUTHNOT,

Sister of the above JAMES ARBUTHNOT, Esq.
who was born in 1702, and died March 29, 1789.
WILLIAM COMBER, Vicar of Kirbymoorside,
second Son of the above THOMAS COMBER, Esq.
and DOROTHY his Wife, Daughter of

the above JAMES and DOROTHY ARBUTHNOT,
erect this monument to the memory of
their truly-lamented Parents and Relatives."

"Sacred to the Memory of

DOROTHY Wife of the Rev. W. COMBER,
and Daughter of JAMES ARBUTHNOT,
of the Island of Antigua, Esq.

She died May 5, 1807, in the 79th year of her age.
Her mortal Remains are deposited in the North Aisle of this Church.
Exemplary in every Christian duty,

the cheerfulness, affability, and suavity of her manners diffused happiness over an extensive circle of friends. She powerfully inculcated every moral and religious duty, as well by example as by precept. The agonizing stroke of separation, after a happy union of more than half a century, was alone rendered supportable

to her disconsolate Husband by the cheering hope of being united to her at the resurrection of the Just; and that her virtues are recorded

where they will be crowned with immortal bliss."

* Of Jesus College, Cambridge; B.A. 1744 ; LL, B. 1770; LL. D. 1775,

"Sacred

"Sacred to the Memory of
the Rev. WILLIAM COMBER, A. M.*
Vicar of Kirkby Moorside,

in the North Riding of this County,
second Son of THOMAS COMBER, of East Newton, Esq.
He died March 24, 1810, in the 85th
of his age.

His mortal Remains

year

are deposited in the North Aisle of this Church,
He was the beloved Pastor of his Flock
for fifty-four years;

and ably discharged the duties of an active Magistrate
for above forty.

In him the pious Christian, the sound Divine, and the faithful Steward of God's Mysteries, were happily united with the relative and social virtues of a tender Husband, a kind Neighbour, and a benevolent Friend. A pattern of humility, confiding in

his Saviour's merits, and ever disclaiming his own,
he rests in hope of a joyful resurrection."

On a sarcophagus:

"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright :
for the end of that man is peace."

P. 25. Dr. Foster was appointed Canon of Windsor in 1772, and died in July or August" 1774."-But the whole memoir of Dr. Foster is here superfluous, as it is enlarged in vol. IV. p.342. P. 25, note, 1. 29, for "qui," r. "quo."

P. 31, 1. ult. r. 66 mottoes."

P. 41, 1. 37, dele the second " perhaps."
P. 43, for "p. 530," r. " p. 550."

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Printing was technically described by Tully, though he knew nothing of the matter; so we put a sense upon an author's words that never entered into his head." T. F.

P. 48, note, 1. 35, r. "240 pence."

P. 50. "I told Mr. Barrington, that his "Naturalist's Journal" was formed on the plan of the Butler's Cellar-Book. He assured me that he took the hint from it. I dare say it has proved serviceable to science. Now (1794) we have a "Meteorologist's Journal," which I dare say will be productive of much good, as it will multiply observers by furnishing them with a frame. I had a folio sheet for one month engraved many years ago for my own use." T. F.

P. 51. The following lines were by Dr. Carr, of Hertford:
"In Obitum FRANCISCI FAWKES, M. A.

"Festivum festo si dant convivia cordi,
Siquid mellifluum carmine Musa, vale!

Spirat at omnis amor, rident juvenilia læta,
Olim quæ lusit Teius ille senex.

+ Smyrnæo dulci lachrymam linguamque dedisti,
Agnoscitque tuum vivit et ingenium.

* Of Jesus College, Cambridge; B. A. 1746; A. M. 1770.-† "Bioni."

Vivunt Sicelides per te meliora canentes ;

J.C.

* Thessala væ pinus, te pereunte, perit!" P. 59. Percivall Pott, esq. F.R.S. 1764, and principal Surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, died at his house in Prince's-street, Hanover-square, after a severe illness, Dec. 22, 1788. He was a national honour, and much more than a national loss; for where is it, or when, that the destiny of man is not to be fearfully made to writhe under woe apprehended or felt-to come into the world with sorrow, to go out of it by death? To live by an art, is one thing; to improve it, is another. He that can practise what all before him have practised, discharges the first duties of his station, and may serve society well. But the interval is not greater between a duty and reward, than between the servant of his country and its benefactor, who enlarges the bounds of useful science, who opens the path, and leads the way, where life may mend, and sigh with less anguish at disaster and dismay. This is the great specific praise of Mr. Pott's professional fame. He advanced his art. Each material department of human malady shrunk before him. He became, with new truth and force, "eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame." Comparison, that fixes every thing, will be found to fix the great comparative value of this. Other Surgeons, in the hurry of the first practice, have left their art no better than they found it. Gataker did nothing but an edition of Le Dran, and two or three essays next to nothing. Cæsar Hawkins has little more to talk of than the Swathe, which was not his own, in the opération of Tapping. Ranby, strong-minded and enterprising as he was, left behind him but a two-shilling treatise upon Gun-shot Wounds. And even Cheselden, with luck more than merit, now has little more than tradition to trust to. For, after all, what is his treatise, and what his forty plates? These Practitioners, of course, are not to compare with Mr. Pott. Who can be mentioned with him, and not suffer on the mention, we know not, unless it be Hunter and Sydenham, Mead, Van Swieten, and Boerhaave. Of Mr. Pott's printed Works the character is obvious. He thinks originally. He writes with taste. His perspicuity, indispensable in didactic works, ever is most admirable. On the two Fistula he perhaps shews the most immediate powers of convincing; though on the Herniæ, and yet more on the Head, his science and genius expand the most. Abstractedly, as a prose-writer, Mr. Pott is of much reckoning; if not of the first rank, assuredly at the top of the second. For didactic prose he goes on advancing, with Sir Joshua Reynolds and the elder Dr. Burney; and he must be unreasonable who wishes to advance more. These accomplishments were much endeared by the silent celerity with which they came. He was among the favoured few who are indulged with early eminence. He succeeded Nourse, * "Anglicè vertebat et editurus erat Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica. Jampridem prodierant interpretationes ejus Anacreontis, Sapphûs, Bionis, Moschi, Musi, et Theocriti. J. C."

his master, at St. Bartholomew's, where, man and boy, he had been occupied above 50 years: and yet, in all that time, who ever found him wanting in any pursuit of urbanity and elegance? He was an interesting converser; he had cultivated literature; he was fond of art. But his best praise was in real life, in the relative duties, and more trying efforts of active life. In the pecuniary parts of character, happy is he who can be as liberal. His life had been, if health and comeliness are so, uncommonly reputable to his skill. He looked 50, though at 75. His death was instant, and without a groan. He was sent for to a patient out of town. Catching cold, he caught his instant death. He was delirious before night; and before the next night, notwithstanding Dr. Millman's assistance, he was dead.

The following is as correct a list of his publications as I can obtain: 1. "An Account of Tumours which soften the Bones." Phil. Trans. 1741, No. 459. 2. "A Treatise on Ruptures," 8vo, London, 1756. 3. "An Account of a particular Kind of Rupture," 8vo, ibid. 1757. 4. "A Treatise on the Hydrocele," Svo, ibid. 1762. 5. "A Treatise on the Fistula Lachrymalis, Svo, ibid. 1763. 6. "An Account of an Hernia of the Urinary Bladder, including a Stone." Phil. Trans. vol. LIV. for 1764. 7. "Remarks on the Fistula in Ano," 8vo. ibid. 1767. 8. "Some few general Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations," 8vo ibid. 1768. 9. "Observations on the Nature and Consequences of those Injuries to which the Head is liable from external Violence," Svo, ibid. 1768. 10. “Observations on Wounds of the Head," Svo, ibid. 1760 and 1771. 11. “An Account of the Method of obtaining a perfect or radical Cure of the Hydrocele, or Watery Rupture, by Means of a Seton," Svo, ibid. 1771. 12. "Chirurgical Observations relative to the Cataract, the Polypus of the Nose, the Cancer of the Scrotum, the different Kinds of Ruptures, and the Mortification of the Toes and Feet," Svo, London, 1775. All these different works have been collected and published in one volume quarto. (Gent. Mag. vol. XLVIII. p. 1180.)

P. 70. "You will do well," says Mr. Job Orton to Mr. Stedman, "to make Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, translated from the Latin by Dr. Maclaine, familiar to you; as it is, I think, the best on the subject; and Dr. Jortin, who was an excellent judge of a book of that kind, commends it as the most honest, impartial, and comprehensive, of any that he had met with.-Bishop Warburton also says, Mosheim's Compendium is excellent; the method admirable; in short, the only one deserving the name of an Ecclesiastical History." Orton's Letters, vol. I. p. 57.

P. 73, note, l. 12, r. "circumstances."

P. 81. "Having before me Mr. Wood's Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer, I find a period for transcription. The Reader, if he is not too learned, will be pleased to be told, that the Author of it read the Iliad and Odyssey in the countries where Achilles fought, where Ulysses travelled, and where Homer sung. On his return to England he was put into Parliament,

and

and was employed as Secretary to Lord Chatham, and was so much taken up with public business that he could not find leisure to complete Homer's Travels. This manly piece of criticism was posthumous, and published by the most learned Mr. Bryant. "Now, though it must be acknowledged that Mr. Pope is the only translator who has, in a certain degree, kept alive that divine spirit of the Poet, which has almost expired in other hands; yet I cannot help thinking that those who wish to be thoroughly acquainted, either with the manners and characters of Homer's age, or the landscape and geography of his country, will be disappointed if they expect to find them in this translation.' He accounts for this by saying that Pope endeavoured to accommodate his author to the ideas of those for whom he translates.' If Homer is to talk English again, let him do it in prose." Tyers's Historical Rhapsody on Pope, 2d edit. 1782, p. 11i. P. 89, note, 1. 20, dele "House of."

P. 89. "Ashton and Jones."] The former had been Fellow, the latter Servitor, then called Hound, of King's College; of which line none have been since admitted. It was said, that as Jones passed Ashton in the desk, in his way to the pulpit, Ashton desired "that he would preach nothing but sound Doctrine in his pulpit ;" and, on Jones's return, said, "he should like to see that Sermon in print." Jones directly advertised, that it was printed at the request of the Rector." E. J.

P. 92, 1. 2, r. "Precationes."

P. 97, note, I. 23 and 24, for "Crich," r. "Crick."

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P. 97. Dr. Richard Hind was born at Boddington in Northamptonshire in 1715; became a student of Christ Church, Oxford, about 1730; M. A. 1736; B. D. 1745; D.D. 1749; was instituted to the rectory of Shering, Essex, 1754, on the presentation of the College; and collated by Dr. Terrick, Bishop of London, 1766, to the rectory of St. Anne, Soho; both which he vacated in 1778, for the vicarages of Rochdale in Lancashire and Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire. He had long been wearied out at St. Anne's by an unpleasant dispute with the Rev. Thomas Martyn, whom he had in 1769 appointed his Curate; and who in 1777 published An Address to the Inhabitants of St. Anne, Westminster;" of which a full account is given in Gent. Mag. vol. XLVII. p. 281.-Dr. Hind printed three detached Sermons : 1. "The Abuses of miraculous Powers in the Church of Corinth, 1 Cor. xiv. 25; preached before the University; 1755." 2. Before the Sons of the Clergy, Rom. xiv. 16; 1764. 3. Before the House of Commons, Jan. 30, 1765. Of these Sermons Dr. Whitaker, in his excellent "History of Whalley," p. 481, says, "I have not seen the first; and can only say, therefore, that the second and third are excellently written, and would want no advantage of person, deportment, or elocution, in the delivery."Dr. Hind died at Rochdale, and was there buried. His gravestone, within the altar rails, close to that of his predecessor Dr. Thomas Wray, is thus inscribed:

"RICHARD

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