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viction that the welfare and very salvation of England depend mainly, under Divine Providence, on the improvement of education, and that the only way of bringing about such an improvement is to raise the character and qualifications of Schoolmasters, concurred in pointing out that the erection of a building for the Training School at Chichester, to be called 'Bishop Otter's School,' would be the fittest memorial. A sum of at least two thousand pounds was named, as that required to carry the purpose into effect in a manner worthy of the diocese, and of him whom it is proposed to honour.""

The late Duke of Gordon.

The Duchess of Gordon in 1839, caused a magnificent building to be commenced at Huntly as a school for the education of the children of the poor in that neighbourhood, to perpetuate the memory of the late lamented Duke, her husband. The building, which is on an extensive scale, when finished, will not have cost less than 3,000l."

Testimonial in memory of the late Venerable

Archdeacon Cambridge.

"An address was put forth some months since by a Committee expressive of the reverence and affection in which the character of this excellent man was

" Extracted from the circular, signed by the Earl of Chichester, as acting Chairman of the Committee.

universally held by all who knew him, and proposing a subscription for a monument in the new District Church on Twickenham-common, towards the erection of which he gave the most efficient assistance.

"Subsequently, the suggestion of numerous friends has been adopted by the Committee, that the form of testimonial should be changed, and that, instead of the proposed monument, a national school, to be called Archdeacon Cambridge's School,' should be erected, adjoining the new Church, for the poor of the district, as being more in accordance with the simplicity of character and well-known wishes of him, whose memory it is the object to honour."

Memorial to the late Edward Cludde, Esq., of
Orleton, Salop, April 1841.

"At a meeting of tenants and friends of the late Edward Cludde, Esq., of Orleton, Salop, for the purpose of testifying their respect for his memory, and their sense of the great loss which the parish of Wrockwardine and the neighbourhood have sustained by the death of so kind a landlord, and so excellent a man, it appeared to be the general feeling that two Almshouses, built at the entrance of the village of Wrockwardine, and endowed for the support of two aged widows, would form the most suitable memorial of one so compassionately mindful of the poor and friendless."

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The following inscription is intended to be placed on the front of the Almshouses :

These Almshouses, erected in the year of our Lord, 1841, and endowed for the maintenance of two poor women in their declining years, are dedicated to the memory of Edward Cludde, Esq., late of Orleton, in this parish, by his tenants and neighbours, in testimony of their respect for a man who was an eminent example of pure and undefiled religion, visiting the fatherless, and widows in their affliction, and keeping himself unspotted from the world."

The following may be given as examples of another class of Memorials, which are alluded to at page 50:

Chichester Cathedral.

An Obituary window, as it may be termed, of painted glass, is about to be placed at the east end of the south aisle of Chichester Cathedral, by a Dignitary of that Church, as a memorial of a near relation; and the good example thus set, is about to be followed by the introduction of a second large painted window in the same Cathedral on a like principle. The author has been assured, [and it is a high gratification to him to have learned the fact from the best authority,] that his Letter on Sepulchral Memorials suggested the idea to the respected individual referred to.

Wyke Regis, Dorsetshire.

"A large window in this Church has lately been filled with stained glass, under circumstances, which cannot fail to afford great satisfaction and encouragement to all who love our beautiful old Churches, and would see them restored, as far as may be, to something of their former splendour and propriety.

"In the course of the last year, a sepulchral monument was on the point of being erected by a gentleman, to the memory of a deceased relative; when it was suggested by his rector, that some painted glass might serve all the purpose of a memorial, and at the same time be a considerable ornament to the Church. A beautiful altar window, executed by Mr. Willement, has just been completed; and it is likely to be followed by another for the same Church, and by the same able hands, under precisely similar circumstances."

Gent.'s Mag., January 1842, p. 72.

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The Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker, L.L.D., F.S.A. Vicar of Whalley.

WHILST referring to the works of Whitaker, the author cannot but express his feelings of admiration and respect towards one of the most original thinkers, one of the most sagacious antiquaries, and one of the most powerful and elegant writers of his day. To strong common sense Dr. Whitaker added sound scholarship-every topic was touched by him with consummate talent-no one could detect a fallacy more quickly, or expose it with more keenness and ability.

His style is singularly happy, uniting force with elegance. By a few well-selected words he presented to the mind a finished picture; and, whatever might be the subject of the work, he wisely rendered it subservient to the great interests of religion and morality.

True it is that different faculties are given to different men. In Dr. Whitaker the " painful accuracy" essential to a topographer was occasionally