Wrington, of the name of Box, attended him in his last illness. His old servant, John Dolman, died

about a year ago. Several old people remember

him. When the new church was built at Blagdon, in 1821 or 1822, his supposed remains and those of his first wife were found, and reburied under the altar. A letter was sent in vain to his daughter respecting the monument; but the present worthy and accomplished rector, the Rev. D. G. Wait, saved it from destruction, and replaced it at his own expense.

In the frontispiece of the edition of his works by his son, published in 1804, there is an engraved portrait of him from an original picture in the possession of Mrs. A. L. Edridge. Had we found it without a name we should have pronounced it to be the portrait of Prior. Those who remember Dr. Langhorne describe him as a middle-sized, stout

man.

The only monument in Blagdon Church is the one already alluded to; it bears the following

Juscription.

"In memory of Ann, the wife of John Langhorne, D.D., Rector of this Parish, and daughter of Robert Cracroft, Esqre., of Hackthorne, in Lincolnshire, one of the most amiable and most accomplished women of her time, who, fifteen months after her marriage, died in childbed, May 4th, 1768, Æ. 32, leaving behind her an only son, named John Theodosius, and a husband the most unhappy, as her unequalled affection had made him the happiest, of men.

"With Sappho's taste and Arria's tender heart,
Lucretia's honour and Cecilia's art,

That such a woman died surprise can't give;

'Tis only strange that such a one should live.

"This monument was erected by her most affectionate husband, whose remains will shortly be added to hers, and inclosed beneath this marble in the same grave.

"Dearest and best of women, we shall meet again."

Richard Burn*.

HONORARY DOCTOR OF LAWS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD;

HONORARY FREEMAN OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH;

CHANCELLOR OF THE DIOCESE OF CARLISLE, ETC.

HE historian of Westmorland and Cumberland,

the author of the Justice of the Peace, and of the Ecclesiastical Law, is entitled to an exalted rank among the worthies of his native county-of the empire at large.

The bleak, straggling little village of Winton has the honour of being his birthplace. John and William Langhorne, our readers will remember, were born and brought up at the same place.

His father was a statesman, or yeoman of great respectability and substantial fortune. He married

* There is a portrait of him in the possession of his kinsman, Mr. Milner, the Vicar of Penrith.

a widow of the name of Atkinson* (with a family by her former husband), and had by her, Richard, the subject of the present memoir; and Michael, from whom descended Richard Burn, late rector of KirkAndrews-on-Eden, and Margaret Burn, the wife of the Rev. Robert Milner, late vicar of Orton, and, let us add, the mother of our kind and able friend, the Rev. William Milner, the present vicar of Penrith.

The Kirkby-Stephen parish register is this:

"Augt. 1710. Rich, son of Rich Burn, of Winton. "B. 9."

The letters, B: 9. in the margin mean born in 1709. The house in which he was born, more than a century ago, became the property of the Monkhouse family, and thence passed to a person of the name of Adamthwaite (of Hellenic Institute or Dotheboys Hall notoriety), to whose devisees in trust for sale it now belongs. The present occupier is a woman of the name of Ritson, who is said to have a life interest in it under the Doctor's will.

Burn was educated at the school of his native placet. And here again we have to remark another instance of the glorious effects of a classical education in our village schools, before the Muses were driven from their accustomed haunts by the harsh

* Hence the author's connection with the family; hence also that of the late Mr. Waller, of Appleby, whose mother's maiden name was Margaret Atkinson.

It is endowed to a small amount. See 1 Burn (Winton).

and wild slogan of the sprites of trade*. Who was master of the school at this time, tradition sayeth not. If a tree is to be judged by its fruits, how good that tree which has produced such fruits as it has done in Richard Burn, in John and William Langhorne! Divinity has consecrated it; the Genius of Poetry has winged it for the future; and the Spirit of Law has pronounced judgment in its favour over many a rival claim.

From school he went to Queen's College, Oxford; he entered there as batler, March 1, 1729. But, beyond his bare matriculation, his college life is a mystery; there is no other trace of him on the college books. The university, when his reputation was established, conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D.; but it is clear that he never graduated proprio Marte, nor was more on the [old] Foundation than batler; indeed, there is a general, and, seemingly, a well-grounded belief that he did not, for some reason or other, stay long in college.

We have no sure trace of him again until 1735, when we find him a curate at Bongate, where he remained about a year. In 1736 he went to Orton, as curate to Mr. Nelson, to whom he soon succeeded in the vicarage, and where he spent the remainder of his days. As the right of presentation to this vicarage has of late caused much litigation, and no little confusion of good and evil passions, we cannot * Vol. i. p. 147.

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