Synopsis

Mt brother was torn on the 18th of September, 1821 at TJfiBngton, in Berkahire, of ?which your great-grandfather was vicar. Uffijigton was then a very primitive village, far away from any li^b road, and seven miles &om Wante^, the nearest town from wliich a coach ran to Xondon. There were very few neigbbonrs, the roads were almost imable for carriages in the winter, and the livii^ was a poor one; but your great-grandiather (who was a Canon of St. Paul's) had exchanged a much richer living for it, because his wife had been bom there, and was deeply attached to the place.