TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES CHAPMAN, WHO WAS BORN IN NORWICH, AUGUST 8th, 1725, THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW, TWO SONS, AND THREE DAUGHTERS, IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR GRATITUDE FOR HIS KINDNESS, AND THEIR RESPECT FOR HIS VIRTUES. HE CARRIED ON THE TRADE OF AN UPHOLSTERER FOR 34 YEARS BY UNWEARIED DILIGENCE, BY SOUND ECONOMY, AND BY THE MOST INFLEXIBLE INTEGRITY, HE ACCUMULATED A FORTUNE WHICH ENABLED HIM TO RETIRE FROM THE TOILS AND CARES OF BUSINESS IN 1790. HE WAS SUPPORTED UNDER THE INFIRMITIES OF AGE BY THE ADVANTAGES OF A WELL-EARNED COMPETENCY, AND HE WAS PREPARED FOR THE APPROACH OF DEATH BY THE REMEMBRANCE OF A WELL-SPENT LIFE. THIS TABLET IS CONSECRATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL. D. BY HIS AFFECTIONATE CONGREGATION, IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR GRATITUDE FOR HIS FAITHFUL ATTENTION AND FOR HIS PECULIAR DILIGENCE IN TRAINING UP THEIR YOUTH TO RATIONAL PIETY AND GENUINE VIRTUE; OF THEIR RESPECT FOR HIS GREAT AND VARIOUS TALENTS, WHICH WERE UNIFORMLY DIRECTED TO THE NOBLEST PURPOSES; AND OF THEIR VENERATION FOR THE PURE, BENEVOLENT, AND HOLY PRINCIPLES, AND IN THE AWFUL HOUR OF DEATH, OF A BLESSED IMMORTALITY. HIS DISCOVERIES AS A PHILOSOPHER WILL NEVER CEASE TO BE REMEMBERED AND ADMIRED BY THE ABLEST IMPROVERS OF SCIENCE. HIS FIRMNESS AS AN ADVOCATE OF LIBERTY, AND HIS SINCERITY AS AN EXPOUNDER OF THE SCRIPTURES, OF HIS ENLIGHTENED AND UNPREJUDICED CONTEMPORARIES. WILL BE INSTRUCTIVE TO THE WISE, AND INTERESTING TO THE GOOD HE WAS BORN AT FIELDHEAD, NEAR LEEDS, IN YORKSHIRE, WAS CHOSEN A MINISTER OF THIS CHAPEL, DEC. 31st, 1780, DIED AT NORTHUMBERLAND TOWN IN PENSYLVANIA, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE LLOYD, ESQ. LATE OF MANCHESTER, BARRISTER, WHO DIED AT BATH OCTOBER THE 12th, 1804, IN THE 55th YEAR OF HIS AGE. THIS EXCELLENT MAN WAS LONG AND JUSTLY ENDEARED TO HIS FAMILY, BY TENDERNESS AS A HUSBAND, AND KINDNESS AS A FATHER; TO HIS ACQUAINTANCE, BY THE GENTLENESS OF HIS TEMPER, AND THE SUAVITY OF HIS MANNERS; AND TO HIS NUMEROUS AND RESPECTABLE FRIENDS, BY THE ARDOUR, THE SINCERITY, AND THE STEADINESS OF HIS ATTACHMENTS. IN THE APPLICATION OF HIS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TO THE CHaracters oF MEN AND THE EVENTS OF LIFE, HE PRESERVED THAT RARE AND HAPPY UNION OF CORRECTNESS AND LIBERALITY, COMPREHENSIVE FROM REFLECTION, AND VIRTUOUS FROM PRINCIPLE. IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS PROFESSIONAL DUTIES HIS CONVERSATION WAS AT ONCE AGREEABLE AND INSTRUCTIVE, FROM THE QUICKNESS AND VARIETY OF HIS CONCEPTIONS, THE ACUTENESS AND ACCURACY OF HIS REASONING, AND THE PERSPICUITY, EXACTNESS, AND ELEGANCE OF HIS DICTION. HIS PATRIOTISM WAS NEITHER WARPED BY PREJUDICE, NOR TAINTED BY FACTION, NOR STAGGERED BY REAL OR IMAGINARY DANGER. HIS BENEVOLENCE WAS ENLARGED WITHOUT SINGULARITY, AND ACTIVE WITHOUT OSTENTATION. HIS FORTITUDE WAS ALIKE UNSHAKEN BY THE PRESSURE OF A LINGERING AND COMPLICATED DISEASE, THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF PROGRESSIVE AND INCURABLE BLINDNESS, AND THE EXPECTATION OF APPROACHING DEATH. CATHERINE JANE PARR, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND JANE PARR, WAS BORN AT NORWICH, JUNE 13th, 1782, DIED AT EAST TEIGNMOUTH, DEVON, NOV. 22nd, 1805, AND ON DECEMBER 9th WAS BURIED IN THIS CHANCEL, WHERE THE REMAINS OF HER AFFLICTED PARENTS WILL HEREAFTER BE DEPOSITED, AT THE REQUEST OF A MOST BELOVED CHILD, AT THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST TO LIFE EVERLASTING. QUAE. TEMPLO. CATHERINA. IN. HOC. SEPULTA. MORUM. COMMODITATE. COPULAVIT NAM VITAE. COMITES. BONAE. FUERUNT EST MRS. SARAH ANNE WYNNE, THE INGENIOUS AND BELOVED DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND JANE PARR, WAS BORN AT STANMORE IN MIDDLESEX, DIED AT HATTON, JULY 8th, 1810, AND WAS INTERRED ON THE 18th IN THIS CHANCEL, BETWEEN THE REMAINS OF HER SISTER CATHARINE JANE PARR AND HER THIRD DAUGHTER MADALINA WYNNE, AGED TWO YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS, AND NINE DAYS. |