WITHIN THESE WALLS

ARE DEPOSITED

THE REMAINS OF THE REV. EDWARD BOLTON,
RECTOR OF THIS PARISH,

AND CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.

THROUGH A LONG AND VIRTUOUS LIFE

HE MAINTAINED WITH FIRMNESS BUT WITH MILDNESS THE PURE CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN MINISTER; WITH UNBOUNDED TENDERNESS

THE TIES OF CONJUGAL AND PARENTAL AFFECTION; WITH IMPARTIAL JUSTICE THE DIGNITY OF A MAGISTRATE; AND WITH UNSHAKEN CONSTANCY

THE WARMTH OF SINCERE FRIENDSHIP.

RICHARD INGRAM, ESQ.,

A NATIVE OF ST. PAUL'S PARISH, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON,
FORMERLY A MEMBER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD,
AFTERWARDS A STUDENT AT LINCOLN'S INN,

AND FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS

AN INHABITANT OF WHITE LADIES, NEAR WORCESTER,
DIED OCTOBER 20th, 1811,

AGED 63,

AND WAS INTERRED IN THE BURYING-GROUND

OF THIS CHAPEL.

INDEPENDENT IN SPIRIT AS WELL AS FORTUNE,

AND UNAMBITIOUS ALIKE OF STATION AND OF FAME,
HE PREFERRED

THE PURE AND CALM PLEASURES OF A STUDIOUS LIFE,
TO THE BRIGHTEST PROSPECT OF SUCCESS IN THE LAW,
FOR THE PRACTICE OF WHICH

HE HAD BEEN CALLED TO THE BAR IN 1771.

HE WAS A PROFOUND SCHOLAR WITHOUT PEDANTRY,

AN ACUTE CRITIC WITHOUT ACRIMONY,

UNWEARIED IN HIS RESEARCHES

UPON THE MOST INTERESTING SUBJECTS OF THEOLOGY AND ETHICS, UNSHAKEN IN HIS ATTACHMENT

TO THE NOBLEST PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, EXEMPLARY IN UNITING THE DUTIES OF JUSTICE

WITH THE DELICACIES OF HONOUR,

AND ALL THE AMIABLE GRACES OF NATIVE BENEVOLENCE.
SINCERE WITHOUT BIGOTRY

IN THE BELIEF OF A REDEEMER,
AND SERIOUS WITHOUT SUPERSTITION
IN THE WORSHIP OF HIS CREATOR.

ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST, A. D. 1812, DIED AT BRADENHAM, NEAR HIGH-WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, IN THE 85th YEAR OF HER AGE,

ELIZABETH DEALTRY,

ELDEST DAUGHTER OF RICHARD LANGLEY, ESQ.

OF WYKEHAM ABBEY IN YORKSHIRE,

AND RELICT OF JOHN DEALTRY,

ONCE THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED PUPIL

OF THE CELEBRATED DR. BOERHAAVE,

AND AFTERWARDS AN EMINENT PHYSICIAN IN THE CITY OF YORK. THE MEMORY OF THIS EXCELLENT WOMAN WAS RETENTIVE, HER JUDGMENT WAS EXACT,

AND THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH SHE HAD ACQUIRED FROM BOOKS WAS BOTH ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL,

DIFFUSING ITSELF WITHOUT OSTENTATION

OVER THE GAYEST AND MOST SERIOUS SUBJECTS,

AND ADAPTING ITSELF WITHOUT EFFORT

TO THE LIGHTER AND MORE IMPORTANT CONCERNS OF SOCIAL LIFE. HER PENETRATION

INTO THE CHARACTERS OF THOSE WITH WHOM SHE CONVERSED WAS ACUTE, NOT PRECIPITATE :

HER REMARKS

UPON ALL THEIR PROMINENT AND ALL THEIR LATENT VARIETIES WERE LUMINOUS FROM GOOD SENSE,

NOT DAZZLING FROM REFINEMENT:

IN THE DISTINCTIONS WHICH SHE MADE

BETWEEN MERIT AND DEMERIT,

HER UNDERSTANDING

WAS NEITHER MISLED BY PREJUDICE NOR WARPED BY ENVY :

HER PRAISE WAS APPROPRIATE WITHOUT EXAGGERATION,

AND HER CENSURE WAS SIGNIFICANT WITHOUT ASPERITY.

FORMED BY THAT PLAN OF FEMALE EDUCATION

WHICH PREVAILED IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE II.,
HER MANNERS WERE AGREEABLE AND EVEN IMPRESSIVE
FROM DIGNIFIED EASE AND UNIFORM PROPRIETY.

SHE UNITED THE MOST UNRUFFLED TEMPER

WITH THE MOST DELICATE SENSIBILITY.

BY PROMOTING IN HER FAMILY AND HER NEIGHBOURHOOD
THOSE INNOCENT RECREATIONS,

WHICH ARE SUITED TO THE VIVACITY OF YOUTH,
AND THE CHEERFULNESS OF MANHOOD,

SHE THREW AROUND OLD AGE

AN ASPECT AT ONCE AMIABLE AND VENERABLE.
HER MORALS WERE NOT ONLY BLAMELESS BUT EXEMPLARY;
AND, AS HER PRINCIPLES IN RELIGION WERE THE RESULT

OF JUDICIOUS INQUIRY AND FREQUENT MEDITATION,

THEY WERE EXEMPT ALIKE FOM THE WEAKNESS OF SUPERSTITION AND THE REVERIES OF FANATICISM :

THEY SOFTENED THE HEART, WHILE THEY ENLIGHTENED THE HEAD: THEY REGULATED HER ACTIONS IN THIS WORLD,

AND THEY ELEVATED HER HOPES TO A FUTURE AND BETTER STATE.

FOR MORE THAN THE SPACE OF 20 YEARS

SHE WAS AFFLICTED WITH BLINDNESS,

AND FOR 3 YEARS WITH PALSY.

BUT THESE EVILS, WHICH, AMONG THE GENERALITY OF MANKIND, MIGHT HAVE CLOUDED THE BRIGHTNESS OF EVERY JOY,

AND DEEPENED THE GLOOM OF EVERY SORROW,

SHE PRESERVED THE UNIMPAIRED AND READY USE

OF HER INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES,

AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HER CHILDREN, AS READERS TO HER,

SHE OBTAINED FOR HER CURIOSITY

THE CHOICEST GRATIFICATIONS WHICH BOOKS COULD SUPPLY:

SHE WAS RESCUED FROM THE ALTERNATE VICISSITUDES

OF MELANCHOLY AND INQUIETUDE,

WHICH OFTEN ACCOMPANY THE LOSS OF SIGHT

AND DEBILITY OF LIMBS;

AND TO HER HABITS OF OBSERVATION

UPON THE EVENTS OF EARLIER AND HAPPIER TIMES,
SHE DAILY ADDED FRESH STORES OF INFORMATION,
AND FOUND IN THEM FRESH MATERIALS

FOR CALM AND SOLID REFLECTION.

SURROUNDED BY THE RESPECT OF HER ACQUAINTANCE,

BY THE GRATITUDE OF HER DOMESTICS,

BY THE CONFIDENCE OF HER FRIENDS,

AND BY THE MOST TENDER AFFECTION, AND DUTIFUL ATTENTIONS OF AN ELDEST SON, (THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF TWO INFANT BROTHERS) AND ALSO OF TWO DAUGHTERS,

ALL OF WHOM HAD RESIDED WITH HER FROM THEIR YOUTH, AND WHO FELT THEIR OWN HAPPINESS INSEPARABLY CONNECTED WITH THE COMFORTS AND ENJOYMENTS

OF A MOST DESERVING PARENT,

SHE SUNK WITHOUT A STRUGGLE

UNDER THE INSTANTANEOUS AND SILENT STROKE OF THAT DEATH, THE APPROACH OF WHICH SHE HAD LONG CONTEMPLATED

WITH UNFEIGNED AND UNSHAKEN RESIGNATION

TO THE WILL OF HER CREATOR.