loss of his favourite,
and, in my opinion, never did he quite get over it; he not only loved,
but was proud of him.

The latter years of him, whose life I have thus briefly sketched, were
past at his small country residence, situated at Lakenham, where his
second wife, who survived him, my mother, now seventy-four, still
resides, a hamlet of and situate two miles from Norwich, where he spent
the chief of his time, of that he could spare from the city where he
practised, till up to the last twelve months of his life, when in his
eighty-fourth year he expired, worn out with past exertion and years, and
was, as chief Coroner and Magistrate of the Close and its precincts,
under the jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter, buried within the
cloisters of the cathedral.

By his family, from his sweetness of disposition, kindness of heart, and
amiability of temper, he was tenderly beloved and regretted, and still
whenever recalled to memory in the quietude of the chamber the eye will
ever be moistened by a tear, and the heart kindle at the recollection;
and by many others he was and will be yet greatly missed; the poor and
struggling literary man he would encourage not only with praise, but with
his purse, and, THAT, the poor and needy had ever open to them, and his
advice besides gratuitously, whenever required (and this might be
confirmed by hundreds still living "in the ONCE ancient city," as a
certain wise Alderman of yore styled it), and to their affairs he would
give as much attention as to the richest client; his private memoranda
alone, after death, told his good deeds, for he strictly adhered to the
beautiful doctrine laid down by the great Teacher, "But when thou doest
alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth,"--"_Quando
ullum invenies parem_?"

Of his first family, Charles, the eldest son, was intended for the bar,
and was entered at Lincoln's Inn, but from the natural sensitiveness of
his disposition he never kept his terms, and soon gave up all thoughts of
the profession; he lingered at home, a Westminster scholar, a man of
extensive reading, and of great intelligence [as I have been informed,
for I was much too young fully to appreciate him], till after many years,
on Henry's quitting Bermudas, he became the secretary to Sir James
Cockburn, in which employment he continued some years, and only returned
when Sir James ceased to be the governor. He then became a kind of
superior clerk in the Mari