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Durham and the Vicinage, devotes upwards of twenty pages to his biography; and last, but not least, Serjeant Atkinson supplies a lengthened account of Gilpin's life in the Worthies of which, however, contains little that is not embodied in Gilpin's book.

I do not attempt to enumerate other minor efforts at perpetuating Gilpin's fame it is clear enough that he has not gone unrecorded.

Then why write another Life? I will make no elaborate apology, but only say that most of the books referred to are not easily attainable; that the present season of his tercentenary is a proper one for recalling Gilpin's memory; and that possibly my readers will find that in the present work Gilpin's life has some little new light thrown upon it. I add nothing more on this point, except that if it should be my privilege by means of these Memoirs, - to a large extent the fruits of an autumn holiday in a quiet little village in Norfolk, - to draw renewed at tention to one of the worthies of England, and by his example to encourage any of the present gene ration to be gentle and true, to be daring and faithful, I shall not have written in vain.

The Gilpins are a remarkable family during three or four centuries they have been producing able and valuable men, and probably the vigour of the stock is not yet exhausted.

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