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In 1806 or 1807 he became curate of REPLIES:- Groom of the Stole, 410-" Sparrowgrass,' 411-" Kultur "-Author and Correct Version Wanted- Claybrooke, Leicestershire, and in the latter Voltaire in London-Mourning Letter-Paper, 412-Floral Emblems of Countries - "Mid-Keavel" - Periodicals year took the degree of B.D. Henry Ryder, published by Religious Houses, 413-Rectors of Upham successively Bishop of Gloucester (1815-24) and Durley-The Original of Aladdin'- Wilkes and and of Lichfield and Coventry (1824-36), Lord Thurlow, 414-Earls of Derwentwater-Avanzino or Avanzini-De Bruxelles and d'Anvers, 415-Walter Scott was Vicar of Claybrooke from 1806 to -Old Charing Cross-"Boches," 416-Gothic Mason- c. 1808, and to him Kempthorne must have Sculptors-France and England Quarterly, 417-Cross- owed much of his preferment in later years. legged Effigies - The Apocrypha: Story of Judith Brother Johannes"-Will of Mary Kinderley: Peter The inscription on the memorial tablet in Pegge-Burnell-' Chickseed without Chickweed,' 418. Gloucester Cathedral bears testimony to the NOTES ON BOOKS:- The Titled Nobility of Europe'friendship between them. His removal to Berkeley and Percival'. The Scottish Historical Gloucestershire was due to the Bishop's Review.' influence, for in The Pastor's Parting Appeal,' a farewell sermon preached at Claybrooke on Sunday, 16 June, 1816, Kempthorne speaks of having ministered in the parish for the space of nearly nine years, and says that his removal (to Northleach) Notices to Correspondents. Notes. resulted from the proposal and request of one, have given him a right to command what he whose long-continued goodness to me would requested....who, though he has resigned his charge over you, has not ceased to care and to pray for you....Nor have I undertaken the new and arduous trust in his service, to which he has invited....me, without solemn hesitation." He was instituted to the vicarage of Northleach 27 July, 1816, and to Preston 4 Oct., 1817. The latter was resigned in 1820. Kempthorne, in the letter printed below, writes of "Preston Vicarage"; and though I have not been able to trace certainly that this would be Preston, near Ledbury (in the deanery of the Forest), I am strongly of opinion that it is. In the same letter he says he could not officiate at Preston personally; and through the kindness of the present incumbent of Preston, Ledbury, the Rev. Clernent W. Dixon, I learn that all the entries in the registers there during the years 1817-20 are signed by those who style themselves, “curate.” Also, in the Clerical Guide' for 1836 I find that the then incum- St. Michael Rectory, and St. Mary de Grace bents of Preston, near Cirencester, and curacy, Northleach vicarage, Preston vicarage, Wedmore vicarage." Preston-on-Stour had held their livings since 1817 and 1808 respectively, while the institution at Preston, Ledbury, is dated 1820, the year of Kempthorne's resignation. This last, though now a rectory, in 1836 was a vicarage, and until that year the deaneries of N. and S. Forest were in the archdeaconry of Hereford. In 1816 Kempthorne was also appointed Chaplain to the Infirmary at Gloucester. Northleach Vicarage was badly dilapidated, and, though repaired and enlarged at a cost to himself of 343l., was too small for his large family (most of whom were born at Claybrooke, and some buried there), and to meet the requirements of the pupils whom he took in order to add to his income; he therefore asked for and received permission, approved in the licences of two successive bishops," to reside near to or in Gloucester. In 1818 he was living at Maisemore, a village on the Severn about two miles from Gloucester, and two years later had taken up residence in the city, where he apparently lived until his death. In 1820 he became curate of St. Nicholas's 66 and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester. From 1822 to 1826 he was curate of St. Aldate's, Gloucester, which he resigned in 1826 on receiving the living of St. Michael's, to which he was instituted on 12 December of that year. Kempthorne received the prebend of Ufton Decani in the diocese of Lichfield in 1825, and at this time continued his duties as chaplain to Ryder, now Bishop of Lichfield. Together with Northleach and the chaplaincy of Gloucester Infirmary he thus held St. Michael's, Gloucester, and his prebend at Lichfield. This gave rise to an attack upon him, his name being included in a List of Pluralists printed in The Times of 19 June, 1832. Against his name were included Preston vicarage and the curacy of St. Mary (de Grace), Gloucester-the first of which he had resigned, and the second never held. This was answered by an interesting letter to The Times of 14 Aug., 1832, defending his position, and clearing himself from any suspicion of making undue profit from the Church. The biographical particulars given in this letter make it worth reprinting in a more accessible form : This has been copied elsewhere, and accompanied with no small measure of gratuitous abuse. I was ordained in 1802, continued a hardworking curate till 1816; in that year became vicar of Northleach; found the vicarage-house paired, and sufficiently, but not more than scarcely fit for a labouring man to live in; resufficiently, enlarged it, sinking 3431. out of my own pocket; and since 1830, when the debt on the building was entirely liquidated, by large annual this benefice, after paying my curate 1201. per deductions from my income, have received from annum (besides other usual deductions), about 1307. per annum. In 1816 I was also appointed chaplain, at a salary of 40l. per annum (this you omit, erring by defect as well as by excess), to the General Inin a curacy in that city, I may say, without firmary at Glocester; in which office, as well as arrogance, that I was still a hard-working clergyman. I also took pupils to support a family of 9 and ere long 10 children; and the vicarage house at Northleach, when finished in 1819, being too small for this purpose, I continued on that account, and in consequence of the inadequacy of my income, without pupils, for my large family, and for other reasons, approved in the licences of two successive bishops, to reside near to or in Glocester. it. To the rectory of St. Michael's Glocester, distant 19 miles from Northleach, I was presented in 1826, and have been constantly resident on also my assistant at the Infirmary, 801. per annum, After I have paid my curate here, who is it has produced me about 1401. per annum, subject, however, to other usual deductions; and both my curate and myself are bona fide labourers in this sphere. Of St. Mary de Grace I am not curate; have nothing to do with it either by presentation, or collation, or any other form of appointment. It is a very small contiguous parish, merely attached to St. Michael's so far as to provide for its inonly produces me annually three guineas for habitants the rites of burial, baptism, &c.; and pew-rents, besides some very few surplice fees; which items are included in the 1407. from St. Michael's. Wedmore Vicarage, Somersetshire, I never held. It belongs to my eldest son, John Kempthorne, jun., whom also I may reckon a laborious pastor, and who, in fact, is now suffering from overexertion. |