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Excerpt from Life of James Mursell Phillippo: Missionary in Jamaica
James phillippo was born in the little market town of East Dereham, Norfolk, on the i4th October, 1798. East Dereham contains some inhabitants, and is not altogether undistinguished in English history. The famous Bonner was rector of the parish before he entered on his sanguinary career as Bishop of London. More pleasant associations attach to the memory of the poet Cowper, who, towards the close of his sorrowful, yet not altogether unhappy, life, resided here. His earthly te mains have their resting-place in the church, and the monument which marks the spot was erected by his attached friend Lady Hesketh, the almost forgotten poet Hayley supplying the epitaph. It was from Mrs. Ann Bodham, his cousin and a resident in Dereham, that Cowper received his mother's picture, and from which sprang one of the finest poems in the English language. The site of Cowper's residence is now occupied by an Independent chapel. George Borrow, a native of Dereham, and a contemporary of Mr. Phillippo, calls their common birthplace the pattern of an English country town, lying in picturesque fashion, pretty and quiet, along the borders of the little stream which gives fertility to the valley through which it runs.
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