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Excerpt from Memoirs of Francis Kerril Amherst, D. D: Lord Bishop of Northampton
It should be borne in mind that, many of the Bishop's letters being addressed to near relatives, some of the expressions used are of a playful and familiar type, as we might expect, and it has been thought well to retain them as being truer to life, rather than change them for others which would make the Bishop appear of a colder and more formal character.
From the large number of people of interest with whom the Bishop was connected or become acquainted, and from the duties of his station having brought him into contact with some of the principal events of modern times, the life of Dr Amherst has an interest for a far larger share of readers than would ordinarily be the case.
N o attempt has been made to introduce the Bishop's literary works into his life, though among them exists a collection of short poems or sonnets of great elegance and beauty, which were printed for private circulation.
A few notes have been appended, either throwing light upon passages in the work from later writers or giving some account of persons of interest incidentally mentioned, or of families who, having bravely kept the faith through ages of persecution and handed it on to ourselves in whose time that persecution is principally of the social order, are becoming extinct amongst us. For these last the cultured and chivalric must ever feel the deepest veneration and sympathy, regarding their memory as enshrined in a sacred halo, their pious words as the counsels of saints, and their heroic deeds as an example to be fol lowed; and, more, many a prayer will take its flight to heaven for peace and rest to their souls, many a blessing, spiritual and temporal, be the reward of such pious orisons.
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