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and devoted life, of whom we are glad to have

these unaffected 'memorials." From a blameless youth up to an old age which all respected, Henry William Burrows spent his days in doing good. He received his education at Merchant Taylors' School, from which he went up to St. John's, Oxford, in 1833, being then only seventeen years of age. (There is an error, we cannot but think, in Miss Wordsworth's account of the school arrangements.

"If a boy got early into a certain position in the school, he became almost sure of a scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, which then also naturally led to a fellowship. Henry got into that Form when he was eleven." A boy had to enter not higher than what was called the "Upper Division." He would then move on by competition till he got into the Head Form. It was there, not in the lower form, that seniority began to act.) He took a first in classics and a second in mathematlaics in 1837, but did not "become a Fellow of his College,"--that he had been at his first going up. Academical life did not attract him. As soon as he was of proper age he took a curacy in Yorkshire. His most active period of clerical life was when he was Perpetual Curate at Christ Church, Albany Street, 1850-78. Here he took the courageously disinterested course of abolishing pew-rents. The endowment was 437 per annum and a house ; the pew-rents averaged 41,500, of which 4600 went to the clergyman, but bur- dened by the stipends of two curates. It is satisfactory to hear that his "income did not suffer much." For a few years he was Vicar of Edmonton, and for the last eleven years of his life Canon of Rochester (his living he resigned, BO that his residence was con- tinuous). Everywhere he made himself beloved, showing himself one of the truest and best of men.