The Table book; . on. You will find him grey andblind, sitting among old ruins, and Deathstanding, dim, behind. Mr. Cole copies several monumental in-scriptions within the church, chiefly inmemory of the Hervey family, and oneespecially on his favourite, viz.:— HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF THE REV. JAMES HERVEY, A. M. LATE RECTOR OF THIS PARISH : THAT VERY PIOUS MANAND MUCH ADMIRED AUTHOR! WHO DIED DEC. 25th J738 IN THE 45th year OF HIS AGE. Reader expect no more to make him knownVain the fond Elegy and fijfurd Stone,A name more lasting shall his Writings give ;There view displayed his heavenly Sou
The Table book; . on. You will find him grey andblind, sitting among old ruins, and Deathstanding, dim, behind. Mr. Cole copies several monumental in-scriptions within the church, chiefly inmemory of the Hervey family, and oneespecially on his favourite, viz.:— HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF THE REV. JAMES HERVEY, A. M. LATE RECTOR OF THIS PARISH : THAT VERY PIOUS MANAND MUCH ADMIRED AUTHOR! WHO DIED DEC. 25th J738 IN THE 45th year OF HIS AGE. Reader expect no more to make him knownVain the fond Elegy and fijfurd Stone,A name more lasting shall his Writings give ;There view displayed his heavenly Soul, and live Such are the lines on the tomb of theauthor of the Meditations among theTombs ; Reflections on a Flower Garden ;and Contemplations on the Night, and onthe Starry Heavens. He was buried underthe middle of the communion-table in thechancel: when his body was conveyed tothe church it was covered, according to hisexpress desire, with the poors pall. Hewas the mosl popular rector of Weston THE TABLE HEEVEYS BIETH-PLACE AT HAKDINGSTOK In this bouse (the representation of whichIS derived from Mr. Coles History of Wes-ton Favell) the author of the Meditationsfirst saw light. He was instructed by hismother in reading till the age of seven,and then sent to the free grammar-schoolat Northampton, where he remained tillseventeen, at which age his father placedhim at Lincoln college, Oxford, and therehe resided seven years, and gained an ex-hibition of twenty pounds. In 1736 hereturned to his father, who was then recturof Weston Favell, and became his May, 1737, he succeeded the celebratedGeorge Whitefield in the curacy of Dum-mer, Hampshire, and in about a twelve-month removed to Stoke Abbey, Devon,where he lived with his friend, Mr. Orchard,upwards of two years. In 1739 he ac-cepted the curacy of Bideford, which heretained till his final settlement at WestonFavell, where he To ampler plenitude and sweeter daysProceeded hourly. It was in Herveys native parish,
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