History of Hull (Annales Regioduni Hullini) . ination to a lifethat opened so fair, and with such promifing anticipations. An unyielding and irascible temper doubtless produced manybitter fruits, still we cannot but admire the fimple piety, the hon-esty of principle, and the unswerving loyalty that characterisedthe man. He was generous even to a fault, and would oftenprotect and relieve, in distress, those who had shown themselveshis greatest enemies. In the last years of his life, as he saw the things that are shaken totter and fall, there is no doubt butthat he learned to plant his feet more
History of Hull (Annales Regioduni Hullini) . ination to a lifethat opened so fair, and with such promifing anticipations. An unyielding and irascible temper doubtless produced manybitter fruits, still we cannot but admire the fimple piety, the hon-esty of principle, and the unswerving loyalty that characterisedthe man. He was generous even to a fault, and would oftenprotect and relieve, in distress, those who had shown themselveshis greatest enemies. In the last years of his life, as he saw the things that are shaken totter and fall, there is no doubt butthat he learned to plant his feet more firmly, beyond the wavesof time, upon the Eternal rock, among the things that cannotbe shaken. We have no circumstantial account of his death, which tookplace at his house in Petergate, on the 19th of May, 1778. Hewas in the 87th year of his age. The ^ld man sleeps in thefilent shade of the Church of St. Michacl-lc-Belfrey,—Wherethe wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest. Grammar School, Hull, GEO. OHLSON. May, 1* t m t m ®®»®s 6 /? ?en*. .V, //^. IS - .J
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