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Published by R.B. Seeley & W.Burnside, Fleet Street, April 7. 1834.

OR

MEMOIRS

OF THE LATE

REV. BASIL WOODD, M. A.

RECTOR OF DRAYTON BEAUCHAMP, BUCKS,

AND MINISTER OF BENTINCK CHAPEL, ST. MARYLEBONE.

AND OF SEVERAL DECEASED MEMBERS
OF HIS FAMILY.

THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED."

ANA

PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE :
AND SOLD BY L. B. SEELEY AND SONS;
AND JAMES NISBET, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXIV.

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L. B. SEELEY AND SONS, THAMES DITTON, SURREY.

PREFACE.

IN a conversation which took place between the reverend individual whose history it is here proposed to record, and a clerical friend who frequently visited him during his last illness; it was ascertained that memoirs of several branches of his family were in a state of preparation for the press, which, including one or two that had already appeared in the pages of the Christian Observer, he had intended presenting to the world, in a small volume; as a memorial of his gratitude to the Great Giver of all good, for the privilege of having been permitted to see so many of his dearest connexions live and die in the faith and peace of the gospel. On a hope being expressed that some similar memorial of his own interesting life would also be found, he replied, that he had always kept a diary in which he entered the passing occurrences of the day, even to the state of the atmosphere, and the name of every casual visitor, but that he had not recorded much of his own spiritual feelings; that he had done this very minutely in early life; but finding, that in the ardour of his youthful impressions, he had expressed himself in language too highly wrought, and described his hopes and joys in terms which he thought sobriety would scarcely justify-he had long ago destroyed the record.'

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