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Rh ing of the 14th January 1753, he expired suddenly and painlessly in the midst of his family. And thus quietly closed one of the purest and most beautiful lives on record. His remains were deposited in Christ Church, Oxford.

1em 1em 1em 1em  BERKHAMPSTEAD,, a market-town of Eng land, in the county of Herts, 26 miles N.W. of London, on the Junction Canal and the North-Western Railway. It has a spacious cruciform church, with a tower of the 16th century, a market-house, erected in 1860, which in cludes a corn exchange and a library, a grammar school, a free school, several almshouses, a jail, &amp;lt;tc. Straw-plaiting and the manufacture of small wooden wares are the prin cipal industries. The town is of considerable antiquity, and was one of the royal residences under the Mercian kings, a distinction which it again enjoyed under Henry II. The castle, at that time a fortress of some importance, was bestowed on the Black Prince, and since then the manor has remained an apanage of the successive princes of 