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 SIR BROOKE BOOTIIBY. 183

The bereaved father was one of the benefactors of Lichfield Cathedral, and a testimony is there recorded to the zeal and generosity with which he obtained for it, in 1802, while travelling in Germany, specimens of the most splendid stained glass, executed in the six teenth century, illustrating a variety of Scripture sub jects, and sufficient to fill seven large windows. This Cathedral, and its monuments, seemed in a state of good preservation, and many of its epitaphs were of singular excellence. Among the latter we noticed one to Dr. Samuel Johnson, accompanied by a marble bust of the great man, whose nativity Lichfield is proud to claim.

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