refpect to his fon (the late Dr. G) who was then an infant of fix years old, by whose premature decease, became not only a minor, but an orphan, his mother being dead before. The lofs of both parents at fuch an age, can only be felt by thofe who have fortunately lived to experience the tenderness of parents till the time of manhood. How frequently do we see the fortune, property and profperity of a family, fall into ruin, where the protecting care of a fond, indulgent, and confiderate father is wanting to fupport it! His father, the late Rev. JOHN G-D-N-R, LL. D. was born in the first year of Queen Anne, Anno Dni. 1702. In 1729, he was prefented to the rectory of Brunstead in the hundred of Happing and County of Norfolk, by the right honourable William Neville, Lord Abergavenny; and in the year 1731, he was licenced Rector, or perpetual Curate, of St. Giles, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter, and Curate of St. Gregory, both in the city of Norwich. In the faid year, 1731, he was prefented to the valuable rectory of Maffingham Magna St. Mary, with All Saints, by that munificent patron, Sir Robert Walpole, knight of the garter, firft lordcommiffioner of the Treasury, and prime minifter to George I. and II. univerfally acknowledged the greatest statefinan of the age he lived in. He was Doctor of Laws in the University of Cambridge, and domeftic Chaplain to the Earl of Orford. Sir William Yonge, in a copy of verfes which he wrote, November 17, 1731, and fent to Lady Orford, then on a vifit at the feat of Sir Henry Bedingfield at Oxburgh-Hall, while the noble Earl was entertaining his illuftrious friends at Houghton; he mentions the worthy Doctor amongst the other guests in the following lines. "Next G-D-N-R, Chaplain to our hoft, DR. G-D-N-R was married October 6, 1722, to a daughter of JOHN TURNER, Efq. of SaffronWalden in the county of Effex. She died at Great Maffingham, October 10, 1759. THE Doctor lived the much-respected rector of this church near forty years, until the 15th of November, 1770, when, to the unspeakable grief of his family and friends, he departed this life, Etat. 68. His remains were interred in the chancel of Great Maffingham, by the altar, next to the grave of his late affectionate wife, and tender parent to her children. His pall was fupported by fix of the neighbouring clergy, whofe concern in that laft melancholy office, was alone exceeded by the poignant feelings of thofe more nearly allied. OVER the grave-ftone, near the altar, is the following infcription: H. S. E. JOHANNES GARDINER, L L. D. Per triginta annos et Amplius Hujus Ecclefia RECTOR. THE foregoing was found after his decease, in his own hand writing, and was therefore put upon the ftone in preference to any other infcription. Ob. Novem. 15 Die 1770, atat. 68. Lapidam Clariffimo Patri Ricardus Filius Superftes Marens Pofuit. MDCCLXXI. A hatchment is over the grave-ftone, with the arms of Gardiner and Turner, THE late Dr. G-D-N-R was a man univerfally refpected throughout life; a man of learning, and a gentleman: his excellent difcourfes in the pulpit proclaimed him to be the firft; his addrefs and affability out of it, to be the laft. With spirit, ease, and elegance to tell The rules for judging and for acting well. He was a moft tender parent to his children, an afectionate hufband; a humane man to all! the tears of his parishioners at his funeral, bore an honourable teftimony of his virtues, HE, like his father, was univerfally esteemed and perfonally beloved wherever he refided: this is no flattery, but juftice to his memory; his many charitable acts endeared him to the poor; his cafy and friendly deportment to the rich, and his strict attention to his paftoral and religious duties, acquired him the refpect of all, Vivit poft Funera Virtus. His children followed the military profeffion of their grandfather: he lived to furvive two of his fons, who died in the fervice of their country; and the fame military fpirit defcended to his grandchildren, one of whom was killed in America, and two now remain in the army. "Their grandfire's trufty fword they long'd to wield, While guns, drums, trumpets, call them to the field. DR2 DR. G-D-N-R had, by TURNER, his wife, many children, of whom only four lived to the age of twenty-one years, and of which two only furvived their much-lamented parents. 1. RICHARD, of whom we have to speak more at large. 2. JOHN, who died at fea, in the command of the Bedford man of war of seventy guns, and was buried off the Rock of Lifbon, February 8, 1747. 3. WILLIAM, who ferved with his eldest brother at the fiege of Guadelupe, in the Weft Indies, and was Lieutenant of the 4th regiment of foot: he died at fea, on his passage home from the English garrifon in the citadel of Baffe-Terre, Guadelupe, and was buired off the ifland of St. Kitt's, in July 1761. 4. MARGARET, married to the Rev. THOMAS MONEY, Rector of Bracon-Afh in Norfolk, and of Stratford in Suffolk, by whom she had two fons, both in the fervice; Thomas the eldeft, born Oct. 16, 1752, now a Captain in the 69th regiment employed in the Weft Indies, and lately on the conqueft of St. Euftatia, one of the Carribbee islands belonging to the Dutch: the second son, JOHN, named after his grandfather Dr. JOHN G-D-N-R, born December 8, 1756, was a Lieutenant in the |