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place with some strong stones, and put a large stone over it, with an inscription, — and you may tell the story if you please.." The Latin text reads AQVA. EX HOC. PVTEO HAVSTA / SITIM. SEDAVIT / RICHARDVS TERTIVS REX ANGLIAE / CVM HENRICO COMITE DE RICHMONDIA. ACERRIME.ATQVE.INFENSISSME.PRAELIANS / ET. VITA. PARITER AC. SCEPTRO / ANTE. NOCTEM. CARITVRVS / II. KAL. SEPT. AD MCCCCLXXXV.
366:. The first he eventually recovered from; the second he did not. He bore a long illness with patience and piety, and died at Hatton parsonage on 6 March 1825. His library was auctioned by R. H. Evans in London on 29 May (and two following days) and 31 October (and seven following days); a copy of the sale catalogue for the first part is held at
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and early in the following year moved to the city to start work. Though money remained a concern of Parr's, he did manage to find happiness at
Norwich, surrounded, as he was, by a group of committed academics. Shortly afterwards he became curate to the Reverend William Tapps, serving the churches of
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among his pupils and enjoyed an income of about £100 p.a., consisting of £50 salary and about the same amount in fees from private pupils. When the headmaster died in
September 1771, Parr immediately applied for the position, but was not selected. Harrow demanded every applicant had a
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My principles, I am sure, will never endanger the church – my studies, I hope, are such as do not disgrace it – and my actions, I can say with confidence, have ever tended to preserve it from open, and what I conceive to be unjust attacks.
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to Samuel Parr, a surgeon, and his wife Ann. Samuel was a determined and educated man who taught his only son Latin grammar at the age of four. At Easter 1752 Parr was sent to
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