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From Holy Island or Spital to Deal in those days of transit by sea was a greater and more hazardous voyage than that of Liverpool to New York to-day. The following story may give some idea of their life as they then lived it.
"We shall certainly have some one returning soon to the Spital," replied Sir Raynal. "Indeed, methinks some of the princes will be like to return, for the old King of the Romans is failing fast, and King Henry implored that the Prince of Almayne would come to hearten him." "Then must I write to Sir Robert?" said Richard; "mine is scarce a message for word of mouth."
We need not wonder that Godwin's output of philosophic writing practically ceased with the eighteenth century. He was henceforth a man without a purpose, who wrote for bread and renounced the exercise of his greater powers. Parr's Spital Sermon, preached at Christ Church, April 15, 1800, being a reply to the attacks of Dr. Parr, Mr. It is a masterly piece of writing.
"That is soon remedied," said Sir Robert, who seemed to have taken a great fancy to Richard, either for the sake of his crossed shoulder, or of his kindness to the little plaything of the Spital.
By his second marriage he had two sons, Francis and David, both dead unmarried, and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to James Kirsopp, Esquire, of the Spital, Northumberland. I remain, Yours sincerely, An Authentic Narrative of that most Horrid Parricide. A Genuine and full Account of the Parricide committed by Mary Blandy.
"Well, I have not spoken to a female thing, save perhaps pretty Bessee, since I went into the Spital, ten years ago; and verily the sound of the lady's voice was to me as if St. Margaret had begun talking to me! And so wise and clear of wit too. I thought women were feather-pated wilful beings, from whom there was no choice but to shut oneself up!
Young Wesley, a student at Newington Green, had been present at the wedding, with a copy of verses in his pocket: and there, in a corner of the Doctor's gloomy house in Spital Yard, he came on the Doctor's youngest daughter, a slight girl of fourteen, seated and watching the guests. She was but a child, and just then an unhappy one, though with no childish trouble.
The copy of Malthus's second edition with Coleridge's notes used by Southey is in the British Museum. See Southey's Political. Thoughts occasioned by Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon. A copy annotated by Coleridge is in the British Museum. Thoughts, etc., pp. 56, 61, 62. Ibid. p. 71. Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller. Reply to the Essay on Population, etc., 1807. The book was anonymous.
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