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The first, The Form of Perfect Living, is a Rule of Life which he wrote for a nun of Anderby, Margaret Kirkby, of whom Professor Horstman writes: "She seems to have been his good angel, and perhaps helped to smooth down his ruffled spirits. This friendship was lasting it lasted to their lives' ends." This treatise was written of course to meet the requirements of the "religious" life.
"What about your going round to his house and seeing if he's in, and what he's likely to be doing to-day." "He'll be at the factory till this evening." "The factory?" "Yes; he's working at a jam factory just now." A sound of fury and disdain broke from Jack. Then Kirkby and I might perhaps hang about a bit and run up against him if you'd just give us a hint, you know."
How Kirkby, the one mechanic, coped at that time, always with a cheery smile, will never be known. As Winnie aptly remarked, "In these days there are only two kinds of beings in the Convoy a "Bird" and a "Blighter"!" Kirkby was decidedly in the "Bird" class. "Be a bird, and do such and such a thing," was a common opening to a request.
In his later years the port-loving earl delighted to recall the times when as Attorney General of the Circuit Grand Court he used to prosecute offenders 'against the peace of our Lord the Junior, devise practical jokes for the diversion of the bar, and over bowls of punch at York, Lancaster, or Kirkby Lonsdale, argue perplexing questions about the morals of advocacy.
He studied law, was called to the Bar in 1825, and in the same year pub. a translation of Schleiermacher's Critical Essay on the Gospel of St. Luke. He was an advocate for the admission of Dissenters to degrees, and in consequence of his action in the matter had to resign his Univ. tutorship. Thereupon Lord Brougham, then Lord Chancellor, presented him to the living of Kirkby Underdale.
Kirkby, the learned writer of the 'Guide to the English Tongue; Mr. Newberry, creator of the 'Circle of the Sciences; Mr. Palairet, the famous compiler of the 'New English Spelling-book; and Mr.
There are also deposits of a similar kind at Kirkby Overblow, a village a few miles to the north-east of Leeds; and Thoresby states that the place was so called because it was the village of the "Ore blowers," hence the corruption of "Overblow."
Stoke and his friends run into Merton for weapons, and "standing in a window of that hall, shot divers arrows, and one that Bridlington shot hit Henry de l'Isle, and David Kirkby unmercifully perished, for after John de Benton had given him a dangerous wound in the head with his faulchion, came Will de la Hyde and wounded him in the knee with his sword."
Kirkby and Captain Wade of the Greenwich were found guilty on all the charges and sentenced to be shot. Captain Constable was cleared of cowardice, but convicted on the other counts, and he was cashiered from her Majesty's service, with imprisonment during her pleasure.
Writs, ii., iii., 301-416; Kirkby's Quest, a survey made by Bishop Kirkby, the treasurer, in 1284-85, of which the Yorkshire portion has been printed by the Surtees Soc., ea.
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