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We have in a letter from the Manse, Paulerspury, a tradition of the impression made on the dull rustics by the dawning genius of the youth whom they but dimly comprehended. He went amongst them under the nickname of Columbus, and they would say, "Well, if you won't play, preach us a sermon," which he would do.
Another, the poet's granddaughter, was the mother of Edmund Kean, and he at first was known by her name on the stage. At that time when the weaver became the lord the grandfather of the missionary was parish clerk and first schoolmaster of the village of Paulerspury, eleven miles south of Northampton, and near the ancient posting town of Towcester, on the old Roman road from London to Chester.
Certainly the name, through its forms of Crew, Carew, Carey, and Cary, still prevails on the Irish coast from which depression of trade drove the family first to Yorkshire, then to the Northamptonshire village of Yelvertoft, and finally to Paulerspury, farther south as well as over the whole Danegelt from Lincolnshire to Devonshire.
The Heart of England The Weaver Carey who became a Peer, and the weaver who was father of William Carey Early training in Paulerspury Impressions made by him on his sister On his companions and the villagers His experience as son of the parish clerk Apprenticed to a shoemaker of Hackleton Poverty Famous shoemakers from Annianus and Crispin to Hans Sachs and Whittier From Pharisaism to Christ The last shall be first The dissenting preacher in the parish clerk's home He studies Latin, Greek and Hebrew, Dutch and French The cobbler's shed is Carey's College.
In 1761, when Schwartz was just beginning to make his way in Tanjore, William Carey was born in the village of Paulerspury, in Northamptonshire. He showed himself a diligent scholar in his father's little school, and had even picked up some Latin before, at fourteen years old, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker at the neighbouring village of Hackleton.
When twelve years of age, with his uncle there, he might have formed one of the crowd which listened to John Wesley, who, in 1773 and then aged seventy, visited the prosperous posting town. Paulerspury could indeed boast of one son, Edward Bernard, D.D., who, two centuries before, had made for himself a name in Oxford, where he was Savilian Professor of Astronomy.
A zeal like that of his new-found Master took its place, and all the energy of his nature, every moment of his time, was directed to setting Him forth. In his monthly visits to the father-house at Paulerspury the new man in him could not be hid.
Walter Scott was ten years his junior. Captain Cook had not discovered the Sandwich Islands, and was only returning from the second of his three voyages while Carey was still at school. The church services and the watchfulness of his father supplied the directly moral training which his grandmother had begun. The Paulerspury living of St.
The silent robbery of the people's rights called "inclosures" has done much, before and since Carey's time, to sweep away or shut up the woodlands. The country may be less beautiful, while the population has grown so that Paulerspury has now nearly double the eight hundred inhabitants of a century ago.
It was from Courteenhall, a Northamptonshire village near Paulerspury, that in 1644 there went forth the appeal for the propagation of the Gospel which comes nearest to Carey's cry from the same midland region.
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