Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr
Ch. XXVII. 1801-1803
Samuel Parr to John Parkes, 29 November 1802
“Dear Sir,—I thank you for the trouble you have, with
your usual kindness, taken in adjusting matters with Colonel
P—; and I am sure that you were very right in not writing for my
approbation or opinion—approbation, dear John, you could not fail to deserve and to obtain; and as to
opinion, any I might form would have been of little value, in opposition to
your own.”—“Last week I knelt before a bishop for institution; I
rang a bell upon induction; I read the Morning and Evening Services, with the
salutary appendages of Articles, &c. &c. Having now
passed through the whole circle of ecclesiastical forms, I have acquired
plenary possession of things spiritual and things temporal, as rector of
Graffham. The parsonage-house will be well repaired, but not enlarged. The farm
is about to be leased at an advanced rent. A farm-house must be built, with a
barn, for which materials are to be removed from the parsonage, under the
protection of a faculty; and a roost for hens and their amorous male
protectors, with three styes for pigs, &c. &c.”—“I shall
instruct my Waddenhoe flock on Sunday next; and then proceed to Northampton, on
my way home, &c. Believe me, dear Sir, your sincere wellwisher and obedient
servant,
S. Parr.”
November 29, 1802.
John Parkes (1764 c.-1851)
Of Warwick, textile manufacturer and friend of Samuel Parr; he was the father of the
solicitor and election agent Joseph Parkes (1796-1865).