"  JosBpn  WiwoN,  O.S.B."

"  May  Ood  be  praised  for  all  his  mercies  to  the  children
of  nwai  i"

I  regret  to  add,  that  he  fell  away  ag!un,  af^r  signing  tlic
ror«going  document;  but  I  trust  in  the  infinite  merries  of
God,  that  his  end  was  pence,  fur  he  traa  certainly  attended
on  his  death-bed  by  that  pioua  and  zealous  pncst  Cation
Forfitt.  He  died  at  llinton,  near  Bath,  on  £a«ter  Monday,
Slat  April,  1851,  aged  sevcuty-eight.
HoLL,  Fkaxcis,  O.S.B.,  of  Devonshire,  professed  at  Dicnl-
irart ;  a  man  of  excellent  parts,  and  an  eminent  Hpirituadist,
according  to  Weldon,  so  often  cited.  He  ended  his  daya
at  St.  Malu'a,  in  IGI.^,  and  waa  boned  near  the  ptdpit  of
the  Benedictine  Church  there.
HvNT,  JosKPR,  veri  Beauuont,  sou  of  John  and  Elisabeth
Beaantont,  of  Stone  Kiitrton,  born  22nd  May,  1762;  went  to
Doaay  College  with  Dr.  Ooombes  (see  Coombcs)  ;  was  filling
the  oonfidcntial  poet  of  procurator  at  the  neiziire  of  the
college  by  the  Frcuch  authoritiex  in  1793,  and  consigned  to
prison  with  many  of  his  confrh-e».  On  being  restored  to
liberty,  he  retoraed  to  Kagland  in  March,  1795,  In  Part  I.,
p.  18^  I  luive  nOatod  some  further  detailit  of  his  life;  auffioe
It  to,  add  here,  tlint  religion  i-i  iudcbt^d  to  him  for  fouuding
in  great  measure  the  mission  of  Sliortwood,  and  that  he
served  it  diligently  until  March,  1H38,  when  he  retired  to
Clifton,  where  be  finished  his  useful  but  unoatentatioas
course,  on  1st  December  that  year,  xt.  scrcuty-seren.
Utra£.VBETn,  Fuebeuice  Ciiakucs,  D.D.,  sod  of  Mr.  Frcde-


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