CHAPTER IV.
The Bishop's Chaplain Of the Rev.Mr.Slope's parentage I am not able to say much.

I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr.T.Shandy, and that in early years he added an "e" to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him.

If this be so, I presume he was christened Obadiah, for that is his name, in commemoration of the conflict in which his ancestor so distinguished himself.

All my researches on the subject have, however, failed in enabling me to fix the date on which the family changed its religion.
He had been a sizar at Cambridge, and had there conducted himself at any rate successfully, for in due process of time he was an M.A., having university pupils under his care.

From thence he was transferred to London, and became preacher at a new district church built on the confines of Baker Street.