He had been absent from his joint livings about thirteen years, of which four had been spent at Parham, five at Great Glemham, and four at Rendham, all three places lying within a small area, and within reach of the same old friends and relations.

No wonder that he left the neighbourhood with a reluctance that was probably too well guessed by his parishioners in the Vale of Belvoir.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 3: Richard Turner of Yarmouth was a man of considerable culture, and belonged to a family of scholars.

His eldest brother was Master of Pembroke, Cambridge, and Dean of Norwich: his youngest son was Sir Charles Turner, a Lord Justice of Appeal; and Dawson Turner was his nephew.

Richard Turner was the intimate friend of Dr.Parr, Paley, and Canning.] [Footnote 4: Readers of Lockhart's Biography will remember that in one of Scott's latest letters to his son-in-law, before he left England for Naples, he quoted and applied to himself this stanza of _Sir Eustace Grey_.

The incident is the more pathetic that Scott, as he wrote the words, was quite aware that his own mind was failing.].