He was curate of Seathwaite sixty-six years.

He was a man singular for his temperance, industry, and integrity.' This individual is the Pastor alluded to, in the eighteenth Sonnet, as a worthy compeer of the country parson of Chaucer, &c.

In the seventh book of the _Excursion_, an abstract of his character is given, beginning-- 'A Priest abides before whose life such doubts Fall to the ground;--' and some account of his life, for it is worthy of being recorded, will not be out of place here.
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_Memoir of the Rev.Robert Walker_.
('Pastor,' in Book vii.

of 'The Excursion.') In the year 1709, Robert Walker was born at Under-crag, in Seathwaite; he was the youngest of twelve children.