We were all very sorry to lose him.

He left some of his property (for he had a private estate) to the poor of the parish, to furnish them with an annual Christmas dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, for which he wrote out a very good receipt in the codicil to his will.
Moreover, he desired his executors to see that the vault, in which the vicars of Hanbury were interred, was well aired, before his coffin was taken in; for, all his life long, he had had a dread of damp, and latterly he kept his rooms to such a pitch of warmth that some thought it hastened his end.
Then the other trustee, as I have said, presented the living to Mr.Gray, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

It was quite natural for us all, as belonging in some sort to the Hanbury family, to disapprove of the other trustee's choice.

But when some ill-natured person circulated the report that Mr.Gray was a Moravian Methodist, I remember my lady said, "She could not believe anything so bad, without a great deal of evidence.".