Note 54 — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ADRIAN BATTEN, JOHN WELDON, THOMAS TUDWAY, MUS. D., WILLIAM BLAKE, D.D., AND CHARLES KING, M.B.
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‘The reason that moved the king to this act of munificence was a singular one. The parish had chosen him their churchwarden, and he executed the office for two months; but at the end thereof he grew tired of it, as he well might, and presented the parish with that noble instrument which is now in the church.’—Hawkins’s Hist. v. 60.