Quæ sincera erga Deum Pietate Indefessa erga pauperes Liberalitate Et singulari erga omnes Morum candore et benevolentiâ Magnum Christianæ virtutis exemplar Obiit sexto die Octobris MDCXCVIII Et hic requiescit in Domino. Jahn Waugh*. BISHOP OF CARLISLE, PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN, AND DEAN OF GLOUCESTER. 1660-1734. "Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco. "OVID. Nought from my birth or ancestors I claim, OPE SEXTUS the Fifth, as stout a Pope as ever wore the Triple Crown, but a poor man's son, used to say in contempt of the sneers raised against him, that he was born of an illustrious house; because the sunbeams passing through the broken walls and ragged roof illustrated every corner of the homely cottage in which he was born. In this wise John Waugh's House was indeed * There is a fine engraved portrait of him in St. Peter's, Cornhill, and in many houses in Westmorland; it is by Faber from an original by Vanderbank, to be found, as we believe, at Rose Castle. of the cathedral at Carlisle, behind the Bishop's throne*. The Bishop is said to have published eleven occasional sermons, but we have never seen them. He, like the good Barnaby Potter in St. Paul's Covent Garden, lies in St. Peter's Cornhill, without even a mark to indicate his resting-place! Will no kind soul lend a helping hand to a work of common justice? * Jefferson's Hist. of Carlisle. (N these days of Red Republicanism we often hear the threadbare phrase, "Nature is favorable to democracy!" Without stopping to examine into its truth or falsehood, we must content ourselves with saying, that the subject of the present memoir was not of that self-satisfied order, but of the ancient house of Le Fleming of Rydall Hall; and by his virtues proved himself worthy of the name and arms he bore. He was born in the hall of his ancestors in 1667; and was the fifth son of Sir Daniel Fleming, Knt., afterwards Bart. He seems to have had his school From school he went to After leaving the Univer education at Appleby. Edmund Hall, Oxford. sity we find him under the fostering wing of that noble and generous soul Dr. Thomas Smith, Bishop of Carlisle, who made Fleming his domestic chaplain; then Vicar of Aspatria; and, in 1700, Prebendary of Carlisle. His great patron died, as we have elsewhere recorded, in 1702; but Dr. Smith was happily succeeded by the learned Dr. Nicholson (afterwards Archbishop of Cashell) and Dr. Waugh. The former, in 1705, raised Fleming to the Archdeaconry. The latter in 1727 promoted him to the Deanery, upon whose death, in 1734, he was consecrated to the see of Carlisle. He, in his turn, was the patron of Edmund Law, the father of Lord Ellenborough. Thus was true merit called forth and rewarded within the diocese of Carlisle in days that are past! William Fleming, Archdeacon of Carlisle (1734), was the Prelate's only son. He married a Wilson of Dallam Tower, and left several daughters*. He died (in 1743) before his father, and was interred in the cathedral there. Sir George Fleming, Bart. died at Rose Castle, July 2d. 1747, in the eighty-first year of his age, and in the thirteenth of his consecration. He was See Burn, 172. |