parliament for the "act for the better relief and employment of the poor," and was deputed by the parish to give evidence before the committee of the House of Commons in its favour. This mission was an important epoch in his life, and it appeared ever afterwards to afford him much satisfaction to refer to his London reminiscenses. Some of the respectable inhabitants viewed this act of parliament in a most unfavourable light, and designated the house of industry "the Bastile:" meetings were held nightly at public-houses, where the arbitrary tendency of some of its clauses were artfully pointed out, and those who had taken a prominent part in obtaining it were severely stigmatized and lampooned. The poor, at length, became infuriated against those whom they were taught to consider their oppressors, and Mr. Goodere was more especially selected as the object of their vengeance. On several occasions a mob collected in front of his house, and broke his windows: and once the populace appeared so bent upon the destruction of his property, that the personal interference of the magistrates could not induce the multitude to disperse until after the riot act had been read. Mr. Goodere was never a violent politician: he was first a Whig, then half Whig and half Tory, and at last presented the anomaly of a Conservative Quaker. He was a zealous and useful member of the religious community in which he was bred, and a strict observer of its outward forms: "he never wore a garment of forbidden cut or colour, never bent his body in salutation, and never uttered the heathen name of a day or a month." When he first settled here, the Quakers were a somewhat small fraternity, and assembled for worship in an obscure lane; they afterwards increased and flourished, and a better and much enlarged meeting-house was erected, in a more central situation. The Friends, however, from deaths, removals and secessions, have recently dwindled into comparative insignificance since Mr. Goodere's decease, there has been only one male inhabitant, of full age, professing the tenets of Quakerism, and he is upwards of ninety years old; and the females and children are so few in number, that ere long this once numerous and opulent religious sect seems likely to become almost extinct in Tewkesbury. Mr. Goodere was truly honest and conscientious in all the relations of life, and was respected by his neighbours of every religious persuasion; he had a friendly and peculiar salutation for those of all ranks whom he encountered in his walks, and from his primitive manners, characteristic attire, and patriarchal appearance, he

was familiarly and extensively known. As he was almost the last of the old school of Quakers resident here, we have given a somewhat lengthened memoir of him, and annexed a portrait, accurately engraved from a drawing taken two or three years prior to his death.

LOCAL MEMORANDA.

JANUARY.-A District Visiting Society was established in this borough, the object of which is stated to be, "to visit the poor at their own homes, and in Christian love and sympathy, to minister to their spiritual and temporal wants, especially in times of sickness and distress." A considerable fund was at once raised, for the laudable purpose of "feeding the hungry," "clothing the naked," and "relieving the oppressed;" and the society commenced with the promise of conferring important benefits upon the humbler classes of the community.

5.-A severe frost suddenly set in, and continued with only two or three days' intermission until the 17th of February. The Severn was frozen over for several weeks, so that persons might walk across it with the greatest safety; and the ice was so strong on the Avon, that a whole fat sheep was roasted upon it in the neighbourhood of Evesham. A poor man, of the name of Wakefield, an inhabitant of Cheltenham, while journeying on foot to visit his friends at Longdon, was frozen to death in a field not far from this borough. Fuel was, of course, both scarce and dear; but the poor inhabitants of this parish, through the liberality of their richer neighbours, were supplied with coals at nine-pence per bushel, during the months of January and February.

FEB.-The Tewkesbury Theatre was converted into a Sunday School, and the Primitive Methodists' Preaching-room into a beer-shop.

MARCH 8. The twelfth anniversary of the Tewkesbury Church Missionary Association was held in the Town-Hall, and the proceedings of the day were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Davis, the Rev. Messrs. C. Davies, Foley, Garrard, Gilby, Hebert, Hepworth, Hill, Laing, Plumptre and Pruen. The Rev. E. W. Foley presided; and the Rev. Richard Panton, the Rev. G. Pinhorn, and the Rev. C. D. Strong, represented the parent society. The assembly-room was crowded to overflowing in the morning and in the evening, and the contributions amounted to the unprecedented sum of 781. 1s. 84d.

13. At a public meeting of the paymasters of this borough, convened by the Mayor, and held at the Town-Hall, it was unanimously resolved to petition the House of Commons against the bill then before parliament, "to settle the Boundaries and Wards of certain Cities and Boroughs in England and Wales,"

as far as it related to Tewkesbury. The following petition was prepared, but as the bill was withdrawn on the 14th, the day appointed for the second reading, it was never presented.

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.

The humble Petition of the undersigned Rate-Payers of the Borough of Tewkesbury in the County of Gloucester.

Sheweth, That a Bill is before your Honourable House, intituled "A Bill to settle the Boundaries and Wards of certain Cities and Boroughs in England and Wales," by the provisions of which it is proposed to contract the boundaries of this borough to about two-thirds of their present extent.

That the boundaries of the borough and parish of Tewkesbury are now co-extensive, and so have been for upwards of two centuries, and are accurately defined and well understood.

That the boundary proposed is in the highest degree objectionable, capricious, and unjust; is very obscurely and inaccurately described; and by taking straight lines instead of following ancient divisions of property, inclosures are so frequently split into small parcels, that it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine what is within and what without the municipal boundary, and endless disputes and litigations will be the consequence.

That the proposed boundary excludes the hamlets of the Mythe, and Southwick and the Park, which are suburbs of the said borough, and inhabited by gentlemen of opulence and respectability, well qualified by station and property to fill municipal offices in the borough, while it includes a large quantity of low land liable to be flooded, and which never can be built upon.

That the excluded properties will, for the first time, be relieved from contributing to the borough rate, whereby the remaining portion will be very disproportionately and grievously taxed.

That such excluded properties do nevertheless derive a full consideration for the contribution they make to the borough rate, in the protection afforded to their property by the police force established in the town, and by the many privileges attendant on the quarter sessions, jurisdiction and other municipal rights of the town.

That various local Acts have passed for the good government of the borough, and for the management of its gaol, streets, quay, and extensive common rights, and courts leet and of record are regularly held there with very extensive and peculiar privileges, all of which would be very injuriously affected by the proposed Act.

That the parliamentary boundary of the borough is co-extensive with the parish, and it would in every respect be very desirable that the parliamentary and municipal boundaries should be the same.

Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, that the proposed Boundary of the Borough of Tewkesbury, as described in the schedules to the said Bill, may be erased therefrom, and that the words "The Parish of Tewkesbury" may be inserted in their stead; and that your Petitioners may be heard by themselves, their counsel and agents, in support of the prayer of the Petition.

APRIL 17.-Mr. William Croome and Mr. John Hanford were elected churchwardens of this parish; and Mr. George Banaster and Mr. Edward Brydges were re-elected churchwardens of Trinity Church.

MAY 17.-The horses of the London Paul Pry four-horse coach, which had just been attached to the vehicle, preparatory to their proceeding to Worcester, suddenly started from the Anchor Inn at full speed, before the passengers had taken their seats or the coachman mounted the box; and being prevented from taking their usual route when they arrived at the top of High-Street, darted along the Bredon road at a furious rate. After clearing the Mitton and Bredon turnpike-gates, and turning several angles in the road with perfect safety, they were eventually stopped in attempting to ascend Kemerton hill, about four miles from Tewkesbury. The only passenger was

an elderly female, who steadily retained her seat on the roof, and escaped without injury.

JUNE. A fine sturgeon was caught in the river Severn, between Tewkesbury and Gloucester, weighing 228 lbs. and measuring full nine feet in length.

1. Two lectures on "Tea-Totalism" were delivered here by "Mingaye Syder, esq. professor of medicine from London," and a society subsequently established on genuine "Total Abstinence Principles." This appears to have been designed as an "improvement" upon the Temperance Society founded in 1834-the motto of the new institution being "Moderation is the half-way house to Intoxication." A number of other advocates,―among whom were Thomas Barlow the Birmingham mechanic, and T. A. Smith the London working coachmaker, gave lectures at the Queen's Arms, the British SchoolRoom, and the Friends' Meeting-House, in the course of the year; and in the report of the "Cheltenham Temperance Club," read at a meeting on the 28th of Jan. 1839, it is said,— "We are greatly encouraged when we look around us, and see our nurslings rising up to maturity: the society at Tewkesbury, a short time ago, was under our fostering care, but we are happy to say it has made such progress as to set us an example-one hundred and fifty having signed the pledge since Christmas, and many reclaimed drunkards of the worst character, are rejoicing with their wives and families over the benefits resulting from tea-totalism!"

12. A fine specimen of that rare bird, the spoonbill, (Platalea leucorodia, Linn.) was shot in a meadow on the banks of the Avon, near this borough. Having been wounded in