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dford Review_ of the following week:-- 'Great numbers of people had collected in the churchyard, and a few minutes before noon the corpse was brought out through the eastern gate of the garden leading into the churchyard. The Rev. Dr. Burnet, Vicar of Bradford, read the funeral service, and led the way into the church, and the following clergymen were the bearers of the coffin: The Rev. Dr. Cartman of Skipton; Rev. Mr. Sowden of Hebden Bridge; the Incumbents of Cullingworth, Oakworth, Morton, Oxenhope, and St. John's Ingrow. The chief mourners were the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, son-in-law of the deceased; Martha Brown, the housekeeper; and her sister; Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Wainwright. There were several gentlemen followed the corpse whom we did not know. All the shops in Haworth were closed, and the people filled every pew, and the aisles in the church, and many shed tears during the impressive reading of the service for the burial of the dead, by the vicar. The body of Mr. Bronte was laid within the altar rails, by the side of his daughter Charlotte. He is the last that can be interred inside of Haworth Church. On the coffin was this inscription: "Patrick Bronte, died June 7th, 1861, aged 84 years."' His will, which was proved at Wakefield, left the bulk of his property, as was natural, to the son-in-law who had faithfully served and tended him for the six years which succeeded Charlotte Bronte's death. Extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. _Being of sound mind and judgment_, _in the name of God the Father_, _Son_, _and Holy Ghost_, _I_, PATRICK BRONTE, B.A., _Incumbent of Haworth_, _in the Parish of Bradford and county of York_, _make this my last Will and Testament_: _I leave forty pounds to be equally divided amongst all my brothers and sisters to whom I gave considerable sums in times past_; _And I direct the same sum of forty pounds to be sent for distribution to Mr. Hugh Bronte_, _Ballinasceaugh_, _near Loughbrickland_, _Ireland_; _I leave thirty pounds to my servant_, _Martha Brown_, _as a token of regard for long and faithful services to me and my children_; _To my beloved and esteemed son-in-law_, _the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls_, B.A., _I leave and bequeath the residue of my personal estate of every descr
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