character the writer may mention that
he frequently, as a healthy diversion from his professional work, walked
up to Langton Rectory before breakfast, and plied his spade in the
garden, and then enjoyed a hearty breakfast with the Rector, returning to
Horncastle in time for the daily service at 11 a.m. As an instance of
his kindly nature we may give the following: At Horncastle a poor girl
was suffering from a "white swelling" in the knee. The doctor declared
that her life could only be saved by the leg being amputated above the
knee. She dreaded the operation, but consented, if Mr. White would
support her in his arms during the process. He was greatly averse to
painful scenes, but reluctantly consented. Those were not the days of
anaesthetics, when such operations can be performed without the patients
feeling it; but he said to her "Let us pray," and while the doctors were
at work they prayed so fervently that she was too much absorbed to notice
what was done. At length she said, "Dear Mr. White will they never
begin?" His reply was "My good girl, your leg is off, and the Lord has
spared you all the pain." She lived to be a strong healthy woman and
always blessed the curate.

{62} The writer had the privilege of visiting Mr. White at Jedburgh, and
retaining his valued friendship through life, visiting him a short time
before his death, and receiving many kindnesses from him.

{64} The _Morning Post_ of April 8, 1889, referring to the death of Sir
F. Gore Ouseley, says "He was a member of an ancient Irish family . . .
which gave to the world the Wellesleys, the Wesleys, and the Ouseleys,
all springing from the same stock;" all three names being only varied
forms of the same. A clergyman, Rev. L. H. Wellesley Wesley, now of
Folkestone, combines the two names.

{65} Samuel Wesley, the father, was himself originally a dissenter, but
afterwards conformed to the established church. He was appointed to the
benefice of South Ormsby in 1699 and afterwards held the Rectory of
Epworth, and that of Wroot. His eldest son, Samuel, born about 1692, was
an Under Master in Westminster School for several years, and later became
Head Master of the Grammar School at Tiverton, in Devonshire.

{66a} This has been re-issued by Mr. A. C. Fifield, as No. 16 of "The
Simple Series," 6d., 1905.

{66b} As a proof of his regard for the church we may quote his remark
(given in _Christian Sects of the_ 19_th century_, W. Pickering