prove one word wrong, have a guinea - Bushley Worcestershire.
Memorial "to the memory of William DOWDESWELL, representative in parliament for the County of Worcester, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the years 1765-1766, a member of the King's Privy Council.
A SENATOR for TWENTY YEARS; A MINISTER for ONE; A VIRTUOUS CITIZEN for his WHOLE LIFE; A MAN of unshaken constancy, inflexible integrity, unremitted industry HIS MIND WAS GENEROUS OPEN SINCERRE. his MANNERS PLAIN, SIMPLE & NOBLE, rEJECTING ALL SORT OF DUPLICITY & DISGUISE. aS USELESS TO HIS DESIGNS & ODIOUS TO HIS NATURE. his UNDERSTANDING was comprehensive, ready, vigorous, made for the practical business of th state. in DEBATE he was clear,natural & convincing. His KNOWLEDGE in all things which concerned his duty , profound. He understood beyond any man of his time the REVENUES of his COUTNRY; Which he preferred to every thing except its LIBERTIES. He was a perfect master of the law of parliament and attached ot its privileges until they were set up againdt THE RIGHTS of the PEOPLE.
All the proceedings which have weakened GOVERNMENT endangered Freedo & distracted the BRITISH EMPIRE, were by him strenuiously OPPOSED. And his last effords under which hs health sunk, were to preserve his COUNTRY from A CIVIL WAR. which being unable to prevent, he had not the misfortune to see. He was not more respectable on the publick scene than amiable in private life. Immersed in the greates affaitrs, he never lost the antient native genuine English character of a COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. Disdaining & negecting no office in life, he was an useful municipal maistrate, with great care & clear judgement, administering justice, maintaining the police,relieving the distresses & regulating the manners of the poeple. Inhis neighbourhood an HUSBAND & FATHER; The kindest, gentlet, mot indulgent. He was eery thing to his family except what he gave up to His COUNTRY.
hIs WIDOW who labours with life in order to form the minds of his eleven children to the resemblance of their father, erectes this monument; Born 21st March 1721; Died 7th February 1775 "
"Also are deposited the remains of BRIDGET relict of the Right Hon WILLIAM DOWDESWELL and youngest daughter of WILLIAM CODRINGTON bart; Born November 6th 1729; Married November 6th 1747; And died March 27th 1818 "
(The epitaph proved too effusive & laudatory to some, and Burke who wrote it replied he would give anyone a guinea who could prove one word of it wrong). - Church of St Peter , Bushley , Worcestershire,
prove one word wrong, have a guinea - Bushley Worcestershire.
Memorial "to the memory of William DOWDESWELL, representative in parliament for the County of Worcester, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the years 1765-1766, a member of the King's Privy Council.
A SENATOR for TWENTY YEARS; A MINISTER for ONE; A VIRTUOUS CITIZEN for his WHOLE LIFE; A MAN of unshaken constancy, inflexible integrity, unremitted industry HIS MIND WAS GENEROUS OPEN SINCERRE. his MANNERS PLAIN, SIMPLE & NOBLE, rEJECTING ALL SORT OF DUPLICITY & DISGUISE. aS USELESS TO HIS DESIGNS & ODIOUS TO HIS NATURE. his UNDERSTANDING was comprehensive, ready, vigorous, made for the practical business of th state. in DEBATE he was clear,natural & convincing. His KNOWLEDGE in all things which concerned his duty , profound. He understood beyond any man of his time the REVENUES of his COUTNRY; Which he preferred to every thing except its LIBERTIES. He was a perfect master of the law of parliament and attached ot its privileges until they were set up againdt THE RIGHTS of the PEOPLE.
All the proceedings which have weakened GOVERNMENT endangered Freedo & distracted the BRITISH EMPIRE, were by him strenuiously OPPOSED. And his last effords under which hs health sunk, were to preserve his COUNTRY from A CIVIL WAR. which being unable to prevent, he had not the misfortune to see. He was not more respectable on the publick scene than amiable in private life. Immersed in the greates affaitrs, he never lost the antient native genuine English character of a COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. Disdaining & negecting no office in life, he was an useful municipal maistrate, with great care & clear judgement, administering justice, maintaining the police,relieving the distresses & regulating the manners of the poeple. Inhis neighbourhood an HUSBAND & FATHER; The kindest, gentlet, mot indulgent. He was eery thing to his family except what he gave up to His COUNTRY.
hIs WIDOW who labours with life in order to form the minds of his eleven children to the resemblance of their father, erectes this monument; Born 21st March 1721; Died 7th February 1775 "
"Also are deposited the remains of BRIDGET relict of the Right Hon WILLIAM DOWDESWELL and youngest daughter of WILLIAM CODRINGTON bart; Born November 6th 1729; Married November 6th 1747; And died March 27th 1818 "
(The epitaph proved too effusive & laudatory to some, and Burke who wrote it replied he would give anyone a guinea who could prove one word of it wrong). - Church of St Peter , Bushley , Worcestershire,