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Hopkinson, Minor Canon of Peterborough, at the Grammar School of which city, and also at Eton, Mr. Hopkinson received his education. One night in 1848 he was detained at his London hotel, Gray's Inn Coffee-house, through missing the York mail, and in reading the newspaper noticed an advertisement of the sale of the Little Gidding estate. Early in life he had read Peckard's Life of Nicholas Ferrar, and had been fascinated with its story. The next morning he went to the address given for the sale of the estate; and when he returned to Stamford on the following night it was in the character of lord of the manor of Little Gidding. He had purchased the seven hundred acres that composed The He consulted three of his friends as to what should be done with the church, and, selecting Mr. Clutton as architect, spent upwards of a thousand pounds in bringing the church into the condition in which visitors now see it. Mr. Hopkinson believed that he was restoring the church to the state in which Nicholas Ferrar had left it, and that he was rejecting the innovations made in 1714. In the four windows of the nave (filled with stained glass by Miller, of Brewer Street) are the arms of Charles I., Archbishop Williams, Nicholas Ferrar, and Mr. Hopkinson, the inscription in this last window being as follows: "Diligo habitaculum domus tuæ. Insignia Gulielmi Hopkinson, Domini Manerii de Gidding Parva, qui hanc Ecclesiam restauravit, et has fenestras (sacrum munus) dicavit. A.D. 1853." Mr. Hopkinson was buried, in 1865, very near to this window. His large property was inherited by his nephew, the Rev. William Hopkinson (only Hopkinson, Rector of Alwalton, Hunts, and Preson of Mr. Hopkinson's only brother, Rev. John centor of Peterborough), who, when Rector of Great Gidding, carried out the restoration of that church, under the care of Mr. James Fowler, of Louth. Mr. Hopkinson delighted in taking a party of friends to Little Gidding, and there hospitably entertaining them; and he did so little more than six months before his death, viz., on Feb. 22, 1865, the anniversary of Nicholas Ferrar's birthday. One of these parties visited Little Gidding on Oct. 8, 1856, and to one of its members, Canon James, Vicar of Theddingworth, must be accredited a very clever jeu d'esprit, of which a copy was given to me by Mr. Hopkinson, whom I had the pleasure to know during the time that I was curate of Glatton and Holme, and Rector of Denton and Caldecote. In October, 1856, I was in Worcestershire. The lines of Drunken Barnaby may be cited : "Veni ad Collegium purum, Si sint, non sunt hypocritæ Orbe melioris vitæ : Cellam, scholam et sacellum, Pulchra vidi supra stellam." I subjoin Canon James's jeu d'esprit, which was printed by Mr. Hopkinson for private distribution. Fragmentum Itinerarii haud ita Pridem Editum. Auctore Barnaba Juniore, necnon Sobriore. 8 Octobr., 1856.1 Veni Gidding, Parvam dictam, (Vera narro, nec rem fictam) E Coll. Div. John Cant., vocatus Unum porrò Militarem Murus ibi, laudem odi, at Dum caballi edunt hordeum Vir Liber, libros, liberè Aperit, nec sine Tea. At sermonibus disertis Carbonaceos inter ignes *G. Gilbert, Vicar of Syston, Lincolnshire, T. James, Vicar of Theddingworth, Capt. Oakes. Ibi Hospes ventris pœnam Longè absit dies ista A Fragment of a Journey, not yet Published. Restored the Church, (which much was wanted) One Military man came there, One Whall, the worthy Rector, He On road to Stanford thence we waited, Then while the day was nearly ending, In Military art an apt one, To sing his praises we will chime in, His name with fighting, painting, rhyming, 1727. Don Jago died in London having never been able to appease his father Don Gaspard de Solis for having married a Heretic; for which he lost his patri Will ever be associated Of Sylvan* parent generated. Thus chatting on the way they wended, With th' Host, whose cheerful smiles were blended, mony and commission; and subsisted solely on his wife's With countenance so animated, Where our good Host prepared so hearty An Oyster supper for the party. Oh far be distant then the day When death takes that Good Man away! When sod of Mother-Earth shall claim him, With Honor we will always name him. CUTHBERT BEDE. THE STORY OF JAMES SOLAS DODD, ACTOR AND SURGEON. In the year 1782 there appeared on the Edinburgh stage an actor who, whatever his powers of theatrical representation may have been, seems to have attracted the attention of the public not a little by the romantic story of his career from his earliest years. This actor was Mr. James Solas Dodd; and amongst those who interested themselves in the stranger was David, eleventh Earl of Buchan, at that period the chief patron of art in Scotland, and a leader in the literary society of the northern capital. He and his brother, the Hon. Henry Erskine, it is well known, were steady in their patronage of the stage. Among Lord Buchan's MSS. is the following paper, apparently in the handwriting of James Solas Dodd, and compiled, it may be assumed, in compliance with a request by his lordship for authentic particulars of the actor's eventful history. I transcribe his narrative verbatim, as it is given in a very neat and diminutive hand : Memoranda concerning James Solas Dodd. 1719. Mr. John Dodd (who had been Master in the Navy during Queen Ann's Wars) commanded the St. Quinten, a Merchant Ship, trading from London to Barcelona; and being frequently in that Port contracted an Acquaintance with a young Spanish Officer named Don Jago Mendozo Vasconcellos de Solis, Knight of the Order of St. James of Calatrava and a younger brother of Don Antonio de Solis, author of the History of Mexico. Don Jago having had a rencounter with the son of the Governor of Barcelona, and having left him for dead, ran to Captain Dodd's Ship for shelter & it being already cleared out, sailed in it for London that very Evening. 1720. On the Ship's arrival in London Don Jago continued at Captain Dodd's house and married Miss Rebecca Dodd his daughter, whilst his Pardon was solliciting from the King of Spain. On this marriage Don Jago took the name of Dodd in order to perpetuate to his issue a small estate near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1721. The sole issue of this Marriage was a Son; who to continue his father's Name, was baptized James Solis, but by the error of the Parish clerk was entered on the parish Register James Solas, which mode of spelling he hath ever since continued. * Silva Filius (Oakes). fortune. 1728. Mrs. Dodd was prevailed on to write to Don Gaspard to move him in behalf of her Child, and received for answer that he should take no concern about her, but as his Grandchild was yet untainted with Heretical principles, if she should send him over, he should succeed to the honours & estates of the family; but this Mrs. Dodd and her relations peremptorily refused & Don Gaspard then entered into the Dominican Order, and gave his estates to the Church, his eldest son Don Antonio having been dead long before, without issue. James Solas Dodd received a Classical education and was at first designed for the Church, but on some family reasons was put apprentice to Mr. John Hills Surgeon & Man Midwife in the Minories London, to whom he served seven years. 1745. J. S. Dodd went into the Royal Navy as Surgeon's Mate of the Blenheim Hospital Ship, comend of the then war in the Devonshire Capt. John manded by Lt. George Withers, and served till the Pritchard, the Principal Royal Store Ship, Captains Christopher Hill & Edward Barber, & the St. Albans Captain John Moore; in which Ship he continued after the War (as Guard ship at Plymouth under the command of Captain John Byron) for Several months. 1751. J. S. Dodd took up his diploma as Member of the Corporation of Surgeons at London, and followed his business in Gough Square Fleet Street & Suffock Street Haymarket. family Mr. Dodd went abroad and travelled over most of Europe till May 1754. 1754. Jan. 30. On account of some deaths in his 1759. He again came into the Navy: came as Supernumerary in the Sheerness Captain John Clark from Leghorn to Gibraltar, and came on Board the Prince Admiral Broderic and continued in her under Captain Joseph Peyton & Captain Benjamin Malor till June 1762. 1762. He was again examined at Surgeon's Hall and Qualified as Master Surgeon of any Ship of the first Rate, and was warranted for the Hawke, in which he served under Capt. Richard Smith and Capt. Gyde (?) till she was paid off at the Peace Feb. 1763. N.B. Re ference may be made to the Ships' books in the Navy Office for Testimonies of Mr. Dodd's Services. 1763. He again settled in London chiefly in the Literary Line. 1767. Feb. 7. His house in Snow Hill London suddenly fell to the Ground; two of his Children were buried in the ruins, but happily dug out alive; two persons were killed and his whole property destroyed. His Wife's head being affected by this fatal accident, he quitted business and went to Bath and Bristol for her recovery, and from thence to Ireland, where he followed his Busiinvited to return to London [March 1779] where he ness & Literary Employments in Dublin. He was continued his profession till a Captain Savage (Noted for his Lawsuit with the Rt. H. Lord North [1782]) calling himself Baron Weildmester, enticed Mr. Dodd where he said he had a plan to propose from a foreign to embark with his whole family with him for Russia, Power to the Empress to enter into a treaty of alliance and thus he and Mr. Dodd would be sent as Ambassadors; that Mrs. Dodd &c. should remain under the Czarina's protection, and that on their return they would be decorated with the Order of St. Catherine & have £1,000 a year pension; and that the said Savage who |