David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Mindful of the steadfastness of his ancestors, he published some works relative to the spirit and persecuting career of popery. Also in 1791 he wrote against “pluralities,” or the holding of more than one ecclesiastical office by a clergyman, and against “temporary incumbencies” in parish churches, the incumbent retiring on a patron’s protegé coming of age or becoming eligible for the living. ”

“ Anselm Donisemount, a French gentleman of note, formerly Counsellor of the Parliament of Paris before the French Revolution in 1789;” £500 to Mr. Richard Pooler of Reigate, formerly a seller of Mathematical Instruments in London; £200 to Mrs [Miss] Webster of Reigate, “who is constantly employed in doing good offices to her neighbours;” £200 to Francis Polhill, “my godson, second son of the late Charles Polhill, Esq., of Chipstead, Kent;” £300 to Mr. Ambrose Glover, the attorney at Reigate, for his own use, and £200 for a foot pavement in the High Street ”

“ He had always been a very sensible, just, and humane man, and a man too who always cared for the public good; and he was the only man that I ever heard of, who refused to have his salary augmented.” When Cobbett was imprisoned for writing a newspaper article, the Baron frequently visited him in Newgate; and “he always came in his wig and gown, to show his abhorrence of the sentence.” As to Baron Masères’ money matters, Cobbett is partly mistaken. The following is the correct statement. He had a pretty house and grounds at Reigate, a house in Rathbone Place, London, and also chambers, No. ”